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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 157 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-diff.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pull.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-revert.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index ba2006d..fe1c1e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Writing Documentation: when writing or modifying command usage strings and synopsis sections in the manual pages: - Placeholders are enclosed in angle brackets: + Placeholders are spelled in lowercase and enclosed in angle brackets: <file> --sort=<key> --abbrev[=<n>] diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79923a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Git v1.7.4.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4 +------------------ + + * On Windows platform, the codepath to spawn a new child process forgot + to first flush the output buffer. + + * "git bundle" did not use OFS_DELTA encoding, making its output a few + per-cent larger than necessarily. + + * The option to tell "git clone" to recurse into the submodules was + misspelled with an underscore "--recurse_submodules". + + * "git diff --cached HEAD" before the first commit does what an end user + would expect (namely, show what would be committed without further "git + add"). + + * "git fast-import" didn't accept the command to ask for "notes" feature + to be present in its input stream, even though it was capable of the + feature. + + * "git fsck" gave up scanning loose object files in directories with + garbage files. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 695696d..f37276e 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -64,13 +64,11 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See linkgit:git-config[1]. -endif::git-pull[] --[no-]recurse-submodules:: This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). -ifndef::git-pull[] --submodule-prefix=<path>:: Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 880763d..396f4cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [<branch>] +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] [<commit>] 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>] 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>... 'git checkout' --patch [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...] @@ -22,9 +23,10 @@ branch. 'git checkout' [<branch>]:: 'git checkout' -b|-B <new_branch> [<start point>]:: +'git checkout' [--detach] [<commit>]:: This form switches branches by updating the index, working - tree, and HEAD to reflect the specified branch. + tree, and HEAD to reflect the specified branch or commit. + If `-b` is given, a new branch is created as if linkgit:git-branch[1] were called and then checked out; in this case you can @@ -115,6 +117,13 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. Create the new branch's reflog; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. +--detach:: + Rather than checking out a branch to work on it, check out a + commit for inspection and discardable experiments. + This is the default behavior of "git checkout <commit>" when + <commit> is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section + below for details. + --orphan:: Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from <start_point> and switch to it. The first commit made on this @@ -204,42 +213,140 @@ leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. -Detached HEAD +DETACHED HEAD ------------- +HEAD normally refers to a named branch (e.g. 'master'). Meanwhile, each +branch refers to a specific commit. Let's look at a repo with three +commits, one of them tagged, and with branch 'master' checked out: + +------------ + HEAD (refers to branch 'master') + | + v +a---b---c branch 'master' (refers to commit 'c') + ^ + | + tag 'v2.0' (refers to commit 'b') +------------ -It is sometimes useful to be able to 'checkout' a commit that is -not at the tip of one of your branches. The most obvious -example is to check out the commit at a tagged official release -point, like this: +When a commit is created in this state, the branch is updated to refer to +the new commit. Specifically, 'git commit' creates a new commit 'd', whose +parent is commit 'c', and then updates branch 'master' to refer to new +commit 'd'. HEAD still refers to branch 'master' and so indirectly now refers +to commit 'd': ------------ -$ git checkout v2.6.18 +$ edit; git add; git commit + + HEAD (refers to branch 'master') + | + v +a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') + ^ + | + tag 'v2.0' (refers to commit 'b') ------------ -Earlier versions of git did not allow this and asked you to -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 points at the commit named by the tag -(`v2.6.18` in the example above). +It is sometimes useful to be able to checkout a commit that is not at +the tip of any named branch, or even to create a new commit that is not +referenced by a named branch. Let's look at what happens when we +checkout commit 'b' (here we show two ways this may be done): -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 -merge $othercommit`. +------------ +$ git checkout v2.0 # or +$ git checkout master^^ + + HEAD (refers to commit 'b') + | + v +a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') + ^ + | + tag 'v2.0' (refers to commit 'b') +------------ -The state you are in while your HEAD is detached is not recorded -by any branch (which is natural --- you are not on any branch). -What this means is that you can discard your temporary commits -and merges by switching back to an existing branch (e.g. `git -checkout master`), and a later `git prune` or `git gc` would -garbage-collect them. If you did this by mistake, you can ask -the reflog for HEAD where you were, e.g. +Notice that regardless of which checkout command we use, HEAD now refers +directly to commit 'b'. This is known as being in detached HEAD state. +It means simply that HEAD refers to a specific commit, as opposed to +referring to a named branch. Let's see what happens when we create a commit: ------------ -$ git log -g -2 HEAD +$ edit; git add; git commit + + HEAD (refers to commit 'e') + | + v + e + / +a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') + ^ + | + tag 'v2.0' (refers to commit 'b') +------------ + +There is now a new commit 'e', but it is referenced only by HEAD. We can +of course add yet another commit in this state: + +------------ +$ edit; git add; git commit + + HEAD (refers to commit 'f') + | + v + e---f + / +a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') + ^ + | + tag 'v2.0' (refers to commit 'b') +------------ + +In fact, we can perform all the normal git operations. But, let's look +at what happens when we then checkout master: + +------------ +$ git checkout master + + HEAD (refers to branch 'master') + e---f | + / v +a---b---c---d branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd') + ^ + | + tag 'v2.0' (refers to commit 'b') ------------ +It is important to realize that at this point nothing refers to commit +'f'. Eventually commit 'f' (and by extension commit 'e') will be deleted +by the routine git garbage collection process, unless we create a reference +before that happens. If we have not yet moved away from commit 'f', +any of these will create a reference to it: + +------------ +$ git checkout -b foo <1> +$ git branch foo <2> +$ git tag foo <3> +------------ + +<1> creates a new branch 'foo', which refers to commit 'f', and then +updates HEAD to refer to branch 'foo'. In other words, we'll no longer +be in detached HEAD state after this command. + +<2> similarly creates a new branch 'foo', which refers to commit 'f', +but leaves HEAD detached. + +<3> creates a new tag 'foo', which refers to commit 'f', +leaving HEAD detached. + +If we have moved away from commit 'f', then we must first recover its object +name (typically by using git reflog), and then we can create a reference to +it. For example, to see the last two commits to which HEAD referred, we +can use either of these commands: + +------------ +$ git reflog -2 HEAD # or +$ git log -g -2 HEAD +------------ EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 7300870..749d68a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -79,6 +79,16 @@ effect to your index in a row. cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will be performed. +--strategy=<strategy>:: + Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. + See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1] + for details. + +-X<option>:: +--strategy-option=<option>:: + Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the + merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details. + EXAMPLES -------- git cherry-pick master:: @@ -120,6 +130,28 @@ git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin:: so the result can be inspected and made into a single new commit if suitable. +The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because +the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries +again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines. + +------------ +$ git cherry-pick topic^ <1> +$ git diff <2> +$ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3> +$ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4> +------------ +<1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`. +In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so +information about the conflict is written to the index and +working tree and no new commit results. +<2> summarize changes to be reconciled +<3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the +pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in +the working tree. +<4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again, +spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching +context lines. + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index b586c0f..8f89f6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -214,10 +214,11 @@ FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].) -u[<mode>]:: --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: - Show untracked files (Default: 'all'). + Show untracked files. + -The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify -the handling of untracked files. +The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to +specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the +default is 'normal', i.e. show untracked files and directories. + The possible options are: + @@ -225,9 +226,8 @@ The possible options are: - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories - 'all' - Also shows individual files in untracked directories. + -See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable -used to change the default for when the option is not -specified. +The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles +configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. -v:: --verbose:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index f6ac847..4910510 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index. commit relative to the named <commit>. Typically you would want comparison with the latest commit, so if you do not give <commit>, it defaults to HEAD. + If HEAD does not exist (e.g. unborned branches) and + <commit> is not given, it shows all staged changes. --staged is a synonym of --cached. 'git diff' [--options] <commit> [--] [<path>...]:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 4415e63..c3a2766 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ OPTIONS set of marks. If a mark is defined to different values, the last file wins. +--import-marks-if-exists=<file>:: + Like --import-marks but instead of erroring out, silently + skips the file if it does not exist. + --relative-marks:: After specifying --relative-marks= the paths specified with --import-marks= and --export-marks= are relative @@ -948,6 +952,13 @@ cat-blob:: rather than wasting time on the early part of an import before the unsupported command is detected. +notes:: + Require that the backend support the 'notemodify' (N) + subcommand to the 'commit' command. + Versions of fast-import not supporting notes will exit + with a message indicating so. + + `option` ~~~~~~~~ Processes the specified option so that git fast-import behaves in a diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt index 3046691..b33e6be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt @@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ must be given before the options meant for 'git fetch'. --verbose:: Pass --verbose to git-fetch and git-merge. +--[no-]recurse-submodules:: + This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should + be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). + That might be necessary to get the data needed for merging submodule + commits, a feature git learned in 1.7.3. Notice that the result of a + merge will not be checked out in the submodule, "git submodule update" + has to be called afterwards to bring the work tree up to date with the + merge result. + Options related to merging ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt index 2d65cfe..68263a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt @@ -7,17 +7,17 @@ git-remote-ext - Bridge smart transport to external command. SYNOPSIS -------- -git remote add nick "ext::<command>[ <arguments>...]" +git remote add <nick> "ext::<command>[ <arguments>...]" DESCRIPTION ----------- -This remote helper uses the specified 'program' to connect +This remote helper uses the specified '<command>' to connect to a remote git server. -Data written to stdin of this specified 'program' is assumed +Data written to stdin of the specified '<command>' is assumed to be sent to a git:// server, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack or git-upload-archive (depending on situation), and data read -from stdout of this program is assumed to be received from +from stdout of <command> is assumed to be received from the same service. Command and arguments are separated by an unescaped space. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The following sequences have a special meaning: git wants to invoke. '%G' (must be the first characters in an argument):: - This argument will not be passed to 'program'. Instead, it + This argument will not be passed to '<command>'. Instead, it will cause the helper to start by sending git:// service requests to the remote side with the service field set to an appropriate value and the repository field set to rest of the argument. Default is not to send @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ This is useful if remote side is git:// server accessed over some tunnel. '%V' (must be first characters in argument):: - This argument will not be passed to 'program'. Instead it sets + This argument will not be passed to '<command>'. Instead it sets the vhost field in the git:// service request (to rest of the argument). Default is not to send vhost in such request (if sent). @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ EXAMPLES: --------- This remote helper is transparently used by git when you use commands such as "git fetch <URL>", "git clone <URL>", -, "git push <URL>" or "git remote add nick <URL>", where <URL> +, "git push <URL>" or "git remote add <nick> <URL>", where <URL> begins with `ext::`. Examples: "ext::ssh -i /home/foo/.ssh/somekey user@host.example %S 'foo/repo'":: diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt index 3a23477..51de895 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -201,12 +201,12 @@ REF LIST ATTRIBUTES OPTIONS ------- -'option verbosity' <N>:: +'option verbosity' <n>:: Changes the verbosity of messages displayed by the helper. - A value of 0 for N means that processes operate + A value of 0 for <n> means that processes operate quietly, and the helper produces only error output. 1 is the default level of verbosity, and higher values - of N correspond to the number of -v flags passed on the + of <n> correspond to the number of -v flags passed on the command line. 'option progress' \{'true'|'false'\}:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt index 752fc88..45be851 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt @@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ effect to your index in a row. --signoff:: Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. +--strategy=<strategy>:: + Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. + See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1] + for details. + +-X<option>:: +--strategy-option=<option>:: + Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the + merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details. + EXAMPLES -------- git revert HEAD~3:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index dae190a..5102a23 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -38,20 +38,20 @@ OPTIONS -u[<mode>]:: --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: - Show untracked files (Default: 'all'). + Show untracked files. + -The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify -the handling of untracked files. The possible options are: +The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to +specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the +default is 'normal', i.e. show untracked files and directories. ++ +The possible options are: + --- - 'no' - Show no untracked files - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories - 'all' - Also shows individual files in untracked directories. --- + -See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable -used to change the default for when the option is not -specified. +The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles +configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. --ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can be diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 0ade2ce..e161a40 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ COMMANDS Set the 'rewriteRoot' option in the [svn-remote] config. --rewrite-uuid=<UUID>;; Set the 'rewriteUUID' option in the [svn-remote] config. ---username=<USER>;; +--username=<user>;; For transports that SVN handles authentication for (http, https, and plain svn), specify the username. For other transports (eg svn+ssh://), you must include the username in @@ -443,8 +443,8 @@ OPTIONS Only used with the 'init' command. These are passed directly to 'git init'. --r <ARG>:: ---revision <ARG>:: +-r <arg>:: +--revision <arg>:: Used with the 'fetch' command. + This allows revision ranges for partial/cauterized history diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 8b169e3..65f76c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -18,21 +18,22 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Adds a tag reference in `.git/refs/tags/`. +Add a tag reference in `.git/refs/tags/`, unless `-d/-l/-v` is given +to delete, list or verify tags. -Unless `-f` is given, the tag must not yet exist in +Unless `-f` is given, the tag to be created must not yet exist in the `.git/refs/tags/` directory. If one of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <key-id>` is passed, the command -creates a 'tag' object, and requires the tag message. Unless +creates a 'tag' object, and requires a tag message. Unless `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given, an editor is started for the user to type in the tag message. If `-m <msg>` or `-F <file>` is given and `-a`, `-s`, and `-u <key-id>` are absent, `-a` is implied. -Otherwise just the SHA1 object name of the commit object is -written (i.e. a lightweight tag). +Otherwise just a tag reference for the SHA1 object name of the commit object is +created (i.e. a lightweight tag). A GnuPG signed tag object will be created when `-s` or `-u <key-id>` is used. When `-u <key-id>` is not used, the diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index e968ed4..0c32d45 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.7.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.4] +* link:v1.7.4.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.4.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.4.1.txt[1.7.4.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.4.txt[1.7.4]. * link:v1.7.3.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.3.5] diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index f04b48e..33716a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -273,6 +273,29 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or sometimes just a <<def_pack,pack>>, to assist in efficiently accessing the contents of a pack. +[[def_pathspec]]pathspec:: + Pattern used to specify paths. ++ +Pathspecs are used on the command line of "git ls-files", "git +ls-tree", "git grep", "git checkout", and many other commands to +limit the scope of operations to some subset of the tree or +worktree. See the documentation of each command for whether +paths are relative to the current directory or toplevel. The +pathspec syntax is as follows: + +* any path matches itself +* the pathspec up to the last slash represents a + directory prefix. The scope of that pathspec is + limited to that subtree. +* the rest of the pathspec is a pattern for the remainder + of the pathname. Paths relative to the directory + prefix will be matched against that pattern using fnmatch(3); + in particular, '*' and '?' _can_ match directory separators. ++ +For example, Documentation/*.jpg will match all .jpg files +in the Documentation subtree, +including Documentation/chapter_1/figure_1.jpg. + [[def_parent]]parent:: A <<def_commit_object,commit object>> contains a (possibly empty) list of the logical predecessor(s) in the line of development, i.e. its diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt index 0953a50..2933056 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt @@ -71,5 +71,5 @@ Additional tips relevant parts of your tree. - Please note that if the other project merges from you, then it will - connects its history to yours, which can be something they don't want + connect its history to yours, which can be something they don't want to. |