From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:34:40 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'js/rebase-i-tests' X-Git-Tag: v2.10.0-rc0~80 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/c97268c822077ba414f90f6ba357fab170bb3986?hp=cbcd2cbd5942cc890c1a1125593e1108c3e6a077 Merge branch 'js/rebase-i-tests' A few tests that specifically target "git rebase -i" have been added. * js/rebase-i-tests: rebase -i: we allow extra spaces after fixup!/squash! rebase -i: demonstrate a bug with --autosquash t3404: add a test for the --gpg-sign option --- diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 5e98806c6c..320e33c327 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ * whitespace=!indent,trail,space -*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space +*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml index c2b76f9b7e..477c3d2efb 100644 --- a/.travis.yml +++ b/.travis.yml @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ addons: packages: - language-pack-is - git-svn + - apache2 env: global: @@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ env: - DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove - GIT_PROVE_OPTS="--timer --jobs 3 --state=failed,slow,save" - GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose --tee" + - GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true - GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=YesPlease # t9810 occasionally fails on Travis CI OS X # t9816 occasionally fails with "TAP out of sequence errors" on Travis CI OS X diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 7f4769a02c..4cd95da6b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -527,12 +527,13 @@ Writing Documentation: or commands: Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names, - configuration and environment variables) must be typeset in monospace (i.e. - wrapped with backticks): + branch names, configuration and environment variables) must be + typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped with backticks): `--pretty=oneline` `git rev-list` `remote.pushDefault` `GIT_DIR` + `HEAD` An environment variable must be prefixed with "$" only when referring to its value and not when referring to the variable itself, in this case there is diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt index 3853b3dec6..f9dfc27b33 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split as "git diff" output. - (merge 46e3d17 jk/add-i-diff-compact-heuristics later to maint). * "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook. @@ -53,7 +52,37 @@ UI, Workflows & Features draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative to the right border. - (merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint). + + * A careless invocation of "git send-email directory/" after editing + 0001-change.patch with an editor often ends up sending both + 0001-change.patch and its backup file, 0001-change.patch~, causing + embarrassment and a minor confusion. Detect such an input and + offer to skip the backup files when sending the patches out. + (merge 531220b jc/send-email-skip-backup later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could + eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the + submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt. + + * The output coloring scheme learned two new attributes, italic and + strike, in addition to existing bold, reverse, etc. + + * "git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a + command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it. + (merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint). + + * A couple of "git svn" updates. + + * More markings of messages for i18n, with updates to various tests + to pass GETTEXT_POISON tests. + + * "git archive" learned to handle files that are larger than 8GB and + commits far in the future than expressible by the traditional US-TAR + format. + (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint). + + * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to + specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -66,7 +95,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. - (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint). * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options API. @@ -92,19 +120,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up. - (merge b7410f6 km/fetch-do-not-free-remote-name later to maint). * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly. - (merge 43ec550 jk/bisect-show-tree later to maint). * Further preparatory clean-up for "worktree" feature continues. (merge 0409e0b nd/worktree-cleanup-post-head-protection later to maint). * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use GPG signature have been documented. - (merge cc6ee97 mg/signature-doc later to maint). * A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from @@ -116,6 +141,70 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status). (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint). + * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent + version of Git even when testing an older installed version. + + * The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the + data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths + used to always write to the standard output. As a preparatory step + to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these + codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE* + instead. + + * Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id + continues. + + * Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to + each ref that was fetched. + (merge bc437d1 nd/fetch-ref-summary later to maint). + + * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so + that "git diff -W" and friends would work better. + (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may + feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file() + helper function. + + * "git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its + temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/. + + * Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread + library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries; + recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we + mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not. + (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint). + + * When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains + a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object + that is referred to were reported with their 40-hex object names. + The command learned the "--name-objects" option to show the path to + the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt"). + + * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests. + (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint). + + * Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that + want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a + case for recent Mac OS X. The necessary symbols are often found in + libc on many modern systems and having -lrt on the command line, as + long as the library exists, had no effect, but when the platform + removes librt.a that is a different matter--having -lrt will break + the linkage. + + This change could be seen as a regression for those who do need to + specify -lrt, as they now specifically ask for NEEDS_LIBRT when + building. Hopefully they are in the minority these days. + + * Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable + backend series can land. + + * Error handling in the codepaths that updates refs has been + improved. + + * The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.) + has been revamped. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -132,18 +221,15 @@ notes for details). --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as "auto". - (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint). * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the bitmap index. - (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint). * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, which has been fixed. - (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint). * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, configuration variables and environment variables are consistently @@ -186,16 +272,13 @@ notes for details). that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream of the submodules are not prepared for. - (merge 18a74a0 sb/clone-shallow-passthru later to maint). * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}' to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes. - (merge 01247e0 lc/shell-default-value-noexpand later to maint). * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C functions that do not take any parameters, which has been corrected. - (merge 0767172 js/mingw-parameter-less-c-functions later to maint). * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a @@ -207,22 +290,139 @@ notes for details). * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802). - (merge d2addc3 ak/t7800-wo-readlink later to maint). * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it is updated to "gtime" on Darwin. - (merge e3efa94 js/perf-on-apple later to maint). * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for paths that are _inside_. - (merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint). + + * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the + documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. + Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html + instead. + + * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and + finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is + commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank + lines to match. + (merge 054a5ae js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks later to maint). + + * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our + colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on + Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years. + (merge 3d0a833 js/color-on-windows-comment later to maint). + + * "gc.autoPackLimit" when set to 1 should not trigger a repacking + when there is only one pack, but the code counted poorly and did + so. + (merge 5f4e3bf ew/gc-auto-pack-limit-fix later to maint). + + * Add a test to specify the desired behaviour that currently is not + available in "git rebase -Xsubtree=...". + (merge 5f35900 dg/subtree-rebase-test later to maint). + + * More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to + literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font. + (merge 661c3e9 mm/doc-tt later to maint). + + * "git commit --amend --allow-empty-message -S" for a commit without + any message body could have misidentified where the header of the + commit object ends. + (merge 3324dd8 js/sign-empty-commit-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i --autostash" did not restore the auto-stashed change + when the operation was aborted. + (merge 33ba9c6 ps/rebase-i-auto-unstash-upon-abort later to maint). + + * Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a + path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not + show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that + logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working + tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected. + (merge b8e47d1 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file. + (merge 17a07e2 dk/blame-move-no-reason-for-1-line-context later to maint). + + * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel + submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and + could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner + case condition. + (merge d751dd1 sb/submodule-parallel-fetch later to maint). + + * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales + correctly. + (merge 695f95b nd/icase later to maint). + + * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command + is not necessarily available everywhere. + (merge c578a09 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). + + * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at + the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not + built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git" + potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone + programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that + calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to + make it harder to make mistakes. + (merge de61ceb jk/common-main later to maint). + + * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to + check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal. + (merge 03c39b3 jk/test-match-signal later to maint). + + * General code clean-up around a helper function to write a + single-liner to a file. + (merge 7eb6e10 jk/write-file later to maint). + + * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called + stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours", + which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of + the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in + contrast to "ours". + (merge 715a51b js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way later to maint). + + * "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted, + unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when + "file" did not appear in the current commit. When "file" was + created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been + committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight. + (merge c66b470 mh/blame-worktree later to maint). + + * "git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree + when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after + "file". + (merge 6d6a782 nd/cache-tree-ita later to maint). + + * "git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo + part, but "git push" didn't. + (merge 68f3c07 jk/push-scrub-url later to maint). + + * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with + merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it + shouldn't. + (merge 1335d76 jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf later to maint). + + * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit + suboptimal, which has been fixed. + (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint). + + * An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol" + misbehave has been fixed. + (merge 044fb19 js/ignore-space-at-eol later to maint). * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint). (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint). (merge fcf0fe9 lf/sideband-returns-void later to maint). - (merge 5819c2e sb/t5614-modernize later to maint). - (merge fe0537a cb/t7810-test-label-fix later to maint). - (merge 412b9a1 jc/t2300-setup later to maint). + (merge c2691e2 ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages later to maint). + (merge 82f6178 nd/doc-new-command later to maint). + (merge fa90ab4 js/t3404-grammo-fix later to maint). + (merge c61b2af lf/recv-sideband-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 31471ba rs/use-strbuf-addbuf later to maint). + (merge 503e224 nd/test-helpers later to maint). + (merge 16726cf jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude later to maint). + (merge fd2e7da rs/worktree-use-strbuf-absolute-path later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt index 369383b33d..338394097e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt @@ -59,4 +59,59 @@ Fixes since v2.9 * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git cherry-pick A..B" didn't. + * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic + experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split + as "git diff" output. + + * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width + relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to + draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It + also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative + to the right border. + + * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to + be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up. + + * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when + bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the + data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly. + + * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use + GPG signature have been documented. + + * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" + that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also + be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream + of the submodules are not prepared for. + + * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}' + to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes. + + * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C + functions that do not take any parameters, which has been + corrected. + + * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not + prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a + bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking + +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead + of aborting. + + * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has + been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the + command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802). + + * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it + is updated to "gtime" on Darwin. + + * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to + report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has + been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for + paths that are _inside_. + + * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the + documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. + Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html + instead. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2620003dcf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Git v2.9.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.9.1 +------------------ + + * A fix merged to v2.9.1 had a few tests that are not meant to be + run on platforms without 64-bit long, which caused unnecessary + test failures on them because we didn't detect the platform and + skip them. These tests are now skipped on platforms that they + are not applicable to. + +No other change is included in this update. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index e208af118d..8b1aee4b3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ boolean:: false;; Boolean false can be spelled as `no`, `off`, `false`, or `0`. + -When converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type +When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type specifier; 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false" (spelled in lowercase). @@ -150,27 +150,34 @@ integer:: 1024", "by 1024x1024", etc. color:: - The value for a variables that takes a color is a list of - colors (at most two) and attributes (at most one), separated - by spaces. The colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, - `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and - `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink` and - `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the - second is the background. The position of the attribute, if - any, doesn't matter. Attributes may be turned off specifically - by prefixing them with `no` (e.g., `noreverse`, `noul`, etc). -+ -Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between -0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all -terminals may support this). If your terminal supports it, you may also -specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like `#ff0ab3`. -+ -The attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item -in the colored output, so setting color.decorate.branch to `black` -will paint that branch name in a plain `black`, even if the previous -thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the -list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be -painted with `bold` or some other attribute. + The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of + colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background) + and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces. ++ +The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, +`blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the +foreground; the second is the background. ++ +Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI +256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this). If +your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as +hex, like `#ff0ab3`. ++ +The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`, +`italic`, and `strike` (for crossed-out or "strikethrough" letters). +The position of any attributes with respect to the colors +(before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may +be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`, +`no-ul`, etc). ++ +For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset +at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting +`color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a +plain `black`, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g. +opening parenthesis before the list of branch names in `log --decorate` +output) is set to be painted with `bold` or some other attribute. +However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered +coloring, and the negated forms may be useful there. pathname:: A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a @@ -405,13 +412,11 @@ file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf` mechanism. core.autocrlf:: - Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting - the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text - files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain - `CRLF` in the repository will not be touched. Use this - setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your - working directory even though the repository does not have - normalized line endings. This variable can be set to 'input', + Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting + the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf". + Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your + working directory and the repository has LF line endings. + This variable can be set to 'input', in which case no output conversion is performed. core.symlinks:: @@ -443,6 +448,13 @@ specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern. This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains. +core.sshCommand:: + If this variable is set, `git fetch` and `git push` will + use the specified command instead of `ssh` when they need to + connect to a remote system. The command is in the same form as + the `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` environment variable and is overridden + when the environment variable is set. + core.ignoreStat:: If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files @@ -481,7 +493,7 @@ core.worktree:: If `GIT_COMMON_DIR` environment variable is set, core.worktree is ignored and not used for determining the root of working tree. This can be overridden by the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment - variable and the '--work-tree' command-line option. + variable and the `--work-tree` command-line option. The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered. @@ -779,7 +791,7 @@ core.abbrev:: add.ignoreErrors:: add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be - added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors' + added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors` option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration variables. @@ -805,9 +817,9 @@ 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 - with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will + with parameter `--keep-cr`. In this case git-mailsplit will not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden - by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line. + by giving `--no-keep-cr` from the command line. See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]. am.threeWay:: @@ -820,7 +832,7 @@ am.threeWay:: apply.ignoreWhitespace:: When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in - whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change' + whitespace, in the same way as the `--ignore-space-change` option. When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to respect all whitespace differences. @@ -828,7 +840,7 @@ apply.ignoreWhitespace:: apply.whitespace:: Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way - as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. + as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. branch.autoSetupMerge:: Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches @@ -930,7 +942,7 @@ browser..cmd:: browser..path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to - browse HTML help (see '-w' option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a + browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]). clean.requireForce:: @@ -1229,6 +1241,11 @@ fetch.prune:: If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line. See also `remote..prune`. +fetch.output:: + Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are + `full` and `compact`. Default value is `full`. See section + OUTPUT in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for detail. + format.attach:: Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string @@ -1429,9 +1446,9 @@ gitcvs.logFile:: gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion - attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If + attributes for files to determine the `-k` modes to use. If the attributes force Git to treat a file as text, - the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will + the `-k` mode will be left blank so CVS clients will treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow @@ -1501,16 +1518,16 @@ gitweb.snapshot:: See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description. grep.lineNumber:: - If set to true, enable '-n' option by default. + If set to true, enable `-n` option by default. grep.patternType:: Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended', - 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp', - '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the + 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`, + `--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior. grep.extendedRegexp:: - If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This + If set to true, enable `--extended-regexp` option by default. This option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value other than 'default'. @@ -1967,7 +1984,7 @@ log.decorate:: specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref - names are shown. This is the same as the '--decorate' option + names are shown. This is the same as the `--decorate` option of the `git log`. log.follow:: @@ -2350,16 +2367,16 @@ new default). -- push.followTags:: - If set to true enable '--follow-tags' option by default. You + If set to true enable `--follow-tags` option by default. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying - '--no-follow-tags'. + `--no-follow-tags`. push.gpgSign:: May be set to a boolean value, or the string 'if-asked'. A true - value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if '--signed' is + value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if `--signed` is passed to linkgit:git-push[1]. The string 'if-asked' causes pushes to be signed if the server supports it, as if - '--signed=if-asked' is passed to 'git push'. A false value may + `--signed=if-asked` is passed to 'git push'. A false value may override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit command-line flag always overrides this config option. @@ -2382,7 +2399,7 @@ rebase.stat:: rebase. False by default. rebase.autoSquash:: - If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. + If set to true enable `--autosquash` option by default. rebase.autoStash:: When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt index f1101c7b21..d5a5b17d50 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ diff.orderFile:: diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename - detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'. + detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. diff.renames:: Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 85b08909ce..cf5262622f 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ That is, from the left to the right: . sha1 for "dst"; 0\{40\} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree". . a space. . status, followed by optional "score" number. -. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used. +. a tab or a NUL when `-z` option is used. . path for "src" -. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R. +. a tab or a NUL when `-z` option is used; only exists for C or R. . path for "dst"; only exists for C or R. -. an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record. +. an LF or a NUL when `-z` option is used, to terminate the record. Possible status letters are: @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ diff format for merges ---------------------- "git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff --raw" -can take '-c' or '--cc' option +can take `-c` or `--cc` option to generate diff output also for merge commits. The output differs from the format described above in the following way: diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index c91afee21c..d2a7ff56e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Generating patches with -p -------------------------- When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run -with a '-p' option, "git diff" without the '--raw' option, or +with a `-p` option, "git diff" without the `--raw` option, or "git log" with the "-p" option, they do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the @@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510 ------------ 1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like - this (when '-c' option is used): + this (when `-c` option is used): diff --combined file + -or like this (when '--cc' option is used): +or like this (when `--cc` option is used): diff --cc file diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index d9ae681d8f..705a873942 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -419,6 +419,9 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] paths are selected if there is any file that matches other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file that matches other criteria, nothing is selected. ++ +Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g. +`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths. -S:: Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index b05a8341e8..9eab1f5fa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] to whatever else would otherwise be fetched. Using this option alone does not subject tags to pruning, even if --prune is used (though tags may be pruned anyway if they are also the - destination of an explicit refspec; see '--prune'). + destination of an explicit refspec; see `--prune`). --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] --no-recurse-submodules:: Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as - using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option). + using the `--recurse-submodules=no` option). --submodule-prefix=:: Prepend to paths printed in informative messages @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ endif::git-pull[] --upload-pack :: When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled - by 'git fetch-pack', '--exec=' is passed to + by 'git fetch-pack', `--exec=` is passed to the command to specify non-default path for the command run on the other end. diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 6348c29fea..12879e4029 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -199,12 +199,12 @@ When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: -. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip' +. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip` option. . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should - have produced. Then run the command with the '--continue' option. + have produced. Then run the command with the `--continue` option. The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch, diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index d9f960b509..2bb9a577a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ OPTIONS --no-checkout:: + Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection -process. Instead just update a special reference named 'BISECT_HEAD' to make +process. Instead just update a special reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make it point to the commit that should be tested. + This option may be useful when the test you would perform in each step diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 4a7037f1c8..1fe73448f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ named commit). With `--merged`, only branches merged into the named commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are reachable from the named commit) will be listed. With `--no-merged` only branches not merged into the named commit will be listed. If the argument is missing it -defaults to 'HEAD' (i.e. the tip of the current branch). +defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the tip of the current branch). The command's second form creates a new branch head named -which points to the current 'HEAD', or if given. +which points to the current `HEAD`, or if given. Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the working tree to it; use "git checkout " to switch to the @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. + This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote-tracking branch. Set the branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable to `false` if you -want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if '--no-track' +want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if `--no-track` were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch. diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index eb3d6945a9..18d03d8e8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- In its first form, the command provides the content or the type of an object in -the repository. The type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the -object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size, or '--textconv' is used +the repository. The type is required unless `-t` or `-p` is used to find the +object type, or `-s` is used to find the object size, or `--textconv` is used (which implies type "blob"). In the second form, a list of objects (separated by linefeeds) is provided on @@ -144,13 +144,13 @@ respectively print: OUTPUT ------ -If '-t' is specified, one of the . +If `-t` is specified, one of the . -If '-s' is specified, the size of the in bytes. +If `-s` is specified, the size of the in bytes. -If '-e' is specified, no output. +If `-e` is specified, no output. -If '-p' is specified, the contents of are pretty-printed. +If `-p` is specified, the contents of are pretty-printed. If is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the will be returned. diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 5e5273e073..7a2201b051 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ of it"). When creating a new branch, set up "upstream" configuration. See "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + -If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be +If no `-b` option is given, the name of the new branch will be derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping the initial part up to the "*". @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even "refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted. You can -explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. +explicitly give a name with `-b` in such a case. --no-track:: Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index c104a594af..d35d771fc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ OPTIONS For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by - default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see + default, as if the `--no-walk` option was specified, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will feed all ... arguments to a single revision walk (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next'). diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 51a7e26a8e..03056dad0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory. -Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the '-x' +Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the `-x` option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for example, be useful to remove all build products. diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index cb69faab68..002dae625e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS An existing tree object -p :: - Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object. + Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object. -m :: A paragraph in the commit log message. This can be given more than diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index e7049537d9..b0a294d3b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ OPTIONS -c :: --reedit-message=:: - Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that + Like '-C', but with `-c` the editor is invoked, so that the user can further edit the commit message. --fixup=:: @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].) staged for other paths. This is the default mode of operation of 'git commit' if any paths are given on the command line, in which case this option can be omitted. - If this option is specified together with '--amend', then + If this option is specified together with `--amend`, then no paths need to be specified, which can be used to amend the last commit without committing changes that have already been staged. diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index a89c304916..f163113a6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -31,29 +31,29 @@ You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be escaped. -Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the '--add' option. +Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the `--add` option. If you want to update or unset an option which can occur on multiple lines, a POSIX regexp `value_regex` needs to be given. Only the existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If you want to handle the lines that do *not* match the regex, just prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <>). -The type specifier can be either '--int' or '--bool', to make +The type specifier can be either `--int` or `--bool`, to make 'git config' ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int, -a "true" or "false" string for bool), or '--path', which does some -path expansion (see '--path' below). If no type specifier is passed, no +a "true" or "false" string for bool), or `--path`, which does some +path expansion (see `--path` below). If no type specifier is passed, no checks or transformations are performed on the value. When reading, the values are read from the system, global and repository local configuration files by default, and options -'--system', '--global', '--local' and '--file ' can be +`--system`, `--global`, `--local` and `--file ` can be used to tell the command to read from only that location (see <>). When writing, the new value is written to the repository local -configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global', -'--file ' can be used to tell the command to write to -that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default). +configuration file by default, and options `--system`, `--global`, +`--file ` can be used to tell the command to write to +that location (you can say `--local` but that is the default). This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit codes are: @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ See also <>. Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG. --blob blob:: - Similar to '--file' but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. + Similar to `--file` but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. you can use 'master:.gitmodules' to read values from the file '.gitmodules' in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for a more complete list of @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ See also <>. -e:: --edit:: Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either - '--system', '--global', or repository (default). + `--system`, `--global`, or repository (default). --[no-]includes:: Respect `include.*` directives in config files when looking up @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ See also <>. FILES ----- -If not set explicitly with '--file', there are four files where +If not set explicitly with `--file`, there are four files where 'git config' will search for configuration options: $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig:: @@ -264,11 +264,11 @@ precedence over values read earlier. When multiple values are taken then all values of a key from all files will be used. All writing options will per default write to the repository specific -configuration file. Note that this also affects options like '--replace-all' -and '--unset'. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*. +configuration file. Note that this also affects options like `--replace-all` +and `--unset`. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*. You can override these rules either by command-line options or by environment -variables. The '--global' and the '--system' options will limit the file used +variables. The `--global` and the `--system` options will limit the file used to the global or system-wide file respectively. The `GIT_CONFIG` environment variable has a similar effect, but you can specify any filename you want. diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt index e3c8f276b1..25fb963f4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS FILES ----- -If not set explicitly with '--file', there are two files where +If not set explicitly with `--file`, there are two files where git-credential-store will search for credentials in order of precedence: ~/.git-credentials:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 00a0679a28..41207a24b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ OPTIONS akin to the way 'git clone' uses 'origin' by default. -o :: - When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch + When no remote is specified (via -r) the `HEAD` branch from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the Git - repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for Git. - When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named + repository, as `HEAD` already has a special meaning for Git. + When a remote is specified the `HEAD` branch is named remotes//master mirroring 'git clone' behaviour. Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ the old cvs2git tool. -p :: Additional options for cvsps. - The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. + The options `-u` and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. + If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. -M :: Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom - regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes + regex. It can be used with `-m` to enable the default regexes as well. You must escape forward slashes. + The regex must capture the source branch name in $1. @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ messages, bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like. OUTPUT ------ -If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. +If `-v` is specified, the script reports what it is doing. Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with a zero exit status. diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index db4d7a917c..a336ae5f6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Print usage information and exit You can specify a list of allowed directories. If no directories are given, all are allowed. This is an additional restriction, gitcvs access still needs to be enabled by the `gitcvs.enabled` config option -unless '--export-all' was given, too. +unless `--export-all` was given, too. DESCRIPTION @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ To get a checkout with the Eclipse CVS client: 3. Browse the 'modules' available. It will give you a list of the heads in the repository. You will not be able to browse the tree from there. Only the heads. -4. Pick 'HEAD' when it asks what branch/tag to check out. Untick the +4. Pick `HEAD` when it asks what branch/tag to check out. Untick the "launch commit wizard" to avoid committing the .project file. Protocol notes: If you are using anonymous access via pserver, just select that. @@ -402,12 +402,12 @@ Exports and tagging (tags and branches) are not supported at this stage. CRLF Line Ending Conversions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files, +By default the server leaves the `-k` mode blank for all files, which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject to end-of-line conversion on some platforms. You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to -set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` +set the `-k` modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config variable. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information about end-of-line conversion. @@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ Alternatively, if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config is not enabled or the attributes do not allow automatic detection for a filename, then the server uses the `gitcvs.allBinary` config for the default setting. If `gitcvs.allBinary` is set, then file not otherwise -specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the '-k' mode +specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the `-k` mode is left blank. But if `gitcvs.allBinary` is set to "guess", then -the correct '-k' mode will be guessed based on the contents of +the correct `-k` mode will be guessed based on the contents of the file. For best consistency with 'cvs', it is probably best to override the diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index dc20275825..3c91db7bed 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ that service if it is enabled. It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and it will refuse to export any Git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked -for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you +for export this way (unless the `--export-all` parameter is specified). If you pass some directory paths as 'git daemon' arguments, you can further restrict the offers to a whitelist comprising of those. @@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ OPTIONS is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and --listen must be given an IPv4 address. Can be given more than once. - Incompatible with '--inetd' option. + Incompatible with `--inetd` option. --port=:: - Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with '--inetd' option. + Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with `--inetd` option. --init-timeout=:: Timeout (in seconds) between the moment the connection is established @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ they correspond to these IP addresses. selectively enable/disable services per repository:: To enable 'git archive --remote' and disable 'git fetch' against a repository, have the following in the configuration file in the - repository (that is the file 'config' next to 'HEAD', 'refs' and + repository (that is the file 'config' next to `HEAD`, 'refs' and 'objects'). + ---------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index c8f28c8c86..e4ac448ff5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ is found, its name will be output and searching will stop. If an exact match was not found, 'git describe' will walk back through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an -abbreviation of the input commit-ish's SHA-1. If '--first-parent' was +abbreviation of the input commit-ish's SHA-1. If `--first-parent` was specified then the walk will only consider the first parent of each commit. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index a86cf62e68..a171506952 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ include::diff-format.txt[] Operating Modes --------------- You can choose whether you want to trust the index file entirely -(using the '--cached' flag) or ask the diff logic to show any files +(using the `--cached` flag) or ask the diff logic to show any files that don't match the stat state as being "tentatively changed". Both of these operations are very useful indeed. Cached Mode ----------- -If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask: +If `--cached` is specified, it allows you to ask: show me the differences between HEAD and the current index contents (the ones I'd write using 'git write-tree') diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt index 1439486e40..7870e175b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. --root:: - When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be shown as a big + When `--root` is specified the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree. --stdin:: - When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take + When `--stdin` is specified, the command does not take arguments from the command line. Instead, it reads lines containing either two , one , or a list of from its standard input. (Use a single space @@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ commits (but not trees). By default, 'git diff-tree --stdin' does not show differences for merge commits. With this flag, it shows differences to that commit from all of its parents. See - also '-c'. + also `-c`. -s:: By default, 'git diff-tree --stdin' shows differences, - either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch - form (with '-p'). This output can be suppressed. It is - only useful with '-v' flag. + either in machine-readable form (without `-p`) or in patch + form (with `-p`). This output can be suppressed. It is + only useful with `-v` flag. -v:: This flag causes 'git diff-tree --stdin' to also show @@ -91,17 +91,17 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] -c:: This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed (which means it is useful only when the command is given - one , or '--stdin'). It shows the differences + one , or `--stdin`). It shows the differences from each of the parents to the merge result simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent and the - result one at a time (which is what the '-m' option does). + result one at a time (which is what the `-m` option does). Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified from all parents. --cc:: This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed, - in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c' - and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output + in a similar way to the `-c` option. It implies the `-c` + and `-p` options and further compresses the patch output by omitting uninteresting hunks whose the contents in the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them without modification. When all hunks are uninteresting, the commit diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt index 333cf6ff91..224fb3090b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ instead. `--no-symlinks` is the default on Windows. invoked diff tool returns a non-zero exit code. + 'git-difftool' will forward the exit code of the invoked tool when -'--trust-exit-code' is used. +`--trust-exit-code` is used. See linkgit:git-diff[1] for the full list of supported options. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 644df993f9..2b762654bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ relative-marks:: no-relative-marks:: force:: Act as though the corresponding command-line option with - a leading '--' was passed on the command line + a leading `--` was passed on the command line (see OPTIONS, above). import-marks:: @@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ options the user may specify to git fast-import itself. The `