diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml index 44e0fe5839de50..fcfd138ff1833b 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/main.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml @@ -7,34 +7,33 @@ env: jobs: ci-config: - runs-on: ubuntu-latest - outputs: - enabled: ${{ steps.check-ref.outputs.enabled }} - steps: - - name: try to clone ci-config branch - continue-on-error: true - run: | - git -c protocol.version=2 clone \ - --no-tags \ - --single-branch \ - -b ci-config \ - --depth 1 \ - --no-checkout \ - --filter=blob:none \ - https://github.com/${{ github.repository }} \ - config-repo && - cd config-repo && - git checkout HEAD -- ci/config - - id: check-ref - name: check whether CI is enabled for ref - run: | - enabled=yes - if test -x config-repo/ci/config/allow-ref && - ! config-repo/ci/config/allow-ref '${{ github.ref }}' - then - enabled=no - fi - echo "::set-output name=enabled::$enabled" + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + outputs: + enabled: ${{ steps.check-ref.outputs.enabled }} + steps: + - name: try to clone ci-config branch + run: | + git -c protocol.version=2 clone \ + --no-tags \ + --single-branch \ + -b ci-config \ + --depth 1 \ + --no-checkout \ + --filter=blob:none \ + https://github.com/${{ github.repository }} \ + config-repo && + cd config-repo && + git checkout HEAD -- ci/config || : ignore + - id: check-ref + name: check whether CI is enabled for ref + run: | + enabled=yes + if test -x config-repo/ci/config/allow-ref && + ! config-repo/ci/config/allow-ref '${{ github.ref }}' + then + enabled=no + fi + echo "::set-output name=enabled::$enabled" windows-build: needs: ci-config diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index ee509a2ad26398..d0f692a35520bc 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ /git-remote-fd /git-remote-ext /git-remote-testpy -/git-remote-testsvn /git-repack /git-replace /git-request-pull @@ -197,6 +196,7 @@ /git.spec *.exe *.[aos] +*.o.json *.py[co] .depend/ *.gcda @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ /tags /TAGS /cscope* +/compile_commands.json *.hcc *.obj *.lib diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt index d85c9b5143cec2..4f85a089ef9d99 100644 --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt @@ -319,14 +319,14 @@ function body: ... git_config(git_default_config, NULL); - if (git_config_get_string_const("user.name", &cfg_name) > 0) + if (git_config_get_string_tmp("user.name", &cfg_name) > 0) printf(_("No name is found in config\n")); else printf(_("Your name: %s\n"), cfg_name); ---- `git_config()` will grab the configuration from config files known to Git and -apply standard precedence rules. `git_config_get_string_const()` will look up +apply standard precedence rules. `git_config_get_string_tmp()` will look up a specific key ("user.name") and give you the value. There are a number of single-key lookup functions like this one; you can see them all (and more info about how to use `git_config()`) in `Documentation/technical/api-config.txt`. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index 483ebb4f8da428..67d9801da3c6b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -19,6 +19,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features configurable to selectively allow or reject object filtering specification used for partial cloning. + * Stop when "sendmail.*" configuration variables are defined, which + could be a mistaken attempt to define "sendemail.*" variables. + + * The existing backends for "git mergetool" based on variants of vim + have been refactored and then support for "nvim" has been added. + + * "git bisect" learns the "--first-parent" option to find the first + breakage along the first-parent chain. + + * "git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent + commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has + been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the + previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits. + + * The commit labels used to explain each side of conflicted hunks + placed by the sequencer machinery have been made more readable by + humans. + + * The "--batch-size" option of "git multi-pack-index repack" command + is now used to specify that very small packfiles are collected into + one until the total size roughly exceeds it. + + * The recent addition of SHA-256 support is marked as experimental in + the documentation. + + * "git fetch" learned --no-write-fetch-head option to avoid writing + the FETCH_HEAD file. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) usually omits redundant, + deprecated and/or dangerous options from its output; it learned to + optionally include all of them. + + * The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated + object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not + affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is. + + * "git worktree" gained a "repair" subcommand to help users recover + after moving the worktrees or repository manually without telling + Git. Also, "git init --separate-git-dir" no longer corrupts + administrative data related to linked worktrees. + + * The "--format=" option to the "for-each-ref" command and friends + learned a few more tricks, e.g. the ":short" suffix that applies to + "objectname" now also can be used for "parent", "tree", etc. + + * "git worktree add" learns that the "-d" is a synonym to "--detach" + option to create a new worktree without being on a branch. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -52,7 +100,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. to a certain degree. It has been renamed to "strvec" to reduce the barrier to adoption. - * The final leg of SHA-256 transition. + * The final leg of SHA-256 transition plus doc updates. Note that + there is no inter-operability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 + repositories yet. * CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile. @@ -60,6 +110,51 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. easier to mark object existence checks that do and don't want to trigger lazy fetches, and a few such checks are converted using it. + * A no-op replacement function implemented as a C preprocessor macro + does not perform as good a job as one implemented as a "static + inline" function in catching errors in parameters; replace the + former with the latter in header. + + * Test framework update. + (merge d572f52a64 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint). + + * Updates to "git merge" tests, in preparation for a new merge + strategy backend. + + * midx and commit-graph files now use the byte defined in their file + format specification for identifying the hash function used for + object names. + + * The FETCH_HEAD is now always read from the filesystem regardless of + the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the + normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file.. + + * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to + execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" + form, which have been corrected. + + * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands + have been turned into into built-in. + + * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to + execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" + form, which have been corrected. + + * When a packfile is removed by "git repack", multi-pack-index gets + cleared; the code was taught to do so less aggressively by first + checking if the midx actually refers to a pack that no longer + exists. + + * Internal API clean-up to handle two options "diff-index" and "log" + have, which happen to share the same short form, more sensibly. + + * The "add -i/-p" machinery has been written in C but it is not used + by default yet. It is made default to those who are participating + in feature.experimental experiment. + + * Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making + distribution tarballs. + Fixes since v2.28 ----------------- @@ -110,6 +205,137 @@ Fixes since v2.28 it is. (merge 11bc12ae1e rp/blame-first-parent-doc later to maint). + * The logic to find the ref transaction hook script attempted to + cache the path to the found hook without realizing that it needed + to keep a copied value, as the API it used returned a transitory + buffer space. This has been corrected. + (merge 09b2aa30c9 ps/ref-transaction-hook later to maint). + + * Recent versions of "git diff-files" shows a diff between the index + and the working tree for "intent-to-add" paths as a "new file" + patch; "git apply --cached" should be able to take "git diff-files" + and should act as an equivalent to "git add" for the path, but the + command failed to do so for such a path. + (merge 4c025c667e rp/apply-cached-with-i-t-a later to maint). + + * "git diff [] $path" for a $path that is marked with i-t-a + bit was not showing the mode bits from the working tree. + (merge cb0dd22b82 rp/ita-diff-modefix later to maint). + + * Ring buffer with size 4 used for bin-hex translation resulted in a + wrong object name in the sequencer's todo output, which has been + corrected. + (merge 5da69c0dac ak/sequencer-fix-find-uniq-abbrev later to maint). + + * When given more than one target line ranges, "git blame -La,b + -Lc,d" was over-eager to coalesce groups of original lines and + showed incorrect results, which has been corrected. + (merge c2ebaa27d6 jk/blame-coalesce-fix later to maint). + + * The regexp to identify the function boundary for FORTRAN programs + has been updated. + (merge 75c3b6b2e8 pb/userdiff-fortran-update later to maint). + + * A few end-user facing messages have been updated to be + hash-algorithm agnostic. + (merge 4279000d3e jc/object-names-are-not-sha-1 later to maint). + + * "unlink" emulation on MinGW has been optimized. + (merge 680e0b4524 jh/mingw-unlink later to maint). + + * The purpose of "git init --separate-git-dir" is to initialize a + new project with the repository separate from the working tree, + or, in the case of an existing project, to move the repository + (the .git/ directory) out of the working tree. It does not make + sense to use --separate-git-dir with a bare repository for which + there is no working tree, so disallow its use with bare + repositories. + (merge ccf236a23a es/init-no-separate-git-dir-in-bare later to maint). + + * "ls-files -o" mishandled the top-level directory of another git + working tree that hangs in the current git working tree. + (merge ab282aa548 en/dir-nonbare-embedded later to maint). + + * Fix some incorrect UNLEAK() annotations. + (merge 3e19816dc0 jk/unleak-fixes later to maint). + + * Use more buffered I/O where we used to call many small write(2)s. + (merge a698d67b08 rs/more-buffered-io later to maint). + + * The patch-id computation did not ignore the "incomplete last line" + marker like whitespaces. + (merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint). + + * Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work + well with transfer.fsckobjects set. + + * The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when + parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and + "trailers:" are the only two allowed forms, which has + been corrected. + (merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the + index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards. + (merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint). + + * "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec + mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been + corrected. + (merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint). + + * The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help" + has been updated. + (merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint). + + * Feeding "$ZERO_OID" to "git log --ignore-missing --stdin", and + running "git log --ignore-missing $ZERO_OID" fell back to start + digging from HEAD; it has been corrected to become a no-op, like + "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does. + (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint). + + * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. + (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). + + * List of options offered and accepted by "git add -i/-p" were + inconsistent, which have been corrected. + (merge ce910287e7 pw/add-p-allowed-options-fix later to maint). + + * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. + (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). + + * "git diff --stat -w" showed 0-line changes for paths whose changes + were only whitespaces, which was not intuitive. We now omit such + paths from the stat output. + (merge 1cf3d5db9b mr/diff-hide-stat-wo-textual-change later to maint). + + * It was possible for xrealloc() to send a non-NULL pointer that has + been freed, which has been fixed. + (merge 6479ea4a8a jk/xrealloc-avoid-use-after-free later to maint). + + * "git status" has trouble showing where it came from by interpreting + reflog entries that record certain events, e.g. "checkout @{u}", and + gives a hard/fatal error. Even though it inherently is impossible + to give a correct answer because the reflog entries lose some + information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was + on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even + if the record were available, the relationship between branches may + have changed), at least hide the error to allow "status" show its + output. + + * "git status --short" quoted a path with SP in it when tracked, but + not those that are untracked, ignored or unmerged. They are all + shown quoted consistently. + + * "git diff/show" on a change that involves a submodule used to read + the information on commits in the submodule from a wrong repository + and gave a wrong information when the commit-graph is involved. + (merge 85a1ec2c32 mf/submodule-summary-with-correct-repository later to maint). + + * Unlike "git config --local", "git config --worktree" did not fail + early and cleanly when started outside a git repository. + (merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint). (merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint). @@ -124,3 +350,19 @@ Fixes since v2.28 (merge de20baf2c9 ny/notes-doc-sample-update later to maint). (merge f649aaaf82 so/rev-parser-errormessage-fix later to maint). (merge 6103d58b7f bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates later to maint). + (merge ac900fddb7 ma/stop-progress-null-fix later to maint). + (merge e767963ab6 rs/upload-pack-sigchain-fix later to maint). + (merge a831908599 rs/preserve-merges-unused-code-removal later to maint). + (merge 6dfefe70a9 jb/commit-graph-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 847b37271e pb/set-url-docfix later to maint). + (merge 748f733d54 mt/checkout-entry-dead-code-removal later to maint). + (merge ce820cbd58 dl/subtree-docs later to maint). + (merge 55fe225dde jk/leakfix later to maint). + (merge ee22a29215 so/pretty-abbrev-doc later to maint). + (merge 3100fd5588 jc/post-checkout-doc later to maint). + (merge 17bae89476 pb/doc-external-diff-env later to maint). + (merge 27ed6ccc12 jk/worktree-check-clean-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1302badd16 ea/blame-use-oideq later to maint). + (merge e6d5a11fed al/t3200-back-on-a-branch later to maint). + (merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt index b20394038d1eef..6af6f5edb278f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt @@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm:: sent when negotiating the contents of the packfile to be sent by the server. Set to "skipping" to use an algorithm that skips commits in an effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary - packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm + packfile; or set to "noop" to not send any information at all, which + will almost certainly result in a larger-than-necessary packfile, but + will skip the negotiation step. + The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one of its descendants). If `feature.experimental` is enabled, then this setting defaults to "skipping". diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt index 0006faf800ae69..cbc5af42fdf05c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt @@ -61,3 +61,8 @@ sendemail.smtpBatchSize:: sendemail.smtpReloginDelay:: Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1]. + +sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables:: + To avoid common misconfiguration mistakes, linkgit:git-send-email[1] + will abort with a warning if any configuration options for "sendmail" + exist. Set this variable to bypass the check. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index e8ed6470fb3a64..b10ff4caa6c52a 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ linkgit:git-diff-tree[1], or linkgit:git-diff-files[1] with the `-p` option produces patch text. You can customize the creation of patch text via the -`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables. +`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables +(see linkgit:git[1]). What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional diff format: diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 7987d72b0212e1..573fb9bb71e2b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] Synonym for `-p --raw`. endif::git-format-patch[] +ifdef::git-log[] +-t:: + Show the tree objects in the diff output. +endif::git-log[] + --indent-heuristic:: Enable the heuristic that shifts diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read. This is the default. @@ -441,10 +446,11 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --abbrev[=]:: Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header - lines, show only a partial prefix. This is - independent of the `--full-index` option above, which controls - the diff-patch output format. Non default number of - digits can be specified with `--abbrev=`. + lines, show only a partial prefix. + In diff-patch output format, `--full-index` takes higher + precedence, i.e. if `--full-index` is specified, full blob + names will be shown regardless of `--abbrev`. + Non default number of digits can be specified with `--abbrev=`. -B[][/]:: --break-rewrites[=[][/]]:: diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 6e2a160a47cb8c..e8104c082ed16e 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -64,6 +64,15 @@ documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. --dry-run:: Show what would be done, without making any changes. +ifndef::git-pull[] +--[no-]write-fetch-head:: + Write the list of remote refs fetched in the `FETCH_HEAD` + file directly under `$GIT_DIR`. This is the default. + Passing `--no-write-fetch-head` from the command line tells + Git not to write the file. Under `--dry-run` option, the + file is never written. +endif::git-pull[] + -f:: --force:: When 'git fetch' is used with `:` refspec it may @@ -186,7 +195,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] endif::git-pull[] --set-upstream:: - If the remote is fetched successfully, pull and add upstream + If the remote is fetched successfully, add upstream (tracking) reference, used by argument-less linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information, see `branch..merge` and `branch..remote` in diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index b9aa39000fc8aa..91d9a8601c8c31 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -61,18 +61,18 @@ OPTIONS file and detects errors. Turns off "apply". --index:: - When `--check` is in effect, or when applying the patch - (which is the default when none of the options that - disables it is in effect), make sure the patch is - applicable to what the current index file records. If - the file to be patched in the working tree is not - up to date, it is flagged as an error. This flag also - causes the index file to be updated. + Apply the patch to both the index and the working tree (or + merely check that it would apply cleanly to both if `--check` is + in effect). Note that `--index` expects index entries and + working tree copies for relevant paths to be identical (their + contents and metadata such as file mode must match), and will + raise an error if they are not, even if the patch would apply + cleanly to both the index and the working tree in isolation. --cached:: - 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`. + Apply the patch to just the index, without touching the working + tree. If `--check` is in effect, merely check that it would + apply cleanly to the index entry. --intent-to-add:: When applying the patch only to the working tree, mark new diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index 7586c5a8437edf..fbb39fbdf5d62a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ DESCRIPTION The command takes various subcommands, and different options depending on the subcommand: - git bisect start [--term-{old,good}= --term-{new,bad}=] - [--no-checkout] [ [...]] [--] [...] + git bisect start [--term-{new,bad}= --term-{old,good}=] + [--no-checkout] [--first-parent] [ [...]] [--] [...] git bisect (bad|new|) [] git bisect (good|old|) [...] git bisect terms [--term-good | --term-bad] @@ -365,6 +365,17 @@ does not require a checked out tree. + If the repository is bare, `--no-checkout` is assumed. +--first-parent:: ++ +Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. ++ +In detecting regressions introduced through the merging of a branch, the merge +commit will be identified as introduction of the bug and its ancestors will be +ignored. ++ +This option is particularly useful in avoiding false positives when a merged +branch contained broken or non-buildable commits, but the merge itself was OK. + EXAMPLES -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 5b697eee1b7632..afa5c11fd3c4d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ Use `--no-guess` to disable this. Create the new branch's reflog; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. +-d:: --detach:: Rather than checking out a branch to work on it, check out a commit for inspection and discardable experiments. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 45b6d8e633ccf2..9067c2079e44c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ include::fetch-options.txt[] include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] +--stdin:: + Read refspecs, one per line, from stdin in addition to those provided + as arguments. The "tag " format is not supported. + include::urls-remotes.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index 2ea71c5f6c2c14..616ce460872f0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ worktreepath:: In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can be used to specify the value in the header field. +Fields `tree` and `parent` can also be used with modifier `:short` and +`:short=` just like `objectname`. For commit and tag objects, the special `creatordate` and `creator` fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple @@ -230,7 +232,10 @@ These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags. Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, `committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`, -and `date` to extract the named component. +and `date` to extract the named component. For email fields (`authoremail`, +`committeremail` and `taggeremail`), `:trim` can be appended to get the email +without angle brackets, and `:localpart` to get the part before the `@` symbol +out of the trimmed email. The message in a commit or a tag object is `contents`, from which `contents:` can be used to extract various parts out of: @@ -242,6 +247,9 @@ contents:subject:: The first paragraph of the message, which typically is a single line, is taken as the "subject" of the commit or the tag message. + Instead of `contents:subject`, field `subject` can also be used to + obtain same results. `:sanitize` can be appended to `subject` for + subject line suitable for filename. contents:body:: The remainder of the commit or the tag message that follows diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt index 65b53fcc47d6b9..63cf498ce9f276 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt @@ -51,17 +51,13 @@ OPTIONS CONFIGURATION ------------- -To use the tool, imap.folder and either imap.tunnel or imap.host must be set +To use the tool, `imap.folder` and either `imap.tunnel` or `imap.host` must be set to appropriate values. -Variables -~~~~~~~~~ - include::config/imap.txt[] -Examples -~~~~~~~~ - +EXAMPLES +-------- Using tunnel mode: .......................... @@ -89,14 +85,18 @@ Using direct mode with SSL: user = bob pass = p4ssw0rd port = 123 - sslverify = false + ; sslVerify = false ......................... -EXAMPLES --------- -To submit patches using GMail's IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig -to specify your account settings: +[NOTE] +You may want to use `sslVerify=false` +while troubleshooting, if you suspect that the reason you are +having trouble connecting is because the certificate you use at +the private server `example.com` you are trying to set up (or +have set up) may not be verified correctly. + +Using Gmail's IMAP interface: --------- [imap] @@ -104,17 +104,21 @@ to specify your account settings: host = imaps://imap.gmail.com user = user@gmail.com port = 993 - sslverify = false --------- -You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error +[NOTE] +You might need to instead use: `folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts"` if you get an error that the "Folder doesn't exist". +[NOTE] +If your Gmail account is set to another language than English, the name of the "Drafts" +folder will be localized. + Once the commits are ready to be sent, run the following command: $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send -Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (GMail's web +Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (Gmail's web interface will wrap lines no matter what, so you need to use a real IMAP client). diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index ac74d058e01d13..af0c26232c1e77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ OPTIONS value is set or outside a repository. + This option cannot be used with --stdin. ++ +include::object-format-disclaimer.txt[] NOTES ----- diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index ddfe265da5b652..f35f70f13d0385 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ current working directory. Specify the given object format (hash algorithm) for the repository. The valid values are 'sha1' and (if enabled) 'sha256'. 'sha1' is the default. ++ +include::object-format-disclaimer.txt[] --template=:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 3fd26d52122b5a..2b8ac5ff882ae8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -114,8 +114,51 @@ include::rev-list-options.txt[] include::pretty-formats.txt[] -COMMON DIFF OPTIONS -------------------- +DIFF FORMATTING +--------------- + +By default, `git log` does not generate any diff output. The options +below can be used to show the changes made by each commit. + +Note that unless one of `-c`, `--cc`, or `-m` is given, merge commits +will never show a diff, even if a diff format like `--patch` is +selected, nor will they match search options like `-S`. The exception is +when `--first-parent` is in use, in which merges are treated like normal +single-parent commits (this can be overridden by providing a +combined-diff option or with `--no-diff-merges`). + +-c:: + With this option, diff output for a merge commit + shows the differences from each of the parents to the merge result + simultaneously instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent + and the result one at a time. Furthermore, it lists only files + which were modified from all parents. + +--cc:: + This flag implies the `-c` option and further compresses the + patch output by omitting uninteresting hunks whose contents in + the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks + one of them without modification. + +--combined-all-paths:: + This flag causes combined diffs (used for merge commits) to + list the name of the file from all parents. It thus only has + effect when -c or --cc are specified, and is likely only + useful if filename changes are detected (i.e. when either + rename or copy detection have been requested). + +-m:: + This flag makes the merge commits show the full diff like + regular commits; for each merge parent, a separate log entry + and diff is generated. An exception is that only diff against + the first parent is shown when `--first-parent` option is given; + in that case, the output represents the changes the merge + brought _into_ the then-current branch. + +--diff-merges=off:: +--no-diff-merges:: + Disable output of diffs for merge commits (default). Useful to + override `-m`, `-c`, or `--cc`. :git-log: 1 include::diff-options.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt b/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt index 0c6619493c1edd..eb0caa04393a71 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt @@ -51,11 +51,12 @@ repack:: multi-pack-index, then divide by the total number of objects in the pack and multiply by the pack size. We select packs with expected size below the batch size until the set of packs have - total expected size at least the batch size. If the total size - does not reach the batch size, then do nothing. If a new pack- - file is created, rewrite the multi-pack-index to reference the - new pack-file. A later run of 'git multi-pack-index expire' will - delete the pack-files that were part of this batch. + total expected size at least the batch size, or all pack-files + are considered. If only one pack-file is selected, then do + nothing. If a new pack-file is created, rewrite the + multi-pack-index to reference the new pack-file. A later run of + 'git multi-pack-index expire' will delete the pack-files that + were part of this batch. + If `repack.packKeptObjects` is `false`, then any pack-files with an associated `.keep` file will not be selected for the batch to repack. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index 374d2486f71c66..38e15488f65171 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ CONFIGURATION ------------- include::config/rebase.txt[] +include::config/sequencer.txt[] OPTIONS ------- @@ -459,17 +460,38 @@ with `--keep-base` in order to drop those commits from your branch. See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below. --ignore-whitespace:: + Ignore whitespace differences when trying to reconcile +differences. Currently, each backend implements an approximation of +this behavior: ++ +apply backend: When applying a patch, ignore changes in whitespace in +context lines. Unfortunately, this means that if the "old" lines being +replaced by the patch differ only in whitespace from the existing +file, you will get a merge conflict instead of a successful patch +application. ++ +merge backend: Treat lines with only whitespace changes as unchanged +when merging. Unfortunately, this means that any patch hunks that were +intended to modify whitespace and nothing else will be dropped, even +if the other side had no changes that conflicted. + --whitespace=