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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 52 |
4 files changed, 67 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c18ca5d22 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.7.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.0 +-------------------- + + * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that + are not managed by git. + +Fixes since v1.7.0 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +echo O=$(git describe) +O=v1.7.0-36-gfaa3b47 +git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O.. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 2dc3a0583b..7103172ed3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ advice.*:: Advice on how to set your identity configuration when your information is guessed from the system username and domain name. Default: true. + + detachedHead:: + Advice shown when you used linkgit::git-checkout[1] to + move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create + a local branch after the fact. Default: true. -- core.fileMode:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 6764ff1886..19082b04eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -45,10 +45,7 @@ OPTIONS --max-pack-size=<n>:: Maximum size of each output packfile. - The default is 4 GiB as that is the maximum allowed - packfile size (due to file format limitations). Some - importers may wish to lower this, such as to ensure the - resulting packfiles fit on CDs. + The default is unlimited. --big-file-threshold=<n>:: Maximum size of a blob that fast-import will attempt to diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index 68bf4cad8b..44876fa703 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ The functions above do the following: `start_async`:: Run a function asynchronously. Takes a pointer to a `struct - async` that specifies the details and returns a pipe FD - from which the caller reads. See below for details. + async` that specifies the details and returns a set of pipe FDs + for communication with the function. See below for details. `finish_async`:: @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ stderr as follows: .in: The FD must be readable; it becomes child's stdin. .out: The FD must be writable; it becomes child's stdout. - .err > 0 is not supported. + .err: The FD must be writable; it becomes child's stderr. The specified FD is closed by start_command(), even if it fails to run the sub-process! @@ -180,17 +180,47 @@ The caller: struct async variable; 2. initializes .proc and .data; 3. calls start_async(); -4. processes the data by reading from the fd in .out; -5. closes .out; +4. processes communicates with proc through .in and .out; +5. closes .in and .out; 6. calls finish_async(). +The members .in, .out are used to provide a set of fd's for +communication between the caller and the callee as follows: + +. Specify 0 to have no file descriptor passed. The callee will + receive -1 in the corresponding argument. + +. Specify < 0 to have a pipe allocated; start_async() replaces + with the pipe FD in the following way: + + .in: Returns the writable pipe end into which the caller + writes; the readable end of the pipe becomes the function's + in argument. + + .out: Returns the readable pipe end from which the caller + reads; the writable end of the pipe becomes the function's + out argument. + + The caller of start_async() must close the returned FDs after it + has completed reading from/writing from them. + +. Specify a file descriptor > 0 to be used by the function: + + .in: The FD must be readable; it becomes the function's in. + .out: The FD must be writable; it becomes the function's out. + + The specified FD is closed by start_async(), even if it fails to + run the function. + The function pointer in .proc has the following signature: - int proc(int fd, void *data); + int proc(int in, int out, void *data); -. fd specifies a writable file descriptor to which the function must - write the data that it produces. The function *must* close this - descriptor before it returns. +. in, out specifies a set of file descriptors to which the function + must read/write the data that it needs/produces. The function + *must* close these descriptors before it returns. A descriptor + may be -1 if the caller did not configure a descriptor for that + direction. . data is the value that the caller has specified in the .data member of struct async. @@ -205,8 +235,8 @@ because this facility is implemented by a pipe to a forked process on UNIX, but by a thread in the same address space on Windows: . It cannot change the program's state (global variables, environment, - etc.) in a way that the caller notices; in other words, .out is the - only communication channel to the caller. + etc.) in a way that the caller notices; in other words, .in and .out + are the only communication channels to the caller. . It must not change the program's state that the caller of the facility also uses. |