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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt69
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt321
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt65
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clone.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-read-tree.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-repack.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcredentials.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitweb.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt59
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt32
23 files changed, 602 insertions, 64 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index a4191aa388..c4cb5ff0d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ code. For Git in general, a few rough rules are:
"Once it _is_ in the tree, it's not really worth the patch noise to
go and fix it up."
- Cf. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/943020
+ Cf. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.3/01069.html
Make your code readable and sensible, and don't try to be clever.
@@ -256,12 +256,12 @@ For C programs:
Note however that a comment that explains a translatable string to
translators uses a convention of starting with a magic token
- "TRANSLATORS: " immediately after the opening delimiter, even when
- it spans multiple lines. We do not add an asterisk at the beginning
- of each line, either. E.g.
+ "TRANSLATORS: ", e.g.
- /* TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string
- to be translated, that follows immediately after it */
+ /*
+ * TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string to
+ * be translated, that follows immediately after it.
+ */
_("Here is a translatable string explained by the above.");
- Double negation is often harder to understand than no negation
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..04c752c490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+Git v2.13.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.13
+-----------------
+
+ * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
+ the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
+ ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
+ based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
+ to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
+
+ * Update tests to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism to ensure
+ that output strings that should not be translated are not
+ translated by mistake), and tell TravisCI to run them.
+
+ * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take
+ effect in v2.13, which has been corrected.
+
+ * An earlier update to test 7400 needed to be skipped on CYGWIN.
+
+ * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
+ not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
+ speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
+
+ * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use
+ --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request
+ will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish
+ to be merged.
+
+ * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase"
+ leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased.
+
+ * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
+ the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
+ in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
+ strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other
+ options are in use, and need to be disabled.
+
+ * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
+ configuration variables.
+
+ * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at
+ missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they
+ should silently be ignored instead)
+
+ * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
+ documentation have been updated to https:// links.
+
+ * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out
+ with "platform native" line ending convention by default on
+ Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts
+ themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be
+ checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.
+
+ * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).
+
+ * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
+ records the same set of push options used for pushing.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery
+ mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line.
+ This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added
+ after completing the existing incomplete line.
+
+ * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has
+ a new "push" subcommand.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1bb29b6e9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,321 @@
+Git 2.14 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes.
+
+ * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
+ 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
+ more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
+ users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
+ turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
+ this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming
+ release (yet).
+
+ * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
+ sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
+ We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
+ might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
+ greatly appreciated.
+
+
+Updates since v2.13
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names
+ of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now
+ configurable.
+
+ * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags
+ initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in
+ subsequent fetches.
+
+ * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
+ necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
+ (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
+
+ * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
+
+ * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
+ (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint).
+
+ * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
+ to pack-objects.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
+ and reject a message before sending it out.
+ (merge 6489660b4b jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).
+
+ * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
+ when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
+ even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
+
+ * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
+ mechansim has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
+ The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
+ a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such
+ a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
+ current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
+ should be included.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger
+ platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while
+ "gc" is running in parallel.
+
+ * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
+ accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
+ (merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint).
+
+ * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
+ remove the temporary directory used during the test.
+
+ * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both
+ AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor.
+ (merge 505ad91304 ls/travis-doc-asciidoctor later to maint).
+
+ * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our
+ historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot
+ represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a
+ separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish
+ timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good
+ move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the
+ timestamp_t.
+
+ * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho &
+ Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now.
+
+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
+
+ * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
+ default in-core index.
+ (merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint).
+
+ * Add perf-test for wildmatch.
+ (merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint).
+
+ * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
+ extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
+ (merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint).
+
+ * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
+ index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
+ discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case
+ that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the
+ main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these
+ operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the
+ cache is properly invalidated).
+
+ * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
+ (merge 8df4c2953f ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
+ recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
+ multi-line comments.
+ (merge 66f5f6dca9 ab/c-translators-comment-style later to maint).
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.13
+-----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed
+ per-worktree refs.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery
+ mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line.
+ This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added
+ after completing the existing incomplete line.
+ (merge 44dc738a39 jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands later to maint).
+
+ * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase"
+ leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased.
+ (merge 721f5f1e35 jk/am-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the
+ per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did
+ not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed.
+ (merge db4eca1fea jn/clone-add-empty-config-from-command-line later to maint).
+
+ * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take
+ effect in v2.13, which has been corrected.
+ (merge c74271aae7 ah/log-decorate-default-to-auto later to maint).
+
+ * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch
+ tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory.
+ (merge 57e0ef0e0e rs/checkout-am-fix-unborn later to maint).
+
+ * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
+ the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
+ ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
+ based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
+ to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
+ (merge 5840eb9d14 ab/doc-replace-gmane-links later to maint).
+
+ * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
+ records the same set of push options used for pushing.
+ (merge cbaf82cc6b jt/push-options-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism
+ to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are
+ not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them.
+ (merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
+ submodule that itself has submodules.
+ (merge 218c883783 sb/checkout-recurse-submodules later to maint).
+
+ * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the
+ split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the
+ future.
+ (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint).
+
+ * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
+ the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
+ in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
+ strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other
+ options are in use, and need to be disabled.
+ (merge da5a1f8100 jk/disable-pack-reuse-when-broken later to maint).
+
+ * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).
+ (merge 443a12f37b js/plug-leaks later to maint).
+
+ * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use
+ --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request
+ will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish
+ to be merged.
+ (merge b9b10d3681 jc/read-tree-empty-with-m later to maint).
+
+ * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out
+ with "platform native" line ending convention by default on
+ Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts
+ themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be
+ checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.
+ (merge 2779f66505 js/eol-on-ourselves later to maint).
+
+ * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ...").
+ (merge 3d7dd2d3b6 jk/bug-to-abort later to maint).
+
+ * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
+ configuration variables.
+ (merge ce933ebd5a jk/doc-config-include later to maint).
+
+ * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
+ not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
+ speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
+ (merge 6963893943 ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions later to maint).
+
+ * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
+ documentation have been updated to https:// links.
+ (merge 5e68729fd9 jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint).
+
+ * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to
+ resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs,
+ which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem.
+ (merge 613a0e52ea kn/ref-filter-branch-list later to maint).
+
+ * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'.
+ (merge d096d7f1ef pw/rebase-i-regression-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has
+ a new "push" subcommand.
+ (merge 3851e4483f tg/stash-push-fixup later to maint).
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit
+ -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end,
+ i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been
+ corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to
+ the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it.
+ (merge d76650b8d1 bm/interpret-trailers-cut-line-is-eom later to maint).
+
+ * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other
+ end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms
+ that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND,
+ but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing
+ intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling
+ traces from "receive-pack" in the test.
+ (merge 71406ed4d6 jk/alternate-ref-optim later to maint).
+
+ * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at
+ missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they
+ should silently be ignored instead)
+ (merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint).
+
+ * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that
+ they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the
+ same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same
+ age as the underlying commit would.
+ (merge ef1e74065c jc/name-rev-lw-tag later to maint).
+
+ * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust
+ against dead-locking in a threaded environment.
+ (merge e3f43ce765 bw/forking-and-threading later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the
+ tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or
+ unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP
+ tests have been salvaged to always run in this script.
+ (merge 2e397e4ddf jc/skip-test-in-the-middle later to maint).
+
+ * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only
+ when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively.
+ (merge 0ead000c3a dk/send-email-avoid-net-smtp-ssl-when-able later to maint).
+
+ * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no
+ slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as
+ that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem.
+ (merge d9244ecf4f js/bs-is-a-dir-sep-on-windows later to maint).
+
+ * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
+ even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
+ "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files
+ without "-uall". These have been corrected.
+ (merge 6b1db43109 sl/clean-d-ignored-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff
+ $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full
+ object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to
+ use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes.
+ (merge 30d005c020 jk/diff-blob later to maint).
+
+ * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13
+ was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that
+ do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which
+ has already fixed these issues.
+ (merge a0103914c2 ab/sha1dc-maint later to maint).
+
+ * "git am -h" triggered a BUG().
+ (merge f3a2fffe06 jk/unbreak-am-h later to maint).
+
+ * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
+ whitelisting is now documented better.
+ (merge 2c9a2ae285 jk/url-insteadof-config later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
+ (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).
+ (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).
+ (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint).
+ (merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint).
+ (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).
+ (merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint).
+ (merge c5a9157393 jh/memihash-opt later to maint).
+ (merge 80f4cd8046 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
+ (merge b275da816c ah/doc-interpret-trailers-ifexists later to maint).
+ (merge fc7a5edb55 ah/doc-pretty-format-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7e95fcb4b5 sb/t5531-update-desc later to maint).
+ (merge b8f354f294 sd/t3200-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge ba746ff9c9 ah/doc-filter-branch-export-env later to maint).
+ (merge 44e2ff09ce ab/t3070-test-dedup later to maint).
+ (merge 9ee4aa95db rf/completion-config-commit later to maint).
+ (merge fb87327aee ah/doc-rev-parse-short-default later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 475e874d51..dd4beec39d 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -79,14 +79,20 @@ escape sequences) are invalid.
Includes
~~~~~~~~
+The `include` and `includeIf` sections allow you to include config
+directives from another source. These sections behave identically to
+each other with the exception that `includeIf` sections may be ignored
+if their condition does not evaluate to true; see "Conditional includes"
+below.
+
You can include a config file from another by setting the special
-`include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The
-variable takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde
-expansion. `include.path` can be given multiple times.
+`include.path` (or `includeIf.*.path`) variable to the name of the file
+to be included. The variable takes a pathname as its value, and is
+subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given multiple times.
-The included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been
-found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the
-`include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to
+The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if they
+had been found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the
+variable is a relative path, the path is considered to
be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive
was found. See below for examples.
@@ -95,8 +101,7 @@ Conditional includes
You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a
`includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be
-included. The variable's value is treated the same way as
-`include.path`. `includeIf.<condition>.path` can be given multiple times.
+included.
The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some data
whose format and meaning depends on the keyword. Supported keywords
@@ -140,6 +145,16 @@ A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`:
* Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching.
+ * Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched
+ outside of `$GIT_DIR`. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to
+ /mnt/storage/git, both `gitdir:~/git` and `gitdir:/mnt/storage/git`
+ will match.
++
+This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in
+v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that
+wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs
+to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions.
+
* Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is
unlikely what you want.
@@ -167,8 +182,8 @@ Example
[include]
path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
- path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file
- path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your `$HOME` directory
+ path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
+ path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory
; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
@@ -182,6 +197,12 @@ Example
[includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
+ ; relative paths are always relative to the including
+ ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
+ ; affected by the condition
+ [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
+ path = foo.inc
+
Values
~~~~~~
@@ -334,7 +355,7 @@ core.fileMode::
is to be honored.
+
Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is
-marked as executable is checked out, or checks out an
+marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a
non-executable file with executable bit on.
linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] probe the filesystem
to see if it handles the executable bit correctly
@@ -862,6 +883,7 @@ core.abbrev::
computed based on the approximate number of packed objects
in your repository, which hopefully is enough for
abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time.
+ The minimum length is 4.
add.ignoreErrors::
add.ignore-errors (deprecated)::
@@ -1137,7 +1159,10 @@ color.status.<slot>::
`untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git),
`branch` (the current branch),
`nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
- to red), or
+ to red),
+ `localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names,
+ respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the
+ status short-format), or
`unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes).
color.ui::
@@ -2140,6 +2165,10 @@ log.showRoot::
Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which
normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
+log.showSignature::
+ If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
+ linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--show-signature`.
+
log.mailmap::
If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`.
@@ -2620,9 +2649,8 @@ receive.advertiseAtomic::
capability, set this variable to false.
receive.advertisePushOptions::
- By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options
- capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
- capability, set this variable to false.
+ When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options
+ capability to its clients. False by default.
receive.autogc::
By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
@@ -3208,6 +3236,13 @@ url.<base>.insteadOf::
the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
++
+Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten
+URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or remote
+helper, you may need to adjust the `protocol.*.allow` config to permit
+the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules
+must be set to `always` rather than the default of `user`. See the
+description of `protocol.allow` above.
url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
index 8ac75fcc25..78479b003e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
@@ -1350,9 +1350,9 @@ References
- [[[1]]] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/director/planning/report02-3.pdf['The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infratructure for Software Testing'. Nist Planning Report 02-3], see Executive Summary and Chapter 8.
- [[[2]]] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.]
- [[[3]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.]
-- [[[4]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45195/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'. Gmane.]
+- [[[4]]] https://public-inbox.org/git/7vps5xsbwp.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'.]
- [[[5]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/317154/[Christian Couder. 'Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"'. LWN.net.]
- [[[6]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.]
-- [[[7]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/36652/[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Gmane.]
+- [[[7]]] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119702753411680&w=2[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Linux-kernel mailing list.]
- [[[8]]] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.]
- [[[9]]] https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 30052cce49..83c8e9b394 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror]
[-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
[--dissociate] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>]
- [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch]
+ [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--no-tags]
[--recurse-submodules] [--[no-]shallow-submodules]
[--jobs <n>] [--] <repository> [<directory>]
@@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote-tracking
branch is created.
+--no-tags::
+ Don't clone any tags, and set
+ `remote.<remote>.tagOpt=--no-tags` in the config, ensuring
+ that future `git pull` and `git fetch` operations won't follow
+ any tags. Subsequent explicit tag fetches will still work,
+ (see linkgit:git-fetch[1]).
++
+Can be used in conjunction with `--single-branch` to clone and
+maintain a branch with no references other than a single cloned
+branch. This is useful e.g. to maintain minimal clones of the default
+branch of some repository for search indexing.
+
--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec]::
After the clone is created, initialize and clone submodules
within based on the provided pathspec. If no pathspec is
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 6e4bb02204..7b695dbb72 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ OPTIONS
This filter may be used if you only need to modify the environment
in which the commit will be performed. Specifically, you might
want to rewrite the author/committer name/email/time environment
- variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details). Do not forget
- to re-export the variables.
+ variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details).
--tree-filter <command>::
This is the filter for rewriting the tree and its contents.
@@ -340,12 +339,10 @@ git filter-branch --env-filter '
if test "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "root@localhost"
then
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=john@example.com
- export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
fi
if test "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "root@localhost"
then
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=john@example.com
- export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
fi
' -- --all
--------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 71f32f3508..5033483db4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -161,8 +161,11 @@ OPTIONS
-P::
--perl-regexp::
- Use Perl-compatible regexp for patterns. Requires libpcre to be
- compiled in.
+ Use Perl-compatible regular expressions for patterns.
++
+Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional
+compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them
+providing this option will cause it to die.
-F::
--fixed-strings::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
index 09074c75a4..31cdeaecdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ trailer.ifexists::
same <token> in the message.
+
The valid values for this option are: `addIfDifferentNeighbor` (this
-is the default), `addIfDifferent`, `add`, `overwrite` or `doNothing`.
+is the default), `addIfDifferent`, `add`, `replace` or `doNothing`.
+
With `addIfDifferentNeighbor`, a new trailer will be added only if no
trailer with the same (<token>, <value>) pair is above or below the line
diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index ed9d63ef4a..02576d8c0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Merging
-------
If `-m` is specified, 'git read-tree' can perform 3 kinds of
merge, a single tree merge if only 1 tree is given, a
-fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 trees are
+fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 or more trees are
provided.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 26afe6ed54..ae750e9e11 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>]
+'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--threads=<n>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object.
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
+--threads=<n>::
+ This option is passed through to `git pack-objects`.
+
--window-memory=<n>::
This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index c40c470448..b1293f24bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ can be used.
'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option,
the command input is still interpreted as usual.
+--short[=length]::
+ Same as `--verify` but shortens the object name to a unique
+ prefix with at least `length` characters. The minimum length
+ is 4, the default is the effective value of the `core.abbrev`
+ configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+
--not::
When showing object names, prefix them with '{caret}' and
strip '{caret}' prefix from the object names that already have
@@ -136,12 +142,6 @@ can be used.
The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
abbreviation mode.
---short::
---short=number::
- Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to
- abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified
- 7 is used. The minimum length is 4.
-
--symbolic::
Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with
possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 9d66166f69..bb23b02caf 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
Currently, validation means the following:
+
--
+ * Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
* Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this
is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
--
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index f8a0b787f4..1eb15afa1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>]
<tagname> [<commit> | <object>]
'git tag' -d <tagname>...
-'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--contains <commit>]
+'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--no-contains <commit>]
[--points-at <object>] [--column[=<options>] | --no-column]
[--create-reflog] [--sort=<key>] [--format=<format>]
[--[no-]merged [<commit>]] [<pattern>...]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
index f3a75d1ce1..f970196bc1 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt
@@ -101,16 +101,6 @@ $ git help credential-foo
$ git config --global credential.helper foo
-------------------------------------------
-If there are multiple instances of the `credential.helper` configuration
-variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username,
-password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a
-password, no more helpers will be tried.
-
-If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets
-the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a
-lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper,
-followed by whatever set of helpers you would like).
-
CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS
-------------------
@@ -162,6 +152,16 @@ helper::
shell (so, for example, setting this to `foo --option=bar` will execute
`git credential-foo --option=bar` via the shell. See the manual of
specific helpers for examples of their use.
++
+If there are multiple instances of the `credential.helper` configuration
+variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username,
+password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a
+password, no more helpers will be tried.
++
+If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets
+the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a
+lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper,
+followed by whatever set of helpers you would like).
username::
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 706091a569..b2514f4d44 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -447,6 +447,14 @@ rebase::
The commits are guaranteed to be listed in the order that they were
processed by rebase.
+sendemail-validate
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This hook is invoked by 'git send-email'. It takes a single parameter,
+the name of the file that holds the e-mail to be sent. Exiting with a
+non-zero status causes 'git send-email' to abort before sending any
+e-mails.
+
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index 96156e5e1f..88450589af 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ separator (rules for Perl's "`split(" ", $line)`").
* Fields use modified URI encoding, defined in RFC 3986, section 2.1
(Percent-Encoding), or rather "Query string encoding" (see
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding[]), the difference
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding[]), the difference
being that SP (" ") can be encoded as "{plus}" (and therefore "{plus}" has to be
also percent-encoded).
+
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 47b286b33e..38040e95b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces
- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)'
respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered)
--%(trailers): display the trailers of the body as interpreted by
+- %(trailers): display the trailers of the body as interpreted by
linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]
NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index a02f7324c0..a46f70c2b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -92,8 +92,12 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
pattern as a regular expression).
--perl-regexp::
- Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular expressions.
- Requires libpcre to be compiled in.
+ Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular
+ expressions.
++
+Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional
+compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them
+providing this option will cause it to die.
--remove-empty::
Stop when a given path disappears from the tree.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt
index 7f8e78d916..6c77b4920c 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ The notable options are:
Similar to `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED`, but return ignored files in `ignored[]`
in addition to untracked files in `entries[]`.
+`DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS`:::
+
+ Only has meaning if `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO` is also set; if this is set, the
+ untracked contents of untracked directories are also returned in
+ `entries[]`.
+
`DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED`:::
Special mode for git-add. Return ignored files in `ignored[]` and
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 36768b479e..829b558110 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -183,13 +183,13 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
scale the provided value by 1024, 1024^2 or 1024^3 respectively.
The scaled value is put into `unsigned_long_var`.
-`OPT_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
+`OPT_DATE(short, long, &timestamp_t_var, description)`::
Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`.
- The timestamp is put into `int_var`.
+ The timestamp is put into `timestamp_t_var`.
-`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
+`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &timestamp_t_var, description)`::
Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`.
- The timestamp is put into `int_var`.
+ The timestamp is put into `timestamp_t_var`.
`OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`::
Introduce an option with argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..793508cf3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+sub-process API
+===============
+
+The sub-process API makes it possible to run background sub-processes
+for the entire lifetime of a Git invocation. If Git needs to communicate
+with an external process multiple times, then this can reduces the process
+invocation overhead. Git and the sub-process communicate through stdin and
+stdout.
+
+The sub-processes are kept in a hashmap by command name and looked up
+via the subprocess_find_entry function. If an existing instance can not
+be found then a new process should be created and started. When the
+parent git command terminates, all sub-processes are also terminated.
+
+This API is based on the run-command API.
+
+Data structures
+---------------
+
+* `struct subprocess_entry`
+
+The sub-process structure. Members should not be accessed directly.
+
+Types
+-----
+
+'int(*subprocess_start_fn)(struct subprocess_entry *entry)'::
+
+ User-supplied function to initialize the sub-process. This is
+ typically used to negotiate the interface version and capabilities.
+
+
+Functions
+---------
+
+`cmd2process_cmp`::
+
+ Function to test two subprocess hashmap entries for equality.
+
+`subprocess_start`::
+
+ Start a subprocess and add it to the subprocess hashmap.
+
+`subprocess_stop`::
+
+ Kill a subprocess and remove it from the subprocess hashmap.
+
+`subprocess_find_entry`::
+
+ Find a subprocess in the subprocess hashmap.
+
+`subprocess_get_child_process`::
+
+ Get the underlying `struct child_process` from a subprocess.
+
+`subprocess_read_status`::
+
+ Helper function to read packets looking for the last "status=<foo>"
+ key/value pair.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 5b0ba3ef20..a34917153f 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -473,13 +473,10 @@ that it wants to update, it sends a line listing the obj-id currently on
the server, the obj-id the client would like to update it to and the name
of the reference.
-This list is followed by a flush-pkt. Then the push options are transmitted
-one per packet followed by another flush-pkt. After that the packfile that
-should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new
-references will be sent.
+This list is followed by a flush-pkt.
----
- update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [packfile]
+ update-requests = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert )
shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id)
@@ -500,12 +497,35 @@ references will be sent.
PKT-LINE("pusher" SP ident LF)
PKT-LINE("pushee" SP url LF)
PKT-LINE("nonce" SP nonce LF)
+ *PKT-LINE("push-option" SP push-option LF)
PKT-LINE(LF)
*PKT-LINE(command LF)
*PKT-LINE(gpg-signature-lines LF)
PKT-LINE("push-cert-end" LF)
- packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET)
+ push-option = 1*( VCHAR | SP )
+----
+
+If the server has advertised the 'push-options' capability and the client has
+specified 'push-options' as part of the capability list above, the client then
+sends its push options followed by a flush-pkt.
+
+----
+ push-options = *PKT-LINE(push-option) flush-pkt
+----
+
+For backwards compatibility with older Git servers, if the client sends a push
+cert and push options, it MUST send its push options both embedded within the
+push cert and after the push cert. (Note that the push options within the cert
+are prefixed, but the push options after the cert are not.) Both these lists
+MUST be the same, modulo the prefix.
+
+After that the packfile that
+should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new
+references will be sent.
+
+----
+ packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET)
----
If the receiving end does not support delete-refs, the sending end MUST