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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-name-rev.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 5 |
5 files changed, 43 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 6a4da2ddd..b94d9a816 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -65,6 +65,19 @@ in templates/hooks--pre-commit. To help ensure this does not happen, run git diff --check on your changes before you commit. +(1a) Try to be nice to older C compilers + +We try to support wide range of C compilers to compile +git with. That means that you should not use C99 initializers, even +if a lot of compilers grok it. + +Also, variables have to be declared at the beginning of the block +(you can check this with gcc, using the -Wdeclaration-after-statement +option). + +Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0. + + (2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits. git based diff tools (git, Cogito, and StGIT included) generate diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index ee1c35e8e..eb2e79ae2 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -256,6 +256,11 @@ You probably do not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. +core.excludeFile:: + In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and + '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns + of files which are not meant to be tracked. + alias.*:: Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation @@ -275,6 +280,13 @@ apply.whitespace:: Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the '--whitespace' option. See gitlink:git-apply[1]. +branch.autosetupmerge:: + Tells `git-branch' and `git-checkout' to setup new branches + so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that + remote branch. Note that even if this option is not set, + this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` + and `--no-track` options. This option defaults to false. + branch.<name>.remote:: When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` which remote to fetch. If this option is not given, `git fetch` defaults to remote "origin". diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 47a583d3a..dc47b65ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-describe' [--all] [--tags] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>... +'git-describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ OPTIONS Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag found in `.git/refs/tags`. +--contains:: + Instead of finding the tag that predates the commit, find + the tag that comes after the commit, and thus contains it. + Automatically implies --tags. + --abbrev=<n>:: Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the abbreviated object name, use <n> digits. diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index d6c8bf800..9a1645d29 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ OPTIONS Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable commits, and pass to stdout +--name-only:: + Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only + the name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of + "tags/" is also ommitted from the name, matching the output + of gitlink::git-describe[1] more closely. This option + cannot be combined with --stdin. + EXAMPLE ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index e9e193f00..d7015387b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ mean the same thing and the latter is kept for backward compatibility) and `color.status.<slot>` configuration variables to colorize its output. +As for gitlink:git-add[1], the configuration variable +'core.excludesfile' can indicate a path to a file containing patterns +of file names to exclude, in addition to patterns given in +'info/exclude' and '.gitignore'. + Author ------ |