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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt20
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/howto-index.sh12
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/install-webdoc.sh6
5 files changed, 51 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index dab5c61bfe..f424dbd75c 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -164,6 +164,16 @@ For C programs:
* multi-line comment.
*/
+ Note however that a comment that explains a translatable string to
+ translators uses a convention of starting with a magic token
+ "TRANSLATORS: " immediately after the opening delimiter, even when
+ it spans multiple lines. We do not add an asterisk at the beginning
+ of each line, either. E.g.
+
+ /* TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string
+ to be translated, that follows immediately after it */
+ _("Here is a translatable string explained by the above.");
+
- Double negation is often harder to understand than no negation
at all.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
index 9e06b7dd52..3bd2b65964 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
@@ -41,12 +41,20 @@ with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
"git request-pull" lost a few "heuristics" that often led to mistakes.
+The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long
+time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
+refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
+it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.
+
Updates since v1.9 series
-------------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated
+ to a more recent version from the upstream.
+
* "git gc --aggressive" learned "--depth" option and
"gc.aggressiveDepth" configuration variable to allow use of a less
insane depth than the built-in default value of 250.
@@ -80,9 +88,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git grep" learned to behave in a way similar to native grep when
"-h" (no header) and "-c" (count) options are given.
- * transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export have been updated to
- allow the ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the
- natively supported transports.
+ * "git push" via transport-helper interface (e.g. remote-hg) has
+ been updated to allow ref deletion in a way similar to the natively
+ supported transports.
* The "simple" mode is the default for "git push".
@@ -171,6 +179,23 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.9 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
+ * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
+ work well with.
+ (merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint).
+
+ * zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages.
+
+ * bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
+ correctly given "git pu<TAB>" when "pu" is aliased to "push".
+
+ * Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
+ width have been taught to our display column counting logic.
+ (merge d813ab9 tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width later to maint).
+
+ * Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on FreeBSD
+ (merge ff7a1c6 km/avoid-bs-in-shell-glob later to maint).
+ (merge 00764ca km/avoid-cp-a later to maint).
+
* "git update-ref --stdin" did not fail a request to create a ref
when the ref already existed.
(merge b9d56b5 mh/update-ref-batch-create-fix later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 30c5ee2564..5b3c38de7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -86,13 +86,11 @@ COMMANDS
(refs/remotes/$remote/*). Setting a prefix is also useful
if you wish to track multiple projects that share a common
repository.
+ By default, the prefix is set to 'origin/'.
+
-NOTE: In Git v2.0, the default prefix will CHANGE from "" (no prefix)
-to "origin/". This is done to put SVN-tracking refs at
-"refs/remotes/origin/*" instead of "refs/remotes/*", and make them
-more compatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized
-(i.e. refs/remotes/$remote/*). You can enjoy the same benefits today,
-by using the --prefix option.
+NOTE: Before Git v2.0, the default prefix was "" (no prefix). This
+meant that SVN-tracking refs were put at "refs/remotes/*", which is
+incompatible with how Git's own remote-tracking refs are organized.
--ignore-paths=<regex>;;
When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will
@@ -994,16 +992,6 @@ without giving any repository layout options. If the full history with
branches and tags is required, the options '--trunk' / '--branches' /
'--tags' must be used.
-When using the options for describing the repository layout (--trunk,
---tags, --branches, --stdlayout), please also specify the --prefix
-option (e.g. '--prefix=origin/') to cause your SVN-tracking refs to be
-placed at refs/remotes/origin/* rather than the default refs/remotes/*.
-The former is more compatible with the layout of Git's "regular"
-remote-tracking refs (refs/remotes/$remote/*), and may potentially
-prevent similarly named SVN branches and Git remotes from clobbering
-each other. In Git v2.0 the default prefix used (i.e. when no --prefix
-is given) will change from "" (no prefix) to "origin/".
-
When using multiple --branches or --tags, 'git svn' does not automatically
handle name collisions (for example, if two branches from different paths have
the same name, or if a branch and a tag have the same name). In these cases,
diff --git a/Documentation/howto-index.sh b/Documentation/howto-index.sh
index a2340864b5..167b363668 100755
--- a/Documentation/howto-index.sh
+++ b/Documentation/howto-index.sh
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ EOF
for txt
do
- title=`expr "$txt" : '.*/\(.*\)\.txt$'`
- from=`sed -ne '
+ title=$(expr "$txt" : '.*/\(.*\)\.txt$')
+ from=$(sed -ne '
/^$/q
/^From:[ ]/{
s///
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ do
s/^/by /
p
}
- ' "$txt"`
+ ' "$txt")
- abstract=`sed -ne '
+ abstract=$(sed -ne '
/^Abstract:[ ]/{
s/^[^ ]*//
x
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ do
x
p
q
- }' "$txt"`
+ }' "$txt")
if grep 'Content-type: text/asciidoc' >/dev/null $txt
then
- file=`expr "$txt" : '\(.*\)\.txt$'`.html
+ file=$(expr "$txt" : '\(.*\)\.txt$').html
else
file="$txt"
fi
diff --git a/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh b/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh
index 76d69a907b..ed8b4ff3e5 100755
--- a/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh
+++ b/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh
@@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ do
else
echo >&2 "# install $h $T/$h"
rm -f "$T/$h"
- mkdir -p `dirname "$T/$h"`
+ mkdir -p $(dirname "$T/$h")
cp "$h" "$T/$h"
fi
done
-strip_leading=`echo "$T/" | sed -e 's|.|.|g'`
+strip_leading=$(echo "$T/" | sed -e 's|.|.|g')
for th in \
"$T"/*.html "$T"/*.txt \
"$T"/howto/*.txt "$T"/howto/*.html \
"$T"/technical/*.txt "$T"/technical/*.html
do
- h=`expr "$th" : "$strip_leading"'\(.*\)'`
+ h=$(expr "$th" : "$strip_leading"'\(.*\)')
case "$h" in
RelNotes-*.txt | index.html) continue ;;
esac