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2012-07-27Update draft release notes to 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-25Merge branch 'mh/maint-revisions-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+37
* mh/maint-revisions-doc: Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentation Make <refname> documentation more consistent.
2012-07-24Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+31
It was a bit hard to learn how <rev>^@, <rev>^! and various other forms of range specifiers are used, because they were discussed mostly in the prose part of the documentation, unlike various forms of extended SHA-1 expressions that are listed in an enumerated list. Also add a few more examples showing use of <rev>, <rev>..<rev> and <rev>^! forms, stolen from a patch by Max Horn. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-24Update draft release notes to 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+19
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-24Merge branch 'jc/mergetool-tool-help'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
"git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. * jc/mergetool-tool-help: mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does
2012-07-24Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Document $GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG file. * jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg: commit: document the temporary commit message file
2012-07-23Git 1.7.12-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23Merge branch 'kk/maint-commit-tree'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* kk/maint-commit-tree: Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis" commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
2012-07-23Merge branch 'jk/mediawiki-credential'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+16
* jk/mediawiki-credential: mw-to-git: use git-credential's URL parser credential: convert "url" attribute into its parsed subparts mw-to-git: check blank credential attributes via length docs/credential: minor clarity fixups
2012-07-23Merge branch 'sn/doc-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano5-10/+10
* sn/doc-typofix: doc: A few minor copy edits.
2012-07-23commit: document the temporary commit message fileLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want to know about it for two reasons: 1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself for formatting a commit message. 2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want to recover the commit message they typed. Let's put a note in git-commit(1). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync between the implementation and the documentation. In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help for a complete list. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22Update draft release notes to 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-56/+24
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22Sync with 1.7.11.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+55
2012-07-22Git 1.7.11.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+55
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22Merge branch 'pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. * pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch: am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
2012-07-22Merge branch 'ms/daemon-doc-typo'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ms/daemon-doc-typo: Documentation/git-daemon: add missing word
2012-07-22Merge branch 'jc/sha1-name-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish, and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names. * jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits) t1512: match the "other" object names t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix> rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish reset: the command takes committish commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish() sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context() sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags get_sha1(): fix error status regression sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res" ...
2012-07-18credential: convert "url" attribute into its parsed subpartsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+12
The git-credential command requires that you feed it a broken-down credential, which means that the client needs to parse a URL itself. Since we have our own URL-parsing routines, we can easily allow the caller to just give us the URL as-is, saving them some code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-18docs/credential: minor clarity fixupsLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+4
The text in git-credential(1) was copied from technical/api-credentials, so it still talks about the input/output format as coming from git to the helper. Since the surrounding text already indicates that this format is used for reading and writing with git credential, we can just remove the extraneous confusing bits. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-17Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
This reverts commit d28436736a078a429213003a9472e8caeb86c286, which was done without realizing that the updated command line argument order was lost by mistake.
2012-07-16Documentation/git-daemon: add missing wordLibravatar Michael Schubert1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-15Update draft release notes for 7th batchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-15Merge branch 'jc/apply-3way'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
"git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have. * jc/apply-3way: apply: tests for the --3way option apply: document --3way option apply: allow rerere() to work on --3way results apply: register conflicted stages to the index apply: --3way with add/add conflict apply: move verify_index_match() higher apply: plug the three-way merge logic in apply: fall back on three-way merge apply: accept -3/--3way command line option apply: move "already exists" logic to check_to_create() apply: move check_to_create_blob() closer to its sole caller apply: further split load_preimage() apply: refactor "previous patch" logic apply: split load_preimage() helper function out apply: factor out checkout_target() helper function apply: refactor read_file_or_gitlink() apply: clear_image() clears things a bit more apply: a bit more comments on PATH_TO_BE_DELETED apply: fix an incomplete comment in check_patch()
2012-07-15Merge branch 'cw/rebase-i-root'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
"git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the history down to the root. * cw/rebase-i-root: t3404: make test 57 work with dash and others Add tests for rebase -i --root without --onto rebase -i: support --root without --onto
2012-07-15Merge branch 'pw/git-p4-move'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+6
* pw/git-p4-move: git p4: add support for 'p4 move' in P4Submit git p4: refactor diffOpts calculation
2012-07-14doc: A few minor copy edits.Libravatar Štěpán Němec5-10/+10
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its linkification in frontends that support it; remove them - (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not the other way around - trivial typo and wording fixes Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-13am: indicate where a failed patch is to be foundLibravatar Paul Gortmaker1-0/+3
If "git am" fails to apply something, the end user may need to know where to find the patch that failed to apply, so that the user can do other things (e.g. trying "GNU patch" on it, running "diffstat" to see what it tried to change, etc.) The input to "am" may have contained more than one patch, or the message may have been MIME encoded, and knowing what the user fed to "am" does not help very much for this purpose. Also introduce advice.amworkdir configuration to allow people who learned where to look to squelch this message. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-13Sixth batch for 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+33
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-13Merge branch 'tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS. I think there still are other places that need conversion (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this should be a good first step in the right direction. * tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname: git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
2012-07-11Reduce draft release notes to 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-61/+0
Many "fixes since 1.7.11" items are now in the maintenance track Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11Sync with 1.7.11.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+55
2012-07-11Git 1.7.11.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+55
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11Merge branch 'cn/cherry-pick-range-docs' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading. * cn/cherry-pick-range-docs: git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified
2012-07-09rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
The new option allows you to feed an ambiguous prefix and enumerate all the objects that share it as a prefix of their object names. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09apply: document --3way optionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09Fifth batch for 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+43
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09Merge branch 'mm/credential-plumbing'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-36/+147
Expose the credential API to scripted Porcelain writers. * mm/credential-plumbing: git-remote-mediawiki: update comments to reflect credential support git-remote-mediawiki: add credential support git credential fill: output the whole 'struct credential' add 'git credential' plumbing command
2012-07-09Merge branch 'mm/config-xdg'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-7/+24
Teach git to read various information from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ to allow the user to avoid cluttering $HOME. * mm/config-xdg: config: write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file when appropriate Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes Let core.excludesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore config: read (but not write) from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file
2012-07-08git on Mac OS and precomposed unicodeLibravatar Torsten Bögershausen1-0/+9
Mac OS X mangles file names containing unicode on file systems HFS+, VFAT or SAMBA. When a file using unicode code points outside ASCII is created on a HFS+ drive, the file name is converted into decomposed unicode and written to disk. No conversion is done if the file name is already decomposed unicode. Calling open("\xc3\x84", ...) with a precomposed "Ä" yields the same result as open("\x41\xcc\x88",...) with a decomposed "Ä". As a consequence, readdir() returns the file names in decomposed unicode, even if the user expects precomposed unicode. Unlike on HFS+, Mac OS X stores files on a VFAT drive (e.g. an USB drive) in precomposed unicode, but readdir() still returns file names in decomposed unicode. When a git repository is stored on a network share using SAMBA, file names are send over the wire and written to disk on the remote system in precomposed unicode, but Mac OS X readdir() returns decomposed unicode to be compatible with its behaviour on HFS+ and VFAT. The unicode decomposition causes many problems: - The names "git add" and other commands get from the end user may often be precomposed form (the decomposed form is not easily input from the keyboard), but when the commands read from the filesystem to see what it is going to update the index with already is on the filesystem, readdir() will give decomposed form, which is different. - Similarly "git log", "git mv" and all other commands that need to compare pathnames found on the command line (often but not always precomposed form; a command line input resulting from globbing may be in decomposed) with pathnames found in the tree objects (should be precomposed form to be compatible with other systems and for consistency in general). - The same for names stored in the index, which should be precomposed, that may need to be compared with the names read from readdir(). NFS mounted from Linux is fully transparent and does not suffer from the above. As Mac OS X treats precomposed and decomposed file names as equal, we can - wrap readdir() on Mac OS X to return the precomposed form, and - normalize decomposed form given from the command line also to the precomposed form, to ensure that all pathnames used in Git are always in the precomposed form. This behaviour can be requested by setting "core.precomposedunicode" configuration variable to true. The code in compat/precomposed_utf8.c implements basically 4 new functions: precomposed_utf8_opendir(), precomposed_utf8_readdir(), precomposed_utf8_closedir() and precompose_argv(). The first three are to wrap opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3) functions. The argv[] conversion allows to use the TAB filename completion done by the shell on command line. It tolerates other tools which use readdir() to feed decomposed file names into git. When creating a new git repository with "git init" or "git clone", "core.precomposedunicode" will be set "false". The user needs to activate this feature manually. She typically sets core.precomposedunicode to "true" on HFS and VFAT, or file systems mounted via SAMBA. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-05Make <refname> documentation more consistent.Libravatar Max Horn1-6/+6
Formerly, the documentation for <refname> would occasionally say <name> instead of <refname>. Now it uniformly uses <refname>. Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-05git p4: refactor diffOpts calculationLibravatar Gary Gibbons1-4/+6
P4Submit.applyCommit() To avoid recalculating the same diffOpts for each commit, move it out of applyCommit() and into the top-level run(). Also fix a bug in that code which interpreted the value of detectRenames as a string rather than as a boolean. [pw: fix documentation, rearrange code a bit] Signed-off-by: Gary Gibbons <ggibbons@perforce.com> Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-04Fourth batch for 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-03Fix formatting in git-config(1)Libravatar Andreas Schwab1-7/+9
This fixes two formatting bugs in the git-config documentation: - in the column.ui entry don't indent the last paragraph so that it isn't formatted as a literal paragraph - in the push.default entry separate the last paragraph from the nested list. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-28Third batch for 1.7.12Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+43
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-28Merge branch 'lk/more-helpful-status-hints'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
Give finer classification to various states of paths in conflicted state and offer advice messages in the "git status" output.
2012-06-28Merge branch 'lk/rebase-i-x'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+42
Teach "-x <cmd>" to "rebase -i" to insert "exec <cmd>" after each commit in the resulting history.
2012-06-26rebase -i: support --root without --ontoLibravatar Chris Webb1-4/+5
Allow --root to be specified to rebase -i without --onto, making it possible to edit and re-order all commits right back to the root(s). If there is a conflict to be resolved when applying the first change, the user will expect a sane index and working tree to get sensible behaviour from git-diff and friends, so create a sentinel commit with an empty tree to rebase onto. Automatically squash the sentinel with any commits rebased directly onto it, so they end up as root commits in their own right and retain their authorship and commit message. Implicitly use rebase -i for non-interactive rebase of --root without an --onto argument now that rebase -i can correctly do this. Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25git credential fill: output the whole 'struct credential'Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-4/+12
Instead of outputing only the username and password, print all the attributes, even those that already appeared in the input. This is closer to what the C API does, and allows one to take the exact output of "git credential fill" as input to "git credential approve" or "git credential reject". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25add 'git credential' plumbing commandLibravatar Javier Roucher Iglesias2-36/+139
The credential API is in C, and not available to scripting languages. Expose the functionalities of the API by wrapping them into a new plumbing command "git credentials". In other words, replace the internal "test-credential" by an official Git command. Most documentation writen by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Pavel Volek <Pavel.Volek@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Kim Thuat Nguyen <Kim-Thuat.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Javier Roucher Iglesias <Javier.Roucher-Iglesias@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>