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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines37
-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt48
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt205
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/blame-options.txt4
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/cat-texi.perl21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-difftool.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-name-rev.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-relink.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reset.txt48
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-stash.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt66
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-worktree.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitglossary.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitworkflows.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/texi.xsl26
39 files changed, 533 insertions, 173 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 4cd95da6b1..a4191aa388 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -206,11 +206,38 @@ For C programs:
x = 1;
}
- is frowned upon. A gray area is when the statement extends
- over a few lines, and/or you have a lengthy comment atop of
- it. Also, like in the Linux kernel, if there is a long list
- of "else if" statements, it can make sense to add braces to
- single line blocks.
+ is frowned upon. But there are a few exceptions:
+
+ - When the statement extends over a few lines (e.g., a while loop
+ with an embedded conditional, or a comment). E.g.:
+
+ while (foo) {
+ if (x)
+ one();
+ else
+ two();
+ }
+
+ if (foo) {
+ /*
+ * This one requires some explanation,
+ * so we're better off with braces to make
+ * it obvious that the indentation is correct.
+ */
+ doit();
+ }
+
+ - When there are multiple arms to a conditional and some of them
+ require braces, enclose even a single line block in braces for
+ consistency. E.g.:
+
+ if (foo) {
+ doit();
+ } else {
+ one();
+ two();
+ three();
+ }
- We try to avoid assignments in the condition of an "if" statement.
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index a9fb497b83..b5be2e2d3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ INSTALL_INFO = install-info
DOCBOOK2X_TEXI = docbook2x-texi
DBLATEX = dblatex
ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR = /etc/asciidoc/dblatex
+DBLATEX_COMMON = -p $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.sty
ifndef PERL_PATH
PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl
endif
@@ -173,6 +174,16 @@ ifdef GNU_ROFF
XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-quote-apos.xsl
endif
+ifdef USE_ASCIIDOCTOR
+ASCIIDOC = asciidoctor
+ASCIIDOC_CONF =
+ASCIIDOC_HTML = xhtml5
+ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook45
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -I. -rasciidoctor-extensions
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -alitdd='&\#x2d;&\#x2d;'
+DBLATEX_COMMON =
+endif
+
SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL)
# Shell quote;
SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH))
@@ -368,13 +379,14 @@ user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml
user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml
$(QUIET_DBLATEX)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
- $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s $(ASCIIDOC_DBLATEX_DIR)/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $< && \
+ $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ $(DBLATEX_COMMON) $< && \
mv $@+ $@
-gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl
+gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl texi.xsl
$(QUIET_DB2TEXI)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
- ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \
- --to-stdout $(xml) &&) true) > $@++ && \
+ ($(foreach xml,$(sort $(MAN_XML)),xsltproc -o $(xml)+ texi.xsl $(xml) && \
+ $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout $(xml)+ && \
+ rm $(xml)+ &&) true) > $@++ && \
$(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ <$@++ >$@+ && \
rm $@++ && \
mv $@+ $@
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt
index 74b193f1a8..9cd14c8197 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt
@@ -116,5 +116,53 @@ Fixes since v2.11
will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
and abort the transfer.
+ * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
+ the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
+ more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
+
+ * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
+
+ * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by
+ TravisCI.
+
+ * A few git-svn updates.
+
+ * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across
+ three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
+ Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
+ pack.compression variables the same way.
+
+ * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
+ tree, which has been fixed.
+
+ * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
+ lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
+
+ * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack
+ everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning
+ when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,
+ leading to disabling further "gc".
+
+ * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and
+ failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff
+ driver configuration.
+
+ * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>
+ pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect
+ count when squashing more than 10 commits.
+
+ * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has
+ been corrected to error out with a message.
+
+ * Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as
+ a PRE regexp engine.
+
+ * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
+ took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
+ structure. This has been fixed.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
index 17409fa147..29154805b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ Backward compatibility notes.
is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet).
* The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
- has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the
- upcoming release.
+ has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
+ future release.
+
+ * An ancient script "git relink" has been removed.
Updates since v2.11
@@ -64,7 +66,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
- (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).
* "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules.
@@ -85,6 +86,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
same release were present (e.g. when 2.0, 2.0-beta1, and 2.0-beta2
are there and the code needs to compare 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-beta2).
+ * "git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to
+ push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject.
+
+ * "git tag" and "git verify-tag" learned to put GPG verification
+ status in their "--format=<placeholders>" output format.
+
+ * An ancient repository conversion tool left in contrib/ has been
+ removed.
+
+ * "git show-ref HEAD" used with "--verify" because the user is not
+ interested in seeing refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, and used with
+ "--head" because the user does not want HEAD to be filtered out,
+ i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did not work as expected.
+
+ * "git submodule add" used to be confused and refused to add a
+ locally created repository; users can now use "--force" option
+ to add them.
+ (merge 619acfc78c sb/submodule-add-force later to maint).
+
+ * Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph"
+ rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has
+ been introduced.
+
+ * "git read-tree" and its underlying unpack_trees() machinery learned
+ to report problematic paths prefixed with the --super-prefix option.
+
+ * When a submodule "A", which has another submodule "B" nested within
+ it, is "absorbed" into the top-level superproject, the inner
+ submodule "B" used to be left in a strange state. The logic to
+ adjust the .git pointers in these submodules has been corrected.
+
+ * The user can specify a custom update method that is run when
+ "submodule update" updates an already checked out submodule. This
+ was ignored when checking the submodule out for the first time and
+ we instead always just checked out the commit that is bound to the
+ path in the superproject's index.
+
+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that
+ "git diff --submodule=" can take "diff" as a recently added option.
+
+ * The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been
+ enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs
+ other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches,
+ remote-tracking branches and notes).
+
+ * Comes with more command line completion (in contrib/) for recently
+ introduced options.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -101,17 +150,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0
* Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
- (merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint).
* The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git
opens has been simplified.
- (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint).
* "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift
the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of
them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the
"--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one.
- (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint).
* A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
@@ -131,6 +177,21 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Adjust documentation to help AsciiDoctor render better while not
breaking the rendering done by AsciiDoc.
+ * The sequencer machinery has been further enhanced so that a later
+ set of patches can start using it to reimplement "rebase -i".
+
+ * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by
+ TravisCI.
+
+ * Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C.
+
+ * "make -C t failed" will now run only the tests that failed in the
+ previous run. This is usable only when prove is not use, and gives
+ a useless error message when run after "make clean", but otherwise
+ is serviceable.
+
+ * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -148,7 +209,6 @@ notes for details).
* "git svn" did not work well with path components that are "0", and
some configuration variable it uses were not documented.
- (merge ea9a93dcc2 ew/svn-fixes later to maint).
* "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like
"HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!".
@@ -271,41 +331,32 @@ notes for details).
three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
pack.compression variables the same way.
- (merge 8de7eeb54b jc/compression-config later to maint).
* "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
tree, which has been fixed.
- (merge 405d7f4af6 mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new later to maint).
* Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
- (merge 48d5014dd4 jc/abbrev-autoscale-config later to maint).
* Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
- (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).
* It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack
everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning
when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,
leading to disabling further "gc".
- (merge 1c409a705c dt/disable-bitmap-in-auto-gc later to maint).
* "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and
failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff
driver configuration.
- (merge 965cba2e7e jk/archive-zip-userdiff-config later to maint).
* "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>
pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.
- (merge 4e76832984 jk/blame-fixes later to maint).
* "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect
count when squashing more than 10 commits.
- (merge 356b8ecff1 jk/rebase-i-squash-count-fix later to maint).
* "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has
been corrected to error out with a message.
- (merge b10731f43d km/branch-get-push-while-detached later to maint).
* Running "git add a/b" when "a" is a submodule correctly errored
out, but without a meaningful error message.
@@ -314,7 +365,6 @@ notes for details).
* Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
structure. This has been fixed.
- (merge 46df6906f3 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint).
* "git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is
run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which
@@ -325,11 +375,126 @@ notes for details).
* Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as
a PRE regexp engine.
- (merge 7675c7bd01 jk/grep-e-could-be-extended-beyond-posix later to maint).
+
+ * An error message with an ASCII control character like '\r' in it
+ can alter the message to hide its early part, which is problematic
+ when a remote side gives such an error message that the local side
+ will relay with a "remote: " prefix.
+ (merge f290089879 jk/vreport-sanitize later to maint).
+
+ * "git fsck" inspects loose objects more carefully now.
+ (merge cce044df7f jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint).
+
+ * A crashing bug introduced in v2.11 timeframe has been found (it is
+ triggerable only in fast-import) and fixed.
+ (merge abd5a00268 jk/clear-delta-base-cache-fix later to maint).
+
+ * With an anticipatory tweak for remotes defined in ~/.gitconfig
+ (e.g. "remote.origin.prune" set to true, even though there may or
+ may not actually be "origin" remote defined in a particular Git
+ repository), "git remote rename" and other commands misinterpreted
+ and behaved as if such a non-existing remote actually existed.
+ (merge e459b073fb js/remote-rename-with-half-configured-remote later to maint).
+
+ * A few codepaths had to rely on a global variable when sorting
+ elements of an array because sort(3) API does not allow extra data
+ to be passed to the comparison function. Use qsort_s() when
+ natively available, and a fallback implementation of it when not,
+ to eliminate the need, which is a prerequisite for making the
+ codepath reentrant.
+
+ * "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all.
+ (merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint).
+
+ * After starting "git rebase -i", which first opens the user's editor
+ to edit the series of patches to apply, but before saving the
+ contents of that file, "git status" failed to show the current
+ state (i.e. you are in an interactive rebase session, but you have
+ applied no steps yet) correctly.
+ (merge df9ded4984 js/status-pre-rebase-i later to maint).
+
+ * Test tweak for FreeBSD where /usr/bin/unzip is unsuitable to run
+ our tests but /usr/local/bin/unzip is usable.
+ (merge d98b2c5fce js/unzip-in-usr-bin-workaround later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" did not work well with multiple git-p4.mapUser entries on
+ Windows.
+ (merge c3c2b05776 gv/mingw-p4-mapuser later to maint).
+
+ * "git help" enumerates executable files in $PATH; the implementation
+ of "is this file executable?" on Windows has been optimized.
+ (merge c755015f79 hv/mingw-help-is-executable later to maint).
+
+ * Test tweaks for those who have default ACL in their git source tree
+ that interfere with the umask test.
+ (merge d549d21307 mm/reset-facl-before-umask-test later to maint).
+
+ * Names of the various hook scripts must be spelled exactly, but on
+ Windows, an .exe binary must be named with .exe suffix; notice
+ $GIT_DIR/hooks/<hookname>.exe as a valid <hookname> hook.
+ (merge 235be51fbe js/mingw-hooks-with-exe-suffix later to maint).
+
+ * Asciidoctor, an alternative reimplementation of AsciiDoc, still
+ needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted
+ with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of
+ the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality.
+
+ * Correct command line completion (in contrib/) on "git svn"
+ (merge 2cbad17642 ew/complete-svn-authorship-options later to maint).
+
+ * Incorrect usage help message for "git worktree prune" has been fixed.
+ (merge 2488dcab22 ps/worktree-prune-help-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Adjust a perf test to new world order where commands that do
+ require a repository are really strict about having a repository.
+ (merge c86000c1a7 rs/p5302-create-repositories-before-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --graph" did not work well with "--name-only", even though
+ other forms of "diff" output were handled correctly.
+ (merge f5022b5fed jk/log-graph-name-only later to maint).
+
+ * The push-options given via the "--push-options" option were not
+ passed through to external remote helpers such as "smart HTTP" that
+ are invoked via the transport helper.
+
+ * The documentation explained what "git stash" does to the working
+ tree (after stashing away the local changes) in terms of "reset
+ --hard", which was exposing an unnecessary implementation detail.
+ (merge 20a7e06172 tg/stash-doc-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * When "git p4" imports changelist that removes paths, it failed to
+ convert pathnames when the p4 used encoding different from the one
+ used on the Git side. This has been corrected.
+ (merge a8b05162e8 ls/p4-path-encoding later to maint).
+
+ * A new coccinelle rule that catches a check of !pointer before the
+ pointer is free(3)d, which most likely is a bug.
+ (merge ec6cd14c7a rs/cocci-check-free-only-null later to maint).
+
+ * "ls-files" run with pathspec has been micro-optimized to avoid
+ having to memmove(3) unnecessary bytes.
+ (merge 96f6d3f61a rs/ls-files-partial-optim later to maint).
+
+ * A hotfix for a topic already in 'master'.
+ (merge a4d92d579f js/mingw-isatty later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 3f05402ac0 ad/bisect-terms later to maint).
(merge 874444b704 rh/diff-orderfile-doc later to maint).
- (merge c68d2d7c2b ws/request-pull-code-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge eafd5d9483 cw/doc-sign-off later to maint).
+ (merge 0aaad415bc rs/absolute-pathdup later to maint).
+ (merge 4432dd6b5b rs/receive-pack-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 540a398e9c sg/mailmap-self later to maint).
+ (merge 209df269a6 nd/rev-list-all-includes-HEAD-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 941b9c5270 sb/doc-unify-bottom later to maint).
+ (merge 2aaf37b62c jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge e91461b332 jk/doc-submodule-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 8ab9740d9f dp/submodule-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 0838cbc22f jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint).
+ (merge 115a40add6 dr/doc-check-ref-format-normalize later to maint).
+ (merge 133f0a299d gp/document-dotfiles-in-templates-are-not-copied later to maint).
+ (merge 2b35a9f4c7 bc/blame-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7e82388024 ps/doc-gc-aggressive-depth-update later to maint).
+ (merge 9993a7c5f1 bc/worktree-doc-fix-detached later to maint).
+ (merge e519eccdf4 rt/align-add-i-help-text later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 08352deaae..3faf7eb884 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -216,12 +216,11 @@ that it will be postponed.
Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK.
-Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your
-maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP
-key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not
-judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a
-far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known,
-respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
+Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other people on the
+list would not have your PGP key and would not bother obtaining it anyway.
+Your patch is not judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin
+has a far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known, respected
+origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things.
If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed
patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message
@@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ patch.
*2* The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org
-(5) Sign your work
+(5) Certify your work by adding your "Signed-off-by: " line
To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the
"sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec83b4959e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+require 'asciidoctor'
+require 'asciidoctor/extensions'
+
+module Git
+ module Documentation
+ class LinkGitProcessor < Asciidoctor::Extensions::InlineMacroProcessor
+ use_dsl
+
+ named :chrome
+
+ def process(parent, target, attrs)
+ if parent.document.basebackend? 'html'
+ prefix = parent.document.attr('git-relative-html-prefix')
+ %(<a href="#{prefix}#{target}.html">#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</a>\n)
+ elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'docbook'
+ "<citerefentry>\n" \
+ "<refentrytitle>#{target}</refentrytitle>" \
+ "<manvolnum>#{attrs[1]}</manvolnum>\n" \
+ "</citerefentry>\n"
+ end
+ end
+ end
+ end
+end
+
+Asciidoctor::Extensions.register do
+ inline_macro Git::Documentation::LinkGitProcessor, :linkgit
+end
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 2669b87c9d..dc41957afa 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[]
terminal. Can't use `--progress` together with `--porcelain`
or `--incremental`.
--M|<num>|::
+-M[<num>]::
Detect moved or copied lines within a file. When a commit
moves or copies a block of lines (e.g. the original file
has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and then
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ alphanumeric characters that Git must detect as moving/copying
within a file for it to associate those lines with the parent
commit. The default value is 20.
--C|<num>|::
+-C[<num>]::
In addition to `-M`, detect lines moved or copied from other
files that were modified in the same commit. This is
useful when you reorganize your program and move code
diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
index 87437f8a95..14d2f83415 100755
--- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
+++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
my @menu = ();
my $output = $ARGV[0];
-open TMP, '>', "$output.tmp";
+open my $tmp, '>', "$output.tmp";
while (<STDIN>) {
next if (/^\\input texinfo/../\@node Top/);
@@ -11,13 +14,13 @@ while (<STDIN>) {
if (s/^\@top (.*)/\@node $1,,,Top/) {
push @menu, $1;
}
- s/\(\@pxref{\[(URLS|REMOTES)\]}\)//;
+ s/\(\@pxref\{\[(URLS|REMOTES)\]}\)//;
s/\@anchor\{[^{}]*\}//g;
- print TMP;
+ print $tmp $_;
}
-close TMP;
+close $tmp;
-printf '\input texinfo
+print '\input texinfo
@setfilename gitman.info
@documentencoding UTF-8
@dircategory Development
@@ -28,16 +31,16 @@ printf '\input texinfo
@top Git Manual Pages
@documentlanguage en
@menu
-', $menu[0];
+';
for (@menu) {
print "* ${_}::\n";
}
print "\@end menu\n";
-open TMP, '<', "$output.tmp";
-while (<TMP>) {
+open $tmp, '<', "$output.tmp";
+while (<$tmp>) {
print;
}
-close TMP;
+close $tmp;
print "\@bye\n";
unlink "$output.tmp";
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ee155d8a6b..10351a2100 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -170,6 +170,9 @@ The position of any attributes with respect to the colors
be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`,
`no-ul`, etc).
+
+An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used
+to avoid coloring specific elements without disabling color entirely.
++
For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset
at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
`color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a
@@ -517,10 +520,12 @@ core.logAllRefUpdates::
"`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`", by appending the new and old
SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but
only when the file exists. If this configuration
- variable is set to true, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`"
+ variable is set to `true`, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`"
file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under
- refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/),
- note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD.
+ `refs/heads/`), remote refs (i.e. under `refs/remotes/`),
+ note refs (i.e. under `refs/notes/`), and the symbolic ref `HEAD`.
+ If it is set to `always`, then a missing reflog is automatically
+ created for any ref under `refs/`.
+
This information can be used to determine what commit
was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
@@ -2039,6 +2044,10 @@ log.follow::
i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well
on non-linear history.
+log.graphColors::
+ A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw
+ history lines in `git log --graph`.
+
log.showRoot::
If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
@@ -2943,7 +2952,7 @@ submodule.alternateLocation::
value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes
its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate.
-submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
+submodule.alternateErrorStrategy::
Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule
as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are
`ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 5516a47b54..28d46cc03b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ OPTIONS
based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
Note that in non-bare repositories, reflogs are usually
enabled by default by the `core.logallrefupdates` config option.
+ The negated form `--no-create-reflog` only overrides an earlier
+ `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of
+ `core.logallrefupdates`.
-f::
--force::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index 8611a99120..92777cef25 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ OPTIONS
--normalize::
Normalize 'refname' by removing any leading slash (`/`)
characters and collapsing runs of adjacent slashes between
- name components into a single slash. Iff the normalized
+ name components into a single slash. If the normalized
refname is valid then print it to standard output and exit
- with a status of 0. (`--print` is a deprecated way to spell
- `--normalize`.)
+ with a status of 0, otherwise exit with a non-zero status.
+ (`--print` is a deprecated way to spell `--normalize`.)
EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index e4ac448ff5..8755f3af7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,20 @@ OPTIONS
--match <pattern>::
Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern,
excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to avoid
- leaking private tags from the repository.
+ leaking private tags from the repository. If given multiple times, a
+ list of patterns will be accumulated, and tags matching any of the
+ patterns will be considered. Use `--no-match` to clear and reset the
+ list of patterns.
+
+--exclude <pattern>::
+ Do not consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, excluding
+ the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to narrow the tag space and
+ find only tags matching some meaningful criteria. If given multiple
+ times, a list of patterns will be accumulated and tags matching any
+ of the patterns will be excluded. When combined with --match a tag will
+ be considered when it matches at least one --match pattern and does not
+ match any of the --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear and
+ reset the list of patterns.
--always::
Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index 224fb3090b..96c26e6aa8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -86,10 +86,11 @@ instead. `--no-symlinks` is the default on Windows.
Additionally, `$BASE` is set in the environment.
-g::
---gui::
+--[no-]gui::
When 'git-difftool' is invoked with the `-g` or `--gui` option
the default diff tool will be read from the configured
- `diff.guitool` variable instead of `diff.tool`.
+ `diff.guitool` variable instead of `diff.tool`. The `--no-gui`
+ option can be used to override this setting.
--[no-]trust-exit-code::
'git-difftool' invokes a diff tool individually on each file.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index 852b72c679..571b5a7e3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for
more details. This defaults to 250.
Similarly, the optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveDepth`
-controls --depth option in linkgit:git-repack[1]. This defaults to 250.
+controls --depth option in linkgit:git-repack[1]. This defaults to 50.
The optional configuration variable `gc.pruneExpire` controls how old
the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 9d27197de8..3c5a67fb96 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ does not exist, it will be created.
TEMPLATE DIRECTORY
------------------
-The template directory contains files and directories that will be copied to
-the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created.
+Files and directories in the template directory whose name do not start with a
+dot will be copied to the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created.
The template directory will be one of the following (in order):
diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
index ca28fb8e2a..e8e68f528c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,18 @@ OPTIONS
--refs=<pattern>::
Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. The pattern
- can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name.
+ can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. If
+ given multiple times, use refs whose names match any of the given shell
+ patterns. Use `--no-refs` to clear any previous ref patterns given.
+
+--exclude=<pattern>::
+ Do not use any ref whose name matches a given shell pattern. The
+ pattern can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref
+ name. If given multiple times, a ref will be excluded when it matches
+ any of the given patterns. When used together with --refs, a ref will
+ be used as a match only when it matches at least one --refs pattern and
+ does not match any --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear the
+ list of exclude patterns.
--all::
List all commits reachable from all refs
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 8eefabd0d1..1624a35888 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the
standard error stream is not directed to a terminal.
--no-recurse-submodules::
---recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no::
+--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|only|no::
May be used to make sure all submodule commits used by the
revisions to be pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch.
If 'check' is used Git will verify that all submodule commits that
@@ -280,11 +280,12 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the
remote of the submodule. If any commits are missing the push will
be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If 'on-demand' is used
all submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be
- pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions
- it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. A value of
- 'no' or using `--no-recurse-submodules` can be used to override the
- push.recurseSubmodules configuration variable when no submodule
- recursion is required.
+ pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will
+ also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If 'only' is used all
+ submodules will be recursively pushed while the superproject is left
+ unpushed. A value of 'no' or using `--no-recurse-submodules` can be used
+ to override the push.recurseSubmodules configuration variable when no
+ submodule recursion is required.
--[no-]verify::
Toggle the pre-push hook (see linkgit:githooks[5]). The
diff --git a/Documentation/git-relink.txt b/Documentation/git-relink.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b33c99510..0000000000
--- a/Documentation/git-relink.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-git-relink(1)
-=============
-
-NAME
-----
-git-relink - Hardlink common objects in local repositories
-
-SYNOPSIS
---------
-[verse]
-'git relink' [--safe] <dir>... <master_dir>
-
-DESCRIPTION
------------
-This will scan 1 or more object repositories and look for objects in common
-with a master repository. Objects not already hardlinked to the master
-repository will be replaced with a hardlink to the master repository.
-
-OPTIONS
--------
---safe::
- Stops if two objects with the same hash exist but have different sizes.
- Default is to warn and continue.
-
-<dir>::
- Directories containing a .git/objects/ subdirectory.
-
-GIT
----
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 25432d9257..8a21198d65 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -292,6 +292,54 @@ $ git reset --keep start <3>
<3> But you can use "reset --keep" to remove the unwanted commit after
you switched to "branch2".
+Split a commit apart into a sequence of commits::
++
+Suppose that you have created lots of logically separate changes and commited
+them together. Then, later you decide that it might be better to have each
+logical chunk associated with its own commit. You can use git reset to rewind
+history without changing the contents of your local files, and then successively
+use `git add -p` to interactively select which hunks to include into each commit,
+using `git commit -c` to pre-populate the commit message.
++
+------------
+$ git reset -N HEAD^ <1>
+$ git add -p <2>
+$ git diff --cached <3>
+$ git commit -c HEAD@{1} <4>
+... <5>
+$ git add ... <6>
+$ git diff --cached <7>
+$ git commit ... <8>
+------------
++
+<1> First, reset the history back one commit so that we remove the original
+ commit, but leave the working tree with all the changes. The -N ensures
+ that any new files added with HEAD are still marked so that git add -p
+ will find them.
+<2> Next, we interactively select diff hunks to add using the git add -p
+ facility. This will ask you about each diff hunk in sequence and you can
+ use simple commands such as "yes, include this", "No don't include this"
+ or even the very powerful "edit" facility.
+<3> Once satisfied with the hunks you want to include, you should verify what
+ has been prepared for the first commit by using git diff --cached. This
+ shows all the changes that have been moved into the index and are about
+ to be committed.
+<4> Next, commit the changes stored in the index. The -c option specifies to
+ pre-populate the commit message from the original message that you started
+ with in the first commit. This is helpful to avoid retyping it. The HEAD@{1}
+ is a special notation for the commit that HEAD used to be at prior to the
+ original reset commit (1 change ago). See linkgit:git-reflog[1] for more
+ details. You may also use any other valid commit reference.
+<5> You can repeat steps 2-4 multiple times to break the original code into
+ any number of commits.
+<6> Now you've split out many of the changes into their own commits, and might
+ no longer use the patch mode of git add, in order to select all remaining
+ uncommitted changes.
+<7> Once again, check to verify that you've included what you want to. You may
+ also wish to verify that git diff doesn't show any remaining changes to be
+ committed later.
+<8> And finally create the final commit.
+
DISCUSSION
----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
index 2e9cef06e6..2e9e344cd7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ OPTIONS
save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]::
- Save your local modifications to a new 'stash', and run `git reset
- --hard` to revert them. The <message> part is optional and gives
+ Save your local modifications to a new 'stash' and roll them
+ back to HEAD (in the working tree and in the index).
+ The <message> part is optional and gives
the description along with the stashed state. For quickly making
a snapshot, you can omit _both_ "save" and <message>, but giving
only <message> does not trigger this action to prevent a misspelled
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 918bd1d1bd..8acc72ebb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -9,17 +9,12 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>]
- [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] add [<options>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
-'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch]
- [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge]
- [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive]
- [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>]
- [commit] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] update [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [<options>] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] absorbgitdirs [--] [<path>...]
@@ -63,7 +58,7 @@ if you choose to go that route.
COMMANDS
--------
-add::
+add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]::
Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path
to the changeset to be committed next to the current
project: the current project is termed the "superproject".
@@ -104,7 +99,7 @@ together in the same relative location, and only the
superproject's URL needs to be provided: git-submodule will correctly
locate the submodule using the relative URL in .gitmodules.
-status::
+status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]::
Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the
currently checked out commit for each submodule, along with the
submodule path and the output of 'git describe' for the
@@ -121,7 +116,7 @@ submodules with respect to the commit recorded in the index or the HEAD,
linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that information
too (and can also report changes to a submodule's work tree).
-init::
+init [--] [<path>...]::
Initialize the submodules recorded in the index (which were
added and committed elsewhere) by copying submodule
names and urls from .gitmodules to .git/config.
@@ -136,7 +131,7 @@ init::
the explicit 'init' step if you do not intend to customize
any submodule locations.
-deinit::
+deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)::
Unregister the given submodules, i.e. remove the whole
`submodule.$name` section from .git/config together with their work
tree. Further calls to `git submodule update`, `git submodule foreach`
@@ -152,20 +147,20 @@ instead of deinit-ing everything, to prevent mistakes.
If `--force` is specified, the submodule's working tree will
be removed even if it contains local modifications.
-update::
+update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--checkout|--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]::
+
--
Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject
expects by cloning missing submodules and updating the working tree of
the submodules. The "updating" can be done in several ways depending
on command line options and the value of `submodule.<name>.update`
-configuration variable. Supported update procedures are:
+configuration variable. The command line option takes precedence over
+the configuration variable. if neither is given, a checkout is performed.
+update procedures supported both from the command line as well as setting
+`submodule.<name>.update`:
checkout;; the commit recorded in the superproject will be
- checked out in the submodule on a detached HEAD. This is
- done when `--checkout` option is given, or no option is
- given, and `submodule.<name>.update` is unset, or if it is
- set to 'checkout'.
+ checked out in the submodule on a detached HEAD.
+
If `--force` is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using
`git checkout --force` if appropriate), even if the commit specified
@@ -173,23 +168,21 @@ in the index of the containing repository already matches the commit
checked out in the submodule.
rebase;; the current branch of the submodule will be rebased
- onto the commit recorded in the superproject. This is done
- when `--rebase` option is given, or no option is given, and
- `submodule.<name>.update` is set to 'rebase'.
+ onto the commit recorded in the superproject.
merge;; the commit recorded in the superproject will be merged
- into the current branch in the submodule. This is done
- when `--merge` option is given, or no option is given, and
- `submodule.<name>.update` is set to 'merge'.
+ into the current branch in the submodule.
+
+The following procedures are only available via the `submodule.<name>.update`
+configuration variable:
custom command;; arbitrary shell command that takes a single
argument (the sha1 of the commit recorded in the
- superproject) is executed. This is done when no option is
- given, and `submodule.<name>.update` has the form of
- '!command'.
+ superproject) is executed. When `submodule.<name>.update`
+ is set to '!command', the remainder after the exclamation mark
+ is the custom command.
-When no option is given and `submodule.<name>.update` is set to 'none',
-the submodule is not updated.
+ none;; the submodule is not updated.
If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the
setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the
@@ -198,7 +191,7 @@ submodule with the `--init` option.
If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the
registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within.
--
-summary::
+summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]::
Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
working tree/index. For a submodule in question, a series of commits
in the submodule between the given super project commit and the
@@ -211,7 +204,7 @@ summary::
Using the `--submodule=log` option with linkgit:git-diff[1] will provide that
information too.
-foreach::
+foreach [--recursive] <command>::
Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and
$toplevel:
@@ -228,11 +221,14 @@ foreach::
the processing to terminate. This can be overridden by adding '|| :'
to the end of the command.
+
-As an example, +git submodule foreach \'echo $path {backtick}git
-rev-parse HEAD{backtick}'+ will show the path and currently checked out
-commit for each submodule.
+As an example, the command below will show the path and currently
+checked out commit for each submodule:
++
+--------------
+git submodule foreach 'echo $path `git rev-parse HEAD`'
+--------------
-sync::
+sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]::
Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting
to the value specified in .gitmodules. It will only affect those
submodules which already have a URL entry in .git/config (that is the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 5055a96823..525737a5d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--points-at <object>]
[--column[=<options>] | --no-column] [--create-reflog] [--sort=<key>]
[--format=<format>] [--[no-]merged [<commit>]] [<pattern>...]
-'git tag' -v <tagname>...
+'git tag' -v [--format=<format>] <tagname>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines.
'strip' removes both whitespace and commentary.
--create-reflog::
- Create a reflog for the tag.
+ Create a reflog for the tag. To globally enable reflogs for tags, see
+ `core.logAllRefUpdates` in linkgit:git-config[1].
+ The negated form `--no-create-reflog` only overrides an earlier
+ `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of
+ `core.logallrefupdates`.
<tagname>::
The name of the tag to create, delete, or describe.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt
index d590edcebd..0b8075dad9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-verify-tag.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-verify-tag - Check the GPG signature of tags
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git verify-tag' <tag>...
+'git verify-tag' [--format=<format>] <tag>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index e257c19ebe..553cf8413f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working
directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. `-` may also be
specified as `<branch>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`.
+
-If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detached` used,
+If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` used,
then, as a convenience, a new branch based at HEAD is created automatically,
as if `-b $(basename <path>)` was specified.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 4f208fab92..aa895da4a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
+* link:v2.12.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.12.0]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.12.0.txt[2.12].
+
* link:v2.11.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.11.1]
* release notes for
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 22309cfb48..3a0ec8c53a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -1658,4 +1658,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
index 4c6143c511..1cd1283d0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
@@ -203,4 +203,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
index 08cf62278e..46bc6d077c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
@@ -288,4 +288,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gitglossary.txt b/Documentation/gitglossary.txt
index 212e254adc..571f640f5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitglossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitglossary.txt
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
index 9e8681f9e1..e4b785eb60 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
@@ -452,16 +452,20 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability.
Request the helper to perform a force update. Defaults to
'false'.
-'option cloning {'true'|'false'}::
+'option cloning' {'true'|'false'}::
Notify the helper this is a clone request (i.e. the current
repository is guaranteed empty).
-'option update-shallow {'true'|'false'}::
+'option update-shallow' {'true'|'false'}::
Allow to extend .git/shallow if the new refs require it.
-'option pushcert {'true'|'false'}::
+'option pushcert' {'true'|'false'}::
GPG sign pushes.
+'option push-option <string>::
+ Transmit <string> as a push option. As the a push option
+ must not contain LF or NUL characters, the string is not encoded.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-remote[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index a5f99cbb11..f51ed4e37c 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -289,4 +289,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
index 30d2119565..e0976f6017 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt
@@ -433,4 +433,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index b3b58d324e..794b83393e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -674,4 +674,4 @@ link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt b/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
index f16c414ea7..177610e44e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
@@ -477,4 +477,4 @@ linkgit:git-am[1]
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite.
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 5da7cf5a8d..a02f7324c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ parents) and `--max-parents=-1` (negative numbers denote no upper limit).
for all following revision specifiers, up to the next `--not`.
--all::
- Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/` are listed on the
- command line as '<commit>'.
+ Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/`, along with `HEAD`, are
+ listed on the command line as '<commit>'.
--branches[=<pattern>]::
Pretend as if all the refs in `refs/heads` are listed
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt
index 28f5a8b715..a3f020cd9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-hashmap.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ Returns the removed entry, or NULL if not found.
`void *hashmap_iter_next(struct hashmap_iter *iter)`::
`void *hashmap_iter_first(struct hashmap *map, struct hashmap_iter *iter)`::
- Used to iterate over all entries of a hashmap.
+ Used to iterate over all entries of a hashmap. Note that it is
+ not safe to add or remove entries to the hashmap while
+ iterating.
+
`hashmap_iter_init` initializes a `hashmap_iter` structure.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index adbdbf5d75..0000000000
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-in-core-index.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-in-core index API
-=================
-
-Talk about <read-cache.c> and <cache-tree.c>, things like:
-
-* cache -> the_index macros
-* read_index()
-* write_index()
-* ie_match_stat() and ie_modified(); how they are different and when to
- use which.
-* index_name_pos()
-* remove_index_entry_at()
-* remove_file_from_index()
-* add_file_to_index()
-* add_index_entry()
-* refresh_index()
-* discard_index()
-* cache_tree_invalidate_path()
-* cache_tree_update()
-
-(JC, Linus)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 27bd701c0d..36768b479e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
Introduce an option with string argument.
The string argument is put into `str_var`.
+`OPT_STRING_LIST(short, long, &struct string_list, arg_str, description)`::
+ Introduce an option with string argument.
+ The string argument is stored as an element in `string_list`.
+ Use of `--no-option` will clear the list of preceding values.
+
`OPT_INTEGER(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
Introduce an option with integer argument.
The integer is put into `int_var`.
diff --git a/Documentation/texi.xsl b/Documentation/texi.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0f8ff07eca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/texi.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<!-- texi.xsl:
+ convert refsection elements into refsect elements that docbook2texi can
+ understand -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<xsl:output method="xml"
+ encoding="UTF-8"
+ doctype-public="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ doctype-system="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" />
+
+<xsl:template match="//refsection">
+ <xsl:variable name="element">refsect<xsl:value-of select="count(ancestor-or-self::refsection)" /></xsl:variable>
+ <xsl:element name="{$element}">
+ <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
+ </xsl:element>
+</xsl:template>
+
+<!-- Copy all other nodes through. -->
+<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
+ <xsl:copy>
+ <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
+ </xsl:copy>
+</xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>