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diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 62dbd9ac7c..0cfdc36b44 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ MAN7_TXT += gittutorial.txt MAN7_TXT += gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) -MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) -MAN_HTML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_TXT)) +MAN_XML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) +MAN_HTML = $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_TXT)) OBSOLETE_HTML = git-remote-helpers.html -DOC_HTML=$(MAN_HTML) $(OBSOLETE_HTML) +DOC_HTML = $(MAN_HTML) $(OBSOLETE_HTML) ARTICLES = howto-index ARTICLES += everyday @@ -74,35 +74,35 @@ SP_ARTICLES += technical/api-index DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES)) -DOC_MAN1=$(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT)) -DOC_MAN5=$(patsubst %.txt,%.5,$(MAN5_TXT)) -DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT)) - -prefix?=$(HOME) -bindir?=$(prefix)/bin -htmldir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc -pdfdir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc -mandir?=$(prefix)/share/man -man1dir=$(mandir)/man1 -man5dir=$(mandir)/man5 -man7dir=$(mandir)/man7 -# DESTDIR= +DOC_MAN1 = $(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT)) +DOC_MAN5 = $(patsubst %.txt,%.5,$(MAN5_TXT)) +DOC_MAN7 = $(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT)) + +prefix ?= $(HOME) +bindir ?= $(prefix)/bin +htmldir ?= $(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc +infodir ?= $(prefix)/share/info +pdfdir ?= $(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc +mandir ?= $(prefix)/share/man +man1dir = $(mandir)/man1 +man5dir = $(mandir)/man5 +man7dir = $(mandir)/man7 +# DESTDIR = ASCIIDOC = asciidoc ASCIIDOC_EXTRA = MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl XMLTO = xmlto XMLTO_EXTRA = -INSTALL?=install +INSTALL ?= install RM ?= rm -f MAN_REPO = ../../git-manpages HTML_REPO = ../../git-htmldocs -infodir?=$(prefix)/share/info -MAKEINFO=makeinfo -INSTALL_INFO=install-info -DOCBOOK2X_TEXI=docbook2x-texi -DBLATEX=dblatex +MAKEINFO = makeinfo +INSTALL_INFO = install-info +DOCBOOK2X_TEXI = docbook2x-texi +DBLATEX = dblatex ifndef PERL_PATH PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl endif diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..26ae142c3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Git v1.8.3.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.3.1 +-------------------- + + * Cloning with "git clone --depth N" while fetch.fsckobjects (or + transfer.fsckobjects) is set to true did not tell the cut-off + points of the shallow history to the process that validates the + objects and the history received, causing the validation to fail. + + * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into + "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been + updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. + + * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does + not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork + from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) + did not work correctly. + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error + checks to lose data at the remote side. + + * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did + not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B + was the bottom of the range being specified. + + * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when + another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends. + + * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22" + incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be + rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead). + + * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an + editor. + + * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented. + + * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git + can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link + by mistake. + + * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not + work due to slight differences in array variable notation between + these two shells. + + * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch + being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the + plain vanilla "rebase". + + * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so + it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push + out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the + command was started. + + * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the + end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some + cases. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..58a570ef3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v1.8.3.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.3.2 +-------------------- + + * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of + bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. + + * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with + their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 408c602cc4..5f440b8a6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -35,10 +35,31 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * Various subcommands of "git submodule" refused to run from anywhere + other than the top of the working tree of the superproject, but + they have been taught to let you run from a subdirectory. + + * "git diff" learned a mode that ignores hunks whose change consists + only of additions and removals of blank lines, which is the same as + "diff -B" (ignore blank lines) of GNU diff. + + * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report + multiple paths that cannot be removed. + + * "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits + to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins. + * Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto". + * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start + a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others). + +### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration +### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override +### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). + * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order @@ -48,7 +69,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal - response was to stash them and re-run). + response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner + case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed. * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, e.g. "git log @". @@ -94,6 +116,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * "git pack-refs" that races with new ref creation or deletion have + been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which + has been tightened up. + + * We read loose and packed rerferences in two steps, but after + deciding to read a loose ref but before actually opening it to read + it, another process racing with us can unlink it, which would cause + us to barf. The codepath has been updated to retry when such a + race is detected, instead of outright failing. + * Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code, matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few) have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would @@ -143,11 +175,37 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git name-rev --refs=tags/v*" were forbidden, which was a bit + inconvenient (you had to give a pattern to match refs fully, like + --refs=refs/tags/v*). + (merge 98c5c4a nk/name-rev-abbreviated-refs later to maint). + + * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by + programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in + v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks. + (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint). + + * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but + we updated the auth material after handing it to a call. + (merge a94cf2c bc/http-keep-memory-given-to-curl later to maint). + + * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the + index, and this avoids it. + (merge b4dc085 jk/pull-into-dirty-unborn later to maint). + + * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a + path whose name is not in ASCII. + (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint). + + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath. + (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint). + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and - unquoted strings). + unquoted strings). It also mishandled names that need RFC2047 + quoting. (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint). * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 311fcebaf5..b4d4887bd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ advice.*:: amWorkDir:: Advice that shows the location of the patch file when linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it. + rmHints:: + In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1], + show directions on how to proceed from the current state. -- core.fileMode:: @@ -931,6 +934,9 @@ column.ui:: This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces or commas: + +These options control when the feature should be enabled +(defaults to 'never'): ++ -- `always`;; always show in columns @@ -938,19 +944,30 @@ column.ui:: never show in columns `auto`;; show in columns if the output is to the terminal +-- ++ +These options control layout (defaults to 'column'). Setting any +of these implies 'always' if none of 'always', 'never', or 'auto' are +specified. ++ +-- `column`;; - fill columns before rows (default) + fill columns before rows `row`;; fill rows before columns `plain`;; show in one column +-- ++ +Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults +to 'nodense'): ++ +-- `dense`;; make unequal size columns to utilize more space `nodense`;; make equal size columns -- -+ -This option defaults to 'never'. column.branch:: Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index a85288f23e..19f78a7d5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] differences even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none. +--ignore-blank-lines:: + Ignore changes whose lines are all blank. + --inter-hunk-context=<lines>:: Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 5bbe7b6d10..54d8461d61 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. --resolvemsg=<msg>:: When a patch failure occurs, <msg> will be printed to the screen before exiting. This overrides the - standard message informing you to use `--resolved` + standard message informing you to use `--continue` or `--skip` to handle the failure. This is solely for internal use between 'git rebase' and 'git am'. @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should - have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option. + have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option. The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 8e1f7ab7ea..d2df487aa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitignore[5] linkgit:gitconfig[5] -linkgit:git-ls-files[5] +linkgit:git-ls-files[1] GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index a0727d7759..450f158779 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ Examples * Clone from upstream: + ------------ -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 -$ cd my2.6 +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git my-linux +$ cd my-linux $ make ------------ @@ -257,10 +257,10 @@ $ git show-branch * Clone from upstream while borrowing from an existing local directory: + ------------ -$ git clone --reference my2.6 \ - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.7 \ - my2.7 -$ cd my2.7 +$ git clone --reference /git/linux.git \ + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux.git \ + my-linux +$ cd my-linux ------------ @@ -271,13 +271,6 @@ $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git ------------ -* Create a repository on the kernel.org machine that borrows from Linus: -+ ------------- -$ git clone --bare -l -s /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git \ - /pub/scm/.../me/subsys-2.6.git ------------- - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index d88a6fcb29..19a7be0856 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ rather than from all available files. + See also <<FILES>>. +--local:: + For writing options: write to the repository .git/config file. + This is the default behavior. ++ +For reading options: read only from the repository .git/config rather than +from all available files. ++ +See also <<FILES>>. + -f config-file:: --file config-file:: Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index a7b46208f6..78d6d50489 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Show changes between the working tree and the index or a tree, changes -between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, or changes -between two files on disk. +between the index and a tree, changes between two trees, changes between +two blob objects, or changes between two files on disk. 'git diff' [--options] [--] [<path>...]:: @@ -56,11 +56,6 @@ directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index. This is to view the changes between two arbitrary <commit>. -'git diff' [options] <blob> <blob>:: - - This form is to view the differences between the raw - contents of two blob objects. - 'git diff' [--options] <commit>..<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This is synonymous to the previous form. If <commit> on @@ -87,6 +82,11 @@ and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and "<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the "SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. +'git diff' [options] <blob> <blob>:: + + This form is to view the differences between the raw + contents of two blob objects. + OPTIONS ------- :git-diff: 1 diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index efb03806f5..85f1f30fdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Limitations ----------- Since 'git fast-import' cannot tag trees, you will not be -able to export the linux-2.6.git repository completely, as it contains +able to export the linux.git repository completely, as it contains a tag referencing a tree instead of a commit. GIT diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 4687fe8192..2ea79ba168 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ Examples in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths each commit modifies. -`git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c`:: +`git log --follow builtin/rev-list.c`:: - Shows the commits that changed builtin-rev-list.c, including + Shows the commits that changed builtin/rev-list.c, including those commits that occurred before the file was given its present name. diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 67ca99cd92..8c7f2f66d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ especially if those changes were further modified after the merge was started), 'git merge --abort' will in some cases be unable to reconstruct the original (pre-merge) changes. Therefore: -*Warning*: Running 'git merge' with uncommitted changes is -discouraged: while possible, it leaves you in a state that is hard to +*Warning*: Running 'git merge' with non-trivial uncommitted changes is +discouraged: while possible, it may leave you in a state that is hard to back out of in the case of a conflict. diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index ad1d1468c9..6b0f1ba75f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ OPTIONS Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits --refs=<pattern>:: - Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. + Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. The pattern + can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. --all:: List all commits reachable from all refs diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index df5be268ba..f7dfe48d28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ already exists on the remote side. not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. This flag disables the check. This can cause the remote repository to lose commits; use it with care. + Note that `--force` applies to all the refs that are pushed, + hence using it with `push.default` set to `matching` or with + multiple push destinations configured with `remote.*.push` + may overwrite refs other than the current branch (including + local refs that are strictly behind their remote counterpart). + To force a push to only one branch, use a `+` in front of the + refspec to push (e.g `git push origin +master` to force a push + to the `master` branch). See the `<refspec>...` section above + for details. --repo=<repository>:: This option is only relevant if no <repository> argument is diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index c84854ae87..6b2e1c86ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -389,7 +389,9 @@ squash/fixup series. the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i so that the commit marked for squashing comes right after the commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved - commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). + commit from `pick` to `squash` (or `fixup`). Ignores subsequent + "fixup! " or "squash! " after the first, in case you referred to an + earlier fixup/squash with `git commit --fixup/--squash`. + This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 581bb4c413..9c3e3bf83a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -187,18 +187,25 @@ Examples $ git remote origin $ git branch -r -origin/master -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6.git + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git $ git remote -linux-nfs origin -$ git fetch -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +staging +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next $ git branch -r -origin/master -linux-nfs/master -$ git checkout -b nfs linux-nfs/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next +$ git checkout -b staging staging/master ... ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 947d62fd25..993903c9f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -59,6 +59,22 @@ OPTIONS If there is no parameter given by the user, use `<arg>` instead. +--prefix <arg>:: + Behave as if 'git rev-parse' was invoked from the `<arg>` + subdirectory of the working tree. Any relative filenames are + resolved as if they are prefixed by `<arg>` and will be printed + in that form. ++ +This can be used to convert arguments to a command run in a subdirectory +so that they can still be used after moving to the top-level of the +repository. For example: ++ +---- +prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix) +cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" +eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" +---- + --verify:: Verify that exactly one parameter is provided, and that it can be turned into a raw 20-byte SHA-1 that can be used to diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt index 711ffe17a7..db7e803038 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git stash' drop [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' ( pop | apply ) [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>] 'git stash' branch <branchname> [<stash>] -'git stash' [save [--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] +'git stash' [save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [<message>]] 'git stash' clear -'git stash' create +'git stash' create [<message>] +'git stash' store [-m|--message <message>] [-q|--quiet] <commit> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -151,7 +152,15 @@ create:: Create a stash (which is a regular commit object) and return its object name, without storing it anywhere in the ref namespace. + This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is probably not + the command you want to use; see "save" above. +store:: + + Store a given stash created via 'git stash create' (which is a + dangling merge commit) in the stash ref, updating the stash + reflog. This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is + probably not the command you want to use; see "save" above. DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index ba79cb4f35..5aec4ecffb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported: * dillo * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI) * start (this is the default under MinGW) +* cygstart (this is the default under Cygwin) Custom commands may also be specified. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 894454609f..b738a40e6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.8.3.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.1] +* link:v1.8.3.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.2] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.3.2.txt[1.8.3.2], link:RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt[1.8.3.1], link:RelNotes/1.8.3.txt[1.8.3]. diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index b462f17f62..e157ec3fe7 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -625,6 +625,10 @@ By default, the commits are shown in reverse chronological order. Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise show commits in the commit timestamp order. +--author-date-order:: + Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but + otherwise show commits in the author timestamp order. + --topo-order:: Show no parents before all of its children are shown, and avoid showing commits on multiple lines of history diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt index 4a4228b896..f3c1357b7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-builtin.txt @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ where options is the bitwise-or of: on bare repositories. This only makes sense when `RUN_SETUP` is also set. -. Add `builtin-foo.o` to `BUILTIN_OBJS` in `Makefile`. +. Add `builtin/foo.o` to `BUILTIN_OBJS` in `Makefile`. Additionally, if `foo` is a new command, there are 3 more things to do: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 1317db4d6c..0be2b5159f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -275,10 +275,10 @@ Examples -------- See `test-parse-options.c` and -`builtin-add.c`, -`builtin-clone.c`, -`builtin-commit.c`, -`builtin-fetch.c`, -`builtin-fsck.c`, -`builtin-rm.c` +`builtin/add.c`, +`builtin/clone.c`, +`builtin/commit.c`, +`builtin/fetch.c`, +`builtin/fsck.c`, +`builtin/rm.c` for real-world examples. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index 6dc82ca5a8..f716d6d97f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -135,9 +135,9 @@ them, and give the same timestamp to the index file: $ git ls-files | git update-index --stdin $ touch -r .datestamp .git/index -This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux-2.6 -project, for example, there are over 20,000 files in the working -tree. On my Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: +This will make all index entries racily clean. The linux project, for +example, there are over 20,000 files in the working tree. On my +Athlon 64 X2 3800+, after the above: $ /usr/bin/time git diff-files 1.68user 0.54system 0:02.22elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 5e185f87c2..9ccb24677e 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use them). +The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and +should be used with caution on unsecured networks. + The following syntaxes may be used with them: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index e831cc2020..e364007d7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -57,17 +57,17 @@ download a copy of an existing repository. If you don't already have a project in mind, here are some interesting examples: ------------------------------------------------ - # Git itself (approx. 10MB download): + # Git itself (approx. 40MB download): $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git - # the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download): -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git + # the Linux kernel (approx. 640MB download): +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ------------------------------------------------ The initial clone may be time-consuming for a large project, but you will only need to clone once. -The clone command creates a new directory named after the project (`git` -or `linux-2.6` in the examples above). After you cd into this +The clone command creates a new directory named after the project +(`git` or `linux` in the examples above). After you cd into this directory, you will see that it contains a copy of the project files, called the <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, together with a special top-level directory named `.git`, which contains all the information @@ -431,19 +431,25 @@ You can also track branches from repositories other than the one you cloned from, using linkgit:git-remote[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git -$ git fetch linux-nfs -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- New remote-tracking branches will be stored under the shorthand name -that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `linux-nfs`: +that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `staging`: ------------------------------------------------- $ git branch -r -linux-nfs/master -origin/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- If you run `git fetch <remote>` later, the remote-tracking branches @@ -455,9 +461,9 @@ a new stanza: ------------------------------------------------- $ cat .git/config ... -[remote "linux-nfs"] - url = git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git - fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/* +[remote "staging"] + url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git + fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/* ... ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1835,7 +1841,7 @@ Once the index is updated with the results of the conflict resolution, instead of creating a new commit, just run ------------------------------------------------- -$ git am --resolved +$ git am --continue ------------------------------------------------- and Git will create the commit for you and continue applying the @@ -2156,7 +2162,7 @@ To set this up, first create your work tree by cloning Linus's public tree: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git work $ cd work ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2198,7 +2204,7 @@ make it easy to push both branches to your public tree. (See ------------------------------------------------- $ cat >> .git/config <<EOF [remote "mytree"] - url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git + url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git push = release push = test EOF @@ -4256,15 +4262,16 @@ no longer need to call `setup_pager()` directly). Nowadays, `git log` is a builtin, which means that it is _contained_ in the command `git`. The source side of a builtin is -- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin-<bla>.c`, - and declared in `builtin.h`, +- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin/<bla.c>` + (note that older versions of Git used to have it in `builtin-<bla>.c` + instead), and declared in `builtin.h`. - an entry in the `commands[]` array in `git.c`, and - an entry in `BUILTIN_OBJECTS` in the `Makefile`. Sometimes, more than one builtin is contained in one source file. For -example, `cmd_whatchanged()` and `cmd_log()` both reside in `builtin-log.c`, +example, `cmd_whatchanged()` and `cmd_log()` both reside in `builtin/log.c`, since they share quite a bit of code. In that case, the commands which are _not_ named like the `.c` file in which they live have to be listed in `BUILT_INS` in the `Makefile`. @@ -4287,10 +4294,10 @@ For the sake of clarity, let's stay with `git cat-file`, because it - is plumbing, and - was around even in the initial commit (it literally went only through - some 20 revisions as `cat-file.c`, was renamed to `builtin-cat-file.c` + some 20 revisions as `cat-file.c`, was renamed to `builtin/cat-file.c` when made a builtin, and then saw less than 10 versions). -So, look into `builtin-cat-file.c`, search for `cmd_cat_file()` and look what +So, look into `builtin/cat-file.c`, search for `cmd_cat_file()` and look what it does. ------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -4366,7 +4373,7 @@ Another example: Find out what to do in order to make some script a builtin: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git log --no-merges --diff-filter=A builtin-*.c +$ git log --no-merges --diff-filter=A builtin/*.c ------------------------------------------------- You see, Git is actually the best tool to find out about the source of Git |