From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:09:06 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-blame' X-Git-Tag: v1.6.2-rc0~189 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/d9befc8b0bb03aaf38e9fde0450c968fda492fae?hp=39c19ce2755830dd1dfdabf36e2b0166df3546f8 Merge branch 'jn/gitweb-blame' * jn/gitweb-blame: gitweb: cache $parent_commit info in git_blame() gitweb: A bit of code cleanup in git_blame() gitweb: Move 'lineno' id from link to row element in git_blame --- diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index c34c1cae20..5cd8b63ac5 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -187,17 +187,18 @@ git.info: user-manual.texi user-manual.texi: user-manual.xml $(RM) $@+ $@ - $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --to-stdout | $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+ + $(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) user-manual.xml --encoding=UTF-8 --to-stdout | \ + $(PERL_PATH) fix-texi.perl >$@+ mv $@+ $@ gitman.texi: $(MAN_XML) cat-texi.perl $(RM) $@+ $@ - ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --to-stdout $(xml);)) | \ - $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+ + ($(foreach xml,$(MAN_XML),$(DOCBOOK2X_TEXI) --encoding=UTF-8 \ + --to-stdout $(xml);)) | $(PERL_PATH) cat-texi.perl $@ >$@+ mv $@+ $@ gitman.info: gitman.texi - $(MAKEINFO) --no-split $*.texi + $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --no-validate $*.texi $(patsubst %.txt,%.texi,$(MAN_TXT)): %.texi : %.xml $(RM) $@+ $@ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9065a0e273 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.4.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.4.7 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.4.7 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d5e85cb70e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.5.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.5.5 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..79da23db5a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.5.6.5 +------------------- + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..64ece1ffd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since 1.6.0.5 +------------------- + + * "git fsck" had a deep recursion that wasted stack space. + + * "git fast-export" and "git fast-import" choked on an old style + annotated tag that lack the tagger information. + + * "git mergetool -- file" did not correctly skip "--" marker that + signals the end of options list. + + * "git show $tag" segfaulted when an annotated $tag pointed at a + nonexistent object. + + * "git show 2>error" when the standard output is automatically redirected + to the pager redirected the standard error to the pager as well; there + was no need to. + + * "git send-email" did not correctly handle list of addresses when + they had quoted comma (e.g. "Lastname, Givenname" ). + + * Logic to discover branch ancestry in "git svn" was unreliable when + the process to fetch history was interrupted. + + * Removed support for an obsolete gitweb request URI, whose + implementation ran "git diff" Porcelain, instead of using plumbing, + which would have run an external diff command specified in the + repository configuration as the gitweb user. + +Also contains numerous documentation typofixes. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..10b38e6ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +GIT v1.6.1.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +* "git describe --all" complained when a commit is described with a tag, + which was nonsense. + +* "git log --pretty=format:%s" did not handle a multi-line subject the + same way as built-in log listers (i.e. shortlog, --pretty=oneline, etc.) + +* "git daemon", and "git merge-file" are more careful when freopen fails + and barf, instead of going on and writing to unopened filehandle. + +Other documentation fixes. + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.1-15-ga9e67c8 +echo O=$(git describe maint) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt index 0405309743..adb7ccab0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt @@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0 All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. +* Porcelains implemented as shell scripts were utterly confused when you + entered to a subdirectory of a work tree from sideways, following a + symbolic link (this may need to be backported to older releases later). + +* Tracking symbolic links would work better on filesystems whose lstat() + returns incorrect st_size value for them. + * "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F @@ -244,6 +251,20 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. * "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it. +* "git http-push" did not understand URI scheme other than opaquelocktoken + when acquiring a lock from the server (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + +* After "git rebase -p" stopped with conflicts while replaying a merge, + "git rebase --continue" did not work (may need to be backported to older + releases). + +* "git revert" records relative to which parent a revert was made when + reverting a merge. Together with new documentation that explains issues + around reverting a merge and merging from the updated branch later, this + hopefully will reduce user confusion (this may need to be backported to + older releases later). + * "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has since been modified. @@ -260,6 +281,6 @@ release, unless otherwise noted. -- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.1-rc1-55-gd8af75d +O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f echo O=$(git describe master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1a80626781 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.6.1 +-------------------- + +(subsystems) + +(portability) + +(performance) + +(usability, bells and whistles) + +(internal) + + +Fixes since v1.6.1 +------------------ + +All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this +release, unless otherwise noted. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.6.1 +echo O=$(git describe master) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index f0295c60f5..ba07c8c571 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ D-C-O. Indeed you are encouraged to do so. Do not forget to place an in-body "From: " line at the beginning to properly attribute the change to its true author (see (2) above). +Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please +don't hide your real name. + Some people also put extra tags at the end. "Acked-by:" says that the patch was reviewed by the person who diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf index 2da867d2f8..1e735df3bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf +++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ # Show GIT link as: (
); if section is defined, else just show # the command. +[macros] +(?su)[\\]?(?Plinkgit):(?P\S*?)\[(?P.*?)\]= + [attributes] asterisk=* plus=+ diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl index dbc133cd3c..828ec62554 100755 --- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl +++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl @@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ printf '\input texinfo @setfilename gitman.info -@documentencoding us-ascii -@node Top,,%s +@documentencoding UTF-8 +@dircategory Development +@direntry +* Git Man Pages: (gitman). Manual pages for Git revision control system +@end direntry +@node Top,,, (dir) @top Git Manual Pages @documentlanguage en @menu diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index b233fe5352..7408bb2d34 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -601,10 +601,6 @@ diff.autorefreshindex:: affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'. -diff.suppress-blank-empty:: - A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space - before each empty output line. Defaults to false. - diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the @@ -639,6 +635,10 @@ diff.renames:: will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well. +diff.suppress-blank-empty:: + A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space + before each empty output line. Defaults to false. + fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native transfer is below this @@ -839,6 +839,57 @@ gui.blamehistoryctx:: Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown. +guitool..cmd:: + Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item + of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is + mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of + the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of + the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as + 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if + the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty). + +guitool..needsfile:: + Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees + that 'FILENAME' is not empty. + +guitool..noconsole:: + Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its + output. + +guitool..norescan:: + Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool + finishes execution. + +guitool..confirm:: + Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool. + +guitool..argprompt:: + Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool + through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an + argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect + if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1', + the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact + value of the variable is used. + +guitool..revprompt:: + Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the + 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option + is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it. + +guitool..revunmerged:: + Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog. + This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not + for things like checkout or reset. + +guitool..title:: + Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default + is the tool name. + +guitool..prompt:: + Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of + the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'. + The default value includes the actual command. + help.browser:: Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. @@ -993,6 +1044,16 @@ mergetool.keepBackup:: is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to `true` (i.e. keep the backup files). +mergetool.keepTemporaries:: + When invoking a custom merge tool, git uses a set of temporary + files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this + variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be + preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has + exited. Defaults to `false`. + +mergetool.prompt:: + Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. + pack.window:: The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index aafd3a3941..1eeb1c7683 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Possible status letters are: be committed) - X: "unknown" change type (most probably a bug, please report it) -Status letters C and M are always followed by a score (denoting the +Status letters C and R are always followed by a score (denoting the percentage of similarity between the source and target of the move or copy), and are the only ones to be so. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 517e1eba3c..0f25ba7e38 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -143,15 +143,15 @@ different from it. A `-` character in the column N means that the line appears in fileN but it does not appear in the result. A `+` character -in the column N means that the line appears in the last file, +in the column N means that the line appears in the result, and fileN does not have that line (in other words, the line was added, from the point of view of that parent). In the above example output, the function signature was changed from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear -in either file1 nor file2). Also two other lines are the same -from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with ` +`). +in either file1 nor file2). Also eight other lines are the same +from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `{plus}`). When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a merge commit with the merge result (i.e. file1..fileN are the diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c62b45cdba..b432d2518a 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -19,16 +19,12 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-format-patch[] -p:: +-u:: Generate patch (see section on generating patches). {git-diff? This is the default.} endif::git-format-patch[] --u:: - Synonym for "-p". - -U:: - Shorthand for "--unified=". - --unified=:: Generate diffs with lines of context instead of the usual three. Implies "-p". @@ -190,31 +186,25 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] can name which subdirectory to make the output relative to by giving a as an argument. +-a:: --text:: Treat all files as text. --a:: - Shorthand for "--text". - --ignore-space-at-eol:: Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL. +-b:: --ignore-space-change:: Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace at line end, and considers all other sequences of one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent. --b:: - Shorthand for "--ignore-space-change". - +-w:: --ignore-all-space:: Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none. --w:: - Shorthand for "--ignore-all-space". - --exit-code:: Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 168333a588..9cd51514db 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the first namespace level. When are given, this command does *not* switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from -the index file, or from a named commit. In +the index file, or from a named (most often a commit). In this case, the `-b` options is meaningless and giving either of them results in an error. argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree) @@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ the `-m` option, you would see something like this: ------------ $ git checkout -m mytopic Auto-merging frotz -merge: warning: conflicts during merge ERROR: Merge conflict in frotz fatal: merge program failed ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 6203461f41..b5d81be7ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].) '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 - no paths need be specified, which can be used to amend + 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 28e1861094..19a8917b83 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do: % git config --get-all core.gitproxy ------------ -If you like to live dangerous, you can replace *all* core.gitproxy by a +If you like to live dangerously, you can replace *all* core.gitproxy by a new one with ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index f1a570a874..36f00aed67 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ OPTIONS --user-path:: --user-path=path:: - Allow ~user notation to be used in requests. When + Allow {tilde}user notation to be used in requests. When specified with no parameter, requests to - git://host/~alice/foo is taken as a request to access + git://host/{tilde}alice/foo is taken as a request to access 'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`. If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is taken as a request to access `path/foo` repository in diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt index 5d48664e62..23b7abd3c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. --root:: - When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be showed 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:: @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ and terminated by a newline) is printed before the difference. When comparing commits, the ID of the first (or only) commit, followed by a newline, is printed. + -The following flags further affects the behavior when comparing +The following flags further affect the behavior when comparing commits (but not trees). -m:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index b974e2115b..0c9eb567cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION This program dumps the given revisions in a form suitable to be piped into 'git-fast-import'. -You can use it as a human readable bundle replacement (see +You can use it as a human-readable bundle replacement (see linkgit:git-bundle[1]), or as a kind of an interactive 'git-filter-branch'. @@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ If the backend uses a similar \--import-marks file, this allows for incremental bidirectional exporting of the repository by keeping the marks the same across runs. +--fake-missing-tagger:: + Some old repositories have tags without a tagger. The + fast-import protocol was pretty strict about that, and did not + allow that. So fake a tagger to be able to fast-import the + output. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index d5a7647219..287c4fc5e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes. So for example - git fsck --unreachable HEAD $(cat .git/refs/heads/*) + git fsck --unreachable HEAD \ + $(git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/heads) will do quite a _lot_ of verification on the tree. There are a few extra validity tests to be added (make sure that tree objects are diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 31eccea5bc..8d95aaa304 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and +Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and writes the commit log message in file, and the patches in file. The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are written out to the standard output to be used by 'git-am' diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index 2f0c5259e0..767486c770 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -16,15 +16,15 @@ DESCRIPTION 'git-merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use in a three-way merge. One common ancestor is 'better' than another common ancestor if the latter is an ancestor of the former. A common ancestor -that does not have any better common ancestor than it is a 'best common +that does not have any better common ancestor is a 'best common ancestor', i.e. a 'merge base'. Note that there can be more than one -merge bases between two commits. +merge base for a pair of commits. -Among the two commits to compute their merge bases, one is specified by +Among the two commits to compute the merge base from, one is specified by the first commit argument on the command line; the other commit is a (possibly hypothetical) commit that is a merge across all the remaining -commits on the command line. As the most common special case, giving only -two commits from the command line means computing the merge base between +commits on the command line. As the most common special case, specifying only +two commits on the command line means computing the merge base between the given two commits. OPTIONS @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ For example, with this topology: the merge base between 'A' and 'B' is '1'. Given three commits 'A', 'B' and 'C', `git merge-base A B C` will compute the -merge base between 'A' and an hypothetical commit 'M', which is a merge +merge base between 'A' and a hypothetical commit 'M', which is a merge between 'B' and 'C'. For example, with this topology: o---o---o---o---C @@ -71,8 +71,7 @@ common ancestor between 'A' and 'M', but '1' is a better common ancestor, because '2' is an ancestor of '1'. Hence, '2' is not a merge base. When the history involves criss-cross merges, there can be more than one -'best' common ancestors between two commits. For example, with this -topology: +'best' common ancestor for two commits. For example, with this topology: ---1---o---A \ / @@ -80,8 +79,8 @@ topology: / \ ---2---o---o---B -both '1' and '2' are merge-base of A and B. Neither one is better than -the other (both are 'best' merge base). When `--all` option is not given, +both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B. Neither one is better than +the other (both are 'best' merge bases). When the `--all` option is not given, it is unspecified which best one is output. Author diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt index 024ec015a3..303537357b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt @@ -15,17 +15,17 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -'git-file-merge' incorporates all changes that lead from the `` +'git-merge-file' incorporates all changes that lead from the `` to `` into ``. The result ordinarily goes into ``. 'git-merge-file' is useful for combining separate changes to an original. Suppose `` is the original, and both -`` and `` are modifications of ``. -Then 'git-merge-file' combines both changes. +`` and `` are modifications of ``, +then 'git-merge-file' combines both changes. A conflict occurs if both `` and `` have changes in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, 'git-merge-file' -normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and ->>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this: +normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with lines containing +<<<<<<< and >>>>>>> markers. A typical conflict will look like this: <<<<<<< A lines in file A @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPTIONS ``. -q:: - Quiet; do not warn about conflicts. + Quiet; do not warn about conflicts. EXAMPLES diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt index ff088c5c29..123e6d024a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ OPTIONS Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges returned errors, and only return the error code after all the - merges are over. + merges. -q:: - Do not complain about failed merge program (the merge program - failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for + Do not complain about a failed merge program (a merge program + failure usually indicates conflicts during the merge). This is for porcelains which might want to emit custom messages. If 'git-merge-index' is called with multiple s (or -a) then it diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt index dbb0c18668..f869a7f00f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads three treeish, and output trivial merge results and conflicting stages to the standard output. This is similar to -what three-way read-tree -m does, but instead of storing the +what three-way 'git read-tree -m' does, but instead of storing the results in the index, the command outputs the entries to the standard output. This is meant to be used by higher level scripts to compute -merge results outside index, and stuff the results back into the +merge results outside of the index, and stuff the results back into the index. For this reason, the output from the command omits -entries that match tree. +entries that match the tree. Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 1f30830d46..f7be5846a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -69,20 +69,20 @@ Three kinds of merge can happen: simplest case, called "Already up-to-date." * `HEAD` is already contained in the merged commit. This is the - most common case especially when involved through 'git pull': - you are tracking an upstream repository, committed no local + most common case especially when invoked from 'git pull': + you are tracking an upstream repository, have committed no local changes and now you want to update to a newer upstream revision. - Your `HEAD` (and the index) is updated to at point the merged + Your `HEAD` (and the index) is updated to point at the merged commit, without creating an extra merge commit. This is called "Fast-forward". * Both the merged commit and `HEAD` are independent and must be - tied together by a merge commit that has them both as its parents. + tied together by a merge commit that has both of them as its parents. The rest of this section describes this "True merge" case. The chosen merge strategy merges the two commits into a single new source tree. -When things cleanly merge, these things happen: +When things merge cleanly, this is what happens: 1. The results are updated both in the index file and in your working tree; @@ -91,16 +91,16 @@ When things cleanly merge, these things happen: 4. The `HEAD` pointer gets advanced. Because of 2., we require that the original state of the index -file to match exactly the current `HEAD` commit; otherwise we +file matches exactly the current `HEAD` commit; otherwise we will write out your local changes already registered in your index file along with the merge result, which is not good. -Because 1. involves only the paths different between your +Because 1. involves only those paths differing between your branch and the remote branch you are pulling from during the merge (which is typically a fraction of the whole tree), you can have local modifications in your working tree as long as they do not overlap with what the merge updates. -When there are conflicts, these things happen: +When there are conflicts, the following happens: 1. `HEAD` stays the same. @@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ When there are conflicts, these things happen: versions; stage1 stores the version from the common ancestor, stage2 from `HEAD`, and stage3 from the remote branch (you can inspect the stages with `git ls-files -u`). The working - tree files have the result of "merge" program; i.e. 3-way - merge result with familiar conflict markers `<<< === >>>`. + tree files contain the result of the "merge" program; i.e. 3-way + merge results with familiar conflict markers `<<< === >>>`. 4. No other changes are done. In particular, the local modifications you had before you started merge will stay the @@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ Git makes conflict resolution easy. And here is another line that is cleanly resolved or unmodified. ------------ -The area a pair of conflicting changes happened is marked with markers +The area where a pair of conflicting changes happened is marked with markers "`<<<<<<<`", "`=======`", and "`>>>>>>>`". The part before the "`=======`" -is typically your side, and the part after it is typically their side. +is typically your side, and the part afterwards is typically their side. -The default format does not show what the original said in the conflicted -area. You cannot tell how many lines are deleted and replaced with the -Barbie's remark by your side. The only thing you can tell is that your +The default format does not show what the original said in the conflicting +area. You cannot tell how many lines are deleted and replaced with +Barbie's remark on your side. The only thing you can tell is that your side wants to say it is hard and you'd prefer to go shopping, while the other side wants to claim it is easy. @@ -186,14 +186,14 @@ HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS After seeing a conflict, you can do two things: - * Decide not to merge. The only clean-up you need are to reset + * Decide not to merge. The only clean-ups you need are to reset the index file to the `HEAD` commit to reverse 2. and to clean up working tree changes made by 2. and 3.; 'git-reset --hard' can be used for this. * Resolve the conflicts. Git will mark the conflicts in the working tree. Edit the files into shape and - 'git-add' to the index. 'git-commit' to seal the deal. + 'git-add' them to the index. Use 'git-commit' to seal the deal. You can work through the conflict with a number of tools: diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index e0b2703b38..4c0ffec507 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-mergetool - Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge conflicts SYNOPSIS -------- -'git mergetool' [--tool=] []... +'git mergetool' [--tool=] [-y|--no-prompt|--prompt] []... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ can configure the absolute path to kdiff3 by setting `mergetool.kdiff3.path`. Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' assumes the tool is available in PATH. + -Instead of running one of the known merge tool programs +Instead of running one of the known merge tool programs, 'git-mergetool' can be customized to run an alternative program by specifying the command line to invoke in a configuration variable `mergetool..cmd`. @@ -55,11 +55,20 @@ of the file to which the merge tool should write the result of the merge resolution. + If the custom merge tool correctly indicates the success of a -merge resolution with its exit code then the configuration +merge resolution with its exit code, then the configuration variable `mergetool..trustExitCode` can be set to `true`. Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited. +-y or --no-prompt:: + Don't prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution + program. + +--prompt:: + Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. + This is the default behaviour; the option is provided to + override any configuration settings. + Author ------ Written by Theodore Y Ts'o diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt index 6b2f8c4de7..514f03c979 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ post-receive Hook ----------------- After all refs were updated (or attempted to be updated), if any ref update was successful, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive -file exists and is executable, it will be invoke once with no +file exists and is executable, it will be invoked once with no parameters. The standard input of the hook will be one line for each successfully updated ref: @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ post-update Hook ---------------- After all other processing, if at least one ref was updated, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update file exists and is executable, then -post-update will called with the list of refs that have been updated. +post-update will be called with the list of refs that have been updated. This can be used to implement any repository wide cleanup tasks. The exit code from this hook invocation is ignored; the only thing diff --git a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt index d99236e14d..7f7a5445c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reflog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reflog.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ updated. This command is to manage the information recorded in it. The subcommand "expire" is used to prune older reflog entries. Entries older than `expire` time, or entries older than -`expire-unreachable` time and are not reachable from the current +`expire-unreachable` time and not reachable from the current tip, are removed from the reflog. This is typically not used directly by the end users -- instead, see linkgit:git-gc[1]. @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ them. which in turn defaults to 90 days. --expire-unreachable=