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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt index f6393f8..7bfa341 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2.1 correctly when the branch name had slash in it. - The email address of the user specified with user.email - configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable. + configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable. - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt index 7a9646f..51b32f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1 * Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were broken in 1.6.0.1. -* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto +* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not work well. * In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt index 88454c1..8c594ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt @@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1 work tree upon delete/modify conflict. * "git merge -s recursive" didn't leave the index unmerged for entries with - rename/delete conflictd. + rename/delete conflicts. * "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree. -* "git mv -k" with more than one errorneous paths misbehaved. +* "git mv -k" with more than one erroneous paths misbehaved. * "git read-tree -m -u" hence branch switching incorrectly lost a subdirectory in rare cases. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt index 230aa3d..be37cbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes Fixes since v1.6.1.1 -------------------- -* The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like - "git diff" and "git blame" have been optimized to avoid loading the same +* The logic for rename detection in internal diff used by commands like + "git diff" and "git blame" has been optimized to avoid loading the same blob repeatedly. * We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a2d3bf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt index d3e9583..ad060f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt @@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ v1.6.1.X series. * "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree at the end when it is run in a bare repository. +* "git gc" did not work if your repository was created with an ancient git + and never had any pack files in it before. + * "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes based content rewriting. @@ -159,9 +162,3 @@ v1.6.1.X series. * "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state when killed in the middle. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -v1.6.2-rc0-89-gf7a2bdb -echo O=$(git describe master) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee1fddb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + + +Updates since v1.6.2 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +(performance) + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be + spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring + is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring. + +* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit". + +* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks + with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to + tell git not to apply it. + +* git-archive learned --output=<file> option. + +* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness + is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds. + +* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in + interest of each tracked remote repository. + +* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file + directly. + +* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration, + format.attach. + +* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily + disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML. + +* git-rebase can be told to rebase the series even if your branch is a + descendant of the commit you are rebasing onto with --force-rebase + option. + +* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before + sending the messages out. + +(developers) + +* Test scripts can be run under valgrind. + + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.2.X series. + +* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for + comment introduction character "#" (backport by merging dd482ee if + needed). + +* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that + are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months + ago", and "N years ago" (backport by picking 10edf37 if needed). + +* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames (backport by picking + 8851f48 if needed). + +* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the + correct .git directory (backport by merging 272459a if needed). + +* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses + (backport by merging afe756c if needed). + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.2-77-g8cc3fe4 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 9b559ad..8d818a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -491,6 +491,12 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send. Gmail ----- +GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web +interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send. You can however +use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward +the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that +email client. Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead. + Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: @@ -503,6 +509,9 @@ account settings: port = 993 sslverify = false +You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error +that the "Folder doesn't exist". + Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked. @@ -513,3 +522,4 @@ command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder. Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill in the To: and CC: fields and send away! + diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 1ab1b96..df2a7c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>. -S <revs-file>:: Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. +--reverse:: + Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing + the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last + revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of + revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in + START. + -p:: --porcelain:: Show in a format designed for machine consumption. @@ -67,7 +74,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>. Detect moving lines in the file as well. When a commit moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and - then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames + then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A) to the child commit. With this option, both groups of lines @@ -83,8 +90,8 @@ commit. files that were modified in the same commit. This is useful when you reorganize your program and move code around across files. When this option is given twice, - the command looks for copies from all other files in the - parent for the commit that creates the file in addition. + the command additionally looks for copies from all other + files in the parent for the commit that creates the file. + <num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 7c129cb..ce71838 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt ------------ + Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this -example; this lets the command to include the files from +example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts: @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. $ git add git-*.sh ------------ + -Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are +Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`. @@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ one deletion). update:: - This shows the status information and gives prompt - "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can + This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>" + prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is @@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ add untracked:: patch:: - This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection. - After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index + This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection. + After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage the change of each hunk. You can say: @@ -263,13 +263,6 @@ diff:: This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between HEAD and index). -Bugs ----- -The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain -characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be -used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash, -double-quote and control characters will still have problems. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-status[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index ff307eb..1e71dd5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ OPTIONS ------- <mbox>|<Maildir>...:: The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not - supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply - directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs. + supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input. + If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs. -s:: --signoff:: @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). + This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the -default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. +default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --no-utf8:: Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. -3:: --3way:: When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on - 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs - it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs + 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs + it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs available locally. --whitespace=<option>:: @@ -121,18 +121,18 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as a one line text. -The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates -RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines -that are different from those of the mail header, to override -the values of these fields. +The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line +that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and +"From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header, +to override the values of these fields. The commit message is formed by the title taken from the "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to -where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the +where the patch begins. Excess whitespace characters at the end of the lines are automatically stripped. The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the -message. Any line that is of form: +message. Any line that is of the form: * three-dashes and end-of-line, or * a line that begins with "diff -", or @@ -141,18 +141,18 @@ message. Any line that is of form: is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line. -When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes -to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it -aborts in the middle,. You can recover from this in one of two ways: +When initially invoking it, you give it the names of the mailboxes +to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it +aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: -. skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip' +. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' option. . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update - the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should - have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option. + the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should + have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option. -The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.git/rebase-apply` +The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply` directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch, run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox names. diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 0aba022..0590eec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-annotate(1) NAME ---- -git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit info +git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit -which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision. +which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision. The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only -for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide more +for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 9400f6a..9e5baa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and a work tree. OPTIONS ------- <patch>...:: - The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read + The files to read the patch from. '-' can be used to read from the standard input. --stat:: @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS input. Turns off "apply". --numstat:: - Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and - deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without + Similar to \--stat, but shows the number of added and + deleted lines in decimal notation and the pathname without abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying `0 0`. Turns off "apply". @@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ OPTIONS causes the index file to be updated. --cached:: - Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the - cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index, + Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead take the + cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index without using the working tree. This implies '--index'. --build-fake-ancestor=<file>:: Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information' for each blob to help identify the original version that the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if - the original versions of the blobs is available locally, + the original versions of the blobs are available locally, builds a temporary index containing those blobs. + When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information), @@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead. applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these checks use '--unidiff-zero'. + -Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are +Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches is discouraged. --apply:: If you use any of the options marked "Turns off 'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the - information you asked without actually applying the + requested information without actually applying the patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply the patch. @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ discouraged. patch. This can be used to extract the common part between two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying the result with this option, which would apply the - deletion part but not addition part. + deletion part but not the addition part. --allow-binary-replacement:: --binary:: @@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ on the command line, and ignored if there is any include pattern. considered whitespace errors. + By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch. -When `git-apply is used for statistics and not applying a +When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a patch, it defaults to `nowarn`. + -You can use different `<action>` to control this +You can use different `<action>` values to control this behavior: + * `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning. @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ behavior: patch as-is (default). * `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool - used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the + used to consider only trailing whitespace characters as errors, and the fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more). * `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses to apply the patch. @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ behavior: adjusting the hunk headers appropriately). --directory=<root>:: - Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was passed, too, + Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was also passed, it is applied before prepending the new root. + For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh` @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they are not updated. If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch -are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding +are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated. Author diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 41cbf9c..0eeefe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git archive' --format=<fmt> [--list] [--prefix=<prefix>/] [<extra>] + [--output=<file>] [--remote=<repo> [--exec=<git-upload-archive>]] <tree-ish> [path...] @@ -47,6 +48,9 @@ OPTIONS --prefix=<prefix>/:: Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive. +--output=<file>:: + Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout. + <extra>:: This can be any options that the archiver backend understand. See next section. @@ -88,6 +92,18 @@ tar.umask:: archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. +ATTRIBUTES +---------- + +export-ignore:: + Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be + added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + +export-subst:: + If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will + expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive. + See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + EXAMPLES -------- git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -):: @@ -110,6 +126,11 @@ git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:gitattributes[5] + Author ------ Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe. diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 147ea38..e65c1ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ If you have a script that can tell if the current source code is good or bad, you can automatically bisect using: ------------ -$ git bisect run my_script +$ git bisect run my_script arguments ------------ Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should @@ -252,6 +252,13 @@ $ git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- # HEAD is bad, v1.2 is good $ git bisect run make # "make" builds the app ------------ +* Automatically bisect a test failure between origin and HEAD: ++ +------------ +$ git bisect start HEAD origin -- # HEAD is bad, origin is good +$ git bisect run make test # "make test" builds and tests +------------ + * Automatically bisect a broken test suite: + ------------ @@ -291,6 +298,15 @@ It's safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are outside the repo to prevent interactions between the bisect, make and test processes and the scripts. +* Automatically bisect a broken test suite: ++ +------------ +$ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 -- # culprit is among the last 10 +$ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" +------------ ++ +Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 6999cf2..4ef54d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] - [<rev> | --contents <file>] [--] <file> + [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file> DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 3bccffa..125d8f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [--track | --no-track] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-t | --track | --no-track] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>... DESCRIPTION @@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ specified, <new_branch>. Using -b will cause <new_branch> to be created; in this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be passed to `git branch`. -As a convenience, --track will default to create a branch whose +As a convenience, --track will default to creating a branch whose name is constructed from the specified branch name by stripping the first namespace level. When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from the index file, or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit). In -this case, the `-b` options is meaningless and giving -either of them results in an error. <tree-ish> argument can be +this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are meaningless and giving +either of them results in an error. The <tree-ish> argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given paths before updating the working tree. @@ -75,14 +75,13 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. <repository> <refspec>" explicitly. This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote branch. Set the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you want - 'git-checkout' and 'git-branch' to always behave as if '--no-track' were + 'git checkout' and 'git branch' to always behave as if '--no-track' were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the - start-point is either a local or remote branch. + start point is either a local or remote branch. + -If no '-b' option was given, the name of the new branch will be -derived from the remote branch, by attempting to guess the name -of the branch on remote system. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" -are prefixed, it is stripped away, and then the part up to the +If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be +derived from the remote branch. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" +is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even @@ -152,12 +151,12 @@ $ git checkout v2.6.18 ------------ Earlier versions of git did not allow this and asked you to -create a temporary branch using `-b` option, but starting from +create a temporary branch using the `-b` option, but starting from version 1.5.0, the above command 'detaches' your HEAD from the -current branch and directly point at the commit named by the tag -(`v2.6.18` in the above example). +current branch and directly points at the commit named by the tag +(`v2.6.18` in the example above). -You can use usual git commands while in this state. You can use +You can use all git commands while in this state. You can use `git reset --hard $othercommit` to further move around, for example. You can make changes and create a new commit on top of a detached HEAD. You can even create a merge by using `git @@ -191,7 +190,7 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3> ------------ + <1> switch branch -<2> take out a file out of other commit +<2> take a file out of another commit <3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch + If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this @@ -202,7 +201,7 @@ You should instead write: $ git checkout -- hello.c ------------ -. After working in a wrong branch, switching to the correct +. After working in the wrong branch, switching to the correct branch would be done using: + ------------ @@ -210,7 +209,7 @@ $ git checkout mytopic ------------ + However, your "wrong" branch and correct "mytopic" branch may -differ in files that you have locally modified, in which case, +differ in files that you have modified locally, in which case the above checkout would fail like this: + ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 19a8917..82ce89e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git config' [<file-option>] [-z|--null] -l | --list 'git config' [<file-option>] --get-color name [default] 'git config' [<file-option>] --get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty] +'git config' [<file-option>] -e | --edit DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -130,6 +131,10 @@ See also <<FILES>>. in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output. +--bool-or-int:: + 'git-config' will ensure that the output matches the format of + either --bool or --int, as described above. + -z:: --null:: For all options that output values and/or keys, always @@ -157,6 +162,11 @@ See also <<FILES>>. output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if there is no color configured for `name`. +-e:: +--edit:: + Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either + '--system', '--global', or repository (default). + [[FILES]] FILES ----- diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 11a7d77..e7ae8cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git format-patch' [-k] [-o <dir> | --stdout] [--thread] - [--attach[=<boundary>] | --inline[=<boundary>]] + [--attach[=<boundary>] | --inline[=<boundary>] | + [--no-attach]] [-s | --signoff] [<common diff options>] [-n | --numbered | -N | --no-numbered] [--start-number <n>] [--numbered-files] @@ -117,6 +118,10 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] which is the commit message and the patch itself in the second part, with "Content-Disposition: attachment". +--no-attach:: + Disable the creation of an attachment, overriding the + configuration setting. + --inline[=<boundary>]:: Create multipart/mixed attachment, the first part of which is the commit message and the patch itself in the @@ -174,7 +179,8 @@ CONFIGURATION ------------- You can specify extra mail header lines to be added to each message in the repository configuration, new defaults for the subject prefix -and file suffix, and number patches when outputting more than one. +and file suffix, control attachements, and number patches when outputting +more than one. ------------ [format] @@ -183,6 +189,7 @@ and file suffix, and number patches when outputting more than one. suffix = .txt numbered = auto cc = <email> + attach [ = mime-boundary-string ] ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt index 1685f04..024084b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ imap.sslverify:: used by the SSL/TLS connection. Default is `true`. Ignored when imap.tunnel is set. +imap.preformattedHTML:: + A boolean to enable/disable the use of html encoding when sending + a patch. An html encoded patch will be bracketed with <pre> + and have a content type of text/html. Ironically, enabling this + option causes Thunderbird to send the patch as a plain/text, + format=fixed email. Default is `false`. + Examples ~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 7d1eced..4e7e5a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git push' [--all | --mirror] [--dry-run] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] +'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose] [<repository> <refspec>...] @@ -48,17 +48,19 @@ push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must be named. If `:`<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be updated. + -The object referenced by <src> is used to fast forward the ref <dst> -on the remote side. If the optional leading plus `{plus}` is used, the -remote ref is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward -update. +The object referenced by <src> is used to update the <dst> reference +on the remote side, but by default this is only allowed if the +update can fast forward <dst>. By having the optional leading `{plus}`, +you can tell git to update the <dst> ref even when the update is not a +fast forward. This does *not* attempt to merge <src> into <dst>. See +EXAMPLES below for details. + `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. + Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from the remote repository. + -The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast forward updates) +The special refspec `:` (or `{plus}:` to allow non-fast forward updates) directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode @@ -218,6 +220,30 @@ git push origin :experimental:: Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository (e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it. +git push origin {plus}dev:master:: + Update the origin repository's master branch with the dev branch, + allowing non-fast forward updates. *This can leave unreferenced + commits dangling in the origin repository.* Consider the + following situation, where a fast forward is not possible: ++ +---- + o---o---o---A---B origin/master + \ + X---Y---Z dev +---- ++ +The above command would change the origin repository to ++ +---- + A---B (unnamed branch) + / + o---o---o---X---Y---Z master +---- ++ +Commits A and B would no longer belong to a branch with a symbolic name, +and so would be unreachable. As such, these commits would be removed by +a `git gc` command on the origin repository. + Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 30487de..da3c38c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ OPTIONS context exist they all must match. By default no context is ever ignored. ---whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>:: +--whitespace=<option>:: This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' program (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch. Incompatible with the --interactive option. diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index ff4aeff..14dfb50 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine enabled interface to provide the necessary information. +There are two formats accepted for patch files: + +1. mbox format files ++ +This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME +formatting are ignored. + +2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl' +script ++ +This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value +and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line. + OPTIONS ------- @@ -164,14 +177,25 @@ Automating --suppress-cc:: Specify an additional category of recipients to suppress the - auto-cc of. 'self' will avoid including the sender, 'author' will - avoid including the patch author, 'cc' will avoid including anyone - mentioned in Cc lines in the patch, 'sob' will avoid including - anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines, and 'cccmd' will avoid - running the --cc-cmd. 'all' will suppress all auto cc values. - Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; - if that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is - specified, as well as 'sob' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified. + auto-cc of: ++ +-- +- 'author' will avoid including the patch author +- 'self' will avoid including the sender +- 'cc' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the patch header + except for self (use 'self' for that). +- 'ccbody' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Cc lines in the + patch body (commit message) except for self (use 'self' for that). +- 'sob' will avoid including anyone mentioned in Signed-off-by lines except + for self (use 'self' for that). +- 'cccmd' will avoid running the --cc-cmd. +- 'body' is equivalent to 'sob' + 'ccbody' +- 'all' will suppress all auto cc values. +-- ++ +Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; if +that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is +specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified. --[no-]suppress-from:: If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list. @@ -188,6 +212,22 @@ Automating Administering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +--confirm:: + Confirm just before sending: ++ +-- +- 'always' will always confirm before sending +- 'never' will never confirm before sending +- 'cc' will confirm before sending when send-email has automatically + added addresses from the patch to the Cc list +- 'compose' will confirm before sending the first message when using --compose. +- 'auto' is equivalent to 'cc' + 'compose' +-- ++ +Default is the value of 'sendemail.confirm' configuration value; if that +is unspecified, default to 'auto' unless any of the suppress options +have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'. + --dry-run:: Do everything except actually send the emails. @@ -231,6 +271,11 @@ sendemail.multiedit:: summary when '--compose' is used). If false, files will be edited one after the other, spawning a new editor each time. +sendemail.confirm:: + Sets the default for whether to confirm before sending. Must be + one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm' + in the previous section for the meaning of these values. + Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 3d45654..cda3389 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ and have no uncommitted changes. reused if a user is later given access to an alternate transport method (e.g. `svn+ssh://` or `https://`) for commit. +config key: svn-remote.<name>.commiturl + +config key: svn.commiturl (overwrites all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl options) + Using this option for any other purpose (don't ask) is very strongly discouraged. -- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 0c7bba3..9a26bde 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: +* link:v1.6.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.2] + +* release notes for + link:RelNotes-1.6.2.txt[1.6.2]. + * link:v1.6.1.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1.3] * release notes for diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 227934f..55668e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form: - glob attr1 attr2 ... + pattern attr1 attr2 ... -That is, a glob pattern followed by an attributes list, -separated by whitespaces. When the glob pattern matches the +That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, +separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to the path. @@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Set to a value:: Unspecified:: - No glob pattern matches the path, and nothing says if + No pattern matches the path, and nothing says if the path has or does not have the attribute, the attribute for the path is said to be Unspecified. -When more than one glob pattern matches the path, a later line +When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line overrides an earlier line. This overriding is done per -attribute. +attribute. The rules how the pattern matches paths are the +same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5]. When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt index bd005bc..cf465cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitk.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ frequently used options. <path>...:: Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to - avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths + avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths from any preceding options. Examples diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt index 39b1da4..3b4a390 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Such a "revert" of a merge can be made with: $ git revert -m 1 M -After the develpers of the side branch fixes their mistakes, the history +After the developers of the side branch fix their mistakes, the history may look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example: / \ / ---A---B A'--B'--C' -where Y is the revert of W, A' and B'are rerolled A and B, and there may +where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. "diff Y^..Y" is similar to "diff -R W^..W" (which in turn means it is similar to "diff M^..M"), and "diff A'^..C'" by definition would be similar but different from that, diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt index 4032748..622ee5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Then, add something like this to your httpd.conf Require valid-user </Location> - Debian automatically reads all files under /etc/apach2/conf.d. + Debian automatically reads all files under /etc/apache2/conf.d. The password file can be somewhere else, but it has to be readable by Apache and preferably not readable by the world. diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 159390c..5c6e678 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -152,3 +152,12 @@ $ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \ 4da45be 7134973 --------------------- ++ +In addition, any unrecognized string that has a `%` in it is interpreted +as if it has `tformat:` in front of it. For example, these two are +equivalent: ++ +--------------------- +$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef +$ git log -2 --pretty=%h 4da45bef +--------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 5f21efe..bff9499 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ --pretty[='<format>']:: +--format[='<format>']:: Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format, where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium', @@ -17,6 +18,10 @@ configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]). This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for people using 80-column terminals. +--oneline:: + This is a shorthand for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit" + used together. + --encoding[=<encoding>]:: The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index b9f6e4d..7dd237c 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] Synonym for `--date=relative`. ---date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}:: +--date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short,raw}:: Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such as when using "--pretty". `log.date` config variable sets a default @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ format, often found in E-mail messages. + `--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format. + +`--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw git format `%s %z` format. ++ `--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone (either committer's or author's). @@ -566,11 +568,11 @@ This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only one displayed by `--bisect`.) - ++ This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they may not compile for example). - ++ This option can be used along with `--bisect-vars`, in this case, after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text as if `--bisect-vars` had been used alone. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 539863b..e66ca9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ Steps to parse options non-option arguments in `argv[]`. `argc` is updated appropriately because of the assignment. + +You can also pass NULL instead of a usage array as fourth parameter of +parse_options(), to avoid displaying a help screen with usage info and +option list. This should only be done if necessary, e.g. to implement +a limited parser for only a subset of the options that needs to be run +before the full parser, which in turn shows the full help message. ++ Flags are the bitwise-or of: `PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH`:: @@ -77,6 +83,28 @@ Flags are the bitwise-or of: Using this flag, processing is stopped at the first non-option argument. +`PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0`:: + Keep the first argument, which contains the program name. It's + removed from argv[] by default. + +`PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN`:: + Keep unknown arguments instead of erroring out. This doesn't + work for all combinations of arguments as users might expect + it to do. E.g. if the first argument in `--unknown --known` + takes a value (which we can't know), the second one is + mistakenly interpreted as a known option. Similarly, if + `PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION` is set, the second argument in + `--unknown value` will be mistakenly interpreted as a + non-option, not as a value belonging to the unknown option, + the parser early. That's why parse_options() errors out if + both options are set. + +`PARSE_OPT_NO_INTERNAL_HELP`:: + By default, parse_options() handles `-h`, `--help` and + `--help-all` internally, by showing a help screen. This option + turns it off and allows one to add custom handlers for these + options, or to just leave them unknown. + Data Structure -------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index ac56d1c..7438149 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit. Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer. + -NOTE: The buffer is rewinded if the read fails. If -1 is returned, +NOTE: The buffer is rewound if the read fails. If -1 is returned, `errno` must be consulted, like you would do for `read(3)`. `strbuf_read()`, `strbuf_read_file()` and `strbuf_getline()` has the same behaviour as well. |