From c1f1c70762f00b54d67219ad3575fa37ad1c07d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:54:46 +0900 Subject: Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.43.0-rc1-1-ge0939b --- MyFirstContribution.html | 2 +- MyFirstObjectWalk.html | 2 +- RelNotes/2.43.0.txt | 36 ++++++++++++++-------------- ReviewingGuidelines.html | 2 +- SubmittingPatches.html | 2 +- ToolsForGit.html | 2 +- everyday.html | 2 +- git-remote-helpers.html | 2 +- howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html | 2 +- howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html | 4 ++-- howto/maintain-git.html | 4 ++-- howto/new-command.html | 4 ++-- howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html | 4 ++-- howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.html | 4 ++-- howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html | 4 ++-- howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html | 4 ++-- howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html | 4 ++-- howto/revert-branch-rebase.html | 4 ++-- howto/separating-topic-branches.html | 4 ++-- howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html | 4 ++-- howto/update-hook-example.html | 4 ++-- howto/use-git-daemon.html | 4 ++-- howto/using-merge-subtree.html | 4 ++-- howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html | 4 ++-- technical/api-error-handling.html | 2 +- technical/api-index.html | 2 +- technical/api-merge.html | 2 +- technical/api-parse-options.html | 2 +- technical/api-simple-ipc.html | 2 +- technical/api-trace2.html | 2 +- technical/bitmap-format.html | 2 +- technical/bundle-uri.html | 2 +- technical/hash-function-transition.html | 2 +- technical/long-running-process-protocol.html | 2 +- technical/multi-pack-index.html | 2 +- technical/pack-heuristics.html | 2 +- technical/parallel-checkout.html | 2 +- technical/partial-clone.html | 2 +- technical/racy-git.html | 2 +- technical/scalar.html | 2 +- technical/send-pack-pipeline.html | 2 +- technical/shallow.html | 2 +- technical/trivial-merge.html | 2 +- user-manual.html | 2 +- 44 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) diff --git a/MyFirstContribution.html b/MyFirstContribution.html index d5e0734c4..09d4cee67 100644 --- a/MyFirstContribution.html +++ b/MyFirstContribution.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/MyFirstObjectWalk.html b/MyFirstObjectWalk.html index b71c5a2ba..e86d92d7e 100644 --- a/MyFirstObjectWalk.html +++ b/MyFirstObjectWalk.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt b/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt index 74f304b1b..770543c46 100644 --- a/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt +++ b/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt @@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features a branch that is checked out and protect it. Rephrase the message to say that the branch is in use. - * Hourly and other schedule of "git maintenance" jobs are randomly + * Hourly and other schedules of "git maintenance" jobs are randomly distributed now. * "git cmd -h" learned to signal which options can be negated by listing such options like "--[no-]opt". - * The way authentication related data other than passwords (e.g. - oath token and password expiration data) are stored in libsecret + * The way authentication related data other than passwords (e.g., + oauth token and password expiration data) are stored in libsecret keyrings has been rethought. * Update the libsecret and wincred credential helpers to correctly @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The default log message created by "git revert", when reverting a commit that records a revert, has been tweaked, to encourage people - describe complex "revert of revert of revert" situation better in + to describe complex "revert of revert of revert" situations better in their own words. * The command-line completion support (in contrib/) learned to @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The command line completion script (in contrib/) can be told to complete aliases by including ": git ;" in the alias to tell - it that the alias should be completed similar to how "git " is - completed. The parsing code for the alias as been loosened to + it that the alias should be completed in a similar way to how "git " is + completed. The parsing code for the alias has been loosened to allow ';' without an extra space before it. * "git for-each-ref" and friends learned to apply mailmap to @@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Flaky "git p4" tests, as well as "git svn" tests, are now skipped in the (rather expensive) sanitizer CI job. - * Tests with LSan from time to time seem to emit harmless message - that makes our tests unnecessarily flaky; we work it around by + * Tests with LSan from time to time seem to emit harmless messages + that make our tests unnecessarily flaky; we work around it by filtering the uninteresting output. * Unused parameters to functions are marked as such, and/or removed, @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Test coverage for trailers has been improved. - * The code to iterate over loose references have been optimized to + * The code to iterate over loose references has been optimized to reduce the number of lstat() system calls. * The codepaths that read "chunk" formatted files have been corrected @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Fixes since v2.42 branch tips at the same time will not waste building and testing the same thing twice. - * The commit-graph verification code that detects mixture of zero and + * The commit-graph verification code that detects a mixture of zero and non-zero generation numbers has been updated. * "git diff -w --exit-code" with various options did not work @@ -170,20 +170,20 @@ Fixes since v2.42 the sequencer code has been cleaned up for consistency. * "git diff --no-such-option" and other corner cases around the exit - status of the "diff" command has been corrected. + status of the "diff" command have been corrected. * "git for-each-ref --sort='contents:size'" sorts the refs according to size numerically, giving a ref that points at a blob twelve-byte (12) long before showing a blob hundred-byte (100) long. - * We now limit depth of the tree objects and maximum length of + * We now limit the depth of the tree objects and maximum length of pathnames recorded in tree objects. (merge 4d5693ba05 jk/tree-name-and-depth-limit later to maint). * Various fixes to the behavior of "rebase -i" when the command got interrupted by conflicting changes. - * References from description of the `--patch` option in various + * References from a description of the `--patch` option in various manual pages have been simplified and improved. * "git grep -e A --no-or -e B" is accepted, even though the negation @@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ Fixes since v2.42 information for a file when fsmonitor knows it is clean and ended up behaving as if it is not clean, which has been corrected. - * Clarify how "alias.foo = : git cmd ; aliased-command-string" should - be spelled with necessary whitespaces around punctuation marks to + * Clarify how "alias.foo = : git cmd ; aliased-command-string" should be + spelled with necessary whitespace around punctuation marks to work. * HTTP Header redaction code has been adjusted for a newer version of @@ -256,9 +256,9 @@ Fixes since v2.42 by "git stash create" now errors out. (merge d9b6634589 jc/fail-stash-to-store-non-stash later to maint). - * The index file has room only for lower 32-bit of the file size in + * The index file has room only for the lower 32-bit of the file size in the cached stat information, which means cached stat information - will have 0 in its sd_size member for a file whose size is multiple + will have 0 in its sd_size member for a file whose size is a multiple of 4GiB. This is mistaken for a racily clean path. Avoid it by storing a bogus sd_size value instead for such files. (merge 5143ac07b1 bc/racy-4gb-files later to maint). @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Fixes since v2.42 20 months or so, which has been corrected. * "git send-email" did not have certain pieces of data computed yet - when it tried to validate the outging messages and its recipient + when it tried to validate the outgoing messages and its recipient addresses, which has been sorted out. * "git bugreport" learned to complain when it received a command line diff --git a/ReviewingGuidelines.html b/ReviewingGuidelines.html index 543c19591..5689240a0 100644 --- a/ReviewingGuidelines.html +++ b/ReviewingGuidelines.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/SubmittingPatches.html b/SubmittingPatches.html index 5ee23191e..7a1810aae 100644 --- a/SubmittingPatches.html +++ b/SubmittingPatches.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/ToolsForGit.html b/ToolsForGit.html index cd0c825c7..fa21053d5 100644 --- a/ToolsForGit.html +++ b/ToolsForGit.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/everyday.html b/everyday.html index 6e6749d0f..1b514ced3 100644 --- a/everyday.html +++ b/everyday.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/git-remote-helpers.html b/git-remote-helpers.html index e6360a0e6..974e3f282 100644 --- a/git-remote-helpers.html +++ b/git-remote-helpers.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
diff --git a/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html b/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html index de4db71f4..a937a114c 100644 --- a/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html +++ b/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html @@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ Thanks, diff --git a/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html b/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html index a21c7d27c..428f8c49f 100644 --- a/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html +++ b/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ tip of your master again and redo the two merges:

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@@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ $ git update-ref -d $mf/ai/topic diff --git a/howto/new-command.html b/howto/new-command.html index 71244147e..6d74f158d 100644 --- a/howto/new-command.html +++ b/howto/new-command.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ letter [PATCH 0/n]. diff --git a/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html b/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html index 0d3b643b1..0985f09f6 100644 --- a/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html +++ b/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ the #1' commit.

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@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ This is still crude and does not protect against simultaneous diff --git a/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html b/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html index bf1787ea2..564c90755 100644 --- a/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html +++ b/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ thing.

diff --git a/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html b/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html index fbd89d37d..28e0ee809 100644 --- a/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html +++ b/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) diff --git a/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html b/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html index fd146f02b..5aae2e009 100644 --- a/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html +++ b/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ P---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---M2 diff --git a/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html b/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html index 499005a9d..38e3b2a09 100644 --- a/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html +++ b/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ Committed merge 7fb9b7262a1d1e0a47bbfdcbbcf50ce0635d3f8f diff --git a/howto/separating-topic-branches.html b/howto/separating-topic-branches.html index 213f8d9f2..00bab70b9 100644 --- a/howto/separating-topic-branches.html +++ b/howto/separating-topic-branches.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ o---o"master" diff --git a/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html b/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html index aa212e649..8ba5872e9 100644 --- a/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html +++ b/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ help diagnosing the problem, but removes security checks.

diff --git a/howto/update-hook-example.html b/howto/update-hook-example.html index 36f400eef..a7adb32a5 100644 --- a/howto/update-hook-example.html +++ b/howto/update-hook-example.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ that JC can make non-fast-forward pushes on it.

diff --git a/howto/use-git-daemon.html b/howto/use-git-daemon.html index 507bbe5b0..c2fd2fdc5 100644 --- a/howto/use-git-daemon.html +++ b/howto/use-git-daemon.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ a good practice to put the paths after a "--" separator.

diff --git a/howto/using-merge-subtree.html b/howto/using-merge-subtree.html index 3ad8976b8..193306993 100644 --- a/howto/using-merge-subtree.html +++ b/howto/using-merge-subtree.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ Please note that if the other project merges from you, then it will diff --git a/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html b/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html index bb7834337..02c728d29 100644 --- a/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html +++ b/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ as part of the merge commit.

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diff --git a/technical/api-trace2.html b/technical/api-trace2.html index 0c2ccd6d3..e3f55c9ba 100644 --- a/technical/api-trace2.html +++ b/technical/api-trace2.html @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ asciidoc.install();
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diff --git a/user-manual.html b/user-manual.html index cac95963e..cc4f2a24b 100644 --- a/user-manual.html +++ b/user-manual.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Git User Manual

Git User Manual

Revision History
2023-11-08

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Repositories and Branches
How to get a Git repository
How to check out a different version of a project
Understanding History: Commits
Understanding history: commits, parents, and reachability
Understanding history: History diagrams
Understanding history: What is a branch?
Manipulating branches
Examining an old version without creating a new branch
Examining branches from a remote repository
Naming branches, tags, and other references
Updating a repository with git fetch
Fetching branches from other repositories
2. Exploring Git history
How to use bisect to find a regression
Naming commits
Creating tags
Browsing revisions
Generating diffs
Viewing old file versions
Examples
Counting the number of commits on a branch
Check whether two branches point at the same history
Find first tagged version including a given fix
Showing commits unique to a given branch
Creating a changelog and tarball for a software release
Finding commits referencing a file with given content
3. Developing with Git
Telling Git your name
Creating a new repository
How to make a commit
Creating good commit messages
Ignoring files
How to merge
Resolving a merge
Getting conflict-resolution help during a merge
Undoing a merge
Fast-forward merges
Fixing mistakes
Fixing a mistake with a new commit
Fixing a mistake by rewriting history
Checking out an old version of a file
Temporarily setting aside work in progress
Ensuring good performance
Ensuring reliability
Checking the repository for corruption
Recovering lost changes
4. Sharing development with others
Getting updates with git pull
Submitting patches to a project
Importing patches to a project
Public Git repositories
Setting up a public repository
Exporting a Git repository via the Git protocol
Exporting a git repository via HTTP
Pushing changes to a public repository
What to do when a push fails
Setting up a shared repository
Allowing web browsing of a repository
How to get a Git repository with minimal history
Examples
Maintaining topic branches for a Linux subsystem maintainer
5. Rewriting history and maintaining patch series
Creating the perfect patch series
Keeping a patch series up to date using git rebase
Rewriting a single commit
Reordering or selecting from a patch series
Using interactive rebases
Other tools
Problems with rewriting history
Why bisecting merge commits can be harder than bisecting linear history
6. Advanced branch management
Fetching individual branches
git fetch and fast-forwards
Forcing git fetch to do non-fast-forward updates
Configuring remote-tracking branches
7. Git concepts
The Object Database
Commit Object
Tree Object
Blob Object
Trust
Tag Object
How Git stores objects efficiently: pack files
Dangling objects
Recovering from repository corruption
The index
8. Submodules
Pitfalls with submodules
9. Low-level Git operations
Object access and manipulation
The Workflow
working directory → index
index → object database
object database → index
index → working directory
Tying it all together
Examining the data
Merging multiple trees
Merging multiple trees, continued
10. Hacking Git
Object storage format
A birds-eye view of Git’s source code
11. Git Glossary
Git explained
A. Git Quick Reference
Creating a new repository
Managing branches
Exploring history
Making changes
Merging
Sharing your changes
Repository maintenance
B. Notes and todo list for this manual
Todo list

Introduction

Git is a fast distributed revision control system.

This manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX +Git User Manual

Git User Manual

Revision History
2023-11-11

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Repositories and Branches
How to get a Git repository
How to check out a different version of a project
Understanding History: Commits
Understanding history: commits, parents, and reachability
Understanding history: History diagrams
Understanding history: What is a branch?
Manipulating branches
Examining an old version without creating a new branch
Examining branches from a remote repository
Naming branches, tags, and other references
Updating a repository with git fetch
Fetching branches from other repositories
2. Exploring Git history
How to use bisect to find a regression
Naming commits
Creating tags
Browsing revisions
Generating diffs
Viewing old file versions
Examples
Counting the number of commits on a branch
Check whether two branches point at the same history
Find first tagged version including a given fix
Showing commits unique to a given branch
Creating a changelog and tarball for a software release
Finding commits referencing a file with given content
3. Developing with Git
Telling Git your name
Creating a new repository
How to make a commit
Creating good commit messages
Ignoring files
How to merge
Resolving a merge
Getting conflict-resolution help during a merge
Undoing a merge
Fast-forward merges
Fixing mistakes
Fixing a mistake with a new commit
Fixing a mistake by rewriting history
Checking out an old version of a file
Temporarily setting aside work in progress
Ensuring good performance
Ensuring reliability
Checking the repository for corruption
Recovering lost changes
4. Sharing development with others
Getting updates with git pull
Submitting patches to a project
Importing patches to a project
Public Git repositories
Setting up a public repository
Exporting a Git repository via the Git protocol
Exporting a git repository via HTTP
Pushing changes to a public repository
What to do when a push fails
Setting up a shared repository
Allowing web browsing of a repository
How to get a Git repository with minimal history
Examples
Maintaining topic branches for a Linux subsystem maintainer
5. Rewriting history and maintaining patch series
Creating the perfect patch series
Keeping a patch series up to date using git rebase
Rewriting a single commit
Reordering or selecting from a patch series
Using interactive rebases
Other tools
Problems with rewriting history
Why bisecting merge commits can be harder than bisecting linear history
6. Advanced branch management
Fetching individual branches
git fetch and fast-forwards
Forcing git fetch to do non-fast-forward updates
Configuring remote-tracking branches
7. Git concepts
The Object Database
Commit Object
Tree Object
Blob Object
Trust
Tag Object
How Git stores objects efficiently: pack files
Dangling objects
Recovering from repository corruption
The index
8. Submodules
Pitfalls with submodules
9. Low-level Git operations
Object access and manipulation
The Workflow
working directory → index
index → object database
object database → index
index → working directory
Tying it all together
Examining the data
Merging multiple trees
Merging multiple trees, continued
10. Hacking Git
Object storage format
A birds-eye view of Git’s source code
11. Git Glossary
Git explained
A. Git Quick Reference
Creating a new repository
Managing branches
Exploring history
Making changes
Merging
Sharing your changes
Repository maintenance
B. Notes and todo list for this manual
Todo list

Introduction

Git is a fast distributed revision control system.

This manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX command-line skills, but no previous knowledge of Git.

Chapter 1, Repositories and Branches and Chapter 2, Exploring Git history explain how to fetch and study a project using git—read these chapters to learn how to build and test a particular version of a software project, search for -- cgit 1.2.3-korg