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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt84
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt46
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt134
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt213
-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoc.conf4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clean.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-credential-store.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-daemon.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-difftool.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fsck.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-lost-found.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge-base.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mergetool.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-p4.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pull.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-replace.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-shortlog.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt67
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcli.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-strategies.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt67
-rw-r--r--Documentation/revisions.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt75
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.conf2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt9
59 files changed, 995 insertions, 155 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 45577117c2..57da6aadeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -76,11 +76,19 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
- We do not use Process Substitution <(list) or >(list).
+ - Do not write control structures on a single line with semicolon.
+ "then" should be on the next line for if statements, and "do"
+ should be on the next line for "while" and "for".
+
- We prefer "test" over "[ ... ]".
- We do not write the noiseword "function" in front of shell
functions.
+ - We prefer a space between the function name and the parentheses. The
+ opening "{" should also be on the same line.
+ E.g.: my_function () {
+
- As to use of grep, stick to a subset of BRE (namely, no \{m,n\},
[::], [==], nor [..]) for portability.
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 063fa696c9..267dfe135d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ man5dir=$(mandir)/man5
man7dir=$(mandir)/man7
# DESTDIR=
-ASCIIDOC=asciidoc
+ASCIIDOC = asciidoc
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA =
MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl
+XMLTO = xmlto
XMLTO_EXTRA =
INSTALL?=install
RM ?= rm -f
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl
$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
- xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
+ $(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
%.xml : %.txt
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
@@ -344,4 +345,7 @@ require-htmlrepo::
quick-install-html: require-htmlrepo
'$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./install-doc-quick.sh $(HTML_REPO) $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)
+print-man1:
+ @for i in $(MAN1_TXT); do echo $$i; done
+
.PHONY: FORCE
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba7d3c3966
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11.5
+---------------------
+
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ documentation.
+
+ * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a
+ non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from
+ running.
+
+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
+ rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
+ started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
+
+ * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
+ revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
+ used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
+ has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
+ line.
+
+ * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
+ example.
+
+ * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
+ file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
+ tags, which is not true for quite some time.
+
+ * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
+ subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
+ easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
+
+ * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
+ the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
+ commands were poorly described in the documentation.
+
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
+ died when the human-readable committer name was given
+ insufficiently by getpwent(3).
+
+ * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
+ being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the
+ documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a
+ new code for "all other errors".
+
+ * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an
+ incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own.
+
+ * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
+ working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
+ name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
+
+ * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
+ but we didn't document it.
+
+ * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
+ message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
+ the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
+
+ * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
+ inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
+
+ * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
+ header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
+
+ * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts
+ unlike other mergy operations.
+
+ * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
+ submodule was misspelt.
+
+ * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree
+ that has local changes.
+ (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).
+
+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
+ SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
+
+ * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+
+ * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
+ for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e7e79d999b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+Git v1.7.11.7 Release Notes
+===========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11.6
+---------------------
+
+ * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
+ branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
+ option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
+ documentation misleading.
+
+ * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
+ buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
+ platform regexp. A new test has been added to check this.
+
+ * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
+ correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
+ places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
+ does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
+ changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
+ in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
+ this problem.
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
+ option.
+
+ * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
+ when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
+ Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
+ a case.
+
+ * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
+ the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
+ configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
+ for POST.
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
+ (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8f04af19f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.12
+-------------------
+
+ * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
+ correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
+ places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
+ does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
+ changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
+ in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
+ this problem.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
+ then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
+ order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
+ expects.
+
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
+ died when the human-readable committer name was given
+ insufficiently by getpwent(3).
+
+ * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
+ did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
+ fixed not to do so.
+
+ * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
+ working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
+ name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
+ option.
+
+ * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
+ when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
+ Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
+ a case.
+
+ * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
+ the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
+ commands were poorly described in the documentation.
+
+ * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
+ files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
+
+ * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
+ the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
+ configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
+ for POST.
+
+ * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
+ inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
+
+ * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
+ message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
+ the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
+
+ * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
+
+ * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
+ header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
+
+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
+ asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
+ guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
+ tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
+ please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
+ certainly not what the user meant.
+
+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
+ SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
+
+ * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
+ revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
+ used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
+ has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
+ line.
+
+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
+ rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
+ started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
+
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
+ fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ documentation.
+
+ * "git-jump" script (in contrib/) did not work well when
+ diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is in effect.
+
+ * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
+ file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
+ tags, which is not true for quite some time.
+
+ * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
+ for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
+
+ * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
+ descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
+ getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
+
+ * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
+ breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
+
+ * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
+
+ * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+
+ * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
+ but we didn't document it.
+
+ * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
+ subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
+ easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
+
+ * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
+ branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
+ option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
+ documentation misleading.
+
+Also contains numerous documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93c7b345e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Git 1.7.12.2 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.12.1
+---------------------
+
+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
+ branch that is being merged.
+
+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
+
+ * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
+ "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
+ issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
+ much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
+
+ * "git log/diff/format-patch --stat" showed the "N line(s) added"
+ comment in user's locale and caused careless submitters to send
+ patches with such a line in them to projects whose project language
+ is not their language, mildly irritating others. Localization to
+ the line has been disabled for now.
+
+ * The subcommand to remove the definition of a remote in "git remote"
+ was named "rm" even though all other subcommands were spelled out.
+ Introduce "git remote remove" to remove confusion, and keep "rm" as
+ a backward compatible synonym.
+
+Also contains a handful of documentation updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..87719bfe2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+Git v1.8.0 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
+
+In the next major release, we will change the behaviour of the "git
+push" command. When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we
+have used the traditional "matching" semantics (all your branches were
+sent to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same
+name over there). We will use the "simple" semantics, that pushes the
+current branch to the branch with the same name only when the current
+branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
+preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
+"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
+variable.
+
+"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
+relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
+been introduced with a saner order of arguments.
+
+
+Updates since v1.7.12
+---------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
+ the logged-in user has been added.
+
+ * A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been
+ added.
+
+ * When "git am" sanitizes the Subject: line, we strip the prefix from
+ "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
+ even less common "RE: subject" intact.
+
+ * It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
+ but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
+ integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly
+ unlikely what the user meant. The option is deprecated; use the
+ new "--set-upstream-to" (with a short-and-sweet "-u") option
+ instead.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
+ allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
+
+ * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking
+ help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to
+ be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command
+ leaves the sign-off line in the log template.
+
+ * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
+ external command to decline service based on the client address,
+ repository path, etc.
+
+ * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
+ temporary copy of the working tree when available.
+
+ * "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if
+ a configuration variable tells it to.
+
+ * "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is
+ an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.
+
+ * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes
+ effect even on binary files.
+
+
+Foreign Interface
+
+ * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
+
+ * "git p4" learned "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when
+ encountering a conflict during "p4 submit".
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
+
+ * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
+ buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
+ platform regexp. A new test has been added to check this.
+
+ * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
+ simplified.
+
+ * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output
+ for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
+ monospace.
+
+ * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
+ reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
+
+ * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has
+ been added.
+
+ * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and
+ defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an
+ appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder.
+ The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis
+ when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a
+ good name for a branch).
+
+ * Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see
+ if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the
+ full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to
+ use less expensive checks.
+
+ * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when
+ we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted
+ from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree".
+
+ * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have
+ been marked for translation.
+
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.12
+-------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
+maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
+to them for details).
+
+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
+
+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
+ branch that is being merged.
+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
+ the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
+ how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first
+ line" to "title".
+ (merge 52ffe99 jw/doc-commit-title later to maint).
+
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
+ fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
+
+ * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that
+ mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with
+ --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or
+ B (or both) instead.
+ (merge 39f2e01 jc/maint-log-grep-all-match later to maint).
+
+ * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of
+ lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having
+ to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language
+ is English.
+ (merge 218adaa nd/maint-diffstat-summary later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
+ "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
+ issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
+ much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
+ (merge 8556646 dj/fetch-all-tags later to maint).
+
+ * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
+ "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
+ (merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint).
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it
+ inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which
+ caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle.
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
+ (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
+ then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
+ order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
+ expects.
+ (merge a73e22e mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order later to maint).
+
+ * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
+ (merge f9c75d8 jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used
+ together, misdetected branches.
+ (merge 21ef5df pw/p4-use-client-spec-branch-detection later to maint).
+
+ * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
+ localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
+ branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
+ (merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint).
+
+ * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
+ them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
+ files that we cannot read.
+
+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
+ asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
+ guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
+ tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
+ please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
+ certainly not what the user meant.
+ (merge 6183749 sb/send-email-reconfirm-fix later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index a26d245ab4..1273a85c8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ifndef::git-asciidoc-no-roff[]
# v1.72 breaks with this because it replaces dots not in roff requests.
[listingblock]
<example><title>{title}</title>
-<literallayout>
+<literallayout class="monospaced">
ifdef::doctype-manpage[]
&#10;.ft C&#10;
endif::doctype-manpage[]
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ifdef::doctype-manpage[]
# The following two small workarounds insert a simple paragraph after screen
[listingblock]
<example><title>{title}</title>
-<literallayout>
+<literallayout class="monospaced">
|
</literallayout><simpara></simpara>
{title#}</example>
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a95e5a4ac9..11f320b962 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ core.whitespace::
* `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
error (enabled by default).
-* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more
- space characters as an error (not enabled by default).
+* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space
+ characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
+ default).
* `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of
the line as an error (not enabled by default).
* `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
@@ -1210,8 +1211,16 @@ gitweb.snapshot::
grep.lineNumber::
If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
+grep.patternType::
+ Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
+ 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp',
+ '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the
+ value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
+
grep.extendedRegexp::
- If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default.
+ If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
+ option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
+ other than 'default'.
gpg.program::
Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 39d326abc6..b4d6476ac8 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
--depth=<depth>::
Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
`git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1])
- by the specified number of commits.
+ to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote
+ branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
ifndef::git-pull[]
--dry-run::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 9c1d395722..fd9e36b99f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Configuration
The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a
file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
+those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 47235bea04..45a225e0aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--column[=<options>] | --no-column]
[(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [<commit>]] [<pattern>...]
'git branch' [--set-upstream | --track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>]
+'git branch' (--set-upstream-to=<upstream> | -u <upstream>) [<branchname>]
+'git branch' --unset-upstream [<branchname>]
'git branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch>
'git branch' (-d | -D) [-r] <branchname>...
'git branch' --edit-description [<branchname>]
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from
the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
`branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be
overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options, and
-changed later using `git branch --set-upstream`.
+changed later using `git branch --set-upstream-to`.
With a `-m` or `-M` option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match
@@ -129,11 +131,13 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode.
use `git branch --list <pattern>` to list matching branches.
-v::
+-vv::
--verbose::
When in list mode,
show sha1 and commit subject line for each head, along with
relationship to upstream branch (if any). If given twice, print
- the name of the upstream branch, as well.
+ the name of the upstream branch, as well (see also `git remote
+ show <remote>`).
-q::
--quiet::
@@ -173,6 +177,16 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
like `--track` would when creating the branch, except that where
branch points to is not changed.
+-u <upstream>::
+--set-upstream-to=<upstream>::
+ Set up <branchname>'s tracking information so <upstream> is
+ considered <branchname>'s upstream branch. If no <branchname>
+ is specified, then it defaults to the current branch.
+
+--unset-upstream::
+ Remove the upstream information for <branchname>. If no branch
+ is specified it defaults to the current branch.
+
--edit-description::
Open an editor and edit the text to explain what the branch is
for, to be used by various other commands (e.g. `request-pull`).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 63a251612a..7958a47006 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2
('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths.
--b::
+-b <new_branch>::
Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at
<start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
--B::
+-B <new_branch>::
Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>;
if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is
equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
<commit> is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section
below for details.
---orphan::
+--orphan <new_branch>::
Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from
<start_point> and switch to it. The first commit made on this
new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new
@@ -367,6 +367,18 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3>
<2> take a file out of another commit
<3> restore hello.c from the index
+
+If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index,
+you can say
++
+------------
+$ git checkout -- '*.c'
+------------
++
+Note the quotes around `*.c`. The file `hello.c` will also be
+checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree,
+because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index
+(not in the working tree by the shell).
++
If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
You should instead write:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 0e170a51ca..c205d2363e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ effect to your index in a row.
previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
+--allow-empty-message::
+ By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
+ This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
+ messages to be cherry picked.
+
--keep-redundant-commits::
If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
current history, it will become empty. By default these
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 79fb984144..9f42c0d0e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ OPTIONS
Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild
everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitignore[5]
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 4622297ec9..9594ac8e9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -389,8 +389,10 @@ DISCUSSION
Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.
-Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line
-on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body.
+The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated
+as the commit title, and that title is used throughout git.
+For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a commit into email, and it uses
+the title on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body.
include::i18n.txt[]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 2d6ef32a08..eaea079165 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -54,16 +54,16 @@ configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global',
'--file <filename>' can be used to tell the command to write to
that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default).
-This command will fail (with exit code ret) if:
+This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit
+codes are:
. The config file is invalid (ret=3),
. can not write to the config file (ret=4),
. no section or name was provided (ret=2),
. the section or key is invalid (ret=1),
. you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),
-. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5),
-. you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6), or
-. you use '--global' option without $HOME being properly set (ret=128).
+. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or
+. you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6).
On success, the command returns the exit code 0.
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ Given a .git/config like this:
; Proxy settings
[core]
- gitproxy="proxy-command" for kernel.org
+ gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
you can set the filemode to true with
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use
------------
-% git config core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
+% git config --add core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
------------
An example to use customized color from the configuration in your
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt
index 11edc5a173..d15db42d43 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache--daemon.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential-cache--daemon(1)
NAME
----
-git-credential-cache--daemon - temporarily store user credentials in memory
+git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in memory
SYNOPSIS
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
index f3d09c5d51..eeff5fa989 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential-cache(1)
NAME
----
-git-credential-cache - helper to temporarily store passwords in memory
+git-credential-cache - Helper to temporarily store passwords in memory
SYNOPSIS
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
index 31093467d1..b27c03c361 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-credential-store(1)
NAME
----
-git-credential-store - helper to store credentials on disk
+git-credential-store - Helper to store credentials on disk
SYNOPSIS
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index e8f757704c..7e5098a95e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--reuseaddr] [--detach] [--pid-file=<file>]
[--enable=<service>] [--disable=<service>]
[--allow-override=<service>] [--forbid-override=<service>]
+ [--access-hook=<path>]
[--inetd | [--listen=<host_or_ipaddr>] [--port=<n>] [--user=<user> [--group=<group>]]
[<directory>...]
@@ -171,6 +172,21 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning
errors are not enabled, all errors report "access denied" to the
client. The default is --no-informative-errors.
+--access-hook=<path>::
+ Every time a client connects, first run an external command
+ specified by the <path> with service name (e.g. "upload-pack"),
+ path to the repository, hostname (%H), canonical hostname
+ (%CH), ip address (%IP), and tcp port (%P) as its command line
+ arguments. The external command can decide to decline the
+ service by exiting with a non-zero status (or to allow it by
+ exiting with a zero status). It can also look at the $REMOTE_ADDR
+ and $REMOTE_PORT environment variables to learn about the
+ requestor when making this decision.
++
+The external command can optionally write a single line to its
+standard output to be sent to the requestor as an error message when
+it declines the service.
+
<directory>::
A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless
--strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 039cce2e98..72d6bb612b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ OPTIONS
--all::
Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
- found in `.git/refs/`. This option enables matching
+ found in `refs/` namespace. This option enables matching
any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag.
--tags::
Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag
- found in `.git/refs/tags`. This option enables matching
+ found in `refs/tags` namespace. This option enables matching
a lightweight (non-annotated) tag.
--contains::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index 31fc2e3aed..73ca7025a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`.
--tool-help::
Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`.
+--symlinks::
+--no-symlinks::
+ 'git difftool''s default behavior is create symlinks to the
+ working tree when run in `--dir-diff` mode.
++
+ Specifying `--no-symlinks` instructs 'git difftool' to create
+ copies instead. `--no-symlinks` is the default on Windows.
+
-x <command>::
--extcmd=<command>::
Specify a custom command for viewing diffs.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 2620d28b4b..6603a7ab73 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ OPTIONS
See ``Date Formats'' below for details about which formats
are supported, and their syntax.
+-- done::
+ Terminate with error if there is no 'done' command at the
+ end of the stream.
+
--force::
Force updating modified existing branches, even if doing
so would cause commits to be lost (as the new commit does
@@ -1047,7 +1051,9 @@ done::
Error out if the stream ends without a 'done' command.
Without this feature, errors causing the frontend to end
abruptly at a convenient point in the stream can go
- undetected.
+ undetected. This may occur, for example, if an import
+ front end dies in mid-operation without emitting SIGTERM
+ or SIGKILL at its subordinate git fast-import instance.
`option`
~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 81f58234a7..e2301f5c01 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ changes, which would normally have no effect. Nevertheless, this may be
useful in the future for compensating for some git bugs or such,
therefore such a usage is permitted.
-*NOTE*: This command honors `.git/info/grafts` and `.git/refs/replace/`.
+*NOTE*: This command honors `.git/info/grafts` file and refs in
+the `refs/replace/` namespace.
If you have any grafts or replacement refs defined, running this command
will make them permanent.
@@ -303,6 +304,11 @@ committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly
and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2
as their parents instead of the merge commit.
+*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted
+by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want
+to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the
+interactive mode of 'git rebase'.
+
You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--msg-filter`. For
example, 'git svn-id' strings in a repository created by 'git svn' can
be removed this way:
@@ -313,11 +319,6 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter '
'
-------------------------------------------------------
-To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
-range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will
-point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range
-will print.
-
If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none
of which is a merge), use this command:
@@ -328,11 +329,10 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter '
' HEAD~10..HEAD
--------------------------------------------------------
-*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted
-by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want
-to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the
-interactive mode of 'git rebase'.
-
+To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision
+range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will
+point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range
+will print.
Consider this history:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index c872b883ba..db55a4e0bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -102,9 +102,10 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`,
and `date` to extract the named component.
The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`.
-Its first line is `contents:subject`, the remaining lines
-are `contents:body` and the optional GPG signature
-is `contents:signature`.
+Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation
+of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line. The next
+line is 'contents:body', where body is all of the lines after the first
+blank line. Finally, the optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`.
For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 04c7346e3e..6d43f56279 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -58,10 +58,13 @@ output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified.
If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>. Otherwise
they are created in the current working directory.
-By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] First Line" and
-the subject when multiple patches are output is "[PATCH n/m] First
-Line". To force 1/1 to be added for a single patch, use `-n`. To omit
-patch numbers from the subject, use `-N`.
+By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by
+the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank
+line (see the DISCUSSION section of linkgit:git-commit[1]).
+
+When multiple patches are output, the subject prefix will instead be
+"[PATCH n/m] ". To force 1/1 to be added for a single patch, use `-n`.
+To omit patch numbers from the subject, use `-N`.
If given `--thread`, `git-format-patch` will generate `In-Reply-To` and
`References` headers to make the second and subsequent patch mails appear
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index bbb25da2dd..da348fc942 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ OPTIONS
An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace.
+
If no objects are given, 'git fsck' defaults to using the
-index file, all SHA1 references in .git/refs/*, and all reflogs (unless
---no-reflogs is given) as heads.
+index file, all SHA1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
+(unless --no-reflogs is given) as heads.
--unreachable::
Print out objects that exist but that aren't reachable from any
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 3bec036883..cfecf848fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -42,8 +42,16 @@ CONFIGURATION
grep.lineNumber::
If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
+grep.patternType::
+ Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
+ 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp',
+ '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the
+ value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
+
grep.extendedRegexp::
- If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default.
+ If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
+ option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
+ other than 'default'.
OPTIONS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 1f906208f9..585dac40ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ each commit introduces are shown.
OPTIONS
-------
--<n>::
- Limits the number of commits to show.
- Note that this is a commit limiting option, see below.
-
<since>..<until>::
Show only commits between the named two commits. When
either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to
@@ -137,6 +133,8 @@ Examples
This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all
topic branches when staying on a single integration branch.
+`git log -3`::
+ Limits the number of commits to show to 3.
Discussion
----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
index c406a11001..d54932889f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-lost-found.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ $ gitk $(cd .git/lost-found/commit && echo ??*)
------------
After making sure you know which the object is the tag you are looking
-for, you can reconnect it to your regular .git/refs hierarchy.
+for, you can reconnect it to your regular `refs` hierarchy by using
+the `update-ref` command.
------------
$ git cat-file -t 1ef2b196
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
index 7a9b86a58a..774de5e9d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ OPTIONS
it successfully talked with the remote repository, whether it
found any matching refs.
+--get-url::
+ Expand the URL of the given remote repository taking into account any
+ "url.<base>.insteadOf" config setting (See linkgit:git-config[1]) and
+ exit without talking to the remote.
+
<repository>::
Location of the repository. The shorthand defined in
$GIT_DIR/branches/ can be used. Use "." (dot) to list references in
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
index b295bf8330..87842e33f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>...
'git merge-base' [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>...
+'git merge-base' --is-ancestor <commit> <commit>
'git merge-base' --independent <commit>...
DESCRIPTION
@@ -50,6 +51,12 @@ from linkgit:git-show-branch[1] when used with the `--merge-base` option.
from any other. This mimics the behavior of 'git show-branch
--independent'.
+--is-ancestor::
+ Check if the first <commit> is an ancestor of the second <commit>,
+ and exit with status 0 if true, or with status 1 if not.
+ Errors are signaled by a non-zero status that is not 1.
+
+
OPTIONS
-------
-a::
@@ -110,6 +117,27 @@ both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B. Neither one is better than
the other (both are 'best' merge bases). When the `--all` option is not given,
it is unspecified which best one is output.
+A common idiom to check "fast-forward-ness" between two commits A
+and B is (or at least used to be) to compute the merge base between
+A and B, and check if it is the same as A, in which case, A is an
+ancestor of B. You will see this idiom used often in older scripts.
+
+ A=$(git rev-parse --verify A)
+ if test "$A" = "$(git merge-base A B)"
+ then
+ ... A is an ancestor of B ...
+ fi
+
+In modern git, you can say this in a more direct way:
+
+ if git merge-base --is-ancestor A B
+ then
+ ... A is an ancestor of B ...
+ fi
+
+instead.
+
+
See also
--------
linkgit:git-rev-list[1],
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index d7207bd9b9..6b563c500f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`.
Otherwise, 'git mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the
success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
+--tool-help::
+ Print a list of merge tools that may be used with `--tool`.
+
-y::
--no-prompt::
Don't prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index 8228f33e3f..beff6229c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ All commands except clone accept these options.
--git-dir <dir>::
Set the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable. See linkgit:git[1].
---verbose::
+--verbose, -v::
Provide more progress information.
Sync options
@@ -269,6 +269,24 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior.
Export tags from git as p4 labels. Tags found in git are applied
to the perforce working directory.
+--dry-run, -n::
+ Show just what commits would be submitted to p4; do not change
+ state in git or p4.
+
+--prepare-p4-only::
+ Apply a commit to the p4 workspace, opening, adding and deleting
+ files in p4 as for a normal submit operation. Do not issue the
+ final "p4 submit", but instead print a message about how to
+ submit manually or revert. This option always stops after the
+ first (oldest) commit. Git tags are not exported to p4.
+
+--conflict=(ask|skip|quit)::
+ Conflicts can occur when applying a commit to p4. When this
+ happens, the default behavior ("ask") is to prompt whether to
+ skip this commit and continue, or quit. This option can be used
+ to bypass the prompt, causing conflicting commits to be automatically
+ skipped, or to quit trying to apply commits, without prompting.
+
Rebase options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These options can be used to modify 'git p4 rebase' behavior.
@@ -519,6 +537,10 @@ git-p4.labelExportRegexp::
Only p4 labels matching this regular expression will be exported. The
default value is '[a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+$'.
+git-p4.conflict::
+ Specify submit behavior when a conflict with p4 is found, as per
+ --conflict. The default behavior is 'ask'.
+
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
----------------------
* Changesets from p4 are imported using git fast-import.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
index 10afd4edfe..f131677478 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
Traditionally, tips of branches and tags (collectively known as
-'refs') were stored one file per ref under `$GIT_DIR/refs`
+'refs') were stored one file per ref in a (sub)directory
+under `$GIT_DIR/refs`
directory. While many branch tips tend to be updated often,
most tags and some branch tips are never updated. When a
repository has hundreds or thousands of tags, this
@@ -22,13 +23,14 @@ one-file-per-ref format both wastes storage and hurts
performance.
This command is used to solve the storage and performance
-problem by stashing the refs in a single file,
+problem by storing the refs in a single file,
`$GIT_DIR/packed-refs`. When a ref is missing from the
-traditional `$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy, it is looked up in this
+traditional `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory hierarchy, it is looked
+up in this
file and used if found.
Subsequent updates to branches always create new files under
-`$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy.
+`$GIT_DIR/refs` directory hierarchy.
A recommended practice to deal with a repository with too many
refs is to pack its refs with `--all --prune` once, and
@@ -57,6 +59,15 @@ a repository with many branches of historical interests.
The command usually removes loose refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs`
hierarchy after packing them. This option tells it not to.
+
+BUGS
+----
+
+Older documentation written before the packed-refs mechanism was
+introduced may still say things like ".git/refs/heads/<branch> file
+exists" when it means "branch <branch> exists".
+
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index defb544ed0..67fa5ee195 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
:git-pull: 1
+-r::
--rebase::
Rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after
fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index a308f4c79f..e8c396b5f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git remote' [-v | --verbose]
'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--tags|--no-tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url>
'git remote rename' <old> <new>
-'git remote rm' <name>
+'git remote remove' <name>
'git remote set-head' <name> (-a | -d | <branch>)
'git remote set-branches' [--add] <name> <branch>...
'git remote set-url' [--push] <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>]
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ In case <old> and <new> are the same, and <old> is a file under
`$GIT_DIR/remotes` or `$GIT_DIR/branches`, the remote is converted to
the configuration file format.
+'remove'::
'rm'::
Remove the remote named <name>. All remote-tracking branches and
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 17df525275..51131d0858 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -14,14 +14,13 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Adds a 'replace' reference in `.git/refs/replace/`
+Adds a 'replace' reference in `refs/replace/` namespace.
The name of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the object that is
replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the
replacement object.
-Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist in
-`.git/refs/replace/` directory.
+Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist.
Replacement references will be used by default by all git commands
except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
index 01d8417316..afeb4cdf16 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Summarizes 'git log' output in a format suitable for inclusion
-in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and
-the first line of the commit message will be shown.
+in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and title.
Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index fbbbcb282c..2de7bf0900 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,11 @@ submodule with the `--init` option.
+
If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the
registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within.
++
+If `--force` is specified, the submodule will be checked out (using
+`git checkout --force` if appropriate), even if the commit specified in the
+index of the containing repository already matches the commit checked out in
+the submodule.
summary::
Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
@@ -210,7 +215,9 @@ OPTIONS
This option is only valid for add and update commands.
When running add, allow adding an otherwise ignored submodule path.
When running update, throw away local changes in submodules when
- switching to a different commit.
+ switching to a different commit; and always run a checkout operation
+ in the submodule, even if the commit listed in the index of the
+ containing repository matches the commit checked out in the submodule.
--cached::
This option is only valid for status and summary commands. These
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index e36a7c3d1e..247534e908 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Add a tag reference in `.git/refs/tags/`, unless `-d/-l/-v` is given
+Add a tag reference in `refs/tags/`, unless `-d/-l/-v` is given
to delete, list or verify tags.
-Unless `-f` is given, the tag to be created must not yet exist in the
-`.git/refs/tags/` directory.
+Unless `-f` is given, the named tag must not yet exist.
If one of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <key-id>` is passed, the command
creates a 'tag' object, and requires a tag message. Unless
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 27da0eb209..6710cb0a41 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -22,18 +22,17 @@ unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
See linkgit:gittutorial[7] to get started, then see
-link:everyday.html[Everyday Git] for a useful minimum set of commands, and
-"man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. CVS users may
-also want to read linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]. See
-the link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] for a more in-depth
-introduction.
+link:everyday.html[Everyday Git] for a useful minimum set of
+commands. The link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] has a more
+in-depth introduction.
-The '<command>' is either a name of a Git command (see below) or an alias
-as defined in the configuration file (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+After you mastered the basic concepts, you can come back to this
+page to learn what commands git offers. You can learn more about
+individual git commands with "git help command". linkgit:gitcli[7]
+manual page gives you an overview of the command line command syntax.
-Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git
-documentation can be viewed at
-`http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html`.
+Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git documentation
+can be viewed at `http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html`.
ifdef::stalenotes[]
[NOTE]
@@ -44,14 +43,17 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v1.7.12/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12]
+* link:v1.7.12.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.1]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt[1.7.12.1],
link:RelNotes/1.7.12.txt[1.7.12].
-* link:v1.7.11.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.5]
+* link:v1.7.11.7/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.7]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt[1.7.11.7],
+ link:RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt[1.7.11.6],
link:RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt[1.7.11.5],
link:RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt[1.7.11.4],
link:RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt[1.7.11.3],
@@ -411,24 +413,6 @@ help ...`.
linkgit:git-replace[1] for more information.
-FURTHER DOCUMENTATION
----------------------
-
-See the references above to get started using git. The following is
-probably more detail than necessary for a first-time user.
-
-The link:user-manual.html#git-concepts[git concepts chapter of the
-user-manual] and linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] both provide
-introductions to the underlying git architecture.
-
-See linkgit:gitworkflows[7] for an overview of recommended workflows.
-
-See also the link:howto-index.html[howto] documents for some useful
-examples.
-
-The internals are documented in the
-link:technical/api-index.html[GIT API documentation].
-
GIT COMMANDS
------------
@@ -848,6 +832,29 @@ The index is also capable of storing multiple entries (called "stages")
for a given pathname. These stages are used to hold the various
unmerged version of a file when a merge is in progress.
+FURTHER DOCUMENTATION
+---------------------
+
+See the references in the "description" section to get started
+using git. The following is probably more detail than necessary
+for a first-time user.
+
+The link:user-manual.html#git-concepts[git concepts chapter of the
+user-manual] and linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] both provide
+introductions to the underlying git architecture.
+
+See linkgit:gitworkflows[7] for an overview of recommended workflows.
+
+See also the link:howto-index.html[howto] documents for some useful
+examples.
+
+The internals are documented in the
+link:technical/api-index.html[GIT API documentation].
+
+Users migrating from CVS may also want to
+read linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7].
+
+
Authors
-------
Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently maintained by Junio
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index c693bfb497..99ed04d7ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in
macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to:
------------
-[attr]binary -diff -text
+[attr]binary -diff -merge -text
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index ea17f7a53b..f6ba90c2da 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -37,11 +37,28 @@ arguments. Here are the rules:
file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
disambiguate.
-
++
When writing a script that is expected to handle random user-input, it is
a good practice to make it explicit which arguments are which by placing
disambiguating `--` at appropriate places.
+ * Many commands allow wildcards in paths, but you need to protect
+ them from getting globbed by the shell. These two mean different
+ things:
++
+--------------------------------
+$ git checkout -- *.c
+$ git checkout -- \*.c
+--------------------------------
++
+The former lets your shell expand the fileglob, and you are asking
+the dot-C files in your working tree to be overwritten with the version
+in the index. The latter passes the `*.c` to Git, and you are asking
+the paths in the index that match the pattern to be checked out to your
+working tree. After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will _not_
+see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the latter
+you will.
+
Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are
scripting git:
@@ -62,6 +79,14 @@ scripting git:
`git log -1 HEAD` but write `git log -1 HEAD --`; the former will not work
if you happen to have a file called `HEAD` in the work tree.
+ * many commands allow a long option "--option" to be abbreviated
+ only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option
+ whose name begins with "opt", you may be able to spell "--opt" to
+ invoke the "--option" flag), but you should fully spell them out
+ when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a
+ new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. "--optimize",
+ to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique.
+
ENHANCED OPTION PARSER
----------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 9d893369a0..5325c5a7d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -956,12 +956,11 @@ $ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch
------------------------------------------------
The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches
-and the first line of the commit log message from their
-top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch
-(notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first column for
-the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the
+with the titles of their top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on
+`master` branch (notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first
+column for the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the
`master` branch, and the second column for the `mybranch`
-branch. Three commits are shown along with their log messages.
+branch. Three commits are shown along with their titles.
All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`*`
shows an ordinary commit on the current branch, `-` is a merge commit), which
means they are now part of the `master` branch. Only the "Some
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index c1f692a71e..96639e02bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -41,18 +41,24 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
variable 'core.excludesfile'.
Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to
-be used. Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to
-other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want
-to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. Patterns which are
-specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared
-with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside
-the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into
-the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. Patterns which a user wants git to
-ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by
-the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
-`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is
-$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty,
-$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead.
+be used.
+
+ * Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to
+ other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want
+ to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file.
+
+ * Patterns which are
+ specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared
+ with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside
+ the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into
+ the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file.
+
+ * Patterns which a user wants git to
+ ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by
+ the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
+ `core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is
+ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or
+ empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead.
The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index dee050567e..f1cb6f3be6 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,11 @@ them to the index, and commit, all in one step.
A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to
begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more
-thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for
-example, use the first line on the Subject: line and the rest of the
-commit in the body.
+thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
+message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
+throughout git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a
+commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
+rest of the commit in the body.
Git tracks content not files
----------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 595a3cf1a7..66db80296f 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ ours;;
This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by
favoring 'our' version. Changes from the other tree that do not
conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result.
+ For a binary file, the entire contents are taken from our side.
+
This should not be confused with the 'ours' merge strategy, which does not
even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything
the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
theirs;;
- This is opposite of 'ours'.
+ This is the opposite of 'ours'.
patience;;
With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index e3d8a83b23..d9eddedc72 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%b': body
- '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
- '%N': commit notes
+- '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
+- '%G?': show either "G" for Good or "B" for Bad for a signed commit
+- '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit
- '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}`
- '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}`
- '%gn': reflog identity name
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 2a3dc8664f..5e499421a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -66,3 +66,7 @@ being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from
--[no-]standard-notes::
These options are deprecated. Use the above --notes/--no-notes
options instead.
+
+--show-signature::
+ Check the validity of a signed commit object by passing the signature
+ to `gpg --verify` and show the output.
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index d9b2b5b2e0..1fc2a18404 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -3,12 +3,20 @@ Commit Limiting
Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the
special notations explained in the description, additional commit
-limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit
-ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'.
+limiting may be applied.
+
+Using more options generally further limits the output (e.g.
+`--since=<date1>` limits to commits newer than `<date1>`, and using it
+with `--grep=<pattern>` further limits to commits whose log message
+has a line that matches `<pattern>`), unless otherwise noted.
+
+Note that these are applied before commit
+ordering and formatting options, such as `--reverse`.
--
--n 'number'::
+-<number>::
+-n <number>::
--max-count=<number>::
Limit the number of commits to output.
@@ -38,16 +46,22 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
--committer=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer
- header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ header lines that match the specified pattern (regular
+ expression). With more than one `--author=<pattern>`,
+ commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are
+ chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`).
--grep=<pattern>::
Limit the commits output to ones with log message that
- matches the specified pattern (regular expression).
+ matches the specified pattern (regular expression). With
+ more than one `--grep=<pattern>`, commits whose message
+ matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see
+ `--all-match`).
--all-match::
Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep,
- --author and --committer instead of ones that match at least one.
+ instead of ones that match at least one.
-i::
--regexp-ignore-case::
@@ -578,16 +592,33 @@ Commit Ordering
By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order.
---topo-order::
+--date-order::
+ Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but
+ otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order.
- This option makes them appear in topological order (i.e.
- descendant commits are shown before their parents).
+--topo-order::
+ Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and
+ avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history
+ intermixed.
++
+For example, in a commit history like this:
++
+----------------------------------------------------------------
---date-order::
+ ---1----2----4----7
+ \ \
+ 3----5----6----8---
- This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no
- parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise things
- are still ordered in the commit timestamp order.
+----------------------------------------------------------------
++
+where the numbers denote the order of commit timestamps, `git
+rev-list` and friends with `--date-order` show the commits in the
+timestamp order: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
++
+With `--topo-order`, they would show 8 6 5 3 7 4 2 1 (or 8 7 4 2 6 5
+3 1); some older commits are shown before newer ones in order to
+avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed
+together.
--reverse::
@@ -619,10 +650,14 @@ These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
Only useful with '--objects'; print the object IDs that are not
in packs.
---no-walk::
+--no-walk[=(sorted|unsorted)]::
- Only show the given revs, but do not traverse their ancestors.
- This has no effect if a range is specified.
+ Only show the given commits, but do not traverse their ancestors.
+ This has no effect if a range is specified. If the argument
+ "unsorted" is given, the commits are show in the order they were
+ given on the command line. Otherwise (if "sorted" or no argument
+ was given), the commits are show in reverse chronological order
+ by commit time.
--do-walk::
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index dc0070bcb7..991fcd8f3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ when you run `git cherry-pick`.
+
Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from
the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
+While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is prefered as
+some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
'<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}'::
A ref followed by the suffix '@' with a date specification
@@ -213,6 +215,13 @@ of 'r1' and 'r2' and is defined as
It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
'r1' or 'r2' but not from both.
+In these two shorthands, you can omit one end and let it default to HEAD.
+For example, 'origin..' is a shorthand for 'origin..HEAD' and asks "What
+did I do since I forked from the origin branch?" Similarly, '..origin'
+is a shorthand for 'HEAD..origin' and asks "What did the origin do since
+I forked from them?" Note that '..' would mean 'HEAD..HEAD' which is an
+empty range that is both reachable and unreachable from HEAD.
+
Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit
and its parent commits exist. The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all
parents of 'r1'. 'r1{caret}!' includes commit 'r1' but excludes
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
index 1b7d8f140c..1a797812fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Functions
Format a string and push it onto the end of the array. This is a
convenience wrapper combining `strbuf_addf` and `argv_array_push`.
+`argv_array_pop`::
+ Remove the final element from the array. If there are no
+ elements in the array, do nothing.
+
`argv_array_clear`::
Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the
initial, empty state.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt
index 4a4bae8109..45d1c517cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ Functions
the array (but note that some operations below may lose this
ordering).
-`sha1_array_sort`::
- Sort the elements in the array.
-
`sha1_array_lookup`::
Perform a binary search of the array for a specific sha1.
If found, returns the offset (in number of elements) of the
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
index 5a0c14fceb..94d7a2bd99 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
string-list API
===============
-The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle sorted
-and unsorted string lists.
+The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle
+sorted and unsorted string lists. A "sorted" list is one whose
+entries are sorted by string value in `strcmp()` order.
The 'string_list' struct used to be called 'path_list', but was renamed
because it is not specific to paths.
@@ -20,8 +21,9 @@ If you need something advanced, you can manually malloc() the `items`
member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
`nr` and `alloc` members in that case, too.
-. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append` or
- `string_list_insert`.
+. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append`,
+ `string_list_append_nodup`, `string_list_insert`,
+ `string_list_split`, and/or `string_list_split_in_place`.
. Can check if a string is in the list using `string_list_has_string` or
`unsorted_string_list_has_string` and get it from the list using
@@ -29,18 +31,23 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the
. Can sort an unsorted list using `sort_string_list`.
+. Can remove duplicate items from a sorted list using
+ `string_list_remove_duplicates`.
+
. Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using
`unsorted_string_list_delete_item`.
+. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted
+ list using `filter_string_list`.
+
. Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`.
Example:
----
-struct string_list list;
+struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP;
int i;
-memset(&list, 0, sizeof(struct string_list));
string_list_append(&list, "foo");
string_list_append(&list, "bar");
for (i = 0; i < list.nr; i++)
@@ -60,6 +67,22 @@ Functions
* General ones (works with sorted and unsorted lists as well)
+`filter_string_list`::
+
+ Apply a function to each item in a list, retaining only the
+ items for which the function returns true. If free_util is
+ true, call free() on the util members of any items that have
+ to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are
+ retained.
+
+`string_list_longest_prefix`::
+
+ Return the longest string within a string_list that is a
+ prefix (in the sense of prefixcmp()) of the specified string,
+ or NULL if no such prefix exists. This function does not
+ require the string_list to be sorted (it does a linear
+ search).
+
`print_string_list`::
Dump a string_list to stdout, useful mainly for debugging purposes. It
@@ -96,15 +119,32 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`.
Look up a given string in the string_list, returning the containing
string_list_item. If the string is not found, NULL is returned.
+`string_list_remove_duplicates`::
+
+ Remove all but the first of consecutive entries that have the
+ same string value. If free_util is true, call free() on the
+ util members of any items that have to be deleted.
+
* Functions for unsorted lists only
`string_list_append`::
- Append a new string to the end of the string_list.
+ Append a new string to the end of the string_list. If
+ `strdup_string` is set, then the string argument is copied;
+ otherwise the new `string_list_entry` refers to the input
+ string.
+
+`string_list_append_nodup`::
+
+ Append a new string to the end of the string_list. The new
+ `string_list_entry` always refers to the input string, even if
+ `strdup_string` is set. This function can be used to hand
+ ownership of a malloc()ed string to a `string_list` that has
+ `strdup_string` set.
`sort_string_list`::
- Make an unsorted list sorted.
+ Sort the list's entries by string value in `strcmp()` order.
`unsorted_string_list_has_string`::
@@ -124,6 +164,25 @@ counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search.
is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the
items should be freed or not.
+`string_list_split`::
+`string_list_split_in_place`::
+
+ Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and
+ append the substrings to a `string_list`. If `maxsplit` is
+ non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times. Return the
+ number of substrings appended to the list.
++
+`string_list_split` requires a `string_list` that has `strdup_strings`
+set to true; it leaves the input string untouched and makes copies of
+the substrings in newly-allocated memory.
+`string_list_split_in_place` requires a `string_list` that has
+`strdup_strings` set to false; it splits the input string in place,
+overwriting the delimiter characters with NULs and creating new
+string_list_items that point into the original string (the original
+string must therefore not be modified or freed while the `string_list`
+is in use).
+
+
Data structures
---------------
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index 49cdc571cd..d51e20f352 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped.
----
If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute
-the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting
-at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
+the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set
+of commits start at the client's wants.
+
+The server writes 'shallow' lines for each
commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes
an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is
shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.conf b/Documentation/user-manual.conf
index 339b30919e..d87294de2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.conf
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.conf
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ifdef::backend-docbook[]
# "unbreak" docbook-xsl v1.68 for manpages. v1.69 works with or without this.
[listingblock]
<example><title>{title}</title>
-<literallayout>
+<literallayout class="monospaced">
|
</literallayout>
{title#}</example>
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 03d95dc290..85651b57ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1136,9 +1136,12 @@ Creating good commit messages
Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message
with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough
-description. Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use
-the first line on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the
-body.
+description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit
+message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used
+throughout git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a
+commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
+rest of the commit in the body.
+
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