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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index a4191aa..2248cf7 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. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt index 277a2a1..ad6a01b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt @@ -45,4 +45,11 @@ Fixes since v2.10.2 * Improve the rule to convert "unsigned char [20]" into "struct object_id *" in contrib/coccinelle/ + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7428851 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.11.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.11.1 +------------------- + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt index 73ce7da..ebca846 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.3.txt @@ -54,4 +54,11 @@ Fixes since v2.12.2 turn revealed incorrect expectations the tests make. These tests have been updated. + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index b76a45d..aa99d4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -579,6 +579,13 @@ notes for details). * Many stale HTTP(s) links have been updated in our documentation. (merge 613416f0be jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint). + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint). (merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint). @@ -606,3 +613,6 @@ notes for details). (merge 8d3047cd5b ss/submodule-shallow-doc later to maint). (merge 1f9e18b772 jk/prio-queue-avoid-swap-with-self later to maint). (merge 627fde1025 jk/submodule-init-segv-fix later to maint). + (merge d395745d81 rg/doc-pull-typofix later to maint). + (merge 01e60a9a22 rg/doc-submittingpatches-wordfix later to maint). + (merge 501d3cd7b8 sr/hooks-cwd-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4fc8f0d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +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. + + +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). + + +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. + (merge 505ad91304 ls/travis-doc-asciidoctor later to maint). + + * 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. + + +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. + (merge 44dc738a39 jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands later to maint). + + * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" + leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. + (merge 721f5f1e35 jk/am-leakfix later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge db4eca1fea jn/clone-add-empty-config-from-command-line later to maint). + + * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take + effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. + (merge c74271aae7 ah/log-decorate-default-to-auto later to maint). + + * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch + tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. + (merge 57e0ef0e0e rs/checkout-am-fix-unborn later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge 5840eb9d14 ab/doc-replace-gmane-links later to maint). + + * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate + records the same set of push options used for pushing. + (merge cbaf82cc6b jt/push-options-doc later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint). + (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint). + (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint). + (merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint). + (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d15f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.4.12 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.4.11 +------------------- + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cd025b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.5.6 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.5 +------------------ + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1335de4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.6.7 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.6 +------------------ + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83559ce --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Git v2.7.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.7.4 +------------------ + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + +Also contains a few fixes backported from later development tracks. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bd179f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.8.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.8.4 +------------------ + + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt index 01e8642..9768293 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt @@ -80,4 +80,11 @@ Fixes since v2.9.3 the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT). + * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name + begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it + confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with + an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive + pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access + (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index bc8ad00..558d465 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ If your description starts to get too long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your commit to finer grained pieces. That being said, patches which plainly describe the things that help reviewers check the patch, and future maintainers understand -the code, are the most beautiful patches. Descriptions that summarise +the code, are the most beautiful patches. Descriptions that summarize the point in the subject well, and describe the motivation for the change, the approach taken by the change, and if relevant how this differs substantially from the prior version, are all good things @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ patches separate from other documentation changes. Oh, another thing. We are picky about whitespaces. Make sure your changes do not trigger errors with the sample pre-commit hook shipped in templates/hooks--pre-commit. To help ensure this does not happen, -run git diff --check on your changes before you commit. +run "git diff --check" on your changes before you commit. (2) Describe your changes well. @@ -111,10 +111,10 @@ Improve...". The body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: - . explains the problem the change tries to solve, iow, what is wrong + . explains the problem the change tries to solve, i.e. what is wrong with the current code without the change. - . justifies the way the change solves the problem, iow, why the + . justifies the way the change solves the problem, i.e. why the result with the change is better. . alternate solutions considered but discarded, if any. @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ The body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change -its behaviour. Try to make sure your explanation can be understood +its behavior. Try to make sure your explanation can be understood without external resources. Instead of giving a URL to a mailing list archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion. @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ smaller project it is a good discipline to follow it. The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as a open-source patch. The rules are -pretty simple: if you can certify the below: +pretty simple: if you can certify the below D-C-O: Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 475e874..e0b9fd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1137,7 +1137,10 @@ 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:: @@ -2620,9 +2623,8 @@ 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 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-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index ed0f5b9..afb06ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ OPTIONS --reset-author:: When used with -C/-c/--amend options, or when committing after a - a conflicting cherry-pick, declare that the authorship of the + conflicting cherry-pick, declare that the authorship of the resulting commit now belongs to the committer. This also renews the author timestamp. @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ OPTIONS `--dry-run`. --long:: - When doing a dry-run, give the output in a the long-format. + When doing a dry-run, give the output in the long-format. Implies `--dry-run`. -z:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 4470e4b..942af8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ with uncommitted changes is discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that may be hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. If any of the remote changes overlap with local uncommitted changes, -the merge will be automatically cancelled and the work tree untouched. +the merge will be automatically canceled and the work tree untouched. It is generally best to get any local changes in working order before pulling or stash them away with linkgit:git-stash[1]. @@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ EXAMPLES current branch: + ------------------------------------------------ -$ git pull, git pull origin +$ git pull +$ git pull origin ------------------------------------------------ + Normally the branch merged in is the HEAD of the remote repository, diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index ecc1bb4..fb10314 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -44,54 +44,68 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.12.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.12.2] +* link:v2.13.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.13] * release notes for - link:RelNotes/2.12.2.txt[2.12.2]. - link:RelNotes/2.12.1.txt[2.12.1]. + link:RelNotes/2.13.0.txt[2.13]. + + +* link:v2.12.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.12.3] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.12.3.txt[2.12.3], + link:RelNotes/2.12.2.txt[2.12.2], + link:RelNotes/2.12.1.txt[2.12.1], link:RelNotes/2.12.0.txt[2.12]. * link:v2.11.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.11.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.11.2.txt[2.11.2], link:RelNotes/2.11.1.txt[2.11.1], link:RelNotes/2.11.0.txt[2.11]. -* link:v2.10.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.10.2] +* link:v2.10.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.10.3] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.10.3.txt[2.10.3], link:RelNotes/2.10.2.txt[2.10.2], link:RelNotes/2.10.1.txt[2.10.1], link:RelNotes/2.10.0.txt[2.10]. -* link:v2.9.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.9.3] +* link:v2.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.9.4] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.9.4.txt[2.9.4], link:RelNotes/2.9.3.txt[2.9.3], link:RelNotes/2.9.2.txt[2.9.2], link:RelNotes/2.9.1.txt[2.9.1], link:RelNotes/2.9.0.txt[2.9]. -* link:v2.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.4] +* link:v2.8.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.5] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.8.5.txt[2.8.5], link:RelNotes/2.8.4.txt[2.8.4], link:RelNotes/2.8.3.txt[2.8.3], link:RelNotes/2.8.2.txt[2.8.2], link:RelNotes/2.8.1.txt[2.8.1], link:RelNotes/2.8.0.txt[2.8]. -* link:v2.7.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.3] +* link:v2.7.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.5] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.7.5.txt[2.7.5], + link:RelNotes/2.7.4.txt[2.7.4], link:RelNotes/2.7.3.txt[2.7.3], link:RelNotes/2.7.2.txt[2.7.2], link:RelNotes/2.7.1.txt[2.7.1], link:RelNotes/2.7.0.txt[2.7]. -* link:v2.6.6/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.6] +* link:v2.6.7/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.7] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.6.7.txt[2.6.7], link:RelNotes/2.6.6.txt[2.6.6], link:RelNotes/2.6.5.txt[2.6.5], link:RelNotes/2.6.4.txt[2.6.4], @@ -100,9 +114,10 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here: link:RelNotes/2.6.1.txt[2.6.1], link:RelNotes/2.6.0.txt[2.6]. -* link:v2.5.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.5.5] +* link:v2.5.6/git.html[documentation for release 2.5.6] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.5.6.txt[2.5.6], link:RelNotes/2.5.5.txt[2.5.5], link:RelNotes/2.5.4.txt[2.5.4], link:RelNotes/2.5.3.txt[2.5.3], @@ -110,9 +125,10 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here: link:RelNotes/2.5.1.txt[2.5.1], link:RelNotes/2.5.0.txt[2.5]. -* link:v2.4.11/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.11] +* link:v2.4.12/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.12] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.4.12.txt[2.4.12], link:RelNotes/2.4.11.txt[2.4.11], link:RelNotes/2.4.10.txt[2.4.10], link:RelNotes/2.4.9.txt[2.4.9], diff --git a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt index f3a75d1..f970196 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcredentials.txt @@ -101,16 +101,6 @@ $ git help credential-foo $ git config --global credential.helper foo ------------------------------------------- -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). - 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 32343ae..706091a 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ changed via the `core.hooksPath` configuration variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). Before Git invokes a hook, it changes its working directory to either -the root of the working tree in a non-bare repository, or to the -$GIT_DIR in a bare repository. +$GIT_DIR in a bare repository or the root of the working tree in a non-bare +repository. An exception are hooks triggered during a push ('pre-receive', +'update', 'post-receive', 'post-update', 'push-to-checkout') which are always +executed in $GIT_DIR. Hooks can get their arguments via the environment, command-line arguments, and stdin. See the documentation for each hook below for diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index e4b785e..4a584f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. GPG sign pushes. 'option push-option <string>:: - Transmit <string> as a push option. As the a push option + Transmit <string> as a push option. As the push option must not contain LF or NUL characters, the string is not encoded. SEE ALSO 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/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 |