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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-03-25 16:05:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-03-25 16:05:52 -0700 |
| commit | 852e2c84f847d99e29fd08feb8cea881dca63c79 (patch) | |
| tree | 20190f12233f00373df4760c8ddb300f848d19d4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 45fe28c951c3e70666ee4ef8379772851a8e4d32 (diff) | |
| parent | a3dfe97f418762ccf1d0601c5cce40c77046d4fc (diff) | |
| download | git-852e2c84f847d99e29fd08feb8cea881dca63c79.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2' into jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part3
* jh/builtin-fsmonitor-part2: (150 commits)
t7527: test status with untracked-cache and fsmonitor--daemon
fsmonitor: force update index after large responses
fsmonitor--daemon: use a cookie file to sync with file system
fsmonitor--daemon: periodically truncate list of modified files
t/perf/p7519: add fsmonitor--daemon test cases
t/perf/p7519: speed up test on Windows
t/perf/p7519: fix coding style
t/helper/test-chmtime: skip directories on Windows
t/perf: avoid copying builtin fsmonitor files into test repo
t7527: create test for fsmonitor--daemon
t/helper/fsmonitor-client: create IPC client to talk to FSMonitor Daemon
help: include fsmonitor--daemon feature flag in version info
fsmonitor--daemon: implement handle_client callback
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: implement FSEvent listener on MacOS
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-darwin: add MacOS header files for FSEvent
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-listen-win32: implement FSMonitor backend on Windows
fsmonitor--daemon: create token-based changed path cache
fsmonitor--daemon: define token-ids
fsmonitor--daemon: add pathname classification
fsmonitor--daemon: implement 'start' command
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt | 99 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/advice.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/clone.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/core.txt | 60 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/extensions.txt | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/submodule.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-config.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt | 75 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-index.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 22 |
19 files changed, 387 insertions, 58 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt index 3dfa5e409f..de1e11e25a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Backward compatibility warts * "git name-rev --stdin" has been deprecated and issues a warning when used; use "git name-rev --annotate-stdin" instead. + * "git clone --filter=... --recurse-submodules" only makes the + top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This + behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules. + Note to those who build from the source @@ -25,6 +29,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git log --remerge-diff" shows the difference from mechanical merge result and the result that is actually recorded in a merge commit. + * "git log" and friends learned an option --exclude-first-parent-only + to propagate UNINTERESTING bit down only along the first-parent + chain, just like --first-parent option shows commits that lack the + UNINTERESTING bit only along the first-parent chain. + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete all Git subcommands, including the ones that are normally + hidden, when GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL_COMMANDS is used. + + * "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -47,6 +62,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. all. Start the process of renaming it to "--annotate-stdin". (merge a2585719b3 jc/name-rev-stdin later to maint). + * "git update-index", "git checkout-index", and "git clean" are + taught to work better with the sparse checkout feature. + + * Use an internal call to reset_head() helper function instead of + spawning "git checkout" in "rebase", and update code paths that are + involved in the change. + + * Messages "ort" merge backend prepares while dealing with conflicted + paths were unnecessarily confusing since it did not differentiate + inner merges and outer merges. + Fixes since v2.35 ----------------- @@ -140,6 +166,72 @@ Fixes since v2.35 * "git diff --diff-filter=aR" is now parsed correctly. (merge 75408ca949 js/diff-filter-negation-fix later to maint). + * When "git subtree" wants to create a merge, it used "git merge" and + let it be affected by end-user's "merge.ff" configuration, which + has been corrected. + (merge 9158a3564a tk/subtree-merge-not-ff-only later to maint). + + * Unlike "git apply", "git patch-id" did not handle patches with + hunks that has only 1 line in either preimage or postimage, which + has been corrected. + (merge 757e75c81e jz/patch-id-hunk-header-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * "receive-pack" checks if it will do any ref updates (various + conditions could reject a push) before received objects are taken + out of the temporary directory used for quarantine purposes, so + that a push that is known-to-fail will not leave crufts that a + future "gc" needs to clean up. + (merge 5407764069 cb/clear-quarantine-early-on-all-ref-update-errors later to maint). + + * Because a deletion of ref would need to remove it from both the + loose ref store and the packed ref store, a delete-ref operation + that logically removes one ref may end up invoking ref-transaction + hook twice, which has been corrected. + (merge 2ed1b64ebd ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs later to maint). + + * When there is no object to write .bitmap file for, "git + multi-pack-index" triggered an error, instead of just skipping, + which has been corrected. + (merge eb57277ba3 tb/midx-no-bitmap-for-no-objects later to maint). + + * "git cmd -h" outside a repository should error out cleanly for many + commands, but instead it hit a BUG(), which has been corrected. + (merge 87ad07d735 js/short-help-outside-repo-fix later to maint). + + * "working tree" and "per-worktree ref" were in glossary, but + "worktree" itself wasn't, which has been corrected. + (merge 2df5387ed0 jc/glossary-worktree later to maint). + + * L10n support for a few error messages. + (merge 3d3c23b3a7 bs/forbid-i18n-of-protocol-token-in-fetch-pack later to maint). + + * Test modernization. + (merge d4fe066e4b sy/t0001-use-path-is-helper later to maint). + + * "git log --graph --graph" used to leak a graph structure, and there + was no way to countermand "--graph" that appear earlier on the + command line. A "--no-graph" option has been added and resource + leakage has been plugged. + + * Error output given in response to an ambiguous object name has been + improved. + (merge 3a73c1dfaf ab/ambiguous-object-name later to maint). + + * "git sparse-checkout" wants to work with per-worktree configuration, + but did not work well in a worktree attached to a bare repository. + (merge 3ce1138272 ds/sparse-checkout-requires-per-worktree-config later to maint). + + * Setting core.untrackedCache to true failed to add the untracked + cache extension to the index. + + * Workaround we have for versions of PCRE2 before their version 10.36 + were in effect only for their versions newer than 10.36 by mistake, + which has been corrected. + (merge 97169fc361 rs/pcre-invalid-utf8-fix-fix later to maint). + + * Document Taylor as a new member of Git PLC at SFC. Welcome. + (merge e8d56ca863 tb/coc-plc-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint). (merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint). @@ -157,3 +249,10 @@ Fixes since v2.35 (merge 45d0212a71 ll/doc-mktree-typofix later to maint). (merge e9b272e4c1 js/no-more-legacy-stash later to maint). (merge 6798b08e84 ab/do-not-hide-failures-in-git-dot-pm later to maint). + (merge 9325285df4 po/doc-check-ignore-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge cd26cd6c7c sy/modernize-t-lib-read-tree-m-3way later to maint). + (merge d17294a05e ab/hash-object-leakfix later to maint). + (merge b8403129d3 jd/t0015-modernize later to maint). + (merge 332acc248d ds/mailmap later to maint). + (merge 04bf052eef ab/grep-patterntype later to maint). + (merge 6ee36364eb ab/diff-free-more later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt index 063eec2511..adee26fbbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ advice.*:: submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie:: Advice shown when a submodule.alternateErrorStrategy option configured to "die" causes a fatal error. + submodulesNotUpdated:: + Advice shown when a user runs a submodule command that fails + because `git submodule update --init` was not run. addIgnoredFile:: Advice shown if a user attempts to add an ignored file to the index. diff --git a/Documentation/config/clone.txt b/Documentation/config/clone.txt index 7bcfbd18a5..26f4fb137a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/clone.txt @@ -6,3 +6,8 @@ clone.defaultRemoteName:: clone.rejectShallow:: Reject to clone a repository if it is a shallow one, can be overridden by passing option `--reject-shallow` in command line. See linkgit:git-clone[1] + +clone.filterSubmodules:: + If a partial clone filter is provided (see `--filter` in + linkgit:git-rev-list[1]) and `--recurse-submodules` is used, also apply + the filter to submodules. diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index c04f62a54a..6303c36c7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -62,22 +62,54 @@ core.protectNTFS:: Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere. core.fsmonitor:: - If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which - will identify all files that may have changed since the - requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by - avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. - See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. + If set to true, enable the built-in file system monitor + daemon for this working directory (linkgit:git-fsmonitor--daemon[1]). ++ +Like hook-based file system monitors, the built-in file system monitor +can speed up Git commands that need to refresh the Git index +(e.g. `git status`) in a working directory with many files. The +built-in monitor eliminates the need to install and maintain an +external third-party tool. ++ +The built-in file system monitor is currently available only on a +limited set of supported platforms. Currently, this includes Windows +and MacOS. ++ + Otherwise, this variable contains the pathname of the "fsmonitor" + hook command. ++ +This hook command is used to identify all files that may have changed +since the requested date/time. This information is used to speed up +git by avoiding unnecessary scanning of files that have not changed. ++ +See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. ++ +Note that if you concurrently use multiple versions of Git, such +as one version on the command line and another version in an IDE +tool, that the definition of `core.fsmonitor` was extended to +allow boolean values in addition to hook pathnames. Git versions +2.35.1 and prior will not understand the boolean values and will +consider the "true" or "false" values as hook pathnames to be +invoked. Git versions 2.26 thru 2.35.1 default to hook protocol +V2 and will fall back to no fsmonitor (full scan). Git versions +prior to 2.26 default to hook protocol V1 and will silently +assume there were no changes to report (no scan), so status +commands may report incomplete results. For this reason, it is +best to upgrade all of your Git versions before using the built-in +file system monitor. core.fsmonitorHookVersion:: - Sets the version of hook that is to be used when calling fsmonitor. - There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set, - version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1 - will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine - which files have changes since that time but some monitors - like watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp. - Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return - something that can be used to determine what files have changed - without race conditions. + Sets the protocol version to be used when invoking the + "fsmonitor" hook. ++ +There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is not set, +version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then version 1 +will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input to determine +which files have changes since that time but some monitors +like Watchman have race conditions when used with a timestamp. +Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the monitor can return +something that can be used to determine what files have changed +without race conditions. core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the diff --git a/Documentation/config/extensions.txt b/Documentation/config/extensions.txt index 4e23d73cdc..bccaec7a96 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/extensions.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/extensions.txt @@ -6,3 +6,34 @@ extensions.objectFormat:: Note that this setting should only be set by linkgit:git-init[1] or linkgit:git-clone[1]. Trying to change it after initialization will not work and will produce hard-to-diagnose issues. + +extensions.worktreeConfig:: + If enabled, then worktrees will load config settings from the + `$GIT_DIR/config.worktree` file in addition to the + `$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config` file. Note that `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` and + `$GIT_DIR` are the same for the main working tree, while other + working trees have `$GIT_DIR` equal to + `$GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/<id>/`. The settings in the + `config.worktree` file will override settings from any other + config files. ++ +When enabling `extensions.worktreeConfig`, you must be careful to move +certain values from the common config file to the main working tree's +`config.worktree` file, if present: ++ +* `core.worktree` must be moved from `$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config` to + `$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config.worktree`. +* If `core.bare` is true, then it must be moved from `$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config` + to `$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config.worktree`. ++ +It may also be beneficial to adjust the locations of `core.sparseCheckout` +and `core.sparseCheckoutCone` depending on your desire for customizable +sparse-checkout settings for each worktree. By default, the `git +sparse-checkout` builtin enables `extensions.worktreeConfig`, assigns +these config values on a per-worktree basis, and uses the +`$GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout` file to specify the sparsity for each +worktree independently. See linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] for more +details. ++ +For historical reasons, `extensions.worktreeConfig` is respected +regardless of the `core.repositoryFormatVersion` setting. diff --git a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt index ee454f8126..6490527b45 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt @@ -59,18 +59,33 @@ submodule.active:: submodule.recurse:: A boolean indicating if commands should enable the `--recurse-submodules` - option by default. - Applies to all commands that support this option - (`checkout`, `fetch`, `grep`, `pull`, `push`, `read-tree`, `reset`, - `restore` and `switch`) except `clone` and `ls-files`. + option by default. Defaults to false. ++ +When set to true, it can be deactivated via the +`--no-recurse-submodules` option. Note that some Git commands +lacking this option may call some of the above commands affected by +`submodule.recurse`; for instance `git remote update` will call +`git fetch` but does not have a `--no-recurse-submodules` option. +For these commands a workaround is to temporarily change the +configuration value by using `git -c submodule.recurse=0`. ++ +The following list shows the commands that accept +`--recurse-submodules` and whether they are supported by this +setting. + +* `checkout`, `fetch`, `grep`, `pull`, `push`, `read-tree`, +`reset`, `restore` and `switch` are always supported. +* `clone` and `ls-files` are not supported. +* `branch` is supported only if `submodule.propagateBranches` is +enabled + +submodule.propagateBranches:: + [EXPERIMENTAL] A boolean that enables branching support when + using `--recurse-submodules` or `submodule.recurse=true`. + Enabling this will allow certain commands to accept + `--recurse-submodules` and certain commands that already accept + `--recurse-submodules` will now consider branches. Defaults to false. - When set to true, it can be deactivated via the - `--no-recurse-submodules` option. Note that some Git commands - lacking this option may call some of the above commands affected by - `submodule.recurse`; for instance `git remote update` will call - `git fetch` but does not have a `--no-recurse-submodules` option. - For these commands a workaround is to temporarily change the - configuration value by using `git -c submodule.recurse=0`. submodule.fetchJobs:: Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time. diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 731e340cbc..c8b4f9ce3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ SYNOPSIS [--points-at <object>] [--format=<format>] [(-r | --remotes) | (-a | --all)] [--list] [<pattern>...] -'git branch' [--track[=(direct|inherit)] | --no-track] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] +'git branch' [--track[=(direct|inherit)] | --no-track] [-f] + [--recurse-submodules] <branchname> [<start-point>] 'git branch' (--set-upstream-to=<upstream> | -u <upstream>) [<branchname>] 'git branch' --unset-upstream [<branchname>] 'git branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> @@ -235,6 +236,22 @@ how the `branch.<name>.remote` and `branch.<name>.merge` options are used. Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable is set. +--recurse-submodules:: + THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL! Causes the current command to + recurse into submodules if `submodule.propagateBranches` is + enabled. See `submodule.propagateBranches` in + linkgit:git-config[1]. Currently, only branch creation is + supported. ++ +When used in branch creation, a new branch <branchname> will be created +in the superproject and all of the submodules in the superproject's +<start-point>. In submodules, the branch will point to the submodule +commit in the superproject's <start-point> but the branch's tracking +information will be set up based on the submodule's branches and remotes +e.g. `git branch --recurse-submodules topic origin/main` will create the +submodule branch "topic" that points to the submodule commit in the +superproject's "origin/main", but tracks the submodule's "origin/main". + --set-upstream:: As this option had confusing syntax, it is no longer supported. Please use `--track` or `--set-upstream-to` instead. diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 0c3924a63d..2892799e32 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS Instead of printing the paths that are excluded, for each path that matches an exclude pattern, print the exclude pattern together with the path. (Matching an exclude pattern usually - means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with '!' + means the path is excluded, but if the pattern begins with "`!`" then it is a negated pattern and matching it means the path is NOT excluded.) + @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ If `--verbose` is specified, the output is a series of lines of the form: <pathname> is the path of a file being queried, <pattern> is the matching pattern, <source> is the pattern's source file, and <linenum> is the line number of the pattern within that source. If the pattern -contained a `!` prefix or `/` suffix, it will be preserved in the +contained a "`!`" prefix or "`/`" suffix, it will be preserved in the output. <source> will be an absolute path when referring to the file configured by `core.excludesFile`, or relative to the repository root when referring to `.git/info/exclude` or a per-directory exclude file. diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index 4d33e7be0f..01dbd5cbf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git checkout-index' [-u] [-q] [-a] [-f] [-n] [--prefix=<string>] [--stage=<number>|all] [--temp] + [--ignore-skip-worktree-bits] [-z] [--stdin] [--] [<file>...] @@ -37,8 +38,9 @@ OPTIONS -a:: --all:: - checks out all files in the index. Cannot be used - together with explicit filenames. + checks out all files in the index except for those with the + skip-worktree bit set (see `--ignore-skip-worktree-bits`). + Cannot be used together with explicit filenames. -n:: --no-create:: @@ -59,6 +61,10 @@ OPTIONS write the content to temporary files. The temporary name associations will be written to stdout. +--ignore-skip-worktree-bits:: + Check out all files, including those with the skip-worktree bit + set. + --stdin:: Instead of taking list of paths from the command line, read list of paths from the standard input. Paths are diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 984d194934..632bd1348e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--depth <depth>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--no-tags] [--recurse-submodules[=<pathspec>]] [--[no-]shallow-submodules] [--[no-]remote-submodules] [--jobs <n>] [--sparse] [--[no-]reject-shallow] - [--filter=<filter>] [--] <repository> + [--filter=<filter> [--also-filter-submodules]] [--] <repository> [<directory>] DESCRIPTION @@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. at least `<size>`. For more details on filter specifications, see the `--filter` option in linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. +--also-filter-submodules:: + Also apply the partial clone filter to any submodules in the repository. + Requires `--filter` and `--recurse-submodules`. This can be turned on by + default by setting the `clone.filterSubmodules` config option. + --mirror:: Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies `--bare`. Compared to `--bare`, `--mirror` not only maps local branches of the diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt index 2285effb36..bdcfd94b64 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt @@ -141,9 +141,13 @@ from all available files. See also <<FILES>>. --worktree:: - Similar to `--local` except that `.git/config.worktree` is + Similar to `--local` except that `$GIT_DIR/config.worktree` is read from or written to if `extensions.worktreeConfig` is - present. If not it's the same as `--local`. + enabled. If not it's the same as `--local`. Note that `$GIT_DIR` + is equal to `$GIT_COMMON_DIR` for the main working tree, but is of + the form `$GIT_DIR/worktrees/<id>/` for other working trees. See + linkgit:git-worktree[1] to learn how to enable + `extensions.worktreeConfig`. -f <config-file>:: --file <config-file>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0fedf5a456 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +git-fsmonitor--daemon(1) +======================== + +NAME +---- +git-fsmonitor--daemon - A Built-in File System Monitor + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git fsmonitor--daemon' start +'git fsmonitor--daemon' run +'git fsmonitor--daemon' stop +'git fsmonitor--daemon' status + +DESCRIPTION +----------- + +A daemon to watch the working directory for file and directory +changes using platform-specific file system notification facilities. + +This daemon communicates directly with commands like `git status` +using the link:technical/api-simple-ipc.html[simple IPC] interface +instead of the slower linkgit:githooks[5] interface. + +This daemon is built into Git so that no third-party tools are +required. + +OPTIONS +------- + +start:: + Starts a daemon in the background. + +run:: + Runs a daemon in the foreground. + +stop:: + Stops the daemon running in the current working + directory, if present. + +status:: + Exits with zero status if a daemon is watching the + current working directory. + +REMARKS +------- + +This daemon is a long running process used to watch a single working +directory and maintain a list of the recently changed files and +directories. Performance of commands such as `git status` can be +increased if they just ask for a summary of changes to the working +directory and can avoid scanning the disk. + +When `core.fsmonitor` is set to `true` (see linkgit:git-config[1]) +commands, such as `git status`, will ask the daemon for changes and +automatically start it (if necessary). + +For more information see the "File System Monitor" section in +linkgit:git-update-index[1]. + +CAVEATS +------- + +The fsmonitor daemon does not currently know about submodules and does +not know to filter out file system events that happen within a +submodule. If fsmonitor daemon is watching a super repo and a file is +modified within the working directory of a submodule, it will report +the change (as happening against the super repo). However, the client +will properly ignore these extra events, so performance may be affected +but it will not cause an incorrect result. + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt index b81dbe0654..94dad137b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt @@ -31,13 +31,21 @@ COMMANDS Describe the patterns in the sparse-checkout file. 'set':: - Enable the necessary config settings - (extensions.worktreeConfig, core.sparseCheckout, - core.sparseCheckoutCone) if they are not already enabled, and - write a set of patterns to the sparse-checkout file from the + Enable the necessary sparse-checkout config settings + (`core.sparseCheckout`, `core.sparseCheckoutCone`, and + `index.sparse`) if they are not already set to the desired values, + and write a set of patterns to the sparse-checkout file from the list of arguments following the 'set' subcommand. Update the working directory to match the new patterns. + +To ensure that adjusting the sparse-checkout settings within a worktree +does not alter the sparse-checkout settings in other worktrees, the 'set' +subcommand will upgrade your repository config to use worktree-specific +config if not already present. The sparsity defined by the arguments to +the 'set' subcommand are stored in the worktree-specific sparse-checkout +file. See linkgit:git-worktree[1] and the documentation of +`extensions.worktreeConfig` in linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. ++ When the `--stdin` option is provided, the patterns are read from standard in as a newline-delimited list instead of from the arguments. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 7e5f995f77..4d3ab6b9f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ If you really want to remove a submodule from the repository and commit that use linkgit:git-rm[1] instead. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for removal options. -update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--checkout|--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--] [<path>...]:: +update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--checkout|--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--[no-]single-branch] [--filter <filter spec>] [--] [<path>...]:: + -- Update the registered submodules to match what the superproject @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ submodule with the `--init` option. If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into the registered submodules, and update any nested submodules within. + +If `--filter <filter spec>` is specified, the given partial clone filter will be +applied to the submodule. See linkgit:git-rev-list[1] for details on filter +specifications. -- set-branch (-b|--branch) <branch> [--] <path>:: set-branch (-d|--default) [--] <path>:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 2853f168d9..53ea48a04e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ FILE SYSTEM MONITOR This feature is intended to speed up git operations for repos that have large working directories. -It enables git to work together with a file system monitor (see the +It enables git to work together with a file system monitor (see +linkgit:git-fsmonitor--daemon[1] +and the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]) that can inform it as to what files have been modified. This enables git to avoid having to lstat() every file to find modified files. @@ -509,8 +511,8 @@ looking for new files. If you want to enable (or disable) this feature, it is easier to use the `core.fsmonitor` configuration variable (see -linkgit:git-config[1]) than using the `--fsmonitor` option to -`git update-index` in each repository, especially if you want to do so +linkgit:git-config[1]) than using the `--fsmonitor` option to `git +update-index` in each repository, especially if you want to do so across all repositories you use, because you can set the configuration variable in your `$HOME/.gitconfig` just once and have it affect all repositories you touch. diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt index 9e862fbcf7..b8d53c4830 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt @@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE ------------------ By default, the repository `config` file is shared across all working trees. If the config variables `core.bare` or `core.worktree` are -already present in the config file, they will be applied to the main -working trees only. +present in the common config file and `extensions.worktreeConfig` is +disabled, then they will be applied to the main working tree only. In order to have configuration specific to working trees, you can turn on the `worktreeConfig` extension, e.g.: @@ -307,11 +307,16 @@ them to the `config.worktree` of the main working tree. You may also take this opportunity to review and move other configuration that you do not want to share to all working trees: - - `core.worktree` and `core.bare` should never be shared + - `core.worktree` should never be shared. + + - `core.bare` should not be shared if the value is `core.bare=true`. - `core.sparseCheckout` is recommended per working tree, unless you are sure you always use sparse checkout for all working trees. +See the documentation of `extensions.worktreeConfig` in +linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. + DETAILS ------- Each linked working tree has a private sub-directory in the repository's diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 60984a4682..a71dad2674 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -161,11 +161,12 @@ unspecified. This attribute sets a specific line-ending style to be used in the working directory. This attribute has effect only if the `text` -attribute is set or unspecified, or if it is set to `auto` and the file -is detected as text. Note that setting this attribute on paths which -are in the index with CRLF line endings may make the paths to be -considered dirty. Adding the path to the index again will normalize the -line endings in the index. +attribute is set or unspecified, or if it is set to `auto`, the file is +detected as text, and it is stored with LF endings in the index. Note +that setting this attribute on paths which are in the index with CRLF +line endings may make the paths to be considered dirty unless +`text=auto` is set. Adding the path to the index again will normalize +the line endings in the index. Set to string value "crlf":: diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index c077971335..aa2f41f5e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ Pathspecs are used on the command line of "git ls-files", "git ls-tree", "git add", "git grep", "git diff", "git checkout", and many other commands to limit the scope of operations to some subset of the tree or -worktree. See the documentation of each command for whether +working tree. See the documentation of each command for whether paths are relative to the current directory or toplevel. The pathspec syntax is as follows: + @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ exclude;; interface than the <<def_plumbing,plumbing>>. [[def_per_worktree_ref]]per-worktree ref:: - Refs that are per-<<def_working_tree,worktree>>, rather than + Refs that are per-<<def_worktree,worktree>>, rather than global. This is presently only <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> and any refs that start with `refs/bisect/`, but might later include other unusual refs. @@ -669,3 +669,12 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`. The tree of actual checked out files. The working tree normally contains the contents of the <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> commit's tree, plus any local changes that you have made but not yet committed. + +[[def_worktree]]worktree:: + A repository can have zero (i.e. bare repository) or one or + more worktrees attached to it. One "worktree" consists of a + "working tree" and repository metadata, most of which are + shared among other worktrees of a single repository, and + some of which are maintained separately per worktree + (e.g. the index, HEAD and pseudorefs like MERGE_HEAD, + per-worktree refs and per-worktree configuration file). diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 43a86fa562..fd4f4e26c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -122,19 +122,27 @@ again. Equivalent forms are `--min-parents=0` (any commit has 0 or more parents) and `--max-parents=-1` (negative numbers denote no upper limit). --first-parent:: - Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge - commit. This option can give a better overview when - viewing the evolution of a particular topic branch, - because merges into a topic branch tend to be only about - adjusting to updated upstream from time to time, and - this option allows you to ignore the individual commits - brought in to your history by such a merge. + When finding commits to include, follow only the first + parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. This option + can give a better overview when viewing the evolution of + a particular topic branch, because merges into a topic + branch tend to be only about adjusting to updated upstream + from time to time, and this option allows you to ignore + the individual commits brought in to your history by such + a merge. ifdef::git-log[] + This option also changes default diff format for merge commits to `first-parent`, see `--diff-merges=first-parent` for details. endif::git-log[] +--exclude-first-parent-only:: + When finding commits to exclude (with a '{caret}'), follow only + the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit. + This can be used to find the set of changes in a topic branch + from the point where it diverged from the remote branch, given + that arbitrary merges can be valid topic branch changes. + --not:: Reverses the meaning of the '{caret}' prefix (or lack thereof) for all following revision specifiers, up to the next `--not`. |
