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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt index d9de639080..c15cf2e805 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git 1.8.1.6 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.1.5 -------------------- + * An earlier change to the attribute system introduced at v1.8.1.2 by + mistake stopped a pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) from + matching a directory "dir" (it only wanted to allow pattern "dir/" + to also match). + * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt index 1ded500fc3..1354ad03f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.2 ------------------ + * An earlier change to the attribute system introduced at v1.8.1.2 by + mistake stopped a pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) from + matching a directory "dir" (it only wanted to allow pattern "dir/" + to also match). + * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C or en/US locale. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 822c0596a9..bcbcf15696 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -32,8 +32,23 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 UI, Workflows & Features + * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like + list of commands are given with "-a". + + * A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow + is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the + "origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the + branch.*.remote) configuration variables. + + * "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a + revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect + session. + + * The handling by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms + of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved. + * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues - a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it. + a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added. @@ -70,6 +85,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant annotated tags when pushing branches out. + * "git merge" and "git pull" can optionally be told to inspect and + reject when merging a commit that does not carry a trusted GPG + signature. + * "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend @@ -97,6 +116,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Updates for building under msvc. + * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in + the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2) + complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable. + + * The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for + shared repositories have been simplified. + * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table repeatedly growing and rehashing. @@ -120,6 +146,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. which have been consolidated. Also a bug in "git checkout dir/" that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed. + * A few bugfixes to "git rerere" working on corner case merge + conflicts have been applied. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -131,6 +160,24 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but + there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv + option. + (merge 61690bf sr/log-SG-no-textconv later to maint). + + * When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch" + failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the + final clean-up procedure. + (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint). + + * "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from + "git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did + not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code + notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref() + based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears + in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags. + (merge a38d3d7 jc/merge-tag-object later to maint). + * Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without trailing slash) to a directory "dir". (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1). @@ -147,8 +194,8 @@ details). "--option=value" form. (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint). - * "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta - depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack. + * "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute + delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack. (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint). * "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection @@ -262,4 +309,4 @@ details). alphabetical order. * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not - acccumulate the prefix paths. + accumulate the prefix paths. diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl index 828ec62554..87437f8a95 100755 --- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl +++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ while (<STDIN>) { push @menu, $1; } s/\(\@pxref{\[(URLS|REMOTES)\]}\)//; + s/\@anchor\{[^{}]*\}//g; print TMP; } close TMP; diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f79184c0a8..3d750e0452 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -727,9 +727,22 @@ branch.autosetuprebase:: This option defaults to never. branch.<name>.remote:: - When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push' which - remote to fetch from/push to. It defaults to `origin` if no remote is - configured. `origin` is also used if you are not on any branch. + When on branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push' + which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to + may be overridden with `remote.pushdefault` (for all branches). + The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further + overridden by `branch.<name>.pushremote`. If no remote is + configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to + `origin` for fetching and `remote.pushdefault` for pushing. + +branch.<name>.pushremote:: + When on branch <name>, it overrides `branch.<name>.remote` for + pushing. It also overrides `remote.pushdefault` for pushing + from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your + upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing + repository), you would want to set `remote.pushdefault` to + specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this + option to override it for a specific branch. branch.<name>.merge:: Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch @@ -1898,6 +1911,11 @@ receive.updateserverinfo:: If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. +remote.pushdefault:: + The remote to push to by default. Overrides + `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches, and is overridden by + `branch.<name>.pushremote` for specific branches. + remote.<name>.url:: The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or linkgit:git-push[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index b4c2e24849..250e5228a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout. --worktree-attributes:: - Look for attributes in .gitattributes in working directory too. + Look for attributes in .gitattributes files in the working tree + as well (see <<ATTRIBUTES>>). <extra>:: This can be any options that the archiver backend understands. @@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ tar.<format>.remote:: user-defined formats, but true for the "tar.gz" and "tgz" formats. +[[ATTRIBUTES]] ATTRIBUTES ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 05f8297368..9b1be5581d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -207,14 +207,15 @@ variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). without changing its commit message. --amend:: - Used to amend the tip of the current branch. Prepare the tree - object you would want to replace the latest commit as usual - (this includes the usual -i/-o and explicit paths), and the - commit log editor is seeded with the commit message from the - tip of the current branch. The commit you create replaces the - current tip -- if it was a merge, it will have the parents of - the current tip as parents -- so the current top commit is - discarded. + Replace the tip of the current branch by creating a new + commit. The recorded tree is prepared as usual (including + the effect of the `-i` and `-o` options and explicit + pathspec), and the message from the original commit is used + as the starting point, instead of an empty message, when no + other message is specified from the command line via options + such as `-m`, `-F`, `-c`, etc. The new commit has the same + parents and author as the current one (the `--reset-author` + option can countermand this). + -- It is a rough equivalent for: diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index 472f00f607..7da0f13a5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ For example, if we want a password for `https://example.com/foo.git`, we might generate the following credential description (don't forget the blank line at the end; it tells `git credential` that the application finished feeding all the -infomation it has): +information it has): protocol=https host=example.com diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index d6487e1ce0..feab7a3e4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ produced incorrect results if you gave these options. incremental runs. As <file> is only opened and truncated at completion, the same path can also be safely given to \--import-marks. + The file will not be written if no new object has been + marked/exported. --import-marks=<file>:: Before processing any input, load the marks specified in diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index e07b6dc19a..b21e9d79be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -8,31 +8,45 @@ git-help - Display help information about Git SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git help' [-a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND] +'git help' [-a|--all] [-g|--guide] + [-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web] [COMMAND|GUIDE] DESCRIPTION ----------- -With no options and no COMMAND given, the synopsis of the 'git' +With no options and no COMMAND or GUIDE given, the synopsis of the 'git' command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands are printed on the standard output. -If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, then all available commands are +If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, all available commands are printed on the standard output. -If a Git subcommand is named, a manual page for that subcommand is brought -up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this -can be overridden by other options or configuration variables. +If the option '--guide' or '-g' is given, a list of the useful +Git guides is also printed on the standard output. + +If a command, or a guide, is given, a manual page for that command or +guide is brought up. The 'man' program is used by default for this +purpose, but this can be overridden by other options or configuration +variables. Note that `git --help ...` is identical to `git help ...` because the former is internally converted into the latter. +To display the linkgit:git[1] man page, use `git help git`. + +This page can be displayed with 'git help help' or `git help --help` + OPTIONS ------- -a:: --all:: Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This - option supersedes any other option. + option overrides any given command or guide name. + +-g:: +--guides:: + Prints a list of useful guides on the standard output. This + option overrides any given command or guide name. -i:: --info:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt index 58b7facb09..8cfc748ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ begins with `ext::`. Examples: edit .ssh/config. "ext::socat -t3600 - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/git-server %G/somerepo":: - Represents repository with path /somerepo accessable over + Represents repository with path /somerepo accessible over git protocol at abstract namespace address /git-server. "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo":: diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 10a116faf8..1f9ed6cfd2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -60,8 +60,19 @@ OPTIONS instead. --verify:: - The parameter given must be usable as a single, valid - object name. Otherwise barf and abort. + Verify that exactly one parameter is provided, and that it + can be turned into a raw 20-byte SHA-1 that can be used to + access the object database. If so, emit it to the standard + output; otherwise, error out. ++ +If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in +your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object +you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parmeter. +For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` +names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an +annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR` +names an existing object of any type, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{object}"` +can be used. -q:: --quiet:: @@ -308,12 +319,12 @@ $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD * Print the commit object name from the revision in the $REV shell variable: + ------------ -$ git rev-parse --verify $REV +$ git rev-parse --verify $REV^{commit} ------------ + This will error out if $REV is empty or not a valid revision. -* Same as above: +* Similar to above: + ------------ $ git rev-parse --default master --verify $REV diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 1b8b6498cd..7706d41c87 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ first have already been pushed into SVN. patch), "all" (accept all patches), or "quit". + 'git svn dcommit' returns immediately if answer if "no" or "quit", without - commiting anything to SVN. + committing anything to SVN. 'branch':: Create a branch in the SVN repository. @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ HANDLING OF SVN BRANCHES ------------------------ If 'git svn' is configured to fetch branches (and --follow-branches is in effect), it sometimes creates multiple Git branches for one -SVN branch, where the addtional branches have names of the form +SVN branch, where the additional branches have names of the form 'branchname@nnn' (with nnn an SVN revision number). These additional branches are created if 'git svn' cannot find a parent commit for the first commit in an SVN branch, to connect the branch to the history of diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt index ad8b823f77..78a0d955ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Others - *git.el* (contrib/) - This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modeled on + This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some tweaking to work on XEmacs. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 4307d62bd4..6a875f2ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,14 +43,16 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.8.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2] +* link:v1.8.2.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1]. link:RelNotes/1.8.2.txt[1.8.2]. -* link:v1.8.1.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.5] +* link:v1.8.1.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.6] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.1.6.txt[1.8.1.6], link:RelNotes/1.8.1.5.txt[1.8.1.5], link:RelNotes/1.8.1.4.txt[1.8.1.4], link:RelNotes/1.8.1.3.txt[1.8.1.3], diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index 0c91aba861..f506031ae4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ ref. This capability can be advertised multiple times. The first applicable refspec takes precedence. The left-hand of refspecs advertised with this capability must cover all refs reported by -the list command. If no 'refspec' capability is advertised, -there is an implied `refspec *:*`. +the list command. If a helper does not need a specific 'refspec' +capability then it should advertise `refspec *:*`. 'bidi-import':: This modifies the 'import' capability. diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 34a8445828..2adccf8fec 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ option can be used to override --squash. Pass merge strategy specific option through to the merge strategy. +--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. + --summary:: --no-summary:: Synonyms to --stat and --no-stat; these are deprecated and will be diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 66db80296f..49a9a7d53f 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ patience;; this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`. +diff-algorithm=[patience|minimal|histogram|myers];; + Tells 'merge-recursive' to use a different diff algorithm, which + can help avoid mismerges that occur due to unimportant matching + lines (such as braces from distinct functions). See also + linkgit:git-diff[1] `--diff-algorithm`. + ignore-space-change;; ignore-all-space;; ignore-space-at-eol;; diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 293965524e..afac703f21 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ The placeholders are: - '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body) - '%N': commit notes - '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit -- '%G?': show either "G" for Good or "B" for Bad 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 - '%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/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 1707d451b6..8855b1a0ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ when you run `git cherry-pick`. + Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file. -While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is prefered as +While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8. '<refname>@\{<date>\}', e.g. 'master@\{yesterday\}', 'HEAD@\{5 minutes ago\}':: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt index a959517b23..a6b7d83a8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Functions initial, empty state. `argv_array_detach`:: - Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transfering + Detach the argv array from the `struct argv_array`, transferring ownership of the allocated array and strings. `argv_array_free_detached`:: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt index 516fda7412..c1b42a40d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ int foo_login(struct foo_connection *f) break; default: /* - * Some other error occured. We don't know if the + * Some other error occurred. We don't know if the * credential is good or bad, so report nothing to the * credential subsystem. */ diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt index dbbea95db7..aa1c50f181 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-ref-iteration.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Iteration functions * `head_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_ref_in_submodule()`, `for_each_tag_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_branch_ref_submodule()`, `for_each_remote_ref_submodule()` - do the same as the functions descibed above but for a specified + do the same as the functions described above but for a specified submodule. * `for_each_rawref()` can be used to learn about broken ref and symref. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index 0e37ec9de5..a37f1378d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ Git pack format (deltified representation) n-byte type and length (3-bit type, (n-1)*7+4-bit length) - 20-byte base object name + 20-byte base object name if OBJ_REF_DELTA or a negative relative + offset from the delta object's position in the pack if this + is an OBJ_OFS_DELTA object compressed delta data Observation: length of each object is encoded in a variable |