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2013-03-11Merge branch 'gp/add-u-A-documentation'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+12
* gp/add-u-A-documentation: add: Clarify documentation of -A and -u
2013-03-08Update draft release notes to 1.8.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-26/+34
Split the backward-compatibility notes into two sections, the ones that affect this release, and the other to describe changes meant for Git 2.0. The latter gives a context to understand why the changes for this release is necessary. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-07add: Clarify documentation of -A and -uLibravatar Greg Price1-10/+12
The documentation of '-A' and '-u' is very confusing for someone who doesn't already know what they do. Describe them with fewer words and clearer parallelism to each other and to the behavior of plain 'add'. Also mention the default <pathspec> for '-A' as well as '-u', because it applies to both. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-03Git 1.8.2-rc2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+26
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-01Sync with 1.8.1.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-2/+9
2013-03-01Git 1.8.1.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-01Merge branch 'wk/user-manual' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-56/+77
* wk/user-manual: user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
2013-03-01Documentation/githooks: Fix linkgitLibravatar Andrew Wong1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-27Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+8
* maint: Update draft release notes to 1.8.1.5 Documentation/submodule: Add --force to update synopsis
2013-02-27Update draft release notes to 1.8.1.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-27Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days: user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the) user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
2013-02-27Merge branch 'mh/maint-ceil-absolute'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+13
An earlier workaround designed to help people who list logical directories that will not match what getcwd(3) returns in the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES had an adverse effect when it is slow to stat and readlink a directory component of an element listed on it. * mh/maint-ceil-absolute: Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling paths
2013-02-27Documentation/submodule: Add --force to update synopsisLibravatar Brad King1-1/+1
In commit 9db31bdf (submodule: Add --force option for git submodule update, 2011-04-01) we added the option to the implementation's usage synopsis but forgot to add it to the synopsis in the command documentation. Add the option to the synopsis in the same location it is reported in usage and re-wrap the options to avoid long lines. Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Git 1.8.2-rc1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Sync with 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+38
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Merge branch 'wk/user-manual'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-56/+77
Further updates to the user manual. * wk/user-manual: user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
2013-02-25Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days: user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the)
2013-02-25Prepare for 1.8.1.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+37
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Merge branch 'jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default: doc: mention tracking for pull.default
2013-02-25Merge branch 'mm/config-intro-in-git-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+5
* mm/config-intro-in-git-doc: git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism
2013-02-25Merge branch 'mg/bisect-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* mg/bisect-doc: git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisect
2013-02-25Merge branch 'jk/remote-helpers-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano5-7/+23
* jk/remote-helpers-doc: Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
2013-02-25Documentation: "advice" is uncountableLibravatar Greg Price1-1/+1
"Advice" is a mass noun, not a count noun; it's not ordinarily pluralized. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-22Provide a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in ceiling pathsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-6/+13
Commit 1b77d83cab 'setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths' changed the setup code to resolve symlinks in the entries in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. Because those entries are compared textually to the symlink-resolved current directory, an entry in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES that contained a symlink would have no effect. It was known that this could cause performance problems if the symlink resolution *itself* touched slow filesystems, but it was thought that such use cases would be unlikely. The intention of the earlier change was to deal with a case when the user has this: GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/home/gitster but in reality, /home/gitster is a symbolic link to somewhere else, e.g. /net/machine/home4/gitster. A textual comparison between the specified value /home/gitster and the location getcwd(3) returns would not help us, but readlink("/home/gitster") would still be fast. After this change was released, Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> reported: > [...] my computer has been acting so slow when I’m not connected to > the network. I put various network filesystem paths in > $GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, such as > /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n/andersk (to avoid hitting its parents > /afs/athena.mit.edu, /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a, and > /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/n which all live in different AFS > volumes). Now when I’m not connected to the network, every > invocation of Git, including the __git_ps1 in my shell prompt, waits > for AFS to timeout. To allow users to work around this problem, give them a mechanism to turn off symlink resolution in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES entries. All the entries that follow an empty entry will not be checked for symbolic links and used literally in comparison. E.g. with these: GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=:/foo/bar:/xyzzy or GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/foo/bar::/xyzzy we will not readlink("/xyzzy") because it comes after an empty entry. With the former (but not with the latter), "/foo/bar" comes after an empty entry, and we will not readlink it, either. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19Sync with v1.8.1.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
2013-02-19Git 1.8.1.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updatesLibravatar W. Trevor King1-1/+3
If you try and update a submodule with a dirty working directory, you get an error message like: $ git submodule update error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout: ... Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches. Aborting ... Mention this in the submodule notes. The previous phrase was short enough that I originally thought it might have been referring to the reflog note (obviously, uncommitted changes will not show up in the reflog either ;). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" textLibravatar W. Trevor King1-9/+5
Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?). Add an explicit push before request-pull to satisfy request-pull, which checks to make sure the references are publically available. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'Libravatar W. Trevor King1-46/+69
I think this interface is often more convenient than extended cherry picking or using 'git format-patch'. In fact, I removed the cherry-pick section entirely. The entry-level suggestions for rerolling are now: 1. git commit --amend 2. git format-patch origin git reset --hard origin ...edit and reorder patches... git am *.patch 3. git rebase -i origin Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18Merge branch 'jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
We stopped mentioning `tracking` is a deprecated but supported synonym for `upstream` in pull.default even though we have no intention of removing the support for it. * jc/mention-tracking-for-pull-default: doc: mention tracking for pull.default
2013-02-18Merge branch 'mm/config-intro-in-git-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+5
* mm/config-intro-in-git-doc: git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanism
2013-02-18RelNotes 1.8.2: push-simple will not be in effect in this releaseLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+14
Also migration path for the default behaviour of "git add -u/-A" run in a subdirectory is worth mentioning. Both pointed out by Matthieu Moy. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Noticed by Drew Northup Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-40/+55
* maint: user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball user-manual: use 'git config --global user.*' for setup user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch config user-manual: give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +master user-manual: use 'remote add' to setup push URLs
2013-02-18user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarballLibravatar W. Trevor King1-3/+12
This functionality was introduced by 0e804e09 (archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter, 2011-07-21) for v1.7.7. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: use 'git config --global user.*' for setupLibravatar W. Trevor King1-5/+13
A simple command line call is easier than spawning an editor, especially for folks new to ideas like the "command line" and "text editors". This is also the approach suggested by 'git commit' if you try and commit without having configured user.name or user.email. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch configLibravatar W. Trevor King1-27/+13
I hardly ever setup remote.<name>.url using 'git config'. While it may be instructive to do so, we should also point out 'git remote add'. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +masterLibravatar W. Trevor King1-0/+7
This mirrors existing language in the description of 'git fetch'. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: use 'remote add' to setup push URLsLibravatar W. Trevor King1-5/+10
There is no need to use here documents to setup this configuration. It is easier, less confusing, and more robust to use `git remote add` directly. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-17Git 1.8.2-rc0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-17Merge branch 'jc/hidden-refs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+23
Allow the server side to redact the refs/ namespace it shows to the client. Will merge to 'master'. * jc/hidden-refs: upload/receive-pack: allow hiding ref hierarchies upload-pack: simplify request validation upload-pack: share more code
2013-02-17Merge branch 'mp/diff-algo-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+37
Add diff.algorithm configuration so that the user does not type "diff --histogram". * mp/diff-algo-config: diff: Introduce --diff-algorithm command line option config: Introduce diff.algorithm variable git-completion.bash: Autocomplete --minimal and --histogram for git-diff
2013-02-15Update draft release notes to 1.8.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-15git.txt: update description of the configuration mechanismLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-6/+5
The old Git version where it appeared is now useful only to historians, not to normal users. Also, the text was mentioning only the per-repo config file, but this is a good place to teach that customization can also be made per-user. While at it, remove a now-defunct e-mail from an example. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days: user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
2013-02-14Documentation/git-add: kill remaining <filepattern>Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The merge at 5bf72ed2 missed another instance of <filepattern> that we were converting to <pathspec>. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuseLibravatar W. Trevor King1-3/+4
acd2a45 (Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push, 2009-02-11) changed the default to refuse such a push, but it forgot to update the docs. 7d182f5 (Documentation: receive.denyCurrentBranch defaults to 'refuse', 2010-03-17) updated Documentation/config.txt, but forgot to update the user manual. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14Update draft release notes to 1.8.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14Merge branch 'mg/bisect-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* mg/bisect-doc: git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisect
2013-02-14Merge branch 'tz/perl-styles'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+42
Add coding guidelines for writing Perl scripts for Git. * tz/perl-styles: Update CodingGuidelines for Perl