Git 2.11

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

.gitattributes

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
-*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space
+*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
 *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space

.mailmap

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
 Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
 Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> <chrisw@osdl.org>
 Cord Seele <cowose@gmail.com> <cowose@googlemail.com>
+Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <christian.couder@gmail.com>
 Christian Stimming <stimming@tuhh.de> <chs@ckiste.goetheallee>
 Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com> <csaba@lowlife.hu>
 Dan Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com>
@@ -46,6 +47,8 @@ David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer@kilzer.net>
 David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
 David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> <dreiss@dreiss-vmware.(none)>
 David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+David Turner <novalis@novalis.org> <dturner@twopensource.com>
+David Turner <novalis@novalis.org> <dturner@twosigma.com>
 Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>
 Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> <ebb9@byu.net>

.travis.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ addons:
     packages:
     - language-pack-is
     - git-svn
+    - apache2
 
 env:
   global:
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ env:
     - LINUX_GIT_LFS_VERSION="1.2.0"
     - DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET=prove
     - GIT_PROVE_OPTS="--timer --jobs 3 --state=failed,slow,save"
-    - GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose --tee"
+    - GIT_TEST_OPTS="--verbose-log"
     - GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=YesPlease
     # t9810 occasionally fails on Travis CI OS X
     # t9816 occasionally fails with "TAP out of sequence errors" on Travis CI OS X
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ before_install:
   - >
     case "${TRAVIS_OS_NAME:-linux}" in
     linux)
+      export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=YesPlease
+
       mkdir --parents custom/p4
       pushd custom/p4
         wget --quiet http://filehost.perforce.com/perforce/r$LINUX_P4_VERSION/bin.linux26x86_64/p4d
@@ -76,12 +79,14 @@ before_install:
         FORMULA=$1
         SHA=$(brew fetch --force $FORMULA 2>&1 | grep ^SHA256: | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
         sed -E -i.bak "s/sha256 \"[0-9a-f]{64}\"/sha256 \"$SHA\"/g" \
-          /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-binary/$FORMULA.rb
+          "$(brew --repository homebrew/homebrew-binary)/$FORMULA.rb"
       }
       brew update --quiet
       brew tap homebrew/binary --quiet
       brew_force_set_latest_binary_hash perforce
       brew_force_set_latest_binary_hash perforce-server
+      # Uncomment this if you want to run perf tests:
+      # brew install gnu-time
       brew install git-lfs perforce-server perforce gettext
       brew link --force gettext
       ;;

Documentation/CodingGuidelines

@@ -526,12 +526,20 @@ Writing Documentation:
  modifying paragraphs or option/command explanations that contain options
  or commands:
 
- Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names, and
- configuration variables) are typeset in monospace, and if you can use
- `backticks around word phrases`, do so.
+ Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names,
+ branch names, configuration and environment variables) must be
+ typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped with backticks):
    `--pretty=oneline`
    `git rev-list`
    `remote.pushDefault`
+   `GIT_DIR`
+   `HEAD`
+
+ An environment variable must be prefixed with "$" only when referring to its
+ value and not when referring to the variable itself, in this case there is
+ nothing to add except the backticks:
+   `GIT_DIR` is specified
+   `$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive`
 
  Word phrases enclosed in `backtick characters` are rendered literally
  and will not be further expanded. The use of `backticks` to achieve the

Documentation/Makefile

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-common
 TECH_DOCS += technical/racy-git
 TECH_DOCS += technical/send-pack-pipeline
 TECH_DOCS += technical/shallow
+TECH_DOCS += technical/signature-format
 TECH_DOCS += technical/trivial-merge
 SP_ARTICLES += $(TECH_DOCS)
 SP_ARTICLES += technical/api-index

Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,675 @@
+Git 2.10 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+----------------------------
+
+Updates since v2.9
+------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user
+   that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing.
+
+ * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone
+   some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships.
+
+ * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for
+   "@{-1}", the previous branch.
+
+ * Update the funcname definition to support css files.
+
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git
+   status" options.
+
+ * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the
+   receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way
+   that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the
+   users.
+
+ * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
+   experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
+   as "git diff" output.
+
+ * "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when
+   responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook.
+   (merge b738396 jk/upload-pack-hook later to maint).
+
+ * Teach format-patch and mailsplit (hence "am") how a line that
+   happens to begin with "From " in the e-mail message is quoted with
+   ">", so that these lines can be restored to their original shape.
+   (merge d9925d1 ew/mboxrd-format-am later to maint).
+
+ * "git repack" learned the "--keep-unreachable" option, which sends
+   loose unreachable objects to a pack instead of leaving them loose.
+   This helps heuristics based on the number of loose objects
+   (e.g. "gc --auto").
+   (merge e26a8c4 jk/repack-keep-unreachable later to maint).
+
+ * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width
+   relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
+   draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section.  It
+   also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
+   to the right border.
+
+ * A careless invocation of "git send-email directory/" after editing
+   0001-change.patch with an editor often ends up sending both
+   0001-change.patch and its backup file, 0001-change.patch~, causing
+   embarrassment and a minor confusion.  Detect such an input and
+   offer to skip the backup files when sending the patches out.
+   (merge 531220b jc/send-email-skip-backup later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could
+   eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the
+   submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt.
+
+ * The output coloring scheme learned two new attributes, italic and
+   strike, in addition to existing bold, reverse, etc.
+
+ * "git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a
+   command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it.
+   (merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint).
+
+ * More markings of messages for i18n, with updates to various tests
+   to pass GETTEXT_POISON tests.
+
+ * "git archive" learned to handle files that are larger than 8GB and
+   commits far in the future than expressible by the traditional US-TAR
+   format.
+   (merge 560b0e8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+
+
+ * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to
+   specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
+
+ * "git worktree prune" protected worktrees that are marked as
+   "locked" by creating a file in a known location.  "git worktree"
+   command learned a dedicated command pair to create and remove such
+   a file, so that the users do not have to do this with editor.
+
+ * A handful of "git svn" updates.
+
+ * "git push" learned to accept and pass extra options to the
+   receiving end so that hooks can read and react to them.
+
+ * "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
+   merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
+   conflicted rebase.
+
+ * "git jump" script (in contrib/) has been updated a bit.
+   (merge a91e692 jk/git-jump later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" and "git clone" learned to give better progress meters
+   to the end user who is waiting on the terminal.
+
+ * An entry "git log --decorate" for the tip of the current branch is
+   shown as "HEAD -> name" (where "name" is the name of the branch);
+   the arrow is now painted in the same color as "HEAD", not in the
+   color for commits.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
+   specify the default settings for its "--from" option.
+
+ * "git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back
+   to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal
+   subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess.
+
+ * The command line completion scripts (in contrib/) now knows about
+   "git branch --delete/--move [--remote]".
+   (merge 2703c22 vs/completion-branch-fully-spelled-d-m-r later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-parse --git-path hooks/<hook>" learned to take
+   core.hooksPath configuration variable (introduced during 2.9 cycle)
+   into account.
+   (merge 9445b49 ab/hooks later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --show-signature" and other commands that display the
+   verification status of PGP signature now shows the longer key-id,
+   as 32-bit key-id is so last century.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid
+   creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have,
+   using *.unpackLimit configuration.
+
+ * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
+   connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
+   for a long time, wasting resources.  The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
+   been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
+   API.
+
+ * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; the first
+   step to move many state variables into a structure that can be
+   explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
+   than once has been merged.
+
+ * HTTP transport gained an option to produce more detailed debugging
+   trace.
+   (merge 73e57aa ep/http-curl-trace later to maint).
+
+ * Instead of taking advantage of the fact that a struct string_list
+   that is allocated with all NULs happens to be the INIT_NODUP kind,
+   the users of string_list structures are taught to initialize them
+   explicitly as such, to document their behaviour better.
+   (merge 2721ce2 jk/string-list-static-init later to maint).
+
+ * HTTPd tests learned to show the server error log to help diagnosing
+   a failing tests.
+   (merge 44f243d nd/test-lib-httpd-show-error-log-in-verbose later to maint).
+
+ * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
+   be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
+
+ * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
+   bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
+   data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
+
+ * Further preparatory clean-up for "worktree" feature continues.
+   (merge 0409e0b nd/worktree-cleanup-post-head-protection later to maint).
+
+ * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
+   GPG signature have been documented.
+
+ * A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to
+   sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from
+   the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
+   which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
+
+ * The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
+   updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
+   errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
+   (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent
+   version of Git even when testing an older installed version.
+
+ * The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the
+   data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths
+   used to always write to the standard output.  As a preparatory step
+   to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these
+   codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE*
+   instead.
+
+ * Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id
+   continues.
+
+ * Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to
+   each ref that was fetched.
+
+ * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
+   that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
+
+ * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
+   feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
+   helper function.
+
+ * "git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its
+   temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/.
+
+ * Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
+   library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
+   recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
+   mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
+
+ * When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
+   a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
+   that is referred to were reported with their 40-hex object names.
+   The command learned the "--name-objects" option to show the path to
+   the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
+
+ * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
+
+ * Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
+   want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
+   case for recent Mac OS X.  The necessary symbols are often found in
+   libc on many modern systems and having -lrt on the command line, as
+   long as the library exists, had no effect, but when the platform
+   removes librt.a that is a different matter--having -lrt will break
+   the linkage.
+
+   This change could be seen as a regression for those who do need to
+   specify -lrt, as they now specifically ask for NEEDS_LIBRT when
+   building. Hopefully they are in the minority these days.
+
+ * Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable
+   backend series can land.
+
+ * Error handling in the codepaths that updates refs has been
+   improved.
+
+ * The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.)
+   has been revamped.
+
+ * The handling of the "text=auto" attribute has been corrected.
+   $ echo "* text=auto eol=crlf" >.gitattributes
+   used to have the same effect as
+   $ echo "* text eol=crlf" >.gitattributes
+   i.e. declaring all files are text (ignoring "auto").  The
+   combination has been fixed to be equivalent to doing
+   $ git config core.autocrlf true
+
+ * Documentation has been updated to show better example usage
+   of the updated "text=auto" attribute.
+
+ * A few tests that specifically target "git rebase -i" have been
+   added.
+
+ * Dumb http transport on the client side has been optimized.
+   (merge ecba195 ew/http-walker later to maint).
+
+ * Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
+   extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
+   to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
+   code error-prone and hard to read.  This has been corrected by tweaking
+   the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
+
+ * "git fetch" exchanges batched have/ack messages between the sender
+   and the receiver, initially doubling every time and then falling
+   back to enlarge the window size linearly.  The "smart http"
+   transport, being an half-duplex protocol, outgrows the preset limit
+   too quickly and becomes inefficient when interacting with a large
+   repository.  The internal mechanism learned to grow the window size
+   more aggressively when working with the "smart http" transport.
+
+ * Tests for "git svn" have been taught to reuse the lib-httpd test
+   infrastructure when testing the subversion integration that
+   interacts with subversion repositories served over the http://
+   protocol.
+   (merge a8a5d25 ew/git-svn-http-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git pack-objects" has a few options that tell it not to pack
+   objects found in certain packfiles, which require it to scan .idx
+   files of all available packs.  The codepaths involved in these
+   operations have been optimized for a common case of not having any
+   non-local pack and/or any .kept pack.
+
+ * The t3700 test about "add --chmod=-x" have been made a bit more
+   robust and generally cleaned up.
+   (merge 766cdc4 ib/t3700-add-chmod-x-updates later to maint).
+
+ * The build procedure learned PAGER_ENV knob that lists what default
+   environment variable settings to export for popular pagers.  This
+   mechanism is used to tweak the default settings to MORE on FreeBSD.
+   (merge 995bc22 ew/build-time-pager-tweaks later to maint).
+
+ * The http-backend (the server-side component of smart-http
+   transport) used to trickle the HTTP header one at a time.  Now
+   these write(2)s are batched.
+   (merge b36045c ew/http-backend-batch-headers later to maint).
+
+ * When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated
+   upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these
+   changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by
+   lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be
+   compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths.
+   (merge ba67504 kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint).
+
+ * A handful of tests that were broken under gettext-poison build have
+   been fixed.
+
+ * The recent i18n patch we added during this cycle did a bit too much
+   refactoring of the messages to avoid word-legos; the repetition has
+   been reduced to help translators.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.9
+----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
+   string.  This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
+   --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
+   a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
+   "auto".
+
+ * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
+   option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
+   bitmap index.
+
+ * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
+   by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
+   file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
+   which has been fixed.
+
+ * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
+   configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
+   typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
+
+ * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
+   documented now.
+
+ * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
+   referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
+
+ * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
+   creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
+   reflog was truncated.
+
+ * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
+   who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
+
+ * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile.
+
+ * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
+   on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
+
+ * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
+   hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
+   use it regularly.  "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
+
+ * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
+
+ * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
+   tree".
+
+ * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
+   the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
+   cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
+
+ * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
+   that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
+   be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
+   of the submodules are not prepared for.
+
+ * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
+   to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
+
+ * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
+   functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
+   corrected.
+
+ * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
+   prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
+   bogus offset value to the caller.  Use a more benign looking
+   +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
+   of aborting.
+
+ * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
+   been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
+   command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
+
+ * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
+   is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
+
+ * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
+   report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
+   been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
+   paths that are _inside_.
+
+ * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
+   documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
+   Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
+   instead.
+
+ * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and
+   finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is
+   commonly done by other codepaths.  Make it ignore leading blank
+   lines to match.
+
+ * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our
+   colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on
+   Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years.
+
+ * "gc.autoPackLimit" when set to 1 should not trigger a repacking
+   when there is only one pack, but the code counted poorly and did
+   so.
+
+ * Add a test to specify the desired behaviour that currently is not
+   available in "git rebase -Xsubtree=...".
+
+ * More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
+   literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.
+
+ * "git commit --amend --allow-empty-message -S" for a commit without
+   any message body could have misidentified where the header of the
+   commit object ends.
+
+ * "git rebase -i --autostash" did not restore the auto-stashed change
+   when the operation was aborted.
+
+ * Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a
+   path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not
+   show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that
+   logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working
+   tree files.  But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file.
+
+ * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
+   submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
+   could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
+   case condition.
+
+ * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
+   correctly.
+
+ * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
+   is not necessarily available everywhere.
+
+ * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
+   the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
+   built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
+   potty does.  It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
+   programs (like test helpers).  A common "main()" function that
+   calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
+   make it harder to make mistakes.
+   (merge de61ceb jk/common-main later to maint).
+
+ * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
+   check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
+
+ * General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
+   single-liner to a file.
+   (merge 7eb6e10 jk/write-file later to maint).
+
+ * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called
+   stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours",
+   which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
+   the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
+   contrast to "ours".
+
+ * "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
+   unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
+   "file" did not appear in the current commit.  When "file" was
+   created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
+   committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
+
+ * "git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
+   when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
+   "file".
+
+ * "git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
+   part, but "git push" didn't.
+
+ * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with
+   merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it
+   shouldn't.
+   (merge 1335d76 jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
+   suboptimal, which has been fixed.
+
+ * An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
+   misbehave has been fixed.
+
+ * "git notes merge" had a code to see if a path exists (and fails if
+   it does) and then open the path for writing (when it doesn't).
+   Replace it with open with O_EXCL.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
+   when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
+   were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
+   value, leading to an unintended truncation.
+
+ * Recent update to "git daemon" tries to enable the socket-level
+   KEEPALIVE, but when it is spawned via inetd, the standard input
+   file descriptor may not necessarily be connected to a socket.
+   Suppress an ENOTSOCK error from setsockopt().
+
+ * Recent FreeBSD stopped making perl available at /usr/bin/perl;
+   switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
+   too ancient FreeBSD releases.
+
+ * "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
+   pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
+   commit-msg hook.
+
+ * "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
+   lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
+   the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
+   "git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
+   option to override the default.
+
+ * The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
+   has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
+   of Go.
+
+ * There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
+   an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
+   be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of
+   such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which
+   involves inflating and applying delta.  This however kicked in even
+   when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git
+   conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
+   point of the optimization.  The optimization has been disabled when
+   the conversion is necessary.
+
+ * "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
+   because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
+   designed well.
+
+ * Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
+   inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
+
+ * The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
+   --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
+   has been added.
+   (merge 442f6fd jk/reflog-date later to maint).
+
+ * "git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
+   interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
+   fixed.
+
+ * The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
+   "gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
+
+ * FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
+   untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
+   caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
+   behaviour of the fast-path.
+
+ * Squelch compiler warnings for nedmalloc (in compat/) library.
+
+ * A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
+   has been plugged.
+
+ * The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
+   can be safely discarded without any other consideration.  State
+   that it is safe to do so.
+
+ * Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
+   calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
+   that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
+   resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
+   the same.
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
+   ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
+   receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
+   discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
+   to the users.  It does so now.
+   (merge 9eed4f3 jk/push-force-with-lease-creation later to maint).
+
+ * The mechanism to limit the pack window memory size, when packing is
+   done using multiple threads (which is the default), is per-thread,
+   but this was not documented clearly.
+   (merge 954176c ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread later to maint).
+
+ * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a
+   hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been
+   corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is
+   shared with.
+   (merge 04e0869 js/import-tars-hardlinks later to maint).
+
+ * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments
+   the same way as existing mainstream platforms.  The code now moves
+   "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/")
+   that strips the trailing slash of '/'.
+   (merge 189d035 js/mv-dir-to-new-directory later to maint).
+
+ * The "t/" hierarchy is prone to get an unusual pathname; "make test"
+   has been taught to make sure they do not contain paths that cannot
+   be checked out on Windows (and the mechanism can be reusable to
+   catch pathnames that are not portable to other platforms as need
+   arises).
+   (merge c2cafd3 js/test-lint-pathname later to maint).
+
+ * When "git merge-recursive" works on history with many criss-cross
+   merges in "verbose" mode, the names the command assigns to the
+   virtual merge bases could have overwritten each other by unintended
+   reuse of the same piece of memory.
+   (merge 5447a76 rs/pull-signed-tag later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice
+   message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything
+   that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is
+   an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on.  The
+   advice message has been squelched in this case.
+   (merge 779b88a sb/checkout-explit-detach-no-advice later to maint).
+
+ * "git difftool" by default ignores the error exit from the backend
+   commands it spawns, because often they signal that they found
+   differences by exiting with a non-zero status code just like "diff"
+   does; the exit status codes 126 and above however are special in
+   that they are used to signal that the command is not executable,
+   does not exist, or killed by a signal.  "git difftool" has been
+   taught to notice these exit status codes.
+   (merge 45a4f5d jk/difftool-command-not-found later to maint).
+
+ * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
+   which has been corrected.
+   (merge 6db5967 js/no-html-bypass-on-windows later to maint).
+
+ * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
+   variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
+   git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
+   place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
+   override, and if so how?"
+   (merge ae1f709 dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open
+   a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then
+   finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either
+   removing or renaming the temporary file.  When the process spawns a
+   subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the
+   subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is
+   made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has
+   the file descriptor still open.  Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
+   to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
+   (merge 05d1ed6 bw/mingw-avoid-inheriting-fd-to-lockfile later to maint).
+
+ * Correct an age-old calco (is that a typo-like word for calc)
+   in the documentation.
+   (merge 7841c48 ls/packet-line-protocol-doc-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
+   (merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
+   (merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
+   (merge 1eb47f1 rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev later to maint).
+   (merge ddd0bfa jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
+   (merge ecf30b2 rs/mailinfo-lib later to maint).
+   (merge 0eb75ce sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
+   (merge 4369523 hv/doc-commit-reference-style later to maint).

Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.1.txt

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+Git v2.10.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.10
+-----------------
+
+ * Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
+   documentation.
+
+ * "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
+   "git log -p --graph" output.
+
+ * The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
+   count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
+   test script plus the process ID.  The latter however turned out not
+   to serve any useful purpose.  The process ID part of the filename
+   has been removed.
+
+ * Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
+   caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever.
+
+ * "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
+   the resulting repository becomes an invalid one.  Teach the command
+   to forbid removal of HEAD.
+
+ * A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
+   prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
+   script on some platforms.
+
+ * Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
+   newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
+
+ * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui".
+
+ * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted
+   instead.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of
+   build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated
+   configuration.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been
+   fixed.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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").
+
+ * "git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has
+   been corrected.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.
+
+ * 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.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt

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+Git v2.10.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.10.1
+-------------------
+
+ * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command
+   has seen a micro-optimization.
+
+ * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of
+   output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which
+   has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody
+   tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though.
+
+ * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default
+   setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into
+   underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason.
+
+ * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * When we started cURL to talk to imap server when a new enough
+   version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add
+   imap(s):// before the destination.  To some folks, that didn't work
+   and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead.
+
+ * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how
+   to detect support of SSL by libcurl better.
+
+ * http.emptyauth configuration is a way to allow an empty username to
+   pass when attempting to authenticate using mechanisms like
+   Kerberos.  We took an unspecified (NULL) username and sent ":"
+   (i.e. no username, no password) to CURLOPT_USERPWD, but did not do
+   the same when the username is explicitly set to an empty string.
+
+ * "git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem
+   level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and
+   adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores.
+
+ * Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit
+   -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up
+   with what to commit.
+
+ * A stray symbolic link in $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory could make name
+   resolution loop forever, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied
+   to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but
+   the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to
+   each other as if both belong to .git/config.  This has been fixed.
+
+ * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
+   "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
+   to describe it.
+
+ * In a worktree connected to a repository elsewhere, created via "git
+   worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion
+   by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in
+   another worktree.  However, this also prevented checking out a
+   branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare
+   reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare
+   repository.  The check has been corrected to allow it.
+
+ * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork
+   point from the upstream.
+
+ * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant
+   to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles
+   when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not
+   going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully.
+
+ * The Travis CI configuration we ship ran the tests with --verbose
+   option but this risks non-TAP output that happens to be "ok" to be
+   misinterpreted as TAP signalling a test that passed.  This resulted
+   in unnecessary failure.  This has been corrected by introducing a
+   new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose
+   output separately to the log file.
+
+ * Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
+   tabs in it.  Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
+   work around them.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt

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+Git 2.11 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward compatibility notes.
+
+ * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant
+   'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that
+   finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"' by
+   mistake (when the user meant to give "$path"), which ends up
+   removing everything.  This release starts warning about the
+   use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and
+   asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead.
+
+   The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and
+   eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading
+   the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature.
+
+ * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
+   has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the
+   next release (not this one).
+
+ * The default abbreviation length, which has historically been 7, now
+   scales as the repository grows, using the approximate number of
+   objects in the repository and a bit of math around the birthday
+   paradox.  The logic suggests to use 12 hexdigits for the Linux
+   kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself.
+
+
+Updates since v2.10
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Comes with new version of git-gui, now at its 0.21.0 tag.
+
+ * "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch
+   with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1]
+   and [PATCH 1/1] by default.
+
+ * An incoming "git push" that attempts to push too many bytes can now
+   be rejected by setting a new configuration variable at the receiving
+   end.
+
+ * "git nosuchcommand --help" said "No manual entry for gitnosuchcommand",
+   which was not intuitive, given that "git nosuchcommand" said "git:
+   'nosuchcommand' is not a git command".
+
+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to
+   reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing
+   $path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it
+   learned to also peek into $path for presence of corresponding
+   repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
+
+ * The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced
+   to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule
+   commits bound to the superproject.
+
+ * Even though "git hash-objects", which is a tool to take an
+   on-filesystem data stream and put it into the Git object store,
+   can perform "outside-world-to-Git" conversions (e.g.
+   end-of-line conversions and application of the clean-filter), and
+   it has had this feature on by default from very early days, its reverse
+   operation "git cat-file", which takes an object from the Git object
+   store and externalizes it for consumption by the outside world,
+   lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world"
+   conversion.  The command learned the "--filters" option to do so.
+
+ * Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by intelligently selecting
+   which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted
+   when the lines before and after the changed section
+   are the same.  A command line option (--indent-heuristic) and a
+   configuration variable (diff.indentHeuristic) are added to help with the
+   experiment to find good heuristics.
+
+ * In some projects, it is common to use "[RFC PATCH]" as the subject
+   prefix for a patch meant for discussion rather than application.  A
+   new format-patch option "--rfc" is a short-hand for "--subject-prefix=RFC PATCH"
+   to help the participants of such projects.
+
+ * "git add --chmod={+,-}x <pathspec>" only changed the
+   executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has
+   been corrected to change the executable bit for all paths that match
+   the given pathspec.
+
+ * When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body
+   header and it uses RFC2822 header folding, "git am" fails to
+   put the header line back into a single logical line.  The
+   underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
+
+ * "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 guess the language itself by giving it "--force" option, which
+   has been enabled.
+
+ * "git gui" l10n to Portuguese.
+
+ * 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 a hint that
+   lists the objects beginning 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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * In recent versions of cURL, GSSAPI credential delegation is
+   disabled by default due to CVE-2011-2192; introduce a http.delegation
+   configuration variable to selectively allow enabling this.
+   (merge 26a7b23429 ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation later to maint).
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned to honor "-O<orderfile>" to control the
+   order of paths to present to the end user.
+
+ * "git diff/log --ws-error-highlight=<kind>" lacked the corresponding
+   configuration variable (diff.wsErrorHighlight) to set it by default.
+
+ * "git ls-files" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option
+   to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this
+   only works with the "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or
+   ignored files).  This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream
+   side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree
+   files from the top-level superproject.
+
+ * A new credential helper that talks via "libsecret" with
+   implementations of XDG Secret Service API has been added to
+   contrib/credential/.
+
+ * The GPG verification status shown by the "%G?" pretty format specifier
+   was not rich enough to differentiate a signature made by an expired
+   key, a signature made by a revoked key, etc.  New output letters
+   have been assigned to express them.
+
+ * In addition to purely abbreviated commit object names, "gitweb"
+   learned to turn "git describe" output (e.g. v2.9.3-599-g2376d31787)
+   into clickable links in its output.
+
+ * "git commit" created an empty commit when invoked with an index
+   consisting solely of intend-to-add paths (added with "git add -N").
+   It now requires the "--allow-empty" option to create such a commit.
+   The same logic prevented "git status" from showing such paths as "new files" in the
+   "Changes not staged for commit" section.
+
+ * The smudge/clean filter API spawns an external process
+   to filter the contents of each path that has a filter defined.  A
+   new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first
+   request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and
+   all filtering is served by this single process for multiple
+   paths, reducing the process creation overhead.
+
+ * The user always has to say "stash@{$N}" when naming a single
+   element in the default location of the stash, i.e. reflogs in
+   refs/stash.  The "git stash" command learned to accept "git stash
+   apply 4" as a short-hand for "git stash apply stash@{4}".
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * The delta-base-cache mechanism has been a key to the performance in
+   a repository with a tightly packed packfile, but it did not scale
+   well even with a larger value of core.deltaBaseCacheLimit.
+
+ * Enhance "git status --porcelain" output by collecting more data on
+   the state of the index and the working tree files, which may
+   further be used to teach git-prompt (in contrib/) to make fewer
+   calls to git.
+
+ * Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors
+   script file "git am" internally uses.
+   (merge a77598e jc/am-read-author-file later to maint).
+
+ * Lift calls to exit(2) and die() higher in the callchain in
+   sequencer.c files so that more helper functions in it can be used
+   by callers that want to handle error conditions themselves.
+
+ * "git am" has been taught to make an internal call to "git apply"'s
+   innards without spawning the latter as a separate process.
+
+ * The ref-store abstraction was introduced to the refs API so that we
+   can plug in different backends to store references.
+
+ * The "unsigned char sha1[20]" to "struct object_id" conversion
+   continues.  Notable changes in this round includes that ce->sha1,
+   i.e. the object name recorded in the cache_entry, turns into an
+   object_id.
+
+ * JGit can show a fake ref "capabilities^{}" to "git fetch" when it
+   does not advertise any refs, but "git fetch" was not prepared to
+   see such an advertisement.  When the other side disconnects without
+   giving any ref advertisement, we used to say "there may not be a
+   repository at that URL", but we may have seen other advertisements
+   like "shallow" and ".have" in which case we definitely know that a
+   repository is there.  The code to detect this case has also been
+   updated.
+
+ * Some codepaths in "git pack-objects" were not ready to use an
+   existing pack bitmap; now they are and as a result they have
+   become faster.
+
+ * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has
+   been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them.
+
+ * We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of
+   the time third parameter is redundant.  A new QSORT() macro lets us
+   omit it.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" in a repository with many packfiles used to
+   spend a lot of time looking for/at objects in them; the accesses to
+   the packfiles are now optimized by checking the most-recently-used
+   packfile first.
+   (merge c9af708b1a jk/pack-objects-optim-mru later to maint).
+
+ * Codepaths involved in interacting alternate object stores have
+   been cleaned up.
+
+ * In order for the receiving end of "git push" to inspect the
+   received history and decide to reject the push, the objects sent
+   from the sending end need to be made available to the hook and
+   the mechanism for the connectivity check, and this was done
+   traditionally by storing the objects in the receiving repository
+   and letting "git gc" expire them.  Instead, store the newly
+   received objects in a temporary area, and make them available by
+   reusing the alternate object store mechanism to them only while we
+   decide if we accept the check, and once we decide, either migrate
+   them to the repository or purge them immediately.
+
+ * The require_clean_work_tree() helper was recreated in C when "git
+   pull" was rewritten from shell; the helper is now made available to
+   other callers in preparation for upcoming "rebase -i" work.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" had its code cleaned-up and performance improved
+   by reducing use of timestamp-ordered commit-list, which was
+   replaced with a priority queue.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" codepath has been updated not to try to peek
+   into a .git/ directory that happens to be under the current
+   directory, when we know we are operating outside any repository.
+
+ * Update of the sequencer codebase to make it reusable to reimplement
+   "rebase -i" continues.
+
+ * Git generally does not explicitly close file descriptors that were
+   open in the parent process when spawning a child process, but most
+   of the time the child does not want to access them. As Windows does
+   not allow removing or renaming a file that has a file descriptor
+   open, a slow-to-exit child can even break the parent process by
+   holding onto them.  Use O_CLOEXEC flag to open files in various
+   codepaths.
+
+ * Update "interpret-trailers" machinery and teach it that people in
+   the real world write all sorts of cruft in the "trailer" that was
+   originally designed to have the neat-o "Mail-Header: like thing"
+   and nothing else.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.10
+-----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
+   documentation.
+
+ * "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
+   "git log -p --graph" output.
+
+ * The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
+   count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
+   test script plus the process ID.  The latter however turned out not
+   to serve any useful purpose.  The process ID part of the filename
+   has been removed.
+
+ * Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
+   caused a few commands that recurse into submodules to loop forever.
+
+ * "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
+   the resulting repository becomes an invalid one.  Teach the command
+   to forbid removal of HEAD.
+
+ * A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
+   prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
+   script on some platforms.
+
+ * Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
+   newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui".
+
+ * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted
+   instead.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * "git add --chmod={+,-}x" added recently lacked documentation, which has
+   been corrected.
+
+ * "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 and
+   avoid the wastage.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files
+   are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a
+   Git command was run, leading to inconsistent behaviour.  The code
+   to set-up repository access at the beginning of a Git process has
+   been updated to fix them.
+   (merge 4d0efa1 jk/setup-sequence-update later to maint).
+
+ * "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 two adjacent
+   hunks, but the code forgot to do so in some cases.
+
+ * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the right
+   build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated
+   configuration.
+
+ * "git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added
+   showed the base commit information after the "-- " e-mail signature
+   line, which turned out to be inconvenient.  The base information
+   has been moved above the signature line.
+
+ * More i18n.
+
+ * Even when "git pull --rebase=preserve" (and the underlying "git
+   rebase --preserve") can complete without creating any new commits
+   (i.e. fast-forwards), it still insisted on having 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.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of
+   commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a
+   color-reset sequence to the output.
+
+ * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been
+   fixed.
+
+ * "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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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").
+
+ * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.
+
+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
+   a recent update, which has been corrected.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * 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 the ai_canonname
+   field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
+
+ * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that
+   ought to be affected by the core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored
+   the variable setting.  The command has been taught to read the
+   default set of configuration variables to correct this.
+
+ * "git init" tried to record core.worktree in the repository's
+   'config' file when the 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.
+
+ * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in
+   validating that they are reading 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.
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * An author name that has 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.
+
+ * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does.
+
+ * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default
+   setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into
+   underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason.
+
+ * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of
+   output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which
+   has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody
+   tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though.
+
+ * The code that parses the format parameter of the for-each-ref command
+   has seen a micro-optimization.
+
+ * When we started to use cURL to talk to an imap server, we forgot to explicitly add
+   imap(s):// before the destination.  To some folks, that didn't work
+   and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead.
+
+ * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how
+   to detect support of SSL by libcurl better.
+
+ * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to
+   complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of
+   reference to "git cmd ^master".
+   (merge 49416ad22a cp/completion-negative-refs later to maint).
+
+ * The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use
+   correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone
+   deeper.  A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this
+   easier to use.  "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>"
+   and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify
+   "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and
+   "Give me only the history since that version".
+   (merge cccf74e2da nd/shallow-deepen later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame --reverse OLD path" is now DWIMmed to show how lines
+   in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current
+   commit.
+   (merge e1d09701a4 jc/blame-reverse later to maint).
+
+ * The http.emptyauth configuration variable is a way to allow an empty username to
+   pass when attempting to authenticate using mechanisms like
+   Kerberos.  We took an unspecified (NULL) username and sent ":"
+   (i.e. no username, no password) to CURLOPT_USERPWD, but did not do
+   the same when the username is explicitly set to an empty string.
+
+ * "git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem
+   level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and
+   adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores.
+
+ * Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit
+   -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up
+   with what to commit.
+
+ * A stray symbolic link in the $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory could make name
+   resolution loop forever, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied
+   to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but
+   the documentation described it next to submodule.<name>.url
+   as if both belong to .git/config.  This has been fixed.
+
+ * In a worktree created via "git
+   worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion
+   by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in
+   another worktree.  However, this also prevented checking out a
+   branch which is designated as the primary branch of a bare
+   repository, in a worktree that is connected to the bare
+   repository.  The check has been corrected to allow it.
+
+ * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork
+   point from the upstream.
+
+ * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant
+   to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles
+   checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not
+   going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully.
+
+ * Protect our code from over-eager compilers.
+
+ * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
+   "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
+   to describe it.
+
+ * "git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the
+   trailers, but people in the real world write non-addresses there, like
+   "Cc: Stable <add@re.ss> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending
+   on the availability and vintage of the Mail::Address perl module.
+   (merge dcfafc5214 mm/send-email-cc-cruft-after-address later to maint).
+
+ * The Travis CI configuration we ship ran the tests with the --verbose
+   option but this risks non-TAP output that happens to be "ok" to be
+   misinterpreted as TAP signalling a test that passed.  This resulted
+   in unnecessary failures.  This has been corrected by introducing a
+   new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose
+   output separately to the log file.
+
+ * Some AsciiDoc formatters mishandle a displayed illustration with
+   tabs in it.  Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
+   work around them.
+
+ * Fixed a minor regression in "git submodule" that was introduced
+   when more helper functions were reimplemented in C.
+   (merge 77b63ac31e sb/submodule-ignore-trailing-slash later to maint).
+
+ * The code that we have used for the past 10+ years to cycle
+   4-element ring buffers turns out to be not quite portable in
+   theoretical world.
+   (merge bb84735c80 rs/ring-buffer-wraparound later to maint).
+
+ * "git daemon" used fixed-length buffers to turn URLs to the
+   repository the client asked for into the server side directory
+   paths, using snprintf() to avoid overflowing these buffers, but
+   allowed possibly truncated paths to the directory.  This has been
+   tightened to reject such a request that causes an overlong path to be
+   served.
+   (merge 6bdb0083be jk/daemon-path-ok-check-truncation later to maint).
+
+ * Recent update to git-sh-setup (a library of shell functions that
+   are used by our in-tree scripted Porcelain commands) included
+   another shell library git-sh-i18n without specifying where it is,
+   relying on the $PATH.  This has been fixed to be more explicit by
+   prefixing with $(git --exec-path) output.
+   (merge 1073094f30 ak/sh-setup-dot-source-i18n-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Fix for a racy false-positive test failure.
+   (merge fdf4f6c79b as/merge-attr-sleep later to maint).
+
+ * Portability update and workaround for builds on recent Mac OS X.
+   (merge a296bc0132 ls/macos-update later to maint).
+
+ * Using a %(HEAD) placeholder in "for-each-ref --format=" option
+   caused the command to segfault when on an unborn branch.
+   (merge 84679d470d jc/for-each-ref-head-segfault-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" did not work well with the core.commentchar
+   configuration variable for two reasons, both of which have been
+   fixed.
+   (merge 882cd23777 js/rebase-i-commentchar-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
+   (merge 5c238e29a8 jk/common-main later to maint).
+   (merge 5a5749e45b ak/pre-receive-hook-template-modefix later to maint).
+   (merge 6d834ac8f1 jk/rebase-config-insn-fmt-docfix later to maint).
+   (merge de9f7fa3b0 rs/commit-pptr-simplify later to maint).
+   (merge 4259d693fc sc/fmt-merge-msg-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 28fab7b23d nd/test-helpers later to maint).
+   (merge c2bb0c1d1e rs/cocci later to maint).
+   (merge 3285b7badb ps/common-info-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 2b090822e8 nd/worktree-lock later to maint).
+   (merge 4bd488ea7c jk/create-branch-remove-unused-param later to maint).
+   (merge 974e0044d6 tk/diffcore-delta-remove-unused later to maint).

Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v2.3.9
  * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle
    extremely large files.  It uses "int" in many places, which can
    overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in
-   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to soemwhere
+   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to somewhere
    around 1GB for now.
 
  * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code

Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v2.4.9
  * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle
    extremely large files.  It uses "int" in many places, which can
    overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in
-   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to soemwhere
+   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to somewhere
    around 1GB for now.
 
  * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code

Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v2.5.4
  * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle
    extremely large files.  It uses "int" in many places, which can
    overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in
-   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to soemwhere
+   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to somewhere
    around 1GB for now.
 
  * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code

Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v2.6
  * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle
    extremely large files.  It uses "int" in many places, which can
    overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in
-   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to soemwhere
+   our input files, for example.  Cap the input size to somewhere
    around 1GB for now.
 
  * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code

Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt

@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
    server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
 
- * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
-   more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
-   contents before and after it belong to logically separate units.
+ * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of
+   commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable
+   by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and
+   after it belong to logically separate units.  It is still
+   experimental.
 
  * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
    where the hook directory is.
@@ -506,3 +508,5 @@ notes for details).
    (merge cd82b7a pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo later to maint).
    (merge 2bb73ae rs/patch-id-use-skip-prefix later to maint).
    (merge aa20cbc rs/apply-name-terminate later to maint).
+   (merge fe17fc0 jc/t2300-setup later to maint).
+   (merge e256eec jk/shell-portability later to maint).

Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+Git v2.9.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.9
+----------------
+
+ * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
+   connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
+   for a long time, wasting resources.  The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
+   been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
+
+ * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
+   string.  This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
+   --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
+   a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
+   "auto".
+
+ * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
+   option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
+   bitmap index.
+
+ * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
+   by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
+   file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
+   which has been fixed.
+
+ * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
+   configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
+   typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
+
+ * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
+   documented now.
+
+ * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
+   referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
+
+ * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
+   creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
+   reflog was truncated.
+
+ * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
+   who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
+
+ * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
+   on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
+
+ * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
+   hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
+   use it regularly.  "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
+
+ * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
+
+ * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
+   tree".
+
+ * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
+   the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
+   cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
+
+ * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
+   experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
+   as "git diff" output.
+
+ * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width
+   relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
+   draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section.  It
+   also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
+   to the right border.
+
+ * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
+   be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
+
+ * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
+   bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
+   data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
+
+ * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
+   GPG signature have been documented.
+
+ * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
+   that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
+   be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
+   of the submodules are not prepared for.
+
+ * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
+   to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
+
+ * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
+   functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
+   corrected.
+
+ * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
+   prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
+   bogus offset value to the caller.  Use a more benign looking
+   +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
+   of aborting.
+
+ * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
+   been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
+   command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
+
+ * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
+   is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
+
+ * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
+   report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
+   been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
+   paths that are _inside_.
+
+ * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
+   documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
+   Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
+   instead.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.2.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Git v2.9.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.9.1
+------------------
+
+ * A fix merged to v2.9.1 had a few tests that are not meant to be
+   run on platforms without 64-bit long, which caused unnecessary
+   test failures on them because we didn't detect the platform and
+   skip them.  These tests are now skipped on platforms that they
+   are not applicable to.
+
+No other change is included in this update.

Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.3.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+Git v2.9.3 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.9.2
+------------------
+
+ * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and
+   finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is
+   commonly done by other codepaths.  Make it ignore leading blank
+   lines to match.
+
+ * Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a
+   path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not
+   show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that
+   logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working
+   tree files.  But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git rebase -i --autostash" did not restore the auto-stashed change
+   when the operation was aborted.
+
+ * "git commit --amend --allow-empty-message -S" for a commit without
+   any message body could have misidentified where the header of the
+   commit object ends.
+
+ * More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
+   literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.
+
+ * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our
+   colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on
+   Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years.
+
+ * "gc.autoPackLimit" when set to 1 should not trigger a repacking
+   when there is only one pack, but the code counted poorly and did
+   so.
+
+ * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called
+   stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours",
+   which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
+   the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
+   contrast to "ours".
+
+ * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
+   check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
+
+ * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file.
+
+ * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
+   submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
+   could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
+   case condition.
+
+ * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
+   correctly.
+
+ * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
+   is not necessarily available everywhere.
+
+ * "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
+   unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
+   "file" did not appear in the current commit.  When "file" was
+   created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
+   committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
+
+ * "git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
+   when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
+   "file".
+
+ * "git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
+   part, but "git push" didn't.
+
+ * An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
+   misbehave has been fixed.
+
+ * "git notes merge" had a code to see if a path exists (and fails if
+   it does) and then open the path for writing (when it doesn't).
+   Replace it with open with O_EXCL.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
+   when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
+   were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
+   value, leading to an unintended truncation.
+
+ * Recent update to "git daemon" tries to enable the socket-level
+   KEEPALIVE, but when it is spawned via inetd, the standard input
+   file descriptor may not necessarily be connected to a socket.
+   Suppress an ENOTSOCK error from setsockopt().
+
+ * Recent FreeBSD stopped making perl available at /usr/bin/perl;
+   switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
+   too ancient FreeBSD releases.
+
+ * "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
+   merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
+   conflicted rebase.
+
+ * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
+   that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
+
+ * Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
+   library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
+   recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
+   mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
+
+ * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
+
+ * Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
+   extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
+   to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
+   code error-prone and hard to read.  This has been corrected by tweaking
+   the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
+
+ * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
+   suboptimal, which has been fixed.
+
+ * "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
+   pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
+   commit-msg hook.
+
+ * "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
+   lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
+   the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
+   "git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
+   option to override the default.
+
+ * The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
+   has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
+   of Go.
+
+ * There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
+   an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
+   be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of
+   such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which
+   involves inflating and applying delta.  This however kicked in even
+   when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git
+   conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
+   point of the optimization.  The optimization has been disabled when
+   the conversion is necessary.
+
+ * "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
+   because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
+   designed well.
+
+ * Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
+   inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
+
+ * The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
+   "gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
+
+ * FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
+   untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
+   caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
+   behaviour of the fast-path.
+
+ * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
+
+ * The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
+   can be safely discarded without any other consideration.  State
+   that it is safe to do so.
+
+ * Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
+   calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
+   that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
+   resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
+   the same.
+
+ * "git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
+   interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
+   fixed.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+Git v2.9.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.9.3
+------------------
+
+ * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
+   the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
+   built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
+   potty does.  It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
+   programs (like test helpers).  A common "main()" function that
+   calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
+   make it harder to make mistakes.
+
+ * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with
+   merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it
+   shouldn't.
+
+ * The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
+   --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
+   has been added.
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
+   ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
+   receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
+   discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
+   to the users.  It does so now.
+
+ * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a
+   hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been
+   corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is
+   shared with.
+
+ * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments
+   the same way as existing mainstream platforms.  The code now moves
+   "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/")
+   that strips the trailing slash of '/'.
+
+ * The "t/" hierarchy is prone to get an unusual pathname; "make test"
+   has been taught to make sure they do not contain paths that cannot
+   be checked out on Windows (and the mechanism can be reusable to
+   catch pathnames that are not portable to other platforms as need
+   arises).
+
+ * When "git merge-recursive" works on history with many criss-cross
+   merges in "verbose" mode, the names the command assigns to the
+   virtual merge bases could have overwritten each other by unintended
+   reuse of the same piece of memory.
+
+ * "git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice
+   message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything
+   that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is
+   an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on.  The
+   advice message has been squelched in this case.
+
+ * "git difftool" by default ignores the error exit from the backend
+   commands it spawns, because often they signal that they found
+   differences by exiting with a non-zero status code just like "diff"
+   does; the exit status codes 126 and above however are special in
+   that they are used to signal that the command is not executable,
+   does not exist, or killed by a signal.  "git difftool" has been
+   taught to notice these exit status codes.
+
+ * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
+   which has been corrected.
+
+ * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
+   variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
+   git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
+   place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
+   override, and if so how?"
+
+ * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open
+   a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then
+   finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either
+   removing or renaming the temporary file.  When the process spawns a
+   subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the
+   subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is
+   made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has
+   the file descriptor still open.  Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
+   to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

@@ -121,6 +121,16 @@ its behaviour.  Try to make sure your explanation can be understood
 without external resources. Instead of giving a URL to a mailing list
 archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion.
 
+If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable
+branch, use the format "abbreviated sha1 (subject, date)",
+with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes, like this:
+
+    Commit f86a374 ("pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak", 2015-03-30)
+    noticed that ...
+
+The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this
+format.
+
 
 (3) Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
 

Documentation/blame-options.txt

@@ -28,12 +28,13 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[]
 -S <revs-file>::
 	Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
 
---reverse::
+--reverse <rev>..<rev>::
 	Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
 	the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last
 	revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of
 	revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in
-	START.
+	START.  `git blame --reverse START` is taken as `git blame
+	--reverse START..HEAD` for convenience.
 
 -p::
 --porcelain::

Documentation/config.txt

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ boolean::
        false;; Boolean false can be spelled as `no`, `off`,
 		`false`, or `0`.
 +
-When converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type
+When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type
 specifier; 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or
 "false" (spelled in lowercase).
 
@@ -150,27 +150,34 @@ integer::
        1024", "by 1024x1024", etc.
 
 color::
-       The value for a variables that takes a color is a list of
-       colors (at most two) and attributes (at most one), separated
-       by spaces.  The colors accepted are `normal`, `black`,
-       `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and
-       `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink` and
-       `reverse`.  The first color given is the foreground; the
-       second is the background.  The position of the attribute, if
-       any, doesn't matter. Attributes may be turned off specifically
-       by prefixing them with `no` (e.g., `noreverse`, `noul`, etc).
+       The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of
+       colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background)
+       and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces.
 +
-Colors (foreground and background) may also be given as numbers between
-0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all
-terminals may support this).  If your terminal supports it, you may also
-specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
+The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`,
+`blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`.  The first color given is the
+foreground; the second is the background.
 +
-The attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item
-in the colored output, so setting color.decorate.branch to `black`
-will paint that branch name in a plain `black`, even if the previous
-thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
-list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be
-painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
+Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI
+256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this).  If
+your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as
+hex, like `#ff0ab3`.
++
+The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`,
+`italic`, and `strike` (for crossed-out or "strikethrough" letters).
+The position of any attributes with respect to the colors
+(before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may
+be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`,
+`no-ul`, etc).
++
+For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset
+at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
+`color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a
+plain `black`, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g.
+opening parenthesis before the list of branch names in `log --decorate`
+output) is set to be painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
+However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered
+coloring, and the negated forms may be useful there.
 
 pathname::
 	A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a
@@ -405,13 +412,11 @@ file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf`
 mechanism.
 
 core.autocrlf::
-	Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting
-	the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text
-	files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain
-	`CRLF` in the repository will not be touched.  Use this
-	setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
-	working directory even though the repository does not have
-	normalized line endings.  This variable can be set to 'input',
+	Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting
+	the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf".
+	Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
+	working directory and the repository has LF line endings.
+	This variable can be set to 'input',
 	in which case no output conversion is performed.
 
 core.symlinks::
@@ -434,7 +439,7 @@ core.gitProxy::
 	may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order;
 	the first match wins.
 +
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable
+Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_COMMAND` environment variable
 (which always applies universally, without the special "for"
 handling).
 +
@@ -443,6 +448,13 @@ specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern.
 This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from
 proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
 
+core.sshCommand::
+	If this variable is set, `git fetch` and `git push` will
+	use the specified command instead of `ssh` when they need to
+	connect to a remote system. The command is in the same form as
+	the `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` environment variable and is overridden
+	when the environment variable is set.
+
 core.ignoreStat::
 	If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have
 	changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files
@@ -478,10 +490,10 @@ false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
 
 core.worktree::
 	Set the path to the root of the working tree.
-	If GIT_COMMON_DIR environment variable is set, core.worktree
+	If `GIT_COMMON_DIR` environment variable is set, core.worktree
 	is ignored and not used for determining the root of working tree.
-	This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
-	variable and the '--work-tree' command-line option.
+	This can be overridden by the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment
+	variable and the `--work-tree` command-line option.
 	The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
 	the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
 	or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
@@ -545,7 +557,7 @@ core.compression::
 	-1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
 	and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
 	If set, this provides a default to other compression variables,
-	such as 'core.looseCompression' and 'pack.compression'.
+	such as `core.looseCompression` and `pack.compression`.
 
 core.looseCompression::
 	An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
@@ -619,9 +631,9 @@ core.excludesFile::
 core.askPass::
 	Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
 	ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
-	via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS'
+	via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the `GIT_ASKPASS`
 	environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
-	'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
+	`SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
 	prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
 	command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
 
@@ -764,7 +776,7 @@ core.notesRef::
 	notes should be printed.
 +
 This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
-the 'GIT_NOTES_REF' environment variable.  See linkgit:git-notes[1].
+the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable.  See linkgit:git-notes[1].
 
 core.sparseCheckout::
 	Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
@@ -779,7 +791,7 @@ core.abbrev::
 add.ignoreErrors::
 add.ignore-errors (deprecated)::
 	Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
-	added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
+	added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors`
 	option of linkgit:git-add[1].  `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated,
 	as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration
 	variables.
@@ -800,14 +812,14 @@ it will be treated as a shell command.  For example, defining
 "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD".  Note that shell commands will be
 executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
 not necessarily be the current directory.
-'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
+`GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
 from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
 am.keepcr::
 	If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
-	with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will
+	with parameter `--keep-cr`. In this case git-mailsplit will
 	not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden
-	by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line.
+	by giving `--no-keep-cr` from the command line.
 	See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
 
 am.threeWay::
@@ -820,7 +832,7 @@ am.threeWay::
 
 apply.ignoreWhitespace::
 	When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in
-	whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change'
+	whitespace, in the same way as the `--ignore-space-change`
 	option.
 	When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to
 	respect all whitespace differences.
@@ -828,7 +840,7 @@ apply.ignoreWhitespace::
 
 apply.whitespace::
 	Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
-	as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
+	as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
 
 branch.autoSetupMerge::
 	Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches
@@ -930,7 +942,7 @@ browser.<tool>.cmd::
 
 browser.<tool>.path::
 	Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
-	browse HTML help (see '-w' option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a
+	browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a
 	working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]).
 
 clean.requireForce::
@@ -941,7 +953,8 @@ color.branch::
 	A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
 	linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
 	`false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
-	only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
+	only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
+	value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
 
 color.branch.<slot>::
 	Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of
@@ -956,7 +969,8 @@ color.diff::
 	linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit:git-show[1] will use color
 	for all patches.  If it is set to `true` or `auto`, those
 	commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
-	Defaults to false.
+	If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by
+	default).
 +
 This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the
 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands.  Can be overridden on the
@@ -979,7 +993,8 @@ color.decorate.<slot>::
 color.grep::
 	When set to `always`, always highlight matches.  When `false` (or
 	`never`), never.  When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only
-	when the output is written to the terminal.  Defaults to `false`.
+	when the output is written to the terminal.  If unset, then the
+	value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
 
 color.grep.<slot>::
 	Use customized color for grep colorization.  `<slot>` specifies which
@@ -1012,7 +1027,8 @@ color.interactive::
 	and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive" and
 	"git-clean --interactive"). When false (or `never`), never.
 	When set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is
-	to the terminal. Defaults to false.
+	to the terminal. If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is
+	used (`auto` by default).
 
 color.interactive.<slot>::
 	Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' and 'git clean
@@ -1028,13 +1044,15 @@ color.showBranch::
 	A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
 	linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
 	`false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
-	only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
+	only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
+	value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
 
 color.status::
 	A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
 	linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`,
 	`false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
-	only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
+	only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
+	value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
 
 color.status.<slot>::
 	Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is
@@ -1189,6 +1207,15 @@ difftool.<tool>.cmd::
 difftool.prompt::
 	Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
 
+fastimport.unpackLimit::
+	If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1]
+	is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
+	loose object files.  However if the number of imported objects
+	equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a
+	pack.  Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import
+	operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems.  If
+	not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
+
 fetch.recurseSubmodules::
 	This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
 	Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
@@ -1220,6 +1247,11 @@ fetch.prune::
 	If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune`
 	option was given on the command line.  See also `remote.<name>.prune`.
 
+fetch.output::
+	Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are
+	`full` and `compact`. Default value is `full`. See section
+	OUTPUT in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for detail.
+
 format.attach::
 	Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for
 	'format-patch'.  The value can also be a double quoted string
@@ -1227,6 +1259,16 @@ format.attach::
 	value as the boundary.  See the --attach option in
 	linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
 
+format.from::
+	Provides the default value for the `--from` option to format-patch.
+	Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email address.  If false,
+	format-patch defaults to `--no-from`, using commit authors directly in
+	the "From:" field of patch mails.  If true, format-patch defaults to
+	`--from`, using your committer identity in the "From:" field of patch
+	mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if
+	different.  If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that
+	value instead of your committer identity.  Defaults to false.
+
 format.numbered::
 	A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch
 	subjects.  It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there
@@ -1330,7 +1372,7 @@ fsck.skipList::
 gc.aggressiveDepth::
 	The depth parameter used in the delta compression
 	algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'.  This defaults
-	to 250.
+	to 50.
 
 gc.aggressiveWindow::
 	The window size parameter used in the delta compression
@@ -1420,24 +1462,24 @@ gitcvs.logFile::
 
 gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
 	If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
-	attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If
+	attributes for files to determine the `-k` modes to use. If
 	the attributes force Git to treat a file as text,
-	the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
+	the `-k` mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
 	treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
 	will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
 	the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
-	the file type to be determined, then 'gitcvs.allBinary' is
+	the file type to be determined, then `gitcvs.allBinary` is
 	used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
 
 gitcvs.allBinary::
-	This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve
+	This is used if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` does not resolve
 	the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
 	unresolved files are sent to the client in
 	mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
 	as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
 	otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
 	then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
-	it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'.
+	it is binary, similar to `core.autocrlf`.
 
 gitcvs.dbName::
 	Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
@@ -1456,7 +1498,7 @@ gitcvs.dbDriver::
 	See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
 
 gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass::
-	Database user and password. Only useful if setting 'gitcvs.dbDriver',
+	Database user and password. Only useful if setting `gitcvs.dbDriver`,
 	since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
 	'gitcvs.dbUser' supports variable substitution (see
 	linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
@@ -1468,8 +1510,8 @@ gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
 	linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).  Any non-alphabetic
 	characters will be replaced with underscores.
 
-All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
-'gitcvs.allBinary' can also be specified as
+All gitcvs variables except for `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` and
+`gitcvs.allBinary` can also be specified as
 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
 access method.
@@ -1492,17 +1534,17 @@ gitweb.snapshot::
 	See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description.
 
 grep.lineNumber::
-	If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
+	If set to true, enable `-n` option by default.
 
 grep.patternType::
 	Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
-	'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp',
-	'--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the
+	'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
+	`--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the
 	value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
 
 grep.extendedRegexp::
-	If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
-	option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
+	If set to true, enable `--extended-regexp` option by default. This
+	option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
 	other than 'default'.
 
 grep.threads::
@@ -1587,7 +1629,7 @@ guitool.<name>.cmd::
 	of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
 	mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
 	the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
-	the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as
+	the tool as `GIT_GUITOOL`, the name of the currently selected file as
 	'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
 	the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
 
@@ -1608,7 +1650,7 @@ guitool.<name>.confirm::
 
 guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
 	Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
-	through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an
+	through the `ARGS` environment variable. Since requesting an
 	argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
 	if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
 	the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
@@ -1616,7 +1658,7 @@ guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
 
 guitool.<name>.revPrompt::
 	Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
-	'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option
+	`REVISION` environment variable. In other aspects this option
 	is similar to 'argPrompt', and can be used together with it.
 
 guitool.<name>.revUnmerged::
@@ -1672,7 +1714,7 @@ http.proxyAuthMethod::
 	only takes effect if the configured proxy string contains a user name part
 	(i.e. is of the form 'user@host' or 'user@host:port'). This can be
 	overridden on a per-remote basis; see `remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod`.
-	Both can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD' environment
+	Both can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD` environment
 	variable.  Possible values are:
 +
 --
@@ -1694,6 +1736,20 @@ http.emptyAuth::
 	a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for
 	authentication.
 
+http.delegation::
+	Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled
+	by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set parameter to tell
+	the server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user
+	credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are:
++
+--
+* `none` - Don't allow any delegation.
+* `policy` - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the
+  Kerberos service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy.
+* `always` - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
+--
+
+
 http.extraHeader::
 	Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server.  If
 	more than one such entry exists, all of them are added as extra
@@ -1731,9 +1787,9 @@ http.sslVersion::
 	- tlsv1.2
 
 +
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_VERSION' environment variable.
+Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_VERSION` environment variable.
 To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
-explicit http.sslversion option, set 'GIT_SSL_VERSION' to the
+explicit http.sslversion option, set `GIT_SSL_VERSION` to the
 empty string.
 
 http.sslCipherList::
@@ -1744,41 +1800,41 @@ http.sslCipherList::
   option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format
   of this list.
 +
-Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' environment variable.
+Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` environment variable.
 To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
-explicit http.sslCipherList option, set 'GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST' to the
+explicit http.sslCipherList option, set `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` to the
 empty string.
 
 http.sslVerify::
 	Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
-	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment
+	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment
 	variable.
 
 http.sslCert::
 	File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
-	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CERT' environment
+	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CERT` environment
 	variable.
 
 http.sslKey::
 	File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
-	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_KEY' environment
+	over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_KEY` environment
 	variable.
 
 http.sslCertPasswordProtected::
 	Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate.  Otherwise
 	OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the
 	certificate or private key is encrypted.  Can be overridden by the
-	'GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED' environment variable.
+	`GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED` environment variable.
 
 http.sslCAInfo::
 	File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
 	fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
-	'GIT_SSL_CAINFO' environment variable.
+	`GIT_SSL_CAINFO` environment variable.
 
 http.sslCAPath::
 	Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer
 	with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden
-	by the 'GIT_SSL_CAPATH' environment variable.
+	by the `GIT_SSL_CAPATH` environment variable.
 
 http.pinnedpubkey::
 	Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of
@@ -1798,7 +1854,7 @@ http.sslTry::
 
 http.maxRequests::
 	How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
-	by the 'GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS' environment variable. Default is 5.
+	by the `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS` environment variable. Default is 5.
 
 http.minSessions::
 	The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across
@@ -1817,13 +1873,13 @@ http.postBuffer::
 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
 	If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
 	for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
-	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT' and
-	'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME' environment variables.
+	Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT` and
+	`GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME` environment variables.
 
 http.noEPSV::
 	A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
 	This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
-	support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
+	support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV`
 	environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
 
 http.userAgent::
@@ -1833,7 +1889,7 @@ http.userAgent::
 	such as Mozilla/4.0.  This may be necessary, for instance, if
 	connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
 	of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
-	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
+	Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
 
 http.<url>.*::
 	Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
@@ -1958,7 +2014,7 @@ log.decorate::
 	specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
 	If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal,
 	the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref
-	names are shown. This is the same as the '--decorate' option
+	names are shown. This is the same as the `--decorate` option
 	of the `git log`.
 
 log.follow::
@@ -2341,16 +2397,16 @@ new default).
 --
 
 push.followTags::
-	If set to true enable '--follow-tags' option by default.  You
+	If set to true enable `--follow-tags` option by default.  You
 	may override this configuration at time of push by specifying
-	'--no-follow-tags'.
+	`--no-follow-tags`.
 
 push.gpgSign::
 	May be set to a boolean value, or the string 'if-asked'. A true
-	value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if '--signed' is
+	value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if `--signed` is
 	passed to linkgit:git-push[1]. The string 'if-asked' causes
 	pushes to be signed if the server supports it, as if
-	'--signed=if-asked' is passed to 'git push'. A false value may
+	`--signed=if-asked` is passed to 'git push'. A false value may
 	override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit
 	command-line flag always overrides this config option.
 
@@ -2373,7 +2429,7 @@ rebase.stat::
 	rebase. False by default.
 
 rebase.autoSquash::
-	If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
+	If set to true enable `--autosquash` option by default.
 
 rebase.autoStash::
 	When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash
@@ -2394,15 +2450,20 @@ rebase.missingCommitsCheck::
 	command in the todo-list.
 	Defaults to "ignore".
 
-rebase.instructionFormat
+rebase.instructionFormat::
 	A format string, as specified in linkgit:git-log[1], to be used for
 	the instruction list during an interactive rebase.  The format will automatically
 	have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
 
 receive.advertiseAtomic::
 	By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
-	capability to its clients. If you don't want to this capability
-	to be advertised, set this variable to false.
+	capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
+	capability, set this variable to false.
+
+receive.advertisePushOptions::
+	By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options
+	capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
+	capability, set this variable to false.
 
 receive.autogc::
 	By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
@@ -2457,6 +2518,15 @@ receive.fsck.skipList::
 	can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
 	Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
 
+receive.keepAlive::
+	After receiving the pack from the client, `receive-pack` may
+	produce no output (if `--quiet` was specified) while processing
+	the pack, causing some networks to drop the TCP connection.
+	With this option set, if `receive-pack` does not transmit
+	any data in this phase for `receive.keepAlive` seconds, it will
+	send a short keepalive packet.  The default is 5 seconds; set
+	to 0 to disable keepalives entirely.
+
 receive.unpackLimit::
 	If the number of objects received in a push is below this
 	limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
@@ -2467,6 +2537,12 @@ receive.unpackLimit::
 	especially on slow filesystems.  If not set, the value of
 	`transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
 
+receive.maxInputSize::
+	If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this
+	limit, then git-receive-pack will error out, instead of
+	accepting the pack file. If not set or set to 0, then the size
+	is unlimited.
+
 receive.denyDeletes::
 	If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes
 	the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.
@@ -2630,7 +2706,7 @@ sendemail.identity::
 	A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
 	'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
 	values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
-	the value of 'sendemail.identity'.
+	the value of `sendemail.identity`.
 
 sendemail.smtpEncryption::
 	See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.  Note that this
@@ -2647,7 +2723,7 @@ sendemail.<identity>.*::
 	Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters
 	found below, taking precedence over those when the this
 	identity is selected, through command-line or
-	'sendemail.identity'.
+	`sendemail.identity`.
 
 sendemail.aliasesFile::
 sendemail.aliasFileType::
@@ -2677,7 +2753,7 @@ sendemail.xmailer::
 	See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
 
 sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)::
-	Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.signedoffbycc'.
+	Deprecated alias for `sendemail.signedoffbycc`.
 
 showbranch.default::
 	The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
@@ -2749,12 +2825,13 @@ stash.showStat::
 	option will show diffstat of the stash.  Defaults to true.
 	See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
 
-submodule.<name>.path::
 submodule.<name>.url::
-	The path within this project and URL for a submodule. These
-	variables are initially populated by 'git submodule init'. See
-	linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for
-	details.
+	The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules
+	file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change
+	the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule
+	update'. After obtaining the submodule, the presence of this variable
+	is used as a sign whether the submodule is of interest to git commands.
+	See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
 
 submodule.<name>.update::
 	The default update procedure for a submodule. This variable
@@ -2797,6 +2874,18 @@ submodule.fetchJobs::
 	in parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default.
 	If unset, it defaults to 1.
 
+submodule.alternateLocation::
+	Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are
+	cloned. Possible values are `no`, `superproject`.
+	By default `no` is assumed, which doesn't add references. When the
+	value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes
+	its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate.
+
+submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
+	Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule
+	as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are
+	`ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`.
+
 tag.forceSignAnnotated::
 	A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed.
 	If `--annotate` is specified on the command line, it takes
@@ -2883,6 +2972,21 @@ uploadpack.keepAlive::
 	`uploadpack.keepAlive` seconds. Setting this option to 0
 	disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
 
+uploadpack.packObjectsHook::
+	If this option is set, when `upload-pack` would run
+	`git pack-objects` to create a packfile for a client, it will
+	run this shell command instead.  The `pack-objects` command and
+	arguments it _would_ have run (including the `git pack-objects`
+	at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The stdin
+	and stdout of the hook are treated as if `pack-objects` itself
+	was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for
+	`pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on
+	stdout.
++
+Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the
+repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from
+untrusted repositories).
+
 url.<base>.insteadOf::
 	Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
 	start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
@@ -2909,17 +3013,17 @@ url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
 
 user.email::
 	Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
-	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and
-	'EMAIL' environment variables.  See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
+	Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and
+	`EMAIL` environment variables.  See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
 
 user.name::
 	Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.
-	Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' and 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME'
+	Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`
 	environment variables.  See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
 
 user.useConfigOnly::
-	Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for 'user.email'
-	and 'user.name', and instead retrieve the values only from the
+	Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
+	and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
 	configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
 	and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
 	with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config

Documentation/date-formats.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DATE FORMATS
 ------------
 
-The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables
+The `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`, `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` environment variables
 ifdef::git-commit[]
 and the `--date` option
 endif::git-commit[]

Documentation/diff-config.txt

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ diff.ignoreSubmodules::
 	commands such as 'git diff-files'. 'git checkout' also honors
 	this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to
 	'all' disables the submodule summary normally shown by 'git commit'
-	and 'git status' when 'status.submoduleSummary' is set unless it is
+	and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is
 	overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option.
 	The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting.
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ diff.orderFile::
 
 diff.renameLimit::
 	The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
-	detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option '-l'.
+	detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`.
 
 diff.renames::
 	Whether and how Git detects renames.  If set to "false",
@@ -122,10 +122,11 @@ diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
 
 diff.submodule::
 	Specify the format in which differences in submodules are
-	shown.  The "log" format lists the commits in the range like
-	linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does.  The "short" format
-	format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning
-	and end of the range.  Defaults to short.
+	shown.  The "short" format just shows the names of the commits
+	at the beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists
+	the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary`
+	does. The "diff" format shows an inline diff of the changed
+	contents of the submodule. Defaults to "short".
 
 diff.wordRegex::
 	A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
@@ -170,6 +171,12 @@ diff.tool::
 
 include::mergetools-diff.txt[]
 
+diff.indentHeuristic::
+diff.compactionHeuristic::
+	Set one of these options to `true` to enable one of two
+	experimental heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to
+	make patches easier to read.
+
 diff.algorithm::
 	Choose a diff algorithm.  The variants are as follows:
 +
@@ -186,3 +193,9 @@ diff.algorithm::
 	low-occurrence common elements".
 --
 +
+
+diff.wsErrorHighlight::
+	A comma separated list of `old`, `new`, `context`, that
+	specifies how whitespace errors on lines are highlighted
+	with `color.diff.whitespace`.  Can be overridden by the
+	command line option `--ws-error-highlight=<kind>`

Documentation/diff-format.txt

@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ That is, from the left to the right:
 . sha1 for "dst"; 0\{40\} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
 . a space.
 . status, followed by optional "score" number.
-. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
+. a tab or a NUL when `-z` option is used.
 . path for "src"
-. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R.
+. a tab or a NUL when `-z` option is used; only exists for C or R.
 . path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
-. an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record.
+. an LF or a NUL when `-z` option is used, to terminate the record.
 
 Possible status letters are:
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ diff format for merges
 ----------------------
 
 "git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff --raw"
-can take '-c' or '--cc' option
+can take `-c` or `--cc` option
 to generate diff output also for merge commits.  The output differs
 from the format described above in the following way:
 

Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Generating patches with -p
 --------------------------
 
 When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run
-with a '-p' option, "git diff" without the '--raw' option, or
+with a `-p` option, "git diff" without the `--raw` option, or
 "git log" with the "-p" option, they
 do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a
 patch file.  You can customize the creation of such patches via the
-GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables.
+`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables.
 
 What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional
 diff format:
@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510
 ------------
 
 1.   It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
-     this (when '-c' option is used):
+     this (when `-c` option is used):
 
        diff --combined file
 +
-or like this (when '--cc' option is used):
+or like this (when `--cc` option is used):
 
        diff --cc file
 

Documentation/diff-heuristic-options.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+--indent-heuristic::
+--no-indent-heuristic::
+--compaction-heuristic::
+--no-compaction-heuristic::
+	These are to help debugging and tuning experimental heuristics
+	(which are off by default) that shift diff hunk boundaries to
+	make patches easier to read.

Documentation/diff-options.txt

@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
 	Synonym for `-p --raw`.
 endif::git-format-patch[]
 
+include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[]
+
 --minimal::
 	Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible
 	diff is produced.
@@ -203,13 +205,16 @@ any of those replacements occurred.
 	of the `--diff-filter` option on what the status letters mean.
 
 --submodule[=<format>]::
-	Specify how differences in submodules are shown.  When `--submodule`
-	or `--submodule=log` is given, the 'log' format is used.  This format lists
-	the commits in the range like linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does.
-	Omitting the `--submodule` option or specifying `--submodule=short`,
-	uses the 'short' format. This format just shows the names of the commits
-	at the beginning and end of the range.  Can be tweaked via the
-	`diff.submodule` configuration variable.
+	Specify how differences in submodules are shown.  When specifying
+	`--submodule=short` the 'short' format is used.  This format just
+	shows the names of the commits at the beginning and end of the range.
+	When `--submodule` or `--submodule=log` is specified, the 'log'
+	format is used.  This format lists the commits in the range like
+	linkgit:git-submodule[1] `summary` does.  When `--submodule=diff`
+	is specified, the 'diff' format is used.  This format shows an
+	inline diff of the changes in the submodule contents between the
+	commit range.  Defaults to `diff.submodule` or the 'short' format
+	if the config option is unset.
 
 --color[=<when>]::
 	Show colored diff.
@@ -303,6 +308,8 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
 	lines are highlighted.  E.g. `--ws-error-highlight=new,old`
 	highlights whitespace errors on both deleted and added lines.
 	`all` can be used as a short-hand for `old,new,context`.
+	The `diff.wsErrorHighlight` configuration variable can be
+	used to specify the default behaviour.
 
 endif::git-format-patch[]
 
@@ -412,6 +419,9 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
 	paths are selected if there is any file that matches
 	other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
 	that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
++
+Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude.  E.g.
+`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths.
 
 -S<string>::
 	Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of
@@ -559,5 +569,16 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --no-prefix::
 	Do not show any source or destination prefix.
 
+--line-prefix=<prefix>::
+	Prepend an additional prefix to every line of output.
+
+--ita-invisible-in-index::
+	By default entries added by "git add -N" appear as an existing
+	empty file in "git diff" and a new file in "git diff --cached".
+	This option makes the entry appear as a new file in "git diff"
+	and non-existent in "git diff --cached". This option could be
+	reverted with `--ita-visible-in-index`. Both options are
+	experimental and could be removed in future.
+
 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
 linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].

Documentation/fetch-options.txt

@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@
 	linkgit:git-clone[1]), deepen or shorten the history to the specified
 	number of commits. Tags for the deepened commits are not fetched.
 
+--deepen=<depth>::
+	Similar to --depth, except it specifies the number of commits
+	from the current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of
+	each remote branch history.
+
+--shallow-since=<date>::
+	Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
+	include all reachable commits after <date>.
+
+--shallow-exclude=<revision>::
+	Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
+	exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag.
+	This option can be specified multiple times.
+
 --unshallow::
 	If the source repository is complete, convert a shallow
 	repository to a complete one, removing all the limitations
@@ -52,7 +66,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
 
 -p::
 --prune::
-	After fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
+	Before fetching, remove any remote-tracking references that no
 	longer exist on the remote.  Tags are not subject to pruning
 	if they are fetched only because of the default tag
 	auto-following or due to a --tags option.  However, if tags
@@ -88,7 +102,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
 	to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.  Using this
 	option alone does not subject tags to pruning, even if --prune
 	is used (though tags may be pruned anyway if they are also the
-	destination of an explicit refspec; see '--prune').
+	destination of an explicit refspec; see `--prune`).
 
 --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]::
 	This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of
@@ -110,7 +124,7 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
 
 --no-recurse-submodules::
 	Disable recursive fetching of submodules (this has the same effect as
-	using the '--recurse-submodules=no' option).
+	using the `--recurse-submodules=no` option).
 
 --submodule-prefix=<path>::
 	Prepend <path> to paths printed in informative messages
@@ -137,7 +151,7 @@ endif::git-pull[]
 
 --upload-pack <upload-pack>::
 	When given, and the repository to fetch from is handled
-	by 'git fetch-pack', '--exec=<upload-pack>' is passed to
+	by 'git fetch-pack', `--exec=<upload-pack>` is passed to
 	the command to specify non-default path for the command
 	run on the other end.
 

Documentation/git-add.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git add' [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
 	  [--edit | -e] [--[no-]all | --[no-]ignore-removal | [--update | -u]]
 	  [--intent-to-add | -N] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--ignore-missing]
-	  [--] [<pathspec>...]
+	  [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--] [<pathspec>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files.
 	be ignored, no matter if they are already present in the work
 	tree or not.
 
+--chmod=(+|-)x::
+	Override the executable bit of the added files.  The executable
+	bit is only changed in the index, the files on disk are left
+	unchanged.
+
 \--::
 	This option can be used to separate command-line options from
 	the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken

Documentation/git-am.txt

@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ default.   You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
 	By default the command will try to detect the patch format
 	automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic
 	detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be
-	interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, stgit, stgit-series and hg.
+	interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd,
+	stgit, stgit-series and hg.
 
 -i::
 --interactive::
@@ -198,12 +199,12 @@ When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes
 to process.  Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
 aborts in the middle.  You can recover from this in one of two ways:
 
-. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the '--skip'
+. skip the current patch by re-running the command with the `--skip`
   option.
 
 . hand resolve the conflict in the working directory, and update
   the index file to bring it into a state that the patch should
-  have produced.  Then run the command with the '--continue' option.
+  have produced.  Then run the command with the `--continue` option.
 
 The command refuses to process new mailboxes until the current
 operation is finished, so if you decide to start over from scratch,

Documentation/git-annotate.txt

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 include::blame-options.txt[]
+include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[]
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------

Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt

@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ skip" to do the same thing. (In fact the special exit code 125 makes
 
 Or if you want more control, you can inspect the current state using
 for example "git bisect visualize". It will launch gitk (or "git log"
-if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set) to help you find a
+if the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set) to help you find a
 better bisection point.
 
 Either way, if you have a string of untestable commits, it might

Documentation/git-bisect.txt

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ $ git bisect visualize
 
 `view` may also be used as a synonym for `visualize`.
 
-If the 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
+If the `DISPLAY` environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
 instead.  You can also give command-line options such as `-p` and
 `--stat`.
 
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --no-checkout::
 +
 Do not checkout the new working tree at each iteration of the bisection
-process. Instead just update a special reference named 'BISECT_HEAD' to make
+process. Instead just update a special reference named `BISECT_HEAD` to make
 it point to the commit that should be tested.
 +
 This option may be useful when the test you would perform in each step

Documentation/git-blame.txt

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental]
 	    [-L <range>] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
-	    [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>]
+	    [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>..<rev>]
 	    [--] <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
 	abbreviated object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
 	is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit.
 
+include::diff-heuristic-options.txt[]
+
 
 THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
 --------------------

Documentation/git-branch.txt

@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ named commit).  With `--merged`, only branches merged into the named
 commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are reachable from the named
 commit) will be listed.  With `--no-merged` only branches not merged into
 the named commit will be listed.  If the <commit> argument is missing it
-defaults to 'HEAD' (i.e. the tip of the current branch).
+defaults to `HEAD` (i.e. the tip of the current branch).
 
 The command's second form creates a new branch head named <branchname>
-which points to the current 'HEAD', or <start-point> if given.
+which points to the current `HEAD`, or <start-point> if given.
 
 Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
 working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode.
 +
 This behavior is the default when the start point is a remote-tracking branch.
 Set the branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable to `false` if you
-want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if '--no-track'
+want `git checkout` and `git branch` to always behave as if `--no-track`
 were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the
 start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
 

Documentation/git-cat-file.txt

@@ -9,18 +9,22 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type and size information for repository objec
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git cat-file' (-t [--allow-unknown-type]| -s [--allow-unknown-type]| -e | -p | <type> | --textconv ) <object>
-'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) [--follow-symlinks]
+'git cat-file' (-t [--allow-unknown-type]| -s [--allow-unknown-type]| -e | -p | <type> | --textconv | --filters ) [--path=<path>] <object>
+'git cat-file' (--batch | --batch-check) [ --textconv | --filters ] [--follow-symlinks]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 In its first form, the command provides the content or the type of an object in
-the repository. The type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the
-object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size, or '--textconv' is used
-(which implies type "blob").
+the repository. The type is required unless `-t` or `-p` is used to find the
+object type, or `-s` is used to find the object size, or `--textconv` or
+`--filters` is used (which imply type "blob").
 
 In the second form, a list of objects (separated by linefeeds) is provided on
-stdin, and the SHA-1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
+stdin, and the SHA-1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout. The
+output format can be overridden using the optional `<format>` argument. If
+either `--textconv` or `--filters` was specified, the input is expected to
+list the object names followed by the path name, separated by a single white
+space, so that the appropriate drivers can be determined.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -54,19 +58,35 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --textconv::
 	Show the content as transformed by a textconv filter. In this case,
-	<object> has be of the form <tree-ish>:<path>, or :<path> in order
-	to apply the filter to the content recorded in the index at <path>.
+	<object> has to be of the form <tree-ish>:<path>, or :<path> in
+	order to apply the filter to the content recorded in the index at
+	<path>.
+
+--filters::
+	Show the content as converted by the filters configured in
+	the current working tree for the given <path> (i.e. smudge filters,
+	end-of-line conversion, etc). In this case, <object> has to be of
+	the form <tree-ish>:<path>, or :<path>.
+
+--path=<path>::
+	For use with --textconv or --filters, to allow specifying an object
+	name and a path separately, e.g. when it is difficult to figure out
+	the revision from which the blob came.
 
 --batch::
 --batch=<format>::
 	Print object information and contents for each object provided
-	on stdin.  May not be combined with any other options or arguments.
-	See the section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
+	on stdin.  May not be combined with any other options or arguments
+	except `--textconv` or `--filters`, in which case the input lines
+	also need to specify the path, separated by white space.  See the
+	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
 
 --batch-check::
 --batch-check=<format>::
 	Print object information for each object provided on stdin.  May
-	not be combined with any other options or arguments.  See the
+	not be combined with any other options or arguments except
+	`--textconv` or `--filters`, in which case the input lines also
+	need to specify the path, separated by white space.  See the
 	section `BATCH OUTPUT` below for details.
 
 --batch-all-objects::
@@ -144,13 +164,13 @@ respectively print:
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
-If '-t' is specified, one of the <type>.
+If `-t` is specified, one of the <type>.
 
-If '-s' is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes.
+If `-s` is specified, the size of the <object> in bytes.
 
-If '-e' is specified, no output.
+If `-e` is specified, no output.
 
-If '-p' is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.
+If `-p` is specified, the contents of <object> are pretty-printed.
 
 If <type> is specified, the raw (though uncompressed) contents of the <object>
 will be returned.

Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt

@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ $ git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}
 * Determine the reference name to use for a new branch:
 +
 ------------
-$ ref=$(git check-ref-format --normalize "refs/heads/$newbranch") ||
-die "we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
+$ ref=$(git check-ref-format --normalize "refs/heads/$newbranch")||
+{ echo "we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name." >&2 ; exit 1 ; }
 ------------
 
 GIT

Documentation/git-checkout.txt

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ of it").
 	When creating a new branch, set up "upstream" configuration. See
 	"--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
 +
-If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be
+If no `-b` option is given, the name of the new branch will be
 derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of
 the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping
 the initial part up to the "*".
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching
 off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even
 "refs/remotes/origin/hack").  If the given name has no slash, or the above
 guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted.  You can
-explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
+explicitly give a name with `-b` in such a case.
 
 --no-track::
 	Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the
@@ -419,6 +419,18 @@ $ git reflog -2 HEAD # or
 $ git log -g -2 HEAD
 ------------
 
+ARGUMENT DISAMBIGUATION
+-----------------------
+
+When there is only one argument given and it is not `--` (e.g. "git
+checkout abc"), and when the argument is both a valid `<tree-ish>`
+(e.g. a branch "abc" exists) and a valid `<pathspec>` (e.g. a file
+or a directory whose name is "abc" exists), Git would usually ask
+you to disambiguate.  Because checking out a branch is so common an
+operation, however, "git checkout abc" takes "abc" as a `<tree-ish>`
+in such a situation.  Use `git checkout -- <pathspec>` if you want
+to checkout these paths out of the index.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 

Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
 	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 	Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
-	default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
+	default, as if the `--no-walk` option was specified, see
 	linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
 	feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
 	(see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').

Documentation/git-clean.txt

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not
 under version control, starting from the current directory.
 
-Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the '-x'
+Normally, only files unknown to Git are removed, but if the `-x`
 option is specified, ignored files are also removed. This can, for
 example, be useful to remove all build products.
 

Documentation/git-clone.txt

@@ -90,13 +90,16 @@ If you want to break the dependency of a repository cloned with `-s` on
 its source repository, you can simply run `git repack -a` to copy all
 objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 
---reference <repository>::
+--reference[-if-able] <repository>::
 	If the reference repository is on the local machine,
 	automatically setup `.git/objects/info/alternates` to
 	obtain objects from the reference repository.  Using
 	an already existing repository as an alternate will
 	require fewer objects to be copied from the repository
 	being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.
+	When using the `--reference-if-able`, a non existing
+	directory is skipped with a warning instead of aborting
+	the clone.
 +
 *NOTE*: see the NOTE for the `--shared` option, and also the
 `--dissociate` option.
@@ -191,9 +194,16 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
 	Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
 	specified number of commits. Implies `--single-branch` unless
 	`--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the
-	tips of all branches. This implies `--shallow-submodules`. If
-	you want to have a shallow superproject clone, but full submodules,
-	also pass `--no-shallow-submodules`.
+	tips of all branches. If you want to clone submodules shallowly,
+	also pass `--shallow-submodules`.
+
+--shallow-since=<date>::
+	Create a shallow clone with a history after the specified time.
+
+--shallow-exclude=<revision>::
+	Create a shallow clone with a history, excluding commits
+	reachable from a specified remote branch or tag.  This option
+	can be specified multiple times.
 
 --[no-]single-branch::
 	Clone only the history leading to the tip of a single branch,

Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	An existing tree object
 
 -p <parent>::
-	Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
+	Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object.
 
 -m <message>::
 	A paragraph in the commit log message. This can be given more than

Documentation/git-commit.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
 2. by using 'git rm' to remove files from the working tree
    and the index, again before using the 'commit' command;
 
-3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which
+3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command
+   (without --interactive or --patch switch), in which
    case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead
    record the current content of the listed files (which must already
    be known to Git);
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
    actual commit;
 
 5. by using the --interactive or --patch switches with the 'commit' command
-   to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit,
+   to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit
+   in addition to contents in the index,
    before finalizing the operation. See the ``Interactive Mode'' section of
    linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate these modes.
 
@@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -c <commit>::
 --reedit-message=<commit>::
-	Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that
+	Like '-C', but with `-c` the editor is invoked, so that
 	the user can further edit the commit message.
 
 --fixup=<commit>::
@@ -201,7 +203,7 @@ default::
 	Otherwise `whitespace`.
 --
 +
-The default can be changed by the 'commit.cleanup' configuration
+The default can be changed by the `commit.cleanup` configuration
 variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 -e::
@@ -260,7 +262,7 @@ FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].)
 	staged for other paths. This is the default mode of operation of
 	'git commit' if any paths are given on the command line,
 	in which case this option can be omitted.
-	If this option is specified together with '--amend', then
+	If this option is specified together with `--amend`, then
 	no paths need to be specified, which can be used to amend
 	the last commit without committing changes that have
 	already been staged.
@@ -450,8 +452,8 @@ include::i18n.txt[]
 ENVIRONMENT AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
 ---------------------------------------
 The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from the
-GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the
-VISUAL environment variable, or the EDITOR environment variable (in that
+`GIT_EDITOR` environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the
+`VISUAL` environment variable, or the `EDITOR` environment variable (in that
 order).  See linkgit:git-var[1] for details.
 
 HOOKS

Documentation/git-config.txt

@@ -31,29 +31,29 @@ You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is
 actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be
 escaped.
 
-Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the '--add' option.
+Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the `--add` option.
 If you want to update or unset an option which can occur on multiple
 lines, a POSIX regexp `value_regex` needs to be given.  Only the
 existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset.  If
 you want to handle the lines that do *not* match the regex, just
 prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <<EXAMPLES>>).
 
-The type specifier can be either '--int' or '--bool', to make
+The type specifier can be either `--int` or `--bool`, to make
 'git config' ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and
 convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int,
-a "true" or "false" string for bool), or '--path', which does some
-path expansion (see '--path' below).  If no type specifier is passed, no
+a "true" or "false" string for bool), or `--path`, which does some
+path expansion (see `--path` below).  If no type specifier is passed, no
 checks or transformations are performed on the value.
 
 When reading, the values are read from the system, global and
 repository local configuration files by default, and options
-'--system', '--global', '--local' and '--file <filename>' can be
+`--system`, `--global`, `--local` and `--file <filename>` can be
 used to tell the command to read from only that location (see <<FILES>>).
 
 When writing, the new value is written to the repository local
-configuration file by default, and options '--system', '--global',
-'--file <filename>' can be used to tell the command to write to
-that location (you can say '--local' but that is the default).
+configuration file by default, and options `--system`, `--global`,
+`--file <filename>` can be used to tell the command to write to
+that location (you can say `--local` but that is the default).
 
 This command will fail with non-zero status upon error.  Some exit
 codes are:
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
 	Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
 
 --blob blob::
-	Similar to '--file' but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g.
+	Similar to `--file` but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g.
 	you can use 'master:.gitmodules' to read values from the file
 	'.gitmodules' in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING REVISIONS"
 	section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7] for a more complete list of
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
 -e::
 --edit::
 	Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either
-	'--system', '--global', or repository (default).
+	`--system`, `--global`, or repository (default).
 
 --[no-]includes::
 	Respect `include.*` directives in config files when looking up
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
 FILES
 -----
 
-If not set explicitly with '--file', there are four files where
+If not set explicitly with `--file`, there are four files where
 'git config' will search for configuration options:
 
 $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig::
@@ -263,13 +263,16 @@ The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking
 precedence over values read earlier.  When multiple values are taken then all
 values of a key from all files will be used.
 
+You may override individual configuration parameters when running any git
+command by using the `-c` option. See linkgit:git[1] for details.
+
 All writing options will per default write to the repository specific
-configuration file. Note that this also affects options like '--replace-all'
-and '--unset'. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*.
+configuration file. Note that this also affects options like `--replace-all`
+and `--unset`. *'git config' will only ever change one file at a time*.
 
 You can override these rules either by command-line options or by environment
-variables. The '--global' and the '--system' options will limit the file used
-to the global or system-wide file respectively. The GIT_CONFIG environment
+variables. The `--global` and the `--system` options will limit the file used
+to the global or system-wide file respectively. The `GIT_CONFIG` environment
 variable has a similar effect, but you can specify any filename you want.
 
 

Documentation/git-count-objects.txt

@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ objects nor valid packs
 +
 size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is
 specified)
++
+alternate: absolute path of alternate object databases; may appear
+multiple times, one line per path. Note that if the path contains
+non-printable characters, it may be surrounded by double-quotes and
+contain C-style backslashed escape sequences.
 
 -H::
 --human-readable::

Documentation/git-credential-store.txt

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 FILES
 -----
 
-If not set explicitly with '--file', there are two files where
+If not set explicitly with `--file`, there are two files where
 git-credential-store will search for credentials in order of precedence:
 
 ~/.git-credentials::

Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later.  If you are
 performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
 http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
-https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs].
+http://www.catb.org/esr/cvs-fast-export/[cvs-fast-export].
 
 Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new
 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	akin to the way 'git clone' uses 'origin' by default.
 
 -o <branch-for-HEAD>::
-	When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch
+	When no remote is specified (via -r) the `HEAD` branch
 	from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the Git
-	repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for Git.
-	When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named
+	repository, as `HEAD` already has a special meaning for Git.
+	When a remote is specified the `HEAD` branch is named
 	remotes/<remote>/master mirroring 'git clone' behaviour.
 	Use this option if you want to import into a different
 	branch.
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ the old cvs2git tool.
 
 -p <options-for-cvsps>::
 	Additional options for cvsps.
-	The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here.
+	The options `-u` and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here.
 +
 If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
 
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma.
 
 -M <regex>::
 	Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom
-	regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes
+	regex. It can be used with `-m` to enable the default regexes
 	as well. You must escape forward slashes.
 +
 The regex must capture the source branch name in $1.
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ messages, bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like.
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
-If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
+If `-v` is specified, the script reports what it is doing.
 
 Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with
 a zero exit status.

Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Print usage information and exit
 You can specify a list of allowed directories. If no directories
 are given, all are allowed. This is an additional restriction, gitcvs
 access still needs to be enabled by the `gitcvs.enabled` config option
-unless '--export-all' was given, too.
+unless `--export-all` was given, too.
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ To get a checkout with the Eclipse CVS client:
 3. Browse the 'modules' available. It will give you a list of the heads in
    the repository. You will not be able to browse the tree from there. Only
    the heads.
-4. Pick 'HEAD' when it asks what branch/tag to check out. Untick the
+4. Pick `HEAD` when it asks what branch/tag to check out. Untick the
    "launch commit wizard" to avoid committing the .project file.
 
 Protocol notes: If you are using anonymous access via pserver, just select that.
@@ -402,12 +402,12 @@ Exports and tagging (tags and branches) are not supported at this stage.
 CRLF Line Ending Conversions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files,
+By default the server leaves the `-k` mode blank for all files,
 which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject
 to end-of-line conversion on some platforms.
 
 You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to
-set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr`
+set the `-k` modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr`
 config variable.  See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information
 about end-of-line conversion.
 
@@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ Alternatively, if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config is not enabled
 or the attributes do not allow automatic detection for a filename, then
 the server uses the `gitcvs.allBinary` config for the default setting.
 If `gitcvs.allBinary` is set, then file not otherwise
-specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the '-k' mode
+specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the `-k` mode
 is left blank. But if `gitcvs.allBinary` is set to "guess", then
-the correct '-k' mode will be guessed based on the contents of
+the correct `-k` mode will be guessed based on the contents of
 the file.
 
 For best consistency with 'cvs', it is probably best to override the

Documentation/git-daemon.txt

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ that service if it is enabled.
 
 It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and
 it will refuse to export any Git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked
-for export this way (unless the '--export-all' parameter is specified). If you
+for export this way (unless the `--export-all` parameter is specified). If you
 pass some directory paths as 'git daemon' arguments, you can further restrict
 the offers to a whitelist comprising of those.
 
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ OPTIONS
 	is not supported, then --listen=hostname is also not supported and
 	--listen must be given an IPv4 address.
 	Can be given more than once.
-	Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
+	Incompatible with `--inetd` option.
 
 --port=<n>::
-	Listen on an alternative port.  Incompatible with '--inetd' option.
+	Listen on an alternative port.  Incompatible with `--inetd` option.
 
 --init-timeout=<n>::
 	Timeout (in seconds) between the moment the connection is established
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Git configuration files in that directory are readable by `<user>`.
 	arguments. The external command can decide to decline the
 	service by exiting with a non-zero status (or to allow it by
 	exiting with a zero status).  It can also look at the $REMOTE_ADDR
-	and $REMOTE_PORT environment variables to learn about the
+	and `$REMOTE_PORT` environment variables to learn about the
 	requestor when making this decision.
 +
 The external command can optionally write a single line to its
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ they correspond to these IP addresses.
 selectively enable/disable services per repository::
 	To enable 'git archive --remote' and disable 'git fetch' against
 	a repository, have the following in the configuration file in the
-	repository (that is the file 'config' next to 'HEAD', 'refs' and
+	repository (that is the file 'config' next to `HEAD`, 'refs' and
 	'objects').
 +
 ----------------------------------------------------------------

Documentation/git-describe.txt

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ is found, its name will be output and searching will stop.
 If an exact match was not found, 'git describe' will walk back
 through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which
 has been tagged.  The ancestor's tag will be output along with an
-abbreviation of the input commit-ish's SHA-1. If '--first-parent' was
+abbreviation of the input commit-ish's SHA-1. If `--first-parent` was
 specified then the walk will only consider the first parent of each
 commit.
 

Documentation/git-diff-index.txt

@@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ include::diff-format.txt[]
 Operating Modes
 ---------------
 You can choose whether you want to trust the index file entirely
-(using the '--cached' flag) or ask the diff logic to show any files
+(using the `--cached` flag) or ask the diff logic to show any files
 that don't match the stat state as being "tentatively changed".  Both
 of these operations are very useful indeed.
 
 Cached Mode
 -----------
-If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask:
+If `--cached` is specified, it allows you to ask:
 
 	show me the differences between HEAD and the current index
 	contents (the ones I'd write using 'git write-tree')

Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt

@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 	show tree entry itself as well as subtrees.  Implies -r.
 
 --root::
-	When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be shown as a big
+	When `--root` is specified the initial commit will be shown as a big
 	creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree.
 
 --stdin::
-	When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
+	When `--stdin` is specified, the command does not take
 	<tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it
 	reads lines containing either two <tree>, one <commit>, or a
 	list of <commit> from its standard input.  (Use a single space
@@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ commits (but not trees).
 	By default, 'git diff-tree --stdin' does not show
 	differences for merge commits.  With this flag, it shows
 	differences to that commit from all of its parents. See
-	also '-c'.
+	also `-c`.
 
 -s::
 	By default, 'git diff-tree --stdin' shows differences,
-	either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch
-	form (with '-p').  This output can be suppressed.  It is
-	only useful with '-v' flag.
+	either in machine-readable form (without `-p`) or in patch
+	form (with `-p`).  This output can be suppressed.  It is
+	only useful with `-v` flag.
 
 -v::
 	This flag causes 'git diff-tree --stdin' to also show
@@ -91,17 +91,17 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
 -c::
 	This flag changes the way a merge commit is displayed
 	(which means it is useful only when the command is given
-	one <tree-ish>, or '--stdin').  It shows the differences
+	one <tree-ish>, or `--stdin`).  It shows the differences
 	from each of the parents to the merge result simultaneously
 	instead of showing pairwise diff between a parent and the
-	result one at a time (which is what the '-m' option does).
+	result one at a time (which is what the `-m` option does).
 	Furthermore, it lists only files which were modified
 	from all parents.
 
 --cc::
 	This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed,
-	in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c'
-	and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output
+	in a similar way to the `-c` option. It implies the `-c`
+	and `-p` options and further compresses the patch output
 	by omitting uninteresting hunks whose the contents in the parents
 	have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them
 	without modification.  When all hunks are uninteresting, the commit

Documentation/git-difftool.txt

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ instead.  `--no-symlinks` is the default on Windows.
 	invoked diff tool returns a non-zero exit code.
 +
 'git-difftool' will forward the exit code of the invoked tool when
-'--trust-exit-code' is used.
+`--trust-exit-code` is used.
 
 See linkgit:git-diff[1] for the full list of supported options.
 

Documentation/git-fast-import.txt

@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ Performance and Compression Tuning
 	Maximum size of each output packfile.
 	The default is unlimited.
 
+fastimport.unpackLimit::
+	See linkgit:git-config[1]
 
 Performance
 -----------
@@ -1054,7 +1056,7 @@ relative-marks::
 no-relative-marks::
 force::
 	Act as though the corresponding command-line option with
-	a leading '--' was passed on the command line
+	a leading `--` was passed on the command line
 	(see OPTIONS, above).
 
 import-marks::
@@ -1105,7 +1107,7 @@ options the user may specify to git fast-import itself.
 
 The `<option>` part of the command may contain any of the options
 listed in the OPTIONS section that do not change import semantics,
-without the leading '--' and is treated in the same way.
+without the leading `--` and is treated in the same way.
 
 Option commands must be the first commands on the input (not counting
 feature commands), to give an option command after any non-option

Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt

@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ OPTIONS
 	option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
 	on the command line.
 +
-If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then
+If `--stateless-rpc` is specified together with this option then
 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-	Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
+	Pass `-q` flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
 	cloning process less verbose.
 
 -k::
@@ -87,6 +87,20 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
 	'git-upload-pack' treats the special depth 2147483647 as
 	infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.
 
+--shallow-since=<date>::
+	Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow'repository to
+	include all reachable commits after <date>.
+
+--shallow-exclude=<revision>::
+	Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
+	exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or tag.
+	This option can be specified multiple times.
+
+--deepen-relative::
+	Argument --depth specifies the number of commits from the
+	current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of each
+	remote branch history.
+
 --no-progress::
 	Do not show the progress.
 

Documentation/git-fetch.txt

@@ -99,6 +99,57 @@ The latter use of the `remote.<repository>.fetch` values can be
 overridden by giving the `--refmap=<refspec>` parameter(s) on the
 command line.
 
+OUTPUT
+------
+
+The output of "git fetch" depends on the transport method used; this
+section describes the output when fetching over the Git protocol
+(either locally or via ssh) and Smart HTTP protocol.
+
+The status of the fetch is output in tabular form, with each line
+representing the status of a single ref. Each line is of the form:
+
+-------------------------------
+ <flag> <summary> <from> -> <to> [<reason>]
+-------------------------------
+
+The status of up-to-date refs is shown only if the --verbose option is
+used.
+
+In compact output mode, specified with configuration variable
+fetch.output, if either entire `<from>` or `<to>` is found in the
+other string, it will be substituted with `*` in the other string. For
+example, `master -> origin/master` becomes `master -> origin/*`.
+
+flag::
+	A single character indicating the status of the ref:
+(space);; for a successfully fetched fast-forward;
+`+`;; for a successful forced update;
+`-`;; for a successfully pruned ref;
+`t`;; for a successful tag update;
+`*`;; for a successfully fetched new ref;
+`!`;; for a ref that was rejected or failed to update; and
+`=`;; for a ref that was up to date and did not need fetching.
+
+summary::
+	For a successfully fetched ref, the summary shows the old and new
+	values of the ref in a form suitable for using as an argument to
+	`git log` (this is `<old>..<new>` in most cases, and
+	`<old>...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
+
+from::
+	The name of the remote ref being fetched from, minus its
+	`refs/<type>/` prefix. In the case of deletion, the name of
+	the remote ref is "(none)".
+
+to::
+	The name of the local ref being updated, minus its
+	`refs/<type>/` prefix.
+
+reason::
+	A human-readable explanation. In the case of successfully fetched
+	refs, no explanation is needed. For a failed ref, the reason for
+	failure is described.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------

Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ if different from the rewritten ones, will be stored in the namespace
 
 Note that since this operation is very I/O expensive, it might
 be a good idea to redirect the temporary directory off-disk with the
-'-d' option, e.g. on tmpfs.  Reportedly the speedup is very noticeable.
+`-d` option, e.g. on tmpfs.  Reportedly the speedup is very noticeable.
 
 
 Filters
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Filters
 The filters are applied in the order as listed below.  The <command>
 argument is always evaluated in the shell context using the 'eval' command
 (with the notable exception of the commit filter, for technical reasons).
-Prior to that, the $GIT_COMMIT environment variable will be set to contain
+Prior to that, the `$GIT_COMMIT` environment variable will be set to contain
 the id of the commit being rewritten.  Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
 GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL,
 and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE are taken from the current commit and exported to
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
 	untouched.  This switch allow git-filter-branch to ignore such
 	commits.  Though, this switch only applies for commits that have one
 	and only one parent, it will hence keep merges points. Also, this
-	option is not compatible with the use of '--commit-filter'. Though you
+	option is not compatible with the use of `--commit-filter`. Though you
 	just need to use the function 'git_commit_non_empty_tree "$@"' instead
 	of the `git commit-tree "$@"` idiom in your commit filter to make that
 	happen.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ to other tags will be rewritten to point to the underlying commit.
 <rev-list options>...::
 	Arguments for 'git rev-list'.  All positive refs included by
 	these options are rewritten.  You may also specify options
-	such as '--all', but you must use '--' to separate them from
+	such as `--all`, but you must use `--` to separate them from
 	the 'git filter-branch' options. Implies <<Remap_to_ancestor>>.
 
 

Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt

@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ merge.summary::
 EXAMPLE
 -------
 
---
+---------
 $ git fetch origin master
 $ git fmt-merge-msg --log <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
---
+---------
 
 Print a log message describing a merge of the "master" branch from
 the "origin" remote.

Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt

@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ align::
 	<width> and <position> used instead.  For instance,
 	`%(align:<width>,<position>)`. If the contents length is more
 	than the width then no alignment is performed. If used with
-	'--quote' everything in between %(align:...) and %(end) is
+	`--quote` everything in between %(align:...) and %(end) is
 	quoted, but if nested then only the topmost level performs
 	quoting.
 

Documentation/git-format-patch.txt

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 		   [--start-number <n>] [--numbered-files]
 		   [--in-reply-to=Message-Id] [--suffix=.<sfx>]
 		   [--ignore-if-in-upstream]
-		   [--subject-prefix=Subject-Prefix] [(--reroll-count|-v) <n>]
+		   [--rfc] [--subject-prefix=Subject-Prefix]
+		   [(--reroll-count|-v) <n>]
 		   [--to=<email>] [--cc=<email>]
 		   [--[no-]cover-letter] [--quiet] [--notes[=<ref>]]
 		   [<common diff options>]
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ output, unless the `--stdout` option is specified.
 
 If `-o` is specified, output files are created in <dir>.  Otherwise
 they are created in the current working directory. The default path
-can be set with the 'format.outputDirectory' configuration option.
+can be set with the `format.outputDirectory` configuration option.
 The `-o` option takes precedence over `format.outputDirectory`.
 To store patches in the current working directory even when
 `format.outputDirectory` points elsewhere, use `-o .`.
@@ -146,9 +147,9 @@ series, where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
 `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.  'deep'
 threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
 +
-The default is `--no-thread`, unless the 'format.thread' configuration
+The default is `--no-thread`, unless the `format.thread` configuration
 is set.  If `--thread` is specified without a style, it defaults to the
-style specified by 'format.thread' if any, or else `shallow`.
+style specified by `format.thread` if any, or else `shallow`.
 +
 Beware that the default for 'git send-email' is to thread emails
 itself.  If you want `git format-patch` to take care of threading, you
@@ -172,6 +173,11 @@ will want to ensure that threading is disabled for `git send-email`.
 	allows for useful naming of a patch series, and can be
 	combined with the `--numbered` option.
 
+--rfc::
+	Alias for `--subject-prefix="RFC PATCH"`. RFC means "Request For
+	Comments"; use this when sending an experimental patch for
+	discussion rather than application.
+
 -v <n>::
 --reroll-count=<n>::
 	Mark the series as the <n>-th iteration of the topic. The

Documentation/git-fsck.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git fsck' [--tags] [--root] [--unreachable] [--cache] [--no-reflogs]
 	 [--[no-]full] [--strict] [--verbose] [--lost-found]
-	 [--[no-]dangling] [--[no-]progress] [--connectivity-only] [<object>*]
+	 [--[no-]dangling] [--[no-]progress] [--connectivity-only]
+	 [--[no-]name-objects] [<object>*]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -82,6 +83,12 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs
 	a blob, the contents are written into the file, rather than
 	its object name.
 
+--name-objects::
+	When displaying names of reachable objects, in addition to the
+	SHA-1 also display a name that describes *how* they are reachable,
+	compatible with linkgit:git-rev-parse[1], e.g.
+	`HEAD@{1234567890}~25^2:src/`.
+
 --[no-]progress::
 	Progress status is reported on the standard error stream by
 	default when it is attached to a terminal, unless
@@ -95,7 +102,7 @@ DISCUSSION
 git-fsck tests SHA-1 and general object sanity, and it does full tracking
 of the resulting reachability and everything else. It prints out any
 corruption it finds (missing or bad objects), and if you use the
-'--unreachable' flag it will also print out objects that exist but that
+`--unreachable` flag it will also print out objects that exist but that
 aren't reachable from any of the specified head nodes (or the default
 set, as mentioned above).
 

Documentation/git-gc.txt

@@ -82,13 +82,13 @@ automatic consolidation of packs.
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpire' can be
+The optional configuration variable `gc.reflogExpire` can be
 set to indicate how long historical entries within each branch's
 reflog should remain available in this repository.  The setting is
 expressed as a length of time, for example '90 days' or '3 months'.
 It defaults to '90 days'.
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.reflogExpireUnreachable'
+The optional configuration variable `gc.reflogExpireUnreachable`
 can be set to indicate how long historical reflog entries which
 are not part of the current branch should remain available in
 this repository.  These types of entries are generally created as
@@ -107,30 +107,30 @@ branches:
 	reflogExpireUnreachable = 3 days
 ------------
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereResolved' indicates
+The optional configuration variable `gc.rerereResolved` indicates
 how long records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
 kept.  This defaults to 60 days.
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.rerereUnresolved' indicates
+The optional configuration variable `gc.rerereUnresolved` indicates
 how long records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
 kept.  This defaults to 15 days.
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.packRefs' determines if
+The optional configuration variable `gc.packRefs` determines if
 'git gc' runs 'git pack-refs'. This can be set to "notbare" to enable
 it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value.
 This defaults to true.
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveWindow' controls how
+The optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveWindow` controls how
 much time is spent optimizing the delta compression of the objects in
 the repository when the --aggressive option is specified.  The larger
 the value, the more time is spent optimizing the delta compression.  See
 the documentation for the --window' option in linkgit:git-repack[1] for
 more details.  This defaults to 250.
 
-Similarly, the optional configuration variable 'gc.aggressiveDepth'
+Similarly, the optional configuration variable `gc.aggressiveDepth`
 controls --depth option in linkgit:git-repack[1]. This defaults to 250.
 
-The optional configuration variable 'gc.pruneExpire' controls how old
+The optional configuration variable `gc.pruneExpire` controls how old
 the unreferenced loose objects have to be before they are pruned.  The
 default is "2 weeks ago".
 

Documentation/git-grep.txt

@@ -41,17 +41,17 @@ CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 
 grep.lineNumber::
-	If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
+	If set to true, enable `-n` option by default.
 
 grep.patternType::
 	Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
-	'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp',
-	'--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the
+	'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
+	`--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the
 	value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
 
 grep.extendedRegexp::
-	If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
-	option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
+	If set to true, enable `--extended-regexp` option by default. This
+	option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
 	other than 'default'.
 
 grep.threads::
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ grep.threads::
 	8 threads are used by default (for now).
 
 grep.fullName::
-	If set to true, enable '--full-name' option by default.
+	If set to true, enable `--full-name` option by default.
 
 grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
 	If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep

Documentation/git-gui.txt

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ blame::
 
 browser::
 	Start a tree browser showing all files in the specified
-	commit (or 'HEAD' by default).  Files selected through the
+	commit (or `HEAD` by default).  Files selected through the
 	browser are opened in the blame viewer.
 
 citool::

Documentation/git-help.txt

@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ With no options and no COMMAND or GUIDE given, the synopsis of the 'git'
 command and a list of the most commonly used Git commands are printed
 on the standard output.
 
-If the option '--all' or '-a' is given, all available commands are
+If the option `--all` or `-a` is given, all available commands are
 printed on the standard output.
 
-If the option '--guide' or '-g' is given, a list of the useful
+If the option `--guide` or `-g` is given, a list of the useful
 Git guides is also printed on the standard output.
 
 If a command, or a guide, is given, a manual page for that command or
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --man::
 	Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This
 	option may be used to override a value set in the
-	'help.format' configuration variable.
+	`help.format` configuration variable.
 +
 By default the 'man' program will be used to display the manual page,
-but the 'man.viewer' configuration variable may be used to choose
+but the `man.viewer` configuration variable may be used to choose
 other display programs (see below).
 
 -w::
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ other display programs (see below).
 	format. A web browser will be used for that purpose.
 +
 The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
-'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of
+`help.browser`, or `web.browser` if the former is not set. If none of
 these config variables is set, the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper script
 (called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See
 linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
 help.format
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-If no command-line option is passed, the 'help.format' configuration
+If no command-line option is passed, the `help.format` configuration
 variable will be checked. The following values are supported for this
 variable; they make 'git help' behave as their corresponding command-
 line option:
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ line option:
 help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
+The `help.browser`, `web.browser` and `browser.<tool>.path` will also
 be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command-line
 option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
 section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ section above and linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].
 man.viewer
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The 'man.viewer' configuration variable will be checked if the 'man'
+The `man.viewer` configuration variable will be checked if the 'man'
 format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
 
 * "man": use the 'man' program as usual,
@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ format is chosen. The following values are currently supported:
 tab (see 'Note about konqueror' below).
 
 Values for other tools can be used if there is a corresponding
-'man.<tool>.cmd' configuration entry (see below).
+`man.<tool>.cmd` configuration entry (see below).
 
-Multiple values may be given to the 'man.viewer' configuration
+Multiple values may be given to the `man.viewer` configuration
 variable. Their corresponding programs will be tried in the order
 listed in the configuration file.
 
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ will try to use konqueror first. But this may fail (for example, if
 DISPLAY is not set) and in that case emacs' woman mode will be tried.
 
 If everything fails, or if no viewer is configured, the viewer specified
-in the GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable will be tried.  If that
+in the `GIT_MAN_VIEWER` environment variable will be tried.  If that
 fails too, the 'man' program will be tried anyway.
 
 man.<tool>.path
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred man viewer by
-setting the configuration variable 'man.<tool>.path'. For example, you
+setting the configuration variable `man.<tool>.path`. For example, you
 can configure the absolute path to konqueror by setting
 'man.konqueror.path'. Otherwise, 'git help' assumes the tool is
 available in PATH.
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ available in PATH.
 man.<tool>.cmd
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-When the man viewer, specified by the 'man.viewer' configuration
+When the man viewer, specified by the `man.viewer` configuration
 variables, is not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
-'man.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
+`man.<tool>.cmd` configuration variable will be looked up. If this
 variable exists then the specified tool will be treated as a custom
 command and a shell eval will be used to run the command with the man
 page passed as arguments.
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ page passed as arguments.
 Note about konqueror
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-When 'konqueror' is specified in the 'man.viewer' configuration
+When 'konqueror' is specified in the `man.viewer` configuration
 variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the man page on an
 already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Note about git config --global
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set
-using the '--global' flag, for example like this:
+using the `--global` flag, for example like this:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git config --global help.format web

Documentation/git-http-backend.txt

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pushing using the smart HTTP protocol.
 It verifies that the directory has the magic file
 "git-daemon-export-ok", and it will refuse to export any Git directory
 that hasn't explicitly been marked for export this way (unless the
-GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable is set).
+`GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environmental variable is set).
 
 By default, only the `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves
 'git fetch-pack' and 'git ls-remote' clients, which are invoked from
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ $HTTP["url"] =~ "^/git/private" {
 
 ENVIRONMENT
 -----------
-'git http-backend' relies upon the CGI environment variables set
+'git http-backend' relies upon the `CGI` environment variables set
 by the invoking web server, including:
 
 * PATH_INFO (if GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is set, otherwise PATH_TRANSLATED)
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ by the invoking web server, including:
 * QUERY_STRING
 * REQUEST_METHOD
 
-The GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL environmental variable may be passed to
+The `GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environmental variable may be passed to
 'git-http-backend' to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok"
 file in each repository before allowing export of that repository.
 
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to '$\{REMOTE_USER}@http.$\{REMOTE_ADDR\}',
 ensuring that any reflogs created by 'git-receive-pack' contain some
 identifying information of the remote user who performed the push.
 
-All CGI environment variables are available to each of the hooks
+All `CGI` environment variables are available to each of the hooks
 invoked by the 'git-receive-pack'.
 
 GIT

Documentation/git-http-push.txt

@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ destination side.
      exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
      locally is used as the name of the destination.
 
-Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
+Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
 ancestor) of <src>.  This check, known as "fast-forward check",
 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
 
-With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
+With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
 
 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.

Documentation/git-index-pack.txt

@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
 	and use maximum 3 threads.
 
+--max-input-size=<size>::
+	Die, if the pack is larger than <size>.
 
 Note
 ----

Documentation/git-init.txt

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Only print error and warning messages; all other output will be suppressed.
 
 --bare::
 
-Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the
+Create a bare repository. If `GIT_DIR` environment is not set, it is set to the
 current working directory.
 
 --template=<template_directory>::

Documentation/git-instaweb.txt

@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ You may specify configuration in your .git/config
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-If the configuration variable 'instaweb.browser' is not set,
-'web.browser' will be used instead if it is defined. See
+If the configuration variable `instaweb.browser` is not set,
+`web.browser` will be used instead if it is defined. See
 linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this.
 
 SEE ALSO

Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt

@@ -48,19 +48,22 @@ with only spaces at the end of the commit message part, one blank line
 will be added before the new trailer.
 
 Existing trailers are extracted from the input message by looking for
-a group of one or more lines that contain a colon (by default), where
-the group is preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines.
+a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contains at
+least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consists of at
+least 25% trailers.
+The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines.
 The group must either be at the end of the message or be the last
 non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---'. Such three
 minus signs start the patch part of the message.
 
-When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces before and after the
+When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces after the
 token, the separator and the value. There can also be whitespaces
-inside the token and the value.
+inside the token and the value. The value may be split over multiple lines with
+each subsequent line starting with whitespace, like the "folding" in RFC 822.
 
 Note that 'trailers' do not follow and are not intended to follow many
-rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow the line
-folding rules, the encoding rules and probably many other rules.
+rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow
+the encoding rules and probably many other rules.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -219,7 +222,7 @@ Signed-off-by: Alice <alice@example.com>
 Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com>
 ------------
 
-* Use the '--in-place' option to edit a message file in place:
+* Use the `--in-place` option to edit a message file in place:
 +
 ------------
 $ cat msg.txt

Documentation/git-log.txt

@@ -198,12 +198,16 @@ log.showRoot::
 	`git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached.
 	The default is `true`.
 
+log.showSignature::
+	If `true`, `git log` and related commands will act as if the
+	`--show-signature` option was passed to them.
+
 mailmap.*::
 	See linkgit:git-shortlog[1].
 
 notes.displayRef::
 	Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef`
-	or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+	or `GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
 	messages with the `log` family of commands.  See
 	linkgit:git-notes[1].
 +
@@ -212,7 +216,7 @@ multiple times.  A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
 but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
 +
 This setting can be disabled by the `--no-notes` option,
-overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable,
+overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF` environment variable,
 and overridden by the `--notes=<ref>` option.
 
 GIT

Documentation/git-ls-files.txt

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 		[--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
 		[--exclude-standard]
 		[--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
-		[--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
+		[--full-name] [--recurse-submodules]
+		[--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -137,6 +138,10 @@ a space) at the start of each line:
 	option forces paths to be output relative to the project
 	top directory.
 
+--recurse-submodules::
+	Recursively calls ls-files on each submodule in the repository.
+	Currently there is only support for the --cached mode.
+
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
 	Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
 	lines, show only a partial prefix.
@@ -159,8 +164,7 @@ not accessible in the working tree.
 +
 <eolattr> is the attribute that is used when checking out or committing,
 it is either "", "-text", "text", "text=auto", "text eol=lf", "text eol=crlf".
-Note: Currently Git does not support "text=auto eol=lf" or "text=auto eol=crlf",
-that may change in the future.
+Since Git 2.10 "text=auto eol=lf" and "text=auto eol=crlf" are supported.
 +
 Both the <eolinfo> in the index ("i/<eolinfo>")
 and in the working tree ("w/<eolinfo>") are shown for regular files,
@@ -175,7 +179,7 @@ followed by the  ("attr/<eolattr>").
 
 Output
 ------
-'git ls-files' just outputs the filenames unless '--stage' is specified in
+'git ls-files' just outputs the filenames unless `--stage` is specified in
 which case it outputs:
 
         [<tag> ]<mode> <object> <stage> <file>

Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt

@@ -20,16 +20,16 @@ in the current working directory.  Note that:
 
  - the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
    '<path>' denotes just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
-   directory name (without '-r') will behave differently, and order of the
+   directory name (without `-r`) will behave differently, and order of the
    arguments does not matter.
 
  - the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the '<path>' is
    taken as relative to the current working directory.  E.g. when you are
    in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
    ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
-   'sub/dir' in 'HEAD').  You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
+   'sub/dir' in `HEAD`).  You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
    root level (e.g. `git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir`) in this case, as that
-   would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the 'HEAD' commit.
+   would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the `HEAD` commit.
    However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
    --full-tree option.
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -t::
 	Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect
-	if '-r' was not passed. '-d' implies '-t'.
+	if `-r` was not passed. `-d` implies `-t`.
 
 -l::
 --long::

Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-mailsplit - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] -o<directory> [--] [(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...]
+'git mailsplit' [-b] [-f<nn>] [-d<prec>] [--keep-cr] [--mboxrd]
+		-o<directory> [--] [(<mbox>|<Maildir>)...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -47,6 +48,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --keep-cr::
 	Do not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`.
 
+--mboxrd::
+	Input is of the "mboxrd" format and "^>+From " line escaping is
+	reversed.
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

Documentation/git-merge-base.txt

@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ which is reachable from both 'A' and 'B' through the parent relationship.
 
 For example, with this topology:
 
-		 o---o---o---B
-		/
+	         o---o---o---B
+	        /
 	---o---1---o---o---o---A
 
 the merge base between 'A' and 'B' is '1'.
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ the best common ancestor of all commits.
 When the history involves criss-cross merges, there can be more than one
 'best' common ancestor for two commits.  For example, with this topology:
 
-       ---1---o---A
-	   \ /
-	    X
-	   / \
-       ---2---o---o---B
+	---1---o---A
+	    \ /
+	     X
+	    / \
+	---2---o---o---B
 
 both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B.  Neither one is better than
 the other (both are 'best' merge bases).  When the `--all` option is not given,
@@ -154,13 +154,13 @@ topic origin/master`, the history of remote-tracking branch
 `origin/master` may have been rewound and rebuilt, leading to a
 history of this shape:
 
-			 o---B1
-			/
+	                 o---B1
+	                /
 	---o---o---B2--o---o---o---B (origin/master)
-		\
-		 B3
-		  \
-		   Derived (topic)
+	        \
+	         B3
+	          \
+	           Derived (topic)
 
 where `origin/master` used to point at commits B3, B2, B1 and now it
 points at B, and your `topic` branch was started on top of it back

Documentation/git-mergetool.txt

@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
 	Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program
 	to give the user a chance to skip the path.
 
+-O<orderfile>::
+	Process files in the order specified in the
+	<orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
+	This overrides the `diff.orderFile` configuration variable
+	(see linkgit:git-config[1]).  To cancel `diff.orderFile`,
+	use `-O/dev/null`.
+
 TEMPORARY FILES
 ---------------
 `git mergetool` creates `*.orig` backup files while resolving merges.

Documentation/git-mktree.txt

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --batch::
 	Allow building of more than one tree object before exiting.  Each
 	tree is separated by as single blank line. The final new-line is
-	optional.  Note - if the '-z' option is used, lines are terminated
+	optional.  Note - if the `-z` option is used, lines are terminated
 	with NUL.
 
 GIT

Documentation/git-mv.txt

@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --force::
 	Force renaming or moving of a file even if the target exists
 -k::
-        Skip move or rename actions which would lead to an error
+	Skip move or rename actions which would lead to an error
 	condition. An error happens when a source is neither existing nor
 	controlled by Git, or when it would overwrite an existing
-        file unless '-f' is given.
+	file unless `-f` is given.
 -n::
 --dry-run::
 	Do nothing; only show what would happen

Documentation/git-notes.txt

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -c <object>::
 --reedit-message=<object>::
-	Like '-C', but with '-c' the editor is invoked, so that
+	Like '-C', but with `-c` the editor is invoked, so that
 	the user can further edit the note message.
 
 --allow-empty::
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --ref <ref>::
 	Manipulate the notes tree in <ref>.  This overrides
-	'GIT_NOTES_REF' and the "core.notesRef" configuration.  The ref
+	`GIT_NOTES_REF` and the "core.notesRef" configuration.  The ref
 	specifies the full refname when it begins with `refs/notes/`; when it
 	begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise `refs/notes/` is prefixed
 	to form a full name of the ref.
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@ notes.<name>.mergeStrategy::
 notes.displayRef::
 	Which ref (or refs, if a glob or specified more than once), in
 	addition to the default set by `core.notesRef` or
-	'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+	`GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
 	messages with the 'git log' family of commands.
 	This setting can be overridden on the command line or by the
-	'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable.
+	`GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF` environment variable.
 	See linkgit:git-log[1].
 
 notes.rewrite.<command>::
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ notes.rewrite.<command>::
 	notes from the original to the rewritten commit.  Defaults to
 	`true`.  See also "`notes.rewriteRef`" below.
 +
-This setting can be overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF'
+This setting can be overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
 environment variable.
 
 notes.rewriteMode::
@@ -366,33 +366,33 @@ notes.rewriteRef::
 Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
 enable note rewriting.
 +
-Can be overridden with the 'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF' environment variable.
+Can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF` environment variable.
 
 
 ENVIRONMENT
 -----------
 
-'GIT_NOTES_REF'::
+`GIT_NOTES_REF`::
 	Which ref to manipulate notes from, instead of `refs/notes/commits`.
 	This overrides the `core.notesRef` setting.
 
-'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF'::
+`GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF`::
 	Colon-delimited list of refs or globs indicating which refs,
 	in addition to the default from `core.notesRef` or
-	'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit
+	`GIT_NOTES_REF`, to read notes from when showing commit
 	messages.
 	This overrides the `notes.displayRef` setting.
 +
 A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, but a glob that
 does not match any refs is silently ignored.
 
-'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE'::
+`GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`::
 	When copying notes during a rewrite, what to do if the target
 	commit already has a note.
 	Must be one of `overwrite`, `concatenate`, `cat_sort_uniq`, or `ignore`.
 	This overrides the `core.rewriteMode` setting.
 
-'GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF'::
+`GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`::
 	When rewriting commits, which notes to copy from the original
 	to the rewritten commit.  Must be a colon-delimited list of
 	refs or globs.

Documentation/git-p4.txt

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ $ git p4 sync //path/in/your/perforce/depot
 ------------
 This imports the specified depot into
 'refs/remotes/p4/master' in an existing Git repository.  The
-'--branch' option can be used to specify a different branch to
+`--branch` option can be used to specify a different branch to
 be used for the p4 content.
 
 If a Git repository includes branches 'refs/remotes/origin/p4', these
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ from a Git remote, this can be useful in a multi-developer environment.
 
 If there are multiple branches, doing 'git p4 sync' will automatically
 use the "BRANCH DETECTION" algorithm to try to partition new changes
-into the right branch.  This can be overridden with the '--branch'
+into the right branch.  This can be overridden with the `--branch`
 option to specify just a single branch to update.
 
 
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Submit
 ~~~~~~
 Submitting changes from a Git repository back to the p4 repository
 requires a separate p4 client workspace.  This should be specified
-using the 'P4CLIENT' environment variable or the Git configuration
+using the `P4CLIENT` environment variable or the Git configuration
 variable 'git-p4.client'.  The p4 client must exist, but the client root
 will be created and populated if it does not already exist.
 
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ $ git p4 submit topicbranch
 ------------
 
 The upstream reference is generally 'refs/remotes/p4/master', but can
-be overridden using the '--origin=' command-line option.
+be overridden using the `--origin=` command-line option.
 
 The p4 changes will be created as the user invoking 'git p4 submit'. The
-'--preserve-user' option will cause ownership to be modified
+`--preserve-user` option will cause ownership to be modified
 according to the author of the Git commit.  This option requires admin
 privileges in p4, which can be granted using 'p4 protect'.
 
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ General options
 All commands except clone accept these options.
 
 --git-dir <dir>::
-	Set the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable.  See linkgit:git[1].
+	Set the `GIT_DIR` environment variable.  See linkgit:git[1].
 
 -v::
 --verbose::
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Git repository:
 	where they will be treated as remote-tracking branches by
 	linkgit:git-branch[1] and other commands.  This option instead
 	puts p4 branches in 'refs/heads/p4/'.  Note that future
-	sync operations must specify '--import-local' as well so that
+	sync operations must specify `--import-local` as well so that
 	they can find the p4 branches in refs/heads.
 
 --max-changes <n>::
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Git repository:
 	default, involves removing the entire depot path.  With this
 	option, the full p4 depot path is retained in Git.  For example,
 	path '//depot/main/foo/bar.c', when imported from
-	'//depot/main/', becomes 'foo/bar.c'.  With '--keep-path', the
+	'//depot/main/', becomes 'foo/bar.c'.  With `--keep-path`, the
 	Git path is instead 'depot/main/foo/bar.c'.
 
 --use-client-spec::
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior.
 --origin <commit>::
 	Upstream location from which commits are identified to submit to
 	p4.  By default, this is the most recent p4 commit reachable
-	from 'HEAD'.
+	from `HEAD`.
 
 -M::
 	Detect renames.  See linkgit:git-diff[1].  Renames will be
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ p4 revision specifier on the end:
     Import all changes from both named depot paths into a single
     repository.  Only files below these directories are included.
     There is not a subdirectory in Git for each "proj1" and "proj2".
-    You must use the '--destination' option when specifying more
+    You must use the `--destination` option when specifying more
     than one depot path.  The revision specifier must be specified
     identically on each depot path.  If there are files in the
     depot paths with the same name, the path with the most recently
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ CLIENT SPEC
 The p4 client specification is maintained with the 'p4 client' command
 and contains among other fields, a View that specifies how the depot
 is mapped into the client repository.  The 'clone' and 'sync' commands
-can consult the client spec when given the '--use-client-spec' option or
+can consult the client spec when given the `--use-client-spec` option or
 when the useClientSpec variable is true.  After 'git p4 clone', the
 useClientSpec variable is automatically set in the repository
 configuration file.  This allows future 'git p4 submit' commands to
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ different areas in the tree, and indicate related content.  'git p4'
 can use these mappings to determine branch relationships.
 
 If you have a repository where all the branches of interest exist as
-subdirectories of a single depot path, you can use '--detect-branches'
+subdirectories of a single depot path, you can use `--detect-branches`
 when cloning or syncing to have 'git p4' automatically find
 subdirectories in p4, and to generate these as branches in Git.
 
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ git-p4.labelImportRegexp::
 git-p4.useClientSpec::
 	Specify that the p4 client spec should be used to identify p4
 	depot paths of interest.  This is equivalent to specifying the
-	option '--use-client-spec'.  See the "CLIENT SPEC" section above.
+	option `--use-client-spec`.  See the "CLIENT SPEC" section above.
 	This variable is a boolean, not the name of a p4 client.
 
 git-p4.pathEncoding::

Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt

@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ base-name::
 	out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
 	advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
 	size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
-	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
-	default.
+	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited.  The default
+	is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable.
 
 --max-pack-size=<n>::
 	Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with

Documentation/git-push.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git push' [--all | --mirror | --tags] [--follow-tags] [--atomic] [-n | --dry-run] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>]
 	   [--repo=<repository>] [-f | --force] [-d | --delete] [--prune] [-v | --verbose]
-	   [-u | --set-upstream]
+	   [-u | --set-upstream] [--push-option=<string>]
 	   [--[no-]signed|--sign=(true|false|if-asked)]
 	   [--force-with-lease[=<refname>[:<expect>]]]
 	   [--no-verify] [<repository> [<refspec>...]]
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ already exists on the remote side.
 	and also push annotated tags in `refs/tags` that are missing
 	from the remote but are pointing at commit-ish that are
 	reachable from the refs being pushed.  This can also be specified
-	with configuration variable 'push.followTags'.  For more
-	information, see 'push.followTags' in linkgit:git-config[1].
+	with configuration variable `push.followTags`.  For more
+	information, see `push.followTags` in linkgit:git-config[1].
 
 --[no-]signed::
 --sign=(true|false|if-asked)::
@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ already exists on the remote side.
 	Either all refs are updated, or on error, no refs are updated.
 	If the server does not support atomic pushes the push will fail.
 
+-o::
+--push-option::
+	Transmit the given string to the server, which passes them to
+	the pre-receive as well as the post-receive hook. The given string
+	must not contain a NUL or LF character.
+
 --receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>::
 --exec=<git-receive-pack>::
 	Path to the 'git-receive-pack' program on the remote
@@ -198,10 +204,11 @@ branch we have for it.
 +
 `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>` will protect the named ref (alone),
 if it is going to be updated, by requiring its current value to be
-the same as the specified value <expect> (which is allowed to be
+the same as the specified value `<expect>` (which is allowed to be
 different from the remote-tracking branch we have for the refname,
 or we do not even have to have such a remote-tracking branch when
-this form is used).
+this form is used).  If `<expect>` is the empty string, then the named ref
+must not already exist.
 +
 Note that all forms other than `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect>`
 that specifies the expected current value of the ref explicitly are
@@ -240,7 +247,7 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the
 	For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add
 	upstream (tracking) reference, used by argument-less
 	linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information,
-	see 'branch.<name>.merge' in linkgit:git-config[1].
+	see `branch.<name>.merge` in linkgit:git-config[1].
 
 --[no-]thin::
 	These options are passed to linkgit:git-send-pack[1]. A thin transfer
@@ -275,7 +282,7 @@ origin +master` to force a push to the `master` branch). See the
 	all submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be
 	pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions
 	it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. A value of
-	'no' or using '--no-recurse-submodules' can be used to override the
+	'no' or using `--no-recurse-submodules` can be used to override the
 	push.recurseSubmodules configuration variable when no submodule
 	recursion is required.
 

Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt

@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ OPTIONS
 	The directory to find the quilt patches.
 +
 The default for the patch directory is patches
-or the value of the $QUILT_PATCHES environment
+or the value of the `$QUILT_PATCHES` environment
 variable.
 
 --series <file>::
 	The quilt series file.
 +
 The default for the series file is <patches>/series
-or the value of the $QUILT_SERIES environment
+or the value of the `$QUILT_SERIES` environment
 variable.
 
 GIT

Documentation/git-rebase.txt

@@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ rebase.stat::
 	rebase. False by default.
 
 rebase.autoSquash::
-	If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
+	If set to true enable `--autosquash` option by default.
 
 rebase.autoStash::
-	If set to true enable '--autostash' option by default.
+	If set to true enable `--autostash` option by default.
 
 rebase.missingCommitsCheck::
 	If set to "warn", print warnings about removed commits in
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ rebase.missingCommitsCheck::
 	done. "ignore" by default.
 
 rebase.instructionFormat::
-	Custom commit list format to use during an '--interactive' rebase.
+	Custom commit list format to use during an `--interactive` rebase.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ without an explicit `--interactive`.
 	"fixup! " or "squash! " after the first, in case you referred to an
 	earlier fixup/squash with `git commit --fixup/--squash`.
 +
-This option is only valid when the '--interactive' option is used.
+This option is only valid when the `--interactive` option is used.
 +
-If the '--autosquash' option is enabled by default using the
+If the `--autosquash` option is enabled by default using the
 configuration variable `rebase.autoSquash`, this option can be
 used to override and disable this setting.
 

Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ post-update hooks found in the Documentation/howto directory.
 option, which tells it if updates to a ref should be denied if they
 are not fast-forwards.
 
+A number of other receive.* config options are available to tweak
+its behavior, see linkgit:git-config[1].
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <directory>::

Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ fetch, push or archive.
 
 If only <infd> is given, it is assumed to be a bidirectional socket connected
 to remote Git server (git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack or
-git-upload-achive). If both <infd> and <outfd> are given, they are assumed
+git-upload-archive). If both <infd> and <outfd> are given, they are assumed
 to be pipes connected to a remote Git server (<infd> being the inbound pipe
 and <outfd> being the outbound pipe.
 

Documentation/git-remote.txt

@@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ branches, adds to that list.
 Retrieves the URLs for a remote. Configurations for `insteadOf` and
 `pushInsteadOf` are expanded here. By default, only the first URL is listed.
 +
-With '--push', push URLs are queried rather than fetch URLs.
+With `--push`, push URLs are queried rather than fetch URLs.
 +
-With '--all', all URLs for the remote will be listed.
+With `--all`, all URLs for the remote will be listed.
 
 'set-url'::
 
@@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ Changes URLs for the remote. Sets first URL for remote <name> that matches
 regex <oldurl> (first URL if no <oldurl> is given) to <newurl>. If
 <oldurl> doesn't match any URL, an error occurs and nothing is changed.
 +
-With '--push', push URLs are manipulated instead of fetch URLs.
+With `--push`, push URLs are manipulated instead of fetch URLs.
 +
-With '--add', instead of changing existing URLs, new URL is added.
+With `--add`, instead of changing existing URLs, new URL is added.
 +
-With '--delete', instead of changing existing URLs, all URLs matching
+With `--delete`, instead of changing existing URLs, all URLs matching
 regex <url> are deleted for remote <name>.  Trying to delete all
 non-push URLs is an error.
 +

Documentation/git-repack.txt

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	pack everything referenced into a single pack.
 	Especially useful when packing a repository that is used
 	for private development. Use
-	with '-d'.  This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
+	with `-d`.  This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
 	leaves behind, but `git fsck --full --dangling` shows as
 	dangling.
 +
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ whole new pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how many
 other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 
 -A::
-	Same as `-a`, unless '-d' is used.  Then any unreachable
+	Same as `-a`, unless `-d` is used.  Then any unreachable
 	objects in a previous pack become loose, unpacked objects,
 	instead of being left in the old pack.  Unreachable objects
 	are never intentionally added to a pack, even when repacking.
@@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 	out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
 	advantage of the large window for the smaller objects.  The
 	size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
-	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
-	default.
+	`--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited.  The default
+	is taken from the `pack.windowMemory` configuration variable.
+	Note that the actual memory usage will be the limit multiplied
+	by the number of threads used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
 
 --max-pack-size=<n>::
 	Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with
@@ -128,6 +130,19 @@ other objects in that pack they already have locally.
 	with `-b` or `repack.writeBitmaps`, as it ensures that the
 	bitmapped packfile has the necessary objects.
 
+--unpack-unreachable=<when>::
+	When loosening unreachable objects, do not bother loosening any
+	objects older than `<when>`. This can be used to optimize out
+	the write of any objects that would be immediately pruned by
+	a follow-up `git prune`.
+
+-k::
+--keep-unreachable::
+	When used with `-ad`, any unreachable objects from existing
+	packs will be appended to the end of the packfile instead of
+	being removed. In addition, any unreachable loose objects will
+	be packed (and their loose counterparts removed).
+
 Configuration
 -------------
 

Documentation/git-replace.txt

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ $ git cat-file commit foo
 
 shows information about commit 'bar'.
 
-The 'GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS' environment variable can be set to
+The `GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS` environment variable can be set to
 achieve the same effect as the `--no-replace-objects` option.
 
 OPTIONS

Documentation/git-revert.txt

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from the HEAD commit).
 Note: 'git revert' is used to record some new commits to reverse the
 effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one).  If you want to
 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
-should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option.  If
+should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the `--hard` option.  If
 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
 should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
 <commit> -- <filename>` syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
 	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 	Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
-	default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its '--no-walk'
+	default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its `--no-walk`
 	option.
 
 -e::

Documentation/git-send-email.txt

@@ -47,18 +47,18 @@ Composing
 
 --annotate::
 	Review and edit each patch you're about to send. Default is the value
-	of 'sendemail.annotate'. See the CONFIGURATION section for
-	'sendemail.multiEdit'.
+	of `sendemail.annotate`. See the CONFIGURATION section for
+	`sendemail.multiEdit`.
 
 --bcc=<address>,...::
 	Specify a "Bcc:" value for each email. Default is the value of
-	'sendemail.bcc'.
+	`sendemail.bcc`.
 +
 This option may be specified multiple times.
 
 --cc=<address>,...::
 	Specify a starting "Cc:" value for each email.
-	Default is the value of 'sendemail.cc'.
+	Default is the value of `sendemail.cc`.
 +
 This option may be specified multiple times.
 
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ This option may be specified multiple times.
 	Invoke a text editor (see GIT_EDITOR in linkgit:git-var[1])
 	to edit an introductory message for the patch series.
 +
-When '--compose' is used, git send-email will use the From, Subject, and
+When `--compose` is used, git send-email will use the From, Subject, and
 In-Reply-To headers specified in the message. If the body of the message
 (what you type after the headers and a blank line) only contains blank
 (or Git: prefixed) lines, the summary won't be sent, but From, Subject,
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ and In-Reply-To headers will be used unless they are removed.
 +
 Missing From or In-Reply-To headers will be prompted for.
 +
-See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiEdit'.
+See the CONFIGURATION section for `sendemail.multiEdit`.
 
 --from=<address>::
 	Specify the sender of the emails.  If not specified on the command line,
-	the value of the 'sendemail.from' configuration option is used.  If
-	neither the command-line option nor 'sendemail.from' are set, then the
+	the value of the `sendemail.from` configuration option is used.  If
+	neither the command-line option nor `sendemail.from` are set, then the
 	user will be prompted for the value.  The default for the prompt will be
 	the value of GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT, or GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT if that is not
 	set, as returned by "git var -l".
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ is not set, this will be prompted for.
 --to=<address>,...::
 	Specify the primary recipient of the emails generated. Generally, this
 	will be the upstream maintainer of the project involved. Default is the
-	value of the 'sendemail.to' configuration value; if that is unspecified,
+	value of the `sendemail.to` configuration value; if that is unspecified,
 	and --to-cmd is not specified, this will be prompted for.
 +
 This option may be specified multiple times.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Note that no attempts whatsoever are made to validate the encoding.
 	can be useful when the repository contains files that contain carriage
 	returns, but makes the raw patch email file (as saved from a MUA) much
 	harder to inspect manually.  base64 is even more fool proof, but also
-	even more opaque.  Default is the value of the 'sendemail.transferEncoding'
+	even more opaque.  Default is the value of the `sendemail.transferEncoding`
 	configuration value; if that is unspecified, git will use 8bit and not
 	add a Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
 
@@ -157,20 +157,20 @@ Sending
 	subscribed to a list. In order to use the 'From' address, set the
 	value to "auto". If you use the sendmail binary, you must have
 	suitable privileges for the -f parameter.  Default is the value of the
-	'sendemail.envelopeSender' configuration variable; if that is
+	`sendemail.envelopeSender` configuration variable; if that is
 	unspecified, choosing the envelope sender is left to your MTA.
 
 --smtp-encryption=<encryption>::
 	Specify the encryption to use, either 'ssl' or 'tls'.  Any other
 	value reverts to plain SMTP.  Default is the value of
-	'sendemail.smtpEncryption'.
+	`sendemail.smtpEncryption`.
 
 --smtp-domain=<FQDN>::
 	Specifies the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) used in the
 	HELO/EHLO command to the SMTP server.  Some servers require the
 	FQDN to match your IP address.  If not set, git send-email attempts
 	to determine your FQDN automatically.  Default is the value of
-	'sendemail.smtpDomain'.
+	`sendemail.smtpDomain`.
 
 --smtp-auth=<mechanisms>::
 	Whitespace-separated list of allowed SMTP-AUTH mechanisms. This setting
@@ -182,19 +182,19 @@ $ git send-email --smtp-auth="PLAIN LOGIN GSSAPI" ...
 +
 If at least one of the specified mechanisms matches the ones advertised by the
 SMTP server and if it is supported by the utilized SASL library, the mechanism
-is used for authentication. If neither 'sendemail.smtpAuth' nor '--smtp-auth'
+is used for authentication. If neither 'sendemail.smtpAuth' nor `--smtp-auth`
 is specified, all mechanisms supported by the SASL library can be used.
 
 --smtp-pass[=<password>]::
 	Password for SMTP-AUTH. The argument is optional: If no
 	argument is specified, then the empty string is used as
-	the password. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpPass',
-	however '--smtp-pass' always overrides this value.
+	the password. Default is the value of `sendemail.smtpPass`,
+	however `--smtp-pass` always overrides this value.
 +
 Furthermore, passwords need not be specified in configuration files
 or on the command line. If a username has been specified (with
-'--smtp-user' or a 'sendemail.smtpUser'), but no password has been
-specified (with '--smtp-pass' or 'sendemail.smtpPass'), then
+`--smtp-user` or a `sendemail.smtpUser`), but no password has been
+specified (with `--smtp-pass` or `sendemail.smtpPass`), then
 a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
 
 --smtp-server=<host>::
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
 	`smtp.example.com` or a raw IP address).  Alternatively it can
 	specify a full pathname of a sendmail-like program instead;
 	the program must support the `-i` option.  Default value can
-	be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpServer' configuration
+	be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServer` configuration
 	option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or
 	`/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or
 	`localhost` otherwise.
@@ -213,11 +213,11 @@ a password is obtained using 'git-credential'.
 	submission port 587, or the common SSL smtp port 465);
 	symbolic port names (e.g. "submission" instead of 587)
 	are also accepted. The port can also be set with the
-	'sendemail.smtpServerPort' configuration variable.
+	`sendemail.smtpServerPort` configuration variable.
 
 --smtp-server-option=<option>::
 	If set, specifies the outgoing SMTP server option to use.
-	Default value can be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpServerOption'
+	Default value can be specified by the `sendemail.smtpServerOption`
 	configuration option.
 +
 The --smtp-server-option option must be repeated for each option you want
@@ -234,13 +234,13 @@ must be used for each option.
 	certificates concatenated together: see verify(1) -CAfile and
 	-CApath for more information on these). Set it to an empty string
 	to disable certificate verification. Defaults to the value of the
-	'sendemail.smtpsslcertpath' configuration variable, if set, or the
+	`sendemail.smtpsslcertpath` configuration variable, if set, or the
 	backing SSL library's compiled-in default otherwise (which should
 	be the best choice on most platforms).
 
 --smtp-user=<user>::
-	Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of 'sendemail.smtpUser';
-	if a username is not specified (with '--smtp-user' or 'sendemail.smtpUser'),
+	Username for SMTP-AUTH. Default is the value of `sendemail.smtpUser`;
+	if a username is not specified (with `--smtp-user` or `sendemail.smtpUser`),
 	then authentication is not attempted.
 
 --smtp-debug=0|1::
@@ -261,25 +261,25 @@ Automating
 	Specify a command to execute once per patch file which
 	should generate patch file specific "Cc:" entries.
 	Output of this command must be single email address per line.
-	Default is the value of 'sendemail.ccCmd' configuration value.
+	Default is the value of `sendemail.ccCmd` configuration value.
 
 --[no-]chain-reply-to::
 	If this is set, each email will be sent as a reply to the previous
 	email sent.  If disabled with "--no-chain-reply-to", all emails after
 	the first will be sent as replies to the first email sent.  When using
 	this, it is recommended that the first file given be an overview of the
-	entire patch series. Disabled by default, but the 'sendemail.chainReplyTo'
+	entire patch series. Disabled by default, but the `sendemail.chainReplyTo`
 	configuration variable can be used to enable it.
 
 --identity=<identity>::
 	A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
 	'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
 	values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
-	the value of 'sendemail.identity'.
+	the value of `sendemail.identity`.
 
 --[no-]signed-off-by-cc::
 	If this is set, add emails found in Signed-off-by: or Cc: lines to the
-	cc list. Default is the value of 'sendemail.signedoffbycc' configuration
+	cc list. Default is the value of `sendemail.signedoffbycc` configuration
 	value; if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc.
 
 --[no-]cc-cover::
@@ -312,13 +312,13 @@ Automating
 - 'all' will suppress all auto cc values.
 --
 +
-Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppresscc' configuration value; if
+Default is the value of `sendemail.suppresscc` configuration value; if
 that is unspecified, default to 'self' if --suppress-from is
 specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
 
 --[no-]suppress-from::
 	If this is set, do not add the From: address to the cc: list.
-	Default is the value of 'sendemail.suppressFrom' configuration
+	Default is the value of `sendemail.suppressFrom` configuration
 	value; if that is unspecified, default to --no-suppress-from.
 
 --[no-]thread::
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ specified, as well as 'body' if --no-signed-off-cc is specified.
 +
 If disabled with "--no-thread", those headers will not be added
 (unless specified with --in-reply-to).  Default is the value of the
-'sendemail.thread' configuration value; if that is unspecified,
+`sendemail.thread` configuration value; if that is unspecified,
 default to --thread.
 +
 It is up to the user to ensure that no In-Reply-To header already
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Administering
 - 'auto' is equivalent to 'cc' + 'compose'
 --
 +
-Default is the value of 'sendemail.confirm' configuration value; if that
+Default is the value of `sendemail.confirm` configuration value; if that
 is unspecified, default to 'auto' unless any of the suppress options
 have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
 
@@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
 
 --[no-]format-patch::
 	When an argument may be understood either as a reference or as a file name,
-	choose to understand it as a format-patch argument ('--format-patch')
-	or as a file name ('--no-format-patch'). By default, when such a conflict
+	choose to understand it as a format-patch argument (`--format-patch`)
+	or as a file name (`--no-format-patch`). By default, when such a conflict
 	occurs, git send-email will fail.
 
 --quiet::
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ have been specified, in which case default to 'compose'.
 			is due to SMTP limits as described by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt.
 --
 +
-Default is the value of 'sendemail.validate'; if this is not set,
-default to '--validate'.
+Default is the value of `sendemail.validate`; if this is not set,
+default to `--validate`.
 
 --force::
 	Send emails even if safety checks would prevent it.
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ CONFIGURATION
 
 sendemail.aliasesFile::
 	To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or more
-	email aliases files.  You must also supply 'sendemail.aliasFileType'.
+	email aliases files.  You must also supply `sendemail.aliasFileType`.
 
 sendemail.aliasFileType::
 	Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile. Must be
@@ -428,13 +428,13 @@ sendmail;;
 
 sendemail.multiEdit::
 	If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned to edit
-	files you have to edit (patches when '--annotate' is used, and the
-	summary when '--compose' is used). If false, files will be edited one
+	files you have to edit (patches when `--annotate` is used, and the
+	summary when `--compose` is used). If false, files will be edited one
 	after the other, spawning a new editor each time.
 
 sendemail.confirm::
 	Sets the default for whether to confirm before sending. Must be
-	one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See '--confirm'
+	one of 'always', 'never', 'cc', 'compose', or 'auto'. See `--confirm`
 	in the previous section for the meaning of these values.
 
 EXAMPLE

Documentation/git-send-pack.txt

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those
 	on the command line.
 +
-If '--stateless-rpc' is specified together with this option then
+If `--stateless-rpc` is specified together with this option then
 the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line). Each ref must
 be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet.
 
@@ -99,11 +99,11 @@ Specifying the Refs
 There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the
 remote end.
 
-With '--all' flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
+With `--all` flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to
 the remote side.  You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use
 this flag.
 
-Without '--all' and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
+Without `--all` and without any '<ref>', the heads that exist
 both on the local side and on the remote side are updated.
 
 When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the
@@ -134,13 +134,13 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
      exist in the set of remote refs; the ref matched <src>
      locally is used as the name of the destination.
 
-Without '--force', the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
+Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
 ancestor) of <src>.  This check, known as "fast-forward check",
 is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
 remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
 
-With '--force', the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
+With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.
 
 Optionally, a <ref> parameter can be prefixed with a plus '+' sign
 to disable the fast-forward check only on that ref.

Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ usage::
 	die with the usage message.
 
 set_reflog_action::
-	Set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment to a given string (typically
+	Set `GIT_REFLOG_ACTION` environment to a given string (typically
 	the name of the program) unless it is already set.  Whenever
 	the script runs a `git` command that updates refs, a reflog
 	entry is created using the value of this string to leave the

Documentation/git-shell.txt

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ named `git-shell-commands` in the user's home directory.
 COMMANDS
 --------
 
-'git shell' accepts the following commands after the '-c' option:
+'git shell' accepts the following commands after the `-c` option:
 
 'git receive-pack <argument>'::
 'git upload-pack <argument>'::
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ directory.
 INTERACTIVE USE
 ---------------
 
-By default, the commands above can be executed only with the '-c'
+By default, the commands above can be executed only with the `-c`
 option; the shell is not interactive.
 
 If a `~/git-shell-commands` directory is present, 'git shell'

Documentation/git-show-branch.txt

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPTIONS
         are shown before their parents).
 
 --date-order::
-	This option is similar to '--topo-order' in the sense that no
+	This option is similar to `--topo-order` in the sense that no
 	parent comes before all of its children, but otherwise commits
 	are ordered according to their commit date.
 

Documentation/git-show-ref.txt

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 	Enable stricter reference checking by requiring an exact ref path.
 	Aside from returning an error code of 1, it will also print an error
-	message if '--quiet' was not specified.
+	message if `--quiet` was not specified.
 
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -q::
 --quiet::
 
-	Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with '--verify' this
+	Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with `--verify` this
 	can be used to silently check if a reference exists.
 
 --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ use:
 This will show "refs/heads/master" but also "refs/remote/other-repo/master",
 if such references exists.
 
-When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path:
+When using the `--verify` flag, the command requires an exact path:
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 	git show-ref --verify refs/heads/master

Documentation/git-stash.txt

@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ The latest stash you created is stored in `refs/stash`; older
 stashes are found in the reflog of this reference and can be named using
 the usual reflog syntax (e.g. `stash@{0}` is the most recently
 created stash, `stash@{1}` is the one before it, `stash@{2.hours.ago}`
-is also possible).
+is also possible). Stashes may also be referenced by specifying just the
+stash index (e.g. the integer `n` is equivalent to `stash@{n}`).
 
 OPTIONS
 -------

Documentation/git-status.txt

@@ -32,11 +32,14 @@ OPTIONS
 --branch::
 	Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format.
 
---porcelain::
+--porcelain[=<version>]::
 	Give the output in an easy-to-parse format for scripts.
 	This is similar to the short output, but will remain stable
 	across Git versions and regardless of user configuration. See
 	below for details.
++
+The version parameter is used to specify the format version.
+This is optional and defaults to the original version 'v1' format.
 
 --long::
 	Give the output in the long-format. This is the default.
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1].
 
 -z::
 	Terminate entries with NUL, instead of LF.  This implies
-	the `--porcelain` output format if no other format is given.
+	the `--porcelain=v1` output format if no other format is given.
 
 --column[=<options>]::
 --no-column::
@@ -180,12 +183,12 @@ in which case `XY` are `!!`.
 
 If -b is used the short-format status is preceded by a line
 
-## branchname tracking info
+    ## branchname tracking info
 
-Porcelain Format
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Porcelain Format Version 1
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The porcelain format is similar to the short format, but is guaranteed
+Version 1 porcelain format is similar to the short format, but is guaranteed
 not to change in a backwards-incompatible way between Git versions or
 based on user configuration. This makes it ideal for parsing by scripts.
 The description of the short format above also describes the porcelain
@@ -207,6 +210,124 @@ field from the first filename).  Third, filenames containing special
 characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
 backslash-escaping is performed.
 
+Porcelain Format Version 2
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Version 2 format adds more detailed information about the state of
+the worktree and changed items.  Version 2 also defines an extensible
+set of easy to parse optional headers.
+
+Header lines start with "#" and are added in response to specific
+command line arguments.  Parsers should ignore headers they
+don't recognize.
+
+### Branch Headers
+
+If `--branch` is given, a series of header lines are printed with
+information about the current branch.
+
+    Line                                     Notes
+    ------------------------------------------------------------
+    # branch.oid <commit> | (initial)        Current commit.
+    # branch.head <branch> | (detached)      Current branch.
+    # branch.upstream <upstream_branch>      If upstream is set.
+    # branch.ab +<ahead> -<behind>           If upstream is set and
+					     the commit is present.
+    ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Changed Tracked Entries
+
+Following the headers, a series of lines are printed for tracked
+entries.  One of three different line formats may be used to describe
+an entry depending on the type of change.  Tracked entries are printed
+in an undefined order; parsers should allow for a mixture of the 3
+line types in any order.
+
+Ordinary changed entries have the following format:
+
+    1 <XY> <sub> <mH> <mI> <mW> <hH> <hI> <path>
+
+Renamed or copied entries have the following format:
+
+    2 <XY> <sub> <mH> <mI> <mW> <hH> <hI> <X><score> <path><sep><origPath>
+
+    Field       Meaning
+    --------------------------------------------------------
+    <XY>        A 2 character field containing the staged and
+		unstaged XY values described in the short format,
+		with unchanged indicated by a "." rather than
+		a space.
+    <sub>       A 4 character field describing the submodule state.
+		"N..." when the entry is not a submodule.
+		"S<c><m><u>" when the entry is a submodule.
+		<c> is "C" if the commit changed; otherwise ".".
+		<m> is "M" if it has tracked changes; otherwise ".".
+		<u> is "U" if there are untracked changes; otherwise ".".
+    <mH>        The octal file mode in HEAD.
+    <mI>        The octal file mode in the index.
+    <mW>        The octal file mode in the worktree.
+    <hH>        The object name in HEAD.
+    <hI>        The object name in the index.
+    <X><score>  The rename or copy score (denoting the percentage
+		of similarity between the source and target of the
+		move or copy). For example "R100" or "C75".
+    <path>      The pathname.  In a renamed/copied entry, this
+		is the path in the index and in the working tree.
+    <sep>       When the `-z` option is used, the 2 pathnames are separated
+		with a NUL (ASCII 0x00) byte; otherwise, a tab (ASCII 0x09)
+		byte separates them.
+    <origPath>  The pathname in the commit at HEAD.  This is only
+		present in a renamed/copied entry, and tells
+		where the renamed/copied contents came from.
+    --------------------------------------------------------
+
+Unmerged entries have the following format; the first character is
+a "u" to distinguish from ordinary changed entries.
+
+    u <xy> <sub> <m1> <m2> <m3> <mW> <h1> <h2> <h3> <path>
+
+    Field       Meaning
+    --------------------------------------------------------
+    <XY>        A 2 character field describing the conflict type
+		as described in the short format.
+    <sub>       A 4 character field describing the submodule state
+		as described above.
+    <m1>        The octal file mode in stage 1.
+    <m2>        The octal file mode in stage 2.
+    <m3>        The octal file mode in stage 3.
+    <mW>        The octal file mode in the worktree.
+    <h1>        The object name in stage 1.
+    <h2>        The object name in stage 2.
+    <h3>        The object name in stage 3.
+    <path>      The pathname.
+    --------------------------------------------------------
+
+### Other Items
+
+Following the tracked entries (and if requested), a series of
+lines will be printed for untracked and then ignored items
+found in the worktree.
+
+Untracked items have the following format:
+
+    ? <path>
+
+Ignored items have the following format:
+
+    ! <path>
+
+### Pathname Format Notes and -z
+
+When the `-z` option is given, pathnames are printed as is and
+without any quoting and lines are terminated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00)
+byte.
+
+Otherwise, all pathnames will be "C-quoted" if they contain any tab,
+linefeed, double quote, or backslash characters. In C-quoting, these
+characters will be replaced with the corresponding C-style escape
+sequences and the resulting pathname will be double quoted.
+
+
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 

Documentation/git-submodule.txt

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all|[--] <path>...)
 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch]
-	      [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>]
-	      [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
+	      [--[no-]recommend-shallow] [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge]
+	      [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--recursive]
+	      [--jobs <n>] [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [(-n|--summary-limit) <n>]
 	      [commit] [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
@@ -258,7 +259,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --branch::
 	Branch of repository to add as submodule.
 	The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in
-	`.gitmodules` for `update --remote`.
+	`.gitmodules` for `update --remote`.  A special value of `.` is used to
+	indicate that the name of the branch in the submodule should be the
+	same name as the current branch in the current repository.
 
 -f::
 --force::
@@ -384,6 +387,12 @@ for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s `--reference` and `--shared` options carefully.
 	clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions.
 	See linkgit:git-clone[1]
 
+--[no-]recommend-shallow::
+	This option is only valid for the update command.
+	The initial clone of a submodule will use the recommended
+	`submodule.<name>.shallow` as provided by the .gitmodules file
+	by default. To ignore the suggestions use `--no-recommend-shallow`.
+
 -j <n>::
 --jobs <n>::
 	This option is only valid for the update command.