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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt82
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt101
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt150
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-daemon.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge-base.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcli.txt19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/revisions.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt4
17 files changed, 397 insertions, 91 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
index e548a59824..ba7d3c3966 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
@@ -4,31 +4,81 @@ Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.7.11.5
---------------------
-This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification.
-
- - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
documentation.
- - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
- but we didn't document it.
+ * "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.
- - 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.
+ * 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 "--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.
+ * 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
+ * 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.
+ * 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.
- - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+ * 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
+ * "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/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4088a166f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.7.12
+-------------------
+
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ documentation.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "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 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 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.
+
+ * "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 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 "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 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 send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
+ header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
+ SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
index e45788ef3e..2a8adca2a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ 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
---------------------
@@ -24,18 +28,44 @@ 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+
Foreign Interface
* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
+
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.
@@ -43,6 +73,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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.
+
+ * 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.
@@ -53,58 +102,49 @@ 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).
- * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
- (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
-
- * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
- example.
- (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).
-
- * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
- submodule was misspelt.
- (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).
-
- * 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.
-
- * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
- inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
- (merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint).
-
- * 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..."
- start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
- (merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint).
-
- * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
- files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
- (merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint).
-
- * 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.
- (merge 4b7f2fa bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection later to maint).
-
- * "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.
- (merge c479d14 jk/maint-null-in-trees later to maint).
-
- * 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 send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
- header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
- (merge b622d4d tr/maint-send-email-2047 later to maint).
-
- * 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.
- (merge 4d4b573 mm/die-with-dashdash-help 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.
- (merge cacfc09 js/gitweb-path-info-unquote 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/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 47235bea04..9c1d2f1781 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
@@ -173,6 +175,16 @@ 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-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 490868eb23..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.
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-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-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-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-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.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 463d567a87..fab6e77e02 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -48,9 +48,10 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here:
* release notes for
link:RelNotes/1.7.12.txt[1.7.12].
-* link:v1.7.11.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.5]
+* link:v1.7.11.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.6]
* release notes for
+ 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],
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 3e72a5d68e..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:
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index def1340ac7..918c1109f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'.
--
--n 'number'::
+-<number>::
+-n <number>::
--max-count=<number>::
Limit the number of commits to output.
@@ -636,10 +637,14 @@ 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.