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-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt228
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt69
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt261
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt62
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt258
-rw-r--r--Documentation/date-formats.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-config.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/everyday.txto2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/fetch-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-am.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bisect.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clone.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-daemon.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fast-import.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt66
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-help.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-http-backend.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-instaweb.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-log.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-notes.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-p4.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-repack.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-replace.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt75
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-web--browse.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-worktree.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt145
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt73
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitweb.txt4
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/lint-gitlink.perl71
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-config.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-options.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-options.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt186
68 files changed, 1471 insertions, 412 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 0ddd36879a..7f4769a02c 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -526,12 +526,19 @@ Writing Documentation:
modifying paragraphs or option/command explanations that contain options
or commands:
- Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names, and
- configuration variables) are typeset in monospace, and if you can use
- `backticks around word phrases`, do so.
+ Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names,
+ configuration and environment variables) must be typeset in monospace (i.e.
+ wrapped with backticks):
`--pretty=oneline`
`git rev-list`
`remote.pushDefault`
+ `GIT_DIR`
+
+ An environment variable must be prefixed with "$" only when referring to its
+ value and not when referring to the variable itself, in this case there is
+ nothing to add except the backticks:
+ `GIT_DIR` is specified
+ `$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive`
Word phrases enclosed in `backtick characters` are rendered literally
and will not be further expanded. The use of `backticks` to achieve the
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 3e39e2815b..b43d66eae6 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-common
TECH_DOCS += technical/racy-git
TECH_DOCS += technical/send-pack-pipeline
TECH_DOCS += technical/shallow
+TECH_DOCS += technical/signature-format
TECH_DOCS += technical/trivial-merge
SP_ARTICLES += $(TECH_DOCS)
SP_ARTICLES += technical/api-index
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ else
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff
endif
endif
-ifdef MAN_BOLD_LITERAL
+ifndef NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL
XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-bold-literal.xsl
endif
ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP
@@ -204,6 +205,7 @@ ifndef V
QUIET_DBLATEX = @echo ' ' DBLATEX $@;
QUIET_XSLTPROC = @echo ' ' XSLTPROC $@;
QUIET_GEN = @echo ' ' GEN $@;
+ QUIET_LINT = @echo ' ' LINT $@;
QUIET_STDERR = 2> /dev/null
QUIET_SUBDIR0 = +@subdir=
QUIET_SUBDIR1 = ;$(NO_SUBDIR) echo ' ' SUBDIR $$subdir; \
@@ -427,4 +429,7 @@ quick-install-html: require-htmlrepo
print-man1:
@for i in $(MAN1_TXT); do echo $$i; done
+lint-docs::
+ $(QUIET_LINT)$(PERL_PATH) lint-gitlink.perl
+
.PHONY: FORCE
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3853b3dec6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+Git 2.10 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
+
+Updates since v2.9
+------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user
+ that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing.
+
+ * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone
+ some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships.
+
+ * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for
+ "@{-1}", the previous branch.
+
+ * Update the funcname definition to support css files.
+
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git
+ status" options.
+
+ * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the
+ receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way
+ that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the
+ users.
+
+ * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
+ experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
+ as "git diff" output.
+ (merge 46e3d17 jk/add-i-diff-compact-heuristics later to maint).
+
+ * "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when
+ responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook.
+ (merge 20b20a2 jk/upload-pack-hook later to maint).
+
+ * Teach format-patch and mailsplit (hence "am") how a line that
+ happens to begin with "From " in the e-mail message is quoted with
+ ">", so that these lines can be restored to their original shape.
+ (merge d9925d1 ew/mboxrd-format-am later to maint).
+
+ * "git repack" learned the "--keep-unreachable" option, which sends
+ loose unreachable objects to a pack instead of leaving them loose.
+ This helps heuristics based on the number of loose objects
+ (e.g. "gc --auto").
+ (merge e26a8c4 jk/repack-keep-unreachable later to maint).
+
+ * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width
+ relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
+ draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It
+ also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
+ to the right border.
+ (merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint).
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid
+ creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have,
+ using *.unpackLimit configuration.
+
+ * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
+ connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
+ for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
+ been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
+ (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint).
+
+ * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
+ API.
+
+ * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the
+ first step to move many state variables into a structure that can
+ be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
+ than once.
+
+ * HTTP transport gained an option to produce more detailed debugging
+ trace.
+ (merge 73e57aa ep/http-curl-trace later to maint).
+
+ * Instead of taking advantage of a struct string_list that is
+ allocated with all NULs happens to be STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP kind,
+ initialize them explicitly as such, to document their behaviour
+ better.
+ (merge 2721ce2 jk/string-list-static-init later to maint).
+
+ * HTTPd tests learned to show the server error log to help diagnosing
+ a failing tests.
+ (merge 44f243d nd/test-lib-httpd-show-error-log-in-verbose later to maint).
+
+ * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
+ be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
+ (merge b7410f6 km/fetch-do-not-free-remote-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
+ bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
+ data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
+ (merge 43ec550 jk/bisect-show-tree later to maint).
+
+ * Further preparatory clean-up for "worktree" feature continues.
+ (merge 0409e0b nd/worktree-cleanup-post-head-protection later to maint).
+
+ * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
+ GPG signature have been documented.
+ (merge cc6ee97 mg/signature-doc later to maint).
+
+ * A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to
+ sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from
+ the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
+ which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
+
+ The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
+ updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
+ errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
+ (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.9
+----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
+ string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
+ --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
+ a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
+ "auto".
+ (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
+ option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
+ bitmap index.
+ (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint).
+
+ * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
+ by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
+ file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
+ which has been fixed.
+ (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
+ configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
+ typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
+
+ * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
+ documented now.
+
+ * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
+ referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
+
+ * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
+ creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
+ reflog was truncated.
+
+ * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
+ who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
+
+ * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile.
+
+ * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
+ on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
+
+ * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
+ hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
+ use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
+
+ * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
+
+ * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
+ tree".
+
+ * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
+ the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
+ cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
+
+ * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
+ that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
+ be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
+ of the submodules are not prepared for.
+ (merge 18a74a0 sb/clone-shallow-passthru later to maint).
+
+ * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
+ to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
+ (merge 01247e0 lc/shell-default-value-noexpand later to maint).
+
+ * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
+ functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 0767172 js/mingw-parameter-less-c-functions later to maint).
+
+ * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
+ prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
+ bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking
+ +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
+ of aborting.
+ (merge bab7483 jk/tzoffset-fix later to maint).
+
+ * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
+ been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
+ command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
+ (merge d2addc3 ak/t7800-wo-readlink later to maint).
+
+ * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
+ is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
+ (merge e3efa94 js/perf-on-apple later to maint).
+
+ * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
+ report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
+ been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
+ paths that are _inside_.
+ (merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
+ (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint).
+ (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).
+ (merge fcf0fe9 lf/sideband-returns-void later to maint).
+ (merge 5819c2e sb/t5614-modernize later to maint).
+ (merge fe0537a cb/t7810-test-label-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 412b9a1 jc/t2300-setup later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
index af184783bc..fedd9968e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
@@ -67,4 +67,35 @@ Fixes since v2.8.2
recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
from the root level of the superproject.
+ * The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
+ itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
+ where the installed version of Python is python 3.
+
+ * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
+ if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
+ its check was not done early enough and allowed another error to
+ trigger, reporting that the default value we guessed from the
+ system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
+ experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
+ relying on the auto-detection at all.
+
+ * "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives
+ as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly.
+
+ * "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large
+ number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices
+ for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
+ after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
+ failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
+
+ * A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
+ has been updated.
+
+ * Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
+ its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
+
+ * Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
+ of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
+ gitweb.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f4e2552836
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+Git v2.8.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.8.3
+------------------
+
+ * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
+ to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
+ verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
+ adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
+
+ * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
+ dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
+ customize this behaviour.
+
+ * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
+ shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
+ potential error and warn.
+
+ * CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
+
+ * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
+ which are all fixed with this.
+
+ * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
+ tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
+ with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
+ commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
+ described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
+ not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
+ penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
+ updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
+ is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
+ in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
+ commit."
+
+ * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
+ executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
+ that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
+ said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
+ our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
+ to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
+ being tested intact.
+
+ * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
+ but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
+
+ * When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a
+ faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would
+ result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case.
+ This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead.
+
+ * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
+ variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
+ not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
+ known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
+
+ * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
+
+ * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
+ dir-diff mode.
+
+ * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
+ detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
+
+
+Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
index 70fa66c8f1..b61d36712f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
Git 2.9 Release Notes
=====================
-Backward compatibility note
----------------------------
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and
-"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use
-"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
+"git log" family by default enable the rename detection; you can still
+use "diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
Merging two branches that have no common ancestor with "git merge" is
by default forbidden now to prevent creating such an unusual merge by
@@ -16,14 +16,22 @@ The output formats of "git log" that indents the commit log message by
4 spaces now expands HT in the log message by default. You can use
the "--no-expand-tabs" option to disable this.
+"git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
+its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
+variable, which was an ancient mistake, which this release corrects.
+A script that drives commit-tree, if it relies on this mistake, now
+needs to read commit.gpgsign and pass the -S option as necessary.
+
Updates since v2.8
------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
- * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"
- now enables the rename detection by default.
+ * Comes with git-multimail 1.3.1 (in contrib/).
+
+ * The end-user facing commands like "git diff" and "git log"
+ now enable the rename detection by default.
* The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and
there is no good way to override it from the command line. As
@@ -31,7 +39,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
as the signal to clear the values specified in various files.
* A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to
- customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session.
+ customize the diff shown in "git add -i" sessions.
* "git p4" now allows P4 author names to be mapped to Git author
names.
@@ -56,7 +64,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
to be used in a rare event that merges histories of two projects
that started their lives independently.
- * "git pull" has been taught to pass --allow-unrelated-histories
+ * "git pull" has been taught to pass the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
option to underlying "git merge".
* "git apply -v" learned to report paths in the patch that were
@@ -79,7 +87,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* When "git log" shows the log message indented by 4-spaces, the
remainder of a line after a HT does not align in the way the author
- originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default in
+ originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default to help
such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,
"--no-expand-tabs".
@@ -89,13 +97,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict
signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was
no way to record these separate resolutions.
- (merge 890fca8 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
* "git p4" learned to record P4 jobs in Git commit that imports from
the history in Perforce.
* "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
- tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
+ tag to name a given commit, because it tried to come up
with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
@@ -105,16 +112,55 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
commit."
- (merge 7550424 js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref later to maint).
- * "git clone" learned "--shallow-submodules" option.
+ * "git clone" learned the "--shallow-submodules" option.
* HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
- * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
- more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
- contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.
+ * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of
+ commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable
+ by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and
+ after it belong to logically separate units. It is still
+ experimental.
+
+ * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
+ where the hook directory is.
+
+ * An earlier addition of "sanitize_submodule_env" with 14111fc4 (git:
+ submodule honor -c credential.* from command line, 2016-02-29)
+ turned out to be a convoluted no-op; implement what it wanted to do
+ correctly, and stop filtering settings given via "git -c var=val".
+
+ * "git commit --dry-run" reported "No, no, you cannot commit." in one
+ case where "git commit" would have allowed you to commit, and this
+ improves it a little bit ("git commit --dry-run --short" still does
+ not give you the correct answer, for example). This is a stop-gap
+ measure in that "commit --short --dry-run" still gives an incorrect
+ result.
+
+ * The experimental "multiple worktree" feature gains more safety to
+ forbid operations on a branch that is checked out or being actively
+ worked on elsewhere, by noticing that e.g. it is being rebased.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned a new "--base" option to record what
+ (public, well-known) commit the original series was built on in
+ its output.
+
+ * "git commit" learned to pay attention to the "commit.verbose"
+ configuration variable and act as if the "--verbose" option
+ was given from the command line.
+
+ * Updated documentation gives hints to GMail users with two-factor
+ auth enabled that they need app-specific-password when using
+ "git send-email".
+
+ * The manpage output of our documentation did not render well in
+ terminal; typeset literals in bold by default to make them stand
+ out more.
+
+ * The mark-up in the top-level README.md file has been updated to
+ typeset CLI command names differently from the body text.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -136,7 +182,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take
advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in
- parallel.
+ parallel. Other updates to "git submodule" that move pieces of
+ logic to C continues.
* Rename bunch of tests on "git clone" for better organization.
@@ -150,22 +197,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a
Git repository.
- * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
+ * Code restructuring around the "refs" API to prepare for pluggable
refs backends.
- * Sources to many test helper binaries (and the generated helpers)
+ * Sources to many test helper binaries and the generated helpers
have been moved to t/helper/ subdirectory to reduce clutter at the
top level of the tree.
- Note that this can break your tests if you check out revisions
- across the merge boundary of this topic, e0b58519 (Merge branch
- 'nd/test-helpers', 2016-04-29), as bin-wrappers/test-* are not
- rebuilt to point the underlying executables. For now, "make
- distclean" is your friend.
-
* Unify internal logic between "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag"
commands by making one directly call into the other.
- (merge bef234b st/verify-tag later to maint).
* "merge-recursive" strategy incorrectly checked if a path that is
involved in its internal merge exists in the working tree.
@@ -173,12 +213,56 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
where the installed version of Python is python 3.
- (merge 1fb3fb4 ld/p4-test-py3 later to maint).
* As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their
own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm".
- * Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
+ * Move from "unsigned char[20]" to "struct object_id" continues.
+
+ * The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new
+ error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.
+ (merge 1da045f nd/error-errno later to maint).
+
+ * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
+ executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
+ that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
+ said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
+ our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
+ to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
+ being tested intact.
+
+ * t0040 had too many unnecessary repetitions in its test data. Teach
+ test-parse-options program so that a caller can tell what it
+ expects in its output, so that these repetitions can be cleaned up.
+
+ * Add perf test for "rebase -i".
+
+ * Common mistakes when writing gitlink: in our documentation are
+ found by "make check-docs".
+
+ * t9xxx series has been updated primarily for readability, while
+ fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelain commands have
+ also been updated to fix possible bugs around their use of
+ "test -z" and "test -n".
+
+ * CI test was taught to run git-svn tests.
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch-all" has been sped up, by taking advantage
+ of the fact that it does not have to read a list of objects, in two
+ ways.
+
+ * test updates to make it more readable and maintainable.
+ (merge e6273f4 es/t1500-modernize later to maint).
+
+ * "make DEVELOPER=1" worked as expected; setting DEVELOPER=1 in
+ config.mak didn't.
+ (merge 51dd3e8 mm/makefile-developer-can-be-in-config-mak later to maint).
+
+ * The way how "submodule--helper list" signals unmatch error to its
+ callers has been updated.
+
+ * A bash-ism "local" has been removed from "git submodule" scripted
+ Porcelain.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -267,12 +351,11 @@ notes for details).
* Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did
not work well.
- * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
- we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
- (merge 1245c74 ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0 later to maint).
+ * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation by updating a few API
+ elements we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
* The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
- that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
+ that socks5h:// proxies behave differently from socks5:// proxies.
* "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
@@ -293,13 +376,12 @@ notes for details).
* When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at
the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting
tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to
- update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later
- operations.
+ update the index, which left an inconsistent state that would
+ break later operations.
* "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
- recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
- from the root level of the superproject.
- (merge 2ab5660 sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs later to maint).
+ recurses into, but these paths were incorrectly reported when
+ the command was not run from the root level of the superproject.
* The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
@@ -308,68 +390,123 @@ notes for details).
system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
relying on the auto-detection at all.
- (merge d3c06c1 da/user-useconfigonly later to maint).
* "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives
as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly.
- (merge a127331 sb/mv-submodule-fix later to maint).
* "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration.
- (merge 36b1437 js/replace-edit-use-editor-configuration later to maint).
* "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large
number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices
for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
- (merge f924b52a jk/push-client-deadlock-fix later to maint).
* mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized and work better without
consuming paging store when not needed.
- (merge d5425d1 js/win32-mmap later to maint).
* A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
has been updated.
- (merge 0d6b21e jd/send-email-to-whom later to maint).
* UI consistency improvements for "git mergetool".
- (merge cce076e nf/mergetool-prompt later to maint).
* "git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting
from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent
commit to the first commit on the branch.
- (merge 79f4344 bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch later to maint).
* Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test.
- (merge 9e220fe ls/p4-lfs-test-fix-2.7.0 later to maint).
* Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
- (merge 82f2567 ls/p4-lfs later to maint).
* "git fetch" test t5510 was flaky while running a (forced) automagic
garbage collection.
- (merge bb05510 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
* Documentation updates to help contributors setting up Travis CI
test for their patches.
- (merge 0e5d028 ls/travis-submitting-patches later to maint).
* Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
gitweb.
- (merge 029f372 sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
+ its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
+ variable, which was an ancient mistake. Rework "git rebase" that
+ relied on this mistake so that it reads commit.gpgsign and pass (or
+ not pass) the -S option to "git commit-tree" to keep the end-user
+ expectation the same, while teaching "git commit-tree" to ignore
+ the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to
+ sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of
+ "git stash".
+
+ * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
+ but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
+
+ * Consolidate description of tilde-expansion that is done to
+ configuration variables that take pathname to a single place.
+
+ * Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when
+ de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange
+ error message in a pathological corner case.
+
+ * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
+ which are all fixed with this.
+
+ * "git rerere" can get confused by conflict markers deliberately left
+ by the inner merge step, because they are indistinguishable from
+ the real conflict markers left by the outermost merge which are
+ what the end user and "rerere" need to look at. This was fixed by
+ making the conflict markers left by the inner merges a bit longer.
+ (merge 0f9fd5c jc/ll-merge-internal later to maint).
+
+ * CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
+ potential error and warn.
+
+ * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
+ shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
+
+ * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
+ dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
+ customize this behaviour.
+
+ * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
+ to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
+ verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
+ adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
+
+ * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
+
+ * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
+ variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
+ not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
+ known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
+
+ * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
+ dir-diff mode.
+
+ * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
+ detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
+
+ * We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we
+ added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe.
+ (merge 462cbb4 rj/log-decorate-auto later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-import --export-marks" would overwrite the existing marks
+ file even when it makes a dump from its custom die routine.
+ Prevent it from doing so when we have an import-marks file but
+ haven't finished reading it.
+ (merge f4beed6 fc/fast-import-broken-marks-file later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i", after it fails to auto-resolve the conflict, had
+ an unnecessary call to "git rerere" from its very early days, which
+ was spotted recently; the call has been removed.
+ (merge 7063693 js/rebase-i-dedup-call-to-rerere later to maint).
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
- (merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint).
- (merge 99dab16 sb/misc-cleanups later to maint).
- (merge 7a6a44c cc/apply later to maint).
- (merge 6594883 nd/remove-unused later to maint).
- (merge 0ff7410 sg/test-lib-simplify-expr-away later to maint).
- (merge 060e776 jk/fix-attribute-macro-in-2.5 later to maint).
- (merge d16df0c rt/string-list-lookup-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 376eb60 sb/config-exit-status-list later to maint).
- (merge 9cea46c ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap later to maint).
- (merge fa72245 ew/normal-to-e later to maint).
- (merge 2e39a24 rn/glossary-typofix later to maint).
- (merge cadfbef sb/clean-test-fix later to maint).
+ (merge cd82b7a pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo later to maint).
+ (merge 2bb73ae rs/patch-id-use-skip-prefix later to maint).
+ (merge aa20cbc rs/apply-name-terminate later to maint).
+ (merge fe17fc0 jc/t2300-setup later to maint).
+ (merge e256eec jk/shell-portability later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..369383b33d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Git v2.9.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.9
+----------------
+
+ * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
+ connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
+ for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
+ been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
+
+ * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
+ string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
+ --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
+ a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
+ "auto".
+
+ * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
+ option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
+ bitmap index.
+
+ * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
+ by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
+ file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
+ which has been fixed.
+
+ * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
+ configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
+ typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
+
+ * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
+ documented now.
+
+ * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
+ referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
+
+ * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
+ creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
+ reflog was truncated.
+
+ * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
+ who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
+
+ * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
+ on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
+
+ * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
+ hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
+ use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
+
+ * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
+
+ * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
+ tree".
+
+ * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
+ the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
+ cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ece0acdbab..db05dec743 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -81,13 +81,16 @@ Includes
You can include one config file from another by setting the special
`include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The
+variable takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde
+expansion.
+
+The
included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been
found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the
`include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be
relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was
-found. The value of `include.path` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/`
-is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified
-user's home directory. See below for examples.
+found. See below for examples.
+
Example
~~~~~~~
@@ -114,7 +117,7 @@ Example
[include]
path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file
- path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory
+ path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your `$HOME` directory
Values
@@ -147,27 +150,41 @@ integer::
1024", "by 1024x1024", etc.
color::
- The value for a variables that takes a color is a list of
- colors (at most two) and attributes (at most one), separated
- by spaces. The colors accepted are `normal`, `black`,
- `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and
- `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink` and
- `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the
- second is the background. The position of the attribute, if
- any, doesn't matter. Attributes may be turned off specifically
- by prefixing them with `no` (e.g., `noreverse`, `noul`, etc).
-+
-Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between
-0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all
-terminals may support this). If your terminal supports it, you may also
-specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
-+
-The attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item
-in the colored output, so setting color.decorate.branch to `black`
-will paint that branch name in a plain `black`, even if the previous
-thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
-list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be
-painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
+ The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of
+ colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background)
+ and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces.
++
+The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`,
+`blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the
+foreground; the second is the background.
++
+Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI
+256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this). If
+your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as
+hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
++
+The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`,
+`italic`, and `strike` (for crossed-out or "strikethrough" letters).
+The position of any attributes with respect to the colors
+(before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may
+be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`,
+`no-ul`, etc).
++
+For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset
+at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
+`color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a
+plain `black`, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g.
+opening parenthesis before the list of branch names in `log --decorate`
+output) is set to be painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
+However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered
+coloring, and the negated forms may be useful there.
+
+pathname::
+ A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a
+ string that begins with "`~/`" or "`~user/`", and the usual
+ tilde expansion happens to such a string: `~/`
+ is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the
+ specified user's home directory.
Variables
@@ -269,6 +286,12 @@ See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
+
The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).
+core.hideDotFiles::
+ (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose
+ name starts with a dot as hidden. If 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/`
+ directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The
+ default mode is 'dotGitOnly'.
+
core.ignoreCase::
If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
@@ -337,9 +360,9 @@ core.quotePath::
core.eol::
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
- files that have the `text` property set. Alternatives are
- 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native
- line ending. The default value is `native`. See
+ files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
+ Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
+ native line ending. The default value is `native`. See
linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
conversion.
@@ -418,7 +441,7 @@ core.gitProxy::
may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order;
the first match wins.
+
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable
+Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_COMMAND` environment variable
(which always applies universally, without the special "for"
handling).
+
@@ -462,9 +485,9 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
core.worktree::
Set the path to the root of the working tree.
- If GIT_COMMON_DIR environment variable is set, core.worktree
+ If `GIT_COMMON_DIR` environment variable is set, core.worktree
is ignored and not used for determining the root of working tree.
- This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
+ This can be overridden by the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment
variable and the '--work-tree' command-line option.
The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
@@ -486,10 +509,10 @@ repository's usual working tree).
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
- "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old
+ "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`", by appending the new and old
SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but
only when the file exists. If this configuration
- variable is set to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>"
+ variable is set to true, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`"
file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under
refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/),
note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD.
@@ -529,7 +552,7 @@ core.compression::
-1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
If set, this provides a default to other compression variables,
- such as 'core.looseCompression' and 'pack.compression'.
+ such as `core.looseCompression` and `pack.compression`.
core.looseCompression::
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
@@ -593,20 +616,19 @@ be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
core.excludesFile::
- In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
- '.git/info/exclude', Git looks into this file for patterns
- of files which are not meant to be tracked. "`~/`" is expanded
- to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's
- home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
- If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore
+ Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
+ describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
+ to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
+ Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`.
+ If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`
is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
core.askPass::
Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
- via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS'
+ via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the `GIT_ASKPASS`
environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
- 'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
+ `SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
@@ -615,8 +637,25 @@ core.attributesFile::
'.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
- $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not
- set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
+ `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not
+ set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/attributes` is used instead.
+
+core.hooksPath::
+ By default Git will look for your hooks in the
+ '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
+ e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
+ that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
+ in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
++
+The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
+taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
+the "DESCRIPTION" section of linkgit:githooks[5]).
++
+This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd like to
+centrally configure your Git hooks instead of configuring them on a
+per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized
+alternative to having an `init.templateDir` where you've changed
+default hooks.
core.editor::
Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -732,7 +771,7 @@ core.notesRef::
notes should be printed.
+
This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
-the 'GIT_NOTES_REF' environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
+the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
core.sparseCheckout::
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
@@ -768,7 +807,7 @@ it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be
executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
not necessarily be the current directory.
-'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
+`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
am.keepcr::
@@ -1106,9 +1145,12 @@ commit.status::
message. Defaults to true.
commit.template::
- Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
- "`~/`" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the
- specified user's home directory.
+ Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for
+ new commit messages.
+
+commit.verbose::
+ A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with `git commit`.
+ See linkgit:git-commit[1].
credential.helper::
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
@@ -1154,6 +1196,15 @@ difftool.<tool>.cmd::
difftool.prompt::
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
+fastimport.unpackLimit::
+ If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1]
+ is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
+ loose object files. However if the number of imported objects
+ equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a
+ pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import
+ operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If
+ not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
+
fetch.recurseSubmodules::
This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
@@ -1259,6 +1310,10 @@ format.outputDirectory::
Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
current working directory.
+format.useAutoBase::
+ A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
+ format-patch by default.
+
filter.<driver>.clean::
The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
@@ -1335,7 +1390,7 @@ gc.worktreePruneExpire::
'git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago'.
This config variable can be used to set a different grace
period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace
- period and prune $GIT_DIR/worktrees immediately, or "never"
+ period and prune `$GIT_DIR/worktrees` immediately, or "never"
may be used to suppress pruning.
gc.reflogExpire::
@@ -1387,18 +1442,18 @@ gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
- the file type to be determined, then 'gitcvs.allBinary' is
+ the file type to be determined, then `gitcvs.allBinary` is
used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
gitcvs.allBinary::
- This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve
+ This is used if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` does not resolve
the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
unresolved files are sent to the client in
mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
- it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'.
+ it is binary, similar to `core.autocrlf`.
gitcvs.dbName::
Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
@@ -1417,7 +1472,7 @@ gitcvs.dbDriver::
See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass::
- Database user and password. Only useful if setting 'gitcvs.dbDriver',
+ Database user and password. Only useful if setting `gitcvs.dbDriver`,
since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
'gitcvs.dbUser' supports variable substitution (see
linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
@@ -1429,8 +1484,8 @@ gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
characters will be replaced with underscores.
-All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
-'gitcvs.allBinary' can also be specified as
+All gitcvs variables except for `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` and
+`gitcvs.allBinary` can also be specified as
'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
access method.
@@ -1463,7 +1518,7 @@ grep.patternType::
grep.extendedRegexp::
If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
- option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
+ option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
other than 'default'.
grep.threads::
@@ -1475,13 +1530,13 @@ grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
gpg.program::
- Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when
+ Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when
making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
- signature, "gpg --verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the
+ signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the
program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
- standard input of "gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be
+ standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be
signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
standard output.
@@ -1494,7 +1549,7 @@ gui.diffContext::
made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
gui.displayUntracked::
- Determines if linkgit::git-gui[1] shows untracked files
+ Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files
in the file list. The default is "true".
gui.encoding::
@@ -1548,7 +1603,7 @@ guitool.<name>.cmd::
of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
- the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as
+ the tool as `GIT_GUITOOL`, the name of the currently selected file as
'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
@@ -1569,7 +1624,7 @@ guitool.<name>.confirm::
guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
- through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an
+ through the `ARGS` environment variable. Since requesting an
argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
@@ -1577,7 +1632,7 @@ guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
guitool.<name>.revPrompt::
Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
- 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option
+ `REVISION` environment variable. In other aspects this option
is similar to 'argPrompt', and can be used together with it.
guitool.<name>.revUnmerged::
@@ -1633,7 +1688,7 @@ http.proxyAuthMethod::
only takes effect if the configured proxy string contains a user name part
(i.e. is of the form 'user@host' or 'user@host:port'). This can be
overridden on a per-remote basis; see `remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod`.
- Both can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD' environment
+ Both can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD` environment
variable. Possible values are:
+
--
@@ -1662,11 +1717,12 @@ http.extraHeader::
config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.
http.cookieFile::
- File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
+ The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
+ which should be used
in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
- the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]).
- NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is only used as
+ the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
+ NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies::
@@ -1691,9 +1747,9 @@ http.sslVersion::
- tlsv1.2
+
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_VERSION' environment variable.
+Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_VERSION` environment variable.
To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
-explicit http.sslversion option, set 'GIT_SSL_VERSION' to the
+explicit http.sslversion option, set `GIT_SSL_VERSION` to the
empty string.
http.sslCipherList::
@@ -1704,41 +1760,41 @@ http.sslCipherList::
option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format
of this list.
+
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' environment variable.
+Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` environment variable.
To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
-explicit http.sslCipherList option, set 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' to the
+explicit http.sslCipherList option, set `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` to the
empty string.
http.sslVerify::
Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
- over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment
+ over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment
variable.
http.sslCert::
File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
- over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CERT' environment
+ over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CERT` environment
variable.
http.sslKey::
File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
- over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_KEY' environment
+ over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_KEY` environment
variable.
http.sslCertPasswordProtected::
Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise
OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the
certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
- 'GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED' environment variable.
+ `GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED` environment variable.
http.sslCAInfo::
File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
- 'GIT_SSL_CAINFO' environment variable.
+ `GIT_SSL_CAINFO` environment variable.
http.sslCAPath::
Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer
with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden
- by the 'GIT_SSL_CAPATH' environment variable.
+ by the `GIT_SSL_CAPATH` environment variable.
http.pinnedpubkey::
Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of
@@ -1758,7 +1814,7 @@ http.sslTry::
http.maxRequests::
How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
- by the 'GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS' environment variable. Default is 5.
+ by the `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS` environment variable. Default is 5.
http.minSessions::
The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across
@@ -1777,13 +1833,13 @@ http.postBuffer::
http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
- Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT' and
- 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME' environment variables.
+ Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT` and
+ `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME` environment variables.
http.noEPSV::
A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
- support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
+ support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV`
environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
http.userAgent::
@@ -1793,7 +1849,7 @@ http.userAgent::
such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if
connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
- Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
+ Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
http.<url>.*::
Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
@@ -1916,7 +1972,10 @@ log.decorate::
command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/',
'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is
specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
- This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' option.
+ If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal,
+ the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref
+ names are shown. This is the same as the '--decorate' option
+ of the `git log`.
log.follow::
If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
@@ -2587,7 +2646,7 @@ sendemail.identity::
A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
- the value of 'sendemail.identity'.
+ the value of `sendemail.identity`.
sendemail.smtpEncryption::
See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this
@@ -2604,7 +2663,7 @@ sendemail.<identity>.*::
Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters
found below, taking precedence over those when the this
identity is selected, through command-line or
- 'sendemail.identity'.
+ `sendemail.identity`.
sendemail.aliasesFile::
sendemail.aliasFileType::
@@ -2634,7 +2693,7 @@ sendemail.xmailer::
See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)::
- Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.signedoffbycc'.
+ Deprecated alias for `sendemail.signedoffbycc`.
showbranch.default::
The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
@@ -2840,6 +2899,21 @@ uploadpack.keepAlive::
`uploadpack.keepAlive` seconds. Setting this option to 0
disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
+uploadpack.packObjectsHook::
+ If this option is set, when `upload-pack` would run
+ `git pack-objects` to create a packfile for a client, it will
+ run this shell command instead. The `pack-objects` command and
+ arguments it _would_ have run (including the `git pack-objects`
+ at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The stdin
+ and stdout of the hook are treated as if `pack-objects` itself
+ was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for
+ `pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on
+ stdout.
++
+Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the
+repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from
+untrusted repositories).
+
url.<base>.insteadOf::
Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
@@ -2866,17 +2940,17 @@ url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
user.email::
Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
- Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and
- 'EMAIL' environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
+ Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and
+ `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
user.name::
Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.
- Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' and 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME'
+ Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`
environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
user.useConfigOnly::
- Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for 'user.email'
- and 'user.name', and instead retrieve the values only from the
+ Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
+ and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
diff --git a/Documentation/date-formats.txt b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
index ccd1fc8122..35e8da2010 100644
--- a/Documentation/date-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/date-formats.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
DATE FORMATS
------------
-The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables
+The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
ifdef::git-commit[]
and the `--date` option
endif::git-commit[]
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index edba56522b..f1101c7b21 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ diff.ignoreSubmodules::
commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to
'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit'
- and 'git status' when 'status.submoduleSummary' is set unless it is
+ and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is
overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option.
The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting.
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ diff.tool::
include::mergetools-diff.txt[]
+diff.compactionHeuristic::
+ Set this option to `true` to enable an experimental heuristic that
+ shifts the hunk boundary in an attempt to make the resulting
+ patch easier to read.
+
diff.algorithm::
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
+
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index bcf54da82a..c91afee21c 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ with a '-p' option, "git diff" without the '--raw' option, or
"git log" with the "-p" option, they
do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a
patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the
-GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables.
+`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables.
What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional
diff format:
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 4b0318e2ac..d9ae681d8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
Synonym for `-p --raw`.
endif::git-format-patch[]
+--compaction-heuristic::
+--no-compaction-heuristic::
+ These are to help debugging and tuning an experimental
+ heuristic (which is off by default) that shifts the hunk
+ boundary in an attempt to make the resulting patch easier
+ to read.
+
--minimal::
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible
diff is produced.
@@ -271,7 +278,7 @@ For example, `--word-diff-regex=.` will treat each character as a word
and, correspondingly, show differences character by character.
+
The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
-linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
+linkgit:gitattributes[5] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly
overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
override configuration settings.
diff --git a/Documentation/everyday.txto b/Documentation/everyday.txto
index c5047d8f9b..ae555bd47e 100644
--- a/Documentation/everyday.txto
+++ b/Documentation/everyday.txto
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Everyday Git With 20 Commands Or So
===================================
-This document has been moved to linkgit:giteveryday[1].
+This document has been moved to linkgit:giteveryday[7].
Please let the owners of the referring site know so that they can update the
link you clicked to get here.
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 036edfb099..b05a8341e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
-p::
--prune::
- After fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
+ Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
longer exist on the remote. Tags are not subject to pruning
if they are fetched only because of the default tag
auto-following or due to a --tags option. However, if tags
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 13cdd7f3b6..6348c29fea 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
By default the command will try to detect the patch format
automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
- interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
+ interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
+ stgit, stgit-series and hg.
-i::
--interactive::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
index c06efbd42a..e015f5b3cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ skip" to do the same thing. (In fact the special exit code 125 makes
Or if you want more control, you can inspect the current state using
for example "git bisect visualize". It will launch gitk (or "git log"
-if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set) to help you find a
+if the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set) to help you find a
better bisection point.
Either way, if you have a string of untestable commits, it might
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 7e79aaedeb..d9f960b509 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ $ git bisect visualize
`view` may also be used as a synonym for `visualize`.
-If the 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
+If the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
instead. You can also give command-line options such as `-p` and
`--stat`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
index e94367a5ed..611754f10b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:gitignore[5]
-linkgit:gitconfig[5]
+linkgit:git-config[1]
linkgit:git-ls-files[1]
GIT
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 6154e57238..c104a594af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ effect to your index in a row.
--allow-empty-message::
By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
- This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
+ This option overrides that behavior, allowing commits with empty
messages to be cherry picked.
--keep-redundant-commits::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 1b15cd7b16..ec41d3d698 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -191,9 +191,8 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
specified number of commits. Implies `--single-branch` unless
`--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the
- tips of all branches. This implies `--shallow-submodules`. If
- you want to have a shallow superproject clone, but full submodules,
- also pass `--no-shallow-submodules`.
+ tips of all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly,
+ also pass `--shallow-submodules`.
--[no-]single-branch::
Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 48c33d7ed7..cb69faab68 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ OPTIONS
stuck to the option without a space.
--no-gpg-sign::
- Countermand `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable that is
- set to force each and every commit to be signed.
+ Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option
+ given earlier on the command line.
Commit Information
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 9ec6b3cc17..e7049537d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ default::
Otherwise `whitespace`.
--
+
-The default can be changed by the 'commit.cleanup' configuration
+The default can be changed by the `commit.cleanup` configuration
variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
-e::
@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1].
what changes the commit has.
Note that this diff output doesn't have its
lines prefixed with '#'. This diff will not be a part
- of the commit message.
+ of the commit message. See the `commit.verbose` configuration
+ variable in linkgit:git-config[1].
+
If specified twice, show in addition the unified diff between
what would be committed and the worktree files, i.e. the unstaged
@@ -449,8 +450,8 @@ include::i18n.txt[]
ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
---------------------------------------
The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from the
-GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the
-VISUAL environment variable, or the EDITOR environment variable (in that
+`GIT_EDITOR` environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the
+`VISUAL` environment variable, or the `EDITOR` environment variable (in that
order). See linkgit:git-var[1] for details.
HOOKS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 6843114fc0..a89c304916 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ and '--unset'. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*.
You can override these rules either by command-line options or by environment
variables. The '--global' and the '--system' options will limit the file used
-to the global or system-wide file respectively. The GIT_CONFIG environment
+to the global or system-wide file respectively. The `GIT_CONFIG` environment
variable has a similar effect, but you can specify any filename you want.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index a69b3616ec..dc20275825 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Git configuration files in that directory are readable by `<user>`.
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 $REMOTE_PORT environment variables to learn about the
+ and `$REMOTE_PORT` environment variables to learn about the
requestor when making this decision.
+
The external command can optionally write a single line to its
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
index 66910aa2fa..644df993f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ Performance and Compression Tuning
Maximum size of each output packfile.
The default is unlimited.
+fastimport.unpackLimit::
+ See linkgit:git-config[1]
Performance
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 73fd9e8230..bd560d38d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Filters
The filters are applied in the order as listed below. The <command>
argument is always evaluated in the shell context using the 'eval' command
(with the notable exception of the commit filter, for technical reasons).
-Prior to that, the $GIT_COMMIT environment variable will be set to contain
+Prior to that, the `$GIT_COMMIT` environment variable will be set to contain
the id of the commit being rewritten. Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL,
and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE are taken from the current commit and exported to
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
Remap to ancestor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-By using linkgit:rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path limiters, you can limit the
+By using linkgit:git-rev-list[1] arguments, e.g., path limiters, you can limit the
set of revisions which get rewritten. However, positive refs on the command
line are distinguished: we don't let them be excluded by such limiters. For
this purpose, they are instead rewritten to point at the nearest ancestor that
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index c52578bb87..d9d406dcfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ returns an empty string instead.
As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for
the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the
-values the `--date` option to linkgit::git-rev-list[1] takes).
+values the `--date` option to linkgit:git-rev-list[1] takes).
EXAMPLES
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index 6821441d7d..9624c84a65 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified.
If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>. Otherwise
they are created in the current working directory. The default path
-can be set with the 'format.outputDirectory' configuration option.
+can be set with the `format.outputDirectory` configuration option.
The `-o` option takes precedence over `format.outputDirectory`.
To store patches in the current working directory even when
`format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`.
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ series, where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
`--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order. 'deep'
threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
+
-The default is `--no-thread`, unless the 'format.thread' configuration
+The default is `--no-thread`, unless the `format.thread` configuration
is set. If `--thread` is specified without a style, it defaults to the
-style specified by 'format.thread' if any, or else `shallow`.
+style specified by `format.thread` if any, or else `shallow`.
+
Beware that the default for 'git send-email' is to thread emails
itself. If you want `git format-patch` to take care of threading, you
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ you can use `--suffix=-patch` to get `0001-description-of-my-change-patch`.
Output an all-zero hash in each patch's From header instead
of the hash of the commit.
+--base=<commit>::
+ Record the base tree information to identify the state the
+ patch series applies to. See the BASE TREE INFORMATION section
+ below for details.
+
--root::
Treat the revision argument as a <revision range>, even if it
is just a single commit (that would normally be treated as a
@@ -520,6 +525,61 @@ This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail.
5. Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the
message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
+BASE TREE INFORMATION
+---------------------
+
+The base tree information block is used for maintainers or third party
+testers to know the exact state the patch series applies to. It consists
+of the 'base commit', which is a well-known commit that is part of the
+stable part of the project history everybody else works off of, and zero
+or more 'prerequisite patches', which are well-known patches in flight
+that is not yet part of the 'base commit' that need to be applied on top
+of 'base commit' in topological order before the patches can be applied.
+
+The 'base commit' is shown as "base-commit: " followed by the 40-hex of
+the commit object name. A 'prerequisite patch' is shown as
+"prerequisite-patch-id: " followed by the 40-hex 'patch id', which can
+be obtained by passing the patch through the `git patch-id --stable`
+command.
+
+Imagine that on top of the public commit P, you applied well-known
+patches X, Y and Z from somebody else, and then built your three-patch
+series A, B, C, the history would be like:
+
+................................................
+---P---X---Y---Z---A---B---C
+................................................
+
+With `git format-patch --base=P -3 C` (or variants thereof, e.g. with
+`--cover-letter` of using `Z..C` instead of `-3 C` to specify the
+range), the base tree information block is shown at the end of the
+first message the command outputs (either the first patch, or the
+cover letter), like this:
+
+------------
+base-commit: P
+prerequisite-patch-id: X
+prerequisite-patch-id: Y
+prerequisite-patch-id: Z
+------------
+
+For non-linear topology, such as
+
+................................................
+---P---X---A---M---C
+ \ /
+ Y---Z---B
+................................................
+
+You can also use `git format-patch --base=P -3 C` to generate patches
+for A, B and C, and the identifiers for P, X, Y, Z are appended at the
+end of the first message.
+
+If set `--base=auto` in cmdline, it will track base commit automatically,
+the base commit will be the merge base of tip commit of the remote-tracking
+branch and revision-range specified in cmdline.
+For a local branch, you need to track a remote branch by `git branch
+--set-upstream-to` before using this option.
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index fa1510480a..bed60f471c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -82,13 +82,13 @@ automatic consolidation of packs.
Configuration
-------------
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpire' can be
+The optional configuration variable `gc.reflogExpire` can be
set to indicate how long historical entries within each branch's
reflog should remain available in this repository. The setting is
expressed as a length of time, for example '90 days' or '3 months'.
It defaults to '90 days'.
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpireUnreachable'
+The optional configuration variable `gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`
can be set to indicate how long historical reflog entries which
are not part of the current branch should remain available in
this repository. These types of entries are generally created as
@@ -107,30 +107,30 @@ branches:
reflogExpireUnreachable = 3 days
------------
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereResolved' indicates
+The optional configuration variable `gc.rerereResolved` indicates
how long records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
kept. This defaults to 60 days.
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereUnresolved' indicates
+The optional configuration variable `gc.rerereUnresolved` indicates
how long records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
kept. This defaults to 15 days.
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.packRefs' determines if
+The optional configuration variable `gc.packRefs` determines if
'git gc' runs 'git pack-refs'. This can be set to "notbare" to enable
it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value.
This defaults to true.
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveWindow' controls how
+The optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveWindow` controls how
much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in
the repository when the --aggressive option is specified. The larger
the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression. See
the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for
more details. This defaults to 250.
-Similarly, the optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveDepth'
+Similarly, the optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveDepth`
controls --depth option in linkgit:git-repack[1]. This defaults to 250.
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old
+The optional configuration variable `gc.pruneExpire` controls how old
the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned. The
default is "2 weeks ago".
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index cb0f6cf678..40cfe37d00 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ grep.patternType::
grep.extendedRegexp::
If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
- option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
+ option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
other than 'default'.
grep.threads::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index 3956525218..338b8d61ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ OPTIONS
--man::
Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This
option may be used to override a value set in the
- 'help.format' configuration variable.
+ `help.format` configuration variable.
+
By default the 'man' program will be used to display the manual page,
-but the 'man.viewer' configuration variable may be used to choose
+but the `man.viewer` configuration variable may be used to choose
other display programs (see below).
-w::
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ other display programs (see below).
format. A web browser will be used for that purpose.
+
The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
-'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of
+`help.browser`, or `web.browser` if the former is not set. If none of
these config variables is set, the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper script
(called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See
linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
help.format
~~~~~~~~~~~
-If no command-line option is passed, the 'help.format' configuration
+If no command-line option is passed, the `help.format` configuration
variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this
variable; they make 'git help' behave as their corresponding command-
line option:
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ line option:
help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
+The `help.browser`, `web.browser` and `browser.<tool>.path` will also
be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command-line
option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
man.viewer
~~~~~~~~~~
-The 'man.viewer' configuration variable will be checked if the 'man'
+The `man.viewer` configuration variable will be checked if the 'man'
format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
* "man": use the 'man' program as usual,
@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below).
Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
-'man.<tool>.cmd' configuration entry (see below).
+`man.<tool>.cmd` configuration entry (see below).
-Multiple values may be given to the 'man.viewer' configuration
+Multiple values may be given to the `man.viewer` configuration
variable. Their corresponding programs will be tried in the order
listed in the configuration file.
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ will try to use konqueror first. But this may fail (for example, if
DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried.
If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified
-in the GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable will be tried. If that
+in the `GIT_MAN_VIEWER` environment variable will be tried. If that
fails too, the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
man.<tool>.path
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by
-setting the configuration variable 'man.<tool>.path'. For example, you
+setting the configuration variable `man.<tool>.path`. For example, you
can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting
'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git help' assumes the tool is
available in PATH.
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ available in PATH.
man.<tool>.cmd
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-When the man viewer, specified by the 'man.viewer' configuration
+When the man viewer, specified by the `man.viewer` configuration
variables, is not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
-'man.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
+`man.<tool>.cmd` configuration variable will be looked up. If this
variable exists then the specified tool will be treated as a custom
command and a shell eval will be used to run the command with the man
page passed as arguments.
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ page passed as arguments.
Note about konqueror
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-When 'konqueror' is specified in the 'man.viewer' configuration
+When 'konqueror' is specified in the `man.viewer` configuration
variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the man page on an
already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
index 9268fb6b1e..bb0db195ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pushing using the smart HTTP protocol.
It verifies that the directory has the magic file
"git-daemon-export-ok", and it will refuse to export any Git directory
that hasn't explicitly been marked for export this way (unless the
-GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable is set).
+`GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environmental variable is set).
By default, only the `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
'git fetch-pack' and 'git ls-remote' clients, which are invoked from
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/git/private" {
ENVIRONMENT
-----------
-'git http-backend' relies upon the CGI environment variables set
+'git http-backend' relies upon the `CGI` environment variables set
by the invoking web server, including:
* PATH_INFO (if GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is set, otherwise PATH_TRANSLATED)
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ by the invoking web server, including:
* QUERY_STRING
* REQUEST_METHOD
-The GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable may be passed to
+The `GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environmental variable may be passed to
'git-http-backend' to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok"
file in each repository before allowing export of that repository.
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to '$\{REMOTE_USER}@http.$\{REMOTE_ADDR\}',
ensuring that any reflogs created by 'git-receive-pack' contain some
identifying information of the remote user who performed the push.
-All CGI environment variables are available to each of the hooks
+All `CGI` environment variables are available to each of the hooks
invoked by the 'git-receive-pack'.
GIT
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 8174d27efd..9d27197de8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Only print error and warning messages; all other output will be suppressed.
--bare::
-Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the
+Create a bare repository. If `GIT_DIR` environment is not set, it is set to the
current working directory.
--template=<template_directory>::
@@ -130,7 +130,12 @@ The template directory will be one of the following (in order):
- the default template directory: `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
The default template directory includes some directory structure, suggested
-"exclude patterns" (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), and sample hook files (see linkgit:githooks[5]).
+"exclude patterns" (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), and sample hook files.
+
+The sample hooks are all disabled by default, To enable one of the
+sample hooks rename it by removing its `.sample` suffix.
+
+See linkgit:githooks[5] for more general info on hook execution.
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
index cc75b25022..e8ecdbf927 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-instaweb.txt
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ You may specify configuration in your .git/config
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set,
-'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined. See
+If the configuration variable `instaweb.browser` is not set,
+`web.browser` will be used instead if it is defined. See
linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
SEE ALSO
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 03f958029a..4a6c47f843 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -29,12 +29,14 @@ OPTIONS
(works only for a single file).
--no-decorate::
---decorate[=short|full|no]::
+--decorate[=short|full|auto|no]::
Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If 'short' is
specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', 'refs/tags/' and
'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is specified, the
- full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option
- is 'short'.
+ full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If 'auto' is
+ specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, the ref names
+ are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref names are
+ shown. The default option is 'short'.
--source::
Print out the ref name given on the command line by which each
@@ -201,7 +203,7 @@ mailmap.*::
notes.displayRef::
Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef`
- or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+ or `GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
messages with the `log` family of commands. See
linkgit:git-notes[1].
+
@@ -210,7 +212,7 @@ multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
+
This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option,
-overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable,
+overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF` environment variable,
and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option.
GIT
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 0947084140..3bbc731f67 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
+
-This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
+This can be enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
--no-scissors::
Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
index 4d1b871d96..e3b2a88c4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-mailsplit - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] -o<directory> [--] [(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...]
+'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] [--mboxrd]
+ -o<directory> [--] [(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -47,6 +48,10 @@ OPTIONS
--keep-cr::
Do not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`.
+--mboxrd::
+ Input is of the "mboxrd" format and "^>+From " line escaping is
+ reversed.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 8de349968a..02a10bc3b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ OPTIONS
--ref <ref>::
Manipulate the notes tree in <ref>. This overrides
- 'GIT_NOTES_REF' and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref
+ `GIT_NOTES_REF` and the "core.notesRef" configuration. The ref
specifies the full refname when it begins with `refs/notes/`; when it
begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise `refs/notes/` is prefixed
to form a full name of the ref.
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@ notes.<name>.mergeStrategy::
notes.displayRef::
Which ref (or refs, if a glob or specified more than once), in
addition to the default set by `core.notesRef` or
- 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+ `GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
messages with the 'git log' family of commands.
This setting can be overridden on the command line or by the
- 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable.
+ `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF` environment variable.
See linkgit:git-log[1].
notes.rewrite.<command>::
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ notes.rewrite.<command>::
notes from the original to the rewritten commit. Defaults to
`true`. See also "`notes.rewriteRef`" below.
+
-This setting can be overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF'
+This setting can be overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
environment variable.
notes.rewriteMode::
@@ -366,33 +366,33 @@ notes.rewriteRef::
Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
enable note rewriting.
+
-Can be overridden with the 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF' environment variable.
+Can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF` environment variable.
ENVIRONMENT
-----------
-'GIT_NOTES_REF'::
+`GIT_NOTES_REF`::
Which ref to manipulate notes from, instead of `refs/notes/commits`.
This overrides the `core.notesRef` setting.
-'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF'::
+`GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF`::
Colon-delimited list of refs or globs indicating which refs,
in addition to the default from `core.notesRef` or
- 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+ `GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
messages.
This overrides the `notes.displayRef` setting.
+
A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, but a glob that
does not match any refs is silently ignored.
-'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE'::
+`GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`::
When copying notes during a rewrite, what to do if the target
commit already has a note.
Must be one of `overwrite`, `concatenate`, `cat_sort_uniq`, or `ignore`.
This overrides the `core.rewriteMode` setting.
-'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF'::
+`GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`::
When rewriting commits, which notes to copy from the original
to the rewritten commit. Must be a colon-delimited list of
refs or globs.
@@ -402,4 +402,4 @@ on the `notes.rewrite.<command>` and `notes.rewriteRef` settings.
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index 88ba42b455..9d4f1519e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Submit
~~~~~~
Submitting changes from a Git repository back to the p4 repository
requires a separate p4 client workspace. This should be specified
-using the 'P4CLIENT' environment variable or the Git configuration
+using the `P4CLIENT` environment variable or the Git configuration
variable 'git-p4.client'. The p4 client must exist, but the client root
will be created and populated if it does not already exist.
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ General options
All commands except clone accept these options.
--git-dir <dir>::
- Set the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable. See linkgit:git[1].
+ Set the `GIT_DIR` environment variable. See linkgit:git[1].
-v::
--verbose::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index cf6ee4a4df..19f46b64d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ already exists on the remote side.
and also push annotated tags in `refs/tags` that are missing
from the remote but are pointing at commit-ish that are
reachable from the refs being pushed. This can also be specified
- with configuration variable 'push.followTags'. For more
- information, see 'push.followTags' in linkgit:git-config[1].
+ with configuration variable `push.followTags`. For more
+ information, see `push.followTags` in linkgit:git-config[1].
--[no-]signed::
--sign=(true|false|if-asked)::
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the
For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add
upstream (tracking) reference, used by argument-less
linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information,
- see 'branch.<name>.merge' in linkgit:git-config[1].
+ see `branch.<name>.merge` in linkgit:git-config[1].
--[no-]thin::
These options are passed to linkgit:git-send-pack[1]. A thin transfer
diff --git a/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt b/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
index ff633b0db7..8cf952b4de 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ OPTIONS
The directory to find the quilt patches.
+
The default for the patch directory is patches
-or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
+or the value of the `$QUILT_PATCHES` environment
variable.
--series <file>::
The quilt series file.
+
The default for the series file is <patches>/series
-or the value of the $QUILT_SERIES environment
+or the value of the `$QUILT_SERIES` environment
variable.
GIT
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index b9c02ce481..b58b6b5972 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -128,6 +128,19 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
with `-b` or `repack.writeBitmaps`, as it ensures that the
bitmapped packfile has the necessary objects.
+--unpack-unreachable=<when>::
+ When loosening unreachable objects, do not bother loosening any
+ objects older than `<when>`. This can be used to optimize out
+ the write of any objects that would be immediately pruned by
+ a follow-up `git prune`.
+
+-k::
+--keep-unreachable::
+ When used with `-ad`, any unreachable objects from existing
+ packs will be appended to the end of the packfile instead of
+ being removed. In addition, any unreachable loose objects will
+ be packed (and their loose counterparts removed).
+
Configuration
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 8fff598fd6..e5c57ae6ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ $ git cat-file commit foo
shows information about commit 'bar'.
-The 'GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS' environment variable can be set to
+The `GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS` environment variable can be set to
achieve the same effect as the `--no-replace-objects` option.
OPTIONS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 771a7b5b09..d0b38b4b10 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -47,18 +47,18 @@ Composing
--annotate::
Review and edit each patch you're about to send. Default is the value
- of 'sendemail.annotate'. See the CONFIGURATION section for
- 'sendemail.multiEdit'.
+ of `sendemail.annotate`. See the CONFIGURATION section for
+ `sendemail.multiEdit`.
--bcc=<address>,...::
Specify a "Bcc:" value for each email. Default is the value of
- 'sendemail.bcc'.
+ `sendemail.bcc`.
+
This option may be specified multiple times.
--cc=<address>,...::
Specify a starting "Cc:" value for each email.
- Default is the value of 'sendemail.cc'.
+ Default is the value of `sendemail.cc`.
+
This option may be specified multiple times.
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ and In-Reply-To headers will be used unless they are removed.
+
Missing From or In-Reply-To headers will be prompted for.
+
-See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiEdit'.
+See the CONFIGURATION section for `sendemail.multiEdit`.
--from=<address>::
Specify the sender of the emails. If not specified on the command line,
- the value of the 'sendemail.from' configuration option is used. If
- neither the command-line option nor 'sendemail.from' are set, then the
+ the value of the `sendemail.from` configuration option is used. If
+ neither the command-line option nor `sendemail.from` are set, then the
user will be prompted for the value. The default for the prompt will be
the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not
set, as returned by "git var -l".
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ is not set, this will be prompted for.
--to=<address>,...::
Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. Generally, this
will be the upstream maintainer of the project involved. Default is the
- value of the 'sendemail.to' configuration value; if that is unspecified,
+ value of the `sendemail.to` configuration value; if that is unspecified,
and --to-cmd is not specified, this will be prompted for.
+
This option may be specified multiple times.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding.
can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
harder to inspect manually. base64 is even more fool proof, but also
- even more opaque. Default is the value of the 'sendemail.transferEncoding'
+ even more opaque. Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding`
configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not
add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
@@ -157,20 +157,20 @@ Sending
subscribed to a list. In order to use the 'From' address, set the
value to "auto". If you use the sendmail binary, you must have
suitable privileges for the -f parameter. Default is the value of the
- 'sendemail.envelopeSender' configuration variable; if that is
+ `sendemail.envelopeSender` configuration variable; if that is
unspecified, choosing the envelope sender is left to your MTA.
--smtp-encryption=<encryption>::
Specify the encryption to use, either 'ssl' or 'tls'. Any other
value reverts to plain SMTP. Default is the value of
- 'sendemail.smtpEncryption'.
+ `sendemail.smtpEncryption`.
--smtp-domain=<FQDN>::
Specifies the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) used in the
HELO/EHLO command to the SMTP server. Some servers require the
FQDN to match your IP address. If not set, git send-email attempts
to determine your FQDN automatically. Default is the value of
- 'sendemail.smtpDomain'.
+ `sendemail.smtpDomain`.
--smtp-auth=<mechanisms>::
Whitespace-separated list of allowed SMTP-AUTH mechanisms. This setting
@@ -188,13 +188,13 @@ is specified, all mechanisms supported by the SASL library can be used.
--smtp-pass[=<password>]::
Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no
argument is specified, then the empty string is used as
- the password. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpPass',
+ the password. Default is the value of `sendemail.smtpPass`,
however '--smtp-pass' always overrides this value.
+
Furthermore, passwords need not be specified in configuration files
or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with
-'--smtp-user' or a 'sendemail.smtpUser'), but no password has been
-specified (with '--smtp-pass' or 'sendemail.smtpPass'), then
+'--smtp-user' or a `sendemail.smtpUser`), but no password has been
+specified (with '--smtp-pass' or `sendemail.smtpPass`), then
a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
--smtp-server=<host>::
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
`smtp.example.com` or a raw IP address). Alternatively it can
specify a full pathname of a sendmail-like program instead;
the program must support the `-i` option. Default value can
- be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpServer' configuration
+ be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServer` configuration
option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or
`/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or
`localhost` otherwise.
@@ -213,11 +213,11 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
submission port 587, or the common SSL smtp port 465);
symbolic port names (e.g. "submission" instead of 587)
are also accepted. The port can also be set with the
- 'sendemail.smtpServerPort' configuration variable.
+ `sendemail.smtpServerPort` configuration variable.
--smtp-server-option=<option>::
If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server option to use.
- Default value can be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpServerOption'
+ Default value can be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServerOption`
configuration option.
+
The --smtp-server-option option must be repeated for each option you want
@@ -234,13 +234,13 @@ must be used for each option.
certificates concatenated together: see verify(1) -CAfile and
-CApath for more information on these). Set it to an empty string
to disable certificate verification. Defaults to the value of the
- 'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath' configuration variable, if set, or the
+ `sendemail.smtpsslcertpath` configuration variable, if set, or the
backing SSL library's compiled-in default otherwise (which should
be the best choice on most platforms).
--smtp-user=<user>::
- Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpUser';
- if a username is not specified (with '--smtp-user' or 'sendemail.smtpUser'),
+ Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of `sendemail.smtpUser`;
+ if a username is not specified (with '--smtp-user' or `sendemail.smtpUser`),
then authentication is not attempted.
--smtp-debug=0|1::
@@ -261,25 +261,25 @@ Automating
Specify a command to execute once per patch file which
should generate patch file specific "Cc:" entries.
Output of this command must be single email address per line.
- Default is the value of 'sendemail.ccCmd' configuration value.
+ Default is the value of `sendemail.ccCmd` configuration value.
--[no-]chain-reply-to::
If this is set, each email will be sent as a reply to the previous
email sent. If disabled with "--no-chain-reply-to", all emails after
the first will be sent as replies to the first email sent. When using
this, it is recommended that the first file given be an overview of the
- entire patch series. Disabled by default, but the 'sendemail.chainReplyTo'
+ entire patch series. Disabled by default, but the `sendemail.chainReplyTo`
configuration variable can be used to enable it.
--identity=<identity>::
A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
- the value of 'sendemail.identity'.
+ the value of `sendemail.identity`.
--[no-]signed-off-by-cc::
If this is set, add emails found in Signed-off-by: or Cc: lines to the
- cc list. Default is the value of 'sendemail.signedoffbycc' configuration
+ cc list. Default is the value of `sendemail.signedoffbycc` configuration
value; if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc.
--[no-]cc-cover::
@@ -312,13 +312,13 @@ Automating
- 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
--
+
-Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; if
+Default is the value of `sendemail.suppresscc` configuration value; if
that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is
specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
--[no-]suppress-from::
If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list.
- Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppressFrom' configuration
+ Default is the value of `sendemail.suppressFrom` configuration
value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-suppress-from.
--[no-]thread::
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
+
If disabled with "--no-thread", those headers will not be added
(unless specified with --in-reply-to). Default is the value of the
-'sendemail.thread' configuration value; if that is unspecified,
+`sendemail.thread` configuration value; if that is unspecified,
default to --thread.
+
It is up to the user to ensure that no In-Reply-To header already
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Administering
- 'auto' is equivalent to 'cc' + 'compose'
--
+
-Default is the value of 'sendemail.confirm' configuration value; if that
+Default is the value of `sendemail.confirm` configuration value; if that
is unspecified, default to 'auto' unless any of the suppress options
have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
--
+
-Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set,
+Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,
default to '--validate'.
--force::
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ CONFIGURATION
sendemail.aliasesFile::
To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or more
- email aliases files. You must also supply 'sendemail.aliasFileType'.
+ email aliases files. You must also supply `sendemail.aliasFileType`.
sendemail.aliasFileType::
Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile. Must be
@@ -450,6 +450,19 @@ edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
smtpServerPort = 587
+If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you will
+need to generate an app-specific password for use with 'git send-email'. Visit
+https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an
+app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the credentials
+helper:
+
+ $ git credential fill
+ protocol=smtp
+ host=smtp.gmail.com
+ username=youname@gmail.com
+ password=app-password
+
+
Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
following commands:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt
index 4f67c4cde6..8632612c31 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ usage::
die with the usage message.
set_reflog_action::
- Set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment to a given string (typically
+ Set `GIT_REFLOG_ACTION` environment to a given string (typically
the name of the program) unless it is already set. Whenever
the script runs a `git` command that updates refs, a reflog
entry is created using the value of this string to leave the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 13adebf7b7..bf3bb372ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] [--] <path>...
+'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch]
- [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>]
- [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
+ [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge]
+ [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive]
+ [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>]
[commit] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
@@ -140,12 +141,15 @@ deinit::
tree. Further calls to `git submodule update`, `git submodule foreach`
and `git submodule sync` will skip any unregistered submodules until
they are initialized again, so use this command if you don't want to
- have a local checkout of the submodule in your work tree anymore. If
+ have a local checkout of the submodule in your working tree anymore. If
you really want to remove a submodule from the repository and commit
that use linkgit:git-rm[1] instead.
+
-If `--force` is specified, the submodule's work tree will be removed even if
-it contains local modifications.
+When the command is run without pathspec, it errors out,
+instead of deinit-ing everything, to prevent mistakes.
++
+If `--force` is specified, the submodule's working tree will
+be removed even if it contains local modifications.
update::
+
@@ -247,6 +251,10 @@ OPTIONS
--quiet::
Only print error messages.
+--all::
+ This option is only valid for the deinit command. Unregister all
+ submodules in the working tree.
+
-b::
--branch::
Branch of repository to add as submodule.
@@ -257,8 +265,8 @@ OPTIONS
--force::
This option is only valid for add, deinit and update commands.
When running add, allow adding an otherwise ignored submodule path.
- When running deinit the submodule work trees will be removed even if
- they contain local changes.
+ When running deinit the submodule working trees will be removed even
+ if they contain local changes.
When running update (only effective with the checkout procedure),
throw away local changes in submodules when switching to a
different commit; and always run a checkout operation in the
@@ -377,6 +385,12 @@ for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully.
clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions.
See linkgit:git-clone[1]
+--[no-]recommend-shallow::
+ This option is only valid for the update command.
+ The initial clone of a submodule will use the recommended
+ `submodule.<name>.shallow` as provided by the .gitmodules file
+ by default. To ignore the suggestions use `--no-recommend-shallow`.
+
-j <n>::
--jobs <n>::
This option is only valid for the update command.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index fb23a98a17..698a6685f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -459,6 +459,20 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log'
Gets the Subversion property given as the first argument, for a
file. A specific revision can be specified with -r/--revision.
+'propset'::
+ Sets the Subversion property given as the first argument, to the
+ value given as the second argument for the file given as the
+ third argument.
++
+Example:
++
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+git svn propset svn:keywords "FreeBSD=%H" devel/py-tipper/Makefile
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
++
+This will set the property 'svn:keywords' to 'FreeBSD=%H' for the file
+'devel/py-tipper/Makefile'.
+
'show-externals'::
Shows the Subversion externals. Use -r/--revision to specify a
specific revision.
@@ -748,7 +762,7 @@ svn-remote.<name>.rewriteUUID::
svn-remote.<name>.pushurl::
- Similar to Git's 'remote.<name>.pushurl', this key is designed
+ Similar to Git's `remote.<name>.pushurl`, this key is designed
to be used in cases where 'url' points to an SVN repository
via a read-only transport, to provide an alternate read/write
transport. It is assumed that both keys point to the same
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index abab4814ec..6b89393746 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ OPTIONS
-v::
--verify::
- Verify the gpg signature of the given tag names.
+ Verify the GPG signature of the given tag names.
-n<num>::
<num> specifies how many lines from the annotation, if any,
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ OPTIONS
order can also be affected by the
"versionsort.prereleaseSuffix" configuration variable.
The keys supported are the same as those in `git for-each-ref`.
- Sort order defaults to the value configured for the 'tag.sort'
+ Sort order defaults to the value configured for the `tag.sort`
variable if it exists, or lexicographic order otherwise. See
linkgit:git-config[1].
diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
index 0abc806ea9..822ad593af 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-upload-pack - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-upload-pack' [--strict] [--timeout=<n>] <directory>
-
+'git-upload-pack' [--[no-]strict] [--timeout=<n>] [--stateless-rpc]
+ [--advertise-refs] <directory>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Invoked by 'git fetch-pack', learns what
@@ -25,12 +25,22 @@ repository. For push operations, see 'git send-pack'.
OPTIONS
-------
---strict::
+--[no-]strict::
Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no Git directory.
--timeout=<n>::
Interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of inactivity.
+--stateless-rpc::
+ Perform only a single read-write cycle with stdin and stdout.
+ This fits with the HTTP POST request processing model where
+ a program may read the request, write a response, and must exit.
+
+--advertise-refs::
+ Only the initial ref advertisement is output, and the program exits
+ immediately. This fits with the HTTP GET request model, where
+ no request content is received but a response must be produced.
+
<directory>::
The repository to sync from.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
index ecf4da16cf..92097f6673 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Validates the gpg signature created by 'git commit -S'.
+Validates the GPG signature created by 'git commit -S'.
OPTIONS
-------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
index 16ede5b4c3..7daa28fd94 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
-with the -c (or --config) command-line option, or the 'web.browser'
+with the -c (or --config) command-line option, or the `web.browser`
configuration variable if the former is not used.
browser.<tool>.path
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
-setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
+setting the configuration variable `browser.<tool>.path`. For example,
you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web{litdd}browse' assumes the tool
is available in PATH.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ browser.<tool>.cmd
When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
-'browser.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
+`browser.<tool>.cmd` configuration variable will be looked up. If this
variable exists then 'git web{litdd}browse' will treat the specified tool
as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with
the URLs passed as arguments.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index c62234538b..7c4cfb0885 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git worktree add' [-f] [--detach] [--checkout] [-b <new-branch>] <path> [<branch>]
-'git worktree prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>]
'git worktree list' [--porcelain]
+'git worktree prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -48,16 +48,13 @@ add <path> [<branch>]::
Create `<path>` and checkout `<branch>` into it. The new working directory
is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working
-directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc.
+directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. `-` may also be
+specified as `<branch>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`.
+
If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detached` used,
then, as a convenience, a new branch based at HEAD is created automatically,
as if `-b $(basename <path>)` was specified.
-prune::
-
-Prune working tree information in $GIT_DIR/worktrees.
-
list::
List details of each worktree. The main worktree is listed first, followed by
@@ -65,6 +62,10 @@ each of the linked worktrees. The output details include if the worktree is
bare, the revision currently checked out, and the branch currently checked out
(or 'detached HEAD' if none).
+prune::
+
+Prune working tree information in $GIT_DIR/worktrees.
+
OPTIONS
-------
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 34ff007a98..ca611c9f86 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,11 +43,18 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v2.8.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.2]
+* link:v2.9.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.9]
* release notes for
- link:RelNotes/2.8.2.txt[2.8.2].
- link:RelNotes/2.8.1.txt[2.8.1].
+ link:RelNotes/2.9.0.txt[2.9].
+
+* link:v2.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.4]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.4.txt[2.8.4],
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.3.txt[2.8.3],
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.2.txt[2.8.2],
+ link:RelNotes/2.8.1.txt[2.8.1],
link:RelNotes/2.8.0.txt[2.8].
* link:v2.7.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.3]
@@ -570,7 +577,7 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string.
--git-dir=<path>::
Set the path to the repository. This can also be controlled by
- setting the GIT_DIR environment variable. It can be an absolute
+ setting the `GIT_DIR` environment variable. It can be an absolute
path or relative path to current working directory.
--work-tree=<path>::
@@ -820,46 +827,46 @@ These environment variables apply to 'all' core Git commands. Nb: it
is worth noting that they may be used/overridden by SCMS sitting above
Git so take care if using a foreign front-end.
-'GIT_INDEX_FILE'::
+`GIT_INDEX_FILE`::
This environment allows the specification of an alternate
index file. If not specified, the default of `$GIT_DIR/index`
is used.
-'GIT_INDEX_VERSION'::
+`GIT_INDEX_VERSION`::
This environment variable allows the specification of an index
version for new repositories. It won't affect existing index
files. By default index file version 2 or 3 is used. See
linkgit:git-update-index[1] for more information.
-'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY'::
+`GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY`::
If the object storage directory is specified via this
environment variable then the sha1 directories are created
underneath - otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
directory is used.
-'GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES'::
+`GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES`::
Due to the immutable nature of Git objects, old objects can be
archived into shared, read-only directories. This variable
specifies a ":" separated (on Windows ";" separated) list
of Git object directories which can be used to search for Git
objects. New objects will not be written to these directories.
-'GIT_DIR'::
- If the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set then it
+`GIT_DIR`::
+ If the `GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it
specifies a path to use instead of the default `.git`
for the base of the repository.
The '--git-dir' command-line option also sets this value.
-'GIT_WORK_TREE'::
+`GIT_WORK_TREE`::
Set the path to the root of the working tree.
This can also be controlled by the '--work-tree' command-line
option and the core.worktree configuration variable.
-'GIT_NAMESPACE'::
+`GIT_NAMESPACE`::
Set the Git namespace; see linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] for details.
The '--namespace' command-line option also sets this value.
-'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'::
+`GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES`::
This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths. If
set, it is a list of directories that Git should not chdir up
into while looking for a repository directory (useful for
@@ -872,19 +879,19 @@ Git so take care if using a foreign front-end.
can add an empty entry to the list to tell Git that the
subsequent entries are not symlinks and needn't be resolved;
e.g.,
- 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/maybe/symlink::/very/slow/non/symlink'.
+ `GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/maybe/symlink::/very/slow/non/symlink`.
-'GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM'::
+`GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM`::
When run in a directory that does not have ".git" repository
directory, Git tries to find such a directory in the parent
directories to find the top of the working tree, but by default it
does not cross filesystem boundaries. This environment variable
can be set to true to tell Git not to stop at filesystem
- boundaries. Like 'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES', this will not affect
- an explicit repository directory set via 'GIT_DIR' or on the
+ boundaries. Like `GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES`, this will not affect
+ an explicit repository directory set via `GIT_DIR` or on the
command line.
-'GIT_COMMON_DIR'::
+`GIT_COMMON_DIR`::
If this variable is set to a path, non-worktree files that are
normally in $GIT_DIR will be taken from this path
instead. Worktree-specific files such as HEAD or index are
@@ -895,28 +902,28 @@ Git so take care if using a foreign front-end.
Git Commits
~~~~~~~~~~~
-'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME'::
-'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL'::
-'GIT_AUTHOR_DATE'::
-'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME'::
-'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL'::
-'GIT_COMMITTER_DATE'::
+`GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`::
+`GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`::
+`GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`::
+`GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`::
+`GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`::
+`GIT_COMMITTER_DATE`::
'EMAIL'::
see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]
Git Diffs
~~~~~~~~~
-'GIT_DIFF_OPTS'::
+`GIT_DIFF_OPTS`::
Only valid setting is "--unified=??" or "-u??" to set the
number of context lines shown when a unified diff is created.
This takes precedence over any "-U" or "--unified" option
value passed on the Git diff command line.
-'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'::
- When the environment variable 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is set, the
+`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF`::
+ When the environment variable `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` is set, the
program named by it is called, instead of the diff invocation
described above. For a path that is added, removed, or modified,
- 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called with 7 parameters:
+ `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` is called with 7 parameters:
path old-file old-hex old-mode new-file new-hex new-mode
+
@@ -930,42 +937,42 @@ where:
The file parameters can point at the user's working file
(e.g. `new-file` in "git-diff-files"), `/dev/null` (e.g. `old-file`
when a new file is added), or a temporary file (e.g. `old-file` in the
-index). 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' should not worry about unlinking the
-temporary file --- it is removed when 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' exits.
+index). `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` should not worry about unlinking the
+temporary file --- it is removed when `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` exits.
+
-For a path that is unmerged, 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called with 1
+For a path that is unmerged, `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` is called with 1
parameter, <path>.
+
-For each path 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called, two environment variables,
-'GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER' and 'GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL' are set.
+For each path `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` is called, two environment variables,
+`GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER` and `GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL` are set.
-'GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER'::
+`GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER`::
A 1-based counter incremented by one for every path.
-'GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL'::
+`GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL`::
The total number of paths.
other
~~~~~
-'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY'::
+`GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY`::
A number controlling the amount of output shown by
the recursive merge strategy. Overrides merge.verbosity.
See linkgit:git-merge[1]
-'GIT_PAGER'::
+`GIT_PAGER`::
This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`. If it is set
to an empty string or to the value "cat", Git will not launch
a pager. See also the `core.pager` option in
linkgit:git-config[1].
-'GIT_EDITOR'::
+`GIT_EDITOR`::
This environment variable overrides `$EDITOR` and `$VISUAL`.
It is used by several Git commands when, on interactive mode,
an editor is to be launched. See also linkgit:git-var[1]
and the `core.editor` option in linkgit:git-config[1].
-'GIT_SSH'::
-'GIT_SSH_COMMAND'::
+`GIT_SSH`::
+`GIT_SSH_COMMAND`::
If either of these environment variables is set then 'git fetch'
and 'git push' will use the specified command instead of 'ssh'
when they need to connect to a remote system.
@@ -985,18 +992,18 @@ Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your
personal `.ssh/config` file. Please consult your ssh documentation
for further details.
-'GIT_ASKPASS'::
+`GIT_ASKPASS`::
If this environment variable is set, then Git commands which need to
acquire passwords or passphrases (e.g. for HTTP or IMAP authentication)
will call this program with a suitable prompt as command-line argument
- and read the password from its STDOUT. See also the 'core.askPass'
+ and read the password from its STDOUT. See also the `core.askPass`
option in linkgit:git-config[1].
-'GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT'::
+`GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT`::
If this environment variable is set to `0`, git will not prompt
on the terminal (e.g., when asking for HTTP authentication).
-'GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM'::
+`GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM`::
Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide
`$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig` file. This environment variable can
be used along with `$HOME` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` to create a
@@ -1004,7 +1011,7 @@ for further details.
temporarily to avoid using a buggy `/etc/gitconfig` file while
waiting for someone with sufficient permissions to fix it.
-'GIT_FLUSH'::
+`GIT_FLUSH`::
If this environment variable is set to "1", then commands such
as 'git blame' (in incremental mode), 'git rev-list', 'git log',
'git check-attr' and 'git check-ignore' will
@@ -1015,7 +1022,7 @@ for further details.
not set, Git will choose buffered or record-oriented flushing
based on whether stdout appears to be redirected to a file or not.
-'GIT_TRACE'::
+`GIT_TRACE`::
Enables general trace messages, e.g. alias expansion, built-in
command execution and external command execution.
+
@@ -1036,21 +1043,21 @@ into it.
Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or
"false" (case insensitive) disables trace messages.
-'GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS'::
+`GIT_TRACE_PACK_ACCESS`::
Enables trace messages for all accesses to any packs. For each
access, the pack file name and an offset in the pack is
recorded. This may be helpful for troubleshooting some
pack-related performance problems.
- See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+ See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options.
-'GIT_TRACE_PACKET'::
+`GIT_TRACE_PACKET`::
Enables trace messages for all packets coming in or out of a
given program. This can help with debugging object negotiation
or other protocol issues. Tracing is turned off at a packet
- starting with "PACK" (but see 'GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE' below).
- See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+ starting with "PACK" (but see `GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE` below).
+ See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options.
-'GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE'::
+`GIT_TRACE_PACKFILE`::
Enables tracing of packfiles sent or received by a
given program. Unlike other trace output, this trace is
verbatim: no headers, and no quoting of binary data. You almost
@@ -1061,22 +1068,30 @@ Unsetting the variable, or setting it to empty, "0" or
Note that this is currently only implemented for the client side
of clones and fetches.
-'GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE'::
+`GIT_TRACE_PERFORMANCE`::
Enables performance related trace messages, e.g. total execution
time of each Git command.
- See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+ See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options.
-'GIT_TRACE_SETUP'::
+`GIT_TRACE_SETUP`::
Enables trace messages printing the .git, working tree and current
working directory after Git has completed its setup phase.
- See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+ See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options.
-'GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW'::
+`GIT_TRACE_SHALLOW`::
Enables trace messages that can help debugging fetching /
cloning of shallow repositories.
- See 'GIT_TRACE' for available trace output options.
+ See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options.
+
+`GIT_TRACE_CURL`::
+ Enables a curl full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data,
+ including descriptive information, of the git transport protocol.
+ This is similar to doing curl `--trace-ascii` on the command line.
+ This option overrides setting the `GIT_CURL_VERBOSE` environment
+ variable.
+ See `GIT_TRACE` for available trace output options.
-'GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS'::
+`GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS`::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
pathspecs literally, rather than as glob patterns. For example,
running `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS=1 git log -- '*.c'` will search
@@ -1085,19 +1100,19 @@ of clones and fetches.
literal paths to Git (e.g., paths previously given to you by
`git ls-tree`, `--raw` diff output, etc).
-'GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS'::
+`GIT_GLOB_PATHSPECS`::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
pathspecs as glob patterns (aka "glob" magic).
-'GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS'::
+`GIT_NOGLOB_PATHSPECS`::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
pathspecs as literal (aka "literal" magic).
-'GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS'::
+`GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS`::
Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
pathspecs as case-insensitive.
-'GIT_REFLOG_ACTION'::
+`GIT_REFLOG_ACTION`::
When a ref is updated, reflog entries are created to keep
track of the reason why the ref was updated (which is
typically the name of the high-level command that updated
@@ -1107,7 +1122,7 @@ of clones and fetches.
variable when it is invoked as the top level command by the
end user, to be recorded in the body of the reflog.
-'GIT_REF_PARANOIA'::
+`GIT_REF_PARANOIA`::
If set to `1`, include broken or badly named refs when iterating
over lists of refs. In a normal, non-corrupted repository, this
does nothing. However, enabling it may help git to detect and
@@ -1118,7 +1133,7 @@ of clones and fetches.
an operation has touched every ref (e.g., because you are
cloning a repository to make a backup).
-'GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL'::
+`GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL`::
If set, provide a colon-separated list of protocols which are
allowed to be used with fetch/push/clone. This is useful to
restrict recursive submodule initialization from an untrusted
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index e3b1de8033..8882a3e914 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ patterns are available:
- `csharp` suitable for source code in the C# language.
+- `css` suitable for cascading style sheets.
+
- `fortran` suitable for source code in the Fortran language.
- `fountain` suitable for Fountain documents.
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index a2f59b194c..d82e912e55 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -7,24 +7,35 @@ githooks - Hooks used by Git
SYNOPSIS
--------
-$GIT_DIR/hooks/*
+$GIT_DIR/hooks/* (or \`git config core.hooksPath`/*)
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks`
-directory to trigger action at certain points. When
-'git init' is run, a handful of example hooks are copied into the
-`hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are
-all disabled. To enable a hook, rename it by removing its `.sample`
-suffix.
+Hooks are programs you can place in a hooks directory to trigger
+actions at certain points in git's execution. Hooks that don't have
+the executable bit set are ignored.
-NOTE: It is also a requirement for a given hook to be executable.
-However - in a freshly initialized repository - the `.sample` files are
-executable by default.
+By default the hooks directory is `$GIT_DIR/hooks`, but that can be
+changed via the `core.hooksPath` configuration variable (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]).
-This document describes the currently defined hooks.
+Before Git invokes a hook, it changes its working directory to either
+the root of the working tree in a non-bare repository, or to the
+$GIT_DIR in a bare repository.
+
+Hooks can get their arguments via the environment, command-line
+arguments, and stdin. See the documentation for each hook below for
+details.
+
+'git init' may copy hooks to the new repository, depending on its
+configuration. See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section in
+linkgit:git-init[1] for details. When the rest of this document refers
+to "default hooks" it's talking about the default template shipped
+with Git.
+
+The currently supported hooks are described below.
HOOKS
-----
@@ -32,15 +43,15 @@ HOOKS
applypatch-msg
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-This hook is invoked by 'git am' script. It takes a single
+This hook is invoked by 'git am'. It takes a single
parameter, the name of the file that holds the proposed commit
-log message. Exiting with non-zero status causes
-'git am' to abort before applying the patch.
+log message. Exiting with a non-zero status causes 'git am' to abort
+before applying the patch.
The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can
be used to normalize the message into some project standard
-format (if the project has one). It can also be used to refuse
-the commit after inspecting the message file.
+format. It can also be used to refuse the commit after inspecting
+the message file.
The default 'applypatch-msg' hook, when enabled, runs the
'commit-msg' hook, if the latter is enabled.
@@ -73,10 +84,10 @@ pre-commit
~~~~~~~~~~
This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed
-with `--no-verify` option. It takes no parameter, and is
+with the `--no-verify` option. It takes no parameters, and is
invoked before obtaining the proposed commit log message and
-making a commit. Exiting with non-zero status from this script
-causes the 'git commit' to abort.
+making a commit. Exiting with a non-zero status from this script
+causes the 'git commit' command to abort before creating a commit.
The default 'pre-commit' hook, when enabled, catches introduction
of lines with trailing whitespaces and aborts the commit when
@@ -115,15 +126,15 @@ commit-msg
~~~~~~~~~~
This hook is invoked by 'git commit', and can be bypassed
-with `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the
+with the `--no-verify` option. It takes a single parameter, the
name of the file that holds the proposed commit log message.
-Exiting with non-zero status causes the 'git commit' to
+Exiting with a non-zero status causes the 'git commit' to
abort.
-The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can
-be used to normalize the message into some project standard
-format (if the project has one). It can also be used to refuse
-the commit after inspecting the message file.
+The hook is allowed to edit the message file in place, and can be used
+to normalize the message into some project standard format. It
+can also be used to refuse the commit after inspecting the message
+file.
The default 'commit-msg' hook, when enabled, detects duplicate
"Signed-off-by" lines, and aborts the commit if one is found.
@@ -131,8 +142,8 @@ The default 'commit-msg' hook, when enabled, detects duplicate
post-commit
~~~~~~~~~~~
-This hook is invoked by 'git commit'. It takes no
-parameter, and is invoked after a commit is made.
+This hook is invoked by 'git commit'. It takes no parameters, and is
+invoked after a commit is made.
This hook is meant primarily for notification, and cannot affect
the outcome of 'git commit'.
@@ -267,9 +278,11 @@ does not know the entire set of branches, so it would end up
firing one e-mail per ref when used naively, though. The
<<post-receive,'post-receive'>> hook is more suited to that.
-Another use suggested on the mailing list is to use this hook to
-implement access control which is finer grained than the one
-based on filesystem group.
+In an environment that restricts the users' access only to git
+commands over the wire, this hook can be used to implement access
+control without relying on filesystem ownership and group
+membership. See linkgit:git-shell[1] for how you might use the login
+shell to restrict the user's access to only git commands.
Both standard output and standard error output are forwarded to
'git send-pack' on the other end, so you can simply `echo` messages
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 473623d631..63260f0056 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ precedence, the last matching pattern decides the outcome):
* Patterns read from `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
* Patterns read from the file specified by the configuration
- variable 'core.excludesFile'.
+ variable `core.excludesFile`.
Which file to place a pattern in depends on how the pattern is meant to
be used.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
index 78e0b27c18..1e8659492f 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in Git;
it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second
argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form
'<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible.
-The 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set up for the remote helper
+The `GIT_DIR` environment variable is set up for the remote helper
and can be used to determine where to store additional data or from
which directory to invoke auxiliary Git commands.
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ argument. If such a URL is encountered directly on the command line,
the first argument is '<address>', and if it is encountered in a
configured remote, the first argument is the name of that remote.
-Additionally, when a configured remote has 'remote.<name>.vcs' set to
+Additionally, when a configured remote has `remote.<name>.vcs` set to
'<transport>', Git explicitly invokes 'git remote-<transport>' with
'<name>' as the first argument. If set, the second argument is
-'remote.<name>.url'; otherwise, the second argument is omitted.
+`remote.<name>.url`; otherwise, the second argument is omitted.
INPUT FORMAT
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index 8a42270074..a79e350246 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ $site_name::
Name of your site or organization, to appear in page titles. Set it
to something descriptive for clearer bookmarks etc. If this variable
is not set or is, then gitweb uses the value of the `SERVER_NAME`
- CGI environment variable, setting site name to "$SERVER_NAME Git",
+ `CGI` environment variable, setting site name to "$SERVER_NAME Git",
or "Untitled Git" if this variable is not set (e.g. if running gitweb
as standalone script).
+
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index cd9c8951b2..96156e5e1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ $export_auth_hook = sub {
Per-repository gitweb configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can configure individual repositories shown in gitweb by creating file
-in the 'GIT_DIR' of Git repository, or by setting some repo configuration
-variable (in 'GIT_DIR/config', see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+in the `GIT_DIR` of Git repository, or by setting some repo configuration
+variable (in `GIT_DIR/config`, see linkgit:git-config[1]).
You can use the following files in repository:
diff --git a/Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl b/Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..476cc30b83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/lint-gitlink.perl
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use File::Find;
+use Getopt::Long;
+
+my $basedir = ".";
+GetOptions("basedir=s" => \$basedir)
+ or die("Cannot parse command line arguments\n");
+
+my $found_errors = 0;
+
+sub report {
+ my ($where, $what, $error) = @_;
+ print "$where: $error: $what\n";
+ $found_errors = 1;
+}
+
+sub grab_section {
+ my ($page) = @_;
+ open my $fh, "<", "$basedir/$page.txt";
+ my $firstline = <$fh>;
+ chomp $firstline;
+ close $fh;
+ my ($section) = ($firstline =~ /.*\((\d)\)$/);
+ return $section;
+}
+
+sub lint {
+ my ($file) = @_;
+ open my $fh, "<", $file
+ or return;
+ while (<$fh>) {
+ my $where = "$file:$.";
+ while (s/linkgit:((.*?)\[(\d)\])//) {
+ my ($target, $page, $section) = ($1, $2, $3);
+
+ # De-AsciiDoc
+ $page =~ s/{litdd}/--/g;
+
+ if ($page !~ /^git/) {
+ report($where, $target, "nongit link");
+ next;
+ }
+ if (! -f "$basedir/$page.txt") {
+ report($where, $target, "no such source");
+ next;
+ }
+ $real_section = grab_section($page);
+ if ($real_section != $section) {
+ report($where, $target,
+ "wrong section (should be $real_section)");
+ next;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ close $fh;
+}
+
+sub lint_it {
+ lint($File::Find::name) if -f && /\.txt$/;
+}
+
+if (!@ARGV) {
+ find({ wanted => \&lint_it, no_chdir => 1 }, $basedir);
+} else {
+ for (@ARGV) {
+ lint($_);
+ }
+}
+
+exit $found_errors;
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index 002ca58c21..df3ea3779b 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ merge.verbosity::
message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes. Level 5 and
above outputs debugging information. The default is level 2.
- Can be overridden by the 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
+ Can be overridden by the `GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY` environment variable.
merge.<driver>.name::
Defines a human-readable name for a custom low-level
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index dfb43d000f..5b4a62e936 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ option can be used to override --squash.
--verify-signatures::
--no-verify-signatures::
- Verify that the commits being merged have good and trusted GPG signatures
- and abort the merge in case they do not.
+ Verify that the tip commit of the side branch being merged is
+ signed with a valid key, i.e. a key that has a valid uid: in the
+ default trust model, this means the signing key has been signed by
+ a trusted key. If the tip commit of the side branch is not signed
+ with a valid key, the merge is aborted.
--summary::
--no-summary::
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 671cebd95c..29b19b992f 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ ifndef::git-rev-list[]
- '%N': commit notes
endif::git-rev-list[]
- '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit
-- '%G?': show "G" for a Good signature, "B" for a Bad signature, "U" for a good,
- untrusted signature and "N" for no signature
+- '%G?': show "G" for a good (valid) signature, "B" for a bad signature,
+ "U" for a good signature with unknown validity and "N" for no signature
- '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit
- '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit
- '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}`
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 6c67182728..e44fc8f738 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
--no-abbrev-commit::
Show the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object name. This negates
`--abbrev-commit` and those options which imply it such as
- "--oneline". It also overrides the 'log.abbrevCommit' variable.
+ "--oneline". It also overrides the `log.abbrevCommit` variable.
--oneline::
This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ ifndef::git-rev-list[]
on the command line.
+
By default, the notes shown are from the notes refs listed in the
-'core.notesRef' and 'notes.displayRef' variables (or corresponding
+`core.notesRef` and `notes.displayRef` variables (or corresponding
environment overrides). See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.
+
With an optional '<treeish>' argument, use the treeish to find the notes
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
index e44426dd04..75368f26ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ appended to its command line, which is one of:
The details of the credential will be provided on the helper's stdin
stream. The exact format is the same as the input/output format of the
`git credential` plumbing command (see the section `INPUT/OUTPUT
-FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[7] for a detailed specification).
+FORMAT` in linkgit:git-credential[1] for a detailed specification).
For a `get` operation, the helper should produce a list of attributes
on stdout in the same format. A helper is free to produce a subset, or
@@ -268,4 +268,4 @@ See also
linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
-linkgit:git-config[5] (See configuration variables `credential.*`)
+linkgit:git-config[1] (See configuration variables `credential.*`)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 695bd4bf43..27bd701c0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -144,8 +144,12 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
`OPT_COUNTUP(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
Introduce a count-up option.
- `int_var` is incremented on each use of `--option`, and
- reset to zero with `--no-option`.
+ Each use of `--option` increments `int_var`, starting from zero
+ (even if initially negative), and `--no-option` resets it to
+ zero. To determine if `--option` or `--no-option` was encountered at
+ all, initialize `int_var` to a negative value, and if it is still
+ negative after parse_options(), then neither `--option` nor
+ `--no-option` was seen.
`OPT_BIT(short, long, &int_var, description, mask)`::
Introduce a boolean option.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
index c6977bbc5a..8b36343802 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ Push Certificate
A push certificate begins with a set of header lines. After the
header and an empty line, the protocol commands follow, one per
-line. Note that the the trailing LF in push-cert PKT-LINEs is _not_
+line. Note that the trailing LF in push-cert PKT-LINEs is _not_
optional; it must be present.
Currently, the following header fields are defined:
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c9406a56a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+Git signature format
+====================
+
+== Overview
+
+Git uses cryptographic signatures in various places, currently objects (tags,
+commits, mergetags) and transactions (pushes). In every case, the command which
+is about to create an object or transaction determines a payload from that,
+calls gpg to obtain a detached signature for the payload (`gpg -bsa`) and
+embeds the signature into the object or transaction.
+
+Signatures always begin with `-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----`
+and end with `-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----`, unless gpg is told to
+produce RFC1991 signatures which use `MESSAGE` instead of `SIGNATURE`.
+
+The signed payload and the way the signature is embedded depends
+on the type of the object resp. transaction.
+
+== Tag signatures
+
+- created by: `git tag -s`
+- payload: annotated tag object
+- embedding: append the signature to the unsigned tag object
+- example: tag `signedtag` with subject `signed tag`
+
+----
+object 04b871796dc0420f8e7561a895b52484b701d51a
+type commit
+tag signedtag
+tagger C O Mitter <committer@example.com> 1465981006 +0000
+
+signed tag
+
+signed tag message body
+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+Version: GnuPG v1
+
+iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRhOAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJklkIAIcnhL7RwEb/+QeX9enkXhxn
+rxfdqrvWd1K80sl2TOt8Bg/NYwrUBw/RWJ+sg/hhHp4WtvE1HDGHlkEz3y11Lkuh
+8tSxS3qKTxXUGozyPGuE90sJfExhZlW4knIQ1wt/yWqM+33E9pN4hzPqLwyrdods
+q8FWEqPPUbSJXoMbRPw04S5jrLtZSsUWbRYjmJCHzlhSfFWW4eFd37uquIaLUBS0
+rkC3Jrx7420jkIpgFcTI2s60uhSQLzgcCwdA2ukSYIRnjg/zDkj8+3h/GaROJ72x
+lZyI6HWixKJkWw8lE9aAOD9TmTW9sFJwcVAzmAuFX2kUreDUKMZduGcoRYGpD7E=
+=jpXa
+-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
+----
+
+- verify with: `git verify-tag [-v]` or `git tag -v`
+
+----
+gpg: Signature made Wed Jun 15 10:56:46 2016 CEST using RSA key ID B7227189
+gpg: Good signature from "Eris Discordia <discord@example.net>"
+gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
+gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
+Primary key fingerprint: D4BE 2231 1AD3 131E 5EDA 29A4 6109 2E85 B722 7189
+object 04b871796dc0420f8e7561a895b52484b701d51a
+type commit
+tag signedtag
+tagger C O Mitter <committer@example.com> 1465981006 +0000
+
+signed tag
+
+signed tag message body
+----
+
+== Commit signatures
+
+- created by: `git commit -S`
+- payload: commit object
+- embedding: header entry `gpgsig`
+ (content is preceded by a space)
+- example: commit with subject `signed commit`
+
+----
+tree eebfed94e75e7760540d1485c740902590a00332
+parent 04b871796dc0420f8e7561a895b52484b701d51a
+author A U Thor <author@example.com> 1465981137 +0000
+committer C O Mitter <committer@example.com> 1465981137 +0000
+gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+ Version: GnuPG v1
+
+ iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRjRAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJ3IwIAIY4SA6GxY3BjL60YyvsJPh/
+ HRCJwH+w7wt3Yc/9/bW2F+gF72kdHOOs2jfv+OZhq0q4OAN6fvVSczISY/82LpS7
+ DVdMQj2/YcHDT4xrDNBnXnviDO9G7am/9OE77kEbXrp7QPxvhjkicHNwy2rEflAA
+ zn075rtEERDHr8nRYiDh8eVrefSO7D+bdQ7gv+7GsYMsd2auJWi1dHOSfTr9HIF4
+ HJhWXT9d2f8W+diRYXGh4X0wYiGg6na/soXc+vdtDYBzIxanRqjg8jCAeo1eOTk1
+ EdTwhcTZlI0x5pvJ3H0+4hA2jtldVtmPM4OTB0cTrEWBad7XV6YgiyuII73Ve3I=
+ =jKHM
+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
+
+signed commit
+
+signed commit message body
+----
+
+- verify with: `git verify-commit [-v]` (or `git show --show-signature`)
+
+----
+gpg: Signature made Wed Jun 15 10:58:57 2016 CEST using RSA key ID B7227189
+gpg: Good signature from "Eris Discordia <discord@example.net>"
+gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
+gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
+Primary key fingerprint: D4BE 2231 1AD3 131E 5EDA 29A4 6109 2E85 B722 7189
+tree eebfed94e75e7760540d1485c740902590a00332
+parent 04b871796dc0420f8e7561a895b52484b701d51a
+author A U Thor <author@example.com> 1465981137 +0000
+committer C O Mitter <committer@example.com> 1465981137 +0000
+
+signed commit
+
+signed commit message body
+----
+
+== Mergetag signatures
+
+- created by: `git merge` on signed tag
+- payload/embedding: the whole signed tag object is embedded into
+ the (merge) commit object as header entry `mergetag`
+- example: merge of the signed tag `signedtag` as above
+
+----
+tree c7b1cff039a93f3600a1d18b82d26688668c7dea
+parent c33429be94b5f2d3ee9b0adad223f877f174b05d
+parent 04b871796dc0420f8e7561a895b52484b701d51a
+author A U Thor <author@example.com> 1465982009 +0000
+committer C O Mitter <committer@example.com> 1465982009 +0000
+mergetag object 04b871796dc0420f8e7561a895b52484b701d51a
+ type commit
+ tag signedtag
+ tagger C O Mitter <committer@example.com> 1465981006 +0000
+
+ signed tag
+
+ signed tag message body
+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+ Version: GnuPG v1
+
+ iQEcBAABAgAGBQJXYRhOAAoJEGEJLoW3InGJklkIAIcnhL7RwEb/+QeX9enkXhxn
+ rxfdqrvWd1K80sl2TOt8Bg/NYwrUBw/RWJ+sg/hhHp4WtvE1HDGHlkEz3y11Lkuh
+ 8tSxS3qKTxXUGozyPGuE90sJfExhZlW4knIQ1wt/yWqM+33E9pN4hzPqLwyrdods
+ q8FWEqPPUbSJXoMbRPw04S5jrLtZSsUWbRYjmJCHzlhSfFWW4eFd37uquIaLUBS0
+ rkC3Jrx7420jkIpgFcTI2s60uhSQLzgcCwdA2ukSYIRnjg/zDkj8+3h/GaROJ72x
+ lZyI6HWixKJkWw8lE9aAOD9TmTW9sFJwcVAzmAuFX2kUreDUKMZduGcoRYGpD7E=
+ =jpXa
+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
+
+Merge tag 'signedtag' into downstream
+
+signed tag
+
+signed tag message body
+
+# gpg: Signature made Wed Jun 15 08:56:46 2016 UTC using RSA key ID B7227189
+# gpg: Good signature from "Eris Discordia <discord@example.net>"
+# gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
+# gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
+# Primary key fingerprint: D4BE 2231 1AD3 131E 5EDA 29A4 6109 2E85 B722 7189
+----
+
+- verify with: verification is embedded in merge commit message by default,
+ alternatively with `git show --show-signature`:
+
+----
+commit 9863f0c76ff78712b6800e199a46aa56afbcbd49
+merged tag 'signedtag'
+gpg: Signature made Wed Jun 15 10:56:46 2016 CEST using RSA key ID B7227189
+gpg: Good signature from "Eris Discordia <discord@example.net>"
+gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
+gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
+Primary key fingerprint: D4BE 2231 1AD3 131E 5EDA 29A4 6109 2E85 B722 7189
+Merge: c33429b 04b8717
+Author: A U Thor <author@example.com>
+Date: Wed Jun 15 09:13:29 2016 +0000
+
+ Merge tag 'signedtag' into downstream
+
+ signed tag
+
+ signed tag message body
+
+ # gpg: Signature made Wed Jun 15 08:56:46 2016 UTC using RSA key ID B7227189
+ # gpg: Good signature from "Eris Discordia <discord@example.net>"
+ # gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
+ # gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
+ # Primary key fingerprint: D4BE 2231 1AD3 131E 5EDA 29A4 6109 2E85 B722 7189
+----