"git log rev^..rev" is an often-used revision range specification
to show what was done on a side branch merged at rev. This has
gained a short-hand "rev^-1". In general "rev^-$n" is the same as
"^rev^$n rev", i.e. what has happened on other branches while the
history leading to nth parent was looking the other way.
* vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log:
revision: new rev^-n shorthand for rev^n..rev
When given an abbreviated object name that is not (or more
realistically, "no longer") unique, we gave a fatal error
"ambiguous argument". This error is now accompanied by hints that
lists the objects that begins with the given prefix. During the
course of development of this new feature, numerous minor bugs were
uncovered and corrected, the most notable one of which is that we
gave "short SHA1 xxxx is ambiguous." twice without good reason.
* jk/ambiguous-short-object-names:
get_short_sha1: make default disambiguation configurable
get_short_sha1: list ambiguous objects on error
for_each_abbrev: drop duplicate objects
sha1_array: let callbacks interrupt iteration
get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation
get_short_sha1: NUL-terminate hex prefix
get_short_sha1: refactor init of disambiguation code
get_short_sha1: parse tags when looking for treeish
get_sha1: propagate flags to child functions
get_sha1: avoid repeating ourselves via ONLY_TO_DIE
get_sha1: detect buggy calls with multiple disambiguators
The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has
been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them.
* dt/tree-fsck:
fsck: handle bad trees like other errors
tree-walk: be more specific about corrupt tree errors
An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the
human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted
correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail.
* kd/mailinfo-quoted-string:
mailinfo: unescape quoted-pair in header fields
t5100-mailinfo: replace common path prefix with variable
The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git
merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some
time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This
is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation.
* rs/git-gui-use-modern-git-merge-syntax:
git-gui: stop using deprecated merge syntax
Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in
validating what they are reading is a proper object file and
sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has
been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting.
* jc/verify-loose-object-header:
unpack_sha1_header(): detect malformed object header
streaming: make sure to notice corrupt object
"git init" tried to record core.worktree in the repository's
'config' file when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable was set and
it was different from where GIT_DIR appears as ".git" at its top,
but the logic was faulty when .git is a "gitdir:" file that points
at the real place, causing trouble in working trees that are
managed by "git worktree". This has been corrected.
* nd/init-core-worktree-in-multi-worktree-world:
init: kill git_link variable
init: do not set unnecessary core.worktree
init: kill set_git_dir_init()
init: call set_git_dir_init() from within init_db()
init: correct re-initialization from a linked worktree
"gitweb" can spawn "highlight" to show blob contents with
(programming) language-specific syntax highlighting, but only
when the language is known. "highlight" can however be told
to make the guess itself by giving it "--force" option, which
has been enabled.
* ik/gitweb-force-highlight:
gitweb: use highlight's shebang detection
gitweb: remove unused guess_file_syntax() parameter
In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
* jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null:
ident: handle NULL ai_canonname
Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.
* jk/doc-cvs-update:
docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats
docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage
docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
"git pack-objects --include-tag" was taught that when we know that
we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at
C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the
intermediate tag B in some cases.
* jk/pack-tag-of-tag:
pack-objects: walk tag chains for --include-tag
t5305: simplify packname handling
t5305: use "git -C"
t5305: drop "dry-run" of unpack-objects
t5305: move cleanup into test block
"git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that
ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored
the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the
default set of configuration variables to correct this.
* jc/worktree-config:
worktree: honor configuration variables
In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
* jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null:
ident: handle NULL ai_canonname
When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository
it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a
mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches.
This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due
to a design bug, which has been fixed.
* jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless:
fetch-pack: do not reset in_vain on non-novel acks
A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors
that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions
it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed.
* jk/verify-packfile-gently:
verify_packfile: check pack validity before accessing data
When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body
header and it uses the RFC2822 header folding, "git am" failed to
put the header line back into a single logical line. The
underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
* jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers:
mailinfo: handle in-body header continuations
mailinfo: make is_scissors_line take plain char *
mailinfo: separate in-body header processing
"git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the
executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has
been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
the given pathspec.
* tg/add-chmod+x-fix:
t3700-add: do not check working tree file mode without POSIXPERM
t3700-add: create subdirectory gently
add: modify already added files when --chmod is given
read-cache: introduce chmod_index_entry
update-index: add test for chmod flags
When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the
user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step
after that was (i.e. "--continue").
* rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise:
rebase -i: improve advice on bad instruction lines
The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the
internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a
no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we
need to know to fix this.
* ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix:
travis-ci: ask homebrew for its path instead of hardcoding it
Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was
mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read
beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing
a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND
extension.
* js/regexec-buf:
regex: use regexec_buf()
regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a non NUL-terminated string
regex: -G<pattern> feeds a non NUL-terminated string to regexec() and fails
"git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation
rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow
checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a
file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.
This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the
command was run from a subdirectory.
* nd/checkout-disambiguation:
checkout: fix ambiguity check in subdir
checkout.txt: document a common case that ignores ambiguation rules
checkout: add some spaces between code and comment
A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been
fixed.
* ep/doc-check-ref-format-example:
git-check-ref-format.txt: fixup documentation
Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use
of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is
'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`.
When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to
'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been
corrected.
* mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto:
Documentation/config: default for color.* is color.ui
"git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250,
which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is
detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to
50.
* jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth:
gc: default aggressive depth to 50
Even when "git pull --rebase=preserve" (and the underlying "git
rebase --preserve") can complete without creating any new commit
(i.e. fast-forwards), it still insisted on having a usable ident
information (read: user.email is set correctly), which was less
than nice. As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase"
would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text
when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed.
* jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check:
rebase-interactive: drop early check for valid ident
"git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added
showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature
line, which turned out to be inconvenient. The base information
has been moved above the signature line.
* jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig:
format-patch: show base info before email signature
Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of
build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated
configuration.
* ks/perf-build-with-autoconf:
t/perf/run: copy config.mak.autogen & friends to build area
"git diff -W" output needs to extend the context backward to
include the header line of the current function and also forward to
include the body of the entire current function up to the header
line of the next one. This process may have to merge to adjacent
hunks, but the code forgot to do so in some cases.
* rs/xdiff-merge-overlapping-hunks-for-W-context:
xdiff: fix merging of hunks with -W context and -u context
The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default
these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session,
which led to unnecessary API failures.
* ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle:
http: always remove curl easy from curlm session on release
http: consolidate #ifdefs for curl_multi_remove_handle
http: warn on curl_multi_add_handle failures
"git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates
to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time.
The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to
avoid the wastage.
* jk/patch-ids-no-merges:
patch-ids: refuse to compute patch-id for merge commit
patch-ids: turn off rename detection
"git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration
variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we
forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match
this change.
* js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign:
git-gui: respect commit.gpgsign again
"git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted
instead.
* jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto:
remote-curl: handle URLs without protocol
Update Japanese translation for "git-gui".
* sy/git-gui-i18n-ja:
git-gui: update Japanese information
git-gui: update Japanese translation
git-gui: add Japanese language code
git-gui: apply po template to Japanese translation
git-gui: consistently use the same word for "blame" in Japanese
git-gui: consistently use the same word for "remote" in Japanese
