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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 376d5ec4f8..c6e536f180 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Like other projects, we also have some guidelines to keep to the -code. For Git in general, three rough rules are: +code. For Git in general, a few rough rules are: - Most importantly, we never say "It's in POSIX; we'll happily ignore your needs should your system not conform to it." diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.2.txt index f4caf54927..93462e45c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.2.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Fixes since v2.3.1 "curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system. * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings - from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required + from the compiler on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower) for other reasons. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5b309db689 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Git v2.3.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.3.4 +------------------ + + * The prompt script (in contrib/) did not show the untracked sign + when working in a subdirectory without any untracked files. + + * Even though "git grep --quiet" is run merely to ask for the exit + status, we spawned the pager regardless. Stop doing that. + + * Recommend format-patch and send-email for those who want to submit + patches to this project. + + * An failure early in the "git clone" that started creating the + working tree and repository could have resulted in some directories + and files left without getting cleaned up. + + * "git fetch" that fetches a commit using the allow-tip-sha1-in-want + extension could have failed to fetch all the requested refs. + + * The split-index mode introduced at v2.3.0-rc0~41 was broken in the + codepath to protect us against a broken reimplementation of Git + that writes an invalid index with duplicated index entries, etc. + + * "git prune" used to largely ignore broken refs when deciding which + objects are still being used, which could spread an existing small + damage and make it a larger one. + + * "git tag -h" used to show the "--column" and "--sort" options + that are about listing in a wrong section. + + * The transfer.hiderefs support did not quite work for smart-http + transport. + + * The code that reads from the ctags file in the completion script + (in contrib/) did not spell ${param/pattern/string} substitution + correctly, which happened to work with bash but not with zsh. + + * The explanation on "rebase --preserve-merges", "pull --rebase=preserve", + and "push --force-with-lease" in the documentation was unclear. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..432f770ef3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Git v2.3.6 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.3.5 +------------------ + + * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) used to show byte-by-byte + differences, which meant that multi-byte characters can be chopped + in the middle. It learned to pay attention to character boundaries + (assuming the UTF-8 payload). + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc95812cb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Git v2.3.7 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.3.6 +------------------ + + * An earlier update to the parser that disects a URL broke an + address, followed by a colon, followed by an empty string (instead + of the port number), e.g. ssh://example.com:/path/to/repo. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) contaminated global namespace + and clobbered on a shell variable $x. + + * The "git push --signed" protocol extension did not limit what the + "nonce" that is a server-chosen string can contain or how long it + can be, which was unnecessarily lax. Limit both the length and the + alphabet to a reasonably small space that can still have enough + entropy. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0b67268a96 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Git v2.3.8 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.3.7 +------------------ + + * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory + showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the + directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, + when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" + and compare the file with the file with the same name in the + directory, instead of refusing to run. + + * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" + that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email + entries in it. + + * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost + the daylight-saving-time offset. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt index 53c91270e7..cde64be535 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt @@ -5,19 +5,20 @@ Backward compatibility warning(s) --------------------------------- This release has a few changes in the user-visible output from -Porcelain commands, which the users may want to be aware of. +Porcelain commands. These are not meant to be parsed by scripts, but +users still may want to be aware of the changes: - * Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in - the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of - command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch - names, separated with a comma in between. E.g. + * The output from "git log --decorate" (and, more generally, the "%d" + format specifier used in the "--format=<string>" parameter to the + "git log" family of commands) has changed. It used to list "HEAD" + just like other branches; e.g., $ git log --decorate -1 master commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master) ... - This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip - of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is + This release changes the output slightly when HEAD refers to a + branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is now shown as: $ git log --decorate -1 master @@ -25,15 +26,15 @@ Porcelain commands, which the users may want to be aware of. ... * The phrasing "git branch" uses to describe a detached HEAD has been - updated to match that of "git status": + updated to agree with the phrasing used by "git status": - - When the HEAD is at the same commit as it was originally + - When HEAD is at the same commit as when it was originally detached, they now both show "detached at <commit object name>". - - When the HEAD has moved since it was originally detached, - they now both show "detached from <commit object name>". + - When HEAD has moved since it was originally detached, they now + both show "detached from <commit object name>". - Earlier "git branch" always used "from" + Previously, "git branch" always used "from". Updates since v2.3 @@ -45,8 +46,9 @@ Ports platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2) failures. - * We did not check the curl library version before using - CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist. + * We did not check the curl library version before using the + CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature, which did not exist in older versions of + the library. * We now detect number of CPUs on older BSD-derived systems. @@ -65,99 +67,105 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do not have the string "WIP" in their messages. - * "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to - update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair. + * "git push" has been taught an "--atomic" option that makes a push + that updates more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair. - * Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git - push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be - tweaked by push-to-checkout hook. + * Extending the "push to deploy" feature that was added in 2.3, the + behaviour of "git push" when updating the branch that is checked + out can now be tweaked by a "push-to-checkout" hook. - * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side, - HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests. + * HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making + requests. The languages to accept are inferred from environment + variables on the client side (LANGUAGE, etc). * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an - answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without - questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks - too short to be a valid encoding name. + answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]?" without + questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks too + short to be a valid encoding name. * When "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixed whitespace errors in the common context lines, the command reports that it did so. - * "git status" now allows the "-v" to be given twice to show the - differences that are left in the working tree not to be committed. + * "git status" now allows the "-v" option to be given twice, in which + case it also shows the differences in the working tree that are not + staged to be committed. - * "git cherry-pick" used to clean-up the log message even when it is - merely replaying an existing commit. It now replays the message - verbatim unless you are editing the message of resulting commits. + * "git cherry-pick" used to clean up the log message even when it is + merely replaying an existing commit. It now replays the message + verbatim unless you are editing the message of the resulting + commit. * "git archive" can now be told to set the 'text' attribute in the resulting zip archive. - * Output from "git log --decorate" mentions HEAD when it points at a - tip of an branch differently from a detached HEAD. + * Output from "git log --decorate" now distinguishes between a + detached HEAD vs. a HEAD that points at a branch. - This is a potentially backward-incompatible change. + This is a potentially backward-incompatible change; see above for + more information. - * "git branch" on a detached HEAD always said "(detached from xyz)", - even when "git status" would report "detached at xyz". The HEAD is - actually at xyz and haven't been moved since it was detached in - such a case, but the user cannot read what the current value of - HEAD is when "detached from" is used. + * When HEAD was detached when at commit xyz and hasn't been moved + since it was detached, "git status" would report "detached at xyz" + whereas "git branch" would report "detached from xyz". Now the + output of "git branch" agrees with that of "git status". - * "git -C '' subcmd" refused to work in the current directory, unlike - "cd ''" which silently behaves as a no-op. + This is a potentially backward-incompatible change; see above for + more information. + + * "git -C '' subcmd" now works in the current directory (analogously + to "cd ''") rather than dying with an error message. (merge 6a536e2 kn/git-cd-to-empty later to maint). - * The versionsort.prerelease configuration variable can be used to - specify that v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0. + * The versionsort.prereleaseSuffix configuration variable can be used + to specify that, for example, v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0. * A new "push.followTags" configuration turns the "--follow-tags" option on by default for the "git push" command. - * "git log --graph --no-walk A B..." is a conflicting request that - asks nonsense; no-walk tells us show discrete points in the - history, while graph asks to draw connections between these - discrete points. Forbid the combination. + * "git log --graph --no-walk A B..." is a nonsensical combination of + options: "--no-walk" requests discrete points in the history, while + "--graph" asks to draw connections between these discrete points. + Forbid the use of these options together. * "git rev-list --bisect --first-parent" does not work (yet) and can - even cause SEGV; forbid it. "git log --bisect --first-parent" - would not be useful until "git bisect --first-parent" materializes, - so it is also forbidden for now. + even cause SEGV; forbid it. "git log --bisect --first-parent" would + not be useful until "git bisect --first-parent" materializes, so + also forbid it for now. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us + * Slightly change the implementation of the N_() macro to help us detect mistakes. - * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the - reflogs better with the recently updated ref API. + * Restructure the implementation of "reflog expire" to fit better + with the recently updated reference API. - * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as + * The transport-helper did not pass transport options such as verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them - the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better. - - * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after - running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it - is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as - a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good - heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to - check what they really require. + of the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better. + + * The tests that wanted to see that a file becomes unreadable after + running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure + that they are not run as root, used "can we write into the / + directory?" as a cheap substitute. But on some platforms that is + not a good heuristic. The tests and their prerequisites have been + updated to check what they really require. (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint). * Various issues around "reflog expire", e.g. using --updateref when expiring a reflog for a symbolic reference, have been corrected and/or made saner. - * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in - the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers - can check only one place for all necessary information. + * The documentation for the strbuf API had been split between the API + documentation and the header file. Consolidate the documentation in + strbuf.h. * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in - the API manual. + the API manual (in api-error-handling.txt). - * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a + * Optimize gitattribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first place. @@ -169,26 +177,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint). (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint). - * Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be - pointing at this object" is specified. + * Simplify the ref transaction API for verifying that "the ref should + be pointing at this object". - * Code in "git daemon" to parse out and hold hostnames used in - request interpolation has been simplified. + * Simplify the code in "git daemon" that parses out and holds + hostnames used in request interpolation. - * "git push" codepath has been restructured to make it easier to add - new configuration bits. + * Restructure the "git push" codepath to make it easier to add new + configuration bits. - * The run-command interface was easy to abuse and make a pipe for us - to read from the process, wait for the process to finish and then - attempt to read its output, which is a pattern that lead to a - deadlock. Fix such uses by introducing a helper to do this - correctly (i.e. we need to read first and then wait the process to - finish) and also add code to prevent such abuse in the run-command - helper. + * The run-command interface made it easy to make a pipe for us to + read from a process, wait for the process to finish, and then + attempt to read its output. But this pattern can lead to deadlock. + So introduce a helper to do this correctly (i.e., first read, and + then wait the process to finish) and also add code to prevent such + abuse in the run-command helper. * People often forget to chain the commands in their test together - with &&, leaving a failure from an earlier command in the test go - unnoticed. The new GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT mechanism allows you to + with &&, letting a failure from an earlier command in the test go + unnoticed. The new GIT_TEST_CHAIN_LINT mechanism allows you to catch such a mistake more easily. @@ -207,33 +214,34 @@ notes for details). (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint). * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did - not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree - files and failed to do so for whatever reason. + not correctly signal errors when it attempted to update the working + tree files but failed for whatever reason. (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint). * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce broken patches. (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint). - * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication - (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based - Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. + * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication (e.g., + Kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password-based Basic + authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint). - * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option + * The "git push" documentation for the "--repo=<there>" option was easily misunderstood. (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint). - * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory - would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file. + * Code to read a branch name from various files in the .git/ + directory would have overrun array limits if asked to read an empty + file. (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint). - * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed. + * Remove a superfluous conditional that is always true. (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint). - * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the - only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in - the --raw format. + * The "git diff --raw" documentation incorrectly implied that C(opy) + and R(ename) are the only statuses that can be followed by a score + number. (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint). * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the @@ -250,34 +258,44 @@ notes for details). to the "log" command. (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint). - * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when - the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate memory when the + fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint). * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it" - interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when - the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the - user could have made was to choose nothing. + interface used by "git add -i" unnecessarily prompted the user even + when the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" + the user could have made was to choose nothing. (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint). - * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor + * The todo list created by "git rebase -i" did not fully honor core.abbrev settings. (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint). - * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list" - command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD. + * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to the "list" + command could not fetch from a symbolic reference (e.g., HEAD). (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint). * "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when the other side did not support the capability. - (merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint). - * We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in - "uintmax_t" correctly. + * The "git push --signed" protocol extension did not limit what the + "nonce" (a server-chosen string) could contain nor how long it + could be, which was unnecessarily lax. Limit both the length and + the alphabet to a reasonably small space that can still have enough + entropy. + (merge afcb6ee jc/push-cert later to maint). + + * The completion script (in contrib/) clobbered the shell variable $x + in the global shell namespace. + (merge 852ff1c ma/bash-completion-leaking-x later to maint). + + * We incorrectly formatted a "uintmax_t" integer that doesn't fit in + "int". (merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint). - * Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone - CR, use to confuse the configuration parser. + * The configuration parser used to be confused when reading + configuration from a blob object that ends with a lone CR. (merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint). * The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC. @@ -293,15 +311,21 @@ notes for details). (merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint). * The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle - a user name with an at-sign in it. + user names that contain an at-sign. (merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint). - * Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to - the documentation. + * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) used to show byte-by-byte + differences, which could cause multi-byte characters to be chopped + in the middle. It learned to pay attention to character boundaries + (assuming UTF-8). + (merge 8d00662 jk/colors later to maint). + + * Document longstanding configuration variable naming rules in + CodingGuidelines. (merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint). * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings - from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required + from the compiler on OS X unnecessarily set a minimum required version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower) for other reasons. (merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint). @@ -318,33 +342,36 @@ notes for details). "path/to/submodule". (merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint). - * "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory. + * "git merge-file" did not work correctly when invoked in a + subdirectory. (merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint). - * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory. + * "git blame" could die trying to free an uninitialized piece of + memory. (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint). * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and - conclude the resulting packfile cleanly. + finalize the resulting packfile cleanly. (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint). - * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be - refreshed for whatever reason. + * "update-index --refresh" used to leak memory when an entry could + not be refreshed for whatever reason. (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint). * The "interpolated-path" option of "git daemon" inserted any string - client declared on the "host=" capability request without checking. - Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS name. + the client declared on the "host=" capability request without + checking. Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS + name. (merge b485373 jk/daemon-interpolate later to maint). - * "git daemon" looked up the hostname even when "%CH" and "%IP" - interpolations are not requested, which was unnecessary. + * "git daemon" unnecessarily looked up the hostname even when "%CH" + and "%IP" interpolations were not requested. (merge dc8edc8 rs/daemon-interpolate later to maint). - * Even though we officially haven't dropped Perl 5.8 support, the - Getopt::Long package that came with it does not support "--no-" - prefix to negate a boolean option; manually add support to help - people with older Getopt::Long package. + * We relied on "--no-" prefix handling in Perl's Getopt::Long + package, even though that support didn't exist in Perl 5.8 (which + we still support). Manually add support to help people with older + Getopt::Long packages. (merge f471494 km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds later to maint). * "git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing, @@ -353,14 +380,14 @@ notes for details). replacement for GNU patch). (merge e0d201b jc/apply-beyond-symlink later to maint). - * A breakage to git-svn around v2.2 era that triggers premature - closing of FileHandle has been corrected. + * Correct a breakage in git-svn, introduced around the v2.2 era, that + can cause FileHandles to be closed prematurely. (merge e426311 ew/svn-maint-fixes later to maint). - * We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH - transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git - correctly. - (merge 3f55cca tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint). + * We did not parse usernames followed by literal IPv6 addresses + correctly in SSH transport URLs; e.g., + ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git. + (merge 6b6c5f7 tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint). * The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to discover in the documentation. @@ -370,28 +397,26 @@ notes for details). submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented. (merge 5c31acf ms/submodule-update-config-doc later to maint). - * "git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on - lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the - dirstat that the user asked for. + * "git diff --shortstat" used together with "--dirstat=changes" or + "--dirstat=files" incorrectly output dirstat information twice. (merge ab27389 mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix later to maint). - * "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not - clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default - behaviour when neither is given to override it. + * The manpage for "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" + but did not explain what happens if neither option is provided. (merge aaba0ab mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not later to maint). - * Description given by "grep -h" for its --exclude-standard option - was phrased poorly. + * The description of "--exclude-standard option" in the output of + "git grep -h" was phrased poorly. (merge 77fdb8a nd/grep-exclude-standard-help-fix later to maint). - * "git rebase -i" recently started to include the number of - commits in the insn sheet to be processed, but on a platform - that prepends leading whitespaces to "wc -l" output, the numbers - are shown with extra whitespaces that aren't necessary. + * "git rebase -i" recently started to include the number of commits + in the todo list, but that output included extraneous whitespace on + a platform that prepends leading whitespaces to its "wc -l" output. (merge 2185d3b es/rebase-i-count-todo later to maint). - * The borrowed code in kwset API did not follow our usual convention - to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from 0-255. + * The borrowed code in the kwset API did not follow our usual + convention to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from + 0-255. (merge 189c860 bw/kwset-use-unsigned later to maint). * A corrupt input to "git diff -M" used to cause it to segfault. @@ -401,9 +426,8 @@ notes for details). (merge 3f88c1b mg/verify-commit later to maint). * "git imap-send" learned to optionally talk with an IMAP server via - libcURL; because there is no other option when Git is built with - NO_OPENSSL option, use that codepath by default under such - configuration. + libcURL. Because there is no other option when Git is built with + the NO_OPENSSL option, use libcURL by default in that case. (merge dcd01ea km/imap-send-libcurl-options later to maint). * "git log --decorate" did not reset colors correctly around the @@ -419,41 +443,47 @@ notes for details). transport. (merge 8ddf3ca jk/smart-http-hide-refs later to maint). - * "git tag -h" used to show the "--column" and "--sort" options - that are about listing in a wrong section. + * In the "git tag -h" output, move the documentation for the + "--column" and "--sort" options to the "Tag listing options" + section. (merge dd059c6 jk/tag-h-column-is-a-listing-option later to maint). * "git prune" used to largely ignore broken refs when deciding which - objects are still being used, which could spread an existing small - damage and make it a larger one. + objects are still being used, which could cause reference + corruption to lead to object loss. (merge ea56c4e jk/prune-with-corrupt-refs later to maint). - * The split-index mode introduced at v2.3.0-rc0~41 was broken in the + * The split-index mode introduced in v2.3.0-rc0~41 was broken in the codepath to protect us against a broken reimplementation of Git that writes an invalid index with duplicated index entries, etc. (merge 03f15a7 tg/fix-check-order-with-split-index later to maint). - * "git fetch" that fetches a commit using the allow-tip-sha1-in-want - extension could have failed to fetch all the requested refs. + * "git fetch", when fetching a commit using the + allow-tip-sha1-in-want extension, could have failed to fetch all of + the requested refs. (merge 32d0462 jk/fetch-pack later to maint). * An failure early in the "git clone" that started creating the - working tree and repository could have resulted in some directories - and files left without getting cleaned up. + working tree and repository could have resulted in the failure to + clean up some directories and files. (merge 16eff6c jk/cleanup-failed-clone later to maint). * Recommend format-patch and send-email for those who want to submit patches to this project. (merge b25c469 jc/submitting-patches-mention-send-email later to maint). - * Even though "git grep --quiet" is run merely to ask for the exit - status, we spawned the pager regardless. Stop doing that. + * Do not spawn the pager when "git grep" is run with "--quiet". (merge c2048f0 ws/grep-quiet-no-pager later to maint). * The prompt script (in contrib/) did not show the untracked sign when working in a subdirectory without any untracked files. (merge 9bdc517 ct/prompt-untracked-fix later to maint). + * An earlier update to the URL parser broke an address that contains + a colon but an empty string for the port number, like + ssh://example.com:/path/to/repo. + (merge 6b6c5f7 tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint). (merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint). @@ -471,3 +501,14 @@ notes for details). (merge 599d223 jk/simplify-csum-file-sha1fd-check later to maint). (merge 260d585 sg/completion-gitcomp-nl-for-refs later to maint). (merge 777c55a jc/report-path-error-to-dir later to maint). + (merge fddfaf8 ph/push-doc-cas later to maint). + (merge d50d31e ss/pull-rebase-preserve later to maint). + (merge c8c3f1d pt/enter-repo-comment-fix later to maint). + (merge d7bfb9e jz/gitweb-conf-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge f907282 jk/cherry-pick-docfix later to maint). + (merge d3c0811 iu/fix-parse-options-h-comment later to maint). + (merge 6c3b2af jg/cguide-we-cannot-count later to maint). + (merge 2b8bd44 jk/pack-corruption-post-mortem later to maint). + (merge 9585cb8 jn/doc-fast-import-no-16-octopus-limit later to maint). + (merge 5dcd1b1 ps/grep-help-all-callback-arg later to maint). + (merge f1f4c84 va/fix-git-p4-tests later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a65a6c5829 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Git v2.4.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.4 +---------------- + + * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory + showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the + directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, + when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" + and compare the file with the file with the same name in the + directory, instead of refusing to run. + + * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" + that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email + entries in it. + + * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost + the daylight-saving-time offset. + + * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no + object type that is "bl". + + * Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files + that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the + beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration + files already. + + * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a + slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code + becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning. + + * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the + ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but + the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the + root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to + do, but still valid). + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..250cdc423c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Git v2.4.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.4.1 +------------------ + + * "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that + is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs + was very inefficient. + + * "hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to + take a really long object type name. + + * "git rebase --quiet" was not quite quiet when there is nothing to + do. + + * The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect. + + * "filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an + incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that + munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed". + + * "git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6 + configuration (regression in 2.4). + + * "git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working + tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important + as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for + conflict resolution. + + * We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in + (typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks + for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to + support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it + without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has + become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the + users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the + path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would + interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may + not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin + and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin + and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH). + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0b7fe2af33 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,393 @@ +Git 2.5 Release Notes +===================== + +Updates since v2.4 +------------------ + +Ports + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * List of commands shown by "git help" are grouped along the workflow + elements to help early learners. + + * "git p4" now detects the filetype (e.g. binary) correctly even when + the files are opened exclusively. + + * git p4 attempts to better handle branches in Perforce. + + * "git p4" learned "--changes-block-size <n>" to read the changes in + chunks from Perforce, instead of making one call to "p4 changes" + that may trigger "too many rows scanned" error from Perforce. + + * "git show-branch --topics HEAD" (with no other arguments) did not + do anything interesting. Instead, contrast the given revision + against all the local branches by default. + + * A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not + rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer + by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other. + + * Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor + XDG configuration file locations when specified. + + * A heuristic to help the "git <cmd> <revs> <pathspec>" command line + convention to catch mistyped paths is to make sure all the non-rev + parameters in the later part of the command line are names of the + files in the working tree, but that means "git grep $str -- \*.c" + must always be disambiguated with "--", because nobody sane will + create a file whose name literally is asterisk-dot-see. Loosen the + heuristic to declare that with a wildcard string the user likely + meant to give us a pathspec. + + * "git merge FETCH_HEAD" learned that the previous "git fetch" could + be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches + that are not marked as "not-for-merge"; this allows us to lose an + old style invocation "git merge <msg> HEAD $commits..." in the + implementation of "git pull" script; the old style syntax can now + be deprecated. + + * Help us to find broken test script that splits the body part of the + test by mistaken use of wrong kind of quotes. + (merge d93d5d5 jc/test-prereq-validate later to maint). + + * Developer support to automatically detect broken &&-chain in the + test scripts is now turned on by default. + (merge 92b269f jk/test-chain-lint later to maint). + + * Filter scripts were run with SIGPIPE disabled on the Git side, + expecting that they may not read what Git feeds them to filter. + We however treated a filter that does not read its input fully + before exiting as an error. + + This changes semantics, but arguably in a good way. If a filter + can produce its output without consuming its input using whatever + magic, we now let it do so, instead of diagnosing it as a + programming error. + + * Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, the + locking (of refs etc) retries after a short while with backoff. + + * Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak + the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with + https:// sites. + + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) used "echo -n" to produce + progress messages in a non-portable way. + + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) does not have --squash option + when pushing, but the documentation and help text pretended as if + it did. + + * The Git subcommand completion (in contrib/) listed credential + helpers among candidates, which is not something the end user would + invoke interactively. + + * The index file can be taught with "update-index --untracked-cache" + to optionally remember already seen untracked files, in order to + speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft. + + * "git mergetool" learned to drive WinMerge as a backend. + + * "git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve + commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are + reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant + configuration variable. + + * "git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks" + option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an + object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at + Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt. With the new option, the command + behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as + input instead. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "unsigned char [20]" used throughout the code to represent object + names are being converted into a semi-opaque "struct object_id". + This effort is expected to interfere with other topics in flight, + but hopefully will give us one extra level of abstraction in the + end, when completed. + + * Catch a programmer mistake to feed a pointer not an array to + ARRAY_SIZE() macro, by using a couple of GCC extensions. + (merge 89c855e ep/do-not-feed-a-pointer-to-array-size later to maint). + + * Some error messages in "git config" were emitted without calling + the usual error() facility. + + * When "add--interactive" splits a hunk into two overlapping hunks + and then let the user choose only one, it sometimes feeds an + incorrect patch text to "git apply". Add tests to demonstrate + this. + + I have a slight suspicion that this may be $gmane/87202 coming back + and biting us (I seem to have said "let's run with this and see + what happens" back then). + + * More line-ending tests. + + * An earlier rewrite to use strbuf_getwholeline() instead of fgets(3) + to read packed-refs file revealed that the former is unacceptably + inefficient. + + * The refs API uses ref_lock struct which had its own "int fd", even + though the same file descriptor was in the lock struct it contains. + Clean-up the code to lose this redundant field. + + * Add the "--allow-unknown-type" option to "cat-file" to allow + inspecting loose objects of an experimental or a broken type. + + * Many long-running operations show progress eye-candy, even when + they are later backgrounded. Hide the eye-candy when the process + is sent to the background instead. + (merge 9a9a41d lm/squelch-bg-progress later to maint). + + * There was a dead code that used to handle "git pull --tags" and + show special-cased error message, which was made irrelevant when + the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days. + (merge 19d122b pt/pull-tags-error-diag later to maint). + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.4 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.4 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone" + with native transports. + (merge 822f0c4 mh/clone-verbosity-fix later to maint). + + * "git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by + killing the editor. + (merge cb64800 jk/add-e-kill-editor later to maint). + + * Memory usage of "git index-pack" has been trimmed by tens of + per-cent. + (merge c6458e6 nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that + is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs + was very inefficient. + (merge b6e8a3b jk/still-interesting later to maint). + + * "hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to + take a really long object type name. + (merge 1427a7f jc/hash-object later to maint). + + * "git rebase --quiet" was not quite quiet when there is nothing to + do. + (merge 22946a9 jk/rebase-quiet-noop later to maint). + + * The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect. + (merge af16bda sg/complete-decorate-full-not-long later to maint). + + * "filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an + incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that + munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed". + (merge df06201 jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line later to maint). + + * "git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6 + configuration (regression in 2.4). + (merge d358f77 jc/daemon-no-ipv6-for-2.4.1 later to maint). + + * Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git() + call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the + state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history + with LF line ending to make their project portable across platforms + while terminating lines in their working tree files with CRLF for + their platform. + (merge 4bf256d tb/blame-resurrect-convert-to-git later to maint). + + * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the + ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but + the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the + root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to + do, but still valid). + (merge 84ccad8 jk/init-core-worktree-at-root later to maint). + + * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost + the daylight-saving-time offset. + (merge f6e6362 jc/epochtime-wo-tz later to maint). + + * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a + slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code + becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning. + (merge ee1c6c3 jk/prune-mtime later to maint). + + * The codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files have been + taught that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at + the beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration + files already. + (merge 27547e5 cn/bom-in-gitignore later to maint). + + * a few helper scripts in the test suite did not report errors + correctly. + (merge de248e9 ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report later to maint). + + * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" + that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email + entries in it. + (merge 7e11052 oh/fix-config-default-user-name-section later to maint). + + * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no + object type that is "bl". + (merge b7994af jk/type-from-string-gently later to maint). + + * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory + showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the + directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, + when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" + and compare the file with the file with the same name in the + directory, instead of refusing to run. + (merge 0615173 jc/diff-no-index-d-f later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a + bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start. + (merge 8cbc57c ph/rebase-i-redo later to maint). + + * The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb + differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and + its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink" + variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared + anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh"). + (merge baaf233 bc/connect-plink later to maint). + + * "git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working + tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important + as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for + conflict resolution. + (merge ed178ef jk/stash-require-clean-index later to maint). + + * We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in + (typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks + for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to + support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it + without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has + become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the + users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the + path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would + interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may + not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin + and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin + and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH). + (merge a0b4507 jk/git-no-more-argv0-path-munging later to maint). + + * core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed + to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but + the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it. + (merge 099d2d8 jc/gitignore-precedence later to maint). + + * After "git add -N", the path appeared in output of "git diff HEAD" + and "git diff --cached HEAD", leading "git status" to classify it + as "Changes to be committed". Such a path, however, is not yet to + be scheduled to be committed. "git diff" showed the change to the + path as modification, not as a "new file", in the header of its + output. + + Treat such paths as "yet to be added to the index but Git already + know about them"; "git diff HEAD" and "git diff --cached HEAD" + should not talk about them, and "git diff" should show them as new + files yet to be added to the index. + (merge d95d728 nd/diff-i-t-a later to maint). + + * There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect + failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the + test was written; turn it into a proper test. + (merge 66d2e04 sb/t1020-cleanup later to maint). + + * The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit + at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not + work with --decorate=full. + (merge 429ad20 mg/log-decorate-HEAD later to maint). + + * The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is + removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice + versa) very well. + (merge c628edf mh/ref-directory-file later to maint). + + * Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago + unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with + resource exhaustion. This is for 2.4.x track. + (merge 185ce3a mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4 later to maint). + + * "git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the + command line. + (merge 7886cfa ps/bundle-verify-arg later to maint). + + * Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more + consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative + formatter) happier. + (merge d0258b9 jk/asciidoc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge ad3967a jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix later to maint). + (merge 975e382 ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix later to maint). + + * The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred + pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory + enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation + size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough. + (merge 599dc76 rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps later to maint). + + * The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff + configuration, but it didn't. + (merge db9bb28 pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff later to maint). + + * "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but + "git pull --log=20" did not. + (merge 5061a44 pt/pull-log-n later to maint). + + * "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a + cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead. + (merge 0544574 jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely, + when it was told to stop sequencing with 'exec' insn). + (merge 141ff8f mm/rebase-i-post-rewrite-exec later to maint). + + * Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated + concepts. + (merge 92de921 mm/log-format-raw-doc later to maint). + + * Make "git stash something --help" error out, so that users can + safely say "git stash drop --help". + (merge 5ba2831 jk/stash-options later to maint). + + * The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an + empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through). + It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for + an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange + things, then why not? + (merge f6a1e1e jh/filter-empty-contents later to maint). + + * Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can + lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request. + Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a + request first into core (to a reasonable limit). + (merge 636614f jk/http-backend-deadlock later to maint). + + * "git clean pathspec..." tried to lstat(2) and complain even for + paths outside the given pathspec. + (merge 838d6a9 dt/clean-pathspec-filter-then-lstat later to maint). + + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. + (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint). + (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint). + (merge d201a1e sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint). + (merge 05bfc7d sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak later to maint). + (merge 846e5df pt/xdg-config-path later to maint). + (merge 1154aa4 jc/plug-fmt-merge-msg-leak later to maint). + (merge 319b678 jk/sha1-file-reduce-useless-warnings later to maint). + (merge 9a35c14 fg/document-commit-message-stripping later to maint). + (merge bbf431c ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file later to maint). + (merge 309a9e3 jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl later to maint). + (merge ccd593c dl/branch-error-message later to maint). + (merge 22570b6 rs/janitorial later to maint). + (merge 5c2a581 mc/commit-doc-grammofix later to maint). + (merge ce41720 ah/usage-strings later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index b299b59023..a09969ba08 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Include additional statistics at the end of blame output. -L <start>,<end>:: --L :<regex>:: +-L :<funcname>:: Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times. Overlapping ranges are allowed. + diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl index 04f99778d8..5aa73cfe45 100755 --- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl +++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ sub format_one { } } +while (<>) { + last if /^### command list/; +} + my %cmds = (); for (sort <>) { next if /^#/; diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 2e5ceaf719..4d21ce1647 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -453,6 +453,8 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare core.worktree:: Set the path to the root of the working tree. + If GIT_COMMON_DIR environment variable is set, core.worktree + is ignored and not used for determining the root of working tree. This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable and the '--work-tree' command-line option. The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to @@ -622,6 +624,12 @@ core.commentChar:: If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages. +core.packedRefsTimeout:: + The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to + lock the `packed-refs` file. Value 0 means not to retry at + all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., + retry for 1 second). + sequence.editor:: Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file. The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used. @@ -1274,6 +1282,13 @@ gc.pruneExpire:: "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune unreachable objects immediately. +gc.pruneWorktreesExpire:: + When 'git gc' is run, it will call + 'prune --worktrees --expire 3.months.ago'. + Override the grace period with this config variable. The value + "now" may be used to disable the grace period and prune + $GIT_DIR/worktrees immediately. + gc.reflogExpire:: gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire:: 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than @@ -1560,6 +1575,19 @@ http.saveCookies:: If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset. +http.sslCipherList:: + A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection. + The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against + NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto + library in use. Internally this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' + option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format + of this list. ++ +Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' environment variable. +To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any +explicit http.sslCipherList option, set 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' to the +empty string. + http.sslVerify:: Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment @@ -2033,7 +2061,7 @@ pull.ff:: a case (equivalent to giving the `--no-ff` option from the command line). When set to `only`, only such fast-forward merges are allowed (equivalent to giving the `--ff-only` option from the - command line). + command line). This setting overrides `merge.ff` when pulling. pull.rebase:: When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead @@ -2270,18 +2298,18 @@ remote.<name>.skipFetchAll:: remote.<name>.receivepack:: The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See - option \--receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1]. + option --receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1]. remote.<name>.uploadpack:: The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See - option \--upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1]. + option --upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1]. remote.<name>.tagOpt:: - Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when - fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every + Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when + fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to --tags will fetch every tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can - override this setting. See options \--tags and \--no-tags of + override this setting. See options --tags and --no-tags of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. remote.<name>.vcs:: @@ -2530,14 +2558,20 @@ uploadpack.hideRefs:: are under the hierarchies listed on the value of this variable is excluded, and is hidden from `git ls-remote`, `git fetch`, etc. An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by `git - fetch` will fail. See also `uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant`. + fetch` will fail. See also `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant`. -uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant:: +uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant:: When `uploadpack.hideRefs` is in effect, allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected). see also `uploadpack.hideRefs`. +uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant:: + Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for an + object that is reachable from any ref tip. However, note that + calculating object reachability is computationally expensive. + Defaults to `false`. + uploadpack.keepAlive:: When `upload-pack` has started `pack-objects`, there may be a quiet period while `pack-objects` prepares the pack. Normally diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 843a20bac2..bcf54da82a 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ combined diff format Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or `--cc` option to produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or -linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m' option to any +linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m` option to any of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents of a merge. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index ccd499867b..3ad6404dbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] -u:: --patch:: Generate patch (see section on generating patches). - {git-diff? This is the default.} +ifdef::git-diff[] + This is the default. +endif::git-diff[] endif::git-format-patch[] -s:: @@ -41,8 +43,19 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] --raw:: - Generate the raw format. - {git-diff-core? This is the default.} +ifndef::git-log[] + Generate the diff in raw format. +ifdef::git-diff-core[] + This is the default. +endif::git-diff-core[] +endif::git-log[] +ifdef::git-log[] + For each commit, show a summary of changes using the raw diff + format. See the "RAW OUTPUT FORMAT" section of + linkgit:git-diff[1]. This is different from showing the log + itself in raw format, which you can achieve with + `--format=raw`. +endif::git-log[] endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index f2eb9076d7..fe5282f130 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ This effectively runs `add --interactive`, but bypasses the initial command menu and directly jumps to the `patch` subcommand. See ``Interactive mode'' for details. --e, \--edit:: +-e:: +--edit:: Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers and apply the patch to the index. diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index f6a16f4300..319ab4cb08 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type and size information for repository objec SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git cat-file' (-t | -s | -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <object> -'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) < <list-of-objects> +'git cat-file' (-t [--allow-unknown-type]| -s [--allow-unknown-type]| -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <object> +'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) [--follow-symlinks] < <list-of-objects> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -69,6 +69,65 @@ OPTIONS not be combined with any other options or arguments. See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details. +--allow-unknown-type:: + Allow -s or -t to query broken/corrupt objects of unknown type. + +--follow-symlinks:: + With --batch or --batch-check, follow symlinks inside the + repository when requesting objects with extended SHA-1 + expressions of the form tree-ish:path-in-tree. Instead of + providing output about the link itself, provide output about + the linked-to object. If a symlink points outside the + tree-ish (e.g. a link to /foo or a root-level link to ../foo), + the portion of the link which is outside the tree will be + printed. ++ +This option does not (currently) work correctly when an object in the +index is specified (e.g. `:link` instead of `HEAD:link`) rather than +one in the tree. ++ +This option cannot (currently) be used unless `--batch` or +`--batch-check` is used. ++ +For example, consider a git repository containing: ++ +-- + f: a file containing "hello\n" + link: a symlink to f + dir/link: a symlink to ../f + plink: a symlink to ../f + alink: a symlink to /etc/passwd +-- ++ +For a regular file `f`, `echo HEAD:f | git cat-file --batch` would print ++ +-- + ce013625030ba8dba906f756967f9e9ca394464a blob 6 +-- ++ +And `echo HEAD:link | git cat-file --batch --follow-symlinks` would +print the same thing, as would `HEAD:dir/link`, as they both point at +`HEAD:f`. ++ +Without `--follow-symlinks`, these would print data about the symlink +itself. In the case of `HEAD:link`, you would see ++ +-- + 4d1ae35ba2c8ec712fa2a379db44ad639ca277bd blob 1 +-- ++ +Both `plink` and `alink` point outside the tree, so they would +respectively print: ++ +-- + symlink 4 + ../f + + symlink 11 + /etc/passwd +-- + + OUTPUT ------ If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>. @@ -148,6 +207,47 @@ the repository, then `cat-file` will ignore any custom format and print: <object> SP missing LF ------------ +If --follow-symlinks is used, and a symlink in the repository points +outside the repository, then `cat-file` will ignore any custom format +and print: + +------------ +symlink SP <size> LF +<symlink> LF +------------ + +The symlink will either be absolute (beginning with a /), or relative +to the tree root. For instance, if dir/link points to ../../foo, then +<symlink> will be ../foo. <size> is the size of the symlink in bytes. + +If --follow-symlinks is used, the following error messages will be +displayed: + +------------ +<object> SP missing LF +------------ +is printed when the initial symlink requested does not exist. + +------------ +dangling SP <size> LF +<object> LF +------------ +is printed when the initial symlink exists, but something that +it (transitive-of) points to does not. + +------------ +loop SP <size> LF +<object> LF +------------ +is printed for symlink loops (or any symlinks that +require more than 40 link resolutions to resolve). + +------------ +notdir SP <size> LF +<object> LF +------------ +is printed when, during symlink resolution, a file is used as a +directory name. CAVEATS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index d5041082e8..d263a5652f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -225,6 +225,19 @@ This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode'' section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. +--to=<path>:: + Check out a branch in a separate working directory at + `<path>`. A new working directory is linked to the current + repository, sharing everything except working directory + specific files such as HEAD, index... See "MULTIPLE WORKING + TREES" section for more information. + +--ignore-other-worktrees:: + `git checkout` refuses when the wanted ref is already checked + out by another worktree. This option makes it check the ref + out anyway. In other words, the ref can be held by more than one + worktree. + <branch>:: Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that, when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that @@ -388,6 +401,71 @@ $ git reflog -2 HEAD # or $ git log -g -2 HEAD ------------ +MULTIPLE WORKING TREES +---------------------- + +A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you to check +out more than one branch at a time. With `git checkout --to` a new working +tree is associated with the repository. This new working tree is called a +"linked working tree" as opposed to the "main working tree" prepared by "git +init" or "git clone". A repository has one main working tree (if it's not a +bare repository) and zero or more linked working trees. + +Each linked working tree has a private sub-directory in the repository's +$GIT_DIR/worktrees directory. The private sub-directory's name is usually +the base name of the linked working tree's path, possibly appended with a +number to make it unique. For example, when `$GIT_DIR=/path/main/.git` the +command `git checkout --to /path/other/test-next next` creates the linked +working tree in `/path/other/test-next` and also creates a +`$GIT_DIR/worktrees/test-next` directory (or `$GIT_DIR/worktrees/test-next1` +if `test-next` is already taken). + +Within a linked working tree, $GIT_DIR is set to point to this private +directory (e.g. `/path/main/.git/worktrees/test-next` in the example) and +$GIT_COMMON_DIR is set to point back to the main working tree's $GIT_DIR +(e.g. `/path/main/.git`). These settings are made in a `.git` file located at +the top directory of the linked working tree. + +Path resolution via `git rev-parse --git-path` uses either +$GIT_DIR or $GIT_COMMON_DIR depending on the path. For example, in the +linked working tree `git rev-parse --git-path HEAD` returns +`/path/main/.git/worktrees/test-next/HEAD` (not +`/path/other/test-next/.git/HEAD` or `/path/main/.git/HEAD`) while `git +rev-parse --git-path refs/heads/master` uses +$GIT_COMMON_DIR and returns `/path/main/.git/refs/heads/master`, +since refs are shared across all working trees. + +See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for more information. The rule of +thumb is do not make any assumption about whether a path belongs to +$GIT_DIR or $GIT_COMMON_DIR when you need to directly access something +inside $GIT_DIR. Use `git rev-parse --git-path` to get the final path. + +When you are done with a linked working tree you can simply delete it. +The working tree's entry in the repository's $GIT_DIR/worktrees +directory will eventually be removed automatically (see +`gc.pruneworktreesexpire` in linkgit::git-config[1]), or you can run +`git prune --worktrees` in the main or any linked working tree to +clean up any stale entries in $GIT_DIR/worktrees. + +If you move a linked working directory to another file system, or +within a file system that does not support hard links, you need to run +at least one git command inside the linked working directory +(e.g. `git status`) in order to update its entry in $GIT_DIR/worktrees +so that it does not get automatically removed. + +To prevent a $GIT_DIR/worktrees entry from from being pruned (which +can be useful in some situations, such as when the +entry's working tree is stored on a portable device), add a file named +'locked' to the entry's directory. The file contains the reason in +plain text. For example, if a linked working tree's `.git` file points +to `/path/main/.git/worktrees/test-next` then a file named +`/path/main/.git/worktrees/test-next/locked` will prevent the +`test-next` entry from being pruned. See +linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for details. + +Multiple checkout support for submodules is incomplete. It is NOT +recommended to make multiple checkouts of a superproject. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 1c03c792b0..1147c71da6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ effect to your index in a row. --keep-redundant-commits:: If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the current history, it will become empty. By default these - redundant commits are ignored. This option overrides that behavior and + redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can + examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`. --strategy=<strategy>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 617e29b38b..904dafa0f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ OPTIONS --reset-author:: When used with -C/-c/--amend options, or when committing after a a conflicting cherry-pick, declare that the authorship of the - resulting commit now belongs of the committer. This also renews + resulting commit now belongs to the committer. This also renews the author timestamp. --short:: @@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ OPTIONS + -- strip:: - Strip leading and trailing empty lines, trailing whitespace, and - #commentary and collapse consecutive empty lines. + Strip leading and trailing empty lines, trailing whitespace, + commentary and collapse consecutive empty lines. whitespace:: Same as `strip` except #commentary is not removed. verbatim:: @@ -282,8 +282,11 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. --verbose:: Show unified diff between the HEAD commit and what would be committed at the bottom of the commit message - template. Note that this diff output doesn't have its - lines prefixed with '#'. + template to help the user describe the commit by reminding + what changes the commit has. + Note that this diff output doesn't have its + lines prefixed with '#'. This diff will not be a part + of the commit message. + If specified twice, show in addition the unified diff between what would be committed and the worktree files, i.e. the unstaged diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt index bc97071e76..e3c8f276b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt @@ -31,10 +31,41 @@ OPTIONS --file=<path>:: - Use `<path>` to store credentials. The file will have its + Use `<path>` to lookup and store credentials. The file will have its filesystem permissions set to prevent other users on the system from reading it, but will not be encrypted or otherwise - protected. Defaults to `~/.git-credentials`. + protected. If not specified, credentials will be searched for from + `~/.git-credentials` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials`, and + credentials will be written to `~/.git-credentials` if it exists, or + `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials` if it exists and the former does + not. See also <<FILES>>. + +[[FILES]] +FILES +----- + +If not set explicitly with '--file', there are two files where +git-credential-store will search for credentials in order of precedence: + +~/.git-credentials:: + User-specific credentials file. + +$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials:: + Second user-specific credentials file. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set + or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/credentials` will be used. Any credentials + stored in this file will not be used if `~/.git-credentials` has a + matching credential as well. It is a good idea not to create this file + if you sometimes use older versions of Git that do not support it. + +For credential lookups, the files are read in the order given above, with the +first matching credential found taking precedence over credentials found in +files further down the list. + +Credential storage will by default write to the first existing file in the +list. If none of these files exist, `~/.git-credentials` will be created and +written to. + +When erasing credentials, matching credentials will be erased from all files. EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index 929e496af8..ed57c684db 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -67,17 +67,17 @@ produced incorrect results if you gave these options. have been completed, or to save the marks table across incremental runs. As <file> is only opened and truncated at completion, the same path can also be safely given to - \--import-marks. + --import-marks. The file will not be written if no new object has been marked/exported. --import-marks=<file>:: Before processing any input, load the marks specified in <file>. The input file must exist, must be readable, and - must use the same format as produced by \--export-marks. + must use the same format as produced by --export-marks. + Any commits that have already been marked will not be exported again. -If the backend uses a similar \--import-marks file, this allows for +If the backend uses a similar --import-marks file, this allows for incremental bidirectional exporting of the repository by keeping the marks the same across runs. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index f71fb0134b..fd32895255 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ OPTIONS --quiet:: Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it is successful. This option disables the output shown by - \--stats. + --stats. --stats:: Display some basic statistics about the objects fast-import has created, the packfiles they were stored into, and the memory used by fast-import during this run. Showing this output - is currently the default, but can be disabled with \--quiet. + is currently the default, but can be disabled with --quiet. Options for Frontends ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ Locations of Marks Files have been completed, or to save the marks table across incremental runs. As <file> is only opened and truncated at checkpoint (or completion) the same path can also be - safely given to \--import-marks. + safely given to --import-marks. --import-marks=<file>:: Before processing any input, load the marks specified in <file>. The input file must exist, must be readable, and - must use the same format as produced by \--export-marks. + must use the same format as produced by --export-marks. Multiple options may be supplied to import more than one set of marks. If a mark is defined to different values, the last file wins. @@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ fast-forward update, fast-import will skip updating that ref and instead prints a warning message. fast-import will always attempt to update all branch refs, and does not stop on the first failure. -Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but it's recommended that -this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using \--force +Branch updates can be forced with --force, but it's recommended that +this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using --force is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository. @@ -231,11 +231,11 @@ Date Formats ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following date formats are supported. A frontend should select the format it will use for this import by passing the format name -in the \--date-format=<fmt> command-line option. +in the --date-format=<fmt> command-line option. `raw`:: This is the Git native format and is `<time> SP <offutc>`. - It is also fast-import's default format, if \--date-format was + It is also fast-import's default format, if --date-format was not specified. + The time of the event is specified by `<time>` as the number of @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ the email address from the other fields in the line. Note that of bytes, except `LT`, `GT` and `LF`. `<name>` is typically UTF-8 encoded. The time of the change is specified by `<when>` using the date format -that was selected by the \--date-format=<fmt> command-line option. +that was selected by the --date-format=<fmt> command-line option. See ``Date Formats'' above for the set of supported formats, and their syntax. @@ -507,10 +507,6 @@ omitted when creating a new branch, the first `merge` commit will be the first ancestor of the current commit, and the branch will start out with no files. An unlimited number of `merge` commands per commit are permitted by fast-import, thereby establishing an n-way merge. -However Git's other tools never create commits with more than 15 -additional ancestors (forming a 16-way merge). For this reason -it is suggested that frontends do not use more than 15 `merge` -commands per commit; 16, if starting a new, empty branch. Here `<commit-ish>` is any of the commit specification expressions also accepted by `from` (see above). @@ -604,7 +600,7 @@ be removed from the branch. See `filemodify` above for a detailed description of `<path>`. `filecopy` -^^^^^^^^^^^^ +^^^^^^^^^^ Recursively copies an existing file or subdirectory to a different location within the branch. The existing file or directory must exist. If the destination exists it will be completely replaced @@ -892,7 +888,7 @@ save out all current branch refs, tags and marks. .... Note that fast-import automatically switches packfiles when the current -packfile reaches \--max-pack-size, or 4 GiB, whichever limit is +packfile reaches --max-pack-size, or 4 GiB, whichever limit is smaller. During an automatic packfile switch fast-import does not update the branch refs, tags or marks. @@ -1230,7 +1226,7 @@ users of fast-import, and are offered here as suggestions. Use One Mark Per Commit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When doing a repository conversion, use a unique mark per commit -(`mark :<n>`) and supply the \--export-marks option on the command +(`mark :<n>`) and supply the --export-marks option on the command line. fast-import will dump a file which lists every mark and the Git object SHA-1 that corresponds to it. If the frontend can tie the marks back to the source repository, it is easy to verify the @@ -1295,7 +1291,7 @@ even for considerably large projects (100,000+ commits). However repacking the repository is necessary to improve data locality and access performance. It can also take hours on extremely -large projects (especially if -f and a large \--window parameter is +large projects (especially if -f and a large --window parameter is used). Since repacking is safe to run alongside readers and writers, run the repack in the background and let it finish when it finishes. There is no reason to wait to explore your new Git project! @@ -1309,7 +1305,7 @@ Repacking Historical Data ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are repacking very old imported data (e.g. older than the last year), consider expending some extra CPU time and supplying -\--window=50 (or higher) when you run 'git repack'. +--window=50 (or higher) when you run 'git repack'. This will take longer, but will also produce a smaller packfile. You only need to expend the effort once, and everyone using your project will benefit from the smaller repository. @@ -1411,7 +1407,7 @@ branch, their in-memory storage size can grow to a considerable size fast-import automatically moves active branches to inactive status based on a simple least-recently-used algorithm. The LRU chain is updated on each `commit` command. The maximum number of active branches can be -increased or decreased on the command line with \--active-branches=. +increased or decreased on the command line with --active-branches=. per active tree ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 93b5067946..8680f45f8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. the things up in .bash_profile). --exec=<git-upload-pack>:: - Same as \--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>. + Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>. --depth=<n>:: Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n. diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index 02c1f12685..0c75f3b610 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-hash-object - Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin] [--] <file>... +'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] [--path=<file>|--no-filters] [--stdin [--literally]] [--] <file>... 'git hash-object' [-t <type>] [-w] --stdin-paths [--no-filters] < <list-of-paths> DESCRIPTION @@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ OPTIONS Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this - is always implied, unless the --path option is given. + is always implied, unless the `--path` option is given. + +--literally:: + Allow `--stdin` to hash any garbage into a loose object which might not + otherwise pass standard object parsing or git-fsck checks. Useful for + stress-testing Git itself or reproducing characteristics of corrupt or + bogus objects encountered in the wild. GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index d422ba4b59..9268fb6b1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ automatically by the web server. EXAMPLES -------- -All of the following examples map 'http://$hostname/git/foo/bar.git' -to '/var/www/git/foo/bar.git'. +All of the following examples map `http://$hostname/git/foo/bar.git` +to `/var/www/git/foo/bar.git`. Apache 2.x:: Ensure mod_cgi, mod_alias, and mod_env are enabled, set @@ -255,6 +255,15 @@ The GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable may be passed to 'git-http-backend' to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok" file in each repository before allowing export of that repository. +The `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER` environment variable (or the +`http.maxRequestBuffer` config variable) may be set to change the +largest ref negotiation request that git will handle during a fetch; any +fetch requiring a larger buffer will not succeed. This value should not +normally need to be changed, but may be helpful if you are fetching from +a repository with an extremely large number of refs. The value can be +specified with a unit (e.g., `100M` for 100 megabytes). The default is +10 megabytes. + The backend process sets GIT_COMMITTER_NAME to '$REMOTE_USER' and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to '$\{REMOTE_USER}@http.$\{REMOTE_ADDR\}', ensuring that any reflogs created by 'git-receive-pack' contain some diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 18bc716a0c..5692945a0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ produced by `--stat`, etc. output by allowing them to allocate space in advance. -L <start>,<end>:<file>:: --L :<regex>:<file>:: +-L :<funcname>:<file>:: Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" - (or the funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. You may + (or the function name regex <funcname>) within the <file>. You may not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only give zero or one positive revision arguments. diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 1f94908e3c..273a1009be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'. If no commit is given from the command line, merge the remote-tracking branches that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream. See also the configuration section of this manual page. ++ +When `FETCH_HEAD` (and no other commit) is specified, the branches +recorded in the `.git/FETCH_HEAD` file by the previous invocation +of `git fetch` for merging are merged to the current branch. PRE-MERGE CHECKS diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index a1664b9f68..82aa5d6073 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -225,9 +225,20 @@ Git repository: they can find the p4 branches in refs/heads. --max-changes <n>:: - Limit the number of imported changes to 'n'. Useful to - limit the amount of history when using the '@all' p4 revision - specifier. + Import at most 'n' changes, rather than the entire range of + changes included in the given revision specifier. A typical + usage would be use '@all' as the revision specifier, but then + to use '--max-changes 1000' to import only the last 1000 + revisions rather than the entire revision history. + +--changes-block-size <n>:: + The internal block size to use when converting a revision + specifier such as '@all' into a list of specific change + numbers. Instead of using a single call to 'p4 changes' to + find the full list of changes for the conversion, there are a + sequence of calls to 'p4 changes -m', each of which requests + one block of changes of the given size. The default block size + is 500, which should usually be suitable. --keep-path:: The mapping of file names from the p4 depot path to Git, by diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index c2f76fb1ea..bbea5294ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin` --shallow:: Optimize a pack that will be provided to a client with a shallow - repository. This option, combined with \--thin, can result in a + repository. This option, combined with --thin, can result in a smaller pack at the cost of speed. --delta-base-offset:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index 7a493c80f7..1cf3bed4ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ OPTIONS --expire <time>:: Only expire loose objects older than <time>. +--worktrees:: + Prune dead working tree information in $GIT_DIR/worktrees. + <head>...:: In addition to objects reachable from any of our references, keep objects diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index d3d236cd1f..712ab4baed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -111,9 +111,8 @@ include::merge-options.txt[] was rebased since last fetched, the rebase uses that information to avoid rebasing non-local changes. + -When preserve, also rebase the current branch on top of the upstream -branch, but pass `--preserve-merges` along to `git rebase` so that -locally created merge commits will not be flattened. +When set to preserve, rebase with the `--preserve-merges` option passed +to `git rebase` so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened. + When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 5171086181..135d810b7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -157,9 +157,8 @@ already exists on the remote side. Usually, "git push" refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. + -This option bypasses the check, but instead requires that the -current value of the ref to be the expected value. "git push" -fails otherwise. +This option overrides this restriction if the current value of the +remote ref is the expected value. "git push" fails otherwise. + Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published. You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to @@ -171,15 +170,14 @@ commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work. This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref still points at the commit you specified, you can be sure that no -other people did anything to the ref (it is like taking a "lease" on -the ref without explicitly locking it, and you update the ref while -making sure that your earlier "lease" is still valid). +other people did anything to the ref. It is like taking a "lease" on +the ref without explicitly locking it, and the remote ref is updated +only if the "lease" is still valid. + `--force-with-lease` alone, without specifying the details, will protect all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have -for them, unless specified with a `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>` -option that explicitly states what the expected value is. +for them. + `--force-with-lease=<refname>`, without specifying the expected value, will protect the named ref (alone), if it is going to be updated, by @@ -267,8 +265,8 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the --[no-]verify:: Toggle the pre-push hook (see linkgit:githooks[5]). The - default is \--verify, giving the hook a chance to prevent the - push. With \--no-verify, the hook is bypassed completely. + default is --verify, giving the hook a chance to prevent the + push. With --no-verify, the hook is bypassed completely. include::urls-remotes.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index d728030590..1d01baa5fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ remain the checked-out branch. If the upstream branch already contains a change you have made (e.g., because you mailed a patch which was applied upstream), then that commit will be skipped. For example, running `git rebase master` on the -following history (in which A' and A introduce the same set of changes, +following history (in which `A'` and `A` introduce the same set of changes, but have different committer information): ------------ @@ -362,7 +362,9 @@ default is `--no-fork-point`, otherwise the default is `--fork-point`. -p:: --preserve-merges:: - Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. + Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying + commits a merge commit introduces. Merge conflict resolutions or manual + amendments to merge commits are not preserved. + This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index 5b119220bf..b10ea60833 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -9,54 +9,54 @@ git-rev-list - Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git rev-list' [ \--max-count=<number> ] - [ \--skip=<number> ] - [ \--max-age=<timestamp> ] - [ \--min-age=<timestamp> ] - [ \--sparse ] - [ \--merges ] - [ \--no-merges ] - [ \--min-parents=<number> ] - [ \--no-min-parents ] - [ \--max-parents=<number> ] - [ \--no-max-parents ] - [ \--first-parent ] - [ \--remove-empty ] - [ \--full-history ] - [ \--not ] - [ \--all ] - [ \--branches[=<pattern>] ] - [ \--tags[=<pattern>] ] - [ \--remotes[=<pattern>] ] - [ \--glob=<glob-pattern> ] - [ \--ignore-missing ] - [ \--stdin ] - [ \--quiet ] - [ \--topo-order ] - [ \--parents ] - [ \--timestamp ] - [ \--left-right ] - [ \--left-only ] - [ \--right-only ] - [ \--cherry-mark ] - [ \--cherry-pick ] - [ \--encoding=<encoding> ] - [ \--(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ] - [ \--regexp-ignore-case | -i ] - [ \--extended-regexp | -E ] - [ \--fixed-strings | -F ] - [ \--date=(local|relative|default|iso|iso-strict|rfc|short) ] - [ [ \--objects | \--objects-edge | \--objects-edge-aggressive ] - [ \--unpacked ] ] - [ \--pretty | \--header ] - [ \--bisect ] - [ \--bisect-vars ] - [ \--bisect-all ] - [ \--merge ] - [ \--reverse ] - [ \--walk-reflogs ] - [ \--no-walk ] [ \--do-walk ] - [ \--use-bitmap-index ] +'git rev-list' [ --max-count=<number> ] + [ --skip=<number> ] + [ --max-age=<timestamp> ] + [ --min-age=<timestamp> ] + [ --sparse ] + [ --merges ] + [ --no-merges ] + [ --min-parents=<number> ] + [ --no-min-parents ] + [ --max-parents=<number> ] + [ --no-max-parents ] + [ --first-parent ] + [ --remove-empty ] + [ --full-history ] + [ --not ] + [ --all ] + [ --branches[=<pattern>] ] + [ --tags[=<pattern>] ] + [ --remotes[=<pattern>] ] + [ --glob=<glob-pattern> ] + [ --ignore-missing ] + [ --stdin ] + [ --quiet ] + [ --topo-order ] + [ --parents ] + [ --timestamp ] + [ --left-right ] + [ --left-only ] + [ --right-only ] + [ --cherry-mark ] + [ --cherry-pick ] + [ --encoding=<encoding> ] + [ --(author|committer|grep)=<pattern> ] + [ --regexp-ignore-case | -i ] + [ --extended-regexp | -E ] + [ --fixed-strings | -F ] + [ --date=(local|relative|default|iso|iso-strict|rfc|short) ] + [ [ --objects | --objects-edge | --objects-edge-aggressive ] + [ --unpacked ] ] + [ --pretty | --header ] + [ --bisect ] + [ --bisect-vars ] + [ --bisect-all ] + [ --merge ] + [ --reverse ] + [ --walk-reflogs ] + [ --no-walk ] [ --do-walk ] + [ --use-bitmap-index ] <commit>... [ \-- <paths>... ] DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index d6de42f74e..c483100e75 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. +you require, you can add the `^{type}` peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR` @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ can be used. form as close to the original input as possible. --symbolic-full-name:: - This is similar to \--symbolic, but it omits input that + This is similar to --symbolic, but it omits input that are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you want to name the "master" branch when there is an @@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory is not detected to lie in a Git repository or work tree print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. +--git-common-dir:: + Show `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` if defined, else `$GIT_DIR`. + --is-inside-git-dir:: When the current working directory is below the repository directory print "true", otherwise "false". @@ -233,6 +236,13 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. repository. If <path> is a gitfile then the resolved path to the real repository is printed. +--git-path <path>:: + Resolve "$GIT_DIR/<path>" and takes other path relocation + variables such as $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, + $GIT_INDEX_FILE... into account. For example, if + $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY is set to /foo/bar then "git rev-parse + --git-path objects/abc" returns /foo/bar/abc. + --show-cdup:: When the command is invoked from a subdirectory, show the path of the top-level directory relative to the current diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 45c7725dc3..b5d09f79ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ OPTIONS a directory on the default $PATH. --exec=<git-receive-pack>:: - Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>. + Same as --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>. --all:: Instead of explicitly specifying which refs to update, diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 4e617e6979..82a4125a2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ presents the merge commit in a special format as produced by For tags, it shows the tag message and the referenced objects. For trees, it shows the names (equivalent to 'git ls-tree' -with \--name-only). +with --name-only). For plain blobs, it shows the plain contents. diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index b3319f7c2a..335f312335 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ OPTIONS --long:: Give the output in the long-format. This is the default. +-v:: +--verbose:: + In addition to the names of files that have been changed, also + show the textual changes that are staged to be committed + (i.e., like the output of `git diff --cached`). If `-v` is specified + twice, then also show the changes in the working tree that + have not yet been staged (i.e., like the output of `git diff`). + -u[<mode>]:: --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: Show untracked files. @@ -58,7 +66,10 @@ When `-u` option is not used, untracked files and directories are shown (i.e. the same as specifying `normal`), to help you avoid forgetting to add newly created files. Because it takes extra work to find untracked files in the filesystem, this mode may take some -time in a large working tree. You can use `no` to have `git status` +time in a large working tree. +Consider enabling untracked cache and split index if supported (see +`git update-index --untracked-cache` and `git update-index +--split-index`), Otherwise you can use `no` to have `git status` return more quickly without showing untracked files. + The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt index 6c6e989074..60328d5d08 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ EXAMPLES Given the following noisy input with '$' indicating the end of a line: --------- +--------- |A brief introduction $ | $ |$ @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Given the following noisy input with '$' indicating the end of a line: Use 'git stripspace' with no arguments to obtain: --------- +--------- |A brief introduction$ |$ |A new paragraph$ @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Use 'git stripspace' with no arguments to obtain: Use 'git stripspace --strip-comments' to obtain: --------- +--------- |A brief introduction$ |$ |A new paragraph$ diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 39e9a181cc..11d1e2fc66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ COMMANDS --username=<user>;; For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other - transports (e.g. svn+ssh://), you must include the username in - the URL, e.g. svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project + transports (e.g. `svn+ssh://`), you must include the username in + the URL, e.g. `svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project` --prefix=<prefix>;; This allows one to specify a prefix which is prepended to the names of remotes if trunk/branches/tags are @@ -279,9 +279,9 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN. Ask the user to confirm that a patch set should actually be sent to SVN. For each patch, one may answer "yes" (accept this patch), "no" (discard this patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit". - + - 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without - committing anything to SVN. ++ +'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer is "no" or "quit", without +committing anything to SVN. 'branch':: Create a branch in the SVN repository. diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index bfba4ef078..034d10d633 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -98,10 +98,13 @@ OPTIONS --sort=<type>:: Sort in a specific order. Supported type is "refname" (lexicographic order), "version:refname" or "v:refname" (tag - names are treated as versions). Prepend "-" to reverse sort - order. When this option is not given, the sort order defaults to the - value configured for the 'tag.sort' variable if it exists, or - lexicographic order otherwise. See linkgit:git-config[1]. + names are treated as versions). The "version:refname" sort + order can also be affected by the + "versionsort.prereleaseSuffix" configuration variable. Prepend + "-" to reverse sort order. When this option is not given, the + sort order defaults to the value configured for the 'tag.sort' + variable if it exists, or lexicographic order otherwise. See + linkgit:git-config[1]. --column[=<options>]:: --no-column:: @@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. CONFIGURATION ------------- By default, 'git tag' in sign-with-default mode (-s) will use your -committer identity (of the form "Your Name <\your@email.address>") to +committer identity (of the form `Your Name <your@email.address>`) to find a key. If you want to use a different default key, you can specify it in the repository configuration as follows: diff --git a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt index 12cb108b85..07d432988f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-unpack-objects.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-unpack-objects - Unpack objects from a packed archive SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git unpack-objects' [-n] [-q] [-r] [--strict] < <pack-file> +'git unpack-objects' [-n] [-q] [-r] [--strict] < <packfile> DESCRIPTION @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ the objects contained within and writing them into the repository in "loose" (one object per file) format. Objects that already exist in the repository will *not* be unpacked -from the pack-file. Therefore, nothing will be unpacked if you use -this command on a pack-file that exists within the target repository. +from the packfile. Therefore, nothing will be unpacked if you use +this command on a packfile that exists within the target repository. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for options to generate new packs and replace existing ones. diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index aff01798cd..1a296bc29a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -170,6 +170,20 @@ may not support it yet. the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large indexes that take a significant amount of time to read or write. +--untracked-cache:: +--no-untracked-cache:: + Enable or disable untracked cache extension. This could speed + up for commands that involve determining untracked files such + as `git status`. The underlying operating system and file + system must change `st_mtime` field of a directory if files + are added or deleted in that directory. + +--force-untracked-cache:: + For safety, `--untracked-cache` performs tests on the working + directory to make sure untracked cache can be used. These + tests can take a few seconds. `--force-untracked-cache` can be + used to skip the tests. + \--:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt index 526ba7be9c..61ca6d04c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ OUTPUT FORMAT ------------- When specifying the -v option the format used is: - SHA-1 type size size-in-pack-file offset-in-packfile + SHA-1 type size size-in-packfile offset-in-packfile for objects that are not deltified in the pack, and diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 8837862908..ccc12b2806 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,20 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.3.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.4] +* link:v2.4.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.2] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.4.2.txt[2.4.2], + link:RelNotes/2.4.1.txt[2.4.1], + link:RelNotes/2.4.0.txt[2.4]. + +* link:v2.3.8/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.8] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.3.8.txt[2.3.8], + link:RelNotes/2.3.7.txt[2.3.7], + link:RelNotes/2.3.6.txt[2.3.6], + link:RelNotes/2.3.5.txt[2.3.5], link:RelNotes/2.3.4.txt[2.3.4], link:RelNotes/2.3.3.txt[2.3.3], link:RelNotes/2.3.2.txt[2.3.2], @@ -825,6 +836,15 @@ Git so take care if using Cogito etc. an explicit repository directory set via 'GIT_DIR' or on the command line. +'GIT_COMMON_DIR':: + If this variable is set to a path, non-worktree files that are + normally in $GIT_DIR will be taken from this path + instead. Worktree-specific files such as HEAD or index are + taken from $GIT_DIR. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] and + the section 'MULTIPLE CHECKOUT MODE' in linkgit:checkout[1] + details. This variable has lower precedence than other path + variables such as GIT_INDEX_FILE, GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY... + Git Commits ~~~~~~~~~~~ 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME':: diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 8475c07932..36e9ab3e16 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ index 557db03..263414f 100644 @@ -1 +1,2 @@ Hello World +It's a new day for git ----- +------------ i.e. the diff of the change we caused by adding another line to `hello`. diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index c8b3e51c84..c579593e55 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ The 'git diff-{asterisk}' family works by first comparing two sets of files: - 'git diff-index' compares contents of a "tree" object and the - working directory (when '\--cached' flag is not used) or a - "tree" object and the index file (when '\--cached' flag is + working directory (when '--cached' flag is not used) or a + "tree" object and the index file (when '--cached' flag is used); - 'git diff-files' compares contents of the index file and the @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ merges these filepairs and creates: When the "-C" option is used, the original contents of modified files, and deleted files (and also unmodified files, if the -"\--find-copies-harder" option is used) are considered as candidates +"--find-copies-harder" option is used) are considered as candidates of the source files in rename/copy operation. If the input were like these filepairs, that talk about a modified file fileY and a newly created file file0: diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt index 7ae50aa26a..6ade002176 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitk.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt @@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ linkgit:git-rev-list[1] for a complete list. detailed explanation.) -L<start>,<end>:<file>:: --L:<regex>:<file>:: +-L:<funcname>:<file>:: Trace the evolution of the line range given by "<start>,<end>" - (or the funcname regex <regex>) within the <file>. You may + (or the function name regex <funcname>) within the <file>. You may not give any pathspec limiters. This is currently limited to a walk starting from a single revision, i.e., you may only give zero or one positive revision arguments. diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index 8edf72cf53..82e2d15435 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -408,14 +408,14 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. of <n> correspond to the number of -v flags passed on the command line. -'option progress' \{'true'|'false'\}:: +'option progress' {'true'|'false'}:: Enables (or disables) progress messages displayed by the transport helper during a command. 'option depth' <depth>:: Deepens the history of a shallow repository. -'option followtags' \{'true'|'false'\}:: +'option followtags' {'true'|'false'}:: If enabled the helper should automatically fetch annotated tag objects if the object the tag points at was transferred during the fetch command. If the tag is not fetched by @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. ask for the tag specifically. Some helpers may be able to use this option to avoid a second network connection. -'option dry-run' \{'true'|'false'\}: +'option dry-run' {'true'|'false'}: If true, pretend the operation completed successfully, but don't actually change any repository data. For most helpers this only applies to the 'push', if supported. @@ -434,18 +434,18 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. must not rely on this option being set before connect request occurs. -'option check-connectivity' \{'true'|'false'\}:: +'option check-connectivity' {'true'|'false'}:: Request the helper to check connectivity of a clone. -'option force' \{'true'|'false'\}:: +'option force' {'true'|'false'}:: 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. SEE ALSO diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index 79653f3134..7173b38830 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as `objects/info/alternates` points at the object stores it borrows from. ++ +This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and +"$GIT_COMMON_DIR/objects" will be used instead. objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:: A newly created object is stored in its own file. @@ -92,7 +95,8 @@ refs:: References are stored in subdirectories of this directory. The 'git prune' command knows to preserve objects reachable from refs found in this directory and - its subdirectories. + its subdirectories. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR + is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/refs" will be used instead. refs/heads/`name`:: records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branch `name` @@ -114,7 +118,8 @@ refs/replace/`<obj-sha1>`:: packed-refs:: records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/, and friends record in a more efficient way. See - linkgit:git-pack-refs[1]. + linkgit:git-pack-refs[1]. This file is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR + is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/packed-refs" will be used instead. HEAD:: A symref (see glossary) to the `refs/heads/` namespace @@ -133,6 +138,11 @@ being a symref to point at the current branch. Such a state is often called 'detached HEAD.' See linkgit:git-checkout[1] for details. +config:: + Repository specific configuration file. This file is ignored + if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config" will be + used instead. + branches:: A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used to specify a URL to 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push'. @@ -140,7 +150,10 @@ branches:: 'name' can be given to these commands in place of 'repository' argument. See the REMOTES section in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for details. This mechanism is legacy - and not likely to be found in modern repositories. + and not likely to be found in modern repositories. This + directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and + "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/branches" will be used instead. + hooks:: Hooks are customization scripts used by various Git @@ -149,7 +162,9 @@ hooks:: default. To enable, the `.sample` suffix has to be removed from the filename by renaming. Read linkgit:githooks[5] for more details about - each hook. + each hook. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set + and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/hooks" will be used instead. + index:: The current index file for the repository. It is @@ -161,7 +176,8 @@ sharedindex.<SHA-1>:: info:: Additional information about the repository is recorded - in this directory. + in this directory. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR + is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/index" will be used instead. info/refs:: This file helps dumb transports discover what refs are @@ -201,12 +217,15 @@ remotes:: when interacting with remote repositories via 'git fetch', 'git pull' and 'git push' commands. See the REMOTES section in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for details. This mechanism is legacy - and not likely to be found in modern repositories. + and not likely to be found in modern repositories. This + directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and + "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/remotes" will be used instead. logs:: - Records of changes made to refs are stored in this - directory. See linkgit:git-update-ref[1] - for more information. + Records of changes made to refs are stored in this directory. + See linkgit:git-update-ref[1] for more information. This + directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and + "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/logs" will be used instead. logs/refs/heads/`name`:: Records all changes made to the branch tip named `name`. @@ -217,11 +236,46 @@ logs/refs/tags/`name`:: shallow:: This is similar to `info/grafts` but is internally used and maintained by shallow clone mechanism. See `--depth` - option to linkgit:git-clone[1] and linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + option to linkgit:git-clone[1] and linkgit:git-fetch[1]. This + file is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and + "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/shallow" will be used instead. + +commondir:: + If this file exists, $GIT_COMMON_DIR (see linkgit:git[1]) will + be set to the path specified in this file if it is not + explicitly set. If the specified path is relative, it is + relative to $GIT_DIR. The repository with commondir is + incomplete without the repository pointed by "commondir". modules:: Contains the git-repositories of the submodules. +worktrees:: + Contains worktree specific information of linked + checkouts. Each subdirectory contains the worktree-related + part of a linked checkout. This directory is ignored if + $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees" will be + used instead. + +worktrees/<id>/gitdir:: + A text file containing the absolute path back to the .git file + that points to here. This is used to check if the linked + repository has been manually removed and there is no need to + keep this directory any more. mtime of this file should be + updated every time the linked repository is accessed. + +worktrees/<id>/locked:: + If this file exists, the linked repository may be on a + portable device and not available. It does not mean that the + linked repository is gone and `worktrees/<id>` could be + removed. The file's content contains a reason string on why + the repository is locked. + +worktrees/<id>/link:: + If this file exists, it is a hard link to the linked .git + file. It is used to detect if the linked repository is + manually removed. + SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-init[1], diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index 0506f07d74..a096e7ddf7 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ project config. Per-repository configuration takes precedence over value composed from `@git_base_url_list` elements and project name. + You can setup one single value (single entry/item in this list) at build -time by setting the `GITWEB_BASE_URL` built-time configuration variable. +time by setting the `GITWEB_BASE_URL` build-time configuration variable. By default it is set to (), i.e. an empty list. This means that gitweb would not try to create project URL (to fetch) from project name. diff --git a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt index d7de5a3e9e..6d772bd927 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ your language, document it in the INSTALL file. that categorizes commands by type, so they can be listed in appropriate subsections in the documentation's summary command list. Add an entry for yours. To understand the categories, look at git-commands.txt -in the main directory. +in the main directory. If the new command is part of the typical Git +workflow and you believe it common enough to be mentioned in 'git help', +map this command to a common group in the column [common]. 7. Give the maintainer one paragraph to include in the RelNotes file to describe the new feature; a good place to do so is in the cover diff --git a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt index 23e685d8ca..9c4cd0915f 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt @@ -240,3 +240,240 @@ But more importantly, git's hashing and checksumming noticed a problem that easily could have gone undetected in another system. The result still compiled, but would have caused an interesting bug (that would have been blamed on some random commit). + + +The adventure continues... +-------------------------- + +I ended up doing this again! Same entity, new hardware. The assumption +at this point is that the old disk corrupted the packfile, and then the +corruption was migrated to the new hardware (because it was done by +rsync or similar, and no fsck was done at the time of migration). + +This time, the affected blob was over 20 megabytes, which was far too +large to do a brute-force on. I followed the instructions above to +create the `zlib` file. I then used the `inflate` program below to pull +the corrupted data from that. Examining that output gave me a hint about +where in the file the corruption was. But now I was working with the +file itself, not the zlib contents. So knowing the sha1 of the object +and the approximate area of the corruption, I used the `sha1-munge` +program below to brute-force the correct byte. + +Here's the inflate program (it's essentially `gunzip` but without the +`.gz` header processing): + +-------------------------- +#include <stdio.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <zlib.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +int main(int argc, char **argv) +{ + /* + * oversized so we can read the whole buffer in; + * this could actually be switched to streaming + * to avoid any memory limitations + */ + static unsigned char buf[25 * 1024 * 1024]; + static unsigned char out[25 * 1024 * 1024]; + int len; + z_stream z; + int ret; + + len = read(0, buf, sizeof(buf)); + memset(&z, 0, sizeof(z)); + inflateInit(&z); + + z.next_in = buf; + z.avail_in = len; + z.next_out = out; + z.avail_out = sizeof(out); + + ret = inflate(&z, 0); + if (ret != Z_OK && ret != Z_STREAM_END) + fprintf(stderr, "initial inflate failed (%d)\n", ret); + + fprintf(stderr, "outputting %lu bytes", z.total_out); + fwrite(out, 1, z.total_out, stdout); + return 0; +} +-------------------------- + +And here is the `sha1-munge` program: + +-------------------------- +#include <stdio.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <signal.h> +#include <openssl/sha.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +/* eye candy */ +static int counter = 0; +static void progress(int sig) +{ + fprintf(stderr, "\r%d", counter); + alarm(1); +} + +static const signed char hexval_table[256] = { + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 00-07 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 08-0f */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 10-17 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 18-1f */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 20-27 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 28-2f */ + 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, /* 30-37 */ + 8, 9, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 38-3f */ + -1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, -1, /* 40-47 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 48-4f */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 50-57 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 58-5f */ + -1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, -1, /* 60-67 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 68-67 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 70-77 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 78-7f */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 80-87 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 88-8f */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 90-97 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* 98-9f */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* a0-a7 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* a8-af */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* b0-b7 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* b8-bf */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* c0-c7 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* c8-cf */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* d0-d7 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* d8-df */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* e0-e7 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* e8-ef */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* f0-f7 */ + -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, /* f8-ff */ +}; + +static inline unsigned int hexval(unsigned char c) +{ +return hexval_table[c]; +} + +static int get_sha1_hex(const char *hex, unsigned char *sha1) +{ + int i; + for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) { + unsigned int val; + /* + * hex[1]=='\0' is caught when val is checked below, + * but if hex[0] is NUL we have to avoid reading + * past the end of the string: + */ + if (!hex[0]) + return -1; + val = (hexval(hex[0]) << 4) | hexval(hex[1]); + if (val & ~0xff) + return -1; + *sha1++ = val; + hex += 2; + } + return 0; +} + +int main(int argc, char **argv) +{ + /* oversized so we can read the whole buffer in */ + static unsigned char buf[25 * 1024 * 1024]; + char header[32]; + int header_len; + unsigned char have[20], want[20]; + int start, len; + SHA_CTX orig; + unsigned i, j; + + if (!argv[1] || get_sha1_hex(argv[1], want)) { + fprintf(stderr, "usage: sha1-munge <sha1> [start] <file.in\n"); + return 1; + } + + if (argv[2]) + start = atoi(argv[2]); + else + start = 0; + + len = read(0, buf, sizeof(buf)); + header_len = sprintf(header, "blob %d", len) + 1; + fprintf(stderr, "using header: %s\n", header); + + /* + * We keep a running sha1 so that if you are munging + * near the end of the file, we do not have to re-sha1 + * the unchanged earlier bytes + */ + SHA1_Init(&orig); + SHA1_Update(&orig, header, header_len); + if (start) + SHA1_Update(&orig, buf, start); + + signal(SIGALRM, progress); + alarm(1); + + for (i = start; i < len; i++) { + unsigned char c; + SHA_CTX x; + +#if 0 + /* + * deletion -- this would not actually work in practice, + * I think, because we've already committed to a + * particular size in the header. Ditto for addition + * below. In those cases, you'd have to do the whole + * sha1 from scratch, or possibly keep three running + * "orig" sha1 computations going. + */ + memcpy(&x, &orig, sizeof(x)); + SHA1_Update(&x, buf + i + 1, len - i - 1); + SHA1_Final(have, &x); + if (!memcmp(have, want, 20)) + printf("i=%d, deletion\n", i); +#endif + + /* + * replacement -- note that this tries each of the 256 + * possible bytes. If you suspect a single-bit flip, + * it would be much shorter to just try the 8 + * bit-flipped variants. + */ + c = buf[i]; + for (j = 0; j <= 0xff; j++) { + buf[i] = j; + + memcpy(&x, &orig, sizeof(x)); + SHA1_Update(&x, buf + i, len - i); + SHA1_Final(have, &x); + if (!memcmp(have, want, 20)) + printf("i=%d, j=%02x\n", i, j); + } + buf[i] = c; + +#if 0 + /* addition */ + for (j = 0; j <= 0xff; j++) { + unsigned char extra = j; + memcpy(&x, &orig, sizeof(x)); + SHA1_Update(&x, &extra, 1); + SHA1_Update(&x, buf + i, len - i); + SHA1_Final(have, &x); + if (!memcmp(have, want, 20)) + printf("i=%d, addition=%02x", i, j); + } +#endif + + SHA1_Update(&orig, buf + i, 1); + counter++; + } + + alarm(0); + fprintf(stderr, "\r%d\n", counter); + return 0; +} +-------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt index d7f26039ca..829676ff98 100644 --- a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ This is only valid for <end> and will specify a number of lines before or after the line given by <start>. + -If ``:<regex>'' is given in place of <start> and <end>, it denotes the range -from the first funcname line that matches <regex>, up to the next -funcname line. ``:<regex>'' searches from the end of the previous `-L` range, -if any, otherwise from the start of file. -``^:<regex>'' searches from the start of file. +If ``:<funcname>'' is given in place of <start> and <end>, it is a +regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname line +that matches <funcname>, up to the next funcname line. ``:<funcname>'' +searches from the end of the previous `-L` range, if any, otherwise +from the start of file. ``^:<funcname>'' searches from the start of +file. diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index dcf7429a47..dc865cbb27 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -79,7 +79,10 @@ stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA-1s are displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or --no-abbrev are used, and 'parents' information show the true parent commits, without taking grafts or history -simplification into account. +simplification into account. Note that this format affects the way +commits are displayed, but not the way the diff is shown e.g. with +`git log --raw`. To get full object names in a raw diff format, +use `--no-abbrev`. * 'format:<string>' + diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index f620ee4e1c..77ac439234 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see `--all-match`). + -When `--show-notes` is in effect, the message from the notes as -if it is part of the log message. +When `--show-notes` is in effect, the message from the notes is +matched as if it were part of the log message. --all-match:: Limit the commits output to ones that match all given `--grep`, diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-error-handling.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-error-handling.txt index fc68db126e..ceeedd485c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-error-handling.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-error-handling.txt @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ to `die` or `error` as-is. For example: if (ref_transaction_commit(transaction, &err)) die("%s", err.buf); -The 'err' parameter will be untouched if no error occured, so multiple +The 'err' parameter will be untouched if no error occurred, so multiple function calls can be chained: t = ref_transaction_begin(&err); diff --git a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt index 229f845dfa..1c561bdd92 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt @@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ Servers SHOULD support all capabilities defined here. Clients MUST send at least one "want" command in the request body. Clients MUST NOT reference an id in a "want" command which did not appear in the response obtained through ref discovery unless the -server advertises capability `allow-tip-sha1-in-want`. +server advertises capability `allow-tip-sha1-in-want` or +`allow-reachable-sha1-in-want`. compute_request = want_list have_list diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 35112e4966..b7093af8b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -233,3 +233,65 @@ Git index format The remaining index entries after replaced ones will be added to the final index. These added entries are also sorted by entry name then stage. + +== Untracked cache + + Untracked cache saves the untracked file list and necessary data to + verify the cache. The signature for this extension is { 'U', 'N', + 'T', 'R' }. + + The extension starts with + + - A sequence of NUL-terminated strings, preceded by the size of the + sequence in variable width encoding. Each string describes the + environment where the cache can be used. + + - Stat data of $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. See "Index entry" section from + ctime field until "file size". + + - Stat data of core.excludesfile + + - 32-bit dir_flags (see struct dir_struct) + + - 160-bit SHA-1 of $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Null SHA-1 means the file + does not exist. + + - 160-bit SHA-1 of core.excludesfile. Null SHA-1 means the file does + not exist. + + - NUL-terminated string of per-dir exclude file name. This usually + is ".gitignore". + + - The number of following directory blocks, variable width + encoding. If this number is zero, the extension ends here with a + following NUL. + + - A number of directory blocks in depth-first-search order, each + consists of + + - The number of untracked entries, variable width encoding. + + - The number of sub-directory blocks, variable width encoding. + + - The directory name terminated by NUL. + + - A number of untrached file/dir names terminated by NUL. + +The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type: + + - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit marks whether the n-th directory has + valid untracked cache entries. + + - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit records "check-only" bit of + read_directory_recursive() for the n-th directory. + + - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether SHA-1 and stat data + is valid for the n-th directory and exists in the next data. + + - An array of stat data. The n-th data corresponds with the n-th + "one" bit in the previous ewah bitmap. + + - An array of SHA-1. The n-th SHA-1 corresponds with the n-th "one" bit + in the previous ewah bitmap. + + - One NUL. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 462e20645f..fc09c63b32 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new references. ---- - update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [pack-file] + update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [packfile] shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id LF) @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ references. *PKT-LINE(gpg-signature-lines LF) PKT-LINE("push-cert-end" LF) - pack-file = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) + packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) ---- If the receiving end does not support delete-refs, the sending end MUST @@ -502,11 +502,11 @@ MUST NOT send a push-cert command. When a push-cert command is sent, command-list MUST NOT be sent; the commands recorded in the push certificate is used instead. -The pack-file MUST NOT be sent if the only command used is 'delete'. +The packfile MUST NOT be sent if the only command used is 'delete'. -A pack-file MUST be sent if either create or update command is used, +A packfile MUST be sent if either create or update command is used, even if the server already has all the necessary objects. In this -case the client MUST send an empty pack-file. The only time this +case the client MUST send an empty packfile. The only time this is likely to happen is if the client is creating a new branch or a tag that points to an existing obj-id. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 4f8a7bfb4c..eaab6b4ac7 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not advertised by upload-pack. +allow-reachable-sha1-in-want +---------------------------- + +If the upload-pack server advertises this capability, fetch-pack may +send "want" lines with SHA-1s that exist at the server but are not +advertised by upload-pack. + push-cert=<nonce> ----------------- |