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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 index 4088a166f5..b8f04af19f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -4,43 +4,6 @@ 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 @@ -49,6 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 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). @@ -57,7 +25,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 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 + * "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 @@ -65,6 +37,10 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 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). @@ -76,26 +52,83 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 * 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 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. - * "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 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/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index a95e5a4ac9..122e3c4996 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 diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 11cc7f0588..7958a47006 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -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-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-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 15e7ac80c0..e2301f5c01 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -304,6 +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: @@ -314,11 +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: @@ -329,11 +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-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-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 $GIT_DIR/branches/ can be used. Use "." (dot) to list references in diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index a308f4c79f..e8c396b5f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git remote' [-v | --verbose] 'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--tags|--no-tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url> 'git remote rename' <old> <new> -'git remote rm' <name> +'git remote remove' <name> 'git remote set-head' <name> (-a | -d | <branch>) 'git remote set-branches' [--add] <name> <branch>... 'git remote set-url' [--push] <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>] @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ In case <old> and <new> are the same, and <old> is a file under `$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-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.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index fab6e77e02..6710cb0a41 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,14 +43,16 @@ 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:v1.7.11.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.6] +* 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], 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/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/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/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 def1340ac7..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:: @@ -636,10 +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/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/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.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. + [[ignoring-files]] Ignoring files |