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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt115
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-submodule.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitmodules.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt15
10 files changed, 174 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce5579db3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+Git v2.0.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+ * We used to unconditionally disable the pager in the pager process
+ we spawn to feed out output, but that prevented people who want to
+ run "less" within "less" from doing so.
+
+ * Tools that read diagnostic output in our standard error stream do
+ not want to see terminal control sequence (e.g. erase-to-eol).
+ Detect them by checking if the standard error stream is connected
+ to a tty.
+ * Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing
+ loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as
+ the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true.
+
+ * "git log -2master" is a common typo that shows two commits starting
+ from whichever random branch that is not 'master' that happens to
+ be checked out currently.
+
+ * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
+ commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
+ in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did
+ not take into account that number of bytes and number of display
+ columns are different.
+
+ * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde
+ expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path).
+
+ * The completion scripts (in contrib/) did not know about quite a few
+ options that are common between "git merge" and "git pull", and a
+ couple of options unique to "git merge".
+
+ * "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces
+ at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent
+ with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have.
+
+ * "git blame" miscounted number of columns needed to show localized
+ timestamps, resulting in jaggy left-side-edge of the source code
+ lines in its output.
+
+ * "git blame" assigned the blame to the copy in the working-tree if
+ the repository is set to core.autocrlf=input and the file used CRLF
+ line endings.
+
+ * "git commit --allow-empty-message -C $commit" did not work when the
+ commit did not have any log message.
+
+ * "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode
+ bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged
+ bit.
+
+ * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow"
+ option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with
+ exactly one pathspec.
+
+ * "git gc --auto" was recently changed to run in the background to
+ give control back early to the end-user sitting in front of the
+ terminal, but it forgot that housekeeping involving reflogs should
+ be done without other processes competing for accesses to the refs.
+
+ * "git grep -O" to show the lines that hit in the pager did not work
+ well with case insensitive search. We now spawn "less" with its
+ "-I" option when it is used as the pager (which is the default).
+
+ * We used to disable threaded "git index-pack" on platforms without
+ thread-safe pread(); use a different workaround for such
+ platforms to allow threaded "git index-pack".
+
+ * The error reporting from "git index-pack" has been improved to
+ distinguish missing objects from type errors.
+
+ * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while
+ parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch.
+
+ * On a case insensitive filesystem, merge-recursive incorrectly
+ deleted the file that is to be renamed to a name that is the same
+ except for case differences.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when
+ extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table
+ from scratch anyway.
+
+ * "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle
+ was set to a non-default value.
+
+ * "git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can involve removing many
+ refs at once, which is not a very efficient thing to do when very
+ many refs exist in the packed-refs file.
+
+ * "git log --exclude=<glob> --all | git shortlog" worked as expected,
+ but "git shortlog --exclude=<glob> --all", which is supposed to be
+ identical to the above pipeline, was not accepted at the command
+ line argument parser level.
+
+ * The autostash mode of "git rebase -i" did not restore the dirty
+ working tree state if the user aborted the interactive rebase by
+ emptying the insn sheet.
+
+ * "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit
+ an extra blank line after a merge commit.
+
+ * "git status", even though it is a read-only operation, tries to
+ update the index with refreshed lstat(2) info to optimize future
+ accesses to the working tree opportunistically, but this could
+ race with a "read-write" operation that modify the index while it
+ is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index.
+
+ * "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
+ submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
+ which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
+ output during the course of development, and should not to hide
+ changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
+ them.
+
+ * The mode to run tests with HTTP server tests disabled was broken.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e8321b2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Git v2.0.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+ * Documentation for "git submodule sync" forgot to say that the subcommand
+ can take the "--recursive" option.
+
+ * Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted
+ with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
+ are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
+ mistake.
+
+ * "git clone -b brefs/tags/bar" would have mistakenly thought we were
+ following a single tag, even though it was a name of the branch,
+ because it incorrectly used strstr().
+
+ * "%G" (nothing after G) is an invalid pretty format specifier, but
+ the parser did not notice it as garbage.
+
+ * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was
+ subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed.
+
+ * A handful of code paths had to read the commit object more than
+ once when showing header fields that are usually not parsed. The
+ internal data structure to keep track of the contents of the commit
+ object has been updated to reduce the need for this double-reading,
+ and to allow the caller find the length of the object.
+
+ * During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be
+ skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted.
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 1932e9b9a..c08286e96 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2293,7 +2293,9 @@ status.submodulesummary::
--summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note
that the summary output command will be suppressed for all
submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only
- for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. To
+ for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. The only
+ exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged
+ submodule changes. To
also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use
the --ignore-submodules=dirty command line option or the 'git
submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
@@ -2324,7 +2326,9 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
submodule.<name>.ignore::
Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
- modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
+ modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
+ commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
+ to the submodules work tree and
takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 987395d22..54143a069 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")"
+
If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in
your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object
-you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
+you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter.
For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR`
names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an
annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR`
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 89c4d3e39..8e6af65da 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>]
[commit] [--] [<path>...]
'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
-'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index b075e0bed..9d0883d28 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master'
branch of the `git.git` repository.
Documentation for older releases are available here:
-* link:v2.0.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.0]
+* link:v2.0.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.2]
* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes/2.0.2.txt[2.0.2],
+ link:RelNotes/2.0.1.txt[2.0.1],
link:RelNotes/2.0.0.txt[2.0.0].
* link:v1.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.9.4]
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 347a9f76e..f6c0dfd02 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
submodule.<name>.ignore::
Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
- modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
+ modified (but will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
+ commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
+ to the submodules work tree and
takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index be0858c18..4e0b97182 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
[[def_alternate_object_database]]alternate object database::
Via the alternates mechanism, a <<def_repository,repository>>
can inherit part of its <<def_object_database,object database>>
- from another object database, which is called "alternate".
+ from another object database, which is called an "alternate".
[[def_bare_repository]]bare repository::
A bare repository is normally an appropriately
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 3350d97dd..1d00e4d59 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ use the mem* functions than a str* one (memchr vs. strchr e.g.).
Though, one has to be careful about the fact that str* functions often
stop on NULs and that strbufs may have embedded NULs.
-An strbuf is NUL terminated for convenience, but no function in the
+A strbuf is NUL terminated for convenience, but no function in the
strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs.
-strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
+strbufs have some invariants that are very important to keep in mind:
. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C
string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ Data structures
* `struct strbuf`
This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to
-determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to
-the string itself.
+determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides
+access to the string itself.
Functions
---------
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ strbuf_addstr(sb, "immediate string");
`strbuf_addbuf`::
- Copy the contents of an other buffer at the end of the current one.
+ Copy the contents of another buffer at the end of the current one.
`strbuf_adddup`::
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 022e74e61..46aa6bc1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -416,12 +416,11 @@ REVISIONS" section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
Updating a repository with git fetch
------------------------------------
-Eventually the developer cloned from will do additional work in her
-repository, creating new commits and advancing the branches to point
-at the new commits.
+After you clone a repository and commit a few changes of your own, you
+may wish to check the original repository for updates.
-The command `git fetch`, with no arguments, will update all of the
-remote-tracking branches to the latest version found in her
+The `git-fetch` command, with no arguments, will update all of the
+remote-tracking branches to the latest version found in the original
repository. It will not touch any of your own branches--not even the
"master" branch that was created for you on clone.
@@ -1811,8 +1810,8 @@ manner.
You can then import these into your mail client and send them by
hand. However, if you have a lot to send at once, you may prefer to
use the linkgit:git-send-email[1] script to automate the process.
-Consult the mailing list for your project first to determine how they
-prefer such patches be handled.
+Consult the mailing list for your project first to determine
+their requirements for submitting patches.
[[importing-patches]]
Importing patches to a project
@@ -2255,7 +2254,7 @@ $ git checkout test && git merge speed-up-spinlocks
It is unlikely that you would have any conflicts here ... but you might if you
spent a while on this step and had also pulled new versions from upstream.
-Some time later when enough time has passed and testing done, you can pull the
+Sometime later when enough time has passed and testing done, you can pull the
same branch into the `release` tree ready to go upstream. This is where you
see the value of keeping each patch (or patch series) in its own branch. It
means that the patches can be moved into the `release` tree in any order.