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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt71
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-clean.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fsck.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-gc.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reset.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitignore.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt4
12 files changed, 112 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
index 9e1f738bf6..ca774e8388 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to
complete more subcommand parameters.
+ * The final report from "git bisect" used to show the suspected
+ culprit using a raw "diff-tree", with which there is no output for
+ a merge commit. This has been updated to use a more modern and
+ human readable output that still is concise enough.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -47,6 +52,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "git prune" has been taught to take advantage of reachability
bitmap when able.
+ * The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to
+ use the parse-options API.
+
Fixes since v2.21
-----------------
@@ -68,6 +76,64 @@ Fixes since v2.21
improves the code base.
(merge a97d00799a jt/http-auth-proto-v2-fix later to maint).
+ * The include file compat/bswap.h has been updated so that it is safe
+ to (accidentally) include it more than once.
+ (merge 33aa579a55 jk/guard-bswap-header later to maint).
+
+ * The set of header files used by "make hdr-check" unconditionally
+ included sha256/gcrypt.h, even when it is not used, causing the
+ make target to fail. We now skip it when GCRYPT_SHA256 is not in
+ use.
+ (merge f23aa18e7f rj/hdr-check-gcrypt-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The Makefile uses 'find' utility to enumerate all the *.h header
+ files, which is expensive on platforms with slow filesystems; it
+ now optionally uses "ls-files" if working within a repository,
+ which is a trick similar to how all sources are enumerated to run
+ ETAGS on.
+ (merge 92b88eba9f js/find-lib-h-with-ls-files-when-possible later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" that was reimplemented in C did not set ORIG_HEAD
+ correctly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge cbd29ead92 js/rebase-orig-head-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Dev support.
+ (merge f545737144 js/stress-test-ui-tweak later to maint).
+
+ * CFLAGS now can be tweaked when invoking Make while using
+ DEVELOPER=YesPlease; this did not work well before.
+ (merge 6d5d4b4e93 ab/makefile-help-devs-more later to maint).
+
+ * "git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift
+ the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into
+ unreachable and dangling. This is now enabled when dangling
+ objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be
+ overridden with the "--no-dangling" option).
+ (merge 8d8c2a5aef jk/fsck-doc later to maint).
+
+ * On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX),
+ the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after
+ detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal,
+ which led to a flakey test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during
+ the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we
+ check the return status from our write(2)s).
+ (merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update broke "is this object available to us?" check for
+ well-known objects like an empty tree (which should yield "yes",
+ even when there is no on-disk object for an empty tree), which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge f06ab027ef jk/virtual-objects-do-exist later to maint).
+
+ * The setup code has been cleaned up to avoid leaks around the
+ repository_format structure.
+ (merge e8805af1c3 ma/clear-repository-format later to maint).
+
+ * "git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config --get-color"
+ but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is
+ now fixed.
+ (merge cd8e7593b9 jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf later to maint).
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint).
(merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint).
@@ -77,3 +143,8 @@ Fixes since v2.21
(merge 1ede45e44b en/merge-options-doc later to maint).
(merge 3e14dd2c8e rd/doc-hook-used-in-sample later to maint).
(merge c271dc28fd nd/no-more-check-racy later to maint).
+ (merge e6e15194a8 yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix later to maint).
+ (merge bb101aaf0c rd/attr.c-comment-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 716a5af812 rd/gc-prune-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 50b206371d js/untravis-windows later to maint).
+ (merge dbf47215e3 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 37bcab94d5..8b0e4c7fa8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -193,15 +193,6 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files.
for command-line options).
-CONFIGURATION
--------------
-
-The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
-file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
-$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
-
-
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 03056dad0d..db876f7dde 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -55,14 +55,13 @@ OPTIONS
-e <pattern>::
--exclude=<pattern>::
- In addition to those found in .gitignore (per directory) and
- $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, also consider these patterns to be in the
- set of the ignore rules in effect.
+ Use the given exclude pattern in addition to the standard ignore rules
+ (see linkgit:gitignore[5]).
-x::
- Don't use the standard ignore rules read from .gitignore (per
- directory) and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but do still use the ignore
- rules given with `-e` options. This allows removing all untracked
+ Don't use the standard ignore rules (see linkgit:gitignore[5]), but
+ still use the ignore rules given with `-e` options from the command
+ line. This allows removing all untracked
files, including build products. This can be used (possibly in
conjunction with 'git reset') to create a pristine
working directory to test a clean build.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 002dae625e..4b90b9c12a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
+The `-m` and `-F` options can be given any number of times, in any
+order. The commit log message will be composed in the order in which
+the options are given.
+
A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one
parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes
the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root)
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ state was.
OPTIONS
-------
<tree>::
- An existing tree object
+ An existing tree object.
-p <parent>::
Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object.
@@ -52,7 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS
-F <file>::
Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
- from the standard input.
+ from the standard input. This can be given more than once and the
+ content of each file becomes its own paragraph.
-S[<keyid>]::
--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 1bfe9f56a7..d0b9c50d20 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -240,7 +240,9 @@ Valid `<type>`'s include:
output. The optional `default` parameter is used instead, if
there is no color configured for `name`.
+
-`--type=color [--default=<default>]` is preferred over `--get-color`.
+`--type=color [--default=<default>]` is preferred over `--get-color`
+(but note that `--get-color` will omit the trailing newline printed by
+`--type=color`).
-e::
--edit::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index 55950d9eea..e0eae642c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -62,9 +62,17 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
with --no-full.
--connectivity-only::
- Check only the connectivity of tags, commits and tree objects. By
- avoiding to unpack blobs, this speeds up the operation, at the
- expense of missing corrupt objects or other problematic issues.
+ Check only the connectivity of reachable objects, making sure
+ that any objects referenced by a reachable tag, commit, or tree
+ is present. This speeds up the operation by avoiding reading
+ blobs entirely (though it does still check that referenced blobs
+ exist). This will detect corruption in commits and trees, but
+ not do any semantic checks (e.g., for format errors). Corruption
+ in blob objects will not be detected at all.
++
+Unreachable tags, commits, and trees will also be accessed to find the
+tips of dangling segments of history. Use `--no-dangling` if you don't
+care about this output and want to speed it up further.
--strict::
Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode
diff --git a/Documentation/git-gc.txt b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
index a7442499f6..a7c1b0f60e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-gc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gc.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ be performed as well.
--prune=<date>::
Prune loose objects older than date (default is 2 weeks ago,
overridable by the config variable `gc.pruneExpire`).
- --prune=all prunes loose objects regardless of their age and
+ --prune=now prunes loose objects regardless of their age and
increases the risk of corruption if another process is writing to
the repository concurrently; see "NOTES" below. --prune is on by
default.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 63047375b6..44e00329e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
+
By default, or when `no-rebase-cousins` was specified, commits which do not
have `<upstream>` as direct ancestor will keep their original branch point,
-i.e. commits that would be excluded by gitlink:git-log[1]'s
+i.e. commits that would be excluded by linkgit:git-log[1]'s
`--ancestry-path` option will keep their original ancestry by default. If
the `rebase-cousins` mode is turned on, such commits are instead rebased
onto `<upstream>` (or `<onto>`, if specified).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 132f8e55f6..26e746c53f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ working index HEAD target working index HEAD
`reset --merge` is meant to be used when resetting out of a conflicted
merge. Any mergy operation guarantees that the working tree file that is
-involved in the merge does not have local change wrt the index before
-it starts, and that it writes the result out to the working tree. So if
+involved in the merge does not have a local change with respect to the index
+before it starts, and that it writes the result out to the working tree. So if
we see some difference between the index and the target and also
between the index and the working tree, then it means that we are not
resetting out from a state that a mergy operation left after failing
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 9b41f81c06..bdd11a2ddd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ automatic line ending conversion based on your platform.
Use the following attributes if your '*.ps1' files are UTF-16 little
endian encoded without BOM and you want Git to use Windows line endings
-in the working directory (use `UTF-16-LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if
+in the working directory (use `UTF-16LE-BOM` instead of `UTF-16LE` if
you want UTF-16 little endian with BOM).
Please note, it is highly recommended to
explicitly define the line endings with `eol` if the `working-tree-encoding`
diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 1c94f08ff4..b5bc9dbff0 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ full pathname may have special meaning:
- Other consecutive asterisks are considered regular asterisks and
will match according to the previous rules.
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a
+file containing patterns of file names to exclude, similar to
+`$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
+those in `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude`.
+
NOTES
-----
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt b/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt
index 1c0086e287..844629c8c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ More interesting possibilities exist, though, such as:
* one side of history renames x -> z, and the other renames some file to
x/e, causing the need for the merge to do a transitive rename.
- * one side of history renames x -> z, but also renames all files within
- x. For example, x/a -> z/alpha, x/b -> z/bravo, etc.
+ * one side of history renames x -> z, but also renames all files within x.
+ For example, x/a -> z/alpha, x/b -> z/bravo, etc.
* both 'x' and 'y' being merged into a single directory 'z', with a
directory rename being detected for both x->z and y->z.