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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index f628c1f3b7..0d7fa9cca9 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ code. For git in general, three rough rules are: As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code (this is a good guideline, no matter which project you are -contributing to). But if you must have a list of rules, -here they are. +contributing to). It is always preferable to match the _local_ +convention. New code added to git suite is expected to match +the overall style of existing code. Modifications to existing +code is expected to match the style the surrounding code already +uses (even if it doesn't match the overall style of existing code). + +But if you must have a list of rules, here they are. For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive): diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt index 10b38e6ec1..88454c1973 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt @@ -4,20 +4,56 @@ GIT v1.6.1.1 Release Notes Fixes since v1.6.1 ------------------ +* "git add frotz/nitfol" when "frotz" is a submodule should have errored + out, but it didn't. + +* "git apply" took file modes from the patch text and updated the mode + bits of the target tree even when the patch was not about mode changes. + +* "git bisect view" on Cygwin did not launch gitk + +* "git checkout $tree" did not trigger an error. + +* "git commit" tried to remove COMMIT_EDITMSG from the work tree by mistake. + * "git describe --all" complained when a commit is described with a tag, which was nonsense. +* "git diff --no-index --" did not trigger no-index (aka "use git-diff as + a replacement of diff on untracked files") behaviour. + +* "git format-patch -1 HEAD" on a root commit failed to produce patch + text. + +* "git fsck branch" did not work as advertised; instead it behaved the same + way as "git fsck". + * "git log --pretty=format:%s" did not handle a multi-line subject the same way as built-in log listers (i.e. shortlog, --pretty=oneline, etc.) * "git daemon", and "git merge-file" are more careful when freopen fails and barf, instead of going on and writing to unopened filehandle. -Other documentation fixes. +* "git http-push" did not like some RFC 4918 compliant DAV server + responses. + +* "git merge -s recursive" mistakenly overwritten an untracked file in the + work tree upon delete/modify conflict. + +* "git merge -s recursive" didn't leave the index unmerged for entries with + rename/delete conflictd. + +* "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree. + +* "git mv -k" with more than one errorneous paths misbehaved. + +* "git read-tree -m -u" hence branch switching incorrectly lost a + subdirectory in rare cases. + +* "git rebase -i" issued an unnecessary error message upon a user error of + marking the first commit to be "squash"ed. ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.1-15-ga9e67c8 -echo O=$(git describe maint) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint +* "git shortlog" did not format a commit message with multi-line + subject correctly. +Many documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..230aa3d8e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1.1 +-------------------- + +* The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like + "git diff" and "git blame" have been optimized to avoid loading the same + blob repeatedly. + +* We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good + reason. + +* "git format-patch -o $dir", when $dir is a relative directory, used it + as relative to the root of the work tree, not relative to the current + directory. + +* v1.6.1 introduced an optimization for "git push" into a repository (A) + that borrows its objects from another repository (B) to avoid sending + objects that are available in repository B, when they are not yet used + by repository A. However the code on the "git push" sender side was + buggy and did not work when repository B had new objects that are not + known by the sender. This caused pushing into a "forked" repository + served by v1.6.1 software using "git push" from v1.6.1 sometimes did not + work. The bug was purely on the "git push" sender side, and has been + corrected. + +* "git status -v" did not paint its diff output in colour even when + color.ui configuration was set. + +* "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option to help Porcelain scripts that + want to always see the full path regardless of the current working + directory. + +* "git grep" incorrectly searched in work tree paths even when they are + marked as assume-unchanged. It now searches in the index entries. + +* "git gc" with no grace period needlessly ejected packed but unreachable + objects in their loose form, only to delete them right away. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt index 1a80626781..3151c85d88 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt @@ -6,12 +6,80 @@ Updates since v1.6.1 (subsystems) +* git-svn updates. + +* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed + improvements. + (portability) (performance) +* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded + version. + (usability, bells and whistles) +* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well + +* @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on. This is + accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere + a branch name is expected. E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}" + "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}". + +* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk. + +* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the + title of the offending patch. + +* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options + to underlying "git apply". + +* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty + repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote + repository. + +* "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}". + +* "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if + exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given. + +* "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to + the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation + configuration. + +* "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close + hunks together and show context between them. + +* The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words" + can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration. + +* "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm. + +* Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did + not work as expected. + +* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits + that do not change the contents. + +* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. + +* "git log" and friends include HEAD to the set of starting points + when --all is given. This makes a difference when you are not on + any branch. + +* "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option that shows the path in full + regardless of where in the work tree hierarchy the command was started. + +* "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting. + +* "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere + with --root option. + +* "git reset --merge" is a new mode that works similar to the way + "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while + switching to another commit. + (internal) @@ -21,8 +89,18 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1 All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. +* "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to + the superproject. + +* git-bundle did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given from the + command line wanted to. + +* branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate + the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is + clean. + -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.1 +O=v1.6.1.2-252-g8c95d3c echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 7408bb2d34..e2b8775dd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -635,10 +635,16 @@ diff.renames:: will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well. -diff.suppress-blank-empty:: +diff.suppressBlankEmpty:: A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty output line. Defaults to false. +diff.wordRegex:: + A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word" + when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character + sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other + characters are *ignorable* whitespace. + fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native transfer is below this @@ -702,7 +708,9 @@ gc.packrefs:: gc.pruneexpire:: When 'git-gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'. - Override the grace period with this config variable. + Override the grace period with this config variable. The value + "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune + unreachable objects immediately. gc.reflogexpire:: 'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than @@ -723,6 +731,10 @@ gc.rerereunresolved:: kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. +gitcvs.commitmsgannotation:: + Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string + to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator". + gitcvs.enabled:: Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 671f533ca3..813a7b11b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --patch-with-raw:: Synonym for "-p --raw". +--patience:: + Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm. + --stat[=width[,name-width]]:: Generate a diffstat. You can override the default output width for 80-column terminal by "--stat=width". @@ -91,8 +94,22 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file gives the default to color output. ---color-words:: - Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed. +--color-words[=<regex>]:: + Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed. + By default, words are separated by whitespace. ++ +When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the +<regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches is +considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding +differences. You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular +expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters. +A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the +newline. ++ +The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see +linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1]. Giving it explicitly +overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers +override configuration settings. --no-renames:: Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration @@ -116,7 +133,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header - lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is + lines, show only a partial prefix. This is independent of --full-index option above, which controls the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index b9c6fac748..efd311b1ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] [--3way] [--interactive] - [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] + [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] + [--reject] [<mbox> | <Maildir>...] 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort) @@ -60,12 +61,10 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. available locally. --whitespace=<option>:: - This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) - program that applies - the patch. - -C<n>:: -p<n>:: +--directory=<dir>:: +--reject:: These flags are passed to the 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]) program that applies the patch. diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index e726510ab1..9400f6a5d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git apply' [--stat] [--numstat] [--summary] [--check] [--index] - [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor <file>] [-R | --reverse] + [--apply] [--no-add] [--build-fake-ancestor=<file>] [-R | --reverse] [--allow-binary-replacement | --binary] [--reject] [-z] [-pNUM] [-CNUM] [--inaccurate-eof] [--recount] [--cached] [--whitespace=<nowarn|warn|fix|error|error-all>] @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ OPTIONS cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index, without using the working tree. This implies '--index'. ---build-fake-ancestor <file>:: +--build-fake-ancestor=<file>:: Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information' for each blob to help identify the original version that the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 9cd51514db..3bccffae62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths. + When this parameter names a non-branch (but still a valid commit object), your HEAD becomes 'detached'. ++ +As a special case, the "`@\{-N\}`" syntax for the N-th last branch +checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify +"`-`" which is synonymous with "`@\{-1\}`". Detached HEAD diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt index 74d14c4e7f..7deefdae8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-cherry - Find commits not merged upstream SYNOPSIS -------- -'git cherry' [-v] <upstream> [<head>] [<limit>] +'git cherry' [-v] [<upstream> [<head> [<limit>]]] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ OPTIONS <upstream>:: Upstream branch to compare against. + Defaults to the first tracked remote branch, if available. <head>:: Working branch; defaults to HEAD. diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 3d79f05995..b231dbb947 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS Automatically implies --tags. --abbrev=<n>:: - Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the + Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the abbreviated object name, use <n> digits. --candidates=<n>:: @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ With something like git.git current tree, I get: v1.0.4-14-g2414721 i.e. the current head of my "parent" branch is based on v1.0.4, -but since it has a handful commits on top of that, +but since it has a few commits on top of that, describe has added the number of additional commits ("14") and an abbreviated object name for the commit itself ("2414721") at the end. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt index 5c8c1d95a8..c526141564 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt @@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ OPTIONS ------- include::diff-options.txt[] --1 -2 -3 or --base --ours --theirs, and -0:: +-1 --base:: +-2 --ours:: +-3 --theirs:: +-0:: Diff against the "base" version, "our branch" or "their branch" respectively. With these options, diffs for merged entries are not shown. diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 9f85d60b5f..057a021eb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ OPTIONS --abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object - lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. + lines, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. \--:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt index 4c7262f1cd..f68e5c5c1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git ls-tree' [-d] [-r] [-t] [-l] [-z] - [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--abbrev=[<n>]] + [--name-only] [--name-status] [--full-name] [--full-tree] [--abbrev=[<n>]] <tree-ish> [paths...] DESCRIPTION @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ in the current working directory. Note that: 'sub/dir' in 'HEAD'). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the root level (e.g. 'git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir') in this case, as that would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the 'HEAD' commit. + However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing + --full-tree option. OPTIONS ------- @@ -59,13 +61,17 @@ OPTIONS --abbrev[=<n>]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object - lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. + lines, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>. --full-name:: Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working directory, show the full path names. +--full-tree:: + Do not limit the listing to the current working directory. + Implies --full-name. + paths:: When paths are given, show them (note that this isn't really raw pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index 4c0ffec507..5d3c632872 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ with merge conflicts. OPTIONS ------- --t or --tool=<tool>:: +-t <tool>:: +--tool=<tool>:: Use the merge resolution program specified by <tool>. Valid merge tools are: kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, emerge, vimdiff, gvimdiff, ecmerge, and opendiff @@ -60,7 +61,8 @@ variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`. Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited. --y or --no-prompt:: +-y:: +--no-prompt:: Don't prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 6150b1b959..7b27dc60bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ OPTIONS ------- <repository>:: The "remote" repository that is destination of a push - operation. See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below. + operation. This parameter can be either a URL + (see the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below) or the name + of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below). <refspec>...:: The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is @@ -42,22 +44,21 @@ tip of `master` branch); see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]) that you want to push. The <dst> side represents the destination location. + The local ref that matches <src> is used -to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst> (or, if no <dst> was -specified, the same ref that <src> referred to locally). If +to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>. If the optional leading plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward update. + `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. + -A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source -repository to the destination repository under the same name. +A lonely <src> parameter (without a colon and a destination) pushes +the <src> to the same name in the destination repository. + Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from the remote repository. + The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast forward updates) -directs git to push "matching" heads: for every head that exists on -the local side, the remote side is updated if a head of the same name +directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on +the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below). @@ -86,14 +87,12 @@ nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below). line. --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>:: +--exec=<git-receive-pack>:: Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote end. Sometimes useful when pushing to a remote repository over ssh, and you do not have the program in a directory on the default $PATH. ---exec=<git-receive-pack>:: - Same as \--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>. - -f:: --force:: Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index c8ad86a56f..3d6d429e5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [-v | --verbose] [-m | --merge] - [-s <strategy> | --strategy=<strategy>] [--no-verify] - [-C<n>] [ --whitespace=<option>] [-p | --preserve-merges] - [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>] +'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--onto <newbase>] + <upstream> [<branch>] +'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] --onto <newbase> + --root [<branch>] + 'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort DESCRIPTION @@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ it remains on the current branch. All changes made by commits in the current branch but that are not in <upstream> are saved to a temporary area. This is the same set -of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`. +of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD` (or +`git log HEAD`, if --root is specified). The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the --onto option was supplied. This has the exact same effect as @@ -255,6 +257,15 @@ OPTIONS --preserve-merges:: Instead of ignoring merges, try to recreate them. +--root:: + Rebase all commits reachable from <branch>, instead of + limiting them with an <upstream>. This allows you to rebase + the root commit(s) on a branch. Must be used with --onto, and + will skip changes already contained in <newbase> (instead of + <upstream>). When used together with --preserve-merges, 'all' + root commits will be rewritten to have <newbase> as parent + instead. + include::merge-strategies.txt[] NOTES diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 2921da320d..3ccef2f2b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ when you run 'git-merge'. reflog of the current branch. For example, if you are on the branch 'blabla', then '@\{1\}' means the same as 'blabla@\{1\}'. +* The special construct '@\{-<n>\}' means the <n>th branch checked out + before the current one. + * A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e. 'rev{caret}' diff --git a/Documentation/git-shell.txt b/Documentation/git-shell.txt index ff420f8f8c..3f8d973af1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shell.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shell.txt @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ of server-side GIT commands implementing the pull/push functionality. The commands can be executed only by the '-c' option; the shell is not interactive. -Currently, only the 'git-receive-pack' and 'git-upload-pack' commands -are permitted to be called, with a single required argument. +Currently, only three commands are permitted to be called, 'git-receive-pack' +'git-upload-pack' with a single required argument or 'cvs server' (to invoke +'git-cvsserver'). Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index 8f7c0e226d..498bd28929 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ her family name fully spelled out, a proper `.mailmap` file would look like: # Note how we don't need an entry for <jane@laptop.(none)>, because the # real name of that author is correct already, and coalesced directly. Jane Doe <jane@desktop.(none)> -Joe R. Developer <joe@random.com> +Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com> ------------ Author diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index 8d0c421b80..7b654f7928 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -92,6 +92,30 @@ COMMANDS .git/config file may be specified as an optional command-line argument. +--localtime;; + Store Git commit times in the local timezone instead of UTC. This + makes 'git-log' (even without --date=local) show the same times + that `svn log` would in the local timezone. + +This doesn't interfere with interoperating with the Subversion +repository you cloned from, but if you wish for your local Git +repository to be able to interoperate with someone else's local Git +repository, either don't use this option or you should both use it in +the same local timezone. + +--ignore-paths=<regex>;; + This allows one to specify Perl regular expression that will + cause skipping of all matching paths from checkout from SVN. + Examples: + + --ignore-paths="^doc" - skip "doc*" directory for every fetch. + + --ignore-paths="^[^/]+/(?:branches|tags)" - skip "branches" + and "tags" of first level directories. + + Regular expression is not persistent, you should specify + it every time when fetching. + 'clone':: Runs 'init' and 'fetch'. It will automatically create a directory based on the basename of the URL passed to it; diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 17dc8b2019..cd527c6252 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:v1.6.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1] +* link:v1.6.1.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt[1.6.1.1], link:RelNotes-1.6.1.txt[1.6.1]. * link:v1.6.0.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.0.6] diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 8af22eccac..227934f59a 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -317,6 +317,8 @@ patterns are available: - `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references. +- `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages. + - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents. - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language. @@ -334,6 +336,25 @@ patterns are available: - `tex` suitable for source code for LaTeX documents. +Customizing word diff +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +You can customize the rules that `git diff --color-words` uses to +split words in a line, by specifying an appropriate regular expression +in the "diff.*.wordRegex" configuration variable. For example, in TeX +a backslash followed by a sequence of letters forms a command, but +several such commands can be run together without intervening +whitespace. To separate them, use a regular expression such as + +------------------------ +[diff "tex"] + wordRegex = "\\\\[a-zA-Z]+|[{}]|\\\\.|[^\\{}[:space:]]+" +------------------------ + +A built-in pattern is provided for all languages listed in the +previous section. + + Performing text diffs of binary files ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index e4dd5518c8..7ba5e589d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -1243,10 +1243,10 @@ $ git ls-files --stage ------------ In our example of only two files, we did not have unchanged -files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing, but in real-life -large projects, only small number of files change in one commit, -and this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths -fairly quickly, leaving only a handful the real changes in non-zero +files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing. But in real-life +large projects, when only a small number of files change in one commit, +this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths +fairly quickly, leaving only a handful of real changes in non-zero stages. To look at only non-zero stages, use `\--unmerged` flag: diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index cfdae1efa2..1fd512bca2 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks` directory to trigger action at certain points. When -'git-init' is run, a handful example hooks are copied in the +'git-init' is run, a handful of example hooks are copied into the `hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are all disabled. To enable a hook, rename it by removing its `.sample` suffix. @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ This hook is invoked by 'git-commit' right after preparing the default log message, and before the editor is started. It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file -that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit +that contains the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit message, and can be: `message` (if a `-m` or `-F` option was given); `template` (if a `-t` option was given or the configuration option `commit.template` is set); `merge` (if the diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt index a057b50b2b..dc8fc3a18a 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt @@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ $ echo 'hello world' > file.txt $ git add . $ git commit -a -m "initial commit" -[master (root-commit)] created 54196cc: "initial commit" +[master (root-commit) 54196cc] initial commit 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 file.txt $ echo 'hello world!' >file.txt $ git commit -a -m "add emphasis" -[master] created c4d59f3: "add emphasis" +[master c4d59f3] add emphasis 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) ------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index 458fafdb2c..c5d5596d89 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -308,9 +308,7 @@ alice$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's current branch. If Alice has made her own changes in the meantime, -then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. (Note that the -"master" argument in the above command is actually unnecessary, as it -is the default.) +then she may need to manually fix any conflicts. The "pull" command thus performs two operations: it fetches changes from a remote branch, then merges them into the current branch. diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt index d214d4bf9d..74a1c0c4ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the kind of task StGIT is designed to do. I just have done a simpler one, this time using only the core GIT tools. -I had a handful commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I +I had a handful of commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I wanted to add some documentation bypassing my usual habit of placing new things in pu first. At the beginning, the commit ancestry graph looked like this: diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 0a8a948e6f..3d87d3edd5 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ The placeholders are: - '%Cgreen': switch color to green - '%Cblue': switch color to blue - '%Creset': reset color +- '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option - '%m': left, right or boundary mark - '%n': newline - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 6d66c74cc1..5f21efe407 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]). --abbrev-commit:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object - name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of + name, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies diff output, if it is displayed). + diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index 82e9e831b6..2efe7a40be 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ Functions Wait for the completion of an asynchronous function that was started with start_async(). +`run_hook`:: + + Run a hook. + The first argument is a pathname to an index file, or NULL + if the hook uses the default index file or no index is needed. + The second argument is the name of the hook. + The further arguments correspond to the hook arguments. + The last argument has to be NULL to terminate the arguments list. + If the hook does not exist or is not executable, the return + value will be zero. + If it is executable, the hook will be executed and the exit + status of the hook is returned. + On execution, .stdout_to_stderr and .no_stdin will be set. + (See below.) + Data structures --------------- |