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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt index 75c07e199e..70462f7f7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt @@ -30,4 +30,102 @@ Fixes since v2.10 * Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the newer GIT_TRACE_CURL. + * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui". + + * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted + instead. + + * "git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration + variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we + forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match + this change. + + * "git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates + to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time. + The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to + avoid the wastage. + + * The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default + these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session, + which led to unnecessary API failures. + + * "git diff -W" output needs to extend the context backward to + include the header line of the current function and also forward to + include the body of the entire current function up to the header + line of the next one. This process may have to merge to adjacent + hunks, but the code forgot to do so in some cases. + + * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of + build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated + configuration. + + * "git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added + showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature + line, which turned out to be inconvenient. The base information + has been moved above the signature line. + + * Even when "git pull --rebase=preserve" (and the underlying "git + rebase --preserve") can complete without creating any new commit + (i.e. fast-forwards), it still insisted on having a usable ident + information (read: user.email is set correctly), which was less + than nice. As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase" + would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text + when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed. + + * "git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250, + which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is + detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to + 50. + + * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use + of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is + 'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`. + When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to + 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been + corrected. + + * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been + fixed. + + * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation + rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow + checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a + file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate. + This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the + command was run from a subdirectory. + + * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was + mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read + beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing + a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND + extension. + + * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the + internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a + no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we + need to know to fix this. + + * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the + user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step + after that was (i.e. "--continue"). + + * "git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has + been corrected. + + * "git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the + executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has + been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match + the given pathspec. + + * "git pack-objects --include-tag" was taught that when we know that + we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at + C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the + intermediate tag B in some cases. + + * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. + + * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an + e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname + field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed2de0dc20 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Git v2.10.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.10.1 +------------------- + + * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command + has seen a micro-optimization. + + * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of + output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which + has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody + tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though. + + * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default + setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into + underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason. + + * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does. + + * An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the + human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted + correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail. + + * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git + merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some + time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This + is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation. + + * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in + validating what they are reading is a proper object file and + sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has + been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting. + + * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that + ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored + the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the + default set of configuration variables to correct this. + + * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors + that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions + it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt index 858ed4d674..3bc074fc03 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -54,6 +54,41 @@ UI, Workflows & Features been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match the given pathspec. + * When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body + header and it uses the RFC2822 header folding, "git am" failed to + put the header line back into a single logical line. The + underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly. + + * "gitweb" can spawn "highlight" to show blob contents with + (programming) language-specific syntax highlighting, but only + when the language is known. "highlight" can however be told + to make the guess itself by giving it "--force" option, which + has been enabled. + + * "git gui" l10n to Portuguese. + + * When given an abbreviated object name that is not (or more + realistically, "no longer") unique, we gave a fatal error + "ambiguous argument". This error is now accompanied by hints that + lists the objects that begins with the given prefix. During the + course of development of this new feature, numerous minor bugs were + uncovered and corrected, the most notable one of which is that we + gave "short SHA1 xxxx is ambiguous." twice without good reason. + + * "git log rev^..rev" is an often-used revision range specification + to show what was done on a side branch merged at rev. This has + gained a short-hand "rev^-1". In general "rev^-$n" is the same as + "^rev^$n rev", i.e. what has happened on other branches while the + history leading to nth parent was looking the other way. + + * In recent versions of cURL, GSSAPI credential delegation is + disabled by default due to CVE-2011-2192; introduce a configuration + to selectively allow enabling this. + (merge 26a7b23429 ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation later to maint). + + * "git mergetool" learned to honor "-O<orderfile>" to control the + order of paths to present to the end user. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -98,6 +133,33 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have become faster. + * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has + been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them. + + * We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of + the time third parameter is redundant. A new QSORT() macro lets us + omit it. + + * "git pack-objects" in a repository with many packfiles used to + spend a lot of time looking for/at objects in them; the accesses to + the packfiles are now optimized by checking the most-recently-used + packfile first. + (merge c9af708b1a jk/pack-objects-optim-mru later to maint). + + * Codepaths involved in interacting alternate object store have + been cleaned up. + + * In order for the receiving end of "git push" to inspect the + received history and decide to reject the push, the objects sent + from the sending end need to be made available to the hook and + the mechanism for the connectivity check, and this was done + traditionally by storing the objects in the receiving repository + and letting "git gc" to expire it. Instead, store the newly + received objects in a temporary area, and make them available by + reusing the alternate object store mechanism to them only while we + decide if we accept the check, and once we decide, either migrate + them to the repository or purge them immediately. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -139,35 +201,28 @@ notes for details). we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the intermediate tag B in some cases. - (merge b773dde jk/pack-tag-of-tag later to maint). * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui". - (merge 02748bc sy/git-gui-i18n-ja later to maint). * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted instead. - (merge d63ed6e jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto later to maint). * "git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match this change. - (merge f14a310 js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign later to maint). * "git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has been corrected. - (merge 7ef7903 et/add-chmod-x later to maint). * "git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time. The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to avoid the wastage. - (merge 7c81040 jk/patch-ids-no-merges later to maint). * The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session, which led to unnecessary API failures. - (merge 2abc848 ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle later to maint). * There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a @@ -181,21 +236,17 @@ notes for details). include the body of the entire current function up to the header line of the next one. This process may have to merge to adjacent hunks, but the code forgot to do so in some cases. - (merge 45d2f75 rs/xdiff-merge-overlapping-hunks-for-W-context later to maint). * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated configuration. - (merge cd5c281 ks/perf-build-with-autoconf later to maint). * "git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature line, which turned out to be inconvenient. The base information has been moved above the signature line. - (merge 480871e jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig later to maint). * More i18n. - (merge 43073f8 va/i18n later to maint). * Even when "git pull --rebase=preserve" (and the underlying "git rebase --preserve") can complete without creating any new commit @@ -204,13 +255,11 @@ notes for details). than nice. As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase" would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed. - (merge 1e461c4 jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check later to maint). * "git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250, which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to 50. - (merge 07e7dbf jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth later to maint). * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is @@ -218,16 +267,14 @@ notes for details). When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been corrected. - (merge 14d16e2 mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto later to maint). * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a color-reset sequence to the output. - (merge c99ad27 rs/c-auto-resets-attributes later to maint). + (merge 82b83da8d3 rs/c-auto-resets-attributes later to maint). * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been fixed. - (merge 92dece7 ep/doc-check-ref-format-example later to maint). * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow @@ -235,36 +282,141 @@ notes for details). file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate. This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the command was run from a subdirectory. - (merge b829b94 nd/checkout-disambiguation later to maint). * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND extension. - (merge b7d36ff js/regexec-buf later to maint). + (merge 842a516cb0 js/regexec-buf later to maint). * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we need to know to fix this. - (merge f86f49b ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix later to maint). * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step after that was (i.e. "--continue"). - (merge 37875b4 rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise later to maint). * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. - (merge 106b672 jk/doc-cvs-update later to maint). * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in recent update, which has been corrected. + * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors + that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions + it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed. + + * When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository + it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a + mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches. + This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due + to a design bug, which has been fixed. + (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint). + + * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an + e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname + field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first. + + * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that + ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored + the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the + default set of configuration variables to correct this. + + * "git init" tried to record core.worktree in the repository's + 'config' file when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable was set and + it was different from where GIT_DIR appears as ".git" at its top, + but the logic was faulty when .git is a "gitdir:" file that points + at the real place, causing trouble in working trees that are + managed by "git worktree". This has been corrected. + + * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in + validating what they are reading is a proper object file and + sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has + been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting. + + * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git + merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some + time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This + is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation. + + * An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the + human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted + correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail. + + * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does. + + * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default + setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into + underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason. + + * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of + output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which + has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody + tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though. + + * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command + has seen a micro-optimization. + + * When we started cURL to talk to imap server when a new enough + version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add + imap(s):// before the destination. To some folks, that didn't work + and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead. + (merge d2d07ab861 ak/curl-imap-send-explicit-scheme later to maint). + + * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how + to detect support of SSL by libcurl better. + (merge 924b7eb1c9 dp/autoconf-curl-ssl later to maint). + + * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of + reference to "git cmd ^master". + (merge 49416ad22a cp/completion-negative-refs later to maint). + + * The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use + correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone + deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this + easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>" + and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify + "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and + "Give me only the history since that version". + (merge cccf74e2da nd/shallow-deepen later to maint). + + * It is a common mistake to say "git blame --reverse OLD path", + expecting that the command line is dwimmed as if asking how lines + in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current + commit. + (merge e1d09701a4 jc/blame-reverse later to maint). + + * http.emptyauth configuration is a way to allow an empty username to + pass when attempting to authenticate using mechanisms like + Kerberos. We took an unspecified (NULL) username and sent ":" + (i.e. no username, no password) to CURLOPT_USERPWD, but did not do + the same when the username is explicitly set to an empty string. + (merge 5275c3081c dt/http-empty-auth later to maint). + + * "git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem + level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and + adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores. + (merge 22d3b8de1b jk/clone-copy-alternates-fix later to maint). + + * Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit + -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up + with what to commit. + (merge 7431596ab1 nd/commit-p-doc later to maint). + + * A stray symbolic link in $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory could make name + resolution loop forever, which has been corrected. + (merge e8c42cb9ce jk/ref-symlink-loop later to maint). + + * The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied + to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but + the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to + each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed. + (merge 72710165c9 sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint). - (merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint). - (merge a8342a4 rs/strbuf-remove-fix later to maint). - (merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint). - (merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint). - (merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint). + (merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint). + (merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint). + (merge 30cfe72d37 rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 02cb6845cd..2669b87c9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -28,12 +28,13 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[] -S <revs-file>:: Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. ---reverse:: +--reverse <rev>..<rev>:: Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in - START. + START. `git blame --reverse START` is taken as `git blame + --reverse START..HEAD` for convenience. -p:: --porcelain:: diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index e78293b6db..27069ac032 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1736,6 +1736,20 @@ http.emptyAuth:: a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for authentication. +http.delegation:: + Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled + by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set parameter to tell + the server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user + credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are: ++ +-- +* `none` - Don't allow any delegation. +* `policy` - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the + Kerberos service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy. +* `always` - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate. +-- + + http.extraHeader:: Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server. If more than one such entry exists, all of them are added as extra @@ -2811,12 +2825,13 @@ stash.showStat:: option will show diffstat of the stash. Defaults to true. See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. -submodule.<name>.path:: submodule.<name>.url:: - The path within this project and URL for a submodule. These - variables are initially populated by 'git submodule init'. See - linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for - details. + The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules + file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change + the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule + update'. After obtaining the submodule, the presence of this variable + is used as a sign whether the submodule is of interest to git commands. + See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. submodule.<name>.update:: The default update procedure for a submodule. This variable diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index b27a38f896..58f4bd6afa 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -193,3 +193,9 @@ diff.algorithm:: low-occurrence common elements". -- + + +diff.wsErrorHighlight:: + A comma separated list of `old`, `new`, `context`, that + specifies how whitespace errors on lines are highlighted + with `color.diff.whitespace`. Can be overridden by the + command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>` diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 2d77a19626..29630c2389 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] lines are highlighted. E.g. `--ws-error-highlight=new,old` highlights whitespace errors on both deleted and added lines. `all` can be used as a short-hand for `old,new,context`. + The `diff.wsErrorHighlight` configuration variable can be + used to specify the default behaviour. endif::git-format-patch[] diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 9eab1f5fa4..fb6bebbc61 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ linkgit:git-clone[1]), deepen or shorten the history to the specified number of commits. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched. +--deepen=<depth>:: + Similar to --depth, except it specifies the number of commits + from the current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of + each remote branch history. + +--shallow-since=<date>:: + Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to + include all reachable commits after <date>. + +--shallow-exclude=<revision>:: + Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to + exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag. + This option can be specified multiple times. + --unshallow:: If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow repository to a complete one, removing all the limitations diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 9dccb3319b..fdc3aea30a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L <range>] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] - [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] + [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>..<rev>] [--] <file> DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index e316c4bd51..35cc34b2fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -197,6 +197,14 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. tips of all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly, also pass `--shallow-submodules`. +--shallow-since=<date>:: + Create a shallow clone with a history after the specified time. + +--shallow-exclude=<revision>:: + Create a shallow clone with a history, excluding commits + reachable from a specified remote branch or tag. This option + can be specified multiple times. + --[no-]single-branch:: Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch, either specified by the `--branch` option or the primary diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index b0a294d3b5..f2ab0ee2e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways: 2. by using 'git rm' to remove files from the working tree and the index, again before using the 'commit' command; -3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which +3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command + (without --interactive or --patch switch), in which case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead record the current content of the listed files (which must already be known to Git); @@ -41,7 +42,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways: actual commit; 5. by using the --interactive or --patch switches with the 'commit' command - to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit, + to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit + in addition to contents in the index, before finalizing the operation. See the ``Interactive Mode'' section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate these modes. diff --git a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt index 2ff35683e5..cb9b4d2e46 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ objects nor valid packs + size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is specified) ++ +alternate: absolute path of alternate object databases; may appear +multiple times, one line per path. Note that if the path contains +non-printable characters, it may be surrounded by double-quotes and +contain C-style backslashed escape sequences. -H:: --human-readable:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 24417ee3a6..d45f6adc69 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -87,6 +87,20 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. 'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long. +--shallow-since=<date>:: + Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow'repository to + include all reachable commits after <date>. + +--shallow-exclude=<revision>:: + Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to + exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag. + This option can be specified multiple times. + +--deepen-relative:: + Argument --depth specifies the number of commits from the + current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of each + remote branch history. + --no-progress:: Do not show the progress. diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 0d933ac355..446209e206 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--exclude-per-directory=<file>] [--exclude-standard] [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>] - [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...] + [--full-name] [--recurse-submodules] + [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -137,6 +138,10 @@ a space) at the start of each line: option forces paths to be output relative to the project top directory. +--recurse-submodules:: + Recursively calls ls-files on each submodule in the repository. + Currently there is only support for the --cached mode. + --abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object lines, show only a partial prefix. diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index e846c2ed7f..3622d66488 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited. Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program to give the user a chance to skip the path. +-O<orderfile>:: + Process files in the order specified in the + <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. + This overrides the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable + (see linkgit:git-config[1]). To cancel `diff.orderFile`, + use `-O/dev/null`. + TEMPORARY FILES --------------- `git mergetool` creates `*.orig` backup files while resolving merges. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 7913fc2513..2cf7e225f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare] [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>] + [--super-prefix=<path>] <command> [<args>] DESCRIPTION @@ -43,9 +44,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.10.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.10] +* link:v2.10.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.10.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.10.1.txt[2.10.1], link:RelNotes/2.10.0.txt[2.10]. * link:v2.9.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.9.3] @@ -601,6 +603,11 @@ foo.bar= ...`) sets `foo.bar` to the empty string. details. Equivalent to setting the `GIT_NAMESPACE` environment variable. +--super-prefix=<path>:: + Currently for internal use only. Set a prefix which gives a path from + above a repository down to its root. One use is to give submodules + context about the superproject that invoked it. + --bare:: Treat the repository as a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the current working diff --git a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt index a4de50ad22..9e8681f9e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -415,6 +415,17 @@ set by Git if the remote helper has the 'option' capability. 'option depth' <depth>:: Deepens the history of a shallow repository. +'option deepen-since <timestamp>:: + Deepens the history of a shallow repository based on time. + +'option deepen-not <ref>:: + Deepens the history of a shallow repository excluding ref. + Multiple options add up. + +'option deepen-relative {'true'|'false'}:: + Deepens the history of a shallow repository relative to + current boundary. Only valid when used with "option depth". + 'option followtags' {'true'|'false'}:: If enabled the helper should automatically fetch annotated tag objects if the object the tag points at was transferred diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index a79e350246..e6320891b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -246,13 +246,20 @@ $highlight_bin:: Note that 'highlight' feature must be set for gitweb to actually use syntax highlighting. + -*NOTE*: if you want to add support for new file type (supported by -"highlight" but not used by gitweb), you need to modify `%highlight_ext` -or `%highlight_basename`, depending on whether you detect type of file -based on extension (for example "sh") or on its basename (for example -"Makefile"). The keys of these hashes are extension and basename, -respectively, and value for given key is name of syntax to be passed via -`--syntax <syntax>` to highlighter. +*NOTE*: for a file to be highlighted, its syntax type must be detected +and that syntax must be supported by "highlight". The default syntax +detection is minimal, and there are many supported syntax types with no +detection by default. There are three options for adding syntax +detection. The first and second priority are `%highlight_basename` and +`%highlight_ext`, which detect based on basename (the full filename, for +example "Makefile") and extension (for example "sh"). The keys of these +hashes are the basename and extension, respectively, and the value for a +given key is the name of the syntax to be passed via `--syntax <syntax>` +to "highlight". The last priority is the "highlight" configuration of +`Shebang` regular expressions to detect the language based on the first +line in the file, (for example, matching the line "#!/bin/bash"). See +the highlight documentation and the default config at +/etc/highlight/filetypes.conf for more details. + For example if repositories you are hosting use "phtml" extension for PHP files, and you want to have correct syntax-highlighting for those diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 179c9389aa..3bcee2ddb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] - '%Cgreen': switch color to green - '%Cblue': switch color to blue - '%Creset': reset color -- '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option; +- '%C(...)': color specification, as described under Values in the + "CONFIGURATION FILE" section of linkgit:git-config[1]; adding `auto,` at the beginning will emit color only when colors are enabled for log output (by `color.diff`, `color.ui`, or `--color`, and respecting the `auto` settings of the former if we are going to a diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 7e462d3841..5da7cf5a8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -657,8 +657,9 @@ avoid showing the commits from two parallel development track mixed together. --reverse:: - Output the commits in reverse order. - Cannot be combined with `--walk-reflogs`. + Output the commits chosen to be shown (see Commit Limiting + section above) in reverse order. Cannot be combined with + `--walk-reflogs`. Object Traversal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt index 4bed5b1ab7..ba11b9c95e 100644 --- a/Documentation/revisions.txt +++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ empty range that is both reachable and unreachable from HEAD. Other <rev>{caret} Parent Shorthand Notations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Two other shorthands exist, particularly useful for merge commits, +Three other shorthands exist, particularly useful for merge commits, for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent commits. The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'. @@ -291,8 +291,15 @@ The 'r1{caret}@' notation means all parents of 'r1'. The 'r1{caret}!' notation includes commit 'r1' but excludes all of its parents. By itself, this notation denotes the single commit 'r1'. +The '<rev>{caret}-{<n>}' notation includes '<rev>' but excludes the <n>th +parent (i.e. a shorthand for '<rev>{caret}<n>..<rev>'), with '<n>' = 1 if +not given. This is typically useful for merge commits where you +can just pass '<commit>{caret}-' to get all the commits in the branch +that was merged in merge commit '<commit>' (including '<commit>' +itself). + While '<rev>{caret}<n>' was about specifying a single commit parent, these -two notations consider all its parents. For example you can say +three notations also consider its parents. For example you can say 'HEAD{caret}2{caret}@', however you cannot say 'HEAD{caret}@{caret}2'. Revision Range Summary @@ -326,6 +333,10 @@ Revision Range Summary as giving commit '<rev>' and then all its parents prefixed with '{caret}' to exclude them (and their ancestors). +'<rev>{caret}-{<n>}', e.g. 'HEAD{caret}-, HEAD{caret}-2':: + Equivalent to '<rev>{caret}<n>..<rev>', with '<n>' = 1 if not + given. + Here are a handful of examples using the Loeliger illustration above, with each step in the notation's expansion and selection carefully spelt out: @@ -339,6 +350,8 @@ spelt out: C I J F C B..C = ^B C C B...C = B ^F C G H D E B C + B^- = B^..B + = ^B^1 B E I J F B C^@ = C^1 = F I J F B^@ = B^1 B^2 B^3 diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt index 3e75497a37..dcc52943a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt @@ -38,16 +38,20 @@ Functions `sha1_array_for_each_unique`:: Efficiently iterate over each unique element of the list, executing the callback function for each one. If the array is - not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. + not sorted, this function has the side effect of sorting it. If + the callback returns a non-zero value, the iteration ends + immediately and the callback's return is propagated; otherwise, + 0 is returned. Examples -------- ----------------------------------------- -void print_callback(const unsigned char sha1[20], +int print_callback(const unsigned char sha1[20], void *data) { printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(sha1)); + return 0; /* always continue */ } void some_func(void) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 736f3894a8..c59ac9936a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ out of what the server said it could do with the first 'want' line. shallow-line = PKT-LINE("shallow" SP obj-id) - depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) + depth-request = PKT-LINE("deepen" SP depth) / + PKT-LINE("deepen-since" SP timestamp) / + PKT-LINE("deepen-not" SP ref) first-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id SP capability-list) additional-want = PKT-LINE("want" SP obj-id) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 4c28d3a8ae..26dcc6f502 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -179,6 +179,31 @@ This capability adds "deepen", "shallow" and "unshallow" commands to the fetch-pack/upload-pack protocol so clients can request shallow clones. +deepen-since +------------ + +This capability adds "deepen-since" command to fetch-pack/upload-pack +protocol so the client can request shallow clones that are cut at a +specific time, instead of depth. Internally it's equivalent of doing +"rev-list --max-age=<timestamp>" on the server side. "deepen-since" +cannot be used with "deepen". + +deepen-not +---------- + +This capability adds "deepen-not" command to fetch-pack/upload-pack +protocol so the client can request shallow clones that are cut at a +specific revision, instead of depth. Internally it's equivalent of +doing "rev-list --not <rev>" on the server side. "deepen-not" +cannot be used with "deepen", but can be used with "deepen-since". + +deepen-relative +--------------- + +If this capability is requested by the client, the semantics of +"deepen" command is changed. The "depth" argument is the depth from +the current shallow boundary, instead of the depth from remote refs. + no-progress ----------- |