From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 22:25:46 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'ds/fetch-disable-force-notice' X-Git-Tag: v2.23.0-rc0~54 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/cde9a64ea35ceeaa5e8dd2da2662445510fe651c?hp=3883c55138dcfbe2d9a24e3f93a2a4b1d376dde6 Merge branch 'ds/fetch-disable-force-notice' "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation. The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable this safety feature. * ds/fetch-disable-force-notice: pull: add --[no-]show-forced-updates passthrough fetch: warn about forced updates in branch listing fetch: add --[no-]show-forced-updates argument --- diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format index 41d4cd23fd..c592dda681 100644 --- a/.clang-format +++ b/.clang-format @@ -148,8 +148,21 @@ SpacesInSquareBrackets: false Cpp11BracedListStyle: false # A list of macros that should be interpreted as foreach loops instead of as -# function calls. -ForEachMacros: ['for_each_string_list_item', 'for_each_wanted_builtin', 'for_each_builtin', 'for_each_ut'] +# function calls. Taken from: +# git grep -h '^#define [^[:space:]]*for_each[^[:space:]]*(' \ +# | sed "s,^#define \([^[:space:]]*for_each[^[:space:]]*\)(.*$, - '\1'," \ +# | sort | uniq +ForEachMacros: + - 'for_each_abbrev' + - 'for_each_builtin' + - 'for_each_string_list_item' + - 'for_each_ut' + - 'for_each_wanted_builtin' + - 'list_for_each' + - 'list_for_each_dir' + - 'list_for_each_prev' + - 'list_for_each_prev_safe' + - 'list_for_each_safe' # The maximum number of consecutive empty lines to keep. MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1 diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 9fa72ad450..b08a1416d8 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ *.pl eof=lf diff=perl *.pm eol=lf diff=perl *.py eol=lf diff=python +*.bat eol=crlf /Documentation/**/*.txt eol=lf /command-list.txt eol=lf /GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 4470d7cfc0..e096e0a51c 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ /git-request-pull /git-rerere /git-reset +/git-restore /git-rev-list /git-rev-parse /git-revert @@ -163,6 +164,7 @@ /git-submodule /git-submodule--helper /git-svn +/git-switch /git-symbolic-ref /git-tag /git-unpack-file @@ -223,6 +225,11 @@ *.user *.idb *.pdb +*.ilk +*.iobj +*.ipdb +*.dll +.vs/ /Debug/ /Release/ *.dSYM diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt index 895b7cfd4f..f8670379c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ git-psuh - Delight users' typo with a shy horse SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-psuh' +'git-psuh [...]' DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -491,14 +491,16 @@ Take a look at `Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt`. This is a handy tool for pulling out options you need to be able to handle, and it takes a usage string. -In order to use it, we'll need to prepare a NULL-terminated usage string and a -`builtin_psuh_options` array. Add a line to `#include "parse-options.h"`. +In order to use it, we'll need to prepare a NULL-terminated array of usage +strings and a `builtin_psuh_options` array. -At global scope, add your usage: +Add a line to `#include "parse-options.h"`. + +At global scope, add your array of usage strings: ---- static const char * const psuh_usage[] = { - N_("git psuh"), + N_("git psuh [...]"), NULL, }; ---- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt index 53e8234e52..a6cd592734 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some people). + * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words + boundary for Rust has been added. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -148,7 +151,33 @@ Fixes since v2.22 to honor the "--origin " option. (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint). + * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are + necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been + corrected. + (merge 810e19322d jt/partial-clone-missing-ref-delta-base later to maint). + + * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a + lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API + correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element + of the array in use. This has been corrected. + (merge 7140600e2e md/list-objects-filter-memfix later to maint). + + * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to + indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only + matches directories") has been revamped. + (merge 1a58bad014 an/ignore-doc-update later to maint). + + * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end + of the string while parsing %-- sequence. + (merge d37dc239a4 md/url-parse-harden later to maint). + + * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been + updated. + (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint). (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint). (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint). + (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint). + (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 7e2a6f61f5..e3f5bc3396 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -144,6 +144,20 @@ refer to linkgit:gitignore[5] for details. For convenience: This is the same as `gitdir` except that matching is done case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file sytems) +`onbranch`:: + The data that follows the keyword `onbranch:` is taken to be a + pattern with standard globbing wildcards and two additional + ones, `**/` and `/**`, that can match multiple path components. + If we are in a worktree where the name of the branch that is + currently checked out matches the pattern, the include condition + is met. ++ +If the pattern ends with `/`, `**` will be automatically added. For +example, the pattern `foo/` becomes `foo/**`. In other words, it matches +all branches that begin with `foo/`. This is useful if your branches are +organized hierarchically and you would like to apply a configuration to +all the branches in that hierarchy. + A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`: * Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching. @@ -206,6 +220,11 @@ Example [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] path = foo.inc + ; include only if we are in a worktree where foo-branch is + ; currently checked out + [includeIf "onbranch:foo-branch"] + path = foo.inc + Values ~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt index 1f1e847fb4..ee85c536ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt @@ -41,12 +41,19 @@ advice.*:: we can still suggest that the user push to either refs/heads/* or refs/tags/* based on the type of the source object. + statusAheadBehind:: + Shown when linkgit:git-status[1] computes the ahead/behind + counts for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref, + and that calculation takes longer than expected. Will not + appear if `status.aheadBehind` is false or the option + `--no-ahead-behind` is given. statusHints:: Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in the template shown when writing commit messages in linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown - by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. + by linkgit:git-switch[1] or + linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. statusUoption:: Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1] when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked @@ -66,12 +73,14 @@ advice.*:: your information is guessed from the system username and domain name. detachedHead:: - Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to - move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create - a local branch after the fact. + Advice shown when you used + linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1] + to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to + create a local branch after the fact. checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName:: Advice shown when the argument to - linkgit:git-checkout[1] ambiguously resolves to a + linkgit:git-checkout[1] and linkgit:git-switch[1] + ambiguously resolves to a remote tracking branch on more than one remote in situations where an unambiguous argument would have otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.txt b/Documentation/config/alias.txt index 0b14178314..f1ca739d57 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/alias.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.txt @@ -1,18 +1,28 @@ alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. - after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation - "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid + after defining `alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD`, the invocation + `git last` is equivalent to `git cat-file commit HEAD`. To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them. + +Note that the first word of an alias does not necessarily have to be a +command. It can be a command-line option that will be passed into the +invocation of `git`. In particular, this is useful when used with `-c` +to pass in one-time configurations or `-p` to force pagination. For example, +`loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase` can be defined such that +running `git loud-rebase` would be equivalent to +`git -c commit.verbose=true rebase`. Also, `ps = -p status` would be a +helpful alias since `git ps` would paginate the output of `git status` +where the original command does not. ++ If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining -"alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation -"git new" is equivalent to running the shell command -"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be +`alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD`, the invocation +`git new` is equivalent to running the shell command +`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' +`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running `git rev-parse --show-prefix` from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/branch.txt b/Documentation/config/branch.txt index 8f4b3faadd..a592d522a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/branch.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ branch.autoSetupMerge:: - Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches + Tells 'git branch', 'git switch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ branch.autoSetupMerge:: branch. This option defaults to true. branch.autoSetupRebase:: - When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout' + When a new branch is created with 'git branch', 'git switch' or 'git checkout' that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch..rebase"). When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true. diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt index c4118fa196..6b646813ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ checkout.defaultRemote:: - When you run 'git checkout ' and only have one + When you run 'git checkout ' + or 'git switch ' and only have one remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and tracking e.g. 'origin/'. This stops working as soon as you have more than one remote with a '' @@ -8,16 +9,10 @@ checkout.defaultRemote:: disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to `origin`. + -Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout -' will checkout the '' branch on another remote, +Currently this is used by linkgit:git-switch[1] and +linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout ' +or 'git switch ' +will checkout the '' branch on another remote, and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like commands or functionality in the future. - -checkout.optimizeNewBranch:: - Optimizes the performance of "git checkout -b " when - using sparse-checkout. When set to true, git will not update the - repo based on the current sparse-checkout settings. This means it - will not update the skip-worktree bit in the index nor add/remove - files in the working directory to reflect the current sparse checkout - settings nor will it show the local changes. diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index 2c4c9ba27a..5afb5a2cbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ diff.external:: 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 + commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' + and 'git switch' also honor this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to 'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit' and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is diff --git a/Documentation/config/interactive.txt b/Documentation/config/interactive.txt index ad846dd7c9..a2d3c7ec44 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/interactive.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/interactive.txt @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ interactive.singleKey:: In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter). Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of - linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1], + linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], + linkgit:git-restore[1], linkgit:git-commit[1], linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey. diff --git a/Documentation/config/status.txt b/Documentation/config/status.txt index ed72fa7dae..0fc704ab80 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/status.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/status.txt @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ status.branch:: Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable. +status.aheadBehind:: + Set to true to enable `--ahead-behind` and false to enable + `--no-ahead-behind` by default in linkgit:git-status[1] for + non-porcelain status formats. Defaults to true. + status.displayCommentPrefix:: If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment prefix before each output line (starting with diff --git a/Documentation/config/tag.txt b/Documentation/config/tag.txt index 663663bdec..ef5adb3f42 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/tag.txt @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ tag.sort:: linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=" option provided, the value of this variable will be used as the default. +tag.gpgSign:: + A boolean to specify whether all tags should be GPG signed. + Use of this option when running in an automated script can + result in a large number of tags being signed. It is therefore + convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your gpg passphrase + several times. Note that this option doesn't affects tag signing + behavior enabled by "-u " or "--local-user=" options. + tar.umask:: This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 5801d23ae4..3c9b4f9e09 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] Allow several and arguments to be specified. No s may be specified. +--[no-]auto-gc:: + Run `git gc --auto` at the end to perform garbage collection + if needed. This is enabled by default. + -p:: --prune:: Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 6ebd512b4f..135206ff4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ git-branch - List, create, or delete branches SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git branch' [--color[=] | --no-color] [-r | -a] - [--list] [--show-current] [-v [--abbrev= | --no-abbrev]] +'git branch' [--color[=] | --no-color] [--show-current] + [-v [--abbrev= | --no-abbrev]] [--column[=] | --no-column] [--sort=] [(--merged | --no-merged) []] [--contains []] - [--points-at ] [--format=] [...] + [--points-at ] [--format=] + [(-r | --remotes) | (-a | --all)] + [--list] [...] 'git branch' [--track | --no-track] [-f] [] 'git branch' (--set-upstream-to= | -u ) [] 'git branch' --unset-upstream [] @@ -26,13 +28,19 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- If `--list` is given, or if there are no non-option arguments, existing -branches are listed; the current branch will be highlighted with an -asterisk. Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking branches to be listed, -and option `-a` shows both local and remote branches. If a `` +branches are listed; the current branch will be highlighted in green and +marked with an asterisk. Any branches checked out in linked worktrees will +be highlighted in cyan and marked with a plus sign. Option `-r` causes the +remote-tracking branches to be listed, +and option `-a` shows both local and remote branches. + +If a `` is given, it is used as a shell wildcard to restrict the output to matching branches. If multiple patterns are given, a branch is shown if -it matches any of the patterns. Note that when providing a -``, you must use `--list`; otherwise the command is interpreted +it matches any of the patterns. + +Note that when providing a +``, you must use `--list`; otherwise the command may be interpreted as branch creation. With `--contains`, shows only the branches that contain the named commit @@ -52,7 +60,7 @@ can leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. 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 +working tree to it; use "git switch " to switch to the new branch. When a local branch is started off a remote-tracking branch, Git sets up the @@ -153,10 +161,12 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. -r:: --remotes:: List or delete (if used with -d) the remote-tracking branches. + Combine with `--list` to match the optional pattern(s). -a:: --all:: List both remote-tracking branches and local branches. + Combine with `--list` to match optional pattern(s). -l:: --list:: @@ -174,8 +184,10 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. When in list mode, show sha1 and commit subject line for each head, along with relationship to upstream branch (if any). If given twice, print - the name of the upstream branch, as well (see also `git remote - show `). + the path of the linked worktree (if any) and the name of the upstream + branch, as well (see also `git remote show `). Note that the + current worktree's HEAD will not have its path printed (it will always + be your current directory). -q:: --quiet:: @@ -202,7 +214,7 @@ 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 switch`, `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. @@ -301,7 +313,7 @@ Start development from a known tag:: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6 $ cd my2.6 $ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14 <1> -$ git checkout my2.6.14 +$ git switch my2.6.14 ------------ + <1> This step and the next one could be combined into a single step with @@ -322,13 +334,25 @@ $ git branch -D test <2> <2> Delete the "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch is currently checked out) does not have all commits from the test branch. +Listing branches from a specific remote:: ++ +------------ +$ git branch -r -l '/' <1> +$ git for-each-ref 'refs/remotes//' <2> +------------ ++ +<1> Using `-a` would conflate with any local branches you happen to + have been prefixed with the same pattern. +<2> `for-each-ref` can take a wide range of options. See linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1] + +Patterns will normally need quoting. NOTES ----- -If you are creating a branch that you want to checkout immediately, it is -easier to use the git checkout command with its `-b` option to create -a branch and check it out with a single command. +If you are creating a branch that you want to switch to immediately, +it is easier to use the "git switch" command with its `-c` option to +do the same thing with a single command. The options `--contains`, `--no-contains`, `--merged` and `--no-merged` serve four related but different purposes: diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index d9de992585..ee6a4144fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ but it is explicitly forbidden at the beginning of a branch name). When run with `--branch` option in a repository, the input is first expanded for the ``previous checkout syntax'' `@{-n}`. For example, `@{-1}` is a way to refer the last thing that -was checked out using "git checkout" operation. This option should be +was checked out using "git switch" or "git checkout" operation. +This option should be used by porcelains to accept this syntax anywhere a branch name is expected, so they can act as if you typed the branch name. As an exception note that, the ``previous checkout operation'' might result diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 964f912d29..cf3cac0a2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -23,31 +23,22 @@ or the specified tree. If no paths are given, 'git checkout' will also update `HEAD` to set the specified branch as the current branch. -'git checkout' :: - To prepare for working on , switch to it by updating +'git checkout' []:: + To prepare for working on ``, switch to it by updating the index and the files in the working tree, and by pointing - HEAD at the branch. Local modifications to the files in the + `HEAD` at the branch. Local modifications to the files in the working tree are kept, so that they can be committed to the - . + ``. + -If is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in -exactly one remote (call it ) with a matching name, treat as -equivalent to +If `` is not found but there does exist a tracking branch in +exactly one remote (call it ``) with a matching name and +`--no-guess` is not specified, treat as equivalent to + ------------ $ git checkout -b --track / ------------ + -If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by -the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that -one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `` isn't -unique across all remotes. Set it to -e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote -branches from there if `` is ambiguous but exists on the -'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in -linkgit:git-config[1]. -+ -You could omit , in which case the command degenerates to +You could omit ``, in which case the command degenerates to "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, if exists, for the current branch. @@ -61,7 +52,7 @@ if exists, for the current branch. `--track` without `-b` implies branch creation; see the description of `--track` below. + -If `-B` is given, is created if it doesn't exist; otherwise, it +If `-B` is given, `` is created if it doesn't exist; otherwise, it is reset. This is the transactional equivalent of + ------------ @@ -75,25 +66,25 @@ successful. 'git checkout' --detach []:: 'git checkout' [--detach] :: - Prepare to work on top of , by detaching HEAD at it + Prepare to work on top of ``, by detaching `HEAD` at it (see "DETACHED HEAD" section), and updating the index and the files in the working tree. Local modifications to the files in the working tree are kept, so that the resulting working tree will be the state recorded in the commit plus the local modifications. + -When the argument is a branch name, the `--detach` option can -be used to detach HEAD at the tip of the branch (`git checkout -` would check out that branch without detaching HEAD). +When the `` argument is a branch name, the `--detach` option can +be used to detach `HEAD` at the tip of the branch (`git checkout +` would check out that branch without detaching `HEAD`). + -Omitting detaches HEAD at the tip of the current branch. +Omitting `` detaches `HEAD` at the tip of the current branch. 'git checkout' [] [--] ...:: Overwrite paths in the working tree by replacing with the - contents in the index or in the (most often a - commit). When a is given, the paths that - match the are updated both in the index and in + contents in the index or in the `` (most often a + commit). When a `` is given, the paths that + match the `` are updated both in the index and in the working tree. + The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge. @@ -118,7 +109,8 @@ OPTIONS --quiet:: Quiet, suppress feedback messages. ---[no-]progress:: +--progress:: +--no-progress:: Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by default when it is attached to a terminal, unless `--quiet` is specified. This flag enables progress reporting even if not @@ -127,7 +119,7 @@ OPTIONS -f:: --force:: When switching branches, proceed even if the index or the - working tree differs from HEAD. This is used to throw away + working tree differs from `HEAD`. This is used to throw away local changes. + When checking out paths from the index, do not fail upon unmerged @@ -154,12 +146,12 @@ on your side branch as `theirs` (i.e. "one contributor's work on top of it"). -b :: - Create a new branch named and start it at - ; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + Create a new branch named `` and start it at + ``; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. -B :: - Creates the branch and start it at ; - if it already exists, then reset it to . This is + Creates the branch `` and start it at ``; + if it already exists, then reset it to ``. This is equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. @@ -172,15 +164,36 @@ 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 "*". -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 +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. --no-track:: Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the - branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable is true. + `branch.autoSetupMerge` configuration variable is true. + +--guess:: +--no-guess:: + If `` is not found but there does exist a tracking + branch in exactly one remote (call it ``) with a + matching name, treat as equivalent to ++ +------------ +$ git checkout -b --track / +------------ ++ +If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by +the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that +one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `` isn't +unique across all remotes. Set it to +e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote +branches from there if `` is ambiguous but exists on the +'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in +linkgit:git-config[1]. ++ +Use `--no-guess` to disable this. -l:: Create the new branch's reflog; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for @@ -189,21 +202,21 @@ explicitly give a name with `-b` in such a case. --detach:: Rather than checking out a branch to work on it, check out a commit for inspection and discardable experiments. - This is the default behavior of "git checkout " when - is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section + This is the default behavior of `git checkout ` when + `` is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section below for details. --orphan :: - Create a new 'orphan' branch, named , started from - and switch to it. The first commit made on this + Create a new 'orphan' branch, named ``, started from + `` and switch to it. The first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new history totally disconnected from all the other branches and commits. + The index and the working tree are adjusted as if you had previously run -"git checkout ". This allows you to start a new history -that records a set of paths similar to by easily running -"git commit -a" to make the root commit. +`git checkout `. This allows you to start a new history +that records a set of paths similar to `` by easily running +`git commit -a` to make the root commit. + This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit without exposing its full history. You might want to do this to publish @@ -212,17 +225,17 @@ whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of code. + If you want to start a disconnected history that records a set of paths -that is totally different from the one of , then you should +that is totally different from the one of ``, then you should clear the index and the working tree right after creating the orphan -branch by running "git rm -rf ." from the top level of the working tree. +branch by running `git rm -rf .` from the top level of the working tree. Afterwards you will be ready to prepare your new files, repopulating the working tree, by copying them from elsewhere, extracting a tarball, etc. --ignore-skip-worktree-bits:: In sparse checkout mode, `git checkout -- ` would - update only entries matched by and sparse patterns - in $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout. This option ignores - the sparse patterns and adds back any files in . + update only entries matched by `` and sparse patterns + in `$GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout`. This option ignores + the sparse patterns and adds back any files in ``. -m:: --merge:: @@ -246,25 +259,25 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths. When switching branches with `--merge`, staged changes may be lost. --conflict=