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Junio C Hamano
971e829cd8 Merge branch 'jk/pathspec-literal'
Allow scripts to feed literal paths to commands that take
pathspecs, by disabling wildcard globbing.

* jk/pathspec-literal:
  add global --literal-pathspecs option

Conflicts:
	dir.c
2013-01-05 23:42:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
946a5aee3e Merge branch 'jc/format-color-auto'
Introduce "log --format=%C(auto,blue)Foo%C(auto,reset)" that does
not color its output when writing to a non-terminal.

* jc/format-color-auto:
  log --format: teach %C(auto,black) to respect color config
  t6006: clean up whitespace
2013-01-05 23:41:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3a3100a889 Merge branch 'jk/mailmap-from-blob'
Allow us to read, and default to read, mailmap files from the tip
of the history in bare repositories.  This will help running tools
like shortlog in server settings.

* jk/mailmap-from-blob:
  mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories
  mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob
  mailmap: clean up read_mailmap error handling
  mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs
  mailmap: refactor mailmap parsing for non-file sources
2013-01-05 23:41:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9a2c83d24c Merge branch 'cr/push-force-tag-update'
Require "-f" for push to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward.

* cr/push-force-tag-update:
  push: allow already-exists advice to be disabled
  push: rename config variable for more general use
  push: cleanup push rules comment
  push: clarify rejection of update to non-commit-ish
  push: require force for annotated tags
  push: require force for refs under refs/tags/
  push: flag updates that require force
  push: keep track of "update" state separately
  push: add advice for rejected tag reference
  push: return reject reasons as a bitset
2013-01-05 23:41:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
76523cac26 Merge branch 'fc/fast-export-fixes'
Various updates to fast-export used in the context of the remote
helper interface.

* fc/fast-export-fixes:
  fast-export: make sure updated refs get updated
  fast-export: don't handle uninteresting refs
  fast-export: fix comparison in tests
  fast-export: trivial cleanup
  remote-testgit: implement the "done" feature manually
  remote-testgit: report success after an import
  remote-testgit: exercise more features
  remote-testgit: cleanup tests
  remote-testgit: remove irrelevant test
  remote-testgit: remove non-local functionality
  Add new simplified git-remote-testgit
  Rename git-remote-testgit to git-remote-testpy
  remote-helpers: fix failure message
  remote-testgit: fix direction of marks
  fast-export: avoid importing blob marks
2013-01-05 23:41:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7952ea66e7 format-patch: give --reroll-count a short synonym -v
Accept "-v" as a synonym to "--reroll-count", so that users can say
"git format-patch -v4 master", instead of having to fully spell it
out as "git format-patch --reroll-count=4 master".

As I do not think of a reason why users would want to tell the
command to be "verbose", I think this should be OK.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-03 16:05:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3e293fba62 Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-03 10:33:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4aad08e061 format-patch: document and test --reroll-count
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-02 14:16:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
298caa7e9e Start 1.8.2 cycle
Various fixes that have been cooking in 'next' have been merged. All
of them should go to 'maint' for 1.8.1.1 later.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-02 10:56:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4b32367ddc Merge branch 'mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop'
The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the
code did not expect.

* mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop:
  graph.c: infinite loop in git whatchanged --graph -m
2013-01-02 10:39:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f470e901f2 Merge branch 'mh/ceiling'
An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.

* mh/ceiling:
  string_list_longest_prefix(): remove function
  setup_git_directory_gently_1(): resolve symlinks in ceiling paths
  longest_ancestor_length(): require prefix list entries to be normalized
  longest_ancestor_length(): take a string_list argument for prefixes
  longest_ancestor_length(): use string_list_split()
  Introduce new function real_path_if_valid()
  real_path_internal(): add comment explaining use of cwd
  Introduce new static function real_path_internal()
2013-01-02 10:36:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92a865e736 SubmittingPatches: give list and maintainer addresses
We told readers to "send it to the list" (or the maintainer) without
telling what addresses are to be used.  Correct this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-02 09:31:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7d5bf87ba3 SubmittingPatches: remove overlong checklist
The section is no longer a concise checklist.  It also talks about
things that are not covered in the "Long version" text, which means
people need to read both, covering more or less the same thing in
different phrasing.

Fold the details into the main text and remove the section.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-02 09:31:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5fb4770ad Documentation: full-ness of a bundle is significant for cloning
Not necessarily every bundle file can be cloned from.  Only the ones
that do not need prerequisites can.

When 1d52b02 (Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording
in git-bundle.txt, 2009-03-22) reworded this paragraph, it lost a
critical hint to tell readers why this particular bundle can be
cloned from.  Resurrect it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-01 15:48:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e6da8ee8d8 SubmittingPatches: mention subsystems with dedicated repositories
These were only mentioned in periodical "A note from the maintainer"
posting and not in the documentation suite.  SubmittingPatches has a
section to help contributors decide on what commit to base their
changes, which is the most suitable place for this information.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-01 14:37:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
adcc42e68d SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares?
The introductory text in the "long version" talks about the origin
of this document with "I started ...", but it is unclear who that I
is, and more importantly, it is not interesting how it was started.

Just state the purpose of the document to help readers decide if it
is releavant to them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-01 14:35:22 -08:00
Kirill Brilliantov
ded6aa6bda Documentation: correct example restore from bundle
Because the bundle created in the example does not record HEAD, "git
clone" will not check out the files to the working tree:

    $ git clone pr.bundle q/
    Cloning into 'q'...
    Receiving objects: 100% (619/619), 13.52 MiB | 18.74 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (413/413), done.
    warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Avoid alarming the readers by adding "-b master" to the example.  A
better fix may be to arrange the bundle created in the earlier step
to record HEAD, so that it can be cloned without this workaround.

Signed-off-by: Brilliantov Kirill Vladimirovich <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-01 12:43:02 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a5ba2cbe14 config.txt: a few lines about branch.<name>.description
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-01 12:13:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5d417842ef Git 1.8.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-31 14:25:57 -08:00
Adam Spiers
95a68344af Improve documentation and comments regarding directory traversal API
traversal API has a few potentially confusing properties.  These
comments clarify a few key aspects and will hopefully make it easier
to understand for other newcomers in the future.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-28 12:07:45 -08:00
Adam Spiers
f1a7082f2a api-directory-listing.txt: update to match code
7c4c97c0ac turned the flags in struct dir_struct into a single bitfield
variable, but forgot to update this document.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-28 12:07:45 -08:00
Eric S. Raymond
95f95c99f6 Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.
The parsecvs code has been neglected for a long time, and the only
public version does not even build correctly.  I have been handed
control of the project and intend to fix this, but until I do it
cannot be recommended.

Also, the project URL given for Subversion needed to be updated
to follow their site move.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-28 11:35:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1b800f8f50 Sync with 1.8.0.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:59:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
15999998fb Git 1.8.0.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:57:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6ecc01f26c git(1): show link to contributor summary page
We earlier removed a link to list of contributors that pointed to a
defunct page; let's use a working one from Ohloh.net to replace it
instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:40:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2b05d9f917 Merge branch 'sl/maint-git-svn-docs' into maint
* sl/maint-git-svn-docs:
  git-svn: Note about tags.
  git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
  git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
  git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
2012-12-27 15:38:34 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
008c208c2c git-svn: Note about tags.
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:38:26 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
197a80d7d9 git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:38:26 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
91583a6a85 git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
Document that when using git svn, one should usually either use the
directory structure options to import branches as branches, or only
import one subdirectory. The default behaviour of cloning all branches
and tags as subdirectories in the working copy is usually not what the
user wants.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:38:26 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
d658835c19 git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
git svn sometimes creates branches with an at-sign in the name
(branchname@revision). These branches confuse many users and it is a FAQ
why they are created. Document when git svn creates them.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:38:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4017edcfac Merge branch 'gb/maint-doc-svn-log-window-size' into maint
* branch 'gb/maint-doc-svn-log-window-size':
  Document git-svn fetch --log-window-size parameter
2012-12-27 15:34:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8c6bda0f4d Merge branch 'km/maint-doc-git-reset' into maint
* branch 'km/maint-doc-git-reset':
  doc: git-reset: make "<mode>" optional
2012-12-27 15:32:27 -08:00
Max Horn
6cf9614df6 git-remote-helpers.txt: document invocation before input format
In the distant past, the order things were documented was
'Invocation', 'Commands', 'Capabilities', ...

Then it was decided that before giving a list of Commands, there
should be an overall description of the 'Input format', which was
a wise decision. However, this description was put as the very
first thing, with the rationale that any implementor would want
to know that first.

However, it seems an implementor would actually first need to
know how the remote helper will be invoked, so moving
'Invocation' to the front again seems logical. Moreover, we now
don't switch from discussing the input format to the invocation
style and then back to input related stuff.

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:30:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0a1b59eb86 Merge branch 'jk/avoid-mailto-invalid-in-doc' into maint
* jk/avoid-mailto-invalid-in-doc:
  Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses
2012-12-27 15:27:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4f96f1fbab Merge branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign' into maint
* branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign':
  Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"
2012-12-27 15:25:03 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
0b830ac521 Documentation: move diff.wordRegex from config.txt to diff-config.txt
19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to
diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to
diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left
behind in config.txt.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 15:21:46 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
0a85441cdb Remove Documentation/pt_BR/gittutorial.txt
This file is rather outdated and IMHO shouldn't be there in the first place.
(If there are translations of the Git documentation they are better be kept
separate from the original documentation.)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27 08:42:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
86c3e6ed51 Merge branch 'maint' 2012-12-22 20:40:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2999adcd5 Merge branch 'jc/doc-diff-blobs' into maint
* jc/doc-diff-blobs:
  Documentation: Describe "git diff <blob> <blob>" separately
2012-12-22 20:38:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a7b5e9141e Merge branch 'cr/doc-checkout-branch' into maint
* cr/doc-checkout-branch:
  Documentation/git-checkout.txt: document 70c9ac2 behavior
  Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage
2012-12-22 20:38:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2b1965863b Merge branch 'ta/api-index-doc' into maint
* ta/api-index-doc:
  Remove misleading date from api-index-skel.txt
2012-12-22 20:37:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ffcd76bda9 Merge branch 'as/doc-for-devs' into maint
* as/doc-for-devs:
  Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines
  SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages
2012-12-22 20:37:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
21b340181b Merge branch 'jc/fetch-tags-doc' into maint
* jc/fetch-tags-doc:
  fetch --tags: clarify documentation
2012-12-22 20:37:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
df54d59566 Merge branch 'nd/index-format-doc' into maint
* nd/index-format-doc:
  index-format.txt: clarify what is "invalid"
2012-12-22 20:37:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
66afe50b43 Merge branch 'ta/doc-cleanup' into maint
* ta/doc-cleanup:
  Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
  Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
  Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc
  Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt
  Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1
  Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
2012-12-22 20:35:34 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
854dfda8be Sort howto documents in howto-index.txt
Howto documents in howto-index.txt were listed in a rather
random order. So better sort them.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-22 20:26:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b10c4add03 Merge branch 'ta/new-command-howto'
* ta/new-command-howto:
  Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
2012-12-21 15:19:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
814a1924b4 Merge branch 'jc/doc-diff-blobs'
"git diff <blob> <blob>" was not documented and was only hinted as
an extension to "git diff <commit> <commit> -- <pathspec>", but
comparison between two blobs are more special than that.  It does
not take any pathspec to begin with.

* jc/doc-diff-blobs:
  Documentation: Describe "git diff <blob> <blob>" separately
2012-12-21 15:19:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
51bf6bea51 Merge branch 'cr/doc-checkout-branch'
Document the magic "git checkout <no-such-branch>" hack to create
local branch out of a remote tracking branch that hasn't been
documented so far.

* cr/doc-checkout-branch:
  Documentation/git-checkout.txt: document 70c9ac2 behavior
  Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage
2012-12-21 15:19:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6600dcbd30 Merge branch 'ta/api-index-doc'
* ta/api-index-doc:
  Remove misleading date from api-index-skel.txt
2012-12-21 15:19:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
53096bf0af Merge branch 'jk/avoid-mailto-invalid-in-doc'
Avoids invalid sample e-mail addresses from becoming mailto links
in the formatted output.

* jk/avoid-mailto-invalid-in-doc:
  Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses
2012-12-21 15:18:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2c6a70a54 Merge branch 'as/doc-for-devs'
It might be a better idea to move the text the bottom one adds to
the extended description from the quick checklist part.

* as/doc-for-devs:
  Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines
  SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages
2012-12-21 15:18:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
73cf1b540e Merge branch 'jc/fetch-tags-doc'
"git fetch --tags" was explained as if it were "git fetch
--no-no-tags", which is not the case, causing confusion.

* jc/fetch-tags-doc:
  fetch --tags: clarify documentation
2012-12-21 15:18:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d34ccd6df7 Merge branch 'nd/index-format-doc'
* nd/index-format-doc:
  index-format.txt: clarify what is "invalid"
2012-12-21 15:18:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
80c78e11a0 Merge branch 'sl/git-svn-docs'
* sl/git-svn-docs:
  git-svn: Note about tags.
  git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
  git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
  git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
2012-12-21 15:18:27 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
81670e9bfc Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but
is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To"
section of the documentation suite.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-21 10:35:53 -08:00
Jeff King
823ab40fd4 add global --literal-pathspecs option
Git takes pathspec arguments in many places to limit the
scope of an operation. These pathspecs are treated not as
literal paths, but as glob patterns that can be fed to
fnmatch. When a user is giving a specific pattern, this is a
nice feature.

However, when programatically providing pathspecs, it can be
a nuisance. For example, to find the latest revision which
modified "$foo", one can use "git rev-list -- $foo". But if
"$foo" contains glob characters (e.g., "f*"), it will
erroneously match more entries than desired. The caller
needs to quote the characters in $foo, and even then, the
results may not be exactly the same as with a literal
pathspec. For instance, the depth checks in
match_pathspec_depth do not kick in if we match via fnmatch.

This patch introduces a global command-line option (i.e.,
one for "git" itself, not for specific commands) to turn
this behavior off. It also has a matching environment
variable, which can make it easier if you are a script or
porcelain interface that is going to issue many such
commands.

This option cannot turn off globbing for particular
pathspecs. That could eventually be done with a ":(noglob)"
magic pathspec prefix. However, that level of granularity is
more cumbersome to use for many cases, and doing ":(noglob)"
right would mean converting the whole codebase to use
"struct pathspec", as the usual "const char **pathspec"
cannot represent extra per-item flags.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19 14:58:59 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
18499ba694 Remove duplicate entry in ./Documentation/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19 10:24:23 -08:00
W. Trevor King
b928922727 submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules
This allows you to easily record a submodule.<name>.branch option in
.gitmodules when you add a new submodule.  With this patch,

  $ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
  $ git config -f .gitmodules submodule.<path>.branch <branch>

reduces to

  $ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]

This means that future calls to

  $ git submodule update --remote ...

will get updates from the same branch that you used to initialize the
submodule, which is usually what you want.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19 09:40:51 -08:00
W. Trevor King
06b1abb5bd submodule update: add --remote for submodule's upstream changes
The current `update` command incorporates the superproject's gitlinked
SHA-1 ($sha1) into the submodule HEAD ($subsha1).  Depending on the
options you use, it may checkout $sha1, rebase the $subsha1 onto
$sha1, or merge $sha1 into $subsha1.  This helps you keep up with
changes in the upstream superproject.

However, it's also useful to stay up to date with changes in the
upstream subproject.  Previous workflows for incorporating such
changes include the ungainly:

  $ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull'

With this patch, all of the useful functionality for incorporating
superproject changes can be reused to incorporate upstream subproject
updates.  When you specify --remote, the target $sha1 is replaced with
a $sha1 of the submodule's origin/master tracking branch.  If you want
to merge a different tracking branch, you can configure the
`submodule.<name>.branch` option in `.gitmodules`.  You can override
the `.gitmodules` configuration setting for a particular superproject
by configuring the option in that superproject's default configuration
(using the usual configuration hierarchy, e.g. `.git/config`,
`~/.gitconfig`, etc.).

Previous use of submodule.<name>.branch
=======================================

Because we're adding a new configuration option, it's a good idea to
check if anyone else is already using the option.  The foreach-pull
example above was described by Ævar in

  commit f030c96d86
  Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
  Date:   Fri May 21 16:10:10 2010 +0000

    git-submodule foreach: Add $toplevel variable

Gerrit uses the same interpretation for the setting, but because
Gerrit has direct access to the subproject repositories, it updates
the superproject repositories automatically when a subproject changes.
Gerrit also accepts the special value '.', which it expands into the
superproject's branch name.

Although the --remote functionality is using `submodule.<name>.branch`
slightly differently, the effect is the same.  The foreach-pull
example uses the option to record the name of the local branch to
checkout before pulls.  The tracking branch to be pulled is recorded
in `.git/modules/<name>/config`, which was initialized by the module
clone during `submodule add` or `submodule init`.  Because the branch
name stored in `submodule.<name>.branch` was likely the same as the
branch name used during the initial `submodule add`, the same branch
will be pulled in each workflow.

Implementation details
======================

In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, `update --remote`
fetches the submodule's remote repository before calculating the
SHA-1.  However, I didn't change the logic guarding the existing fetch:

  if test -z "$nofetch"
  then
    # Run fetch only if $sha1 isn't present or it
    # is not reachable from a ref.
    (clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" &&
      ( (rev=$(git rev-list -n 1 $sha1 --not --all 2>/dev/null) &&
       test -z "$rev") || git-fetch)) ||
    die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to fetch in submodule path '\$path'")"
  fi

There will not be a double-fetch, because the new $sha1 determined
after the `--remote` triggered fetch should always exist in the
repository.  If it doesn't, it's because some racy process removed it
from the submodule's repository and we *should* be re-fetching.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19 09:40:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bd52900df4 Documentation: Describe "git diff <blob> <blob>" separately
As it was not a common operation, it was described as if it is a
side note for the more common two-commit variant, but this mode
behaves very differently, e.g. it does not make any sense to ask
recursive behaviour, or give the command a pathspec.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18 11:35:28 -08:00
Chris Rorvick
00bb4378c7 Documentation/git-checkout.txt: document 70c9ac2 behavior
Document the behavior implemented in 70c9ac2 (DWIM "git checkout
frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz").

Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18 11:07:44 -08:00
Chris Rorvick
e1cdf63316 Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage
The forms of checkout that do not take a path are lumped together in
the DESCRIPTION section, but the description for this group is
dominated by explanation of the -b|-B form.

Split these apart for more clarity.

Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18 11:04:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b7cd0c9b69 Sync with 'maint' 2012-12-18 10:51:22 -08:00
Sitaram Chamarty
31d66aa408 clarify -M without % symbol in diff-options
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-18 08:46:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
30825178fb log --format: teach %C(auto,black) to respect color config
Traditionally, %C(color attr) always emitted the ANSI color
sequence; it was up to the scripts that wanted to conditionally
color their output to omit %C(...) specifier when they do not want
colors.

Optionally allow "auto," to be prefixed to the color, so that the
output is colored iff we would color regular "log" output
(e.g., taking into account color.* and --color command line
options).

Tests and pretty_context bits by Jeff King <peff@peff.net>.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-17 17:30:04 -08:00
Adam Spiers
a26fd033af Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines
The "Try to be nice to older C compilers" text is clearly a guideline
to be borne in mind whilst coding rather than when submitting patches.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-16 18:30:53 -08:00
Adam Spiers
6a5b649883 SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages
Conscientious newcomers to git development will read SubmittingPatches
and CodingGuidelines, but could easily miss the convention of
prefixing commit messages with a single word identifying the file
or area the commit touches.

Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-16 18:30:50 -08:00
John Keeping
f430ed8b99 Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses
Email addresses in documentation are converted into mailto: hyperlinks
in the HTML output and footnotes in man pages.  This isn't desirable for
cases where the address is used as an example and is not valid.

Particularly annoying is the example "jane@laptop.(none)" which appears
in git-shortlog(1) as "jane@laptop[1].(none)", with note 1 saying:

	1. jane@laptop
	   mailto:jane@laptop

Fix this by escaping these email addresses with a leading backslash, to
prevent Asciidoc expanding them as inline macros.

In the case of mailmap.txt, render the address monospaced so that it
matches the block examples surrounding that paragraph.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-16 17:59:07 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
a041c9c752 Remove misleading date from api-index-skel.txt
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-16 11:57:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2e900297db Git 1.8.1-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-15 11:19:02 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
fef11965da Renumber list in api-command.txt
Start list with 1 instead of 0; ASCIIDOC will renumber it anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-15 10:46:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f0cb2f137c fetch --tags: clarify documentation
Explain that --tags is just like another explicit refspec on the
command line and as such overrides the default refspecs configured
via the remote.$name.fetch variable.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13 16:19:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
790c83cda9 Merge branch 'maint' 2012-12-13 11:13:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
538d1239a8 Merge branch 'mh/doc-remote-helpers'
* mh/doc-remote-helpers:
  git-remote-helpers.txt: clarify options & ref list attributes
  git-remote-helpers.txt: clarify command <-> capability correspondences
  git-remote-helpers.txt: rearrange description of capabilities
  git-remote-helpers.txt: minor grammar fix
  git-remote-helpers.txt: document missing capabilities
  git-remote-helpers.txt: document invocation before input format
2012-12-13 11:00:15 -08:00
Manlio Perillo
75940a001a git.txt: add missing info about --git-dir command-line option
Unlike other environment variables (e.g. GIT_WORK_TREE,	GIT_NAMESPACE),
the Documentation/git.txt file did not mention that the GIT_DIR
environment variable can also be set using the --git-dir command line
option.

Signed-off-by: Manlio Perillo <manlio.perillo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13 10:54:01 -08:00
Jeff King
8c473cecfd mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories
The motivation for mailmap.blob is to let users of bare
repositories use the mailmap feature, as they would not have
a checkout containing the .mailmap file. We can make it even
easier for them by just looking in HEAD:.mailmap by default.

We can't know for sure that this is where they would keep a
mailmap, of course, but it is the best guess (and it matches
the non-bare behavior, which reads from HEAD:.mailmap in the
working tree). If it's missing, git will silently ignore the
setting.

We do not do the same magic in the non-bare case, because:

  1. In the common case, HEAD:.mailmap will be the same as
     the .mailmap in the working tree, which is a no-op.

  2. In the uncommon case, the user has modified .mailmap
     but not yet committed it, and would expect the working
     tree version to take precedence.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13 10:22:13 -08:00
Jeff King
d5422b0c0b mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob
Anywhere we mention mailmap.file, it is probably worth
mentioning mailmap.blob, as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13 10:19:26 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
4a6385fe55 index-format.txt: clarify what is "invalid"
A cache-tree entry with a negative entry count is considered invalid
by the current Git; it records that we do not know the object name
of a tree that would result by writing the directory covered by the
cache-tree as a tree object.

Clarify that any entry with a negative entry count is invalid, but
the implementations must write -1 there. This way, we can later
decide to allow writers to use negative values other than -1 to
encode optional information on such invalidated entries without
harming interoperability; we do not know what will be encoded and
how, so we keep these other negative values as reserved for now.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13 10:12:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
24a62db7bb git(1): show link to contributor summary page
We earlier removed a link to list of contributors that pointed to a
defunct page; let's use a working one from Ohloh.net to replace it
instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-12 11:58:17 -08:00
Jeff King
086109006f mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs
In a bare repository, there isn't a simple way to respect an
in-tree mailmap without extracting it to a temporary file.
This patch provides a config variable, similar to
mailmap.file, which reads the mailmap from a blob in the
repository.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-12 11:12:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7e0651a630 Sync with 1.8.0.2
* maint:
  Git 1.8.0.2
  Documentation/git-stash.txt: add a missing verb
  git(1): remove a defunct link to "list of authors"

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-10 13:07:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3e53891f85 Git 1.8.0.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-10 13:05:47 -08:00
Sébastien Loriot
5badfdcf88 Documentation/git-stash.txt: add a missing verb
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Loriot <sloriot.ml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-10 08:18:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ac046c0e8c git(1): remove a defunct link to "list of authors"
The linked page has not been showing the promised "more complete
list" for more than 6 months by now, and nobody has resurrected
the list there nor elsewhere since then.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-09 00:33:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
816f290752 Git 1.8.1-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 15:17:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
00704e4ba5 Documentation/diff-config: work around AsciiDoc misfortune
The line that happens to begin with indent followed by "3. " was
interpreted as if it was an enumerated list; just wrap the lines
differently to work it around for now.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 15:15:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5a2c11b6db Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Update draft release notes to 1.8.0.2
2012-12-07 14:16:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a859d3ee57 Update draft release notes to 1.8.0.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 14:16:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f07f4134ae Merge branch 'jc/doc-push-satellite' into maint
* jc/doc-push-satellite:
  Documentation/git-push.txt: clarify the "push from satellite" workflow
2012-12-07 14:11:21 -08:00
Max Horn
9ec8bcda60 git-remote-helpers.txt: clarify options & ref list attributes
The documentation was misleading in that it gave the impression that
'for-push' could be used as a ref attribute in the output of the
'list' command. That is wrong.

Also, explicitly point out the connection between the commands
'list' and 'options' on the one hand, and the sections
'REF LIST ATTRIBUTES' and 'OPTIONS' on the other hand.

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 13:54:15 -08:00
Max Horn
754cb1aeba git-remote-helpers.txt: clarify command <-> capability correspondences
In particular, document 'list for-push' separately from 'list', as
the former needs only be supported for the push/export
capabilities, and the latter only for fetch/import. Indeed, a
hypothetically 'push-only' helper would only need to support the
former, not the latter.

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 13:54:15 -08:00
Max Horn
0673bb28d0 git-remote-helpers.txt: rearrange description of capabilities
This also remove some duplication in the descriptions
(e.g. refspec was explained twice with similar level of detail).

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 13:54:15 -08:00
Max Horn
b20c457a39 git-remote-helpers.txt: minor grammar fix
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 13:54:15 -08:00
Max Horn
b4b106e5a5 git-remote-helpers.txt: document missing capabilities
Specifically, document the 'export' and '(im|ex)port-marks'
capabilities as well as the export command, which were
undocumented (but in active use).

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 13:54:15 -08:00
Max Horn
f829a9eae6 git-remote-helpers.txt: document invocation before input format
In the distant past, the order things were documented was
'Invocation', 'Commands', 'Capabilities', ...

Then it was decided that before giving a list of Commands, there
should be an overall description of the 'Input format', which was
a wise decision. However, this description was put as the very
first thing, with the rationale that any implementor would want
to know that first.

However, it seems an implementor would actually first need to
know how the remote helper will be invoked, so moving
'Invocation' to the front again seems logical. Moreover, we now
don't switch from discussing the input format to the invocation
style and then back to input related stuff.

Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-07 13:54:14 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
dd465ce66f git-svn: Note about tags.
Document that 'git svn' will import SVN tags as branches.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
0d35bfe1be git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
Describe what the option --follow-parent does, and what happens if it is
set or unset.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
92166fd7b4 git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
Document that when using git svn, one should usually either use the
directory structure options to import branches as branches, or only
import one subdirectory. The default behaviour of cloning all branches
and tags as subdirectories in the working copy is usually not what the
user wants.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00
Sebastian Leske
7cad29d558 git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
git svn sometimes creates branches with an at-sign in the name
(branchname@revision). These branches confuse many users and it is a FAQ
why they are created. Document when git svn creates them.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-05 14:39:55 -08:00