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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt246
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/advice.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/core.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/gpg.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/pack.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/protocol.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/push.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt23
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt1
13 files changed, 356 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..52534dd566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+Git 2.26 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.25
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work
+ out of the box.
+
+ * gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
+ tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
+ trust level.
+
+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete
+ subcommands and arguments to "git worktree".
+
+ * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been
+ tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not
+ count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule.
+
+ * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
+ environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
+ option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been
+ placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
+ get confused.
+
+ * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it
+ nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API.
+
+ * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to
+ avoid races.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented
+ with tabs.
+
+ * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function"
+ construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in
+ sample templates.
+
+ * The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues.
+
+ * Improve error message generation for "git submodule add".
+
+ * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will
+ use SHA-256 continues.
+
+ * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code
+ to tentatively use in-core objects.
+
+ * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack
+ to generate its result has been improved.
+
+ * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one.
+
+ * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects
+ (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object
+ layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the
+ tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected.
+
+ * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to
+ name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages
+ without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable.
+
+ * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when
+ fetching into it.
+
+ * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around
+ the cone mode, have been cleaned up.
+
+ * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the
+ diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before;
+ this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to
+ the end user.
+
+ * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to
+ work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its
+ callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat).
+
+
+Fixes since v2.25
+-----------------
+
+ * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
+ nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
+ configuration variable, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 5c4f55f1f6 hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting later to maint).
+
+ * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
+ system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
+ read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
+ empty tree from promisor remotes.
+ (merge 9c8a294a1a jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached later to maint).
+
+ * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
+ "git checkout" that was done only half-way.
+ (merge 1a7e454dd6 hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout later to maint).
+
+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
+ (merge 63ab08fb99 bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
+ single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
+ against corrupt index file.
+ (merge 573117dfa5 es/unpack-trees-oob-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
+ stateless RPC mechanism.
+ (merge 4d8cab95cc jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport later to maint).
+
+ * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
+ structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge e701bab3e9 nd/switch-and-restore later to maint).
+
+ * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the
+ same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count
+ the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 7210ca4ee5 ds/sparse-cone later to maint).
+
+ * Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge
+ commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a
+ recent update, which has been corrected.
+ (merge c958d3bd0a ds/graph-horizontal-edges later to maint).
+
+ * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
+ libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
+ of gcc and clang.
+ (merge f65d07fffa jk/asan-build-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C.
+ (merge 849e43cc18 js/builtin-add-i-cmds later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation.
+ (merge b40a50264a ds/refmap-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local
+ branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches
+ (i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding
+ local branch), which has been corrected.
+ (merge fa74180d08 am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity later to maint).
+
+ * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
+ performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
+ enumeration API has been corrected.
+ (merge 0cbb60574e en/fill-directory-fixes-more later to maint).
+
+ * A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules
+ inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot
+ error messages. The command has been taught to enumerate
+ submodules that had errors at the end of the operation.
+ (merge 0222540827 es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend later to maint).
+
+ * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not
+ work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation
+ detail.
+ (merge b54128bb0b jt/t5616-robustify later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
+ .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint).
+
+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
+ (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
+ the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
+ the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
+ settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
+ (merge c56c48dd07 pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index later to maint).
+
+ * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
+ (merge 7378ec90e1 ms/doc-bundle-format later to maint).
+
+ * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched.
+ (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with
+ their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it
+ goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity
+ in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were
+ not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 26027625dd js/rebase-i-with-colliding-hash later to maint).
+
+ * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when
+ "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure.
+ (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint).
+
+ * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet
+ populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a
+ part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint).
+
+ * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had
+ an off-by-one bug, which has been killed.
+ (merge dbc27477ff jh/notes-fanout-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that
+ records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the
+ code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an
+ input, but it is an input error.
+ (merge a21781011f jk/index-pack-dupfix later to maint).
+
+ * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more
+ robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same
+ thing.
+ (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint).
+ (merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted later to maint).
+ (merge d0d0a357a1 am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests later to maint).
+ (merge f94f7bd00d am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases later to maint).
+ (merge e4837b4406 jk/test-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge a4ffbbbb99 rt/submodule-i18n later to maint).
+ (merge 856249c62a bc/actualmente later to maint).
+ (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint).
+ (merge 69e104d70e bc/author-committer-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 7a2dc95cbc bc/misconception-doc later to maint).
+ (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint).
+ (merge eb31044ff7 jb/multi-pack-index-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge 04e5b3f0b4 km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path later to maint).
+ (merge e469afe158 ma/filter-branch-doc-caret later to maint).
+ (merge 395518cf7a jb/parse-options-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint).
+ (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
index 4be93f8ad9..bdd37c3eaa 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
@@ -110,4 +110,10 @@ advice.*::
submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie::
Advice shown when a submodule.alternateErrorStrategy option
configured to "die" causes a fatal error.
+ addIgnoredFile::
+ Advice shown if a user attempts to add an ignored file to
+ the index.
+ addEmptyPathspec::
+ Advice shown if a user runs the add command without providing
+ the pathspec parameter.
--
diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index 9e440b160d..74619a9c03 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ core.fsmonitor::
avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed.
See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5].
+core.fsmonitorHookVersion::
+ Sets the version of hook that is to be used when calling fsmonitor.
+ There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set,
+ version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1
+ will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine
+ which files have changes since that time but some monitors
+ like watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp.
+ Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return
+ something that can be used to determine what files have changed
+ without race conditions.
+
core.trustctime::
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
diff --git a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt
index cce2c89245..d94025cb36 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt
@@ -18,3 +18,18 @@ gpg.<format>.program::
chose. (see `gpg.program` and `gpg.format`) `gpg.program` can still
be used as a legacy synonym for `gpg.openpgp.program`. The default
value for `gpg.x509.program` is "gpgsm".
+
+gpg.minTrustLevel::
+ Specifies a minimum trust level for signature verification. If
+ this option is unset, then signature verification for merge
+ operations require a key with at least `marginal` trust. Other
+ operations that perform signature verification require a key
+ with at least `undefined` trust. Setting this option overrides
+ the required trust-level for all operations. Supported values,
+ in increasing order of significance:
++
+* `undefined`
+* `never`
+* `marginal`
+* `fully`
+* `ultimate`
diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt
index 1d66f0c992..0dac580581 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
to linkgit:git-repack[1].
+pack.allowPackReuse::
+ When true, and when reachability bitmaps are enabled,
+ pack-objects will try to send parts of the bitmapped packfile
+ verbatim. This can reduce memory and CPU usage to serve fetches,
+ but might result in sending a slightly larger pack. Defaults to
+ true.
+
pack.island::
An extended regular expression configuring a set of delta
islands. See "DELTA ISLANDS" in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/config/protocol.txt b/Documentation/config/protocol.txt
index bfccc07491..756591d77b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/protocol.txt
@@ -45,11 +45,10 @@ The protocol names currently used by git are:
--
protocol.version::
- Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a
- server using the specified protocol version. If unset, no
- attempt will be made by the client to communicate using a
- particular protocol version, this results in protocol version 0
- being used.
+ If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a server
+ using the specified protocol version. If the server does
+ not support it, communication falls back to version 0.
+ If unset, the default is `2`.
Supported versions:
+
--
diff --git a/Documentation/config/push.txt b/Documentation/config/push.txt
index 0a0e000569..54871f8213 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/push.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
push.default::
Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is
- explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for
+ given (whether from the command-line, config, or elsewhere).
+ Different values are well-suited for
specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow
(i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination),
`upstream` is probably what you want. Possible values are:
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ push.default::
--
* `nothing` - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is
- explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to
+ given. This is primarily meant for people who want to
avoid mistakes by always being explicit.
* `current` - push the current branch to update a branch with the same
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
index bcd85c1976..28d1fee505 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-graph.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ OPTIONS
file. This parameter exists to specify the location of an alternate
that only has the objects directory, not a full `.git` directory. The
commit-graph file is expected to be in the `<dir>/info` directory and
- the packfiles are expected to be in `<dir>/pack`.
+ the packfiles are expected to be in `<dir>/pack`. If the directory
+ could not be made into an absolute path, or does not match any known
+ object directory, `git commit-graph ...` will exit with non-zero
+ status.
--[no-]progress::
Turn progress on/off explicitly. If neither is specified, progress is
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index ffc3a6efdc..ddb6acc025 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ grep.extendedRegexp::
other than 'default'.
grep.threads::
- Number of grep worker threads to use. If unset (or set to 0),
- 8 threads are used by default (for now).
+ Number of grep worker threads to use. If unset (or set to 0), Git will
+ use as many threads as the number of logical cores available.
grep.fullName::
If set to true, enable `--full-name` option by default.
@@ -348,6 +348,17 @@ EXAMPLES
`git grep solution -- :^Documentation`::
Looks for `solution`, excluding files in `Documentation`.
+NOTES ON THREADS
+----------------
+
+The `--threads` option (and the grep.threads configuration) will be ignored when
+`--open-files-in-pager` is used, forcing a single-threaded execution.
+
+When grepping the object store (with `--cached` or giving tree objects), running
+with multiple threads might perform slower than single threaded if `--textconv`
+is given and there're too many text conversions. So if you experience low
+performance in this case, it might be desirable to use `--threads=1`.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
index 974ade2238..a24d90529b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ COMMANDS
To avoid interfering with other worktrees, it first enables the
`extensions.worktreeConfig` setting and makes sure to set the
`core.sparseCheckout` setting in the worktree-specific config file.
++
+When `--cone` is provided, the `core.sparseCheckoutCone` setting is
+also set, allowing for better performance with a limited set of
+patterns (see 'CONE PATTERN SET' below).
'set'::
Write a set of patterns to the sparse-checkout file, as given as
@@ -50,6 +54,14 @@ To avoid interfering with other worktrees, it first enables the
+
When the `--stdin` option is provided, the patterns are read from
standard in as a newline-delimited list instead of from the arguments.
++
+When `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is enabled, the input list is considered a
+list of directories instead of sparse-checkout patterns. The command writes
+patterns to the sparse-checkout file to include all files contained in those
+directories (recursively) as well as files that are siblings of ancestor
+directories. The input format matches the output of `git ls-tree --name-only`.
+This includes interpreting pathnames that begin with a double quote (") as
+C-style quoted strings.
'disable'::
Disable the `core.sparseCheckout` config setting, and restore the
@@ -106,7 +118,7 @@ The full pattern set allows for arbitrary pattern matches and complicated
inclusion/exclusion rules. These can result in O(N*M) pattern matches when
updating the index, where N is the number of patterns and M is the number
of paths in the index. To combat this performance issue, a more restricted
-pattern set is allowed when `core.spareCheckoutCone` is enabled.
+pattern set is allowed when `core.sparseCheckoutCone` is enabled.
The accepted patterns in the cone pattern set are:
@@ -128,9 +140,12 @@ the following patterns:
----------------
This says "include everything in root, but nothing two levels below root."
-If we then add the folder `A/B/C` as a recursive pattern, the folders `A` and
-`A/B` are added as parent patterns. The resulting sparse-checkout file is
-now
+
+When in cone mode, the `git sparse-checkout set` subcommand takes a list of
+directories instead of a list of sparse-checkout patterns. In this mode,
+the command `git sparse-checkout set A/B/C` sets the directory `A/B/C` as
+a recursive pattern, the directories `A` and `A/B` are added as parent
+patterns. The resulting sparse-checkout file is now
----------------
/*
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 0093c647bf..b0672bd806 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -110,9 +110,23 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string which `git config
Do not pipe Git output into a pager.
--git-dir=<path>::
- Set the path to the repository. This can also be controlled by
- setting the `GIT_DIR` environment variable. It can be an absolute
- path or relative path to current working directory.
+ Set the path to the repository (".git" directory). This can also be
+ controlled by setting the `GIT_DIR` environment variable. It can be
+ an absolute path or relative path to current working directory.
++
+Specifying the location of the ".git" directory using this
+option (or `GIT_DIR` environment variable) turns off the
+repository discovery that tries to find a directory with
+".git" subdirectory (which is how the repository and the
+top-level of the working tree are discovered), and tells Git
+that you are at the top level of the working tree. If you
+are not at the top-level directory of the working tree, you
+should tell Git where the top-level of the working tree is,
+with the `--work-tree=<path>` option (or `GIT_WORK_TREE`
+environment variable)
++
+If you just want to run git as if it was started in `<path>` then use
+`git -C <path>`.
--work-tree=<path>::
Set the path to the working tree. It can be an absolute path
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 50365f2914..3dccab5375 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -490,9 +490,16 @@ fsmonitor-watchman
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This hook is invoked when the configuration option `core.fsmonitor` is
-set to `.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman`. It takes two arguments, a version
-(currently 1) and the time in elapsed nanoseconds since midnight,
-January 1, 1970.
+set to `.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman` or `.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchmanv2`
+depending on the version of the hook to use.
+
+Version 1 takes two arguments, a version (1) and the time in elapsed
+nanoseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970.
+
+Version 2 takes two arguments, a version (2) and a token that is used
+for identifying changes since the token. For watchman this would be
+a clock id. This version must output to stdout the new token followed
+by a NUL before the list of files.
The hook should output to stdout the list of all files in the working
directory that may have changed since the requested time. The logic
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 1a7212ce5a..a4b6f49186 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
'%GF':: show the fingerprint of the key used to sign a signed commit
'%GP':: show the fingerprint of the primary key whose subkey was used
to sign a signed commit
+'%GT':: show the trust level for the key used to sign a signed commit
'%gD':: reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}` or `refs/stash@{2
minutes ago}`; the format follows the rules described for the
`-g` option. The portion before the `@` is the refname as