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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index a4191aa..c4cb5ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ code. For Git in general, a few rough rules are: "Once it _is_ in the tree, it's not really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up." - Cf. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/943020 + Cf. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.3/01069.html Make your code readable and sensible, and don't try to be clever. @@ -256,12 +256,12 @@ For C programs: Note however that a comment that explains a translatable string to translators uses a convention of starting with a magic token - "TRANSLATORS: " immediately after the opening delimiter, even when - it spans multiple lines. We do not add an asterisk at the beginning - of each line, either. E.g. + "TRANSLATORS: ", e.g. - /* TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string - to be translated, that follows immediately after it */ + /* + * TRANSLATORS: here is a comment that explains the string to + * be translated, that follows immediately after it. + */ _("Here is a translatable string explained by the above."); - Double negation is often harder to understand than no negation diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed7cd97 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +Git v2.13.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13 +----------------- + + * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though + the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with + ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is + based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier + to migrate away from it if/when necessary. + + * Update tests to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism to ensure + that output strings that should not be translated are not + translated by mistake), and tell TravisCI to run them. + + * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take + effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. + + * An earlier update to test 7400 needed to be skipped on CYGWIN. + + * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does + not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native + speakers. Attempt to rephrase them. + + * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use + --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request + will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish + to be merged. + + * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" + leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. + + * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when + the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed + in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This + strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other + options are in use, and need to be disabled. + + * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path + configuration variables. + + * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at + missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they + should silently be ignored instead) + + * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the + documentation have been updated to https:// links. + + * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out + with "platform native" line ending convention by default on + Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts + themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be + checked out with eol=LF even on Windows. + + * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people). + + * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate + records the same set of push options used for pushing. + + * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery + mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. + This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added + after completing the existing incomplete line. + + * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has + a new "push" subcommand. + + * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both + AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. + + * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as + recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of + multi-line comments. + + * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the + per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did + not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. + + * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch + tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to + resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs, + which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem. + + * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit + -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end, + i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been + corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to + the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it. + + * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other + end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms + that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND, + but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing + intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling + traces from "receive-pack" in the test. + + * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no + slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as + that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem. + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 + was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that + do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which + has already fixed these issues. + + * "git am -h" triggered a BUG(). + + * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's + whitelisting is now documented better. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8ba0fa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Git v2.13.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.1 +------------------- + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13.1 + was still broken on some platforms. Update to the upstream code + again to take their fix. + + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a + submodule that itself has submodules. + + * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ..."). + + * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust + against dead-locking in a threaded environment. + + * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the + tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or + unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP + tests have been salvaged to always run in this script. + + * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files, + even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x". + "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files + without "-uall". These have been corrected. + + * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is + closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by + fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written + but not yet closed. + + * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history + fast-forwards to the upstream. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c252cd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,370 @@ +Git 2.14 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a + more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing + users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be + turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of + this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming + release (yet). + + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there + might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are + greatly appreciated. + + * The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual + diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now + become the default. + + +Updates since v2.13 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names + of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now + configurable. + + * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags + initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in + subsequent fetches. + + * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when + necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit. + (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint). + + * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules. + (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint). + + * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it + to pack-objects. + + * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect + and reject a message before sending it out. + (merge 177409e589 jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint). + + * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail + when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref, + even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant. + + * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." + mechansim has further been taught to take symlinks into account. + The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to + a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such + a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the + current repository to determine if the contents from the named path + should be included. + + * Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics + configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it. + + * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse + configuration. + + * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname + --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--" + disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there, + we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not + look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A + pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from + the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you + are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which + required disambiguation more often. The command line parser + learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax + looks like so. + (merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint). + + * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT + and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library. + + * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used + to define a common function/variable that can be used by other + filters. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger + platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while + "gc" is running in parallel. + + * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't + accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object. + (merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint). + + * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to + remove the temporary directory used during the test. + + * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both + AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. + + * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our + historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot + represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a + separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish + timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good + move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the + timestamp_t. + + * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho & + Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the + default in-core index. + (merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint). + + * Add perf-test for wildmatch. + (merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint). + + * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been + extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module. + (merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint). + + * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core + index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are + discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case + that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the + main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these + operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the + cache is properly invalidated). + + * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up. + (merge 8df4c2953f ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup later to maint). + + * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as + recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of + multi-line comments. + + * The implementation of "ref" API around the "packed refs" have been + cleaned up, in preparation for further changes. + + * The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it + easier to use by cgit. + + * Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its + contents when we can successfully open it. We can ignore a failure + to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to + report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O + error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open). + + The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and + ENOTDIR (less obvious). Instead of repeating comparison of errno + with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so. + + * We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is + optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such + errors if they are not due to missing files. + + * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first + create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of + the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing, + which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index + being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy. + + * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated + to one. + (merge e0556a928f pc/dir-count-slashes later to maint). + + * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent + with other parts of the system. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.13 +----------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed + per-worktree refs. + + * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery + mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. + This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added + after completing the existing incomplete line. + + * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" + leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. + + * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the + per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did + not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. + + * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take + effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. + + * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch + tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. + + * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though + the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with + ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is + based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier + to migrate away from it if/when necessary. + + * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate + records the same set of push options used for pushing. + + * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism + to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are + not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them. + + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a + submodule that itself has submodules. + + * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the + split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the + future. + (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint). + + * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when + the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed + in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This + strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other + options are in use, and need to be disabled. + + * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people). + + * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use + --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request + will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish + to be merged. + + * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out + with "platform native" line ending convention by default on + Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts + themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be + checked out with eol=LF even on Windows. + + * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ..."). + + * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path + configuration variables. + + * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does + not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native + speakers. Attempt to rephrase them. + + * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the + documentation have been updated to https:// links. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to + resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs, + which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem. + + * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'. + + * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has + a new "push" subcommand. + + * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit + -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end, + i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been + corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to + the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it. + + * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other + end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms + that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND, + but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing + intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling + traces from "receive-pack" in the test. + + * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at + missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they + should silently be ignored instead) + + * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that + they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the + same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same + age as the underlying commit would. + (merge ef1e74065c jc/name-rev-lw-tag later to maint). + + * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust + against dead-locking in a threaded environment. + + * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the + tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or + unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP + tests have been salvaged to always run in this script. + + * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only + when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively. + + * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no + slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as + that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem. + + * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files, + even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x". + "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files + without "-uall". These have been corrected. + + * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff + $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full + object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to + use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes. + (merge 30d005c020 jk/diff-blob later to maint). + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 + was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that + do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which + has already fixed these issues. + + * "git am -h" triggered a BUG(). + + * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's + whitelisting is now documented better. + + * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is + closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by + fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written + but not yet closed. + + * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history + fast-forwards to the upstream. + + * A flaky test has been corrected. + (merge 7c2115aa07 jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint). + + * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the + command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository + set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git + potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing. + (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint). + + * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub. + (merge 0b1bb0c032 ls/github later to maint). + + * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all. + Bugfix for a topic in v2.13 + (merge 22fc703ec9 ps/stash-push-pathspec-fix later to maint). + + * As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to + strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are + impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z + and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this. + (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint). + (merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint). + (merge 68241cb9dd sb/t4005-modernize later to maint). + (merge ae52d57f0b km/test-mailinfo-b-failure later to maint). + (merge 8b1d9136e1 sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix later to maint). + (merge bb8efa1772 sd/t3200-branch-m-test later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 475e874..f6278a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -79,14 +79,20 @@ escape sequences) are invalid. Includes ~~~~~~~~ +The `include` and `includeIf` sections allow you to include config +directives from another source. These sections behave identically to +each other with the exception that `includeIf` sections may be ignored +if their condition does not evaluate to true; see "Conditional includes" +below. + You can include a config file from another by setting the special -`include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The -variable takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde -expansion. `include.path` can be given multiple times. +`include.path` (or `includeIf.*.path`) variable to the name of the file +to be included. The variable takes a pathname as its value, and is +subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given multiple times. -The included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been -found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the -`include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to +The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if they +had been found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the +variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was found. See below for examples. @@ -95,8 +101,7 @@ Conditional includes You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a `includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be -included. The variable's value is treated the same way as -`include.path`. `includeIf.<condition>.path` can be given multiple times. +included. The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some data whose format and meaning depends on the keyword. Supported keywords @@ -140,6 +145,16 @@ A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`: * Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching. + * Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched + outside of `$GIT_DIR`. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to + /mnt/storage/git, both `gitdir:~/git` and `gitdir:/mnt/storage/git` + will match. ++ +This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in +v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that +wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs +to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions. + * Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is unlikely what you want. @@ -167,8 +182,8 @@ Example [include] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path - path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file - path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your `$HOME` directory + path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file + path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory ; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"] @@ -182,6 +197,12 @@ Example [includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"] path = /path/to/foo.inc + ; relative paths are always relative to the including + ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not + ; affected by the condition + [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] + path = foo.inc + Values ~~~~~~ @@ -334,7 +355,7 @@ core.fileMode:: is to be honored. + Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is -marked as executable is checked out, or checks out an +marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a non-executable file with executable bit on. linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] probe the filesystem to see if it handles the executable bit correctly @@ -862,6 +883,7 @@ core.abbrev:: computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. + The minimum length is 4. add.ignoreErrors:: add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: @@ -1137,7 +1159,10 @@ color.status.<slot>:: `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git), `branch` (the current branch), `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting - to red), or + to red), + `localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names, + respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the + status short-format), or `unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes). color.ui:: @@ -2140,6 +2165,10 @@ log.showRoot:: Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default. +log.showSignature:: + If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and + linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--show-signature`. + log.mailmap:: If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`. @@ -2620,9 +2649,8 @@ receive.advertiseAtomic:: capability, set this variable to false. receive.advertisePushOptions:: - By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options - capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this - capability, set this variable to false. + When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options + capability to its clients. False by default. receive.autogc:: By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after @@ -3063,6 +3091,11 @@ submodule.active:: submodule's path to determine if the submodule is of interest to git commands. +submodule.recurse:: + Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This + applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option. + Defaults to false. + submodule.fetchJobs:: Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time. A positive integer allows up to that number of submodules fetched @@ -3208,6 +3241,13 @@ url.<base>.insteadOf:: the best alternative for the particular user, even for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used. ++ +Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten +URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or remote +helper, you may need to adjust the `protocol.*.allow` config to permit +the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules +must be set to `always` rather than the default of `user`. See the +description of `protocol.allow` above. url.<base>.pushInsteadOf:: Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to; diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index 8ac75fc..78479b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -1350,9 +1350,9 @@ References - [[[1]]] https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/director/planning/report02-3.pdf['The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infratructure for Software Testing'. Nist Planning Report 02-3], see Executive Summary and Chapter 8. - [[[2]]] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html['Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language'. Sun Microsystems.] - [[[3]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance['Software maintenance'. Wikipedia.] -- [[[4]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/45195/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'. Gmane.] +- [[[4]]] https://public-inbox.org/git/7vps5xsbwp.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net/[Junio C Hamano. 'Automated bisect success story'.] - [[[5]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/317154/[Christian Couder. 'Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"'. LWN.net.] - [[[6]]] https://lwn.net/Articles/277872/[Jonathan Corbet. 'Bisection divides users and developers'. LWN.net.] -- [[[7]]] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/36652/[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Gmane.] +- [[[7]]] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119702753411680&w=2[Ingo Molnar. 'Re: BUG 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha'. Linux-kernel mailing list.] - [[[8]]] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html[Junio C Hamano and the git-list. 'git-bisect(1) Manual Page'. Linux Kernel Archives.] - [[[9]]] https://github.com/Ealdwulf/bbchop[Ealdwulf. 'bbchop'. GitHub.] diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 30052cc..83c8e9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [-l] [-s] [--no-hardlinks] [-q] [-n] [--bare] [--mirror] [-o <name>] [-b <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>] [--dissociate] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] - [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] + [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--no-tags] [--recurse-submodules] [--[no-]shallow-submodules] [--jobs <n>] [--] <repository> [<directory>] @@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote-tracking branch is created. +--no-tags:: + Don't clone any tags, and set + `remote.<remote>.tagOpt=--no-tags` in the config, ensuring + that future `git pull` and `git fetch` operations won't follow + any tags. Subsequent explicit tag fetches will still work, + (see linkgit:git-fetch[1]). ++ +Can be used in conjunction with `--single-branch` to clone and +maintain a branch with no references other than a single cloned +branch. This is useful e.g. to maintain minimal clones of the default +branch of some repository for search indexing. + --recurse-submodules[=<pathspec]:: After the clone is created, initialize and clone submodules within based on the provided pathspec. If no pathspec is diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 2b76265..3d3d219 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Performance and Compression Tuning --depth=<n>:: Maximum delta depth, for blob and tree deltification. - Default is 10. + Default is 50. --export-pack-edges=<file>:: After creating a packfile, print a line of data to diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 6e4bb02..9e5169a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ git-filter-branch - Rewrite branches SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git filter-branch' [--env-filter <command>] [--tree-filter <command>] - [--index-filter <command>] [--parent-filter <command>] - [--msg-filter <command>] [--commit-filter <command>] - [--tag-name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] - [--prune-empty] +'git filter-branch' [--setup <command>] [--env-filter <command>] + [--tree-filter <command>] [--index-filter <command>] + [--parent-filter <command>] [--msg-filter <command>] + [--commit-filter <command>] [--tag-name-filter <command>] + [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] [--prune-empty] [--original <namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force] [--] [<rev-list options>...] @@ -82,12 +82,18 @@ multiple commits. OPTIONS ------- +--setup <command>:: + This is not a real filter executed for each commit but a one + time setup just before the loop. Therefore no commit-specific + variables are defined yet. Functions or variables defined here + can be used or modified in the following filter steps except + the commit filter, for technical reasons. + --env-filter <command>:: This filter may be used if you only need to modify the environment in which the commit will be performed. Specifically, you might want to rewrite the author/committer name/email/time environment - variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details). Do not forget - to re-export the variables. + variables (see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for details). --tree-filter <command>:: This is the filter for rewriting the tree and its contents. @@ -340,12 +346,10 @@ git filter-branch --env-filter ' if test "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "root@localhost" then GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=john@example.com - export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL fi if test "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "root@localhost" then GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=john@example.com - export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL fi ' -- --all -------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 71f32f3..5033483 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -161,8 +161,11 @@ OPTIONS -P:: --perl-regexp:: - Use Perl-compatible regexp for patterns. Requires libpcre to be - compiled in. + Use Perl-compatible regular expressions for patterns. ++ +Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional +compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them +providing this option will cause it to die. -F:: --fixed-strings:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 09074c7..31cdeae 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ trailer.ifexists:: same <token> in the message. + The valid values for this option are: `addIfDifferentNeighbor` (this -is the default), `addIfDifferent`, `add`, `overwrite` or `doNothing`. +is the default), `addIfDifferent`, `add`, `replace` or `doNothing`. + With `addIfDifferentNeighbor`, a new trailer will be added only if no trailer with the same (<token>, <value>) pair is above or below the line diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 942af8e..e414185 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -159,15 +159,15 @@ present while on branch `<name>`, that value is used instead of In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value of the configuration `remote.<origin>.url` is consulted -and if there is not any such variable, the value on `URL: ` line -in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` file is used. +and if there is not any such variable, the value on the `URL:` line +in `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` is used. In order to determine what remote branches to fetch (and optionally store in the remote-tracking branches) when the command is run without any refspec parameters on the command line, values of the configuration variable `remote.<origin>.fetch` are consulted, and if there aren't any, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>` -file is consulted and its `Pull: ` lines are used. +is consulted and its `Pull:` lines are used. In addition to the refspec formats described in the OPTIONS section, you can have a globbing refspec that looks like this: diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index ed9d63e..02576d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Merging ------- If `-m` is specified, 'git read-tree' can perform 3 kinds of merge, a single tree merge if only 1 tree is given, a -fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 trees are +fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 or more trees are provided. diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 26afe6e..ae750e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] +'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] [--threads=<n>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally. to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. +--threads=<n>:: + This option is passed through to `git pack-objects`. + --window-memory=<n>:: This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index 8a21198..70f3753 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ $ git pull git://info.example.com/ nitfol <4> in these files are in good order. You do not want to see them when you run "git diff", because you plan to work on other files and changes with these files are distracting. -<2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sounds worthy of merging. +<2> Somebody asks you to pull, and the changes sound worthy of merging. <3> However, you already dirtied the index (i.e. your index does not match the HEAD commit). But you know the pull you are going to make does not affect frotz.c or filfre.c, so you revert the diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index c40c470..b1293f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ can be used. 'git diff-{asterisk}'). In contrast to the `--sq-quote` option, the command input is still interpreted as usual. +--short[=length]:: + Same as `--verify` but shortens the object name to a unique + prefix with at least `length` characters. The minimum length + is 4, the default is the effective value of the `core.abbrev` + configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). + --not:: When showing object names, prefix them with '{caret}' and strip '{caret}' prefix from the object names that already have @@ -136,12 +142,6 @@ can be used. The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict abbreviation mode. ---short:: ---short=number:: - Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to - abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified - 7 is used. The minimum length is 4. - --symbolic:: Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index f1efc11..8c87e8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -140,10 +140,11 @@ Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned with a Git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it) -still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced -or not - to protect the submodule's history. If it exists the -submodule.<name> section in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file will also -be removed and that file will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used). +still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will move the submodules +git directory into the superprojects git directory to protect +the submodule's history. If it exists the submodule.<name> section +in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file will also be removed and that file +will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used). A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 9d66166..bb23b02 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -377,6 +377,7 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'. Currently, validation means the following: + -- + * Invoke the sendemail-validate hook if present (see linkgit:githooks[5]). * Warn of patches that contain lines longer than 998 characters; this is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt. -- diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 9bee9b0..aa2aeab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ If you still want the old default, you can get it by passing `--prefix ""` on the command line (`--prefix=""` may not work if your Perl's Getopt::Long is < v2.37). +--ignore-refs=<regex>;; + When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will + be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description + of `--ignore-refs`. --ignore-paths=<regex>;; When passed to 'init' or 'clone' this regular expression will be preserved as a config key. See 'fetch' for a description @@ -138,6 +142,18 @@ the same local time zone. --parent;; Fetch only from the SVN parent of the current HEAD. +--ignore-refs=<regex>;; + Ignore refs for branches or tags matching the Perl regular + expression. A "negative look-ahead assertion" like + `^refs/remotes/origin/(?!tags/wanted-tag|wanted-branch).*$` + can be used to allow only certain refs. ++ +[verse] +config key: svn-remote.<name>.ignore-refs ++ +If the ignore-refs configuration key is set, and the command-line +option is also given, both regular expressions will be used. + --ignore-paths=<regex>;; This allows one to specify a Perl regular expression that will cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN. @@ -443,6 +459,21 @@ Any other arguments are passed directly to 'git log' (URL) may be omitted if you are working from a 'git svn'-aware repository (that has been `init`-ed with 'git svn'). The -r<revision> option is required for this. ++ +The commit message is supplied either directly with the `-m` or `-F` +option, or indirectly from the tag or commit when the second tree-ish +denotes such an object, or it is requested by invoking an editor (see +`--edit` option below). + +-m <msg>;; +--message=<msg>;; + Use the given `msg` as the commit message. This option + disables the `--edit` option. + +-F <filename>;; +--file=<filename>;; + Take the commit message from the given file. This option + disables the `--edit` option. 'info':: Shows information about a file or directory similar to what diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index f8a0b78..1eb15af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] <tagname> [<commit> | <object>] 'git tag' -d <tagname>... -'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--contains <commit>] +'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--no-contains <commit>] [--points-at <object>] [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] [--create-reflog] [--sort=<key>] [--format=<format>] [--[no-]merged [<commit>]] [<pattern>...] diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index fb10314..7dd5e03 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -35,516 +35,6 @@ manual page gives you an overview of the command-line command syntax. 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Once Git has acquired both a username and a -password, no more helpers will be tried. - -If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets -the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a -lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper, -followed by whatever set of helpers you would like). - CREDENTIAL CONTEXTS ------------------- @@ -162,6 +152,16 @@ helper:: shell (so, for example, setting this to `foo --option=bar` will execute `git credential-foo --option=bar` via the shell. See the manual of specific helpers for examples of their use. ++ +If there are multiple instances of the `credential.helper` configuration +variable, each helper will be tried in turn, and may provide a username, +password, or nothing. Once Git has acquired both a username and a +password, no more helpers will be tried. ++ +If `credential.helper` is configured to the empty string, this resets +the helper list to empty (so you may override a helper set by a +lower-priority config file by configuring the empty-string helper, +followed by whatever set of helpers you would like). username:: diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 706091a..b2514f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -447,6 +447,14 @@ rebase:: The commits are guaranteed to be listed in the order that they were processed by rebase. +sendemail-validate +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This hook is invoked by 'git send-email'. It takes a single parameter, +the name of the file that holds the e-mail to be sent. Exiting with a +non-zero status causes 'git send-email' to abort before sending any +e-mails. + GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index 96156e5..8845058 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ separator (rules for Perl's "`split(" ", $line)`"). * Fields use modified URI encoding, defined in RFC 3986, section 2.1 (Percent-Encoding), or rather "Query string encoding" (see -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding[]), the difference +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#URL_encoding[]), the difference being that SP (" ") can be encoded as "{plus}" (and therefore "{plus}" has to be also percent-encoded). + diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 47b286b..a48d267 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces - '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered) --%(trailers): display the trailers of the body as interpreted by +- %(trailers): display the trailers of the body as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1] NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the @@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ If you add a `+` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the placeholder expands to a non-empty string. -If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that -immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the +If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, all consecutive +line-feeds immediately preceding the expansion are deleted if and only if the placeholder expands to an empty string. If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index a02f732..a6cf9eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -91,9 +91,14 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] Consider the limiting patterns to be fixed strings (don't interpret pattern as a regular expression). +-P:: --perl-regexp:: - Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular expressions. - Requires libpcre to be compiled in. + Consider the limiting patterns to be Perl-compatible regular + expressions. ++ +Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional +compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them +providing this option will cause it to die. --remove-empty:: Stop when a given path disappears from the tree. @@ -764,7 +769,8 @@ timezone value. 1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local` has no effect. + -`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`. +`--date=format:...` feeds the format `...` to your system `strftime`, +except for %z and %Z, which are handled internally. Use `--date=format:%c` to show the date in your system locale's preferred format. See the `strftime` manual for a complete list of format placeholders. When using `-local`, the correct syntax is diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt index 7f8e78d..6c77b49 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-directory-listing.txt @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ The notable options are: Similar to `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED`, but return ignored files in `ignored[]` in addition to untracked files in `entries[]`. +`DIR_KEEP_UNTRACKED_CONTENTS`::: + + Only has meaning if `DIR_SHOW_IGNORED_TOO` is also set; if this is set, the + untracked contents of untracked directories are also returned in + `entries[]`. + `DIR_COLLECT_IGNORED`::: Special mode for git-add. Return ignored files in `ignored[]` and diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 36768b4..829b558 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -183,13 +183,13 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: scale the provided value by 1024, 1024^2 or 1024^3 respectively. The scaled value is put into `unsigned_long_var`. -`OPT_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: +`OPT_DATE(short, long, ×tamp_t_var, description)`:: Introduce an option with date argument, see `approxidate()`. - The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + The timestamp is put into `timestamp_t_var`. -`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, &int_var, description)`:: +`OPT_EXPIRY_DATE(short, long, ×tamp_t_var, description)`:: Introduce an option with expiry date argument, see `parse_expiry_date()`. - The timestamp is put into `int_var`. + The timestamp is put into `timestamp_t_var`. `OPT_CALLBACK(short, long, &var, arg_str, description, func_ptr)`:: Introduce an option with argument. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..793508c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sub-process.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +sub-process API +=============== + +The sub-process API makes it possible to run background sub-processes +for the entire lifetime of a Git invocation. If Git needs to communicate +with an external process multiple times, then this can reduces the process +invocation overhead. Git and the sub-process communicate through stdin and +stdout. + +The sub-processes are kept in a hashmap by command name and looked up +via the subprocess_find_entry function. If an existing instance can not +be found then a new process should be created and started. When the +parent git command terminates, all sub-processes are also terminated. + +This API is based on the run-command API. + +Data structures +--------------- + +* `struct subprocess_entry` + +The sub-process structure. Members should not be accessed directly. + +Types +----- + +'int(*subprocess_start_fn)(struct subprocess_entry *entry)':: + + User-supplied function to initialize the sub-process. This is + typically used to negotiate the interface version and capabilities. + + +Functions +--------- + +`cmd2process_cmp`:: + + Function to test two subprocess hashmap entries for equality. + +`subprocess_start`:: + + Start a subprocess and add it to the subprocess hashmap. + +`subprocess_stop`:: + + Kill a subprocess and remove it from the subprocess hashmap. + +`subprocess_find_entry`:: + + Find a subprocess in the subprocess hashmap. + +`subprocess_get_child_process`:: + + Get the underlying `struct child_process` from a subprocess. + +`subprocess_read_status`:: + + Helper function to read packets looking for the last "status=<foo>" + key/value pair. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 5b0ba3e..a349171 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -473,13 +473,10 @@ that it wants to update, it sends a line listing the obj-id currently on the server, the obj-id the client would like to update it to and the name of the reference. -This list is followed by a flush-pkt. Then the push options are transmitted -one per packet followed by another flush-pkt. After that the packfile that -should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new -references will be sent. +This list is followed by a flush-pkt. ---- - update-request = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [packfile] + update-requests = *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) shallow = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) @@ -500,12 +497,35 @@ references will be sent. PKT-LINE("pusher" SP ident LF) PKT-LINE("pushee" SP url LF) PKT-LINE("nonce" SP nonce LF) + *PKT-LINE("push-option" SP push-option LF) PKT-LINE(LF) *PKT-LINE(command LF) *PKT-LINE(gpg-signature-lines LF) PKT-LINE("push-cert-end" LF) - packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) + push-option = 1*( VCHAR | SP ) +---- + +If the server has advertised the 'push-options' capability and the client has +specified 'push-options' as part of the capability list above, the client then +sends its push options followed by a flush-pkt. + +---- + push-options = *PKT-LINE(push-option) flush-pkt +---- + +For backwards compatibility with older Git servers, if the client sends a push +cert and push options, it MUST send its push options both embedded within the +push cert and after the push cert. (Note that the push options within the cert +are prefixed, but the push options after the cert are not.) Both these lists +MUST be the same, modulo the prefix. + +After that the packfile that +should contain all the objects that the server will need to complete the new +references will be sent. + +---- + packfile = "PACK" 28*(OCTET) ---- If the receiving end does not support delete-refs, the sending end MUST |