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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt48
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rerere.txt65
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-show-ref.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-stash.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt4
9 files changed, 94 insertions, 72 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt
index a3fceebb11..b2f3f0293c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt
@@ -8,44 +8,54 @@ Fixes since v1.6.3.1
casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
and aborted compilation.
- * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
-
- * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
- in a bare repository.
-
- * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
- created by an ancient git.
-
* Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.
* The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.
+ * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
+ merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
+ gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead
+ produced an empty result.
+
* GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.
+ * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".
+
+ * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
+ create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
+ $(bindir)/git.
+
+ * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
+ in a bare repository.
+
* "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We
silently make it a no-op now.
+ * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
+ the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
+ both halves are marked to be used.
+
+ * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
+ from a directory with some files in it.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
+ created by an ancient git.
+
* "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
configuration was set.
- * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".
+ * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had
+ subtle bugs with its -w option.
- * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
- create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
- $(bindir)/git.
+ * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
* "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.
+ * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.
+
Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
and documentation are included as well.
-
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.3.1-51-g2a1feb9
-echo O=$(git describe maint)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
-
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index 64715c17da..a53c3cd35b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-In a workflow that employs relatively long lived topic branches,
-the developer sometimes needs to resolve the same conflict over
+In a workflow employing relatively long lived topic branches,
+the developer sometimes needs to resolve the same conflicts over
and over again until the topic branches are done (either merged
to the "release" branch, or sent out and accepted upstream).
-This command helps this process by recording conflicted
-automerge results and corresponding hand-resolve results on the
-initial manual merge, and later by noticing the same automerge
-results and applying the previously recorded hand resolution.
+This command assists the developer in this process by recording
+conflicted automerge results and corresponding hand resolve results
+on the initial manual merge, and applying previously recorded
+hand resolutions to their corresponding automerge results.
[NOTE]
You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to
@@ -54,18 +54,18 @@ for resolutions.
'gc'::
-This command is used to prune records of conflicted merge that
-occurred long time ago. By default, conflicts older than 15
-days that you have not recorded their resolution, and conflicts
-older than 60 days, are pruned. These are controlled with
+This prunes records of conflicted merges that
+occurred a long time ago. By default, unresolved conflicts older
+than 15 days and resolved conflicts older than 60
+days are pruned. These defaults are controlled via the
`gc.rerereunresolved` and `gc.rerereresolved` configuration
-variables.
+variables respectively.
DISCUSSION
----------
-When your topic branch modifies overlapping area that your
+When your topic branch modifies an overlapping area that your
master branch (or upstream) touched since your topic branch
forked from it, you may want to test it with the latest master,
even before your topic branch is ready to be pushed upstream:
@@ -140,9 +140,9 @@ top of the tip before the test merge:
This would leave only one merge commit when your topic branch is
finally ready and merged into the master branch. This merge
would require you to resolve the conflict, introduced by the
-commits marked with `*`. However, often this conflict is the
+commits marked with `*`. However, this conflict is often the
same conflict you resolved when you created the test merge you
-blew away. 'git-rerere' command helps you to resolve this final
+blew away. 'git-rerere' helps you resolve this final
conflicted merge using the information from your earlier hand
resolve.
@@ -150,33 +150,32 @@ Running the 'git-rerere' command immediately after a conflicted
automerge records the conflicted working tree files, with the
usual conflict markers `<<<<<<<`, `=======`, and `>>>>>>>` in
them. Later, after you are done resolving the conflicts,
-running 'git-rerere' again records the resolved state of these
+running 'git-rerere' again will record the resolved state of these
files. Suppose you did this when you created the test merge of
master into the topic branch.
-Next time, running 'git-rerere' after seeing a conflicted
-automerge, if the conflict is the same as the earlier one
-recorded, it is noticed and a three-way merge between the
+Next time, after seeing the same conflicted automerge,
+running 'git-rerere' will perform a three-way merge between the
earlier conflicted automerge, the earlier manual resolution, and
-the current conflicted automerge is performed by the command.
+the current conflicted automerge.
If this three-way merge resolves cleanly, the result is written
-out to your working tree file, so you would not have to manually
+out to your working tree file, so you do not have to manually
resolve it. Note that 'git-rerere' leaves the index file alone,
so you still need to do the final sanity checks with `git diff`
(or `git diff -c`) and 'git-add' when you are satisfied.
As a convenience measure, 'git-merge' automatically invokes
-'git-rerere' when it exits with a failed automerge, which
-records it if it is a new conflict, or reuses the earlier hand
+'git-rerere' upon exiting with a failed automerge and 'git-rerere'
+records the hand resolve when it is a new conflict, or reuses the earlier hand
resolve when it is not. 'git-commit' also invokes 'git-rerere'
-when recording a merge result. What this means is that you do
-not have to do anything special yourself (Note: you still have
-to set the config variable rerere.enabled to enable this command).
+when committing a merge result. What this means is that you do
+not have to do anything special yourself (besides enabling
+the rerere.enabled config variable).
-In our example, when you did the test merge, the manual
+In our example, when you do the test merge, the manual
resolution is recorded, and it will be reused when you do the
-actual merge later with updated master and topic branch, as long
-as the earlier resolution is still applicable.
+actual merge later with the updated master and topic branch, as long
+as the recorded resolution is still applicable.
The information 'git-rerere' records is also used when running
'git-rebase'. After blowing away the test merge and continuing
@@ -194,11 +193,11 @@ development on the topic branch:
o---o---o---*---o---o---o---o master
------------
-you could run `git rebase master topic`, to keep yourself
-up-to-date even before your topic is ready to be sent upstream.
-This would result in falling back to three-way merge, and it
-would conflict the same way the test merge you resolved earlier.
-'git-rerere' is run by 'git-rebase' to help you resolve this
+you could run `git rebase master topic`, to bring yourself
+up-to-date before your topic is ready to be sent upstream.
+This would result in falling back to a three-way merge, and it
+would conflict the same way as the test merge you resolved earlier.
+'git-rerere' will be run by 'git-rebase' to help you resolve this
conflict.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 794224b1b3..a2821907c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Takes the patches given on the command line and emails them out.
+Patches can be specified as files, directories (which will send all
+files in the directory), or directly as a revision list. In the
+last case, any format accepted by linkgit:git-format-patch[1] can
+be passed to git send-email.
The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not
specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index 2f173fff35..98e294aa86 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse, it shows the
refs from stdin that don't exist in the local repository.
Use of this utility is encouraged in favor of directly accessing files under
-in the `.git` directory.
+the `.git` directory.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS
-s::
--hash::
- Only show the SHA1 hash, not the reference name. When also using
+ Only show the SHA1 hash, not the reference name. When combined with
--dereference the dereferenced tag will still be shown after the SHA1.
--verify::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
index 051f94d26f..1cc24cc47e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
@@ -75,14 +75,22 @@ show [<stash>]::
it will accept any format known to 'git-diff' (e.g., `git stash show
-p stash@\{1}` to view the second most recent stash in patch form).
-apply [--index] [<stash>]::
+pop [<stash>]::
- Restore the changes recorded in the stash on top of the current
- working tree state. When no `<stash>` is given, applies the latest
- one. The working directory must match the index.
+ Remove a single stashed state from the stash list and apply it
+ on top of the current working tree state, i.e., do the inverse
+ operation of `git stash save`. The working directory must
+ match the index.
+
-This operation can fail with conflicts; you need to resolve them
-by hand in the working tree.
+Applying the state can fail with conflicts; in this case, it is not
+removed from the stash list. You need to resolve the conflicts by hand
+and call `git stash drop` manually afterwards.
++
+When no `<stash>` is given, `stash@\{0}` is assumed. See also `apply`.
+
+apply [--index] [<stash>]::
+
+ Like `pop`, but do not remove the state from the stash list.
+
If the `--index` option is used, then tries to reinstate not only the working
tree's changes, but also the index's ones. However, this can fail, when you
@@ -112,12 +120,6 @@ drop [<stash>]::
Remove a single stashed state from the stash list. When no `<stash>`
is given, it removes the latest one. i.e. `stash@\{0}`
-pop [<stash>]::
-
- Remove a single stashed state from the stash list and apply on top
- of the current working tree state. When no `<stash>` is given,
- `stash@\{0}` is assumed. See also `apply`.
-
create::
Create a stash (which is a regular commit object) and return its
@@ -163,7 +165,7 @@ $ git pull
file foobar not up to date, cannot merge.
$ git stash
$ git pull
-$ git stash apply
+$ git stash pop
----------------------------------------------------------------
Interrupted workflow::
@@ -192,7 +194,7 @@ You can use 'git-stash' to simplify the above, like this:
$ git stash
$ edit emergency fix
$ git commit -a -m "Fix in a hurry"
-$ git stash apply
+$ git stash pop
# ... continue hacking ...
----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 1c40894669..74be8435cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ pulled or merged from. This is because the author favored
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
+`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.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 9d8f236fe8..3589a12e49 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ The link:user-manual.html#git-concepts[git concepts chapter of the
user-manual] and linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] both provide
introductions to the underlying git architecture.
+See linkgit:gitworkflows[7] for an overview of recommended workflows.
+
See also the link:howto-index.html[howto] documents for some useful
examples.
@@ -644,7 +646,8 @@ SEE ALSO
linkgit:gittutorial[7], linkgit:gittutorial-2[7],
link:everyday.html[Everyday Git], linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7],
linkgit:gitglossary[7], linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7],
-linkgit:gitcli[7], link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
+linkgit:gitcli[7], link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual],
+linkgit:gitworkflows[7]
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index c5d5596d89..c7fa949c28 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -650,6 +650,9 @@ digressions that may be interesting at this point are:
smart enough to perform a close-to-optimal search even in the
case of complex non-linear history with lots of merged branches.
+ * linkgit:gitworkflows[7]: Gives an overview of recommended
+ workflows.
+
* link:everyday.html[Everyday GIT with 20 Commands Or So]
* linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]: Git for CVS users.
@@ -661,6 +664,7 @@ linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7],
linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7],
linkgit:gitglossary[7],
linkgit:git-help[1],
+linkgit:gitworkflows[7],
link:everyday.html[Everyday git],
link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index dbbeb7e7c7..0b88a51d0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1520,10 +1520,10 @@ $ git commit -a -m "blorpl: typofix"
------------------------------------------------
After that, you can go back to what you were working on with
-`git stash apply`:
+`git stash pop`:
------------------------------------------------
-$ git stash apply
+$ git stash pop
------------------------------------------------