From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:36:23 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'mg/branch-list' X-Git-Tag: v1.7.8-rc0~129 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1077bf1ff676cd172a09b88204422228f21d7cbf;hp=376eb14a05f693378047eee36a10035c122f0261;p=git.git Merge branch 'mg/branch-list' * mg/branch-list: t3200: clean up checks for file existence branch: -v does not automatically imply --list branch: allow pattern arguments branch: introduce --list option git-branch: introduce missing long forms for the options git-tag: introduce long forms for the options t6040: test branch -vv Conflicts: Documentation/git-tag.txt t/t3200-branch.sh --- diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index acffdfaae..8572c8c0b 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ /GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS /GIT-CFLAGS +/GIT-LDFLAGS /GIT-GUI-VARS /GIT-VERSION-FILE /bin-wrappers/ diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore index 1c3a9fead..d62aebd84 100644 --- a/Documentation/.gitignore +++ b/Documentation/.gitignore @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ *.[1-8] *.made *.texi +*.pdf git.info gitman.info howto-index.txt diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 36989b7f6..6346a75dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ MAN5_TXT=gitattributes.txt gitignore.txt gitmodules.txt githooks.txt \ gitrepository-layout.txt MAN7_TXT=gitcli.txt gittutorial.txt gittutorial-2.txt \ gitcvs-migration.txt gitcore-tutorial.txt gitglossary.txt \ - gitdiffcore.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt + gitdiffcore.txt gitnamespaces.txt gitrevisions.txt gitworkflows.txt MAN_TXT = $(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN5_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT) MAN_XML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.xml,$(MAN_TXT)) @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) clean: $(RM) *.xml *.xml+ *.html *.html+ *.1 *.5 *.7 $(RM) *.texi *.texi+ *.texi++ git.info gitman.info + $(RM) *.pdf $(RM) howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep $(RM) technical/api-*.html technical/api-index.txt $(RM) $(cmds_txt) *.made diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..42e46ab17 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v1.7.6.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6 +------------------ + + * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these + functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on + platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + + * "git unexecutable" reported that "unexecutable" was not found, even + though the actual error was that "unexecutable" was found but did + not have a proper she-bang line to be executed. + + * Error exits from $PAGER were silently ignored. + + * "git checkout -b " was confused when attempting to create a + branch whose name ends with "-g" followed by hexadecimal digits, + and refused to work. + + * "git checkout -b " sometimes wrote a bogus reflog entry, + causing later "git checkout -" to fail. + + * "git diff --cc" learned to correctly ignore binary files. + + * "git diff -c/--cc" mishandled a deletion that resolves a conflict, and + looked in the working tree instead. + + * "git fast-export" forgot to quote pathnames with unsafe characters + in its output. + + * "git fetch" over smart-http transport used to abort when the + repository was updated between the initial connection and the + subsequent object transfer. + + * "git fetch" did not recurse into submodules in subdirectories. + + * "git ls-tree" did not error out when asked to show a corrupt tree. + + * "git pull" without any argument left an extra whitespace after the + command name in its reflog. + + * "git push --quiet" was not really quiet. + + * "git rebase -i -p" incorrectly dropped commits from side branches. + + * "git reset [] paths..." did not reset the index entry correctly + for unmerged paths. + + * "git submodule add" did not allow a relative repository path when + the superproject did not have any default remote url. + + * "git submodule foreach" failed to correctly give the standard input to + the user-supplied command it invoked. + + * submodules that the user has never showed interest in by running + "git submodule init" was incorrectly marked as interesting by "git + submodule sync". + + * "git submodule update --quiet" was not really quiet. + + * "git tag -l ..." did not take multiple glob patterns from the + command line. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..67ae41496 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v1.7.6.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.1 +-------------------- + + * v1.7.6.1 broke "git push --quiet"; it used to be a no-op against an old + version of Git running on the other end, but v1.7.6.1 made it abort. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..95971831b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Git v1.7.6.3 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.2 +-------------------- + + * "git -c var=value subcmd" misparsed the custom configuration when + value contained an equal sign. + + * "git fetch" had a major performance regression, wasting many + needless cycles in a repository where there is no submodules + present. This was especially bad, when there were many refs. + + * "git reflog $refname" did not default to the "show" subcommand as + the documentation advertised the command to do. + + * "git reset" did not leave meaningful log message in the reflog. + + * "git status --ignored" did not show ignored items when there is no + untracked items. + + * "git tag --contains $commit" was unnecessarily inefficient. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e19acac2d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Git v1.7.6.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.7.6.3 +-------------------- + + * The error reporting logic of "git am" when the command is fed a file + whose mail-storage format is unknown was fixed. + + * "git branch --set-upstream @{-1} foo" did not expand @{-1} correctly. + + * "git check-ref-format --print" used to parrot a candidate string that + began with a slash (e.g. /refs/heads/master) without stripping it, to make + the result a suitably normalized string the caller can append to "$GIT_DIR/". + + * "git clone" failed to clone locally from a ".git" file that itself + is not a directory but is a pointer to one. + + * "git clone" from a local repository that borrows from another + object store using a relative path in its objects/info/alternates + file did not adjust the alternates in the resulting repository. + + * "git describe --dirty" did not refresh the index before checking the + state of the working tree files. + + * "git ls-files ../$path" that is run from a subdirectory reported errors + incorrectly when there is no such path that matches the given pathspec. + + * "git mergetool" could loop forever prompting when nothing can be read + from the standard input. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7655cccfa --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +Git v1.7.7 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.7.6 +-------------------- + + * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. + + * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. + + * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. + + * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, + before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf + (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl + does not exist). + + * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these + functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on + platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. + + * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that + use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on + Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not + deflated with 32kb window. + + * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has + been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was + involved. + + * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=" option through to underlying + "git apply". + + * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to + "git am". + + * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and + produce "archive.tar.gz". + + * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test + you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of + course). + + * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output + now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. + + * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. + + * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a + given path. + + * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a + different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned + to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to + read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round + of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but + now it has been plugged. + + * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the + repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. + + * "git commit ..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that + refer to outside your current subdirectory. + + * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of + a diffstat report. + + * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff + generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better + performance. + + * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered + when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. + + * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection + errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one + address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate + one). + + * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic + the output format of "ack". + + * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same + logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. + + * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which + git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about + this) is now deprecated. + + * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to + highlight grafted and replaced commits. + + * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving + the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. + + * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large + fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world + projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in + the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the + corner case bugs this update fixes). + + * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". + + * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a + submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be + updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. + + * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to + refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' + commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. + + * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a + subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to + put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be + useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). + + * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery + that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. + + * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules + are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. + +Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous +changes. + + +Fixes since v1.7.6 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are +included in this release. + + * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip + of the branch that is currently checked out updated. diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 938eccf2a..0dbf2c984 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ Another thing: NULL pointers shall be written as NULL, not as 0. (2) Generate your patch using git tools out of your commits. -git based diff tools (git, Cogito, and StGIT included) generate -unidiff which is the preferred format. +git based diff tools generate unidiff which is the preferred format. You do not have to be afraid to use -M option to "git diff" or "git format-patch", if your patch involves file renames. The diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6b9377719..98bac5507 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -344,7 +344,9 @@ core.logAllRefUpdates:: SHA1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but only when the file exists. If this configuration variable is set to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/" - file is automatically created for branch heads. + file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under + refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/), + note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD. + This information can be used to determine what commit was the tip of a branch "2 days ago". @@ -676,7 +678,7 @@ branch..rebase:: browser..cmd:: Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed - as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web--browse[1].) + as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].) browser..path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to @@ -855,6 +857,13 @@ fetch.recurseSubmodules:: when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's reference. +fetch.fsckObjects:: + If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched + objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a + broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. + Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects` + is used instead. + fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the git native transfer is below this @@ -1196,6 +1205,14 @@ http.proxy:: environment variable (see linkgit:curl[1]). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see remote..proxy +http.cookiefile:: + File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used + in the git http session, if they match the server. The file format + of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or + the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]). + NOTE that the file specified with http.cookiefile is only used as + input. No cookies will be stored in the file. + http.sslVerify:: Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment @@ -1585,7 +1602,8 @@ receive.fsckObjects:: If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. - Defaults to false. + Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects` + is used instead. receive.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects received in a push is below this @@ -1820,6 +1838,11 @@ tar.umask:: archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and linkgit:git-archive[1]. +transfer.fsckObjects:: + When `fetch.fsckObjects` or `receive.fsckObjects` are + not set, the value of this variable is used instead. + Defaults to false. + transfer.unpackLimit:: When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are not set, the value of this variable is used instead. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 24f189f96..b620b3afe 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -48,11 +48,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --patience:: Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm. ---stat[=[,]]:: +--stat[=[,[,]]]:: Generate a diffstat. You can override the default output width for 80-column terminal by `--stat=`. The width of the filename part can be controlled by giving another width to it separated by a comma. + By giving a third parameter ``, you can limit the + output to the first `` lines, followed by + `...` if there are more. ++ +These parameters can also be set individually with `--stat-width=`, +`--stat-name-width=` and `--stat-count=`. --numstat:: Similar to `\--stat`, but shows number of added and @@ -416,6 +422,17 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --no-ext-diff:: Disallow external diff drivers. +--textconv:: +--no-textconv:: + Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run + when comparing binary files. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for + details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way + conversion, the resulting diff is suitable for human + consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason, textconv + filters are enabled by default only for linkgit:git-diff[1] and + linkgit:git-log[1], but not for linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or + diff plumbing commands. + --ignore-submodules[=]:: Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. can be either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 6b1b5af64..887466d77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace] [--whitespace=