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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt88
-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/branch.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/diff.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/fsck.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/gc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/gpg.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/pull.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clean.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fsck.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-http-backend.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reset.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt4
29 files changed, 173 insertions, 72 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 26a2342bea..ccac771d3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -341,12 +341,12 @@ clean:
$(RM) $(cmds_txt) $(mergetools_txt) *.made
$(RM) manpage-base-url.xsl
-$(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf
+$(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt asciidoc.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(TXT_TO_HTML) -d manpage -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
-$(OBSOLETE_HTML): %.html : %.txto asciidoc.conf
+$(OBSOLETE_HTML): %.html : %.txto asciidoc.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(TXT_TO_HTML) -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
@@ -354,16 +354,16 @@ $(OBSOLETE_HTML): %.html : %.txto asciidoc.conf
manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
$(QUIET_GEN)sed "s|@@MAN_BASE_URL@@|$(MAN_BASE_URL)|" $< > $@
-%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl
+%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl $(wildcard manpage*.xsl)
$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
$(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
-%.xml : %.txt asciidoc.conf
+%.xml : %.txt asciidoc.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(TXT_TO_XML) -d manpage -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
-user-manual.xml: user-manual.txt user-manual.conf
+user-manual.xml: user-manual.txt user-manual.conf asciidoctor-extensions.rb
$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(TXT_TO_XML) -d book -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
index 16d3110392..5673c064db 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to
complete more subcommand parameters.
+ * The final report from "git bisect" used to show the suspected
+ culprit using a raw "diff-tree", with which there is no output for
+ a merge commit. This has been updated to use a more modern and
+ human readable output that still is concise enough.
+
+ * "git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old "--preserve-merges"
+ option; the latter is now marked as deprecated.
+
+ * Error message given while cloning with --recurse-submodules has
+ been updated.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -47,6 +58,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "git prune" has been taught to take advantage of reachability
bitmap when able.
+ * The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to
+ use the parse-options API.
+
+ * Suggest GitGitGadget instead of submitGit as a way to submit
+ patches based on GitHub PR to us.
+
Fixes since v2.21
-----------------
@@ -85,6 +102,72 @@ Fixes since v2.21
ETAGS on.
(merge 92b88eba9f js/find-lib-h-with-ls-files-when-possible later to maint).
+ * "git rebase" that was reimplemented in C did not set ORIG_HEAD
+ correctly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge cbd29ead92 js/rebase-orig-head-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Dev support.
+ (merge f545737144 js/stress-test-ui-tweak later to maint).
+
+ * CFLAGS now can be tweaked when invoking Make while using
+ DEVELOPER=YesPlease; this did not work well before.
+ (merge 6d5d4b4e93 ab/makefile-help-devs-more later to maint).
+
+ * "git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift
+ the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into
+ unreachable and dangling. This is now enabled when dangling
+ objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be
+ overridden with the "--no-dangling" option).
+ (merge 8d8c2a5aef jk/fsck-doc later to maint).
+
+ * On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX),
+ the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after
+ detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal,
+ which led to a flakey test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during
+ the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we
+ check the return status from our write(2)s).
+ (merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update broke "is this object available to us?" check for
+ well-known objects like an empty tree (which should yield "yes",
+ even when there is no on-disk object for an empty tree), which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge f06ab027ef jk/virtual-objects-do-exist later to maint).
+
+ * The setup code has been cleaned up to avoid leaks around the
+ repository_format structure.
+ (merge e8805af1c3 ma/clear-repository-format later to maint).
+
+ * "git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config --get-color"
+ but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is
+ now fixed.
+ (merge cd8e7593b9 jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf later to maint).
+
+ * When the "clean" filter can reduce the size of a huge file in the
+ working tree down to a small "token" (a la Git LFS), there is no
+ point in allocating a huge scratch area upfront, but the buffer is
+ sized based on the original file size. The convert mechanism now
+ allocates very minimum and reallocates as it receives the output
+ from the clean filter process.
+ (merge 02156ab031 jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" uses the refs/rewritten/ hierarchy to store its
+ intermediate states, which inherently makes the hierarchy per
+ worktree, but it didn't quite work well.
+ (merge b9317d55a3 nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git log -L<from>,<to>:<path>" with "-s" did not suppress the patch
+ output as it should. This has been corrected.
+ (merge 05314efaea jk/line-log-with-patch later to maint).
+
+ * "git worktree add" used to do a "find an available name with stat
+ and then mkdir", which is race-prone. This has been fixed by using
+ mkdir and reacting to EEXIST in a loop.
+ (merge 7af01f2367 ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir later to maint).
+
+ * Build update for SHA-1 with collision detection.
+ (merge 07a20f569b jk/sha1dc later to maint).
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint).
(merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint).
@@ -99,3 +182,8 @@ Fixes since v2.21
(merge 716a5af812 rd/gc-prune-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 50b206371d js/untravis-windows later to maint).
(merge dbf47215e3 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint).
+ (merge 56cb2d30f8 dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev later to maint).
+ (merge 64eca306a2 ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge af91b0230c dl/ignore-docs later to maint).
+ (merge 59a06e947b ra/t3600-test-path-funcs later to maint).
+ (merge e041d0781b ar/t4150-remove-cruft later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
index ec83b4959e..0089e0cfb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoctor-extensions.rb
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ module Git
def process(parent, target, attrs)
if parent.document.basebackend? 'html'
prefix = parent.document.attr('git-relative-html-prefix')
- %(<a href="#{prefix}#{target}.html">#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</a>\n)
+ %(<a href="#{prefix}#{target}.html">#{target}(#{attrs[1]})</a>)
elsif parent.document.basebackend? 'docbook'
"<citerefentry>\n" \
"<refentrytitle>#{target}</refentrytitle>" \
"<manvolnum>#{attrs[1]}</manvolnum>\n" \
- "</citerefentry>\n"
+ "</citerefentry>"
end
end
end
diff --git a/Documentation/config/branch.txt b/Documentation/config/branch.txt
index 019d60ede2..8f4b3faadd 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/branch.txt
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
+
-When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
-so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
-by running 'git pull'.
+When `preserve` (deprecated in favor of `merges`), also pass
+`--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge
+commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'.
+
When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt
index e48bb987d7..2c4c9ba27a 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ diff.autoRefreshIndex::
diff.dirstat::
A comma separated list of `--dirstat` parameters specifying the
- default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1]`
+ default behavior of the `--dirstat` option to linkgit:git-diff[1]
and friends. The defaults can be overridden on the command line
(using `--dirstat=<param1,param2,...>`). The fallback defaults
(when not changed by `diff.dirstat`) are `changes,noncumulative,3`.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ diff.external::
environment variable. The command is called with parameters
as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if
you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of
- your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
+ your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead.
diff.ignoreSubmodules::
Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
diff --git a/Documentation/config/fsck.txt b/Documentation/config/fsck.txt
index 879c5a29c4..450e8c38e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/fsck.txt
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ When `fsck.<msg-id>` is set, errors can be switched to warnings and
vice versa by configuring the `fsck.<msg-id>` setting where the
`<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value is one of `error`,
`warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning
-with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line
-- missing email" means that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will
-hide that issue.
+with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer
+line - missing email" means that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore`
+will hide that issue.
+
In general, it is better to enumerate existing objects with problems
with `fsck.skipList`, instead of listing the kind of breakages these
diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt
index c6fbb8a96f..73c08b0c00 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ gc.autoPackLimit::
When there are more than this many packs that are not
marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
--auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The
- default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
+ default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
gc.autoDetach::
Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
diff --git a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt
index 590fe0d4ba..f999f8ea49 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ gpg.format::
gpg.<format>.program::
Use this to customize the program used for the signing format you
chose. (see `gpg.program` and `gpg.format`) `gpg.program` can still
- be used as a legacy synonym for `gpg.openpgp.program`. The default
+ be used as a legacy synonym for `gpg.openpgp.program`. The default
value for `gpg.x509.program` is "gpgsm".
diff --git a/Documentation/config/pull.txt b/Documentation/config/pull.txt
index bb23a9947d..b87cab31b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/pull.txt
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
+
-When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
-so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
-by running 'git pull'.
+When `preserve` (deprecated in favor of `merges`), also pass
+`--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge
+commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'.
+
When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 5ebc56867b..09faee3b44 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--binary::
In addition to `--full-index`, output a binary diff that
- can be applied with `git-apply`.
+ can be applied with `git-apply`. Implies `--patch`.
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 37bcab94d5..8b0e4c7fa8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -193,15 +193,6 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files.
for command-line options).
-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:gitignore[5].
-
-
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 03056dad0d..db876f7dde 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -55,14 +55,13 @@ OPTIONS
-e <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
- In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
- $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
- set of the ignore rules in effect.
+ Use the given exclude pattern in addition to the standard ignore rules
+ (see linkgit:gitignore[5]).
-x::
- Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
- directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
- rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked
+ Don't use the standard ignore rules (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but
+ still use the ignore rules given with `-e` options from the command
+ line. This allows removing all untracked
files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
working directory to test a clean build.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 002dae625e..4b90b9c12a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
+The `-m` and `-F` options can be given any number of times, in any
+order. The commit log message will be composed in the order in which
+the options are given.
+
A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one
parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes
the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root)
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ state was.
OPTIONS
-------
<tree>::
- An existing tree object
+ An existing tree object.
-p <parent>::
Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object.
@@ -52,7 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS
-F <file>::
Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
- from the standard input.
+ from the standard input. This can be given more than once and the
+ content of each file becomes its own paragraph.
-S[<keyid>]::
--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 1bfe9f56a7..ff9310f958 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
--local::
For writing options: write to the repository `.git/config` file.
- This is the default behavior.
+ This is the default behavior.
+
For reading options: read only from the repository `.git/config` rather than
from all available files.
@@ -240,7 +240,9 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if
there is no color configured for `name`.
+
-`--type=color [--default=<default>]` is preferred over `--get-color`.
+`--type=color [--default=<default>]` is preferred over `--get-color`
+(but note that `--get-color` will omit the trailing newline printed by
+`--type=color`).
-e::
--edit::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 55950d9eea..e0eae642c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -62,9 +62,17 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
with --no-full.
--connectivity-only::
- Check only the connectivity of tags, commits and tree objects. By
- avoiding to unpack blobs, this speeds up the operation, at the
- expense of missing corrupt objects or other problematic issues.
+ Check only the connectivity of reachable objects, making sure
+ that any objects referenced by a reachable tag, commit, or tree
+ is present. This speeds up the operation by avoiding reading
+ blobs entirely (though it does still check that referenced blobs
+ exist). This will detect corruption in commits and trees, but
+ not do any semantic checks (e.g., for format errors). Corruption
+ in blob objects will not be detected at all.
++
+Unreachable tags, commits, and trees will also be accessed to find the
+tips of dangling segments of history. Use `--no-dangling` if you don't
+care about this output and want to speed it up further.
--strict::
Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 84fe236a8e..2d27969057 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ OPTIONS
mechanism. Only useful with `--untracked`.
--exclude-standard::
- Do not pay attention to ignored files specified via the `.gitignore`
+ Do not pay attention to ignored files specified via the `.gitignore`
mechanism. Only useful when searching files in the current directory
with `--no-index`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
index bb0db195ce..558966aa83 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ ScriptAliasMatch ^/git/[^/]*(.*) /usr/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend/storage.
Accelerated static Apache 2.x::
Similar to the above, but Apache can be used to return static
- files that are stored on disk. On many systems this may
+ files that are stored on disk. On many systems this may
be more efficient as Apache can ask the kernel to copy the
file contents from the file system directly to the network:
+
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
index b9fd3770a6..0b057cbb10 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ OPTIONS
displayed.
--refs::
- Do not show peeled tags or pseudorefs like HEAD in the output.
+ Do not show peeled tags or pseudorefs like `HEAD` in the output.
-q::
--quiet::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index df2b64dbb6..f56a5a9197 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ OPTIONS
-C <object>::
--reuse-message=<object>::
- Take the given blob object (for example, another note) as the
+ Take the given blob object (for example, another note) as the
note message. (Use `git notes copy <object>` instead to
copy notes between objects.)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 6363d674b7..44e00329e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ i.e. commits that would be excluded by linkgit:git-log[1]'s
the `rebase-cousins` mode is turned on, such commits are instead rebased
onto `<upstream>` (or `<onto>`, if specified).
+
-The `--rebase-merges` mode is similar in spirit to `--preserve-merges`, but
-in contrast to that option works well in interactive rebases: commits can be
-reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
+The `--rebase-merges` mode is similar in spirit to the deprecated
+`--preserve-merges`, but in contrast to that option works well in interactive
+rebases: commits can be reordered, inserted and dropped at will.
+
It is currently only possible to recreate the merge commits using the
`recursive` merge strategy; Different merge strategies can be used only via
@@ -427,9 +427,10 @@ See also REBASING MERGES and INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
-p::
--preserve-merges::
- Recreate merge commits instead of flattening the history by replaying
- commits a merge commit introduces. Merge conflict resolutions or manual
- amendments to merge commits are not preserved.
+ [DEPRECATED: use `--rebase-merges` instead] Recreate merge commits
+ instead of flattening the history by replaying commits a merge commit
+ introduces. Merge conflict resolutions or manual amendments to merge
+ commits are not preserved.
+
This uses the `--interactive` machinery internally, but combining it
with the `--interactive` option explicitly is generally not a good
@@ -1020,11 +1021,11 @@ merge cmake
BUGS
----
-The todo list presented by `--preserve-merges --interactive` does not
-represent the topology of the revision graph. Editing commits and
-rewording their commit messages should work fine, but attempts to
-reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results. Use
-`--rebase-merges` in such scenarios instead.
+The todo list presented by the deprecated `--preserve-merges --interactive`
+does not represent the topology of the revision graph (use `--rebase-merges`
+instead). Editing commits and rewording their commit messages should work
+fine, but attempts to reorder commits tend to produce counterintuitive results.
+Use `--rebase-merges` in such scenarios instead.
For example, an attempt to rearrange
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 132f8e55f6..26e746c53f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ working index HEAD target working index HEAD
`reset --merge` is meant to be used when resetting out of a conflicted
merge. Any mergy operation guarantees that the working tree file that is
-involved in the merge does not have local change wrt the index before
-it starts, and that it writes the result out to the working tree. So if
+involved in the merge does not have a local change with respect to the index
+before it starts, and that it writes the result out to the working tree. So if
we see some difference between the index and the target and also
between the index and the working tree, then it means that we are not
resetting out from a state that a mergy operation left after failing
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index b99029520d..223788fa3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37).
command-line argument.
+
This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see
-'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
+'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
--localtime;;
Store Git commit times in the local time zone instead of UTC. This
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Like 'git rebase'; this requires that the working tree be clean
and have no uncommitted changes.
+
This automatically updates the rev_map if needed (see
-'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
+'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
-l;;
--local;;
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ This will set the property 'svn:keywords' to 'FreeBSD=%H' for the file
way to repair the repo is to use 'reset'.
+
Only the rev_map and refs/remotes/git-svn are changed (see
-'$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
+'$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' in the FILES section below for details).
Follow 'reset' with a 'fetch' and then 'git reset' or 'git rebase' to
move local branches onto the new tree.
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata::
+
This option can only be used for one-shot imports as 'git svn'
will not be able to fetch again without metadata. Additionally,
-if you lose your '$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*' files, 'git svn' will not
+if you lose your '$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*' files, 'git svn' will not
be able to rebuild them.
+
The 'git svn log' command will not work on repositories using
@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ fetching, then $GIT_DIR/svn/.metadata must be manually edited to remove
FILES
-----
-$GIT_DIR/svn/\*\*/.rev_map.*::
+$GIT_DIR/svn/\**/.rev_map.*::
Mapping between Subversion revision numbers and Git commit
names. In a repository where the noMetadata option is not set,
this can be rebuilt from the git-svn-id: lines that are at the
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 00156d64aa..6d1f2fd9ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -536,7 +536,6 @@ other
The command-line parameters passed to the configured command are
determined by the ssh variant. See `ssh.variant` option in
linkgit:git-config[1] for details.
-
+
`$GIT_SSH_COMMAND` takes precedence over `$GIT_SSH`, and is interpreted
by the shell, which allows additional arguments to be included.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index bdd11a2ddd..fa6454f105 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives
Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:
- pattern attr1 attr2 ...
+ pattern attr1 attr2 ...
That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list,
separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 1c94f08ff4..b5bc9dbff0 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
- Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and
will match according to the previous rules.
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to
+`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
+
NOTES
-----
diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
index 9d1459aac6..4f2905dc5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability.
'option dry-run' {'true'|'false'}:
If true, pretend the operation completed successfully,
- but don't actually change any repository data. For most
+ but don't actually change any repository data. For most
helpers this only applies to the 'push', if supported.
'option servpath <c-style-quoted-path>'::
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index 92535dbac5..b284953f64 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ $omit_owner::
$per_request_config::
If this is set to code reference, it will be run once for each request.
- You can set parts of configuration that change per session this way.
+ You can set parts of configuration that change per session this way.
For example, one might use the following code in a gitweb configuration
file
+
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index ca959a7286..9cf983d24d 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ explicitly-given commit or tree.
--filter-print-omitted::
Only useful with `--filter=`; prints a list of the objects omitted
- by the filter. Object IDs are prefixed with a ``~'' character.
+ by the filter. Object IDs are prefixed with a ``~'' character.
--missing=<missing-action>::
A debug option to help with future "partial clone" development.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt b/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt
index 1c0086e287..844629c8c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ More interesting possibilities exist, though, such as:
* one side of history renames x -> z, and the other renames some file to
x/e, causing the need for the merge to do a transitive rename.
- * one side of history renames x -> z, but also renames all files within
- x. For example, x/a -> z/alpha, x/b -> z/bravo, etc.
+ * one side of history renames x -> z, but also renames all files within x.
+ For example, x/a -> z/alpha, x/b -> z/bravo, etc.
* both 'x' and 'y' being merged into a single directory 'z', with a
directory rename being detected for both x->z and y->z.