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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt | 50 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 23 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 87 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-options.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 2 |
12 files changed, 216 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index ae7c708574..856796f979 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -26,6 +26,34 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like "git clone" runs it upon the initial checkout. + * "git tag" learned an explicit "--edit" option that allows the + message given via "-m" and "-F" to be further edited. + + * "git fetch --prune-tags" may be used as a handy short-hand for + getting rid of stale tags that are locally held. + + * The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way + to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am") + stops with a conflict. + + * "git add -p" used to offer "/" (look for a matching hunk) as a + choice, even there was only one hunk, which has been corrected. + Also the single-key help is now given only for keys that are + enabled (e.g. help for '/' won't be shown when there is only one + hunk). + + * Since Git 1.7.9, "git merge" defaulted to --no-ff (i.e. even when + the side branch being merged is a descendant of the current commit, + create a merge commit instead of fast-forwarding) when merging a + tag object. This was appropriate default for integrators who pull + signed tags from their downstream contributors, but caused an + unnecessary merges when used by downstream contributors who + habitually "catch up" their topic branches with tagged releases + from the upstream. Update "git merge" to default to --no-ff only + when merging a tag object that does *not* sit at its usual place in + refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to + mitigate the problem. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -89,6 +117,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. how the packfile is indexed with object names) has been refactored into a reusable helper. + * We now avoid using identifiers that clash with C++ keywords. Even + though it is not a goal to compile Git with C++ compilers, changes + like this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our + codebase. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -229,6 +263,14 @@ Fixes since v2.16 correctly. (merge 90dce21eb0 jk/push-options-via-transport-fix later to maint). + * "git send-email" learned to complain when the batch-size option is + not defined when the relogin-delay option is, since these two are + mutually required. + (merge 9caa70697b xz/send-email-batch-size later to maint). + + * Y2k20 fix ;-) for our perl scripts. + (merge a40e06ee33 bw/perl-timegm-timelocal-fix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint). (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint). @@ -255,3 +297,11 @@ Fixes since v2.16 (merge e4e5da2796 sb/status-doc-fix later to maint). (merge 7976e901c8 gs/test-unset-xdg-cache-home later to maint). (merge d023df1ee6 tg/worktree-create-tracking later to maint). + (merge 4cbe92fd41 sm/mv-dry-run-update later to maint). + (merge 75e5e9c3f7 sb/color-h-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2708ef4af6 sg/t6300-modernize later to maint). + (merge d88e92d4e0 bw/doc-submodule-recurse-config-with-clone later to maint). + (merge f74bbc8dd2 jk/cached-commit-buffer later to maint). + (merge 1316416903 ms/non-ascii-ticks later to maint). + (merge 878056005e rs/strbuf-read-file-or-whine later to maint). + (merge 79f0ba1547 jk/strbuf-read-file-close-error later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f57e9cf10c..ce9102cea8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1398,7 +1398,16 @@ fetch.unpackLimit:: fetch.prune:: If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune` - option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune`. + option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune` + and the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + +fetch.pruneTags:: + If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the + `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` refspec was provided when pruning, + if not set already. This allows for setting both this option + and `fetch.prune` to maintain a 1=1 mapping to upstream + refs. See also `remote.<name>.pruneTags` and the PRUNING + section of linkgit:git-fetch[1]. fetch.output:: Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are @@ -2945,6 +2954,15 @@ remote.<name>.prune:: remote (as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line). Overrides `fetch.prune` settings, if any. +remote.<name>.pruneTags:: + When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also + remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if pruning + is activated in general via `remote.<name>.prune`, `fetch.prune` or + `--prune`. Overrides `fetch.pruneTags` settings, if any. ++ +See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of +linkgit:git-fetch[1]. + remotes.<group>:: The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1]. @@ -3210,7 +3228,8 @@ submodule.active:: submodule.recurse:: Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This - applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option. + applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option, + except `clone`. Defaults to false. submodule.fetchJobs:: diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index fb6bebbc61..8631e365f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -73,7 +73,22 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] are fetched due to an explicit refspec (either on the command line or in the remote configuration, for example if the remote was cloned with the --mirror option), then they are also - subject to pruning. + subject to pruning. Supplying `--prune-tags` is a shorthand for + providing the tag refspec. ++ +See the PRUNING section below for more details. + +-P:: +--prune-tags:: + Before fetching, remove any local tags that no longer exist on + the remote if `--prune` is enabled. This option should be used + more carefully, unlike `--prune` it will remove any local + references (local tags) that have been created. This option is + a shorthand for providing the explicit tag refspec along with + `--prune`, see the discussion about that in its documentation. ++ +See the PRUNING section below for more details. + endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 460662e4b9..6f6c34b0f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--exclude=<path>] [--include=<path>] [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--[no-]scissors] [-S[<keyid>]] [--patch-format=<format>] [(<mbox> | <Maildir>)...] -'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit) +'git am' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --show-current-patch) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. Abort the patching operation but keep HEAD and the index untouched. +--show-current-patch:: + Show the patch being applied when "git am" is stopped because + of conflicts. + DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index b153aefa68..e319935597 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -99,6 +99,93 @@ The latter use of the `remote.<repository>.fetch` values can be overridden by giving the `--refmap=<refspec>` parameter(s) on the command line. +PRUNING +------- + +Git has a default disposition of keeping data unless it's explicitly +thrown away; this extends to holding onto local references to branches +on remotes that have themselves deleted those branches. + +If left to accumulate, these stale references might make performance +worse on big and busy repos that have a lot of branch churn, and +e.g. make the output of commands like `git branch -a --contains +<commit>` needlessly verbose, as well as impacting anything else +that'll work with the complete set of known references. + +These remote-tracking references can be deleted as a one-off with +either of: + +------------------------------------------------ +# While fetching +$ git fetch --prune <name> + +# Only prune, don't fetch +$ git remote prune <name> +------------------------------------------------ + +To prune references as part of your normal workflow without needing to +remember to run that, set `fetch.prune` globally, or +`remote.<name>.prune` per-remote in the config. See +linkgit:git-config[1]. + +Here's where things get tricky and more specific. The pruning feature +doesn't actually care about branches, instead it'll prune local <-> +remote-references as a function of the refspec of the remote (see +`<refspec>` and <<CRTB,CONFIGURED REMOTE-TRACKING BRANCHES>> above). + +Therefore if the refspec for the remote includes +e.g. `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`, or you manually run e.g. `git fetch +--prune <name> "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"` it won't be stale remote +tracking branches that are deleted, but any local tag that doesn't +exist on the remote. + +This might not be what you expect, i.e. you want to prune remote +`<name>`, but also explicitly fetch tags from it, so when you fetch +from it you delete all your local tags, most of which may not have +come from the `<name>` remote in the first place. + +So be careful when using this with a refspec like +`refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`, or any other refspec which might map +references from multiple remotes to the same local namespace. + +Since keeping up-to-date with both branches and tags on the remote is +a common use-case the `--prune-tags` option can be supplied along with +`--prune` to prune local tags that don't exist on the remote, and +force-update those tags that differ. Tag pruning can also be enabled +with `fetch.pruneTags` or `remote.<name>.pruneTags` in the config. See +linkgit:git-config[1]. + +The `--prune-tags` option is equivalent to having +`refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` declared in the refspecs of the remote. This +can lead to some seemingly strange interactions: + +------------------------------------------------ +# These both fetch tags +$ git fetch --no-tags origin 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +$ git fetch --no-tags --prune-tags origin +------------------------------------------------ + +The reason it doesn't error out when provided without `--prune` or its +config versions is for flexibility of the configured versions, and to +maintain a 1=1 mapping between what the command line flags do, and +what the configuration versions do. + +It's reasonable to e.g. configure `fetch.pruneTags=true` in +`~/.gitconfig` to have tags pruned whenever `git fetch --prune` is +run, without making every invocation of `git fetch` without `--prune` +an error. + +Pruning tags with `--prune-tags` also works when fetching a URL +instead of a named remote. These will all prune tags not found on +origin: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git fetch origin --prune --prune-tags +$ git fetch origin --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +$ git fetch <url of origin> --prune --prune-tags +$ git fetch <url of origin> --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +------------------------------------------------ + OUTPUT ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index d713951b86..3277ca1432 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [<upstream> [<branch>]] 'git rebase' [-i | --interactive] [options] [--exec <cmd>] [--onto <newbase>] --root [<branch>] -'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --edit-todo +'git rebase' --continue | --skip | --abort | --quit | --edit-todo | --show-current-patch DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -255,6 +255,11 @@ leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. --edit-todo:: Edit the todo list during an interactive rebase. +--show-current-patch:: + Show the current patch in an interactive rebase or when rebase + is stopped because of conflicts. This is the equivalent of + `git show REBASE_HEAD`. + -m:: --merge:: Use merging strategies to rebase. When the recursive (default) merge diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 577b969c1b..4feddc0293 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt @@ -172,10 +172,14 @@ With `-n` option, the remote heads are not queried first with 'prune':: -Deletes all stale remote-tracking branches under <name>. -These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository -referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in -"remotes/<name>". +Deletes stale references associated with <name>. By default, stale +remote-tracking branches under <name> are deleted, but depending on +global configuration and the configuration of the remote we might even +prune local tags that haven't been pushed there. Equivalent to `git +fetch --prune <name>`, except that no new references will be fetched. ++ +See the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1] for what it'll prune +depending on various configuration. + With `--dry-run` option, report what branches will be pruned, but do not actually prune them. @@ -189,7 +193,7 @@ remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not have the configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will be updated. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). + -With `--prune` option, prune all the remotes that are updated. +With `--prune` option, run pruning against all the remotes that are updated. DISCUSSION diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index f9c91c721e..6c230c0c72 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ ignored, then the directory is not shown, but all contents are shown. without options are equivalent to 'always' and 'never' respectively. +--ahead-behind:: +--no-ahead-behind:: + Display or do not display detailed ahead/behind counts for the + branch relative to its upstream branch. Defaults to true. + <pathspec>...:: See the 'pathspec' entry in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 956fc019f9..1d17101bac 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-tag - Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] +'git tag' [-a | -s | -u <keyid>] [-f] [-m <msg> | -F <file>] [-e] <tagname> [<commit> | <object>] 'git tag' -d <tagname>... 'git tag' [-n[<num>]] -l [--contains <commit>] [--no-contains <commit>] @@ -167,6 +167,12 @@ This option is only applicable when listing tags without annotation lines. Implies `-a` if none of `-a`, `-s`, or `-u <keyid>` is given. +-e:: +--edit:: + The message taken from file with `-F` and command line with + `-m` are usually used as the tag message unmodified. + This option lets you further edit the message taken from these sources. + --cleanup=<mode>:: This option sets how the tag message is cleaned up. The '<mode>' can be one of 'verbatim', 'whitespace' and 'strip'. The diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt index 4d6c17782f..3b9faabdbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ On the filesystem, a submodule usually (but not always - see FORMS below) consists of (i) a Git directory located under the `$GIT_DIR/modules/` directory of its superproject, (ii) a working directory inside the superproject's working directory, and a `.git` file at the root of -the submodule’s working directory pointing to (i). +the submodule's working directory pointing to (i). Assuming the submodule has a Git directory at `$GIT_DIR/modules/foo/` and a working directory at `path/to/bar/`, the superproject tracks the @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ in its `.gitmodules` file (see linkgit:gitmodules[5]) of the form `submodule.foo.path = path/to/bar`. The `gitlink` entry contains the object name of the commit that the -superproject expects the submodule’s working directory to be at. +superproject expects the submodule's working directory to be at. The section `submodule.foo.*` in the `.gitmodules` file gives additional hints to Git's porcelain layer. For example, the `submodule.foo.url` @@ -136,27 +136,27 @@ using older versions of Git. + It is possible to construct these old form repositories manually. + -When deinitialized or deleted (see below), the submodule’s Git +When deinitialized or deleted (see below), the submodule's Git directory is automatically moved to `$GIT_DIR/modules/<name>/` of the superproject. * Deinitialized submodule: A `gitlink`, and a `.gitmodules` entry, -but no submodule working directory. The submodule’s Git directory +but no submodule working directory. The submodule's Git directory may be there as after deinitializing the Git directory is kept around. The directory which is supposed to be the working directory is empty instead. + A submodule can be deinitialized by running `git submodule deinit`. Besides emptying the working directory, this command only modifies -the superproject’s `$GIT_DIR/config` file, so the superproject’s history +the superproject's `$GIT_DIR/config` file, so the superproject's history is not affected. This can be undone using `git submodule init`. * Deleted submodule: A submodule can be deleted by running `git rm <submodule path> && git commit`. This can be undone using `git revert`. + -The deletion removes the superproject’s tracking data, which are +The deletion removes the superproject's tracking data, which are both the `gitlink` entry and the section in the `.gitmodules` file. -The submodule’s working directory is removed from the file +The submodule's working directory is removed from the file system, but the Git directory is kept around as it to make it possible to checkout past commits without requiring fetching from another repository. diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 3888c3ff85..63a3fc0954 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ set to `no` at the beginning of them. --no-ff:: Create a merge commit even when the merge resolves as a fast-forward. This is the default behaviour when merging an - annotated (and possibly signed) tag. + annotated (and possibly signed) tag that is not stored in + its natural place in 'refs/tags/' hierarchy. --ff-only:: Refuse to merge and exit with a non-zero status unless the diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index e664c088a5..6109ef09aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] - '%>>(<N>)', '%>>|(<N>)': similar to '%>(<N>)', '%>|(<N>)' respectively, except that if the next placeholder takes more spaces than given and there are spaces on its left, use those spaces -- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '% <(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' +- '%><(<N>)', '%><|(<N>)': similar to '%<(<N>)', '%<|(<N>)' respectively, but padding both sides (i.e. the text is centered) - %(trailers[:options]): display the trailers of the body as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]. The `trailers` string may be |