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2008-02-19Add a --cover-letter option to format-patchLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-7/+13
If --cover-letter is provided, generate a cover letter message before the patches, numbered 0. Original patch thanks to Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-17Sync with 1.5.4.2 and start 1.5.5 Release NotesLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+80
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-17Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+60
* maint: GIT 1.5.4.2
2008-02-17GIT 1.5.4.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+60
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Merge branch 'sp/safecrlf'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+65
* sp/safecrlf: safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversions
2008-02-16Merge branch 'cc/browser'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-27/+89
* cc/browser: Documentation: add 'git-web--browse.txt' and simplify other docs. git-web--browse: fix misplaced quote in init_browser_path() web--browse: Add a few quotes in 'init_browser_path'. Documentation: instaweb: add 'git-web--browse' information. Adjust .gitignore for 5884f1(Rename 'git-help--browse.sh'...) git-web--browse: do not start the browser with nohup instaweb: use 'git-web--browse' to launch browser. Rename 'git-help--browse.sh' to 'git-web--browse.sh'. help--browse: add '--config' option to check a config option for a browser. help: make 'git-help--browse' usable outside 'git-help'. Conflicts: git-web--browse.sh
2008-02-16Merge branch 'jc/gitignore-ends-with-slash'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
* jc/gitignore-ends-with-slash: gitignore: lazily find dtype gitignore(5): Allow "foo/" in ignore list to match directory "foo"
2008-02-16Merge branch 'pb/prepare-commit-msg'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+31
* pb/prepare-commit-msg: git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook git-commit: Refactor creation of log message. git-commit: set GIT_EDITOR=: if editor will not be launched git-commit: support variable number of hook arguments
2008-02-16Merge branch 'jc/submittingpatches'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+57
* jc/submittingpatches: Documentation/SubmittingPatches - a suggested patch flow Documentation/SubmittingPatches: What's Acked-by and Tested-by? Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss first then submit Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Instruct how to use [PATCH] Subject header
2008-02-16Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+20
* maint: Documentation/git-reset: Add an example of resetting selected paths Documentation/git-reset: don't mention --mixed for selected-paths reset Documentation/git-reset:
2008-02-16Documentation/SubmittingPatches - a suggested patch flowLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+35
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Documentation/git-reset: Add an example of resetting selected pathsLibravatar Pieter de Bie1-0/+17
Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Documentation/git-reset: don't mention --mixed for selected-paths resetLibravatar Pieter de Bie1-2/+2
The option is accepted, but that is the only form selected-paths variant of the reset command takes, so there is no point mentioning it. And while we're at it, use the dashless git call. Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Documentation/git-reset:Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Since 3368d11 (Remove unnecessary git-rm --cached reference from status output), the status output marks the "Added but not yet committed" section as "Changes to be committed". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Update fast-import documentation to discuss crash reportsLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+87
Recent versions of fast-import will now dump information out upon crashing, making it possible for the frontend developer to review some state information and possibly restart the import from the point where it crashed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Documentation: add 'git-web--browse.txt' and simplify other docs.Libravatar Christian Couder3-43/+86
'git-help.txt' and 'git-instaweb.txt' contained duplicated information about 'git-web--browse'. This patch puts this information where it belongs. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-13Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-8/+9
* maint: config: add test cases for empty value and no value config variables. cvsimport: have default merge regex also match beginning of commit message git clone -s documentation: force a new paragraph for the NOTE status: suggest "git rm --cached" to unstage for initial commit Protect get_author_ident_from_commit() from filenames in work tree upload-pack: Initialize the exec-path. bisect: use verbatim commit subject in the bisect log git-cvsimport.txt: fix '-M' description. Revert "pack-objects: only throw away data during memory pressure"
2008-02-13git clone -s documentation: force a new paragraph for the NOTELibravatar Miklos Vajna1-6/+7
It should be loud and clear. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-13git-cvsimport.txt: fix '-M' description.Libravatar Sergei Organov1-2/+2
Fix '-M' description. Old one reads as if the user can somehow "see" the default regex when using -M along with -m. Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Update the main documentation (stale notes section)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Merge branch 'mw/send-email'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+34
* mw/send-email: git-send-email: Better handling of EOF git-send-email: SIG{TERM,INT} handlers git-send-email: ssh/login style password requests
2008-02-11Merge branch 'db/send-email-omit-cc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
* db/send-email-omit-cc: git-send-email: Generalize auto-cc recipient mechanism.
2008-02-11Merge branch 'ph/describe-match'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* ph/describe-match: git-name-rev: add a --(no-)undefined option. git-describe: Add a --match option to limit considered tags.
2008-02-11Define the project whitespace policyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
This establishes what the "bad" whitespaces are for this project. The rules are: - Unless otherwise specified, indent with SP that could be replaced with HT are not "bad". But SP before HT in the indent is "bad", and trailing whitespaces are "bad". - For C source files, initial indent by SP that can be replaced with HT is also "bad". - Test scripts in t/ and test vectors in its subdirectories can contain anything, so we make it unrestricted for now. Anything "bad" will be shown in WHITESPACE error indicator in diff output, and "apply --whitespace=warn" will warn about it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Add `git svn blame' commandLibravatar Tim Stoakes1-0/+7
This command is identical to `git blame', but it shows SVN revision numbers instead of git commit hashes. [ew: support "^initial commit" and minor formatting fixes] Signed-off-by: Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net> Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-16/+18
* maint: (35 commits) config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL imap-send.c: guard config parser from value=NULL wt-status.c: guard config parser from value=NULL setup.c: guard config parser from value=NULL remote.c: guard config parser from value=NULL merge-recursive.c: guard config parser from value=NULL http.c: guard config parser from value=NULL help.c: guard config parser from value=NULL git.c: guard config parser from value=NULL diff.c: guard config parser from value=NULL convert.c: guard config parser from value=NULL connect.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-tag.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-show-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-reflog.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-commit.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULL ...
2008-02-11man pages are littered with .ft C and othersLibravatar Jonas Fonseca2-1/+20
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes: > > > > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458 > Julian Phillips: > > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72? There are known problems building the > > manpages with that version. 1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get > > released. I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end this part of the manpage nightmare. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Document that the default of branch.autosetupmerge is trueLibravatar Johannes Schindelin3-11/+13
In 34a3e69 (git-branch: default to --track) the default was changed to true, to help new git users. But yours truly forgot to update the documentation. This fixes it. Noticed by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11git-pull documentation: fix markupLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
A note paragraph was mistakenly made into an indented monospace display. Noticed by Miklos Vajna. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-10Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Fix typo in 'blame' documentation.
2008-02-09Documentation: instaweb: add 'git-web--browse' information.Libravatar Christian Couder1-4/+23
Now that 'git-instaweb' uses 'git-web--browse', update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-09Introduce the config variable pack.packSizeLimitLibravatar Johannes Schindelin2-1/+8
"git pack-objects" has the option --max-pack-size to limit the file size of the packs to a certain amount of bytes. On platforms where the pack file size is limited by filesystem constraints, it is easy to forget this option, and this option does not exist for "git gc" to begin with. So introduce a config variable to set the default maximum, but make this overrideable by the command line. Suggested by Tor Arvid Lund. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-09Fix typo in 'blame' documentation.Libravatar Tim Stoakes1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversionsLibravatar Steffen Prohaska2-0/+65
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data. If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right after committing you still have the original file in your work tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell git that this file is binary and git will handle the file appropriately. Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts data. This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the following values: - false: disable safecrlf mechanism - warn: warn about irreversible conversions - true: refuse irreversible conversions The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism. The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are: - we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the original file. - for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree we do not not print annoying warnings. There are exceptions. Even though... - "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the next checkout would, so the safety triggers; - "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the safety does not trigger; - "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To catch potential problems early, safety triggers. The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
2008-02-06git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hookLibravatar Paolo Bonzini2-2/+27
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is). Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place. It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit message, and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a -t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set); "merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists); "squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option was given). If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort. The hook is not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used as a replacement for the pre-commit hook. The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage, that the user can then edit or discard altogether. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06git-commit: set GIT_EDITOR=: if editor will not be launchedLibravatar Paolo Bonzini1-0/+4
This is a preparatory patch that provides a simple way for the future prepare-commit-msg hook to discover if the editor will be launched. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05Rename 'git-help--browse.sh' to 'git-web--browse.sh'.Libravatar Christian Couder1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05gitignore(5): Allow "foo/" in ignore list to match directory "foo"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
A pattern "foo/" in the exclude list did not match directory "foo", but a pattern "foo" did. This attempts to extend the exclude mechanism so that it would while not matching a regular file or a symbolic link "foo". In order to differentiate a directory and non directory, this passes down the type of path being checked to excluded() function. A downside is that the recursive directory walk may need to run lstat(2) more often on systems whose "struct dirent" do not give the type of the entry; earlier it did not have to do so for an excluded path, but we now need to figure out if a path is a directory before deciding to exclude it. This is especially bad because an idea similar to the earlier CE_UPTODATE optimization to reduce number of lstat(2) calls would by definition not apply to the codepaths involved, as (1) directories will not be registered in the index, and (2) excluded paths will not be in the index anyway. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05git-send-email: Generalize auto-cc recipient mechanism.Libravatar David Brown1-0/+11
There are a few options to git-send-email to suppress the automatic generation of 'Cc' fields: --suppress-from, and --signed-off-cc. However, there are other times that git-send-email automatically includes Cc'd recipients. This is not desirable for all development environments. Add a new option --suppress-cc, which can be specified one or more times to list the categories of auto-cc fields that should be suppressed. If not specified, it defaults to values to give the same behavior as specified by --suppress-from, and --signed-off-cc. The categories are: self - patch sender. Same as --suppress-from. author - patch author. cc - cc lines mentioned in the patch. cccmd - avoid running the cccmd. sob - signed off by lines. all - all non-explicit recipients Signed-off-by: David Brown <git@davidb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05Documentation/SubmittingPatches: What's Acked-by and Tested-by?Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+12
We used to talk about "internal company procedures", but this document is about submitting patches to the git mailing list. More useful information is when to say Acked-by: and Tested-by:. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05Documentation/SubmittingPatches: discuss first then submitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
This is something I've had in mind for some time. I get enough e-mails as-is, and I suspect the workflow to get list members involved would work better if we get the discussion concluded on the list first before patches hit my tree (even 'next'). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Instruct how to use [PATCH] Subject headerLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05git-send-email: ssh/login style password requestsLibravatar Michael Witten1-5/+34
Whilst convenient, it is most unwise to record passwords in any place but one's brain. Moreover, it is especially foolish to store them in configuration files, even with access permissions set accordingly. git-send-email has been amended, so that if it detects an smtp username without a password, it promptly prompts for the password and masks the input for privacy. Furthermore, the argument to --smtp-pass has been rendered optional. The documentation has been updated to reflect these changes. Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05man pages are littered with .ft C and othersLibravatar Jonas Fonseca2-1/+20
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes: > > > > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458 > Julian Phillips: > > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72? There are known problems building the > > manpages with that version. 1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get > > released. I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end this part of the manpage nightmare. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-03git-remote documentation: fix synopsis to match descriptionLibravatar Jörg Sommer1-1/+1
In the text, the argument of -m is <master> which should be used in the command synopsis, too. Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-03Documentation/git-stash.txt: Adjust SYNOPSIS command syntax (2)Libravatar Jari Aalto1-3/+4
Adjust the command syntax to better reflect the call parameters: [save] [message...] => [save [<message>]]. Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto AT cante.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-01Update stale documentation links from the main documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
This could have been part of the 1.5.4 commit, but it isn't. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-01GIT 1.5.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-31git rev-parse manpage: spelling fixLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-31Revert "filter-branch docs: remove brackets so not to imply revision arg is ↵Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
optional" This reverts commit c41b439244c51b30c60953192816afc91e552578, as we decided to default to HEAD when revision parameters are missing and they are no longer mandatory.