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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/blame-options.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-add.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-am.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-annotate.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archive.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-blame.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-config.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt38
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-svn.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitk.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt2
25 files changed, 160 insertions, 78 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
index f6393f8a9..7bfa34175 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.2.2.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Fixes since v1.5.2.1
correctly when the branch name had slash in it.
- The email address of the user specified with user.email
- configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable.
+ configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable.
- The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with
nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
index 7a9646fc4..51b32f5d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.2.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.1
* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were
broken in 1.6.0.1.
-* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did nto
+* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not
work well.
* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
index 88454c197..8c594ba02 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.1.txt
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Fixes since v1.6.1
work tree upon delete/modify conflict.
* "git merge -s recursive" didn't leave the index unmerged for entries with
- rename/delete conflictd.
+ rename/delete conflicts.
* "git merge -s recursive" clobbered untracked files in the work tree.
-* "git mv -k" with more than one errorneous paths misbehaved.
+* "git mv -k" with more than one erroneous paths misbehaved.
* "git read-tree -m -u" hence branch switching incorrectly lost a
subdirectory in rare cases.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
index 230aa3d8e..be37cbb85 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.2.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ GIT v1.6.1.2 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.6.1.1
--------------------
-* The logic for rename detectin in internal diff used by commands like
- "git diff" and "git blame" have been optimized to avoid loading the same
+* The logic for rename detection in internal diff used by commands like
+ "git diff" and "git blame" has been optimized to avoid loading the same
blob repeatedly.
* We did not allow writing out a blob that is larger than 2GB for no good
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3a2d3bf84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes
+==========================
+
+Fixes since v1.6.2
+------------------
+
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt
index d3e9583ab..ad060f4f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ v1.6.1.X series.
* "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree
at the end when it is run in a bare repository.
+* "git gc" did not work if your repository was created with an ancient git
+ and never had any pack files in it before.
+
* "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes
based content rewriting.
@@ -159,9 +162,3 @@ v1.6.1.X series.
* "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state
when killed in the middle.
-
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-v1.6.2-rc0-89-gf7a2bdb
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index 1ab1b96cf..df2a7c164 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
-S <revs-file>::
Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
+--reverse::
+ Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
+ the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last
+ revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of
+ revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in
+ START.
+
-p::
--porcelain::
Show in a format designed for machine consumption.
@@ -67,7 +74,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
Detect moving lines in the file as well. When a commit
moves a block of lines in a file (e.g. the original file
has A and then B, and the commit changes it to B and
- then A), traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
+ then A), the traditional 'blame' algorithm typically blames
the lines that were moved up (i.e. B) to the parent and
assigns blame to the lines that were moved down (i.e. A)
to the child commit. With this option, both groups of lines
@@ -83,8 +90,8 @@ commit.
files that were modified in the same commit. This is
useful when you reorganize your program and move code
around across files. When this option is given twice,
- the command looks for copies from all other files in the
- parent for the commit that creates the file in addition.
+ the command additionally looks for copies from all other
+ files in the parent for the commit that creates the file.
+
<num> is optional but it is the lower bound on the number of
alphanumeric characters that git must detect as moving
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 6c79a87f5..ce71838b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ $ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
------------
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
-example; this lets the command to include the files from
+example; this lets the command include the files from
subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
* Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
$ git add git-*.sh
------------
+
-Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
+Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
`subdir/git-foo.sh`.
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ one deletion).
update::
- This shows the status information and gives prompt
- "Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
+ This shows the status information and issues an "Update>>"
+ prompt. When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
@@ -238,8 +238,8 @@ add untracked::
patch::
- This lets you choose one path out of 'status' like selection.
- After choosing the path, it presents diff between the index
+ This lets you choose one path out of a 'status' like selection.
+ After choosing the path, it presents the diff between the index
and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
the change of each hunk. You can say:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index ff307eb27..1e71dd536 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ OPTIONS
-------
<mbox>|<Maildir>...::
The list of mailbox files to read patches from. If you do not
- supply this argument, reads from the standard input. If you supply
- directories, they'll be treated as Maildirs.
+ supply this argument, the command reads from the standard input.
+ If you supply directories, they will be treated as Maildirs.
-s::
--signoff::
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8).
+
This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the
-default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
+default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
--no-utf8::
Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this.
-3::
--3way::
When the patch does not apply cleanly, fall back on
- 3-way merge, if the patch records the identity of blobs
- it is supposed to apply to, and we have those blobs
+ 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs
+ it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
available locally.
--whitespace=<option>::
@@ -121,18 +121,18 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
a one line text.
-The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
-RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
-that are different from those of the mail header, to override
-the values of these fields.
+The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line
+that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and
+"From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header,
+to override the values of these fields.
The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
-where the patch begins. Excess whitespaces at the end of the
+where the patch begins. Excess whitespace characters at the end of the
lines are automatically stripped.
The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
-message. Any line that is of form:
+message. Any line that is of the form:
* three-dashes and end-of-line, or
* a line that begins with "diff -", or
@@ -141,18 +141,18 @@ message. Any line that is of form:
is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
-When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes
-to crunch. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
-aborts in the middle,. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
+When initially invoking it, you give it the names of the mailboxes
+to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
+aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
-. skip the current patch by re-running the command with '--skip'
+. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
option.
. hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
- the index file to bring it in a state that the patch should
- have produced. Then run the command with '--resolved' option.
+ the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
+ have produced. Then run the command with the '--resolved' option.
-The command refuses to process new mailboxes while `.git/rebase-apply`
+The command refuses to process new mailboxes while the `.git/rebase-apply`
directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` before running the command with mailbox
names.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt
index 0aba022ba..0590eec05 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-annotate.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-annotate.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-annotate(1)
NAME
----
-git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit info
+git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information
SYNOPSIS
--------
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit
-which introduced the line. Optionally annotate from a given revision.
+which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision.
The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that
they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only
-for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide more
+for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more
familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems.
OPTIONS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 9400f6a5d..9e5baa277 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and a work tree.
OPTIONS
-------
<patch>...::
- The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
+ The files to read the patch from. '-' can be used to read
from the standard input.
--stat::
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS
input. Turns off "apply".
--numstat::
- Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
- deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
+ Similar to \--stat, but shows the number of added and
+ deleted lines in decimal notation and the pathname without
abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
`0 0`. Turns off "apply".
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ OPTIONS
causes the index file to be updated.
--cached::
- Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
- cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
+ Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead take the
+ cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index
without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
--build-fake-ancestor=<file>::
Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information'
for each blob to help identify the original version that
the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
- the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
+ the original versions of the blobs are available locally,
builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
+
When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
+
-Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
+Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches is
discouraged.
--apply::
If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the
- information you asked without actually applying the
+ requested information without actually applying the
patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
the patch.
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ discouraged.
patch. This can be used to extract the common part between
two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying
the result with this option, which would apply the
- deletion part but not addition part.
+ deletion part but not the addition part.
--allow-binary-replacement::
--binary::
@@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ on the command line, and ignored if there is any include pattern.
considered whitespace errors.
+
By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
-When `git-apply is used for statistics and not applying a
+When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
+
-You can use different `<action>` to control this
+You can use different `<action>` values to control this
behavior:
+
* `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ behavior:
patch as-is (default).
* `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
- used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
+ used to consider only trailing whitespace characters as errors, and the
fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
* `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
to apply the patch.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ behavior:
adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
--directory=<root>::
- Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
+ Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was also passed,
it is applied before prepending the new root.
+
For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
are not updated.
If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
-are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
+are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding
subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
Author
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 41cbf9c08..5b3eb12c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@ tar.umask::
archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for
details.
+ATTRIBUTES
+----------
+
+export-ignore::
+ Files and directories with the attribute export-ignore won't be
+ added to archive files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
+export-subst::
+ If the attribute export-subst is set for a file then git will
+ expand several placeholders when adding this file to an archive.
+ See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+
EXAMPLES
--------
git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
@@ -110,6 +122,11 @@ git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs
Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitattributes[5]
+
Author
------
Written by Franck Bui-Huu and Rene Scharfe.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 6999cf2a6..4ef54d660 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[verse]
'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
[-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
- [<rev> | --contents <file>] [--] <file>
+ [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index 19a8917b8..6ab2af4b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied
by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output.
+--bool-or-int::
+ 'git-config' will ensure that the output matches the format of
+ either --bool or --int, as described above.
+
-z::
--null::
For all options that output values and/or keys, always
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 7d1eced7d..4e7e5a719 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git push' [--all | --mirror] [--dry-run] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
+'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
[--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [-v | --verbose]
[<repository> <refspec>...]
@@ -48,17 +48,19 @@ push. Arbitrary expressions cannot be used here, an actual ref must
be named. If `:`<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be
updated.
+
-The object referenced by <src> is used to fast forward the ref <dst>
-on the remote side. If the optional leading plus `{plus}` is used, the
-remote ref is updated even if it does not result in a fast forward
-update.
+The object referenced by <src> is used to update the <dst> reference
+on the remote side, but by default this is only allowed if the
+update can fast forward <dst>. By having the optional leading `{plus}`,
+you can tell git to update the <dst> ref even when the update is not a
+fast forward. This does *not* attempt to merge <src> into <dst>. See
+EXAMPLES below for details.
+
`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
+
Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from
the remote repository.
+
-The special refspec `:` (or `+:` to allow non-fast forward updates)
+The special refspec `:` (or `{plus}:` to allow non-fast forward updates)
directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on
the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name
already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode
@@ -218,6 +220,30 @@ git push origin :experimental::
Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository
(e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it.
+git push origin {plus}dev:master::
+ Update the origin repository's master branch with the dev branch,
+ allowing non-fast forward updates. *This can leave unreferenced
+ commits dangling in the origin repository.* Consider the
+ following situation, where a fast forward is not possible:
++
+----
+ o---o---o---A---B origin/master
+ \
+ X---Y---Z dev
+----
++
+The above command would change the origin repository to
++
+----
+ A---B (unnamed branch)
+ /
+ o---o---o---X---Y---Z master
+----
++
+Commits A and B would no longer belong to a branch with a symbolic name,
+and so would be unreachable. As such, these commits would be removed by
+a `git gc` command on the origin repository.
+
Author
------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 30487de48..da3c38cd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ OPTIONS
context exist they all must match. By default no context is
ever ignored.
---whitespace=<nowarn|warn|error|error-all|strip>::
+--whitespace=<option>::
This flag is passed to the 'git-apply' program
(see linkgit:git-apply[1]) that applies the patch.
Incompatible with the --interactive option.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index ff4aeff4e..66bf3b2fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ The header of the email is configurable by command line options. If not
specified on the command line, the user will be prompted with a ReadLine
enabled interface to provide the necessary information.
+There are two formats accepted for patch files:
+
+1. mbox format files
++
+This is what linkgit:git-format-patch[1] generates. Most headers and MIME
+formatting are ignored.
+
+2. The original format used by Greg Kroah-Hartman's 'send_lots_of_email.pl'
+script
++
+This format expects the first line of the file to contain the "Cc:" value
+and the "Subject:" of the message as the second line.
+
OPTIONS
-------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 3d456545d..cda338933 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ and have no uncommitted changes.
reused if a user is later given access to an alternate transport
method (e.g. `svn+ssh://` or `https://`) for commit.
+config key: svn-remote.<name>.commiturl
+
+config key: svn.commiturl (overwrites all svn-remote.<name>.commiturl options)
+
Using this option for any other purpose (don't ask)
is very strongly discouraged.
--
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 0c7bba3fa..9a26bde73 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,6 +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:v1.6.2/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.2]
+
+* release notes for
+ link:RelNotes-1.6.2.txt[1.6.2].
+
* link:v1.6.1.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.6.1.3]
* release notes for
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 227934f59..55668e345 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives
Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:
- glob attr1 attr2 ...
+ pattern attr1 attr2 ...
-That is, a glob pattern followed by an attributes list,
-separated by whitespaces. When the glob pattern matches the
+That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list,
+separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the
path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to
the path.
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ Set to a value::
Unspecified::
- No glob pattern matches the path, and nothing says if
+ No pattern matches the path, and nothing says if
the path has or does not have the attribute, the
attribute for the path is said to be Unspecified.
-When more than one glob pattern matches the path, a later line
+When more than one pattern matches the path, a later line
overrides an earlier line. This overriding is done per
-attribute.
+attribute. The rules how the pattern matches paths are the
+same as in `.gitignore` files; see linkgit:gitignore[5].
When deciding what attributes are assigned to a path, git
consults `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file (which has the highest
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index bd005bc5c..cf465cb47 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ frequently used options.
<path>...::
Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
- avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
+ avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
from any preceding options.
Examples
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
index 39b1da440..3b4a39000 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Such a "revert" of a merge can be made with:
$ git revert -m 1 M
-After the develpers of the side branch fixes their mistakes, the history
+After the developers of the side branch fix their mistakes, the history
may look like this:
---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example:
/ \ /
---A---B A'--B'--C'
-where Y is the revert of W, A' and B'are rerolled A and B, and there may
+where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may
also be a further fix-up C' on the side branch. "diff Y^..Y" is similar
to "diff -R W^..W" (which in turn means it is similar to "diff M^..M"),
and "diff A'^..C'" by definition would be similar but different from that,
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
index 403274860..622ee5c8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Then, add something like this to your httpd.conf
Require valid-user
</Location>
- Debian automatically reads all files under /etc/apach2/conf.d.
+ Debian automatically reads all files under /etc/apache2/conf.d.
The password file can be somewhere else, but it has to be readable by
Apache and preferably not readable by the world.
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index b9f6e4d1b..7dd237c2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
Synonym for `--date=relative`.
---date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}::
+--date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short,raw}::
Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
as when using "--pretty". `log.date` config variable sets a default
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ format, often found in E-mail messages.
+
`--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
+
+`--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw git format `%s %z` format.
++
`--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
(either committer's or author's).
@@ -566,11 +568,11 @@ This outputs all the commit objects between the included and excluded
commits, ordered by their distance to the included and excluded
commits. The farthest from them is displayed first. (This is the only
one displayed by `--bisect`.)
-
++
This is useful because it makes it easy to choose a good commit to
test when you want to avoid to test some of them for some reason (they
may not compile for example).
-
++
This option can be used along with `--bisect-vars`, in this case,
after all the sorted commit objects, there will be the same text as if
`--bisect-vars` had been used alone.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index ac56d1c47..743814924 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
Read a given size of data from a FILE* pointer to the buffer.
+
-NOTE: The buffer is rewinded if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
+NOTE: The buffer is rewound if the read fails. If -1 is returned,
`errno` must be consulted, like you would do for `read(3)`.
`strbuf_read()`, `strbuf_read_file()` and `strbuf_getline()` has the
same behaviour as well.