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diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index cf5916fe8b..267dfe135d 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ man5dir=$(mandir)/man5 man7dir=$(mandir)/man7 # DESTDIR= -ASCIIDOC=asciidoc +ASCIIDOC = asciidoc ASCIIDOC_EXTRA = MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl +XMLTO = xmlto XMLTO_EXTRA = INSTALL?=install RM ?= rm -f @@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in %.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl $(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \ - xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $< + $(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $< %.xml : %.txt $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt index ebf20e22a7..d41984df0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.1.txt @@ -45,9 +45,3 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2 - git-fastimport --import-marks was broken; fixed. - A lot of documentation updates, clarifications and fixes. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.2-65-g996e2d6 -echo O=`git describe refs/heads/maint` -git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt index e1e24b3295..7d8fb85e1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt @@ -79,9 +79,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1 packfile. Also contains many documentation updates. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.0.1-78-g3632cfc -echo O=$(git describe maint) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt index 6f0bde156a..cd08d8174e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.3.txt @@ -26,7 +26,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1.2 * RPM binary package installed the html manpages in a wrong place. Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. - - --- -git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.2-33-gc789350.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt index 0ce6316d75..ccbad794c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.4.txt @@ -39,6 +39,3 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1.3 This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3. Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. - --- -git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.3.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt index adb7ccab0a..7b152a6fdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.1.txt @@ -278,9 +278,3 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments correctly. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6da3cc939 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git 1.7.12.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12.3 +--------------------- + + * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when + curl's multi interface was used. + + * It was possible to give specific paths for "asciidoc" and other + tools in the documentation toolchain, but not for "xmlto". + + * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed + output due to a typo. + + * The "-Xours" (and similarly -Xtheirs) backend option to "git + merge -s recursive" was ignored for binary files. Now it is + honored. + + * The "binary" synthetic attribute made "diff" to treat the path as + binary, but not "merge". + +Also contains many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..43883c14f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,267 @@ +Git v1.8.0 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the +behavior of the "git push" command. + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the +current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current +branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user +preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and +"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this +variable in this release. + +"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a +relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has +been introduced with a saner order of arguments. + + +Updates since v1.7.12 +--------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of + the logged-in user has been added. + + * An initial port to HP NonStop. + + * A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been + added. + + * When "git am" sanitizes the "Subject:" line, we strip the prefix from + "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left + the even less common "RE: subject" intact. Now we strip that too. + + * It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master", + but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to + integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly + unlikely what the user meant. The option is deprecated; use the + new "--set-upstream-to" (with a short-and-sweet "-u") option + instead. + + * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to + allow it to replay a commit without any log message. + + * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking + help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to + be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command + leaves the sign-off line in the log template. + + * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an + external command to decline service based on the client address, + repository path, etc. + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare + a 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. + + * Accumulated updates to "git gui" has been merged. + + * "git log -g" learned the "--grep-reflog=<pattern>" option to limit + its output to commits with a reflog message that matches the given + pattern. + + * "git merge-base" learned the "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is + an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code. + + * "git mergetool" now allows users to override the actual command used + with the mergetool.$name.cmd configuration variable even for built-in + mergetool backends. + + * "git rebase -i" learned the "--edit-todo" option to open an editor + to edit the instruction sheet. + + +Foreign Interface + + * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. + + * "git p4" learned the "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when + encountering a conflict during "p4 submit". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * 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 by mistake. A new test has been added to check this. + + * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly + simplified. + + * The test suite is run under MALLOC_CHECK_ when running with a glibc + that supports the feature. + + * The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output + for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in + monospace. + + * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that + reject parameters with trailing slash has been introduced. + + * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has + been added. + + * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and + defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an + appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder. + The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis + when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a + good name for a branch). + + * Many internal uses of a "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see + if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the + full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to + use less expensive checks. + + * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when + we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted + from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree". + + * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have + been marked for translation. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.7.12 +------------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the +maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes +to them for details). + + * 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. + + * 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. + + * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..." + header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly. + + * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream + (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not + honored correctly. + + * "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. + + * 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. + + * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is + unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option. + + * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be + localized, but the code to align it along with the names of + branches was counting in bytes, not in display columns. + + * "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. + + * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch + refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the + subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating + the whole point of specifying "only this branch". + + * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant + the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining + how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first + line" to "title". + + * "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. + + * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of + lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having + to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language + is English, and this change has been reverted. + + * "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 the combination "--all --tags" makes + much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). + + * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server + misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the + configuration in general, and has been reverted. + + * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which + is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on + its Accept-Encoding header. + + * "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when + curl's multi interface was used. + + * "git gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered + even under the "--quiet" option. + + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread + references" nor "Reload" updated what is shown as the + contents of it when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". + + * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that + mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with + --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or + B (or both) instead. + + * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" was ignored + for binary files. + + * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used + together, misdetected branches. + + * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give + progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + when run over the smart-http protocol. + + * When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in + the "git rebase -i" instruction sheet you were told that 'rebase' is not a + git subcommand from "git rebase --continue". + + * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was + "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove". + + * The interactive prompt that "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. + + * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give the timestamp correctly for + commits created without human readable name on the "committer" line. + + * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but + wasn't. + + * "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown + subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint + that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz". + + * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but + "git commit" didn't. + + * "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed + output due to a typo. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 122e3c4996..11f320b962 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1211,8 +1211,16 @@ gitweb.snapshot:: grep.lineNumber:: If set to true, enable '-n' option by default. +grep.patternType:: + Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended', + 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp', + '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the + value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior. + grep.extendedRegexp:: - If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. + If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This + option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value + other than 'default'. gpg.program:: Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 39d326abc6..b4d6476ac8 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ --depth=<depth>:: Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1]) - by the specified number of commits. + to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote + branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched. ifndef::git-pull[] --dry-run:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 9c1d395722..fd9e36b99f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Configuration The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to -those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]. +those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. EXAMPLES diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 47235bea04..45a225e0aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] [(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [<commit>]] [<pattern>...] 'git branch' [--set-upstream | --track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] +'git branch' (--set-upstream-to=<upstream> | -u <upstream>) [<branchname>] +'git branch' --unset-upstream [<branchname>] 'git branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> 'git branch' (-d | -D) [-r] <branchname>... 'git branch' --edit-description [<branchname>] @@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ branch so that 'git pull' will appropriately merge from the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration flag. That setting can be overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options, and -changed later using `git branch --set-upstream`. +changed later using `git branch --set-upstream-to`. With a `-m` or `-M` option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>. If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match @@ -129,11 +131,13 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. use `git branch --list <pattern>` to list matching branches. -v:: +-vv:: --verbose:: When in list mode, show sha1 and commit subject line for each head, along with relationship to upstream branch (if any). If given twice, print - the name of the upstream branch, as well. + the name of the upstream branch, as well (see also `git remote + show <remote>`). -q:: --quiet:: @@ -173,6 +177,16 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. like `--track` would when creating the branch, except that where branch points to is not changed. +-u <upstream>:: +--set-upstream-to=<upstream>:: + Set up <branchname>'s tracking information so <upstream> is + considered <branchname>'s upstream branch. If no <branchname> + is specified, then it defaults to the current branch. + +--unset-upstream:: + Remove the upstream information for <branchname>. If no branch + is specified it defaults to the current branch. + --edit-description:: Open an editor and edit the text to explain what the branch is for, to be used by various other commands (e.g. `request-pull`). diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 0e170a51ca..c205d2363e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ effect to your index in a row. previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits use `--keep-redundant-commits`. +--allow-empty-message:: + By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail. + This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty + messages to be cherry picked. + --keep-redundant-commits:: If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the current history, it will become empty. By default these diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 79fb984144..9f42c0d0e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ OPTIONS Remove only files ignored by git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files. +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:gitignore[5] + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-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 $REMOTE_PORT environment variables to learn about the + requestor when making this decision. ++ +The external command can optionally write a single line to its +standard output to be sent to the requestor as an error message when +it declines the service. + <directory>:: A directory to add to the whitelist of allowed directories. Unless --strict-paths is specified this will also include subdirectories diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt index 31fc2e3aed..73ca7025a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt @@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`. --tool-help:: Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`. +--symlinks:: +--no-symlinks:: + 'git difftool''s default behavior is create symlinks to the + working tree when run in `--dir-diff` mode. ++ + Specifying `--no-symlinks` instructs 'git difftool' to create + copies instead. `--no-symlinks` is the default on Windows. + -x <command>:: --extcmd=<command>:: Specify a custom command for viewing diffs. diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 3bec036883..cfecf848fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -42,8 +42,16 @@ CONFIGURATION grep.lineNumber:: If set to true, enable '-n' option by default. +grep.patternType:: + Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended', + 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp', + '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the + value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior. + grep.extendedRegexp:: - If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. + If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This + option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value + other than 'default'. OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index b295bf8330..87842e33f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git merge-base' [-a|--all] <commit> <commit>... 'git merge-base' [-a|--all] --octopus <commit>... +'git merge-base' --is-ancestor <commit> <commit> 'git merge-base' --independent <commit>... DESCRIPTION @@ -50,6 +51,12 @@ from linkgit:git-show-branch[1] when used with the `--merge-base` option. from any other. This mimics the behavior of 'git show-branch --independent'. +--is-ancestor:: + Check if the first <commit> is an ancestor of the second <commit>, + and exit with status 0 if true, or with status 1 if not. + Errors are signaled by a non-zero status that is not 1. + + OPTIONS ------- -a:: @@ -110,6 +117,27 @@ both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B. Neither one is better than the other (both are 'best' merge bases). When the `--all` option is not given, it is unspecified which best one is output. +A common idiom to check "fast-forward-ness" between two commits A +and B is (or at least used to be) to compute the merge base between +A and B, and check if it is the same as A, in which case, A is an +ancestor of B. You will see this idiom used often in older scripts. + + A=$(git rev-parse --verify A) + if test "$A" = "$(git merge-base A B)" + then + ... A is an ancestor of B ... + fi + +In modern git, you can say this in a more direct way: + + if git merge-base --is-ancestor A B + then + ... A is an ancestor of B ... + fi + +instead. + + See also -------- linkgit:git-rev-list[1], diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index d7207bd9b9..6b563c500f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`. Otherwise, 'git mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited. +--tool-help:: + Print a list of merge tools that may be used with `--tool`. + -y:: --no-prompt:: Don't prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index 8228f33e3f..beff6229c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ All commands except clone accept these options. --git-dir <dir>:: Set the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable. See linkgit:git[1]. ---verbose:: +--verbose, -v:: Provide more progress information. Sync options @@ -269,6 +269,24 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior. Export tags from git as p4 labels. Tags found in git are applied to the perforce working directory. +--dry-run, -n:: + Show just what commits would be submitted to p4; do not change + state in git or p4. + +--prepare-p4-only:: + Apply a commit to the p4 workspace, opening, adding and deleting + files in p4 as for a normal submit operation. Do not issue the + final "p4 submit", but instead print a message about how to + submit manually or revert. This option always stops after the + first (oldest) commit. Git tags are not exported to p4. + +--conflict=(ask|skip|quit):: + Conflicts can occur when applying a commit to p4. When this + happens, the default behavior ("ask") is to prompt whether to + skip this commit and continue, or quit. This option can be used + to bypass the prompt, causing conflicting commits to be automatically + skipped, or to quit trying to apply commits, without prompting. + Rebase options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 rebase' behavior. @@ -519,6 +537,10 @@ git-p4.labelExportRegexp:: Only p4 labels matching this regular expression will be exported. The default value is '[a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+$'. +git-p4.conflict:: + Specify submit behavior when a conflict with p4 is found, as per + --conflict. The default behavior is 'ask'. + IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS ---------------------- * Changesets from p4 are imported using git fast-import. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index cb97cc1c3b..22d2580129 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] `+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. It is used to specify with what <src> object the <dst> ref - in the remote repository is to be updated. + in the remote repository is to be updated. If not specified, + the behavior of the command is controlled by the `push.default` + configuration variable. + The <src> is often the name of the branch you would want to push, but it can be any arbitrary "SHA-1 expression", such as `master~4` or @@ -65,7 +67,8 @@ directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line -nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below). +nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below) and +no `push.default` configuration variable is set. --all:: Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all @@ -357,7 +360,8 @@ Examples `git push origin :`. + The default behavior of this command when no <refspec> is given can be -configured by setting the `push` option of the remote. +configured by setting the `push` option of the remote, or the `push.default` +configuration variable. + For example, to default to pushing only the current branch to `origin` use `git config remote.origin.push HEAD`. Any valid <refspec> (like diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index fd535b06ab..da067ecafa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [<upstream>] [<branch>] 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] --root [<branch>] -'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort +'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --edit-todo DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. --skip:: Restart the rebasing process by skipping the current patch. +--edit-todo:: + Edit the todo list during an interactive rebase. + -m:: --merge:: Use merging strategies to rebase. When the recursive (default) merge diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index d1d227a32d..4a89a12513 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,15 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.7.12.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.3] +* link:v1.8.0/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.0] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.0.txt[1.8.0], + +* link:v1.7.12.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.4] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.12.4.txt[1.7.12.4], link:RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt[1.7.12.3], link:RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt[1.7.12.2], link:RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt[1.7.12.1], diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index aff760ef7b..ba02d4de59 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ configuration file (you still need to enable this with the attribute mechanism, via `.gitattributes`). The following built in patterns are available: +- `ada` suitable for source code in the Ada language. + - `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references. - `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages. @@ -932,7 +934,7 @@ file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to: ------------ -[attr]binary -diff -text +[attr]binary -diff -merge -text ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index f6ba90c2da..3bc1500eda 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ ENHANCED OPTION PARSER From the git 1.5.4 series and further, many git commands (not all of them at the time of the writing though) come with an enhanced option parser. -Here is an exhaustive list of the facilities provided by this option parser. +Here is a list of the facilities provided by this option parser. Magic Options @@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ options. This means that you can for example use `git rm -rf` or `git clean -fdx`. +Abbreviating long options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Commands that support the enhanced option parser accepts unique +prefix of a long option as if it is fully spelled out, but use this +with a caution. For example, `git commit --amen` behaves as if you +typed `git commit --amend`, but that is true only until a later version +of Git introduces another option that shares the same prefix, +e.g `git commit --amenity" option. + + Separating argument from the option ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can write the mandatory option parameter to an option as a separate diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index c1f692a71e..1b82fe1969 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -41,18 +41,24 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome): variable 'core.excludesfile'. Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to -be used. Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to -other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want -to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. Patterns which are -specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared -with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside -the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into -the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. Patterns which a user wants git to -ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by -the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by -`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is -$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, -$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. +be used. + + * Patterns which should be version-controlled and distributed to + other repositories via clone (i.e., files that all developers will want + to ignore) should go into a `.gitignore` file. + + * Patterns which are + specific to a particular repository but which do not need to be shared + with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live inside + the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into + the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file. + + * Patterns which a user wants git to + ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by + the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by + `core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is + $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or + empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. The underlying git plumbing tools, such as 'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read @@ -68,11 +74,15 @@ PATTERN FORMAT for readability. - A line starting with # serves as a comment. + Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns + that begin with a hash. - - An optional prefix '!' which negates the pattern; any + - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources. + Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns + that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`". - If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the purpose of the following description, but it would only find diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 595a3cf1a7..66db80296f 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ ours;; This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by favoring 'our' version. Changes from the other tree that do not conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result. + For a binary file, the entire contents are taken from our side. + This should not be confused with the 'ours' merge strategy, which does not even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it. theirs;; - This is opposite of 'ours'. + This is the opposite of 'ours'. patience;; With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 1fc2a18404..ee497430cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`). +--grep-reflog=<pattern>:: + + Limit the commits output to ones with reflog entries that + match the specified pattern (regular expression). With + more than one `--grep-reflog`, commits whose reflog message + matches any of the given patterns are chosen. It is an + error to use this option unless `--walk-reflogs` is in use. + --grep=<pattern>:: Limit the commits output to ones with log message that @@ -58,6 +66,9 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] more than one `--grep=<pattern>`, commits whose message matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see `--all-match`). ++ +When `--show-notes` is in effect, the message from the notes as +if it is part of the log message. --all-match:: Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep, diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 69d996bc38..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 diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt index 4a4bae8109..45d1c517cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt @@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ Functions the array (but note that some operations below may lose this ordering). -`sha1_array_sort`:: - Sort the elements in the array. - `sha1_array_lookup`:: Perform a binary search of the array for a specific sha1. If found, returns the offset (in number of elements) of the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt index 5a0c14fceb..94d7a2bd99 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ string-list API =============== -The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle sorted -and unsorted string lists. +The string_list API offers a data structure and functions to handle +sorted and unsorted string lists. A "sorted" list is one whose +entries are sorted by string value in `strcmp()` order. The 'string_list' struct used to be called 'path_list', but was renamed because it is not specific to paths. @@ -20,8 +21,9 @@ If you need something advanced, you can manually malloc() the `items` member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the `nr` and `alloc` members in that case, too. -. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append` or - `string_list_insert`. +. Adds new items to the list, using `string_list_append`, + `string_list_append_nodup`, `string_list_insert`, + `string_list_split`, and/or `string_list_split_in_place`. . Can check if a string is in the list using `string_list_has_string` or `unsorted_string_list_has_string` and get it from the list using @@ -29,18 +31,23 @@ member (you need this if you add things later) and you should set the . Can sort an unsorted list using `sort_string_list`. +. Can remove duplicate items from a sorted list using + `string_list_remove_duplicates`. + . Can remove individual items of an unsorted list using `unsorted_string_list_delete_item`. +. Can remove items not matching a criterion from a sorted or unsorted + list using `filter_string_list`. + . Finally it should free the list using `string_list_clear`. Example: ---- -struct string_list list; +struct string_list list = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; int i; -memset(&list, 0, sizeof(struct string_list)); string_list_append(&list, "foo"); string_list_append(&list, "bar"); for (i = 0; i < list.nr; i++) @@ -60,6 +67,22 @@ Functions * General ones (works with sorted and unsorted lists as well) +`filter_string_list`:: + + Apply a function to each item in a list, retaining only the + items for which the function returns true. If free_util is + true, call free() on the util members of any items that have + to be deleted. Preserve the order of the items that are + retained. + +`string_list_longest_prefix`:: + + Return the longest string within a string_list that is a + prefix (in the sense of prefixcmp()) of the specified string, + or NULL if no such prefix exists. This function does not + require the string_list to be sorted (it does a linear + search). + `print_string_list`:: Dump a string_list to stdout, useful mainly for debugging purposes. It @@ -96,15 +119,32 @@ write `string_list_insert(...)->util = ...;`. Look up a given string in the string_list, returning the containing string_list_item. If the string is not found, NULL is returned. +`string_list_remove_duplicates`:: + + Remove all but the first of consecutive entries that have the + same string value. If free_util is true, call free() on the + util members of any items that have to be deleted. + * Functions for unsorted lists only `string_list_append`:: - Append a new string to the end of the string_list. + Append a new string to the end of the string_list. If + `strdup_string` is set, then the string argument is copied; + otherwise the new `string_list_entry` refers to the input + string. + +`string_list_append_nodup`:: + + Append a new string to the end of the string_list. The new + `string_list_entry` always refers to the input string, even if + `strdup_string` is set. This function can be used to hand + ownership of a malloc()ed string to a `string_list` that has + `strdup_string` set. `sort_string_list`:: - Make an unsorted list sorted. + Sort the list's entries by string value in `strcmp()` order. `unsorted_string_list_has_string`:: @@ -124,6 +164,25 @@ counterpart for sorted lists, which performs a binary search. is set. The third parameter controls if the `util` pointer of the items should be freed or not. +`string_list_split`:: +`string_list_split_in_place`:: + + Split a string into substrings on a delimiter character and + append the substrings to a `string_list`. If `maxsplit` is + non-negative, then split at most `maxsplit` times. Return the + number of substrings appended to the list. ++ +`string_list_split` requires a `string_list` that has `strdup_strings` +set to true; it leaves the input string untouched and makes copies of +the substrings in newly-allocated memory. +`string_list_split_in_place` requires a `string_list` that has +`strdup_strings` set to false; it splits the input string in place, +overwriting the delimiter characters with NULs and creating new +string_list_items that point into the original string (the original +string must therefore not be modified or freed while the `string_list` +is in use). + + Data structures --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 289019478d..1d15ee7e52 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be absent. -Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync -protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them: +Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp, +and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching +and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use +them). + +The following syntaxes may be used with them: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ |