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2016-01-04Git 2.6.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+21
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-15Update draft release notes to 2.6.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-15Merge branch 'ls/p4-keep-empty-commits' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
"git p4" used to import Perforce CLs that touch only paths outside the client spec as empty commits. It has been corrected to ignore them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a backward compatibility knob. * ls/p4-keep-empty-commits: git-p4: add option to keep empty commits
2015-12-11Prepare for 2.6.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+25
This back-merges hopefully the last batch of trivially correct fixes to the 2.6.x maintenance track from the master branch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-11Merge branch 'sb/doc-submodule-sync-recursive' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
* sb/doc-submodule-sync-recursive: document submodule sync --recursive
2015-12-11Merge branch 'nd/doc-check-ref-format-typo' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* nd/doc-check-ref-format-typo: git-check-ref-format.txt: typo, s/avoids/avoid/
2015-12-10Documentation/git-update-index: add missing opts to synopsisLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+1
Split index related options should appear in the 'SYNOPSIS' section. These options are already documented in the 'OPTIONS' section. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-10git-p4: add option to keep empty commitsLibravatar Lars Schneider1-0/+4
A changelist that contains only excluded files due to a client spec was imported as an empty commit. Fix that issue by ignoring these commits. Add option "git-p4.keepEmptyCommits" to make the previous behavior available. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> Helped-by: Pete Harlan Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-08Git 2.6.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+17
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-08Merge branch 'jk/rebase-no-autostash' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing. * jk/rebase-no-autostash: Documentation/git-rebase: fix --no-autostash formatting rebase: support --no-autostash
2015-12-04git-check-ref-format.txt: typo, s/avoids/avoid/Libravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-04document submodule sync --recursiveLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+4
The git-submodule(1) is inconsistent. In the synopsis, it says: git submodule [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...] The description of the sync does not mention --recursive, and the description of --recursive says that it is only available for foreach, update and status. The option was introduced (82f49f294c, Teach --recursive to submodule sync, 2012-10-26) a while ago, so let's document it, too. Reported-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-04Prepare for 2.6.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+48
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-01Merge branch 'dk/check-ignore-docs' into maintLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+5
Documentation clarification for "check-ignore" without "--verbose". * dk/check-ignore-docs: check-ignore: correct documentation about output
2015-12-01Merge branch 'mg/doc-word-diff-example' into maintLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+3
* mg/doc-word-diff-example: Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. example
2015-12-01Merge branch 'ar/doc-env-variable-format' into maintLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+6
Minor documentation fixup. * ar/doc-env-variable-format: Documentation: make environment variable formatting more consistent
2015-11-24Documentation/diff: give --word-diff-regex=. exampleLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+3
It's just so useful. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-24check-ignore: correct documentation about outputLibravatar Dennis Kaarsemaker1-5/+5
By default git check-ignore shows only the filenames that will be ignored, not the pattern that causes their exclusion. Instead of moving the partial exclude pattern precendence information to the -v option where it belongs, link to gitignore(5) which describes this more thoroughly. Signed-off-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-24Documentation/git-update-index: add missing opts to synopsysLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+1
Untracked cache related options should appear in the synopsis. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-11Documentation: make environment variable formatting more consistentLibravatar Андрей Рыбак1-6/+6
Documentation/git.txt is not consistent in the way it stylizes mentions of Environment Variables. Most of them are enclosed in single quotes, some are enclosed in backticks, some are not enclosed. Signed-off-by: Andrey Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2015-11-05Git 2.6.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+113
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-11-05Merge branch 'rs/daemon-plug-child-leak' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
"git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do. * rs/daemon-plug-child-leak: daemon: plug memory leak run-command: factor out child_process_clear()
2015-11-04Merge branch 'xf/user-manual-ff' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
* xf/user-manual-ff: user-manual: fix the description of fast-forward
2015-11-04Merge branch 'xf/user-manual-markup' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano11-11/+11
AsciiDoc markup fixes. * xf/user-manual-markup: Documentation: match undefline with the text in old release notes Documentation: match underline with the text Documentation: fix header markup
2015-11-04Merge branch 'jc/everyday-markup' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
AsciiDoc markup fixes. * jc/everyday-markup: Documentation/everyday: match undefline with the text
2015-11-04Merge branch 'jc/em-dash-in-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano6-6/+6
AsciiDoc markup fixes. * jc/em-dash-in-doc: Documentation: AsciiDoc spells em-dash as double-dashes, not triple
2015-11-03Merge branch 'jk/merge-file-exit-code' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
"git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which obviously would not work well when there are too many of them. * jk/merge-file-exit-code: merge-file: clamp exit code to maximum 127
2015-11-03Merge branch 'jc/usage-stdin' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano13-28/+51
The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading. * jc/usage-stdin: usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file
2015-11-03Merge branch 'jk/repository-extension' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+88
Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository format version "1", with an extension mechanism. * jk/repository-extension: introduce "preciousObjects" repository extension introduce "extensions" form of core.repositoryformatversion
2015-11-02run-command: factor out child_process_clear()Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+7
Avoid duplication by moving the code to release allocated memory for arguments and environment to its own function, child_process_clear(). Export it to provide a counterpart to child_process_init(). Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-29merge-file: clamp exit code to maximum 127Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+2
Git-merge-file is documented to return one of three exit codes: - zero means the merge was successful - a negative number means an error occurred - a positive number indicates the number of conflicts Unfortunately, this all gets stuffed into an 8-bit return code. Which means that if you have 256 conflicts, this wraps to zero, and the merge appears to succeed (and commits a blob full of conflict-marker cruft!). This patch clamps the return value to a maximum of 127, which we should be able to safely represent everywhere. This also leaves 128-255 for other values. Shells (and some parts of git) will typically represent signal death as 128 plus the signal number. And negative values are typically coerced to an 8-bit unsigned value (so "return -1" ends up as 255). Technically negative returns have the same problem (e.g., "-256" wraps back to 0), but this is not a problem in practice, as the only negative value we use is "-1". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-26user-manual: fix the description of fast-forwardLibravatar Xue Fuqiao1-5/+5
The "Fast-forward merges" section of user-manual.txt incorrectly says if the current branch is a descendant of the other, Git will perform a fast-forward merge, but it should the other way around. Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22Documentation: AsciiDoc spells em-dash as double-dashes, not tripleLibravatar Junio C Hamano6-6/+6
Again, we do not usually process release notes with AsciiDoc, but it is better to be consistent. This incidentally reveals breakages left by an ancient 5e00439f (Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto, 2012-10-23). The index-format documentation was originally written to be read as straight text without formatting and when the commit forced everything in Documentation/ to go through AsciiDoc, it did not do any adjustment--hence the double-dashes will be seen in the resulting text that is rendered as preformatted fixed-width without converted into em-dashes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22Documentation: match undefline with the text in old release notesLibravatar Junio C Hamano5-5/+5
These are not processed with AsciiDoc, but it is better to be consistent. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22Documentation: match underline with the textLibravatar Junio C Hamano5-5/+5
Even though AsciiDoc is more lenient when deciding if an underline is for the contents on the previous line to find section headers, we should match the length of them for other formatters to help them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22Documentation/everyday: match undefline with the textLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Even though AsciiDoc is more lenient when deciding if an underline is for the contents on the previous line to find section headers, we should match the length of them for other formatters to help them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22Documentation: fix header markupLibravatar Xue Fuqiao1-1/+1
Asciidoctor is stricter than AsciiDoc when deciding if underlining is a section title or the start of preformatted text. Make the length of the underlining match the text to ensure that it renders correctly in all implementations. Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-20Merge branch 'jc/doc-gc-prune-now' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
"git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is quiescent. * jc/doc-gc-prune-now: Documentation/gc: warn against --prune=<now>
2015-10-16usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a fileLibravatar Junio C Hamano13-28/+51
The synopsys text and the usage string of subcommands that read list of things from the standard input are often shown like this: git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> This is problematic in a number of ways: * The way to use these commands is more often to feed them the output from another command, not feed them from a file. * Manual pages outside Git, commands that operate on the data read from the standard input, e.g "sort", "grep", "sed", etc., are not described with such a "< redirection-from-file" in their synopsys text. Our doing so introduces inconsistency. * We do not insist on where the output should go, by saying git gostak [--distim] < <list-of-doshes> > <output> * As it is our convention to enclose placeholders inside <braket>, the redirection operator followed by a placeholder filename becomes very hard to read, both in the documentation and in the help text. Let's clean them all up, after making sure that the documentation clearly describes the modes that take information from the standard input and what kind of things are expected on the input. [jc: stole example for fmt-merge-msg from Jonathan] Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-16Git 2.6.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+67
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-16Merge branch 'tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo: Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fix
2015-10-16Merge branch 'jk/asciidoctor-section-heading-markup-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
* jk/asciidoctor-section-heading-markup-fix: Documentation: fix section header mark-up
2015-10-16Merge branch 'nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option: ls-remote.txt: delete unsupported option
2015-10-16Merge branch 'dt/log-follow-config' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+10
Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log" documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation. * dt/log-follow-config: log: Update log.follow doc and add to config.txt
2015-10-16Merge branch 'jk/notes-dwim-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+6
The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are DWIMmed was not clearly documented. * jk/notes-dwim-doc: notes: correct documentation of DWIMery for notes references
2015-10-16Merge branch 'mm/keyid-docs' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano10-29/+47
Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional (which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and every one of them. * mm/keyid-docs: Documentation: explain optional arguments better Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
2015-10-14Documentation/gc: warn against --prune=<now>Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
"git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in grace period to protect objects that are created by other processes that are waiting for ref updates to anchor them to the history. In order to run with no grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is quiescent. Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fixLibravatar Tobias Klauser1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07log: Update log.follow doc and add to config.txtLibravatar Eric N. Vander Weele2-4/+10
Documentation/config.txt does not include the documentation for log.follow that is in Documentation/git-log.txt. This commit adds the log.follow documentation to config.txt and also updates the wording to be consistent with the format that is followed by other boolean configuration variables. Signed-off-by: Eric N. Vander Weele <ericvw@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-28Git 2.6.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>