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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.4.txt | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-imap-send.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-init.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 9 |
6 files changed, 62 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..21bf4f3a3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.2.3 +-------------------- + +* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong + value. + +* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at + the named path; it now does. + +* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via + the --template= option. + +* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when + deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the + individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match + "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", + and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't). + +* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in + a criss-cross merge situation. + +Many small documentation updates are included as well. + +--- +exec >/var/tmp/1 +echo O=$(git describe maint) +O=v1.6.2.3-21-ga51609a +git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f5152c5038..6af58ff3aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -290,8 +290,10 @@ core.sharedRepository:: group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), git will use permissions reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number, files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override - user's umask value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077) can use - this option. Examples: '0660' is equivalent to 'group'. '0640' is a + user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override + requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make + the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to + others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default. diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 36f00aed67..a85121c689 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS 'git-daemon' will refuse to start when this option is enabled and no whitelist is specified. ---base-path:: +--base-path=path:: Remap all the path requests as relative to the given path. This is sort of "GIT root" - if you run 'git-daemon' with '--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull @@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ OPTIONS Incompatible with --port, --listen, --user and --group options. --listen=host_or_ipaddr:: - Listen on an a specific IP address or hostname. IP addresses can - be either an IPv4 address or an IPV6 address if supported. If IPv6 + Listen on a specific IP address or hostname. IP addresses can + be either an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address if supported. If IPv6 is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and --listen must be given an IPv4 address. Incompatible with '--inetd' option. @@ -90,17 +90,17 @@ OPTIONS --port=n:: Listen on an alternative port. Incompatible with '--inetd' option. ---init-timeout:: +--init-timeout=n:: Timeout between the moment the connection is established and the client request is received (typically a rather low value, since that should be basically immediate). ---timeout:: +--timeout=n:: Timeout for specific client sub-requests. This includes the time - it takes for the server to process the sub-request and time spent - waiting for next client's request. + it takes for the server to process the sub-request and the time spent + waiting for the next client's request. ---max-connections:: +--max-connections=n:: Maximum number of concurrent clients, defaults to 32. Set it to zero for no limit. @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ the facility of inet daemon to achieve the same before spawning Enable/disable the service site-wide per default. Note that a service disabled site-wide can still be enabled per repository if it is marked overridable and the - repository enables the service with an configuration + repository enables the service with a configuration item. --allow-override=service:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt index 1685f04efe..eed50572e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-imap-send.txt @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ imap.host:: imap.user:: The username to use when logging in to the server. -imap.password:: +imap.pass:: The password to use when logging in to the server. imap.port:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 71749c09d3..7151d12f34 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -54,15 +54,21 @@ is given: - 'group' (or 'true'): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may be not the primary group of all users). + This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value. + Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if + umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read privileges from other + (non-group) users). See '0xxx' for how to exactly specify the repository + permissions. - 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository readable by all users. - - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx' - Any option except 'umask' can be set using this option. '0xxx' will - override users umask(2) value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077) - can use this option. '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable - but not writable. '0660' is equivalent to 'group'. + - '0xxx': '0xxx' is an octal number and each file will have mode '0xxx'. + '0xxx' will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions + as 'group' and 'all' does). '0640' will create a repository which is + group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will + create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group, + but inaccessible to others. By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index b762bba759..aaa073efc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ for paths. Then, you would define a "diff.tex.xfuncname" configuration to specify a regular expression that matches a line that you would -want to appear as the hunk header "TEXT", like this: +want to appear as the hunk header "TEXT". Add a section to your +`$GIT_DIR/config` file (or `$HOME/.gitconfig` file) like this: ------------------------ [diff "tex"] @@ -345,7 +346,8 @@ split words in a line, by specifying an appropriate regular expression in the "diff.*.wordRegex" configuration variable. For example, in TeX a backslash followed by a sequence of letters forms a command, but several such commands can be run together without intervening -whitespace. To separate them, use a regular expression such as +whitespace. To separate them, use a regular expression in your +`$GIT_DIR/config` file (or `$HOME/.gitconfig` file) like this: ------------------------ [diff "tex"] @@ -373,7 +375,8 @@ resulting text on stdout. For example, to show the diff of the exif information of a file instead of the binary information (assuming you have the -exif tool installed): +exif tool installed), add the following section to your +`$GIT_DIR/config` file (or `$HOME/.gitconfig` file): ------------------------ [diff "jpg"] |