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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Makefile133
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/asciidoc.conf15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/callouts.xsl30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/docbook-xsl.css14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bisect.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-bundle.txt86
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cat-file.txt18
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-attr.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clone.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-format-patch.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-patch-id.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage-base.xsl35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/manpage-suppress-sp.xsl21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-strategies.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt196
30 files changed, 563 insertions, 315 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 144ec32f12..dba97dc21d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ man7dir=$(mandir)/man7
ASCIIDOC=asciidoc
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA =
-MANPAGE_XSL = callouts.xsl
+MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl
+XMLTO_EXTRA =
INSTALL?=install
RM ?= rm -f
DOC_REF = origin/man
@@ -59,12 +60,47 @@ endif
-include ../config.mak.autogen
-include ../config.mak
+#
+# For asciidoc ...
+# -7.1.2, no extra settings are needed.
+# 8.0-, set ASCIIDOC8.
+#
+
+#
+# For docbook-xsl ...
+# -1.68.1, set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF? (based on changelog from 1.73.0)
+# 1.69.0, no extra settings are needed?
+# 1.69.1-1.71.0, set DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP?
+# 1.71.1, no extra settings are needed?
+# 1.72.0, set DOCBOOK_XSL_172.
+# 1.73.0-, set ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF
+#
+
+#
+# If you had been using DOCBOOK_XSL_172 in an attempt to get rid
+# of 'the ".ft C" problem' in your generated manpages, and you
+# instead ended up with weird characters around callouts, try
+# using ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF instead (it works fine with ASCIIDOC8).
+#
+
ifdef ASCIIDOC8
ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a asciidoc7compatible
endif
ifdef DOCBOOK_XSL_172
-ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a docbook-xsl-172
+ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff
MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-1.72.xsl
+else
+ ifdef ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF
+ # docbook-xsl after 1.72 needs the regular XSL, but will not
+ # pass-thru raw roff codes from asciidoc.conf, so turn them off.
+ ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff
+ endif
+endif
+ifdef MAN_BOLD_LITERAL
+XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-bold-literal.xsl
+endif
+ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP
+XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
endif
#
@@ -76,6 +112,32 @@ endif
# yourself - yes, all 6 characters of it!
#
+QUIET_SUBDIR0 = +$(MAKE) -C # space to separate -C and subdir
+QUIET_SUBDIR1 =
+
+ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS),w),w)
+PRINT_DIR = --no-print-directory
+else # "make -w"
+NO_SUBDIR = :
+endif
+
+ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS),s),s)
+ifndef V
+ QUIET_ASCIIDOC = @echo ' ' ASCIIDOC $@;
+ QUIET_XMLTO = @echo ' ' XMLTO $@;
+ QUIET_DB2TEXI = @echo ' ' DB2TEXI $@;
+ QUIET_MAKEINFO = @echo ' ' MAKEINFO $@;
+ QUIET_DBLATEX = @echo ' ' DBLATEX $@;
+ QUIET_XSLTPROC = @echo ' ' XSLTPROC $@;
+ QUIET_GEN = @echo ' ' GEN $@;
+ QUIET_STDERR = 2> /dev/null
+ QUIET_SUBDIR0 = +@subdir=
+ QUIET_SUBDIR1 = ;$(NO_SUBDIR) echo ' ' SUBDIR $$subdir; \
+ $(MAKE) $(PRINT_DIR) -C $$subdir
+ export V
+endif
+endif
+
all: html man
html: $(DOC_HTML)
@@ -119,7 +181,7 @@ install-html: html
sh ./install-webdoc.sh $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)
../GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE
- $(MAKE) -C ../ GIT-VERSION-FILE
+ $(QUIET_SUBDIR0)../ $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) GIT-VERSION-FILE
-include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE
@@ -127,8 +189,8 @@ install-html: html
# Determine "include::" file references in asciidoc files.
#
doc.dep : $(wildcard *.txt) build-docdep.perl
- $(RM) $@+ $@
- $(PERL_PATH) ./build-docdep.perl >$@+
+ $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+ $(PERL_PATH) ./build-docdep.perl >$@+ $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
mv $@+ $@
-include doc.dep
@@ -146,91 +208,94 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \
$(cmds_txt): cmd-list.made
cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT)
- $(RM) $@
- $(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt
+ $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ && \
+ $(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
date >$@
clean:
$(RM) *.xml *.xml+ *.html *.html+ *.1 *.5 *.7
- $(RM) *.texi *.texi+ git.info gitman.info
+ $(RM) *.texi *.texi+ *.texi++ git.info gitman.info
$(RM) howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep
$(RM) technical/api-*.html technical/api-index.txt
$(RM) $(cmds_txt) *.made
$(MAN_HTML): %.html : %.txt
- $(RM) $@+ $@
+ $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
- $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $<
+ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
%.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml
- $(RM) $@
- xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) man $<
+ $(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
+ xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
%.xml : %.txt
- $(RM) $@+ $@
+ $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
$(ASCIIDOC) -b docbook -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
- $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $<
+ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) -o $@+ $< && \
mv $@+ $@
user-manual.xml: user-manual.txt user-manual.conf
- $(ASCIIDOC) -b docbook -d book $<
+ $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b docbook -d book $<
technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \
technical/api-index.sh $(patsubst %,%.txt,$(API_DOCS))
- cd technical && sh ./api-index.sh
+ $(QUIET_GEN)cd technical && sh ./api-index.sh
$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt
- $(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \
+ $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \
$(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt
XSLT = docbook.xsl
XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css
user-manual.html: user-manual.xml
- xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@ $(XSLT) $<
+ $(QUIET_XSLTPROC)xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@ $(XSLT) $<
git.info: user-manual.texi
- $(MAKEINFO) --no-split -o $@ user-manual.texi
+ $(QUIET_MAKEINFO)$(MAKEINFO) --no-split -o $@ user-manual.texi
user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml
- $(RM) $@+ $@
- $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout | \
- $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+
+ $(QUIET_DB2TEXI)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+ $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout >$@++ && \
+ $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl <$@++ >$@+ && \
+ rm $@++ && \
mv $@+ $@
user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml
- $(RM) $@+ $@
- $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $<
+ $(QUIET_DBLATEX)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+ $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $< && \
mv $@+ $@
gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl
- $(RM) $@+ $@
+ $(QUIET_DB2TEXI)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \
- --to-stdout $(xml);)) | $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+
+ --to-stdout $(xml) &&) true) > $@++ && \
+ $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ <$@++ >$@+ && \
+ rm $@++ && \
mv $@+ $@
gitman.info: gitman.texi
- $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --no-validate $*.texi
+ $(QUIET_MAKEINFO)$(MAKEINFO) --no-split --no-validate $*.texi
$(patsubst %.txt,%.texi,$(MAN_TXT)): %.texi : %.xml
- $(RM) $@+ $@
- $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --to-stdout $*.xml >$@+
+ $(QUIET_DB2TEXI)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+ $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --to-stdout $*.xml >$@+ && \
mv $@+ $@
howto-index.txt: howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt)
- $(RM) $@+ $@
- sh ./howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt) >$@+
+ $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+ sh ./howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt) >$@+ && \
mv $@+ $@
$(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES)) : %.html : %.txt
- $(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 $*.txt
+ $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 $*.txt
WEBDOC_DEST = /pub/software/scm/git/docs
$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(wildcard howto/*.txt)): %.html : %.txt
- $(RM) $@+ $@
- sed -e '1,/^$$/d' $< | $(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 - >$@+
+ $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
+ sed -e '1,/^$$/d' $< | $(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 - >$@+ && \
mv $@+ $@
install-webdoc : html
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt
index 28bfa5399b..fafa9986b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.2.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,15 @@ Fixes since v1.6.2.1
* A longstanding confusing description of what --pickaxe option of
git-diff does has been clarified in the documentation.
+* "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given
+ on the command line correctly.
+
* "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches
correctly.
+* "git diff" did not feed files in work-tree representation to external
+ diff and textconv.
+
* "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said
it cannot find 'origin', which was hard to understand for new people.
@@ -27,9 +33,13 @@ Fixes since v1.6.2.1
* 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the path it
accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient.
+* git-svn misbehaved when the project contained a path that began with
+ two dashes.
+
+* import-zips script (in contrib) did not compute the common directory
+ prefix correctly.
+
+* miscompilation of negated enum constants by old gcc (2.9) affected the
+ codepaths to spawn subprocesses.
----
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.1-23-g67c176f
-echo O=$(git describe maint)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
+Many small documentation updates are included as well.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
index 5860b515f5..db6956205d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
+When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
+pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
+configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
+changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
+a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
+arguments is attempted.
+
Updates since v1.6.2
--------------------
@@ -39,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
testing.
+* http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
+ pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
+
* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
be handled appropriately in Windows console.
@@ -52,6 +62,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
tell git not to apply it.
+* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
+ messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
+ commits; now it doesn't.
+
* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
@@ -67,11 +81,17 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
+* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
+
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
format.attach.
* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
+* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
+ header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
+ --add-header=<header> option of the command.
+
* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
@@ -85,6 +105,11 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
+* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in
+ a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates
+ mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag
+ to prevent them from being repacked.
+
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
sending the messages out.
@@ -92,9 +117,18 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
+* Test scripts can be run with installed git.
+
* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
coverage tracking enabled.
+* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
+ requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
+ This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
+ with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more
+ knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
+ docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
+
Fixes since v1.6.2
------------------
@@ -104,11 +138,14 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.2.X series.
+* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
+ file that is being checked out.
+
* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
+O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
index 1e735df3bb..dc76e7f073 100644
--- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
+++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ifdef::backend-docbook[]
endif::backend-docbook[]
ifdef::backend-docbook[]
-ifndef::docbook-xsl-172[]
+ifndef::git-asciidoc-no-roff[]
# "unbreak" docbook-xsl v1.68 for manpages. v1.69 works with or without this.
# v1.72 breaks with this because it replaces dots not in roff requests.
[listingblock]
@@ -42,16 +42,16 @@ ifdef::doctype-manpage[]
endif::doctype-manpage[]
</literallayout>
{title#}</example>
-endif::docbook-xsl-172[]
+endif::git-asciidoc-no-roff[]
-ifdef::docbook-xsl-172[]
+ifdef::git-asciidoc-no-roff[]
ifdef::doctype-manpage[]
# The following two small workarounds insert a simple paragraph after screen
[listingblock]
<example><title>{title}</title>
-<screen>
+<literallayout>
|
-</screen><simpara></simpara>
+</literallayout><simpara></simpara>
{title#}</example>
[verseblock]
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ ifdef::doctype-manpage[]
{title%}<literallayout{id? id="{id}"}>
{title#}<literallayout>
|
-</literallayout><simpara></simpara>
+</literallayout>
{title#}</para></formalpara>
+{title%}<simpara></simpara>
endif::doctype-manpage[]
-endif::docbook-xsl-172[]
+endif::git-asciidoc-no-roff[]
endif::backend-docbook[]
ifdef::doctype-manpage[]
diff --git a/Documentation/callouts.xsl b/Documentation/callouts.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a361a2136..0000000000
--- a/Documentation/callouts.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-<!-- callout.xsl: converts asciidoc callouts to man page format -->
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
-<xsl:template match="co">
- <xsl:value-of select="concat('\fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')\fR')"/>
-</xsl:template>
-<xsl:template match="calloutlist">
- <xsl:text>.sp&#10;</xsl:text>
- <xsl:apply-templates/>
- <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
-</xsl:template>
-<xsl:template match="callout">
- <xsl:value-of select="concat('\fB',substring-after(@arearefs,'-'),'. \fR')"/>
- <xsl:apply-templates/>
- <xsl:text>.br&#10;</xsl:text>
-</xsl:template>
-
-<!-- sorry, this is not about callouts, but attempts to work around
- spurious .sp at the tail of the line docbook stylesheets seem to add -->
-<xsl:template match="simpara">
- <xsl:variable name="content">
- <xsl:apply-templates/>
- </xsl:variable>
- <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($content)"/>
- <xsl:if test="not(ancestor::authorblurb) and
- not(ancestor::personblurb)">
- <xsl:text>&#10;&#10;</xsl:text>
- </xsl:if>
-</xsl:template>
-
-</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 12540b605f..3afd124749 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -473,10 +473,14 @@ branch.autosetuprebase::
This option defaults to never.
branch.<name>.remote::
- When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' which remote to fetch.
- If this option is not given, 'git-fetch' defaults to remote "origin".
+ 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.
branch.<name>.merge::
+ Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
+ for the given branch. It tells 'git-fetch'/'git-pull' which
+ branch to merge and can also affect 'git-push' (see push.default).
When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' the default
refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a
@@ -711,6 +715,13 @@ format.thread::
A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false
value disables threading.
+format.signoff::
+ A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of
+ format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
+ patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have
+ the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
+ Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion.
+
gc.aggressiveWindow::
The window size parameter used in the delta compression
algorithm used by 'git-gc --aggressive'. This defaults
@@ -1194,6 +1205,19 @@ pull.octopus::
pull.twohead::
The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
+push.default::
+ Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is given
+ on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and
+ no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command
+ line. Possible values are:
++
+* `nothing` do not push anything.
+* `matching` push all matching branches.
+ All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be
+ matching. This is the default.
+* `tracking` push the current branch to the branch it is tracking.
+* `current` push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
+
rebase.stat::
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
rebase. False by default.
diff --git a/Documentation/docbook-xsl.css b/Documentation/docbook-xsl.css
index b878b385c6..e11c8f053a 100644
--- a/Documentation/docbook-xsl.css
+++ b/Documentation/docbook-xsl.css
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ body blockquote {
html body {
margin: 1em 5% 1em 5%;
line-height: 1.2;
+ font-family: sans-serif;
}
body div {
@@ -128,6 +129,15 @@ body pre {
tt.literal, code.literal {
color: navy;
+ font-family: sans-serif;
+}
+
+code.literal:before { content: "'"; }
+code.literal:after { content: "'"; }
+
+em {
+ font-style: italic;
+ color: #064;
}
div.literallayout p {
@@ -137,7 +147,6 @@ div.literallayout p {
div.literallayout {
font-family: monospace;
-# margin: 0.5em 10% 0.5em 1em;
margin: 0em;
color: navy;
border: 1px solid silver;
@@ -187,7 +196,8 @@ dt {
}
dt span.term {
- font-style: italic;
+ font-style: normal;
+ color: navy;
}
div.variablelist dd p {
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 93d9fc0299..ffc02c737c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ will have been left with the first bad kernel revision in "refs/bisect/bad".
Bisect reset
~~~~~~~~~~~~
-To return to the original head after a bisect session, you issue the
+To return to the original head after a bisect session, issue the
following command:
------------------------------------------------
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ the bisection state).
Bisect visualize
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', the following command
-is issued during the bisection process:
+To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', issue the following
+command during the bisection process:
------------
$ git bisect visualize
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ $ git bisect view --stat
Bisect log and bisect replay
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-After having marked revisions as good or bad, you issue the following
+After having marked revisions as good or bad, issue the following
command to show what has been done so far:
------------
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ $ git bisect replay that-file
Avoiding testing a commit
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-If in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested
+If, in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested
revision is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit
introduces is known not to work in your environment and you know it
does not have anything to do with the bug you are chasing), you may
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3 # try 3 revisions before what
# was suggested
------------
-Then compile and test the chosen revision. Afterwards the revision
-is marked as good or bad in the usual manner.
+Then compile and test the chosen revision, and afterwards mark
+the revision as good or bad in the usual manner.
Bisect skip
~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
$ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
------------
-The effect of this would be that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and
-`v2.6` included could be tested.
+This tells the bisect process that no commit after `v2.5`, up to and
+including `v2.6`, should be tested.
Note that if you also want to skip the first commit of the range you
would issue the command:
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ would issue the command:
$ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
------------
-This would cause the commits between `v2.5` included and `v2.6` included
-to be skipped.
+This tells the bisect process that the commits between `v2.5` included
+and `v2.6` included should be skipped.
Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
index 57590b1480..aee7e4a8c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ DESCRIPTION
Some workflows require that one or more branches of development on one
machine be replicated on another machine, but the two machines cannot
-be directly connected so the interactive git protocols (git, ssh,
-rsync, http) cannot be used. This command provides support for
+be directly connected, and therefore the interactive git protocols (git,
+ssh, rsync, http) cannot be used. This command provides support for
'git-fetch' and 'git-pull' to operate by packaging objects and references
in an archive at the originating machine, then importing those into
another repository using 'git-fetch' and 'git-pull'
after moving the archive by some means (i.e., by sneakernet). As no
-direct connection between repositories exists, the user must specify a
+direct connection between the repositories exists, the user must specify a
basis for the bundle that is held by the destination repository: the
bundle assumes that all objects in the basis are already in the
destination repository.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ verify <file>::
bundle format itself as well as checking that the prerequisite
commits exist and are fully linked in the current repository.
'git-bundle' prints a list of missing commits, if any, and exits
- with non-zero status.
+ with a non-zero status.
list-heads <file>::
Lists the references defined in the bundle. If followed by a
@@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ list-heads <file>::
unbundle <file>::
Passes the objects in the bundle to 'git-index-pack'
for storage in the repository, then prints the names of all
- defined references. If a reflist is given, only references
- matching those in the given list are printed. This command is
+ defined references. If a list of references is given, only
+ references matching those in the list are printed. This command is
really plumbing, intended to be called only by 'git-fetch'.
[git-rev-list-args...]::
A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git-rev-parse' and
- 'git-rev-list', that specify the specific objects and references
- to transport. For example, "master~10..master" causes the
+ 'git-rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
+ to transport. For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
current master reference to be packaged along with all objects
added since its 10th ancestor commit. There is no explicit
limit to the number of references and objects that may be
@@ -71,24 +71,24 @@ unbundle <file>::
A list of references used to limit the references reported as
available. This is principally of use to 'git-fetch', which
expects to receive only those references asked for and not
- necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, 'git-bundle' is
- acting like 'git-fetch-pack').
+ necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, 'git-bundle' acts
+ like 'git-fetch-pack').
SPECIFYING REFERENCES
---------------------
'git-bundle' will only package references that are shown by
'git-show-ref': this includes heads, tags, and remote heads. References
-such as master~1 cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
+such as `master\~1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
defining the basis. More than one reference may be packaged, and more
than one basis can be specified. The objects packaged are those not
contained in the union of the given bases. Each basis can be
-specified explicitly (e.g., ^master~10), or implicitly (e.g.,
-master~10..master, --since=10.days.ago master).
+specified explicitly (e.g. `^master\~10`), or implicitly (e.g.
+`master\~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`).
It is very important that the basis used be held by the destination.
-It is okay to err on the side of conservatism, causing the bundle file
-to contain objects already in the destination as these are ignored
+It is okay to err on the side of caution, causing the bundle file
+to contain objects already in the destination, as these are ignored
when unpacking at the destination.
EXAMPLE
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ EXAMPLE
Assume you want to transfer the history from a repository R1 on machine A
to another repository R2 on machine B.
For whatever reason, direct connection between A and B is not allowed,
-but we can move data from A to B via some mechanism (CD, email, etc).
-We want to update R2 with developments made on branch master in R1.
+but we can move data from A to B via some mechanism (CD, email, etc.).
+We want to update R2 with development made on the branch master in R1.
-To bootstrap the process, you can first create a bundle that doesn't have
-any basis. You can use a tag to remember up to what commit you sent out
-in order to make it easy to later update the other repository with
-incremental bundle,
+To bootstrap the process, you can first create a bundle that does not have
+any basis. You can use a tag to remember up to what commit you last
+processed, in order to make it easy to later update the other repository
+with an incremental bundle:
----------------
machineA$ cd R1
@@ -111,17 +111,17 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle master
machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
----------------
-Then you sneakernet file.bundle to the target machine B. Because you don't
-have to have any object to extract objects from such a bundle, not only
-you can fetch/pull from a bundle, you can clone from it as if it was a
-remote repository.
+Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. If you are creating
+the repository on machine B, then you can clone from the bundle as if it
+were a remote repository instead of creating an empty repository and then
+pulling or fetching objects from the bundle:
----------------
machineB$ git clone /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2
----------------
This will define a remote called "origin" in the resulting repository that
-lets you fetch and pull from the bundle. $GIT_DIR/config file in R2 may
+lets you fetch and pull from the bundle. The $GIT_DIR/config file in R2 will
have an entry like this:
------------------------
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ have an entry like this:
fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
------------------------
-You can fetch/pull to update the resulting mine.git repository after
-replacing the bundle you store at /home/me/tmp/file.bundle with incremental
-updates from here on.
+To update the resulting mine.git repository, you can fetch or pull after
+replacing the bundle stored at /home/me/tmp/file.bundle with incremental
+updates.
-After working more in the original repository, you can create an
-incremental bundle to update the other:
+After working some more in the original repository, you can create an
+incremental bundle to update the other repository:
----------------
machineA$ cd R1
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle lastR2bundle..master
machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
----------------
-and sneakernet it to the other machine to replace /home/me/tmp/file.bundle,
-and pull from it.
+You then transfer the bundle to the other machine to replace
+/home/me/tmp/file.bundle, and pull from it.
----------------
machineB$ cd R2
@@ -152,49 +152,49 @@ machineB$ git pull
----------------
If you know up to what commit the intended recipient repository should
-have the necessary objects for, you can use that knowledge to specify the
+have the necessary objects, you can use that knowledge to specify the
basis, giving a cut-off point to limit the revisions and objects that go
in the resulting bundle. The previous example used lastR2bundle tag
-for this purpose, but you can use other options you would give to
+for this purpose, but you can use any other options that you would give to
the linkgit:git-log[1] command. Here are more examples:
-You can use a tag that is present in both.
+You can use a tag that is present in both:
----------------
$ git bundle create mybundle v1.0.0..master
----------------
-You can use a basis based on time.
+You can use a basis based on time:
----------------
$ git bundle create mybundle --since=10.days master
----------------
-Or you can use the number of commits.
+You can use the number of commits:
----------------
$ git bundle create mybundle -10 master
----------------
You can run `git-bundle verify` to see if you can extract from a bundle
-that was created with a basis.
+that was created with a basis:
----------------
$ git bundle verify mybundle
----------------
This will list what commits you must have in order to extract from the
-bundle and will error out if you don't have them.
+bundle and will error out if you do not have them.
A bundle from a recipient repository's point of view is just like a
-regular repository it fetches/pulls from. You can for example map
-refs, like this example, when fetching:
+regular repository which it fetches or pulls from. You can, for example, map
+references when fetching:
----------------
$ git fetch mybundle master:localRef
----------------
-Or see what refs it offers.
+You can also see what references it offers.
----------------
$ git ls-remote mybundle
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 668f697c2a..b191276d7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-cat-file(1)
NAME
----
-git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects
+git-cat-file - Provide content or type and size information for repository objects
SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,19 +14,19 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-In the first form, provides content or type of objects in the repository. The
-type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, or '-s'
-is used to find the object size.
+In its first form, the command provides the content or the type of an object in
+the repository. The type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the
+object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size.
-In the second form, a list of object (separated by LFs) is provided on stdin,
-and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
+In the second form, a list of objects (separated by linefeeds) is provided on
+stdin, and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
OPTIONS
-------
<object>::
The name of the object to show.
For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
- "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+ the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
-t::
Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS
stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments.
--batch-check::
- Print the SHA1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not be
- combined with any other options or arguments.
+ Print the SHA1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not
+ be combined with any other options or arguments.
OUTPUT
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
index 8c2ac12f5d..50824e3a2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-For every pathname, this command will list if each attr is 'unspecified',
+For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is 'unspecified',
'set', or 'unset' as a gitattribute on that pathname.
OPTIONS
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ OPTIONS
Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
-z::
- Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with
- NUL character instead of LF.
+ Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a
+ NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
\--::
- Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes, and all following
+ Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following
arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will
be treated as an attribute.
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ OUTPUT
The output is of the form:
<path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF
-Where <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
+<path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
being queried and <info> can be either:
'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path.
-'unset';; when the attribute is defined to false.
-'set';; when the attribute is defined to true.
+'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false.
+'set';; when the attribute is defined as true.
<value>;; when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
EXAMPLES
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
---------------
-* Listing attribute for multiple files:
+* Listing an attribute for multiple files:
---------------
$ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index 9b707a7030..c1ce26884e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-check-ref-format(1)
NAME
----
-git-check-ref-format - Make sure ref name is well formed
+git-check-ref-format - Ensures that a reference name is well formed
SYNOPSIS
--------
@@ -13,24 +13,24 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Checks if a given 'refname' is acceptable, and exits non-zero if
-it is not.
+Checks if a given 'refname' is acceptable, and exits with a non-zero
+status if it is not.
A reference is used in git to specify branches and tags. A
-branch head is stored under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and
-a tag is stored under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory. git
-imposes the following rules on how refs are named:
+branch head is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and
+a tag is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory. git
+imposes the following rules on how references are named:
-. It can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory)
+. They can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory)
grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a
- dot `.`;
+ dot `.`.
-. It cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere;
+. They cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere.
-. It cannot have ASCII control character (i.e. bytes whose
+. They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose
values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`,
caret `{caret}`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`,
- or open bracket `[` anywhere;
+ or open bracket `[` anywhere.
. They cannot end with a slash `/` nor a dot `.`.
@@ -38,19 +38,19 @@ imposes the following rules on how refs are named:
. They cannot contain a sequence `@{`.
-These rules makes it easy for shell script based tools to parse
-refnames, pathname expansion by the shell when a refname is used
+These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse
+reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used
unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain
-refname expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]). Namely:
+reference name expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]):
-. double-dot `..` are often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
- context this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
- ref1 and in ref2).
+. A double-dot `..` is often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
+ contexts this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
+ `ref1` and in `ref2`).
-. tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce postfix
+. A tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce the postfix
'nth parent' and 'peel onion' operation.
-. colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
+. A colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
value and store it in dstref" in fetch and push operations.
It may also be used to select a specific object such as with
'git-cat-file': "git cat-file blob v1.3.3:refs.c".
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 95f08b9114..4072f40d7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ then the cloned repository will become corrupt.
--origin <name>::
-o <name>::
Instead of using the remote name 'origin' to keep track
- of the upstream repository, use <name> instead.
+ of the upstream repository, use <name>.
--upload-pack <upload-pack>::
-u <upload-pack>::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index b7a8c10b87..d7bab13f6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'.
At least version 2.1 is required.
+*WARNING:* for certain situations the import leads to incorrect results.
+Please see the section <<issues,ISSUES>> for further reference.
+
You should *never* do any work of your own on the branches that are
created by 'git-cvsimport'. By default initial import will create and populate a
"master" branch from the CVS repository's main branch which you're free
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ OPTIONS
-r <remote>::
The git remote to import this CVS repository into.
Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch>
- akin to the 'git-clone' "--use-separate-remote" option.
+ akin to the way 'git-clone' uses 'origin' by default.
-o <branch-for-HEAD>::
When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch
@@ -164,6 +167,39 @@ If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with
a zero exit status.
+[[issues]]
+ISSUES
+------
+Problems related to timestamps:
+
+ * If timestamps of commits in the cvs repository are not stable enough
+ to be used for ordering commits changes may show up in the wrong
+ order.
+ * If any files were ever "cvs import"ed more than once (e.g., import of
+ more than one vendor release) the HEAD contains the wrong content.
+ * If the timestamp order of different files cross the revision order
+ within the commit matching time window the order of commits may be
+ wrong.
+
+Problems related to branches:
+
+ * Branches on which no commits have been made are not imported.
+ * All files from the branching point are added to a branch even if
+ never added in cvs.
+ * This applies to files added to the source branch *after* a daughter
+ branch was created: if previously no commit was made on the daughter
+ branch they will erroneously be added to the daughter branch in git.
+
+Problems related to tags:
+
+* Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
+
+If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
+want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be
+more stable in practise:
+
+* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
+* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`
Author
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
index c2eb5fab4c..eb2fbcff1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
@@ -40,15 +40,11 @@ There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on.
REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]) means the
commits in the specified range.
-A single commit, when interpreted as a <revision range>
-expression, means "everything that leads to that commit", but
-if you write 'git format-patch <commit>', the previous rule
-applies to that command line and you do not get "everything
-since the beginning of the time". If you want to format
-everything since project inception to one commit, say "git
-format-patch \--root <commit>" to make it clear that it is the
-latter case. If you want to format a single commit, you can do
-this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>".
+The first rule takes precedence in the case of a single <commit>. To
+apply the second rule, i.e., format everything since the beginning of
+history up until <commit>, use the '\--root' option: "git format-patch
+\--root <commit>". If you want to format only <commit> itself, you
+can do this with "git format-patch -1 <commit>".
By default, each output file is numbered sequentially from 1, and uses the
first line of the commit message (massaged for pathname safety) as
@@ -161,6 +157,11 @@ if that is not set.
Add a "Cc:" header to the email headers. This is in addition
to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
+--add-header=<header>::
+ Add an arbitrary header to the email headers. This is in addition
+ to any configured headers, and may be used multiple times.
+ For example, --add-header="Organization: git-foo"
+
--cover-letter::
In addition to the patches, generate a cover letter file
containing the shortlog and the overall diffstat. You can
@@ -182,6 +183,13 @@ not add any suffix.
applied. By default the contents of changes in those files are
encoded in the patch.
+--root::
+ Treat the revision argument as a <revision range>, even if it
+ is just a single commit (that would normally be treated as a
+ <since>). Note that root commits included in the specified
+ range are always formatted as creation patches, independently
+ of this flag.
+
CONFIGURATION
-------------
You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message
@@ -197,6 +205,7 @@ more than one.
numbered = auto
cc = <email>
attach [ = mime-boundary-string ]
+ signoff = true
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index cc0d30fe7e..c04ae739ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
include::merge-strategies.txt[]
-If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
-would want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
+If you tried a merge which resulted in complex conflicts and
+want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
CONFIGURATION
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
index a5244d35f4..1ee99c208c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ problem by stashing the refs in a single file,
traditional `$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy, it is looked up in this
file and used if found.
-Subsequent updates to branches always creates new file under
+Subsequent updates to branches always create new files under
`$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy.
A recommended practice to deal with a repository with too many
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ occasionally run `git pack-refs \--prune`. Tags are by
definition stationary and are not expected to change. Branch
heads will be packed with the initial `pack-refs --all`, but
only the currently active branch heads will become unpacked,
-and next `pack-refs` (without `--all`) will leave them
+and the next `pack-refs` (without `--all`) will leave them
unpacked.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
index 477785e134..253fc0fc25 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
When dealing with 'git-diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of
the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the
-commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal string. The first
+commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first
string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index cda3389331..b7b1af813d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -385,7 +385,8 @@ config key: svn.authorsfile
-q::
--quiet::
- Make 'git-svn' less verbose.
+ Make 'git-svn' less verbose. Specify a second time to make it
+ even less verbose.
--repack[=<n>]::
--repack-flags=<flags>::
@@ -672,9 +673,9 @@ listed below are allowed:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[svn-remote "project-a"]
url = http://server.org/svn
+ fetch = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
branches = branches/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/branches/*
tags = tags/*/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/tags/*
- trunk = trunk/project-a:refs/remotes/project-a/trunk
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep in mind that the '*' (asterisk) wildcard of the local ref
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 533d18bbd5..fa733214ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ OPTIONS
are printed when using -l.
The default is not to print any annotation lines.
If no number is given to `-n`, only the first line is printed.
+ If the tag is not annotated, the commit message is displayed instead.
-l <pattern>::
List tags with names that match the given pattern (or all if no pattern is given).
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 1fd512bca2..1c736738cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ indicating whether the checkout was a branch checkout (changing branches,
flag=1) or a file checkout (retrieving a file from the index, flag=0).
This hook cannot affect the outcome of 'git-checkout'.
+It is also run after 'git-clone', unless the --no-checkout (-n) option is
+used. The first parameter given to the hook is the null-ref, the second the
+ref of the new HEAD and the flag is always 1.
+
This hook can be used to perform repository validity checks, auto-display
differences from the previous HEAD if different, or set working dir metadata
properties.
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl
index 4065a3a27a..b4d315cb8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-1.72.xsl
@@ -1,21 +1,14 @@
-<!-- Based on callouts.xsl. Fixes man page callouts for DocBook 1.72 XSL -->
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
+<!-- manpage-1.72.xsl:
+ special settings for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook
+ handles peculiarities in docbook-xsl 1.72.0 -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
-<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
-<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
+<xsl:import href="manpage-base.xsl"/>
-<xsl:template match="co">
- <xsl:value-of select="concat('&#x2593;fB(',substring-after(@id,'-'),')&#x2593;fR')"/>
-</xsl:template>
-<xsl:template match="calloutlist">
- <xsl:text>&#x2302;sp&#10;</xsl:text>
- <xsl:apply-templates/>
- <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
-</xsl:template>
-<xsl:template match="callout">
- <xsl:value-of select="concat('&#x2593;fB',substring-after(@arearefs,'-'),'. &#x2593;fR')"/>
- <xsl:apply-templates/>
- <xsl:text>&#x2302;br&#10;</xsl:text>
-</xsl:template>
+<!-- these are the special values for the roff control characters
+ needed for docbook-xsl 1.72.0 -->
+<xsl:param name="git.docbook.backslash">&#x2593;</xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="git.docbook.dot" >&#x2302;</xsl:param>
</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a264fa6160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-base.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<!-- manpage-base.xsl:
+ special formatting for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<!-- these params silence some output from xmlto -->
+<xsl:param name="man.output.quietly" select="1"/>
+<xsl:param name="refentry.meta.get.quietly" select="1"/>
+
+<!-- convert asciidoc callouts to man page format;
+ git.docbook.backslash and git.docbook.dot params
+ must be supplied by another XSL file or other means -->
+<xsl:template match="co">
+ <xsl:value-of select="concat(
+ $git.docbook.backslash,'fB(',
+ substring-after(@id,'-'),')',
+ $git.docbook.backslash,'fR')"/>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="calloutlist">
+ <xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.dot"/>
+ <xsl:text>sp&#10;</xsl:text>
+ <xsl:apply-templates/>
+ <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="callout">
+ <xsl:value-of select="concat(
+ $git.docbook.backslash,'fB',
+ substring-after(@arearefs,'-'),
+ '. ',$git.docbook.backslash,'fR')"/>
+ <xsl:apply-templates/>
+ <xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.dot"/>
+ <xsl:text>br&#10;</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..608eb5df62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-bold-literal.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<!-- manpage-bold-literal.xsl:
+ special formatting for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<!-- render literal text as bold (instead of plain or monospace);
+ this makes literal text easier to distinguish in manpages
+ viewed on a tty -->
+<xsl:template match="literal">
+ <xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.backslash"/>
+ <xsl:text>fB</xsl:text>
+ <xsl:apply-templates/>
+ <xsl:value-of select="$git.docbook.backslash"/>
+ <xsl:text>fR</xsl:text>
+</xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a48f5b11f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-normal.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<!-- manpage-normal.xsl:
+ special settings for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook
+ handles anything we want to keep away from docbook-xsl 1.72.0 -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<xsl:import href="manpage-base.xsl"/>
+
+<!-- these are the normal values for the roff control characters -->
+<xsl:param name="git.docbook.backslash">\</xsl:param>
+<xsl:param name="git.docbook.dot" >.</xsl:param>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/manpage-suppress-sp.xsl b/Documentation/manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a63c7632a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/manpage-suppress-sp.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<!-- manpage-suppress-sp.xsl:
+ special settings for manpages rendered from asciidoc+docbook
+ handles erroneous, inline .sp in manpage output of some
+ versions of docbook-xsl -->
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<!-- attempt to work around spurious .sp at the tail of the line
+ that some versions of docbook stylesheets seem to add -->
+<xsl:template match="simpara">
+ <xsl:variable name="content">
+ <xsl:apply-templates/>
+ </xsl:variable>
+ <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($content)"/>
+ <xsl:if test="not(ancestor::authorblurb) and
+ not(ancestor::personblurb)">
+ <xsl:text>&#10;&#10;</xsl:text>
+ </xsl:if>
+</xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 1276f858ad..4365b7e842 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MERGE STRATEGIES
resolve::
This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
- and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
+ and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge
algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
fast.
recursive::
- This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
- algorithm. When there are more than one common
- ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+ This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge
+ algorithm. When there is more than one common
+ ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ recursive::
pulling or merging one branch.
octopus::
- This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
- complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
+ This resolves cases with more than two heads, but refuses to do
+ a complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
heads together. This is the default merge strategy when
- pulling or merging more than one branches.
+ pulling or merging more than one branch.
ours::
This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 5c6e678aa3..2a845b1e57 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
- '%e': encoding
- '%s': subject
+- '%f': sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
- '%b': body
- '%Cred': switch color to red
- '%Cgreen': switch color to green
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
index e9559790a3..d66e61b1ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-history-graph.txt
@@ -148,22 +148,22 @@ outputting that information, if desired.
------------
*
*
-M
+*
|\
* |
| | *
| \ \
| \ \
-M-. \ \
+*-. \ \
|\ \ \ \
| | * | |
| | | | | *
| | | | | *
-| | | | | M
+| | | | | *
| | | | | |\
| | | | | | *
| * | | | | |
-| | | | | M \
+| | | | | * \
| | | | | |\ |
| | | | * | | |
| | | | * | | |
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index e33b29b1dd..dbbeb7e7c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ As you can see, a commit shows who made the latest change, what they
did, and why.
Every commit has a 40-hexdigit id, sometimes called the "object name" or the
-"SHA1 id", shown on the first line of the "git-show" output. You can usually
+"SHA-1 id", shown on the first line of the "git show" output. You can usually
refer to a commit by a shorter name, such as a tag or a branch name, but this
longer name can also be useful. Most importantly, it is a globally unique
name for this commit: so if you tell somebody else the object name (for
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ ref: refs/heads/master
Examining an old version without creating a new branch
------------------------------------------------------
-The git-checkout command normally expects a branch head, but will also
+The `git checkout` command normally expects a branch head, but will also
accept an arbitrary commit; for example, you can check out the commit
referenced by a tag:
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
HEAD is now at 427abfa... Linux v2.6.17
------------------------------------------------
-The HEAD then refers to the SHA1 of the commit instead of to a branch,
+The HEAD then refers to the SHA-1 of the commit instead of to a branch,
and git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch:
------------------------------------------------
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ references with the same shorthand name, see the "SPECIFYING
REVISIONS" section of linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
[[Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch]]
-Updating a repository with git-fetch
+Updating a repository with git fetch
------------------------------------
Eventually the developer cloned from will do additional work in her
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ $ git fetch linux-nfs
-------------------------------------------------
New remote-tracking branches will be stored under the shorthand name
-that you gave "git-remote add", in this case linux-nfs:
+that you gave "git remote add", in this case linux-nfs:
-------------------------------------------------
$ git branch -r
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ $ git bisect reset
to return you to the branch you were on before.
-Note that the version which git-bisect checks out for you at each
+Note that the version which `git bisect` checks out for you at each
point is just a suggestion, and you're free to try a different
version if you think it would be a good idea. For example,
occasionally you may land on a commit that broke something unrelated;
@@ -592,11 +592,11 @@ In addition to HEAD, there are several other special names for
commits:
Merges (to be discussed later), as well as operations such as
-git-reset, which change the currently checked-out commit, generally
+`git reset`, which change the currently checked-out commit, generally
set ORIG_HEAD to the value HEAD had before the current operation.
-The git-fetch operation always stores the head of the last fetched
-branch in FETCH_HEAD. For example, if you run git fetch without
+The `git fetch` operation always stores the head of the last fetched
+branch in FETCH_HEAD. For example, if you run `git fetch` without
specifying a local branch as the target of the operation
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ $ git log --pretty=oneline origin..mybranch | wc -l
-------------------------------------------------
Alternatively, you may often see this sort of thing done with the
-lower-level command linkgit:git-rev-list[1], which just lists the SHA1's
+lower-level command linkgit:git-rev-list[1], which just lists the SHA-1's
of all the given commits:
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -1073,9 +1073,9 @@ $ git diff
shows the difference between the working tree and the index file.
-Note that "git-add" always adds just the current contents of a file
+Note that "git add" always adds just the current contents of a file
to the index; further changes to the same file will be ignored unless
-you run git-add on the file again.
+you run `git add` on the file again.
When you're ready, just run
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ Ignoring files
A project will often generate files that you do 'not' want to track with git.
This typically includes files generated by a build process or temporary
backup files made by your editor. Of course, 'not' tracking files with git
-is just a matter of 'not' calling `git-add` on them. But it quickly becomes
+is just a matter of 'not' calling `git add` on them. But it quickly becomes
annoying to have these untracked files lying around; e.g. they make
`git add .` practically useless, and they keep showing up in the output of
`git status`.
@@ -1349,7 +1349,7 @@ $ git add file.txt
-------------------------------------------------
the different stages of that file will be "collapsed", after which
-git-diff will (by default) no longer show diffs for that file.
+`git diff` will (by default) no longer show diffs for that file.
[[undoing-a-merge]]
Undoing a merge
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ Fixing a mistake by rewriting history
If the problematic commit is the most recent commit, and you have not
yet made that commit public, then you may just
-<<undoing-a-merge,destroy it using git-reset>>.
+<<undoing-a-merge,destroy it using `git reset`>>.
Alternatively, you
can edit the working directory and update the index to fix your
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@ Checking out an old version of a file
In the process of undoing a previous bad change, you may find it
useful to check out an older version of a particular file using
-linkgit:git-checkout[1]. We've used git-checkout before to switch
+linkgit:git-checkout[1]. We've used `git checkout` before to switch
branches, but it has quite different behavior if it is given a path
name: the command
@@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ $ git gc
-------------------------------------------------
to recompress the archive. This can be very time-consuming, so
-you may prefer to run git-gc when you are not doing other work.
+you may prefer to run `git gc` when you are not doing other work.
[[ensuring-reliability]]
@@ -1634,7 +1634,7 @@ In some situations the reflog may not be able to save you. For example,
suppose you delete a branch, then realize you need the history it
contained. The reflog is also deleted; however, if you have not yet
pruned the repository, then you may still be able to find the lost
-commits in the dangling objects that git-fsck reports. See
+commits in the dangling objects that `git fsck` reports. See
<<dangling-objects>> for the details.
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -1676,7 +1676,7 @@ Sharing development with others
===============================
[[getting-updates-With-git-pull]]
-Getting updates with git-pull
+Getting updates with git pull
-----------------------------
After you clone a repository and make a few changes of your own, you
@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@ repository that you pulled from.
<<fast-forwards,fast forward>>; instead, your branch will just be
updated to point to the latest commit from the upstream branch.)
-The git-pull command can also be given "." as the "remote" repository,
+The `git pull` command can also be given "." as the "remote" repository,
in which case it just merges in a branch from the current repository; so
the commands
@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ Public git repositories
Another way to submit changes to a project is to tell the maintainer
of that project to pull the changes from your repository using
linkgit:git-pull[1]. In the section "<<getting-updates-With-git-pull,
-Getting updates with git-pull>>" we described this as a way to get
+Getting updates with `git pull`>>" we described this as a way to get
updates from the "main" repository, but it works just as well in the
other direction.
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ Setting up a public repository
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Assume your personal repository is in the directory ~/proj. We
-first create a new clone of the repository and tell git-daemon that it
+first create a new clone of the repository and tell `git daemon` that it
is meant to be public:
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -1878,10 +1878,10 @@ repository>>", below.
Otherwise, all you need to do is start linkgit:git-daemon[1]; it will
listen on port 9418. By default, it will allow access to any directory
that looks like a git directory and contains the magic file
-git-daemon-export-ok. Passing some directory paths as git-daemon
+git-daemon-export-ok. Passing some directory paths as `git daemon`
arguments will further restrict the exports to those paths.
-You can also run git-daemon as an inetd service; see the
+You can also run `git daemon` as an inetd service; see the
linkgit:git-daemon[1] man page for details. (See especially the
examples section.)
@@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@ or just
$ git push ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git master
-------------------------------------------------
-As with git-fetch, git-push will complain if this does not result in a
+As with `git fetch`, `git push` will complain if this does not result in a
<<fast-forwards,fast forward>>; see the following section for details on
handling this case.
@@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ repository that has a checked-out working tree, but the working tree
will not be updated by the push. This may lead to unexpected results if
the branch you push to is the currently checked-out branch!
-As with git-fetch, you may also set up configuration options to
+As with `git fetch`, you may also set up configuration options to
save typing; so, for example, after
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -1988,13 +1988,13 @@ error: failed to push to 'ssh://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git'
This can happen, for example, if you:
- - use `git-reset --hard` to remove already-published commits, or
- - use `git-commit --amend` to replace already-published commits
+ - use `git reset --hard` to remove already-published commits, or
+ - use `git commit --amend` to replace already-published commits
(as in <<fixing-a-mistake-by-rewriting-history>>), or
- - use `git-rebase` to rebase any already-published commits (as
+ - use `git rebase` to rebase any already-published commits (as
in <<using-git-rebase>>).
-You may force git-push to perform the update anyway by preceding the
+You may force `git push` to perform the update anyway by preceding the
branch name with a plus sign:
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ advantages over the central shared repository:
- Git's ability to quickly import and merge patches allows a
single maintainer to process incoming changes even at very
- high rates. And when that becomes too much, git-pull provides
+ high rates. And when that becomes too much, `git pull` provides
an easy way for that maintainer to delegate this job to other
maintainers while still allowing optional review of incoming
changes.
@@ -2404,7 +2404,7 @@ use them, and then explain some of the problems that can arise because
you are rewriting history.
[[using-git-rebase]]
-Keeping a patch series up to date using git-rebase
+Keeping a patch series up to date using git rebase
--------------------------------------------------
Suppose that you create a branch "mywork" on a remote-tracking branch
@@ -2468,9 +2468,9 @@ patches to the new mywork. The result will look like:
................................................
In the process, it may discover conflicts. In that case it will stop
-and allow you to fix the conflicts; after fixing conflicts, use "git-add"
+and allow you to fix the conflicts; after fixing conflicts, use `git add`
to update the index with those contents, and then, instead of
-running git-commit, just run
+running `git commit`, just run
-------------------------------------------------
$ git rebase --continue
@@ -2508,7 +2508,7 @@ with
$ git tag bad mywork~5
-------------------------------------------------
-(Either gitk or git-log may be useful for finding the commit.)
+(Either gitk or `git log` may be useful for finding the commit.)
Then check out that commit, edit it, and rebase the rest of the series
on top of it (note that we could check out the commit on a temporary
@@ -2549,12 +2549,12 @@ $ gitk origin..mywork &
and browse through the list of patches in the mywork branch using gitk,
applying them (possibly in a different order) to mywork-new using
-cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using `commit --amend`.
+cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using `git commit --amend`.
The linkgit:git-gui[1] command may also help as it allows you to
individually select diff hunks for inclusion in the index (by
right-clicking on the diff hunk and choosing "Stage Hunk for Commit").
-Another technique is to use git-format-patch to create a series of
+Another technique is to use `git format-patch` to create a series of
patches, then reset the state to before the patches:
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -2662,7 +2662,7 @@ you know is that D is bad, that Z is good, and that
linkgit:git-bisect[1] identifies C as the culprit, how will you
figure out that the problem is due to this change in semantics?
-When the result of a git-bisect is a non-merge commit, you should
+When the result of a `git bisect` is a non-merge commit, you should
normally be able to discover the problem by examining just that commit.
Developers can make this easy by breaking their changes into small
self-contained commits. That won't help in the case above, however,
@@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ master branch. In more detail:
git fetch and fast-forwards
---------------------------
-In the previous example, when updating an existing branch, "git-fetch"
+In the previous example, when updating an existing branch, "git fetch"
checks to make sure that the most recent commit on the remote
branch is a descendant of the most recent commit on your copy of the
branch before updating your copy of the branch to point at the new
@@ -2751,7 +2751,7 @@ resulting in a situation like:
o--o--o <-- new head of the branch
................................................
-In this case, "git-fetch" will fail, and print out a warning.
+In this case, "git fetch" will fail, and print out a warning.
In that case, you can still force git to update to the new head, as
described in the following section. However, note that in the
@@ -2760,7 +2760,7 @@ unless you've already created a reference of your own pointing to
them.
[[forcing-fetch]]
-Forcing git-fetch to do non-fast-forward updates
+Forcing git fetch to do non-fast-forward updates
------------------------------------------------
If git fetch fails because the new head of a branch is not a
@@ -2865,8 +2865,8 @@ The Object Database
We already saw in <<understanding-commits>> that all commits are stored
under a 40-digit "object name". In fact, all the information needed to
represent the history of a project is stored in objects with such names.
-In each case the name is calculated by taking the SHA1 hash of the
-contents of the object. The SHA1 hash is a cryptographic hash function.
+In each case the name is calculated by taking the SHA-1 hash of the
+contents of the object. The SHA-1 hash is a cryptographic hash function.
What that means to us is that it is impossible to find two different
objects with the same name. This has a number of advantages; among
others:
@@ -2877,10 +2877,10 @@ others:
same content stored in two repositories will always be stored under
the same name.
- Git can detect errors when it reads an object, by checking that the
- object's name is still the SHA1 hash of its contents.
+ object's name is still the SHA-1 hash of its contents.
(See <<object-details>> for the details of the object formatting and
-SHA1 calculation.)
+SHA-1 calculation.)
There are four different types of objects: "blob", "tree", "commit", and
"tag".
@@ -2926,9 +2926,9 @@ committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1187591163 -0700
As you can see, a commit is defined by:
-- a tree: The SHA1 name of a tree object (as defined below), representing
+- a tree: The SHA-1 name of a tree object (as defined below), representing
the contents of a directory at a certain point in time.
-- parent(s): The SHA1 name of some number of commits which represent the
+- parent(s): The SHA-1 name of some number of commits which represent the
immediately previous step(s) in the history of the project. The
example above has one parent; merge commits may have more than
one. A commit with no parents is called a "root" commit, and
@@ -2977,13 +2977,13 @@ $ git ls-tree fb3a8bdd0ce
------------------------------------------------
As you can see, a tree object contains a list of entries, each with a
-mode, object type, SHA1 name, and name, sorted by name. It represents
+mode, object type, SHA-1 name, and name, sorted by name. It represents
the contents of a single directory tree.
The object type may be a blob, representing the contents of a file, or
another tree, representing the contents of a subdirectory. Since trees
-and blobs, like all other objects, are named by the SHA1 hash of their
-contents, two trees have the same SHA1 name if and only if their
+and blobs, like all other objects, are named by the SHA-1 hash of their
+contents, two trees have the same SHA-1 name if and only if their
contents (including, recursively, the contents of all subdirectories)
are identical. This allows git to quickly determine the differences
between two related tree objects, since it can ignore any entries with
@@ -3029,15 +3029,15 @@ currently checked out.
Trust
~~~~~
-If you receive the SHA1 name of a blob from one source, and its contents
+If you receive the SHA-1 name of a blob from one source, and its contents
from another (possibly untrusted) source, you can still trust that those
-contents are correct as long as the SHA1 name agrees. This is because
-the SHA1 is designed so that it is infeasible to find different contents
+contents are correct as long as the SHA-1 name agrees. This is because
+the SHA-1 is designed so that it is infeasible to find different contents
that produce the same hash.
-Similarly, you need only trust the SHA1 name of a top-level tree object
+Similarly, you need only trust the SHA-1 name of a top-level tree object
to trust the contents of the entire directory that it refers to, and if
-you receive the SHA1 name of a commit from a trusted source, then you
+you receive the SHA-1 name of a commit from a trusted source, then you
can easily verify the entire history of commits reachable through
parents of that commit, and all of those contents of the trees referred
to by those commits.
@@ -3049,7 +3049,7 @@ that you trust that commit, and the immutability of the history of
commits tells others that they can trust the whole history.
In other words, you can easily validate a whole archive by just
-sending out a single email that tells the people the name (SHA1 hash)
+sending out a single email that tells the people the name (SHA-1 hash)
of the top commit, and digitally sign that email using something
like GPG/PGP.
@@ -3090,7 +3090,7 @@ How git stores objects efficiently: pack files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newly created objects are initially created in a file named after the
-object's SHA1 hash (stored in .git/objects).
+object's SHA-1 hash (stored in .git/objects).
Unfortunately this system becomes inefficient once a project has a
lot of objects. Try this on an old project:
@@ -3131,7 +3131,7 @@ $ git prune
to remove any of the "loose" objects that are now contained in the
pack. This will also remove any unreferenced objects (which may be
-created when, for example, you use "git-reset" to remove a commit).
+created when, for example, you use "git reset" to remove a commit).
You can verify that the loose objects are gone by looking at the
.git/objects directory or by running
@@ -3160,7 +3160,7 @@ branch still exists, as does everything it pointed to. The branch
pointer itself just doesn't, since you replaced it with another one.
There are also other situations that cause dangling objects. For
-example, a "dangling blob" may arise because you did a "git-add" of a
+example, a "dangling blob" may arise because you did a "git add" of a
file, but then, before you actually committed it and made it part of the
bigger picture, you changed something else in that file and committed
that *updated* thing--the old state that you added originally ends up
@@ -3210,7 +3210,7 @@ Usually, dangling blobs and trees aren't very interesting. They're
almost always the result of either being a half-way mergebase (the blob
will often even have the conflict markers from a merge in it, if you
have had conflicting merges that you fixed up by hand), or simply
-because you interrupted a "git-fetch" with ^C or something like that,
+because you interrupted a "git fetch" with ^C or something like that,
leaving _some_ of the new objects in the object database, but just
dangling and useless.
@@ -3225,9 +3225,9 @@ and they'll be gone. But you should only run "git prune" on a quiescent
repository--it's kind of like doing a filesystem fsck recovery: you
don't want to do that while the filesystem is mounted.
-(The same is true of "git-fsck" itself, btw, but since
-git-fsck never actually *changes* the repository, it just reports
-on what it found, git-fsck itself is never "dangerous" to run.
+(The same is true of "git fsck" itself, btw, but since
+`git fsck` never actually *changes* the repository, it just reports
+on what it found, `git fsck` itself is never 'dangerous' to run.
Running it while somebody is actually changing the repository can cause
confusing and scary messages, but it won't actually do anything bad. In
contrast, running "git prune" while somebody is actively changing the
@@ -3297,7 +3297,7 @@ $ git hash-object -w somedirectory/myfile
------------------------------------------------
which will create and store a blob object with the contents of
-somedirectory/myfile, and output the sha1 of that object. if you're
+somedirectory/myfile, and output the SHA-1 of that object. if you're
extremely lucky it might be 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200, in
which case you've guessed right, and the corruption is fixed!
@@ -3359,7 +3359,7 @@ The index
-----------
The index is a binary file (generally kept in .git/index) containing a
-sorted list of path names, each with permissions and the SHA1 of a blob
+sorted list of path names, each with permissions and the SHA-1 of a blob
object; linkgit:git-ls-files[1] can show you the contents of the index:
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -3489,14 +3489,14 @@ done
NOTE: Do not use local URLs here if you plan to publish your superproject!
-See what files `git-submodule` created:
+See what files `git submodule` created:
-------------------------------------------------
$ ls -a
. .. .git .gitmodules a b c d
-------------------------------------------------
-The `git-submodule add <repo> <path>` command does a couple of things:
+The `git submodule add <repo> <path>` command does a couple of things:
- It clones the submodule from <repo> to the given <path> under the
current directory and by default checks out the master branch.
@@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ init` to add the submodule repository URLs to `.git/config`:
$ git submodule init
-------------------------------------------------
-Now use `git-submodule update` to clone the repositories and check out the
+Now use `git submodule update` to clone the repositories and check out the
commits specified in the superproject:
-------------------------------------------------
@@ -3552,8 +3552,8 @@ $ ls -a
. .. .git a.txt
-------------------------------------------------
-One major difference between `git-submodule update` and `git-submodule add` is
-that `git-submodule update` checks out a specific commit, rather than the tip
+One major difference between `git submodule update` and `git submodule add` is
+that `git submodule update` checks out a specific commit, rather than the tip
of a branch. It's like checking out a tag: the head is detached, so you're not
working on a branch.
@@ -3754,7 +3754,7 @@ unsaved state that you might want to restore later!) your current
index. Normal operation is just
-------------------------------------------------
-$ git read-tree <sha1 of tree>
+$ git read-tree <SHA-1 of tree>
-------------------------------------------------
and your index file will now be equivalent to the tree that you saved
@@ -3769,7 +3769,7 @@ You update your working directory from the index by "checking out"
files. This is not a very common operation, since normally you'd just
keep your files updated, and rather than write to your working
directory, you'd tell the index files about the changes in your
-working directory (i.e. `git-update-index`).
+working directory (i.e. `git update-index`).
However, if you decide to jump to a new version, or check out somebody
else's version, or just restore a previous tree, you'd populate your
@@ -3782,7 +3782,7 @@ $ git checkout-index filename
or, if you want to check out all of the index, use `-a`.
-NOTE! git-checkout-index normally refuses to overwrite old files, so
+NOTE! `git checkout-index` normally refuses to overwrite old files, so
if you have an old version of the tree already checked out, you will
need to use the "-f" flag ('before' the "-a" flag or the filename) to
'force' the checkout.
@@ -3820,7 +3820,7 @@ $ git commit-tree <tree> -p <parent> [-p <parent2> ..]
and then giving the reason for the commit on stdin (either through
redirection from a pipe or file, or by just typing it at the tty).
-git-commit-tree will return the name of the object that represents
+`git commit-tree` will return the name of the object that represents
that commit, and you should save it away for later use. Normally,
you'd commit a new `HEAD` state, and while git doesn't care where you
save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the
@@ -3889,7 +3889,7 @@ $ git cat-file blob|tree|commit|tag <objectname>
to show its contents. NOTE! Trees have binary content, and as a result
there is a special helper for showing that content, called
-`git-ls-tree`, which turns the binary content into a more easily
+`git ls-tree`, which turns the binary content into a more easily
readable form.
It's especially instructive to look at "commit" objects, since those
@@ -3978,13 +3978,13 @@ $ git ls-files --unmerged
------------------------------------------------
Each line of the `git ls-files --unmerged` output begins with
-the blob mode bits, blob SHA1, 'stage number', and the
+the blob mode bits, blob SHA-1, 'stage number', and the
filename. The 'stage number' is git's way to say which tree it
came from: stage 1 corresponds to `$orig` tree, stage 2 `HEAD`
tree, and stage3 `$target` tree.
Earlier we said that trivial merges are done inside
-`git-read-tree -m`. For example, if the file did not change
+`git read-tree -m`. For example, if the file did not change
from `$orig` to `HEAD` nor `$target`, or if the file changed
from `$orig` to `HEAD` and `$orig` to `$target` the same way,
obviously the final outcome is what is in `HEAD`. What the
@@ -4011,20 +4011,20 @@ $ mv -f hello.c~2 hello.c
$ git update-index hello.c
-------------------------------------------------
-When a path is in the "unmerged" state, running `git-update-index` for
+When a path is in the "unmerged" state, running `git update-index` for
that path tells git to mark the path resolved.
The above is the description of a git merge at the lowest level,
to help you understand what conceptually happens under the hood.
-In practice, nobody, not even git itself, runs `git-cat-file` three times
-for this. There is a `git-merge-index` program that extracts the
+In practice, nobody, not even git itself, runs `git cat-file` three times
+for this. There is a `git merge-index` program that extracts the
stages to temporary files and calls a "merge" script on it:
-------------------------------------------------
$ git merge-index git-merge-one-file hello.c
-------------------------------------------------
-and that is what higher level `git-merge -s resolve` is implemented with.
+and that is what higher level `git merge -s resolve` is implemented with.
[[hacking-git]]
Hacking git
@@ -4045,12 +4045,12 @@ objects). There are currently four different object types: "blob",
Regardless of object type, all objects share the following
characteristics: they are all deflated with zlib, and have a header
that not only specifies their type, but also provides size information
-about the data in the object. It's worth noting that the SHA1 hash
+about the data in the object. It's worth noting that the SHA-1 hash
that is used to name the object is the hash of the original data
plus this header, so `sha1sum` 'file' does not match the object name
for 'file'.
(Historical note: in the dawn of the age of git the hash
-was the sha1 of the 'compressed' object.)
+was the SHA-1 of the 'compressed' object.)
As a result, the general consistency of an object can always be tested
independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can
@@ -4061,7 +4061,7 @@ size> {plus} <byte\0> {plus} <binary object data>.
The structured objects can further have their structure and
connectivity to other objects verified. This is generally done with
-the `git-fsck` program, which generates a full dependency graph
+the `git fsck` program, which generates a full dependency graph
of all objects, and verifies their internal consistency (in addition
to just verifying their superficial consistency through the hash).
@@ -4120,7 +4120,7 @@ functions like `get_sha1_basic()` or the likes.
This is just to get you into the groove for the most libified part of Git:
the revision walker.
-Basically, the initial version of `git-log` was a shell script:
+Basically, the initial version of `git log` was a shell script:
----------------------------------------------------------------
$ git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") | \
@@ -4129,20 +4129,20 @@ $ git-rev-list --pretty $(git-rev-parse --default HEAD "$@") | \
What does this mean?
-`git-rev-list` is the original version of the revision walker, which
+`git rev-list` is the original version of the revision walker, which
_always_ printed a list of revisions to stdout. It is still functional,
and needs to, since most new Git programs start out as scripts using
-`git-rev-list`.
+`git rev-list`.
-`git-rev-parse` is not as important any more; it was only used to filter out
+`git rev-parse` is not as important any more; it was only used to filter out
options that were relevant for the different plumbing commands that were
called by the script.
-Most of what `git-rev-list` did is contained in `revision.c` and
+Most of what `git rev-list` did is contained in `revision.c` and
`revision.h`. It wraps the options in a struct named `rev_info`, which
controls how and what revisions are walked, and more.
-The original job of `git-rev-parse` is now taken by the function
+The original job of `git rev-parse` is now taken by the function
`setup_revisions()`, which parses the revisions and the common command line
options for the revision walker. This information is stored in the struct
`rev_info` for later consumption. You can do your own command line option
@@ -4155,7 +4155,7 @@ just have a look at the first implementation of `cmd_log()`; call
`git show v1.3.0{tilde}155^2{tilde}4` and scroll down to that function (note that you
no longer need to call `setup_pager()` directly).
-Nowadays, `git-log` is a builtin, which means that it is _contained_ in the
+Nowadays, `git log` is a builtin, which means that it is _contained_ in the
command `git`. The source side of a builtin is
- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin-<bla>.c`,
@@ -4171,7 +4171,7 @@ since they share quite a bit of code. In that case, the commands which are
_not_ named like the `.c` file in which they live have to be listed in
`BUILT_INS` in the `Makefile`.
-`git-log` looks more complicated in C than it does in the original script,
+`git log` looks more complicated in C than it does in the original script,
but that allows for a much greater flexibility and performance.
Here again it is a good point to take a pause.
@@ -4182,9 +4182,9 @@ the organization of Git (after you know the basic concepts).
So, think about something which you are interested in, say, "how can I
access a blob just knowing the object name of it?". The first step is to
find a Git command with which you can do it. In this example, it is either
-`git-show` or `git-cat-file`.
+`git show` or `git cat-file`.
-For the sake of clarity, let's stay with `git-cat-file`, because it
+For the sake of clarity, let's stay with `git cat-file`, because it
- is plumbing, and
@@ -4198,7 +4198,7 @@ it does.
------------------------------------------------------------------
git_config(git_default_config);
if (argc != 3)
- usage("git-cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>");
+ usage("git cat-file [-t|-s|-e|-p|<type>] <sha1>");
if (get_sha1(argv[2], sha1))
die("Not a valid object name %s", argv[2]);
------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -4243,10 +4243,10 @@ To find out how the result can be used, just read on in `cmd_cat_file()`:
-----------------------------------
Sometimes, you do not know where to look for a feature. In many such cases,
-it helps to search through the output of `git log`, and then `git-show` the
+it helps to search through the output of `git log`, and then `git show` the
corresponding commit.
-Example: If you know that there was some test case for `git-bundle`, but
+Example: If you know that there was some test case for `git bundle`, but
do not remember where it was (yes, you _could_ `git grep bundle t/`, but that
does not illustrate the point!):
@@ -4530,7 +4530,7 @@ The basic requirements:
- Whenever possible, section headings should clearly describe the task
they explain how to do, in language that requires no more knowledge
than necessary: for example, "importing patches into a project" rather
- than "the git-am command"
+ than "the `git am` command"
Think about how to create a clear chapter dependency graph that will
allow people to get to important topics without necessarily reading