From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:24:27 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'ss/mergetool--lib' X-Git-Tag: v1.7.5-rc0~56 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/9d59e6607a597a0a934566bfa547b45c7b57822c?hp=ffe6dc081aa23d56e6306d143d99ca508db38c5e Merge branch 'ss/mergetool--lib' * ss/mergetool--lib: mergetool--lib: Add Beyond Compare 3 as a tool mergetool--lib: Sort tools alphabetically for easier lookup --- diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index ba2006d892..fe1c1e5bc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Writing Documentation: when writing or modifying command usage strings and synopsis sections in the manual pages: - Placeholders are enclosed in angle brackets: + Placeholders are spelled in lowercase and enclosed in angle brackets: --sort= --abbrev[=] diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..afb387161b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Git v1.7.4.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.4.1 +-------------------- + + * Many documentation updates to match "git cmd -h" output and the + git-cmd manual page. + + * "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly. + + * "git commit" did not correctly error out when the user asked to use a + non existent file as the commit message template. + + * "git diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines, + which was nonsensical. + + * "git diff -M" opportunistically detected copies, which was not + necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by + recursive merge. + + * "git difftool" didn't tell (g)vimdiff that the files it is reading are + to be opened read-only. + + * "git merge" didn't pay attention to prepare-commit-msg hook, even + though if a merge is conflicted and manually resolved, the subsequent + "git commit" would have triggered the hook, which was inconsistent. + + * "git patch-id" (and commands like "format-patch --ignore-in-upstream" + that use it as their internal logic) handled changes to files that end + with incomplete lines incorrectly. + + * The official value to tell "git push" to push the current branch back + to update the upstream branch it forked from is now called "upstream". + The old name "tracking" is and will be supported. + + * gitweb's "highlight" interface mishandled tabs. + + * gitweb had a few forward-incompatible syntactic constructs and + also used incorrect variable when showing the file mode in a diff. + +And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bb0eb40af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +Git v1.7.5 Release Notes (draft) +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.4 +-------------------- + + * Various MinGW portability fixes. + + * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib). + + * Various vcs-svn enhancements. + + * Update to more modern HP-UX port. + + * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at + the exact location recorded in the diff output. + + * "git branch --track" (and "git checkout --track --branch") used to + allow setting up a random non-branch that does not make sense to follow + as the "upstream". The command correctly diagnoses it as an error. + + * "git config" used to be also known as "git repo-config", but the old + name is now officially deprecated. + + * "git checkout --detach " is a more user friendly synonym for + "git checkout ^0". + + * "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and + advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from + any branch or tag. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge + strategy, similar to "git rebase". + + * "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is + stopped by conflicts, making it unnecessary to use "commit -c $commit" + to conclude it. + + * "git cvsimport" bails out immediately when the cvs server cannot be + reached, without spewing unnecessary error messages that complain about + the server response it never got. + + * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning + paths outside the specified area. + + * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You + can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + + * "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed + in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow + clones. + + * "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when + "tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote + configured yet. + + * "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to + "status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to + rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as + resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been + updated to use this facility. + + * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable, + 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it + does, 'upstream'. + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.4 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in the v1.7.4.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + + * We used to keep one file descriptor open for each and every packfile + that we have a mmap window on it (read: "in use"), even when for very + tiny packfiles. We now close the file descriptor early when the entire + packfile fits inside one mmap window. + + * "git apply" used to confuse lines updated by previous hunks as lines + that existed before when applying a hunk, contributing misapplication + of patches with offsets. + + * "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links + in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths + under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink). + + * "git submodule update" used to honor the --merge/--rebase option (or + corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned + subproject, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time). + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.7.4.1-291-g01de349 +echo O=$(git describe 'master') +git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 72741ebda1..c3b0816ed7 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): description (50 characters is the soft limit, see DISCUSSION in git-commit(1)), and should skip the full stop - the body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: - - uses the imperative, present tense: "change", - not "changed" or "changes". - - includes motivation for the change, and contrasts - its implementation with previous behaviour + . explains the problem the change tries to solve, iow, what + is wrong with the current code without the change. + . justifies the way the change solves the problem, iow, why + the result with the change is better. + . alternate solutions considered but discarded, if any. + - describe changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" + instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed + xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase + to change its behaviour. + - try to make sure your explanation can be understood without + external resources. Instead of giving a URL to a mailing list + archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion. - add a "Signed-off-by: Your Name " line to the commit message (or just use the option "-s" when committing) to confirm that you agree to the Developer's Certificate of Origin @@ -90,7 +98,10 @@ your commit head. Instead, always make a commit with complete commit message and generate a series of patches from your repository. It is a good discipline. -Describe the technical detail of the change(s). +Give an explanation for the change(s) that is detailed enough so +that people can judge if it is good thing to do, without reading +the actual patch text to determine how well the code does what +the explanation promises to do. If your description starts to get too long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your commit to finer grained pieces. @@ -99,9 +110,8 @@ help reviewers check the patch, and future maintainers understand the code, are the most beautiful patches. Descriptions that summarise the point in the subject well, and describe the motivation for the change, the approach taken by the change, and if relevant how this -differs substantially from the prior version, can be found on Usenet -archives back into the late 80's. Consider it like good Netiquette, -but for code. +differs substantially from the prior version, are all good things +to have. Oh, another thing. I am picky about whitespaces. Make sure your changes do not trigger errors with the sample pre-commit hook shipped diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c5e183516a..701fba92dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -376,15 +376,6 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. -core.abbrevguard:: - Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show - an abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are - added to the repository over time, a short name that used to be - unique will stop being unique. Git uses this many extra hexdigits - that are more than necessary to make the object name currently - unique, in the hope that its output will stay unique a bit longer. - Defaults to 0. - core.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, @@ -1591,7 +1582,8 @@ push.default:: * `matching` - push all matching branches. All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be matching. This is the default. -* `tracking` - push the current branch to its upstream branch. +* `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch. +* `tracking` - deprecated synonym for `upstream`. * `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name. rebase.stat:: diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 3ac2beac62..c57460c03d 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -74,10 +74,13 @@ separate lines indicate the old and the new mode. combined diff format -------------------- -"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or -'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff'. For showing a merge commit -with "git log -p", this is the default format; you can force showing -full diff with the '-m' option. +Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or `--cc` option to +produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default +format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or +linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m' option to any +of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents +of a merge. + A 'combined diff' format looks like this: ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index a03448f923..7eebbefe7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -378,14 +378,6 @@ linkgit:git-mv[1] linkgit:git-commit[1] linkgit:git-update-index[1] -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 51297d09ec..621b720091 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -189,15 +189,6 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-apply[1]. - -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Petr Baudis, Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt index 0590eec056..9eb75c37da 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt @@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-blame[1] -AUTHOR ------- -Written by Ryan Anderson . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 881652f490..afd2c9ae59 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to files. With the `--index` option the patch is also applied to the index, and -with the `--cache` option the patch is only applied to the index. +with the `--cached` option the patch is only applied to the index. Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files, and does not require them to be in a git repository. @@ -246,20 +246,10 @@ If `--index` is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-am[1]. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index 2411ce5bfe..f4504ba9bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -107,14 +107,6 @@ OPTIONS Archive/branch identifier in a format that `tla log` understands. -Author ------- -Written by Martin Langhoff . - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano, Martin Langhoff and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index bf5037ab2a..f2b8684596 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -153,14 +153,6 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitattributes[5] -Author ------- -Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe. - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index c39d957c3a..4b4b096ce5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -241,7 +241,12 @@ exit(3) manual page), as the value is chopped with "& 0377". The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code cannot be tested. If the script exits with this code, the current -revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). +revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). 125 was chosen +as the highest sensible value to use for this purpose, because 126 and 127 +are used by POSIX shells to signal specific error status (127 is for +command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable---these +details do not matter, as they are normal errors in the script, as far as +"bisect run" is concerned). You may often find that during a bisect session you want to have temporary modifications (e.g. s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a @@ -322,14 +327,6 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" + Does the same as the previous example, but on a single line. -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds - -Documentation -------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - SEE ALSO -------- link:git-bisect-lk2009.html[Fighting regressions with git bisect], diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index c71671b4f9..c4d1ff86c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -198,10 +198,6 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-annotate[1] -AUTHOR ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 9106d38e40..c50f189827 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -232,14 +232,6 @@ linkgit:git-remote[1], link:user-manual.html#what-is-a-branch[``Understanding history: What is a branch?''] in the Git User's Manual. -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds and Junio C Hamano - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index 299007b206..92b01ec25d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -201,10 +201,6 @@ You can also see what references it offers: $ git ls-remote mybundle ---------------- -Author ------- -Written by Mark Levedahl - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 544ba7ba21..2fb95bbd19 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -100,14 +100,6 @@ for each object specified on stdin that does not exist in the repository: SP missing LF ------------ -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 50824e3a2d..30eca6cee6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -86,15 +86,6 @@ SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:gitattributes[5]. - -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by James Bowes. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index 0c0a9c14bc..4d33e7be0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -172,18 +172,6 @@ $ git checkout-index --prefix=.merged- Makefile This will check out the currently cached copy of `Makefile` into the file `.merged-Makefile`. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds - - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, -Junio C Hamano and the git-list . - - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 880763d391..1063f69023 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [] +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] [] 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] ] [] 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=