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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt | 145 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blame-options.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-blame.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-grep.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-revert.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitignore.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-options.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 41 |
20 files changed, 291 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d95313 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +Git 2.8 Release Notes +===================== + +Updates since v2.7 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not. + (merge 38a2559 ps/push-delete-option later to maint). + + * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes + too much time before emitting the first line of the result. + + * "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) + how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files. + + * Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should + be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes + tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must + be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only + when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must + have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref). + + * "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index" + behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the + user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a + new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this + cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be + disabled. + + * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking + "rebase -i". + + * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed. + + * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory + configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be + omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in + your workflow. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use + it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel. + + * A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets + as such correctly. + + * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets + you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined. + + * d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like + $GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias + handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to + affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which + resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init". + Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment + and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias. + + * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has + been updated to share more code with the code that deals with + normal references. + (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint). + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.7 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by + exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, + interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without + setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. + (merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint). + + * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed + array. + (merge 2653a8c nd/dir-exclude-cleanup later to maint). + + * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not + quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they + already are in a harmful way. + (merge 4d55200 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias + files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. + (merge 2c510f2 ew/send-email-mutt-alias-fix later to maint). + + * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler + and have been fixed. + (merge a0df2e5 jk/clang-pedantic later to maint). + + * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between + the '--signoff' option and DCO. + (merge b2c150d dw/signoff-doc later to maint). + + * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be + at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. + (merge aecad37 dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit later to maint). + + * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file + listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change + that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. + (merge 8c72236 nd/exclusion-regression-fix later to maint). + + * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR + (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is + done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to + be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous + user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling + unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. + (merge ea56518 js/fopen-harder later to maint). + + * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server + log. + + Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps? + IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log, + so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good. + (merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint). + + * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not + ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". + (merge 8c24f5b jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase later to maint). + + * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles + mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not + friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They + now close the packs before doing so. + (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint). + (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint). + (merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint). + (merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 760eab7..02cb684 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[] iso format is used. For supported values, see the discussion of the --date option at linkgit:git-log[1]. +--[no-]progress:: + Progress status is reported on the standard error stream + by default when it is attached to a terminal. This flag + enables progress reporting even if not attached to a + terminal. Can't use `--progress` together with `--porcelain` + or `--incremental`. + -M|<num>|:: Detect moved or copied lines within a file. When a commit moves or copies a block of lines (e.g. the original file diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f617886..877cbc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -870,6 +870,8 @@ When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'. + +When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode. ++ *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). @@ -1243,6 +1245,10 @@ format.coverLetter:: format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch. +format.outputDirectory:: + Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the + current working directory. + filter.<driver>.clean:: The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for @@ -1450,6 +1456,14 @@ grep.extendedRegexp:: option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value other than 'default'. +grep.threads:: + Number of grep worker threads to use. + See `grep.threads` in linkgit:git-grep[1] for more information. + +grep.fallbackToNoIndex:: + If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep + is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false. + gpg.program:: Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the @@ -2149,6 +2163,8 @@ When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'. + +When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode. ++ *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 45583d8..952dfdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten. --depth=<depth>:: - Deepen or shorten the history of a 'shallow' repository created by - `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see linkgit:git-clone[1]) - to the specified number of commits from the tip of each remote - branch history. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched. + Limit fetching to the specified number of commits from the tip of + each remote branch history. If fetching to a 'shallow' repository + created by `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see + linkgit:git-clone[1]), deepen or shorten the history to the specified + number of commits. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched. --unshallow:: If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow @@ -100,6 +101,13 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule clone. +-j:: +--jobs=<n>:: + Number of parallel children to be used for fetching submodules. + Each will fetch from different submodules, such that fetching many + submodules will be faster. By default submodules will be fetched + one at a time. + --no-recurse-submodules:: Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option). diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 452c1fe..13cdd7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS --signoff:: Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using the committer identity of yourself. + See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. -k:: --keep:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index e6e947c..ba54175 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L <range>] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] - [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> + [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] + [--] <file> DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 77da29a..6154e57 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ effect to your index in a row. -s:: --signoff:: Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. + See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 6bf000d..789b668 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -190,15 +190,14 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. --depth <depth>:: Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the - specified number of revisions. + specified number of commits. Implies `--single-branch` unless + `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the + tips of all branches. --[no-]single-branch:: Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the `--branch` option or the primary - branch remote's `HEAD` points at. When creating a shallow - clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless - `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the - tips of all branches. + branch remote's `HEAD` points at. Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 7f34a5b..9ec6b3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -154,7 +154,11 @@ OPTIONS -s:: --signoff:: Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit - log message. + log message. The meaning of a signoff depends on the project, + but it typically certifies that committer has + the rights to submit this work under the same license and + agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin + (see http://developercertificate.org/ for more information). -n:: --no-verify:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index c6f073c..06208c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can be used to specify the value in the header field. +For commit and tag objects, the special `creatordate` and `creator` +fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple +from the `committer` or `tagger` fields depending on the object type. +These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags. + Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, `committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`, and `date` to extract the named component. @@ -153,8 +158,8 @@ line is 'contents:body', where body is all of the lines after the first blank line. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`. -For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric -order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`). +For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order +(`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`). All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order. There is also an option to sort by versions, this can be done by using diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index e3cdaeb..6821441 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ The names of the output files are printed to standard output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified. If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>. Otherwise -they are created in the current working directory. +they are created in the current working directory. The default path +can be set with the 'format.outputDirectory' configuration option. +The `-o` option takes precedence over `format.outputDirectory`. +To store patches in the current working directory even when +`format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`. By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank @@ -109,6 +113,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] --signoff:: Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using the committer identity of yourself. + See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. --stdout:: Print all commits to the standard output in mbox format, diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 4a44d6d..cb0f6cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--break] [--heading] [-p | --show-function] [-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>] [-W | --function-context] + [--threads <num>] [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> [--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] [ [--[no-]exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...] @@ -53,9 +54,17 @@ grep.extendedRegexp:: option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value other than 'default'. +grep.threads:: + Number of grep worker threads to use. If unset (or set to 0), + 8 threads are used by default (for now). + grep.fullName:: If set to true, enable '--full-name' option by default. +grep.fallbackToNoIndex:: + If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep + is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false. + OPTIONS ------- @@ -227,6 +236,10 @@ OPTIONS effectively showing the whole function in which the match was found. +--threads <num>:: + Number of grep worker threads to use. + See `grep.threads` in 'CONFIGURATION' for more information. + -f <file>:: Read patterns from <file>, one per line. diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 0ecd497..a77b901 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-interpret-trailers - help add structured information into commit messages SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git interpret-trailers' [--trim-empty] [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [<file>...] +'git interpret-trailers' [--in-place] [--trim-empty] [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ folding rules, the encoding rules and probably many other rules. OPTIONS ------- +--in-place:: + Edit the files in place. + --trim-empty:: If the <value> part of any trailer contains only whitespace, the whole trailer will be removed from the resulting message. @@ -216,6 +219,25 @@ Signed-off-by: Alice <alice@example.com> Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com> ------------ +* Use the '--in-place' option to edit a message file in place: ++ +------------ +$ cat msg.txt +subject + +message + +Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com> +$ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'Acked-by: Alice <alice@example.com>' --in-place msg.txt +$ cat msg.txt +subject + +message + +Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com> +Acked-by: Alice <alice@example.com> +------------ + * Extract the last commit as a patch, and add a 'Cc' and a 'Reviewed-by' trailer to it: + diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 93c72a2..a62a2a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Options related to merging include::merge-options.txt[] -r:: ---rebase[=false|true|preserve]:: +--rebase[=false|true|preserve|interactive]:: When true, rebase the current branch on top of the upstream branch after fetching. If there is a remote-tracking branch corresponding to the upstream branch and the upstream branch @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ to `git rebase` so that locally created merge commits will not be flattened. + When false, merge the current branch into the upstream branch. + +When `interactive`, enable the interactive mode of rebase. ++ See `pull.rebase`, `branch.<name>.rebase` and `branch.autoSetupRebase` in linkgit:git-config[1] if you want to make `git pull` always use `--rebase` instead of merging. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 4c775bc..32482ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [--atomic] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] - [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] + [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [-d | --delete] [--prune] [-v | --verbose] [-u | --set-upstream] [--[no-]signed|--sign=(true|false|if-asked)] [--force-with-lease[=<refname>[:<expect>]]] diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index b15139f..573616a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ effect to your index in a row. -s:: --signoff:: Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. + See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. --strategy=<strategy>:: Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt index 79a1948..473623d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ PATTERN FORMAT - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become - included again. + included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent + directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded + directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained + files have no effect, no matter where they are defined. Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`". - It is possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that - file is excluded if certain conditions are met. See section NOTES - for detail. - If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the purpose of the following description, but it would only find @@ -141,21 +141,6 @@ not tracked by Git remain untracked. To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use 'git rm --cached'. -To re-include files or directories when their parent directory is -excluded, the following conditions must be met: - - - The rules to exclude a directory and re-include a subset back must - be in the same .gitignore file. - - - The directory part in the re-include rules must be literal (i.e. no - wildcards) - - - The rules to exclude the parent directory must not end with a - trailing slash. - - - The rules to exclude the parent directory must have at least one - slash. - EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index e225974..cafc284 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -531,6 +531,11 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. "Secure Hash Algorithm 1"; a cryptographic hash function. In the context of Git used as a synonym for <<def_object_name,object name>>. +[[def_shallow_clone]]shallow clone:: + Mostly a synonym to <<def_shallow_repository,shallow repository>> + but the phrase makes it more explicit that it was created by + running `git clone --depth=...` command. + [[def_shallow_repository]]shallow repository:: A shallow <<def_repository,repository>> has an incomplete history some of whose <<def_commit,commits>> have <<def_parent,parents>> cauterized away (in other diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 4b659ac..54b88b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals. commit may be copied to the output. ifndef::git-rev-list[] ---notes[=<ref>]:: +--notes[=<treeish>]:: Show the notes (see linkgit:git-notes[1]) that annotate the commit, when showing the commit log message. This is the default for `git log`, `git show` and `git whatchanged` commands when @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ By default, the notes shown are from the notes refs listed in the 'core.notesRef' and 'notes.displayRef' variables (or corresponding environment overrides). See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. + -With an optional '<ref>' argument, show this notes ref instead of the -default notes ref(s). The ref specifies the full refname when it begins +With an optional '<treeish>' argument, use the treeish to find the notes +to display. The treeish can specify the full refname when it begins with `refs/notes/`; when it begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise `refs/notes/` is prefixed to form a full name of the ref. + @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from "--notes --notes=foo --no-notes --notes=bar" will only show notes from "refs/notes/bar". ---show-notes[=<ref>]:: +--show-notes[=<treeish>]:: --[no-]standard-notes:: These options are deprecated. Use the above --notes/--no-notes options instead. diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 1c790ac..ec6bacf 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2125,8 +2125,37 @@ Allowing web browsing of a repository ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The gitweb cgi script provides users an easy way to browse your -project's files and history without having to install Git; see the file -gitweb/INSTALL in the Git source tree for instructions on setting it up. +project's revisions, file contents and logs without having to install +Git. Features like RSS/Atom feeds and blame/annotation details may +optionally be enabled. + +The linkgit:git-instaweb[1] command provides a simple way to start +browsing the repository using gitweb. The default server when using +instaweb is lighttpd. + +See the file gitweb/INSTALL in the Git source tree and +linkgit:gitweb[1] for instructions on details setting up a permament +installation with a CGI or Perl capable server. + +[[how-to-get-a-git-repository-with-minimal-history]] +How to get a Git repository with minimal history +------------------------------------------------ + +A <<def_shallow_clone,shallow clone>>, with its truncated +history, is useful when one is interested only in recent history +of a project and getting full history from the upstream is +expensive. + +A <<def_shallow_clone,shallow clone>> is created by specifying +the linkgit:git-clone[1] `--depth` switch. The depth can later be +changed with the linkgit:git-fetch[1] `--depth` switch, or full +history restored with `--unshallow`. + +Merging inside a <<def_shallow_clone,shallow clone>> will work as long +as a merge base is in the recent history. +Otherwise, it will be like merging unrelated histories and may +have to result in huge conflicts. This limitation may make such +a repository unsuitable to be used in merge based workflows. [[sharing-development-examples]] Examples @@ -4636,23 +4665,15 @@ Scan email archives for other stuff left out Scan man pages to see if any assume more background than this manual provides. -Simplify beginning by suggesting disconnected head instead of -temporary branch creation? - Add more good examples. Entire sections of just cookbook examples might be a good idea; maybe make an "advanced examples" section a standard end-of-chapter section? Include cross-references to the glossary, where appropriate. -Document shallow clones? See draft 1.5.0 release notes for some -documentation. - Add a section on working with other version control systems, including CVS, Subversion, and just imports of series of release tarballs. -More details on gitweb? - Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts. Alternates, clone -reference, etc. |