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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-mv.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-stripspace.txt | 69 |
3 files changed, 94 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt index 0e8bd9f5e..33dc948b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.1.txt @@ -1,17 +1,38 @@ Git v1.7.8.1 Release Notes ========================== -Fixes since v1.7.8.1 --------------------- +Fixes since v1.7.8 +------------------ * In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are. - * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting - output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + * "git apply --check" did not error out when given an empty input + without any patch. + + * "git archive" mistakenly allowed remote clients to ask for commits + that are not at the tip of any ref. * "git checkout" and "git merge" treated in-tree .gitignore and exclude file in $GIT_DIR/info/ directory inconsistently when deciding which untracked files are ignored and expendable. + * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter used when checking out a large-ish blob + fell into an infinite loop with a rare input. + + * The function header pattern for files with "diff=cpp" attribute did + not consider "type *funcname(type param1,..." as the beginning of a + function. + + * The error message from "git diff" and "git status" when they fail + to inspect changes in submodules did not report which submodule they + had trouble with. + + * After fetching from a remote that has very long refname, the reporting + output could have corrupted by overrunning a static buffer. + + * "git pack-objects" avoids creating cyclic dependencies among deltas + when seeing a broken packfile that records the same object in both + the deflated form and as a delta. + Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/git-mv.txt b/Documentation/git-mv.txt index b8db37396..e3c844861 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mv.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mv.txt @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- This script is used to move or rename a file, directory or symlink. - git mv [-f] [-n] <source> <destination> - git mv [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> ... <destination directory> + git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> <destination> + git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> ... <destination directory> In the first form, it renames <source>, which must exist and be either a file, symlink or directory, to <destination>. @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ OPTIONS --dry-run:: Do nothing; only show what would happen +-v:: +--verbose:: + Report the names of files as they are moved. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt index b78f031cd..a80d94650 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt @@ -3,26 +3,83 @@ git-stripspace(1) NAME ---- -git-stripspace - Filter out empty lines +git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git stripspace' [-s | --strip-comments] < <stream> +'git stripspace' [-s | --strip-comments] < input DESCRIPTION ----------- -Remove multiple empty lines, and empty lines at beginning and end. + +Clean the input in the manner used by 'git' for text such as commit +messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions. + +With no arguments, this will: + +- remove trailing whitespace from all lines +- collapse multiple consecutive empty lines into one empty line +- remove empty lines from the beginning and end of the input +- add a missing '\n' to the last line if necessary. + +In the case where the input consists entirely of whitespace characters, no +output will be produced. + +*NOTE*: This is intended for cleaning metadata, prefer the `--whitespace=fix` +mode of linkgit:git-apply[1] for correcting whitespace of patches or files in +the repository. OPTIONS ------- -s:: --strip-comments:: - In addition to empty lines, also strip lines starting with '#'. + Skip and remove all lines starting with '#'. + +EXAMPLES +-------- + +Given the following noisy input with '$' indicating the end of a line: -<stream>:: - Byte stream to act on. +-------- +|A brief introduction $ +| $ +|$ +|A new paragraph$ +|# with a commented-out line $ +|explaining lots of stuff.$ +|$ +|# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $ +| $ +|The end.$ +| $ +--------- + +Use 'git stripspace' with no arguments to obtain: + +-------- +|A brief introduction$ +|$ +|A new paragraph$ +|# with a commented-out line$ +|explaining lots of stuff.$ +|$ +|# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$ +|$ +|The end.$ +--------- + +Use 'git stripspace --strip-comments' to obtain: + +-------- +|A brief introduction$ +|$ +|A new paragraph$ +|explaining lots of stuff.$ +|$ +|The end.$ +--------- GIT --- |