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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt151
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-branch.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt92
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-name-rev.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt86
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt5
12 files changed, 362 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0b4c36f97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+Git 2.13 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes.
+
+ * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
+ 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
+ more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
+ users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
+ turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
+ this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming
+ release (yet).
+
+ * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
+ has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
+ future release.
+
+
+Updates since v2.12
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git describe" and "git name-rev" have been taught to take more
+ than one refname patterns to restrict the set of refs to base their
+ naming output on, and also learned to take negative patterns to
+ name refs not to be used for naming via their "--exclude" option.
+
+ * Deletion of a branch "foo/bar" could remove .git/refs/heads/foo
+ once there no longer is any other branch whose name begins with
+ "foo/", but we didn't do so so far. Now we do.
+
+ * When "git merge" detects a path that is renamed in one history
+ while the other history deleted (or modified) it, it now reports
+ both paths to help the user understand what is going on in the two
+ histories being merged.
+
+ * The <url> part in "http.<url>.<variable>" configuration variable
+ can now be spelled with '*' that serves as wildcard.
+ E.g. "http.https://*.example.com.proxy" can be used to specify the
+ proxy used for https://a.example.com, https://b.example.com, etc.,
+ i.e. any host in the example.com domain.
+
+ * "git tag" did not leave useful message when adding a new entry to
+ reflog; this was left unnoticed for a long time because refs/tags/*
+ doesn't keep reflog by default.
+
+ * The "negative" pathspec feature was somewhat more cumbersome to use
+ than necessary in that its short-hand used "!" which needed to be
+ escaped from shells, and it required "exclude from what?" specified.
+
+ * The command line options for ssh invocation needs to be tweaked for
+ some implementations of SSH (e.g. PuTTY plink wants "-P <port>"
+ while OpenSSH wants "-p <port>" to specify port to connect to), and
+ the variant was guessed when GIT_SSH environment variable is used
+ to specify it. The logic to guess now applies to the command
+ specified by the newer GIT_SSH_COMMAND and also core.sshcommand
+ configuration variable, and comes with an escape hatch for users to
+ deal with misdetected cases.
+
+ * The "--git-path", "--git-common-dir", and "--shared-index-path"
+ options of "git rev-parse" did not produce usable output. They are
+ now updated to show the path to the correct file, relative to where
+ the caller is.
+
+ * "git diff -W" has been taught to handle the case where a new
+ function is added at the end of the file better.
+
+ * "git update-ref -d" and other operations to delete references did
+ not leave any entry in HEAD's reflog when the reference being
+ deleted was the current branch. This is not a problem in practice
+ because you do not want to delete the branch you are currently on,
+ but caused renaming of the current branch to something else not to
+ be logged in a useful way.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * The code to list branches in "git branch" has been consolidated
+ with the more generic ref-filter API.
+
+ * Resource usage while enumerating refs from alternate object store
+ has been optimized to help receiving end of "push" that hosts a
+ repository with many "forks".
+
+ * The gitattributes machinery is being taught to work better in a
+ multi-threaded environment.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" starts using the recently updated "sequencer" code.
+
+ * Code and design clean-up for the refs API.
+
+ * The preload-index code has been taught not to bother with the index
+ entries that are paths that are not checked out by "sparse checkout".
+
+ * Some warning() messages from "git clean" were updated to show the
+ errno from failed system calls.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.12
+-----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * "git repack --depth=<n>" for a long time busted the specified depth
+ when reusing delta from existing packs. This has been corrected.
+ (merge 42b766d765 jk/delta-chain-limit later to maint).
+
+ * The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev>
+ [[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs
+ have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev).
+ (merge 131f3c96d2 jk/grep-no-index-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
+ without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent
+ updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
+ .git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
+ repository. Stop doing so.
+ (merge 4b0c3c7735 jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir later to maint).
+
+ * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
+ in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
+ without checking for overflow.
+ (merge d3cc5f4c44 jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit later to maint).
+
+ * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
+ files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
+ tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the
+ original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to
+ be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
+ close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
+ predictable.
+ (merge 7e8c9355b7 jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint).
+
+ * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
+ value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
+ branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
+ (merge 20690b2139 rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge later to maint).
+
+ * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
+ automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
+ default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
+ (merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
+ (merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 015346c417..47603f5484 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1402,6 +1402,12 @@ gc.autoDetach::
Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
if the system supports it. Default is true.
+gc.logExpiry::
+ If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run
+ unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is
+ "1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its
+ value.
+
gc.packRefs::
Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
@@ -1919,7 +1925,10 @@ http.<url>.*::
must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
. Host/domain name (e.g., `example.com` in `https://example.com/`).
- This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
+ This field must match between the config key and the URL. It is
+ possible to specify a `*` as part of the host name to match all subdomains
+ at this level. `https://*.example.com/` for example would match
+ `https://foo.example.com/`, but not `https://foo.bar.example.com/`.
. Port number (e.g., `8080` in `http://example.com:8080/`).
This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
@@ -1954,6 +1963,17 @@ Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs
visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
+ssh.variant::
+ Depending on the value of the environment variables `GIT_SSH` or
+ `GIT_SSH_COMMAND`, or the config setting `core.sshCommand`, Git
+ auto-detects whether to adjust its command-line parameters for use
+ with plink or tortoiseplink, as opposed to the default (OpenSSH).
++
+The config variable `ssh.variant` can be set to override this auto-detection;
+valid values are `ssh`, `plink`, `putty` or `tortoiseplink`. Any other value
+will be treated as normal ssh. This setting can be overridden via the
+environment variable `GIT_SSH_VARIANT`.
+
i18n.commitEncoding::
Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself
does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 28d46cc03b..092f1bcf9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--list] [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]]
[--column[=<options>] | --no-column]
[(--merged | --no-merged | --contains) [<commit>]] [--sort=<key>]
- [--points-at <object>] [<pattern>...]
+ [--points-at <object>] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
'git branch' [--set-upstream | --track | --no-track] [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>]
'git branch' (--set-upstream-to=<upstream> | -u <upstream>) [<branchname>]
'git branch' --unset-upstream [<branchname>]
@@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
--points-at <object>::
Only list branches of the given object.
+--format <format>::
+ A string that interpolates `%(fieldname)` from the object
+ pointed at by a ref being shown. The format is the same as
+ that of linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1].
+
Examples
--------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index e4ac448ff5..8755f3af7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,20 @@ OPTIONS
--match <pattern>::
Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern,
excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to avoid
- leaking private tags from the repository.
+ leaking private tags from the repository. If given multiple times, a
+ list of patterns will be accumulated, and tags matching any of the
+ patterns will be considered. Use `--no-match` to clear and reset the
+ list of patterns.
+
+--exclude <pattern>::
+ Do not consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, excluding
+ the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to narrow the tag space and
+ find only tags matching some meaningful criteria. If given multiple
+ times, a list of patterns will be accumulated and tags matching any
+ of the patterns will be excluded. When combined with --match a tag will
+ be considered when it matches at least one --match pattern and does not
+ match any of the --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear and
+ reset the list of patterns.
--always::
Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index abe13f3bed..111e1be6f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -95,11 +95,20 @@ refname::
The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/).
For a non-ambiguous short name of the ref append `:short`.
The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
- abbreviation mode. If `strip=<N>` is appended, strips `<N>`
- slash-separated path components from the front of the refname
- (e.g., `%(refname:strip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo`.
- `<N>` must be a positive integer. If a displayed ref has fewer
- components than `<N>`, the command aborts with an error.
+ abbreviation mode. If `lstrip=<N>` (`rstrip=<N>`) is appended, strips `<N>`
+ slash-separated path components from the front (back) of the refname
+ (e.g. `%(refname:lstrip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo` and
+ `%(refname:rstrip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `refs`).
+ If `<N>` is a negative number, strip as many path components as
+ necessary from the specified end to leave `-<N>` path components
+ (e.g. `%(refname:lstrip=-2)` turns
+ `refs/tags/foo` into `tags/foo` and `%(refname:rstrip=-1)`
+ turns `refs/tags/foo` into `refs`). When the ref does not have
+ enough components, the result becomes an empty string if
+ stripping with positive <N>, or it becomes the full refname if
+ stripping with negative <N>. Neither is an error.
++
+`strip` can be used as a synomym to `lstrip`.
objecttype::
The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`).
@@ -110,21 +119,31 @@ objectsize::
objectname::
The object name (aka SHA-1).
For a non-ambiguous abbreviation of the object name append `:short`.
+ For an abbreviation of the object name with desired length append
+ `:short=<length>`, where the minimum length is MINIMUM_ABBREV. The
+ length may be exceeded to ensure unique object names.
upstream::
The name of a local ref which can be considered ``upstream''
- from the displayed ref. Respects `:short` in the same way as
- `refname` above. Additionally respects `:track` to show
- "[ahead N, behind M]" and `:trackshort` to show the terse
- version: ">" (ahead), "<" (behind), "<>" (ahead and behind),
- or "=" (in sync). Has no effect if the ref does not have
- tracking information associated with it.
+ from the displayed ref. Respects `:short`, `:lstrip` and
+ `:rstrip` in the same way as `refname` above. Additionally
+ respects `:track` to show "[ahead N, behind M]" and
+ `:trackshort` to show the terse version: ">" (ahead), "<"
+ (behind), "<>" (ahead and behind), or "=" (in sync). `:track`
+ also prints "[gone]" whenever unknown upstream ref is
+ encountered. Append `:track,nobracket` to show tracking
+ information without brackets (i.e "ahead N, behind M"). Has
+ no effect if the ref does not have tracking information
+ associated with it. All the options apart from `nobracket`
+ are mutually exclusive, but if used together the last option
+ is selected.
push::
- The name of a local ref which represents the `@{push}` location
- for the displayed ref. Respects `:short`, `:track`, and
- `:trackshort` options as `upstream` does. Produces an empty
- string if no `@{push}` ref is configured.
+ The name of a local ref which represents the `@{push}`
+ location for the displayed ref. Respects `:short`, `:lstrip`,
+ `:rstrip`, `:track`, and `:trackshort` options as `upstream`
+ does. Produces an empty string if no `@{push}` ref is
+ configured.
HEAD::
'*' if HEAD matches current ref (the checked out branch), ' '
@@ -149,6 +168,25 @@ align::
quoted, but if nested then only the topmost level performs
quoting.
+if::
+ Used as %(if)...%(then)...%(end) or
+ %(if)...%(then)...%(else)...%(end). If there is an atom with
+ value or string literal after the %(if) then everything after
+ the %(then) is printed, else if the %(else) atom is used, then
+ everything after %(else) is printed. We ignore space when
+ evaluating the string before %(then), this is useful when we
+ use the %(HEAD) atom which prints either "*" or " " and we
+ want to apply the 'if' condition only on the 'HEAD' ref.
+ Append ":equals=<string>" or ":notequals=<string>" to compare
+ the value between the %(if:...) and %(then) atoms with the
+ given string.
+
+symref::
+ The ref which the given symbolic ref refers to. If not a
+ symbolic ref, nothing is printed. Respects the `:short`,
+ `:lstrip` and `:rstrip` options in the same way as `refname`
+ above.
+
In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
be used to specify the value in the header field.
@@ -186,6 +224,14 @@ As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for
the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the
values the `--date` option to linkgit:git-rev-list[1] takes).
+Some atoms like %(align) and %(if) always require a matching %(end).
+We call them "opening atoms" and sometimes denote them as %($open).
+
+When a scripting language specific quoting is in effect, everything
+between a top-level opening atom and its matching %(end) is evaluated
+according to the semantics of the opening atom and only its result
+from the top-level is quoted.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
@@ -273,6 +319,22 @@ eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \
eval "$eval"
------------
+
+An example to show the usage of %(if)...%(then)...%(else)...%(end).
+This prefixes the current branch with a star.
+
+------------
+git for-each-ref --format="%(if)%(HEAD)%(then)* %(else) %(end)%(refname:short)" refs/heads/
+------------
+
+
+An example to show the usage of %(if)...%(then)...%(end).
+This prints the authorname, if present.
+
+------------
+git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)%(if)%(authorname)%(then) Authored by: %(authorname)%(end)"
+------------
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-show-ref[1]
diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
index ca28fb8e2a..e8e68f528c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,18 @@ OPTIONS
--refs=<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.
+ can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. If
+ given multiple times, use refs whose names match any of the given shell
+ patterns. Use `--no-refs` to clear any previous ref patterns given.
+
+--exclude=<pattern>::
+ Do not use any ref whose name matches a given shell pattern. The
+ pattern can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref
+ name. If given multiple times, a ref will be excluded when it matches
+ any of the given patterns. When used together with --refs, a ref will
+ be used as a match only when it matches at least one --refs pattern and
+ does not match any --exclude patterns. Use `--no-exclude` to clear the
+ list of exclude patterns.
--all::
List all commits reachable from all refs
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 7241e96893..91c02b8c85 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ If `$GIT_DIR` is not defined and the current directory
is not detected to lie in a Git repository or work tree
print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
+--absolute-git-dir::
+ Like `--git-dir`, but its output is always the canonicalized
+ absolute path.
+
--git-common-dir::
Show `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` if defined, else `$GIT_DIR`.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index aa895da4a5..df0941d456 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -1025,6 +1025,12 @@ Usually it is easier to configure any desired options through your
personal `.ssh/config` file. Please consult your ssh documentation
for further details.
+`GIT_SSH_VARIANT`::
+ If this environment variable is set, it overrides Git's autodetection
+ whether `GIT_SSH`/`GIT_SSH_COMMAND`/`core.sshCommand` refer to OpenSSH,
+ plink or tortoiseplink. This variable overrides the config setting
+ `ssh.variant` that serves the same purpose.
+
`GIT_ASKPASS`::
If this environment variable is set, then Git commands which need to
acquire passwords or passphrases (e.g. for HTTP or IMAP authentication)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index e0b66c1220..a53d093ca1 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:
pattern attr1 attr2 ...
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.
+separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are
+ignored. Lines that begin with '#' are ignored. Patterns
+that begin with a double quote are quoted in C style.
+When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes
+listed on the line are given to the path.
Each attribute can be in one of these states for a given path:
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
Attributes for all users on a system should be placed in the
`$(prefix)/etc/gitattributes` file.
-Sometimes you would need to override an setting of an attribute
+Sometimes you would need to override a setting of an attribute
for a path to `Unspecified` state. This can be done by listing
the name of the attribute prefixed with an exclamation point `!`.
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 8ad29e61a9..fc9320e59e 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -386,8 +386,10 @@ Glob magic is incompatible with literal magic.
exclude;;
After a path matches any non-exclude pathspec, it will be run
- through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!`). If it
- matches, the path is ignored.
+ through all exclude pathspec (magic signature: `!` or its
+ synonym `^`). If it matches, the path is ignored. When there
+ is no non-exclude pathspec, the exclusion is applied to the
+ result set as if invoked without any pathspec.
--
[[def_parent]]parent::
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
index 2602668677..e7cbb7c13a 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-gitattributes.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,15 @@ Data Structure
of no interest to the calling programs. The name of the
attribute can be retrieved by calling `git_attr_name()`.
-`struct git_attr_check`::
+`struct attr_check_item`::
- This structure represents a set of attributes to check in a call
- to `git_check_attr()` function, and receives the results.
+ This structure represents one attribute and its value.
+
+`struct attr_check`::
+
+ This structure represents a collection of `attr_check_item`.
+ It is passed to `git_check_attr()` function, specifying the
+ attributes to check, and receives their values.
Attribute Values
@@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ Attribute Values
An attribute for a path can be in one of four states: Set, Unset,
Unspecified or set to a string, and `.value` member of `struct
-git_attr_check` records it. There are three macros to check these:
+attr_check_item` records it. There are three macros to check these:
`ATTR_TRUE()`::
@@ -48,49 +53,51 @@ value of the attribute for the path.
Querying Specific Attributes
----------------------------
-* Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` to define the list of
- attributes you would want to check. To populate this array, you would
- need to define necessary attributes by calling `git_attr()` function.
+* Prepare `struct attr_check` using attr_check_initl()
+ function, enumerating the names of attributes whose values you are
+ interested in, terminated with a NULL pointer. Alternatively, an
+ empty `struct attr_check` can be prepared by calling
+ `attr_check_alloc()` function and then attributes you want to
+ ask about can be added to it with `attr_check_append()`
+ function.
* Call `git_check_attr()` to check the attributes for the path.
-* Inspect `git_attr_check` structure to see how each of the attribute in
- the array is defined for the path.
+* Inspect `attr_check` structure to see how each of the
+ attribute in the array is defined for the path.
Example
-------
-To see how attributes "crlf" and "indent" are set for different paths.
+To see how attributes "crlf" and "ident" are set for different paths.
-. Prepare an array of `struct git_attr_check` with two elements (because
- we are checking two attributes). Initialize their `attr` member with
- pointers to `struct git_attr` obtained by calling `git_attr()`:
+. Prepare a `struct attr_check` with two elements (because
+ we are checking two attributes):
------------
-static struct git_attr_check check[2];
+static struct attr_check *check;
static void setup_check(void)
{
- if (check[0].attr)
+ if (check)
return; /* already done */
- check[0].attr = git_attr("crlf");
- check[1].attr = git_attr("ident");
+ check = attr_check_initl("crlf", "ident", NULL);
}
------------
-. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared array of `struct git_attr_check`:
+. Call `git_check_attr()` with the prepared `struct attr_check`:
------------
const char *path;
setup_check();
- git_check_attr(path, ARRAY_SIZE(check), check);
+ git_check_attr(path, check);
------------
-. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check[]`:
+. Act on `.value` member of the result, left in `check->items[]`:
------------
- const char *value = check[0].value;
+ const char *value = check->items[0].value;
if (ATTR_TRUE(value)) {
The attribute is Set, by listing only the name of the
@@ -109,20 +116,39 @@ static void setup_check(void)
}
------------
+To see how attributes in argv[] are set for different paths, only
+the first step in the above would be different.
+
+------------
+static struct attr_check *check;
+static void setup_check(const char **argv)
+{
+ check = attr_check_alloc();
+ while (*argv) {
+ struct git_attr *attr = git_attr(*argv);
+ attr_check_append(check, attr);
+ argv++;
+ }
+}
+------------
+
Querying All Attributes
-----------------------
To get the values of all attributes associated with a file:
-* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which returns an array of `git_attr_check`
- structures.
+* Prepare an empty `attr_check` structure by calling
+ `attr_check_alloc()`.
+
+* Call `git_all_attrs()`, which populates the `attr_check`
+ with the attributes attached to the path.
-* Iterate over the `git_attr_check` array to examine the attribute
- names and values. The name of the attribute described by a
- `git_attr_check` object can be retrieved via
- `git_attr_name(check[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items will be
- returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return false
- for all returned `git_array_check` objects.)
+* Iterate over the `attr_check.items[]` array to examine
+ the attribute names and values. The name of the attribute
+ described by a `attr_check.items[]` object can be retrieved via
+ `git_attr_name(check->items[i].attr)`. (Please note that no items
+ will be returned for unset attributes, so `ATTR_UNSET()` will return
+ false for all returned `attr_check.items[]` objects.)
-* Free the `git_array_check` array.
+* Free the `attr_check` struct by calling `attr_check_free()`.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
index 27bd701c0d..36768b479e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ There are some macros to easily define options:
Introduce an option with string argument.
The string argument is put into `str_var`.
+`OPT_STRING_LIST(short, long, &struct string_list, arg_str, description)`::
+ Introduce an option with string argument.
+ The string argument is stored as an element in `string_list`.
+ Use of `--no-option` will clear the list of preceding values.
+
`OPT_INTEGER(short, long, &int_var, description)`::
Introduce an option with integer argument.
The integer is put into `int_var`.