From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:58:42 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'en/maint-hash-object' X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3-rc0~201 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/8cc3fe45c92a2e85400a6ee83c3b3a4a8ca1d6c7?hp=272459a3b809db19d15131eb5df9dfe939af9c8c Merge branch 'en/maint-hash-object' * en/maint-hash-object: Ensure proper setup of git_dir for git-hash-object Conflicts: hash-object.c --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index d9adce585a..1c57d4c958 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ git-core-*/?* gitk-wish gitweb/gitweb.cgi test-chmtime +test-ctype test-date test-delta test-dump-cache-tree @@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ test-match-trees test-parse-options test-path-utils test-sha1 +test-sigchain common-cmds.h *.tar.gz *.dsc 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/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index c34c1cae20..144ec32f12 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT)) prefix?=$(HOME) bindir?=$(prefix)/bin htmldir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc +pdfdir?=$(prefix)/share/doc/git-doc mandir?=$(prefix)/share/man man1dir=$(mandir)/man1 man5dir=$(mandir)/man5 @@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ infodir?=$(prefix)/share/info MAKEINFO=makeinfo INSTALL_INFO=install-info DOCBOOK2X_TEXI=docbook2x-texi +DBLATEX=dblatex ifndef PERL_PATH PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl endif @@ -87,6 +89,8 @@ man7: $(DOC_MAN7) info: git.info gitman.info +pdf: user-manual.pdf + install: install-man install-man: man @@ -107,6 +111,10 @@ install-info: info echo "No directory found in $(DESTDIR)$(infodir)" >&2 ; \ fi +install-pdf: pdf + $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir) + $(INSTALL) -m 644 user-manual.pdf $(DESTDIR)$(pdfdir) + install-html: html sh ./install-webdoc.sh $(DESTDIR)$(htmldir) @@ -187,17 +195,23 @@ git.info: user-manual.texi user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml $(RM) $@+ $@ - $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --to-stdout | $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+ + $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout | \ + $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+ + mv $@+ $@ + +user-manual.pdf: user-manual.xml + $(RM) $@+ $@ + $(DBLATEX) -o $@+ -p /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl -s /etc/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty $< mv $@+ $@ gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl $(RM) $@+ $@ - ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --to-stdout $(xml);)) | \ - $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+ + ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \ + --to-stdout $(xml);)) | $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+ mv $@+ $@ gitman.info: gitman.texi - $(MAKEINFO) --no-split $*.texi + $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --no-validate $*.texi $(patsubst %.txt,%.texi,$(MAN_TXT)): %.texi : %.xml $(RM) $@+ $@ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt index f6393f8a94..7bfa341750 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2.1 correctly when the branch name had slash in it. - The email address of the user specified with user.email - configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable. + configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable. - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt index 7a9646fc4f..51b32f5d94 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1 * Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were broken in 1.6.0.1. -* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto +* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not work well. * In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c594ba02f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +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. + +* "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 conflicts. + +* "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree. + +* "git mv -k" with more than one erroneous 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. + +* "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..be37cbb858 --- /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 detection in internal diff used by commands like + "git diff" and "git blame" has 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-1.6.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6f0bde156a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1.2 +-------------------- + +* "git diff --binary | git apply" pipeline did not work well when + a binary blob is changed to a symbolic link. + +* Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did + not work as expected. + +* "git grep" did not pass the -I (ignore binary) option when + calling out an external grep program. + +* "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 mv" to move an untracked file to overwrite a tracked + contents misbehaved. + +* "git merge -s octopus" with many potential merge bases did not + work correctly. + +* RPM binary package installed the html manpages in a wrong place. + +Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. + + +-- +git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.2-33-gc789350.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a9f1a6b8b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1.3 +-------------------- + +* "git fast-export" produced wrong output with some parents missing from + commits, when the history is clock-skewed. + +* "git fast-import" sometimes failed to read back objects it just wrote + out and aborted, because it failed to flush stale cached data. + +* "git repack" did not error out when necessary object was missing in the + repository. + +Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. + +-- +git shortlog --no-merges v1.6.1.3.. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a2d3bf849 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad060f4f89 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + + +Updates since v1.6.1 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +* git-svn updates. + +* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed + improvements. + +* (contrib/emacs) git.el now has commands for checking out a branch, + creating a branch, cherry-picking and reverting commits; vc-git.el + is not shipped with git anymore (it is part of official Emacs). + +(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 and acts as if you typed the branch name. + E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}", "git merge @{-1}", and + "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}" would work as expected. + +* When refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points at a remote tracking branch that + has been pruned away, many git operations issued warning when they + internally enumerated the refs. We now warn only when you say "origin" + to refer to that pruned branch. + +* The location of .mailmap file can be configured, and its file format was + enhanced to allow mapping an incorrect e-mail field as well. + +* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk. + +* "git add -p" learned to find a hunk with given text with '/'. + +* "git add -p" optionally can be told to work with just the command letter + without Enter. + +* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the + title of the offending patch. + +* "git am --directory=" and "git am --reject" passes these options + to underlying "git apply". + +* "git am" learned --ignore-date option. + +* "git blame" aligns author names better when they are spelled in + non US-ASCII encoding. + +* "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 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 cvsserver" learned to handle 'noop' command some CVS clients seem + to expect to work. + +* "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. + +* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits + that do not change the contents. + +* "git fsck" now checks loose objects in alternate object stores, instead + of misreporting them as missing. + +* "git gc --prune" was resurrected to allow "git gc --no-prune" and + giving non-default expiration period e.g. "git gc --prune=now". + +* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. + +* "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. + +* "git submodule update" learned --no-fetch option. + +* "git tag" learned --contains that works the same way as the same option + from "git branch". + + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.1.X series. + +* "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. + +* "git filter-branch" unnecessarily refused to work when you had + checked out a different commit from what is recorded in the superproject + index in a submodule. + +* "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree + at the end when it is run in a bare repository. + +* "git gc" did not work if your repository was created with an ancient git + and never had any pack files in it before. + +* "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes + based content rewriting. + +* branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate + the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is + clean. + +* "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state + when killed in the middle. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2ab2328316 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +GIT v1.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is +currently checked out will be refused by default. You can choose +what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration +variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository. + +To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a +push running this release will issue a big warning when the +configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: + + http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + +for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the +transition plan. + +For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch +$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current +branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what +should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable +receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository. + + +Updates since v1.6.2 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +(performance) + +(usability, bells and whistles) + + +Fixes since v1.6.2 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.2.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to +v1.6.2.X series. + diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index ba07c8c571..8d818a2160 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -376,9 +376,36 @@ Thunderbird (A Large Angry SCM) +By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as flag them as +being 'format=flowed', both of which will make the resulting email unusable +by git. + Here are some hints on how to successfully submit patches inline using Thunderbird. +There are two different approaches. One approach is to configure +Thunderbird to not mangle patches. The second approach is to use +an external editor to keep Thunderbird from mangling the patches. + +Approach #1 (configuration): + +This recipe is current as of Thunderbird 2.0.0.19. Three steps: + 1. Configure your mail server composition as plain text + Edit...Account Settings...Composition & Addressing, + uncheck 'Compose Messages in HTML'. + 2. Configure your general composition window to not wrap + Edit..Preferences..Composition, wrap plain text messages at 0 + 3. Disable the use of format=flowed + Edit..Preferences..Advanced..Config Editor. Search for: + mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed + toggle it to make sure it is set to 'false'. + +After that is done, you should be able to compose email as you +otherwise would (cut + paste, git-format-patch | git-imap-send, etc), +and the patches should not be mangled. + +Approach #2 (external editor): + This recipe appears to work with the current [*1*] Thunderbird from Suse. The following Thunderbird extensions are needed: @@ -464,6 +491,12 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send. Gmail ----- +GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web +interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send. You can however +use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward +the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that +email client. Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead. + Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: @@ -476,6 +509,9 @@ account settings: port = 993 sslverify = false +You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error +that the "Folder doesn't exist". + Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked. @@ -486,3 +522,4 @@ command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder. Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill in the To: and CC: fields and send away! + diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 1ab1b96cf9..df2a7c1641 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by . -S :: Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. +--reverse:: + 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. + -p:: --porcelain:: Show in a format designed for machine consumption. @@ -67,7 +74,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by . Detect moving lines in the file as well. When a commit moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and - then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames + then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A) to the child commit. With this option, both groups of lines @@ -83,8 +90,8 @@ commit. files that were modified in the same commit. This is useful when you reorganize your program and move code around across files. When this option is given twice, - the command looks for copies from all other files in the - parent for the commit that creates the file in addition. + the command additionally looks for copies from all other + files in the parent for the commit that creates the file. + is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl index dbc133cd3c..828ec62554 100755 --- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl +++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl @@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ printf '\input texinfo @setfilename gitman.info -@documentencoding us-ascii -@node Top,,%s +@documentencoding UTF-8 +@dircategory Development +@direntry +* Git Man Pages: (gitman). Manual pages for Git revision control system +@end direntry +@node Top,,, (dir) @top Git Manual Pages @documentlanguage en @menu diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 52786c7df5..f5152c5038 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -556,8 +556,8 @@ color.interactive:: color.interactive.:: Use customized color for 'git-add --interactive' - output. `` may be `prompt`, `header`, or `help`, for - three distinct types of normal output from interactive + output. `` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for + four distinct types of normal output from interactive programs. The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.. @@ -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]. @@ -988,6 +1000,13 @@ instaweb.port:: The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. +interactive.singlekey:: + In interactive programs, allow the user to provide one-letter + input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter). + Currently this is used only by the `\--patch` mode of + linkgit:git-add[1]. Note that this setting is silently + ignored if portable keystroke input is not available. + log.date:: Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date value is similar to using 'git-log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the @@ -1000,6 +1019,14 @@ log.showroot:: Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default. +mailmap.file:: + The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default + mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded + first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable. + The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository + subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself. + See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. + man.viewer:: Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. @@ -1044,6 +1071,16 @@ mergetool.keepBackup:: is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to `true` (i.e. keep the backup files). +mergetool.keepTemporaries:: + When invoking a custom merge tool, git uses a set of temporary + files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this + variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be + preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has + exited. Defaults to `false`. + +mergetool.prompt:: + Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. + pack.window:: The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c62b45cdba..813a7b11b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] -p:: +-u:: Generate patch (see section on generating patches). {git-diff? This is the default.} endif::git-format-patch[] --u:: - Synonym for "-p". - -U:: - Shorthand for "--unified=". - --unified=:: Generate diffs with lines of context instead of the usual three. Implies "-p". @@ -40,6 +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". @@ -95,8 +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[=]:: + Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed. + By default, words are separated by whitespace. ++ +When a is specified, every non-overlapping match of the + 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 @@ -120,7 +133,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --abbrev[=]:: 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=. @@ -190,30 +203,28 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] can name which subdirectory to make the output relative to by giving a as an argument. +-a:: --text:: Treat all files as text. --a:: - Shorthand for "--text". - --ignore-space-at-eol:: Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. +-b:: --ignore-space-change:: Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent. --b:: - Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change". - +-w:: --ignore-all-space:: Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none. --w:: - Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space". +--inter-hunk-context=:: + Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number + of lines, thereby fusing hunks that are close to each other. --exit-code:: Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 7c129cb24f..ce71838b9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt ------------ + Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this -example; this lets the command to include the files from +example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. * Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts: @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. $ git add git-*.sh ------------ + -Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are +Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`. @@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ one deletion). update:: - This shows the status information and gives prompt - "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can + This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>" + prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is @@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ add untracked:: patch:: - This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection. - After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index + This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection. + After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage the change of each hunk. You can say: @@ -263,13 +263,6 @@ diff:: This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between HEAD and index). -Bugs ----- -The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain -characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be -used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash, -double-quote and control characters will still have problems. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-status[1] diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index b9c6fac748..1e71dd536b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git am' [--signoff] [--keep] [--utf8 | --no-utf8] - [--3way] [--interactive] - [--whitespace=