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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Makefile | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt | 40 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-blame.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-log.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gittutorial.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-options.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 9 |
23 files changed, 176 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index cf5916fe8..267dfe135 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ man5dir=$(mandir)/man5 man7dir=$(mandir)/man7 # DESTDIR= -ASCIIDOC=asciidoc +ASCIIDOC = asciidoc ASCIIDOC_EXTRA = MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl +XMLTO = xmlto XMLTO_EXTRA = INSTALL?=install RM ?= rm -f @@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in %.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl $(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \ - xmlto -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $< + $(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $< %.xml : %.txt $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..69255745e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Git 1.7.12.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12.1 +--------------------- + + * When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..." + header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly. + + * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to + blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it + more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other + branch that is being merged. + + * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not + "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got + confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so. + + * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the + "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same + issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes + much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). + + * "git log/diff/format-patch --stat" showed the "N line(s) added" + comment in user's locale and caused careless submitters to send + patches with such a line in them to projects whose project language + is not their language, mildly irritating others. Localization to + the line has been disabled for now. + + * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that + mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with + --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or + B (or both) instead. + + * The subcommand to remove the definition of a remote in "git remote" + was named "rm" even though all other subcommands were spelled out. + Introduce "git remote remove" to remove confusion, and keep "rm" as + a backward compatible synonym. + +Also contains a handful of documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ecda427a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git 1.7.12.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.12.2 +--------------------- + + * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream + (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not + honored correctly. + + * It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is + unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option. + + * A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch + refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the + subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating + the whole point of specifying "only this branch". + + * "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server + misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the + configuration in general, and has been reverted. + + * "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which + is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on + its Accept-Encoding header. + + * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give + progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + when run over the smart-http protocol. + + * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but + "git commit" didn't. + +Also contains a handful of documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 7ee923629..e44173f66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision. The command can also limit the range of lines annotated. +The origin of lines is automatically followed across whole-file +renames (currently there is no option to turn the rename-following +off). To follow lines moved from one file to another, or to follow +lines that were copied and pasted from another file, etc., see the +`-C` and `-M` options. + The report does not tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or replaced; you need to use a tool such as 'git diff' or the "pickaxe" interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph. diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index c1ddd4c2c..6d98ef3d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ currently active branch. After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the -current master branch, if any. +current master branch, if any (this is untrue when "--single-branch" +is given; see below). This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `refs/remotes/origin` and @@ -152,9 +153,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. -b <name>:: Instead of pointing the newly created HEAD to the branch pointed to by the cloned repository's HEAD, point to `<name>` branch - instead. `--branch` can also take tags and treat them like - detached HEAD. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch - that will be checked out. + instead. In a non-bare repository, this is the branch that will + be checked out. + `--branch` can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit + in the resulting repository. --upload-pack <upload-pack>:: -u <upload-pack>:: @@ -193,6 +195,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. clone with the `--depth` option, this is the default, unless `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. + Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the + remote tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the + initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any + branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote tracking + branch is created. --recursive:: --recurse-submodules:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 4622297ec..9594ac8e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -389,8 +389,10 @@ DISCUSSION Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description. -Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line -on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body. +The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated +as the commit title, and that title is used throughout git. +For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a commit into email, and it uses +the title on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body. include::i18n.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index c872b883b..db55a4e0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -102,9 +102,10 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, and `date` to extract the named component. The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`. -Its first line is `contents:subject`, the remaining lines -are `contents:body` and the optional GPG signature -is `contents:signature`. +Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation +of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line. The next +line is 'contents:body', where body is all of the lines after the first +blank line. Finally, the optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`). diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 04c7346e3..6d43f5627 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -58,10 +58,13 @@ output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified. If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>. Otherwise they are created in the current working directory. -By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] First Line" and -the subject when multiple patches are output is "[PATCH n/m] First -Line". To force 1/1 to be added for a single patch, use `-n`. To omit -patch numbers from the subject, use `-N`. +By default, the subject of a single patch is "[PATCH] " followed by +the concatenation of lines from the commit message up to the first blank +line (see the DISCUSSION section of linkgit:git-commit[1]). + +When multiple patches are output, the subject prefix will instead be +"[PATCH n/m] ". To force 1/1 to be added for a single patch, use `-n`. +To omit patch numbers from the subject, use `-N`. If given `--thread`, `git-format-patch` will generate `In-Reply-To` and `References` headers to make the second and subsequent patch mails appear diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 1f906208f..585dac40b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -24,10 +24,6 @@ each commit introduces are shown. OPTIONS ------- --<n>:: - Limits the number of commits to show. - Note that this is a commit limiting option, see below. - <since>..<until>:: Show only commits between the named two commits. When either <since> or <until> is omitted, it defaults to @@ -137,6 +133,8 @@ Examples This makes sense only when following a strict policy of merging all topic branches when staying on a single integration branch. +`git log -3`:: + Limits the number of commits to show to 3. Discussion ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index 7a9b86a58..774de5e9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ OPTIONS it successfully talked with the remote repository, whether it found any matching refs. +--get-url:: + Expand the URL of the given remote repository taking into account any + "url.<base>.insteadOf" config setting (See linkgit:git-config[1]) and + exit without talking to the remote. + <repository>:: Location of the repository. The shorthand defined in $GIT_DIR/branches/ can be used. Use "." (dot) to list references in diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index a308f4c79..e8c396b5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git remote' [-v | --verbose] 'git remote add' [-t <branch>] [-m <master>] [-f] [--tags|--no-tags] [--mirror=<fetch|push>] <name> <url> 'git remote rename' <old> <new> -'git remote rm' <name> +'git remote remove' <name> 'git remote set-head' <name> (-a | -d | <branch>) 'git remote set-branches' [--add] <name> <branch>... 'git remote set-url' [--push] <name> <newurl> [<oldurl>] @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ In case <old> and <new> are the same, and <old> is a file under `$GIT_DIR/remotes` or `$GIT_DIR/branches`, the remote is converted to the configuration file format. +'remove':: 'rm':: Remove the remote named <name>. All remote-tracking branches and diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index 01d841731..afeb4cdf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ git log --pretty=short | 'git shortlog' [-h] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-w] DESCRIPTION ----------- Summarizes 'git log' output in a format suitable for inclusion -in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and -the first line of the commit message will be shown. +in release announcements. Each commit will be grouped by author and title. Additionally, "[PATCH]" will be stripped from the commit description. diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 2de7bf090..b4683bba1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ status:: initialized, `+` if the currently checked out submodule commit does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts. - This command is the default command for 'git submodule'. + If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into nested submodules, and show their status as well. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 6710cb0a4..d1d227a32 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:v1.7.12.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.1] +* link:v1.7.12.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.3] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt[1.7.12.3], + link:RelNotes/1.7.12.2.txt[1.7.12.2], link:RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt[1.7.12.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.12.txt[1.7.12]. diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e16f3e175..52ab93d2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ is from the path in question, the lower its precedence). Finally global and system-wide files are considered (they have the lowest precedence). +When the `.gitattributes` file is missing from the work tree, the +path in the index is used as a fall-back. During checkout process, +`.gitattributes` in the index is used and then the file in the +working tree is used as a fall-back. + If you wish to affect only a single repository (i.e., to assign attributes to files that are particular to one user's workflow for that repository), then @@ -927,7 +932,7 @@ file at the toplevel (i.e. not in any subdirectory). The built-in macro attribute "binary" is equivalent to: ------------ -[attr]binary -diff -text +[attr]binary -diff -merge -text ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 9d893369a..5325c5a7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -956,12 +956,11 @@ $ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch ------------------------------------------------ The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches -and the first line of the commit log message from their -top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch -(notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first column for -the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the +with the titles of their top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on +`master` branch (notice the asterisk `*` character), and the first +column for the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the `master` branch, and the second column for the `mybranch` -branch. Three commits are shown along with their log messages. +branch. Three commits are shown along with their titles. All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`*` shows an ordinary commit on the current branch, `-` is a merge commit), which means they are now part of the `master` branch. Only the "Some diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index dee050567..f1cb6f3be 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -139,9 +139,11 @@ them to the index, and commit, all in one step. A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more -thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for -example, use the first line on the Subject: line and the rest of the -commit in the body. +thorough description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit +message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used +throughout git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a +commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the +rest of the commit in the body. Git tracks content not files ---------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 595a3cf1a..66db80296 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ ours;; This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by favoring 'our' version. Changes from the other tree that do not conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result. + For a binary file, the entire contents are taken from our side. + This should not be confused with the 'ours' merge strategy, which does not even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it. theirs;; - This is opposite of 'ours'. + This is the opposite of 'ours'. patience;; With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index e3d8a83b2..d9eddedc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -130,6 +130,9 @@ The placeholders are: - '%b': body - '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body) - '%N': commit notes +- '%GG': raw verification message from GPG for a signed commit +- '%G?': show either "G" for Good or "B" for Bad for a signed commit +- '%GS': show the name of the signer for a signed commit - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}` - '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}` - '%gn': reflog identity name diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 2a3dc8664..5e499421a 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -66,3 +66,7 @@ being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from --[no-]standard-notes:: These options are deprecated. Use the above --notes/--no-notes options instead. + +--show-signature:: + Check the validity of a signed commit object by passing the signature + to `gpg --verify` and show the output. diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 5436eba6e..1fc2a1840 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -3,12 +3,20 @@ Commit Limiting Besides specifying a range of commits that should be listed using the special notations explained in the description, additional commit -limiting may be applied. Note that they are applied before commit -ordering and formatting options, such as '--reverse'. +limiting may be applied. + +Using more options generally further limits the output (e.g. +`--since=<date1>` limits to commits newer than `<date1>`, and using it +with `--grep=<pattern>` further limits to commits whose log message +has a line that matches `<pattern>`), unless otherwise noted. + +Note that these are applied before commit +ordering and formatting options, such as `--reverse`. -- --n 'number':: +-<number>:: +-n <number>:: --max-count=<number>:: Limit the number of commits to output. @@ -38,16 +46,22 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] --committer=<pattern>:: Limit the commits output to ones with author/committer - header lines that match the specified pattern (regular expression). + header lines that match the specified pattern (regular + expression). With more than one `--author=<pattern>`, + commits whose author matches any of the given patterns are + chosen (similarly for multiple `--committer=<pattern>`). --grep=<pattern>:: Limit the commits output to ones with log message that - matches the specified pattern (regular expression). + matches the specified pattern (regular expression). With + more than one `--grep=<pattern>`, commits whose message + matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see + `--all-match`). --all-match:: Limit the commits output to ones that match all given --grep, - --author and --committer instead of ones that match at least one. + instead of ones that match at least one. -i:: --regexp-ignore-case:: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt index 1b7d8f140..1a797812f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-argv-array.txt @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Functions Format a string and push it onto the end of the array. This is a convenience wrapper combining `strbuf_addf` and `argv_array_push`. +`argv_array_pop`:: + Remove the final element from the array. If there are no + elements in the array, do nothing. + `argv_array_clear`:: Free all memory associated with the array and return it to the initial, empty state. diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 03d95dc29..85651b57a 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1136,9 +1136,12 @@ Creating good commit messages Though not required, it's a good idea to begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough -description. Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use -the first line on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the -body. +description. The text up to the first blank line in a commit +message is treated as the commit title, and that title is used +throughout git. For example, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a +commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the +rest of the commit in the body. + [[ignoring-files]] Ignoring files |