diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 4ff2fec278..a213e8e25b 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ git-merge-one-file git-merge-ours git-merge-recursive git-merge-resolve -git-merge-stupid git-merge-subtree git-mergetool git-mktag @@ -142,7 +141,6 @@ git-write-tree git-core-*/?* gitk-wish gitweb/gitweb.cgi -test-absolute-path test-chmtime test-date test-delta @@ -150,6 +148,7 @@ test-dump-cache-tree test-genrandom test-match-trees test-parse-options +test-path-utils test-sha1 common-cmds.h *.tar.gz diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt index 02d5910d5c..5902a85a78 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.2.txt @@ -11,21 +11,30 @@ Futureproof Fixes since v1.5.6.1 -------------------- +* "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in + $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well. + +* "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was + tagged with a lightweight tag. + +* "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status + reliably. + +* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now + it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking + branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest + pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set + of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. + +* "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file", + but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous. + +* "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another + annotated tag was given to it. + * Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for moderately large import. * "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file unnecessarily. - -* "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status - reliably. - -* "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another - annotated tag was given to it. - --- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -echo O=$(git describe maint) -O=v1.5.6.1-13-g4f3dcc2 -git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dd0559b64a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.5.6.2 +-------------------- + +* Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via run_command(). + +* Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command + line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when + completing arguments after one. + +* Registering a non-empty blob racily and then truncating the working + tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking + that the path is now unchanged. + +* "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf(). + +* "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count + and progress reports. + +* "git clone" marked downloaded packfile with .keep; this could be a + good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not, + especially for a project that is not really big. + +* The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed + in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page. + +* When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding + tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to + remove something that does not exist). + +* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") did not handle commit log messages in a + MIME multipart mail correctly. + +Contains other various documentation fixes. + +-- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +O=v1.5.6.2-23-ge965647 +echo O=$(git describe maint) +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt index e5c285f9c0..e1f013bd3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt @@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking, introduced in v1.5.2. +GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but +actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config". +GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and +not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed. + +An ancient merge strategy "stupid" has been removed. + Updates since v1.5.6 -------------------- @@ -32,8 +39,13 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * git-p4 in contrib learned "allowSubmit" configuration to control on which branch to allow "submit" subcommand. +* git-gui learned to stage changes per-line. + (portability) +* Changes for MinGW port have been merged, thanks to Johannes Sixt and + gangs. + * Sample hook scripts shipped in templates/ are now suffixed with *.sample. We used to prevent them from triggering by default by relying on the fact that we install them as unexecutable, but on @@ -48,7 +60,8 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * Updated howto/update-hook-example -* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial. +* Got rid of usage of "git-foo" from the tutorial and made typography + more consistent. * Disambiguating "--" between revs and paths is finally documented. @@ -79,6 +92,11 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 (usability, bells and whistles) +* A new environment variable GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES can be used to stop + the discovery process of the toplevel of working tree; this may be useful + when you are working in a slow network disk and are outside any working tree, + as bash-completion and "git help" may still need to run in these places. + * git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once much better than before. @@ -102,13 +120,16 @@ Updates since v1.5.6 * fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to interface with fast-import incrementally. -* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. +* "git rerere" can be told to update the index with auto-reused resolution + with rerere.autoupdate configuration variable. * git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now. * You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking untracked files with --untracked-files=no. +* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now. + * Error codes from gitweb are made more descriptive where possible, rather than "403 forbidden" as we used to issue everywhere. @@ -121,14 +142,12 @@ Fixes since v1.5.6 All of the fixes in v1.5.6 maintenance series are included in this release, unless otherwise noted. - * diff -c/--cc showed unnecessary "deletion" lines at the context - boundary (needs backmerge to maint). - - * "git-clone " did not create leading directories for - like the scripted version used to do (needs backport to maint). + * "git fetch" into an empty repository used to remind the fetch will + be huge by saying "no common commits", but it is already known by + the user anyway (need to backport 8cb560f to 'maint'). --- exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2 +O=v1.5.6.2-246-g86d7244 echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master) git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 561ff645f9..e7848055a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either a string, an integer, or a boolean. Boolean values may be given as yes/no, 0/1 or true/false. Case is not significant in boolean values, when converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier; -`git-config` will ensure that the output is "true" or "false". +'git-config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false". String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes. You need to enclose variable value in double quotes if you want to @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ core.fileMode:: See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. core.quotepath:: - The commands that output paths (e.g. `ls-files`, - `diff`), when not given the `-z` option, will quote + The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', + 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this @@ -356,8 +356,8 @@ core.pager:: core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to - notice. `git diff` will use `color.diff.whitespace` to - highlight them, and `git apply --whitespace=error` will + notice. 'git-diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to + highlight them, and 'git-apply --whitespace=error' will consider them as errors: + * `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line @@ -396,11 +396,11 @@ it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". apply.whitespace:: - Tells `git-apply` how to handle whitespaces, in the same way + Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. branch.autosetupmerge:: - Tells `git-branch` and `git-checkout` to setup new branches + Tells 'git-branch' and 'git-checkout' to setup new branches so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ branch.autosetupmerge:: branch. This option defaults to true. branch.autosetuprebase:: - When a new branch is created with `git-branch` or `git-checkout` + When a new branch is created with 'git-branch' or 'git-checkout' that tracks another branch, this variable tells git to set up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch..rebase"). When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true. @@ -426,20 +426,20 @@ branch.autosetuprebase:: This option defaults to never. branch..remote:: - When in branch , it tells `git fetch` which remote to fetch. - If this option is not given, `git fetch` defaults to remote "origin". + When in branch , it tells 'git-fetch' which remote to fetch. + If this option is not given, 'git-fetch' defaults to remote "origin". branch..merge:: - When in branch , it tells `git fetch` the default + When in branch , it tells 'git-fetch' the default refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a ref which is fetched from the remote given by "branch..remote". - The merge information is used by `git pull` (which at first calls - `git fetch`) to lookup the default branch for merging. Without - this option, `git pull` defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. + The merge information is used by 'git-pull' (which at first calls + 'git-fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without + this option, 'git-pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. - If you wish to setup `git pull` so that it merges into from + If you wish to setup 'git-pull' so that it merges into from another branch in the local repository, you can point branch..merge to the desired branch, and use the special setting `.` (a period) for branch..remote. @@ -508,12 +508,12 @@ color.diff.:: color.interactive:: When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts - and displays (such as those used by "git add --interactive"). + and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive"). When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false. color.interactive.:: - Use customized color for `git add --interactive` + Use customized color for 'git-add --interactive' output. `` may be `prompt`, `header`, or `help`, for three distinct types of normal output from interactive programs. The values of these variables may be specified as @@ -550,14 +550,14 @@ color.ui:: take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false. diff.autorefreshindex:: - When using `git diff` to compare with work tree + When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to update the cached stat information for paths whose contents in the work tree match the contents in the index. This option defaults to true. Note that this - affects only `git diff` Porcelain, and not lower level - `diff` commands, such as `git diff-files`. + affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level + 'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'. diff.external:: If this config variable is set, diff generation is not @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ diff.external:: diff.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename - detection; equivalent to the git diff option '-l'. + detection; equivalent to the 'git-diff' option '-l'. diff.renames:: Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ format.pretty:: gc.aggressiveWindow:: The window size parameter used in the delta compression - algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults + algorithm used by 'git-gc --aggressive'. This defaults to 10. gc.auto:: @@ -625,39 +625,44 @@ gc.autopacklimit:: default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it. gc.packrefs:: - `git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by + 'git-gc' does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch - from the repository. Setting this to `true` lets `git - gc` to run `git pack-refs`. Setting this to `false` tells - `git gc` never to run `git pack-refs`. The default setting is + from the repository. Setting this to `true` lets 'git-gc' + to run `git pack-refs`. Setting this to `false` tells + 'git-gc' never to run `git pack-refs`. The default setting is `notbare`. Enable it only when you know you do not have to support such clients. The default setting will change to `true` at some stage, and setting this to `false` will continue to - prevent `git pack-refs` from being run from `git gc`. + prevent `git pack-refs` from being run from 'git-gc'. gc.pruneexpire:: - When `git gc` is run, it will call `prune --expire 2.weeks.ago`. + When 'git-gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'. Override the grace period with this config variable. gc.reflogexpire:: - `git reflog expire` removes reflog entries older than + 'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than this time; defaults to 90 days. gc.reflogexpireunreachable:: - `git reflog expire` removes reflog entries older than + 'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than this time and are not reachable from the current tip; defaults to 30 days. gc.rerereresolved:: Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are - kept for this many days when `git rerere gc` is run. + kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. gc.rerereunresolved:: Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are - kept for this many days when `git rerere gc` is run. + kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. +rerere.autoupdate:: + When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the + resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using + previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. + rerere.enabled:: Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they @@ -680,7 +685,7 @@ gitcvs.usecrlfattr treat it as text. If `crlf` is explicitly unset, the file will be set with '-kb' mode, which supresses any newline munging the client might otherwise do. If `crlf` is not specified, - then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattribute[5]. + then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. gitcvs.allbinary:: This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve @@ -821,7 +826,7 @@ i18n.commitEncoding:: i18n.logOutputEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when - running `git-log` and friends. + running 'git-log' and friends. instaweb.browser:: Specify the program that will be used to browse your working @@ -844,7 +849,7 @@ instaweb.port:: log.date:: Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date - value is similar to using git log's --date option. The value is one of + value is similar to using 'git-log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}. See linkgit:git-log[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 85c87180db..d313795fdb 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ -f:: --force:: - When `git-fetch` is used with `:` + When 'git-fetch' is used with `:` refspec, it refuses to update the local branch `` unless the remote branch `` it fetches is a descendant of ``. This option @@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ endif::git-pull[] -u:: --update-head-ok:: - By default `git-fetch` refuses to update the head which + By default 'git-fetch' refuses to update the head which corresponds to the current branch. This flag disables the - check. This is purely for the internal use for `git-pull` - to communicate with `git-fetch`, and unless you are + check. This is purely for the internal use for 'git-pull' + to communicate with 'git-fetch', and unless you are implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to use it. diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 1296b91172..3863eebcef 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ OPTIONS -k:: --keep:: - Pass `-k` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). + Pass `-k` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). -u:: --utf8:: - Pass `-u` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). + Pass `-u` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable `i18n.commitencoding` can be used to specify project's @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. --no-utf8:: - Pass `-n` flag to `git-mailinfo` (see + Pass `-n` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). -3:: @@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ default. You could use `--no-utf8` to override this. -b:: --binary:: - Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to `git-apply` + Pass `--allow-binary-replacement` flag to 'git-apply' (see linkgit:git-apply[1]). --whitespace=