diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt index 671e3d2eb5..b8f04af19f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its + leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is + fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure + to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than + ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't. + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". @@ -92,6 +98,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive documentation. + * "git-jump" script (in contrib/) did not work well when + diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is in effect. + * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and tags, which is not true for quite some time. @@ -121,3 +130,5 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the documentation misleading. + +Also contains numerous documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index c7bb503164..87719bfe2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to allow it to replay a commit without any log message. + * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking + help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to + be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command + leaves the sign-off line in the log template. + * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an external command to decline service based on the client address, repository path, etc. @@ -66,6 +71,9 @@ Foreign Interface * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. + * "git p4" learned "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when + encountering a conflict during "p4 submit". + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) @@ -134,10 +142,16 @@ to them for details). (merge 52ffe99 jw/doc-commit-title later to maint). * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its - leading directories no longer exists in the working tree. Failure + leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is + fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than - ENOENT and ENOTDIR are diagnosed. - (merge 8e950da jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths later to maint). + ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't. + + * "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. + (merge 39f2e01 jc/maint-log-grep-all-match later to maint). * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 15e7ac80c0..e2301f5c01 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ committed a merge between P1 and P2, it will be propagated properly and all children of the merge will become merge commits with P1,P2 as their parents instead of the merge commit. +*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted +by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want +to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the +interactive mode of 'git rebase'. + You can rewrite the commit log messages using `--msg-filter`. For example, 'git svn-id' strings in a repository created by 'git svn' can be removed this way: @@ -314,11 +319,6 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter ' ' ------------------------------------------------------- -To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision -range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will -point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range -will print. - If you need to add 'Acked-by' lines to, say, the last 10 commits (none of which is a merge), use this command: @@ -329,11 +329,10 @@ git filter-branch --msg-filter ' ' HEAD~10..HEAD -------------------------------------------------------- -*NOTE* the changes introduced by the commits, and which are not reverted -by subsequent commits, will still be in the rewritten branch. If you want -to throw out _changes_ together with the commits, you should use the -interactive mode of 'git rebase'. - +To restrict rewriting to only part of the history, specify a revision +range in addition to the new branch name. The new branch name will +point to the top-most revision that a 'git rev-list' of this range +will print. Consider this history: diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 34d8a1bbdf..6710cb0a41 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:v1.7.12/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12] +* link:v1.7.12.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.12.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt[1.7.12.1], link:RelNotes/1.7.12.txt[1.7.12]. * link:v1.7.11.7/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.7] diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 49cdc571cd..d51e20f352 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -259,8 +259,10 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped. ---- If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute -the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth, starting -at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each +the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set +of commits start at the client's wants. + +The server writes 'shallow' lines for each commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes an 'unshallow' line for each commit which the client has indicated is shallow, but is no longer shallow at the currently requested depth