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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 6 |
7 files changed, 60 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt index 3b919e89e..dab4831ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt @@ -4,6 +4,42 @@ Git v1.8.2.2 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.2.1 -------------------- + * Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked + files needs to be escaped with another '%'. + + * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed + crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an + timestamp can always be found in it. + + * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few + places. + + * "git pull --rebase" did not pass "-v/-q" options to underlying + "git rebase". + + * When receive-pack detects error in the pack header it received in + order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it + returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang + sideband thread. + + * "git diff --diff-algorithm=algo" was understood by the command line + parser, but "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" was not. + + * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but + there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv + option. + + * "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from + "git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did + not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code + notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref() + based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears + in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags. + + * "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can take more than one commit + on the command line these days, but it was not mentioned on the usage + text. + * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null) the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do. Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 323827962..e97faccb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1090,11 +1090,11 @@ format.thread:: value disables threading. format.signoff:: - A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of - format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a - patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have - the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. - Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. + A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of + format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a + patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have + the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. + Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. filter.<driver>.clean:: The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree @@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ gitcvs.dbname:: gitcvs.dbdriver:: Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver - for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested + for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature. May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'. diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 9b1be5581..817293865 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]). -e:: --edit:: The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with - `-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the - commit log message unmodified. This option lets you + `-m`, and from commit object with `-C` are usually used as + the commit log message unmodified. This option lets you further edit the message taken from these sources. --no-edit:: diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 807a13c80..8438c076c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v1.8.2.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.1] +* link:v1.8.2.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.2] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2]. link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1]. link:RelNotes/1.8.2.txt[1.8.2]. diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index eb636317b..ea0526ecc 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -857,6 +857,13 @@ adding the following lines to your gitweb configuration file: $known_snapshot_formats{'zip'}{'disabled'} = 1; $known_snapshot_formats{'tgz'}{'compressor'} = ['gzip','-6']; +BUGS +---- +Debugging would be easier if the fallback configuration file +(`/etc/gitweb.conf`) and environment variable to override its location +('GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM') had names reflecting their "fallback" role. +The current names are kept to avoid breaking working setups. + ENVIRONMENT ----------- The location of per-instance and system-wide configuration files can be diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index ce3e4fae7..68a18e149 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -420,9 +420,7 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec. <<def_merge,merge>> left behind. [[def_revision]]revision:: - A particular state of files and directories which was stored in the - <<def_object_database,object database>>. It is referenced by a - <<def_commit_object,commit object>>. + Synonym for <<def_commit,commit>> (the noun). [[def_rewind]]rewind:: To throw away part of the development, i.e. to assign the diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 66db80296..49a9a7d53 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ patience;; this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly. See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`. +diff-algorithm=[patience|minimal|histogram|myers];; + Tells 'merge-recursive' to use a different diff algorithm, which + can help avoid mismerges that occur due to unimportant matching + lines (such as braces from distinct functions). See also + linkgit:git-diff[1] `--diff-algorithm`. + ignore-space-change;; ignore-all-space;; ignore-space-at-eol;; |