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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt | 114 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cat-file.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-notes.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-read-tree.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-shell.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/githooks.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 3 |
20 files changed, 265 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a498fd6fdc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.10.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.10.4 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad4da8eb09 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.11.4 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.11.3 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8fa73cfce7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.12.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.12.4 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..afcae9c808 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.13.6 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.5 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt index bcfe78f59d..bec9186ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt @@ -91,4 +91,15 @@ Fixes since v2.14.1 * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the export-ignore attribute. + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt index 9b5c417b0e..6e432bf719 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean operation learned to show the progress meter. + * "git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be + used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and + friends. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -167,6 +171,30 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed. + * "git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also + can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support. Update + the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then + make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually + deprecate and remove the former. + + * "make style" runs git-clang-format to help developers by pointing + out coding style issues. + + * A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules + has been added. + (merge c514167df2 hv/mv-nested-submodules-test later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work + at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that + expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been + fixed. + + * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough + warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene). + + * Add a helper for DLL loading in anticipation for its need in a + future topic RSN. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -296,6 +324,85 @@ Fixes since v2.14 to match the behaviour of the former. (merge c818e74332 rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim later to maint). + * Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks + go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function, + which have been corrected. + (merge f48ecd38cb jk/write-in-full-fix later to maint). + + * "git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is". + (merge b3a8076e0d ks/help-alias-label later to maint). + + * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty + directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so. + This has been fixed. + (merge 4318094047 rs/archive-excluded-directory later to maint). + + * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC. + (merge c788c54cde tg/refs-allowed-flags later to maint). + + * The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been + slightly tweaked. + (merge 8c4b1a3593 ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line later to maint). + + * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by + reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to + use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been + corrected. + (merge afe2fab72c aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix later to maint). + + * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an + optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is + tagged has been implemented. + (merge 8376eb4a8f ls/travis-scriptify later to maint). + + * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e". + (merge 1a6d46895d tb/test-lint-echo-e later to maint). + + * Code cmp.std.c nitpick. + (merge ac7da78ede mh/for-each-string-list-item-empty-fix later to maint). + + * A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of + alternate object stores overrun the end of the string. + (merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint). + + * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13 + series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one + and did not work at all. This has been fixed. + (merge da769d2986 jk/describe-omit-some-refs later to maint). + + * "git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without + the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be + created. This has been corrected. + (merge b2c1ca6b4b ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger later to maint). + + * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which + has been corrected. + (merge cc0ea7c9e5 jk/diff-blob later to maint). + + * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did + not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has + been fixed. + (merge 9c03caca2c ik/userdiff-html-h-element-fix later to maint). + + * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced + garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not + hexadecimal. This has been fixed. + (merge c8cf423eab rs/mailinfo-qp-decode-fix later to maint). + + * The machinery to create xdelta used in pack files received the + sizes of the data in size_t, but lost the higher bits of them by + storing them in "unsigned int" during the computation, which is + fixed. + + * The delta format used in the packfile cannot reference data at + offset larger than what can be expressed in 4-byte, but the + generator for the data failed to make sure the offset does not + overflow. This has been corrected. + + * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly + written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case. + (merge c25d98b2a7 jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint). (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint). @@ -309,3 +416,10 @@ Fixes since v2.14 (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint). (merge 3bc4b8f7c7 bb/doc-eol-dirty later to maint). (merge c1bb33c99c jk/system-path-cleanup later to maint). + (merge ab46e6fc72 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint). + (merge f7a32dd97f kd/doc-for-each-ref later to maint). + (merge be94568bc7 ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix later to maint). + (merge 01e4be6c3d ks/test-readme-phrasofix later to maint). + (merge 217bb56d4f hn/typofix later to maint). + (merge c08fd6388c jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix later to maint). + (merge c3342b362e ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index e292737b9c..58f1e5c9c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ OPTIONS all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}". Note that in non-bare repositories, reflogs are usually - enabled by default by the `core.logallrefupdates` config option. + enabled by default by the `core.logAllRefUpdates` config option. The negated form `--no-create-reflog` only overrides an earlier `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of - `core.logallrefupdates`. + `core.logAllRefUpdates`. -f:: --force:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 204541c690..fb09cd69d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ newline. The available atoms are: The 40-hex object name of the object. `objecttype`:: - The type of of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports). + The type of the object (the same as `cat-file -t` reports). `objectsize`:: The size, in bytes, of the object (the same as `cat-file -s` diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index d6399c0af8..bd268a8fcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> ------------ + You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to -"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with a +"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, if exists, for the current branch. diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 26f19d3b07..c924c945ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -87,19 +87,23 @@ OPTIONS --match <pattern>:: Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, - excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to avoid - leaking private tags from the repository. If given multiple times, a - list of patterns will be accumulated, and tags matching any of the - patterns will be considered. Use `--no-match` to clear and reset the - list of patterns. + excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. If used with `--all`, it also + considers local branches and remote-tracking references matching the + pattern, excluding respectively "refs/heads/" and "refs/remotes/" + prefix; references of other types are never considered. If given + multiple times, a list of patterns will be accumulated, and tags + matching any of the patterns will be considered. Use `--no-match` to + clear and reset the list of patterns. --exclude <pattern>:: Do not consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, excluding - the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to narrow the tag space and - find only tags matching some meaningful criteria. If given multiple - times, a list of patterns will be accumulated and tags matching any - of the patterns will be excluded. When combined with --match a tag will - be considered when it matches at least one --match pattern and does not + the "refs/tags/" prefix. If used with `--all`, it also does not consider + local branches and remote-tracking references matching the pattern, + excluding respectively "refs/heads/" and "refs/remotes/" prefix; + references of other types are never considered. If given multiple times, + a list of patterns will be accumulated and tags matching any of the + patterns will be excluded. When combined with --match a tag will be + considered when it matches at least one --match pattern and does not match any of the --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear and reset the list of patterns. diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 9e5169aa64..bebdcdec5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--commit-filter <command>] [--tag-name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] [--prune-empty] [--original <namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force] - [--] [<rev-list options>...] + [--state-branch <branch>] [--] [<rev-list options>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit. directory or when there are already refs starting with 'refs/original/', unless forced. +--state-branch <branch>:: + This option will cause the mapping from old to new objects to + be loaded from named branch upon startup and saved as a new + commit to that branch upon exit, enabling incremental of large + trees. If '<branch>' does not exist it will be created. + <rev-list options>...:: Arguments for 'git rev-list'. All positive refs included by these options are rewritten. You may also specify options diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index bb370c9c7b..66b4e0a405 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl] [(--sort=<key>)...] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...] - [--points-at <object>] [(--merged | --no-merged) [<object>]] - [--contains [<object>]] [--no-contains [<object>]] + [--points-at=<object>] + (--merged[=<object>] | --no-merged[=<object>]) + [--contains[=<object>]] [--no-contains[=<object>]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -25,19 +26,25 @@ host language allowing their direct evaluation in that language. OPTIONS ------- -<count>:: +<pattern>...:: + If one or more patterns are given, only refs are shown that + match against at least one pattern, either using fnmatch(3) or + literally, in the latter case matching completely or from the + beginning up to a slash. + +--count=<count>:: By default the command shows all refs that match `<pattern>`. This option makes it stop after showing that many refs. -<key>:: +--sort=<key>:: A field name to sort on. Prefix `-` to sort in descending order of the value. When unspecified, `refname` is used. You may use the --sort=<key> option multiple times, in which case the last key becomes the primary key. -<format>:: +--format=<format>:: A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from a ref being shown and the object it points at. If `fieldname` is prefixed with an asterisk (`*`) and the ref points @@ -50,12 +57,6 @@ OPTIONS `xx`; for example `%00` interpolates to `\0` (NUL), `%09` to `\t` (TAB) and `%0a` to `\n` (LF). -<pattern>...:: - If one or more patterns are given, only refs are shown that - match against at least one pattern, either using fnmatch(3) or - literally, in the latter case matching completely or from the - beginning up to a slash. - --shell:: --perl:: --python:: @@ -65,24 +66,24 @@ OPTIONS the specified host language. This is meant to produce a scriptlet that can directly be `eval`ed. ---points-at <object>:: +--points-at=<object>:: Only list refs which points at the given object. ---merged [<object>]:: +--merged[=<object>]:: Only list refs whose tips are reachable from the specified commit (HEAD if not specified), incompatible with `--no-merged`. ---no-merged [<object>]:: +--no-merged[=<object>]:: Only list refs whose tips are not reachable from the specified commit (HEAD if not specified), incompatible with `--merged`. ---contains [<object>]:: +--contains[=<object>]:: Only list refs which contain the specified commit (HEAD if not specified). ---no-contains [<object>]:: +--no-contains[=<object>]:: Only list refs which don't contain the specified commit (HEAD if not specified). diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index be7db3048d..43677297f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ OPTIONS object that does not have notes attached to it. --stdin:: - Also read the object names to remove notes from from the standard + Also read the object names to remove notes from the standard input (there is no reason you cannot combine this with object names from the command line). diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index 02576d8c0a..72bd809fb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ Here are the "carry forward" rules, where "I" denotes the index, "clean" means that index and work tree coincide, and "exists"/"nothing" refer to the presence of a path in the specified commit: +.... I H M Result ------------------------------------------------------- 0 nothing nothing nothing (does not happen) @@ -217,6 +218,7 @@ refer to the presence of a path in the specified commit: 19 no no yes exists exists keep index 20 yes yes no exists exists use M 21 no yes no exists exists fail +.... In all "keep index" cases, the index entry stays as in the original index file. If the entry is not up to date, diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index b1293f24bb..0917b8207b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -235,6 +235,9 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status. --is-bare-repository:: When the repository is bare print "true", otherwise "false". +--is-shallow-repository:: + When the repository is shallow print "true", otherwise "false". + --resolve-git-dir <path>:: Check if <path> is a valid repository or a gitfile that points at a valid repository, and print the location of the diff --git a/Documentation/git-shell.txt b/Documentation/git-shell.txt index 2e30a3e42d..54cf2560be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shell.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shell.txt @@ -79,6 +79,22 @@ EOF $ chmod +x $HOME/git-shell-commands/no-interactive-login ---------------- +To enable git-cvsserver access (which should generally have the +`no-interactive-login` example above as a prerequisite, as creating +the git-shell-commands directory allows interactive logins): + +---------------- +$ cat >$HOME/git-shell-commands/cvs <<\EOF +if ! test $# = 1 && test "$1" = "server" +then + echo >&2 "git-cvsserver only handles \"server\"" + exit 1 +fi +exec git cvsserver server +EOF +$ chmod +x $HOME/git-shell-commands/cvs +---------------- + SEE ALSO -------- ssh(1), diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 543fb425ee..95e9f391d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. `core.logAllRefUpdates` in linkgit:git-config[1]. The negated form `--no-create-reflog` only overrides an earlier `--create-reflog`, but currently does not negate the setting of - `core.logallrefupdates`. + `core.logAllRefUpdates`. <tagname>:: The name of the tag to create, delete, or describe. diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index e19eba62cd..75c7dd9dea 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. + Version 4 performs a simple pathname compression that reduces index size by 30%-50% on large repositories, which results in faster load -time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in in 1.8.0 in +time. Version 4 is relatively young (first released in 1.8.0 in October 2012). Other Git implementations such as JGit and libgit2 may not support it yet. diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 1bb4f92d4d..5d3f45560e 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -127,11 +127,10 @@ help message found in the commented portion of the commit template. commit-msg ~~~~~~~~~~ -This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed -with the `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the -name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message. -Exiting with a non-zero status causes the 'git commit' to -abort. +This hook is invoked by 'git commit' and 'git merge', and can be +bypassed with the `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, +the name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message. +Exiting with a non-zero status causes the command to abort. The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can be used to normalize the message into some project standard format. It diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 2eb92b9327..a09d597463 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ 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 the opposite of 'ours'. + This is the opposite of 'ours'; note that, unlike 'ours', there is + no 'theirs' merge stragegy to confuse this merge option with. patience;; With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time |