From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 17:50:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff' X-Git-Tag: v1.7.6-rc0~104 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/9fdc1cc872308869d76665be55367eef48f05ff6?hp=c192f9c865dbdae48c0400d717581d34cd315fb8 Merge branch 'aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff' * aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff: git-rebase--interactive.sh: preserve-merges fails on merges created with no-ff Conflicts: git-rebase--interactive.sh --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 3dd6ef7d25..711fce7e08 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ /git-fast-export /git-fast-import /git-fetch -/git-fetch--tool /git-fetch-pack /git-filter-branch /git-fmt-merge-msg @@ -102,12 +101,13 @@ /git-quiltimport /git-read-tree /git-rebase +/git-rebase--am /git-rebase--interactive +/git-rebase--merge /git-receive-pack /git-reflog /git-relink /git-remote -/git-remote-curl /git-remote-http /git-remote-https /git-remote-ftp @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ /test-index-version /test-line-buffer /test-match-trees +/test-mktemp /test-obj-pool /test-parse-options /test-path-utils diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6ebd76d19 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git v1.7.5.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.5 +------------------ + + * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the + subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in, + git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use + the full path from the root of the working tree. + + * The "--date=relative" output format used to say "X years, 12 months" + when it should have said "X+1 years". + + * The smart-HTTP transfer was broken in 1.7.5 when the client needs + to issue a small POST (which uses content-length) and then a large + POST (which uses chunked) back to back. + + * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable, + even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it + as the last resort. + + * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally + ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a + change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change. + + * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the + pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result, + when renames are involved. + + * "git pack-object" did not take core.bigfilethreashold into account + (unlike fast-import); now it does. + + * "git reflog" ignored options like "--format=.." on the command line. + + * "git stash apply" used to refuse to work if there was any change in + the working tree, even when the change did not overlap with the change + the stash recorded. + + * "git stash apply @{99999}" was not diagnosed as an error, even when you + did not have that many stash entries. + + * An error message from "git send-email" to diagnose a broken SMTP + connection configuration lacked a space between "hello=" + and "port=". + +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..987919c321 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +Git v1.7.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.4 +-------------------- + + * Various MinGW portability fixes. + + * Various git-p4 enhancements (in contrib). + + * Various vcs-svn, git-svn and gitk enhancements and fixes. + + * Various git-gui updates (0.14.0). + + * Update to more modern HP-UX port. + + * The codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n; no translated + strings nor translation mechanism in the code yet, but the strings + are being marked for l10n. + + * The bash completion script can now complete symmetric difference + for "git diff" command, e.g. "git diff ...bra". + + * The default minimum length of abbreviated and unique object names + can now be configured by setting the core.abbrev configuration + variable. + + * "git apply -v" reports offset lines when the patch does not apply at + the exact location recorded in the diff output. + + * "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 fetch" vs "git upload-pack" transfer learned 'no-done' + protocol extension to save one round-trip after the content + negotiation is done. This saves one HTTP RPC, reducing the overall + latency for a trivial fetch. + + * "git fetch" can be told to recursively fetch submodules on-demand. + + * "git grep -f " learned to treat "-" as "read from the + standard input stream". + + * "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning + paths outside the specified area. + + * "git init" learned the --separate-git-dir option to allow the git + directory for a new repository created elsewhere and linked via the + gitdir mechanism. This is primarily to help submodule support later + to switch between a branch of superproject that has the submodule + and another that does not. + + * "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You + can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example. + + * "git log" family of commands learned --cherry and --cherry-mark + options that can be used to view two diverged branches while omitting + or highlighting equivalent changes that appear on both sides of a + symmetric difference (e.g. "log --cherry A...B"). + + * A lazy "git merge" that didn't say what to merge used to be an error. + When run on a branch that has an upstream defined, however, the command + now merges from the configured upstream. + + * "git mergetool" learned how to drive "beyond compare 3" as well. + + * "git rerere forget" without pathspec used to forget all the saved + conflicts that relate to the current merge; it now requires you to + give it pathspecs. + + * "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. + + * A possible value to the "push.default" configuration variable, + 'tracking', gained a synonym that more naturally describes what it + does, 'upstream'. + + * "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. + +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. + + * "git fetch" from a client that is mostly following the remote + needlessly told all of its refs to the server for both sides to + compute the set of objects that need to be transferred efficiently, + instead of stopping when the server heard enough. In a project with + many tags, this turns out to be extremely wasteful, especially over + the smart HTTP transport (sp/maint-{upload,fetch}-pack-stop-early~1). + + * "git fetch" run from a repository that uses the same repository as + its alternate object store as the repository it is fetching from + did not tell the server that it already has access to objects + reachable from the refs in their common alternate object store, + causing it to fetch unnecessary objects (jc/maint-fetch-alt). + + * "git remote add --mirror" created a configuration that is suitable for + doing both a mirror fetch and a mirror push at the same time, which + made little sense. We now warn and require the command line to specify + either --mirror=fetch or --mirror=push. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9945ac9ef2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft) +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.5 +-------------------- + + * Various git-svn updates. + + * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait) + continues. + + * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=]" option to control the minimum + number of hexdigits shown for commit object names. + + * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when + there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls + back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths + under the rename detection limit. + + * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of + the names of generated files. + + * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the + "--show-notes" option. Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=" does + not imply showing the default notes. + + * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just + like the way "git checkout -" works. + + * "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked + commits separately, producing more a useful output. + + * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local + changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version. + + * Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of + the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in + a same tarball. + +Also contains various documentation updates. + + +Fixes since v1.7.5 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line. + (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later) + + * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename + source candidate, which made no sense. + (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later) + + * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a + nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output. + (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later) + + * "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the + email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano , not + From: "Junio C. Hamano" ). + (merge jk/format-patch-quote-special-in-from later) + + * "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully. + (merge jm/mergetool-submodules later) + + * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now + mean the same thing. + (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later) + + * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a + subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock. + (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later) + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +echo O=$(git describe master) +O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c +git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c3b0816ed7..938eccf2a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ don't hide your real name. If you like, you can put extra tags at the end: -1. "Reported-by:" is used to to credit someone who found the bug that +1. "Reported-by:" is used to credit someone who found the bug that the patch attempts to fix. 2. "Acked-by:" says that the person who is more familiar with the area the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. @@ -344,50 +344,20 @@ MUA specific hints Some of patches I receive or pick up from the list share common patterns of breakage. Please make sure your MUA is set up -properly not to corrupt whitespaces. Here are two common ones -I have seen: +properly not to corrupt whitespaces. -* Empty context lines that do not have _any_ whitespace. +See the DISCUSSION section of git-format-patch(1) for hints on +checking your patch by mailing it to yourself and applying with +git-am(1). -* Non empty context lines that have one extra whitespace at the - beginning. - -One test you could do yourself if your MUA is set up correctly is: - -* Send the patch to yourself, exactly the way you would, except - To: and Cc: lines, which would not contain the list and - maintainer address. - -* Save that patch to a file in UNIX mailbox format. Call it say - a.patch. - -* Try to apply to the tip of the "master" branch from the - git.git public repository: - - $ git fetch http://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master:test-apply - $ git checkout test-apply - $ git reset --hard - $ git am a.patch - -If it does not apply correctly, there can be various reasons. - -* Your patch itself does not apply cleanly. That is _bad_ but - does not have much to do with your MUA. Please rebase the - patch appropriately. - -* Your MUA corrupted your patch; "am" would complain that - the patch does not apply. Look at .git/rebase-apply/ subdirectory and - see what 'patch' file contains and check for the common - corruption patterns mentioned above. - -* While you are at it, check what are in 'info' and - 'final-commit' files as well. If what is in 'final-commit' is - not exactly what you would want to see in the commit log - message, it is very likely that your maintainer would end up - hand editing the log message when he applies your patch. - Things like "Hi, this is my first patch.\n", if you really - want to put in the patch e-mail, should come after the - three-dash line that signals the end of the commit message. +While you are at it, check the resulting commit log message from +a trial run of applying the patch. If what is in the resulting +commit is not exactly what you would want to see, it is very +likely that your maintainer would end up hand editing the log +message when he applies your patch. Things like "Hi, this is my +first patch.\n", if you really want to put in the patch e-mail, +should come after the three-dash line that signals the end of the +commit message. Pine @@ -443,89 +413,10 @@ that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the it. -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: - AboutConfig 0.5 - http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/ - External Editor 0.7.2 - http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=8 - -1) Prepare the patch as a text file using your method of choice. - -2) Before opening a compose window, use Edit->Account Settings to -uncheck the "Compose messages in HTML format" setting in the -"Composition & Addressing" panel of the account to be used to send the -patch. [*2*] - -3) In the main Thunderbird window, _before_ you open the compose window -for the patch, use Tools->about:config to set the following to the -indicated values: - mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed => false - mailnews.wraplength => 0 - -4) Open a compose window and click the external editor icon. - -5) In the external editor window, read in the patch file and exit the -editor normally. - -6) Back in the compose window: Add whatever other text you wish to the -message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send. - -7) Optionally, undo the about:config/account settings changes made in -steps 2 & 3. +Thunderbird, KMail, GMail +------------------------- - -[Footnotes] -*1* Version 1.0 (20041207) from the MozillaThunderbird-1.0-5 rpm of Suse -9.3 professional updates. - -*2* It may be possible to do this with about:config and the following -settings but I haven't tried, yet. - mail.html_compose => false - mail.identity.default.compose_html => false - mail.identity.id?.compose_html => false - -(Lukas Sandström) - -There is a script in contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline which can help -you include patches with Thunderbird in an easy way. To use it, do the -steps above and then use the script as the external editor. +See the MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS section of git-format-patch(1). Gnus ---- @@ -540,72 +431,3 @@ characters (most notably in people's names), and also whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running 'C-u g' to display the message in raw form before using '|' to run the pipe can work this problem around. - - -KMail ------ - -This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail. - -1) Prepare the patch as a text file. - -2) Click on New Mail. - -3) Go under "Options" in the Composer window and be sure that -"Word wrap" is not set. - -4) Use Message -> Insert file... and insert the patch. - -5) Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the -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 "git send-email" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, or -use any IMAP email client to connect to the google IMAP server and forward -the emails through that. - -To use "git send-email" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, -edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: - -[sendemail] - smtpencryption = tls - smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com - smtpuser = user@gmail.com - smtppass = p4ssw0rd - smtpserverport = 587 - -Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the -following commands: - - $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ - $ edit outgoing/0000-* - $ git send-email outgoing/* - -To submit using the IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your -account settings: - -[imap] - folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" - host = imaps://imap.gmail.com - user = user@gmail.com - pass = p4ssw0rd - 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". - -Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the -following commands: - - $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send - -Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (GMail web -interface will line wrap no matter what, so you need to use a real -IMAP client). - diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6babbc7837..c96aec10d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -442,8 +442,6 @@ for most projects as source code and other text files can still be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. -+ -Currently only linkgit:git-fast-import[1] honors this setting. core.excludesfile:: In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and @@ -589,6 +587,8 @@ it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory. +'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix' +from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. am.keepcr:: If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ branch..remote:: branch..merge:: Defines, together with branch..remote, the upstream branch - for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull' which + for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which branch to merge and can also affect 'git push' (see push.default). When in branch , it tells 'git fetch' the default refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is @@ -708,9 +708,16 @@ second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, doesn't matter. color.diff:: - When set to `always`, always use colors in patch. - When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use - colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false. + Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. + If this is set to `always`, linkgit:git-diff[1], + linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit:git-show[1] will use color + for all patches. If it is set to `true` or `auto`, those + commands will only use color when output is to the terminal. + Defaults to false. ++ +This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] nor the +'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the +command line with the `--color[=]` option. color.diff.:: Use customized color for diff colorization. `` specifies @@ -796,11 +803,15 @@ color.status.:: color.branch.. color.ui:: - When set to `always`, always use colors in all git commands which - are capable of colored output. When false (or `never`), never. When - set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is to the - terminal. When more specific variables of color.* are set, they always - take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false. + This variable determines the default value for variables such + as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color + per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn + configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it + to `always` if you want all output not intended for machine + consumption to use color, to `true` or `auto` if you want such + output to use color when written to the terminal, or to `false` or + `never` if you prefer git commands not to use color unless enabled + explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option. commit.status:: A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the @@ -812,68 +823,7 @@ commit.template:: "{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's home directory. -diff.autorefreshindex:: - When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree - files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. - Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to - update the cached stat information for paths whose - contents in the work tree match the contents in the - index. This option defaults to true. Note that this - affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level - 'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'. - -diff.external:: - If this config variable is set, diff generation is not - performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the - given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' - environment variable. The command is called with parameters - as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if - you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of - your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead. - -diff.mnemonicprefix:: - If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the - standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When - this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps - the order of the prefixes: -`git diff`;; - compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree; -`git diff HEAD`;; - compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree; -`git diff --cached`;; - compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex; -`git diff HEAD:file1 file2`;; - compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity; -`git diff --no-index a b`;; - compares two non-git things (1) and (2). - -diff.noprefix:: - If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. - -diff.renameLimit:: - The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename - detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'. - -diff.renames:: - Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it - will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or - "copy", it will detect copies, as well. - -diff.ignoreSubmodules:: - Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this - affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' - commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors - this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. - -diff.suppressBlankEmpty:: - A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space - before each empty output line. Defaults to false. - -diff.tool:: - Controls which diff tool is used. `diff.tool` overrides - `merge.tool` when used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] and has - the same valid values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge" - and plus "kompare". +include::diff-config.txt[] difftool..path:: Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case @@ -897,9 +847,13 @@ diff.wordRegex:: characters are *ignorable* whitespace. fetch.recurseSubmodules:: - A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the - default is to not recursively fetch populated submodules unless - configured otherwise. + This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. + Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to + unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not + recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default + value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule + when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference. fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native @@ -973,6 +927,16 @@ format.signoff:: the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. +filter..clean:: + The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree + file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for + details. + +filter..smudge:: + The command which is used to convert the content of a blob + object to a worktree file upon checkout. See + linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + gc.aggressiveWindow:: The window size parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults @@ -1098,6 +1062,12 @@ All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given access method. +grep.lineNumber:: + If set to true, enable '-n' option by default. + +grep.extendedRegexp:: + If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. + gui.commitmsgwidth:: Defines how wide the commit message window is in the linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default. @@ -1817,7 +1787,7 @@ submodule..update:: linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. submodule..fetchRecurseSubmodules:: - This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this + This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull". This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2b1605f5c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +diff.autorefreshindex:: + When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree + files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. + Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to + update the cached stat information for paths whose + contents in the work tree match the contents in the + index. This option defaults to true. Note that this + affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level + 'diff' commands such as 'git diff-files'. + +diff.external:: + If this config variable is set, diff generation is not + performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the + given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' + environment variable. The command is called with parameters + as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if + you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of + your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead. + +diff.ignoreSubmodules:: + Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this + affects only 'git diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' + commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors + this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. + +diff.mnemonicprefix:: + If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the + standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When + this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps + the order of the prefixes: +`git diff`;; + compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree; +`git diff HEAD`;; + compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree; +`git diff --cached`;; + compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex; +`git diff HEAD:file1 file2`;; + compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity; +`git diff --no-index a b`;; + compares two non-git things (1) and (2). + +diff.noprefix:: + If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. + +diff.renameLimit:: + The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename + detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'. + +diff.renames:: + Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it + will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or + "copy", it will detect copies, as well. + +diff.suppressBlankEmpty:: + A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space + before each empty output line. Defaults to false. + +diff..command:: + The custom diff driver command. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] + for details. + +diff..xfuncname:: + The regular expression that the diff driver should use to + recognize the hunk header. A built-in pattern may also be used. + See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + +diff..binary:: + Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as + binary. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + +diff..textconv:: + The command that the diff driver should call to generate the + text-converted version of a file. The result of the + conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See + linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + +diff..wordregex:: + The regular expression that the diff driver should use to + split words in a line. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for + details. + +diff..cachetextconv:: + Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text + conversion outputs. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. + +diff.tool:: + The diff tool to be used by linkgit:git-difftool[1]. This + option overrides `merge.tool`, and has the same valid built-in + values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge" and plus + "kompare". Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool, + and there must be a corresponding `difftool..cmd` + option. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c93124be79..9ca565d708 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent can be set with `--dirstat=`. Changes in a child directory are not counted for the parent directory, unless `--cumulative` is used. ++ +Note that the `--dirstat` option computes the changes while ignoring +the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words, +rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. --dirstat-by-file[=]:: Same as `--dirstat`, but counts changed files instead of lines. @@ -120,12 +124,19 @@ any of those replacements occurred. --color[=]:: Show colored diff. - The value must be always (the default), never, or auto. + The value must be `always` (the default for ``), `never`, or `auto`. + The default value is `never`. +ifdef::git-diff[] + It can be changed by the `color.ui` and `color.diff` + configuration settings. +endif::git-diff[] --no-color:: - Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file - gives the default to color output. - Same as `--color=never`. + Turn off colored diff. +ifdef::git-diff[] + This can be used to override configuration settings. +endif::git-diff[] + It is the same as `--color=never`. --word-diff[=]:: Show a word diff, using the to delimit changed words. @@ -239,7 +250,7 @@ ifdef::git-log[] For following files across renames while traversing history, see `--follow`. endif::git-log[] - If `n` is specified, it is a is a threshold on the similarity + If `n` is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the file's size). For example, `-M90%` means git should consider a delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file @@ -259,6 +270,19 @@ endif::git-log[] projects, so use it with caution. Giving more than one `-C` option has the same effect. +-D:: +--irreversible-delete:: + Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not + the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch + is not meant to be applied with `patch` nor `git apply`; this is + solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the + text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack + enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually, + hence the name of the option. ++ +When used together with `-B`, omit also the preimage in the deletion part +of a delete/create pair. + -l:: The `-M` and `-C` options require O(n^2) processing time where n is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index f37276e5ad..39d326abc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -65,14 +65,33 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] specified with the remote..tagopt setting. See linkgit:git-config[1]. ---[no-]recurse-submodules:: - This option controls if new commits of all populated submodules should - be fetched too (see linkgit:git-config[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5]). +--recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: + This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of + populated submodules should be fetched too. It can be used as a + boolean option to completely disable recursion when set to 'no' or to + unconditionally recurse into all populated submodules when set to + 'yes', which is the default when this option is used without any + value. Use 'on-demand' to only recurse into a populated submodule + when the superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + reference to a commit that isn't already in the local submodule + clone. + +--no-recurse-submodules:: + Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as + using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option). --submodule-prefix=:: Prepend to paths printed in informative messages such as "Fetching submodule foo". This option is used internally when recursing over submodules. + +--recurse-submodules-default=[yes|on-demand]:: + This option is used internally to temporarily provide a + non-negative default value for the --recurse-submodules + option. All other methods of configuring fetch's submodule + recursion (such as settings in linkgit:gitmodules[5] and + linkgit:git-config[1]) override this option, as does + specifying --[no-]recurse-submodules directly. endif::git-pull[] -u:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index a03448f923..35cb5d3f64 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ subdirectories. If some files could not be added because of errors indexing them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status. + The configuration variable `add.ignoreErrors` can be set to + true to make this the default behaviour. --ignore-missing:: This option can only be used together with --dry-run. By using @@ -378,14 +380,6 @@ 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 4d37de639d..6b1b5af64e 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 2dcfc097d3..afd2c9ae59 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -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 66943fdf83..9c750e2444 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -154,14 +154,6 @@ 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 c443e0f307..7b7bafba0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -342,14 +342,6 @@ $ git bisect run sh -c "make || exit 125; ~/check_test_case.sh" This shows that you can do without a run script if you write the test 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..bb8edb4abc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m] - [-S ] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=] + [-S ] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=] [--abbrev=] [ | --contents | --reverse ] [--] DESCRIPTION @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ include::blame-options.txt[] Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and the child's to find where the lines came from. +--abbrev=:: + Instead of using the default 7+1 hexadecimal digits as the + abbreviated object name, use +1 digits. Note that 1 column + is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit. + THE PORCELAIN FORMAT -------------------- @@ -198,10 +203,6 @@ 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=