git/Documentation/technical, branch v2.16.2

Merge branch 'jh/partial-clone-doc'

2017-12-28T22:08:47Z

* jh/partial-clone-doc: partial-clone: design doc

partial-clone: design doc

2017-12-14T21:10:57Z

Design document for partial clone feature. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

decorate: clean up and document API

2017-12-08T17:16:27Z

Improve the names of the identifiers in decorate.h, document them, and add an example of how to use these functions. The example is compiled and run as part of the test suite. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'bw/protocol-v1'

2017-12-06T17:23:44Z

A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git without harming them. * bw/protocol-v1: Documentation: document Extra Parameters ssh: introduce a 'simple' ssh variant i5700: add interop test for protocol transition http: tell server that the client understands v1 connect: tell server that the client understands v1 connect: teach client to recognize v1 server response upload-pack, receive-pack: introduce protocol version 1 daemon: recognize hidden request arguments protocol: introduce protocol extension mechanisms pkt-line: add packet_write function connect: in ref advertisement, shallows are last

Merge branch 'bp/fsmonitor'

2017-11-21T05:07:50Z

We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. * bp/fsmonitor: fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration fsmonitor: add a performance test fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension. fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files. update-index: add a new --force-write-index option preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64

status: document options to show matching ignored files

2017-10-31T02:54:21Z

Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: document Extra Parameters

2017-10-17T01:51:30Z

Document the server support for Extra Parameters, additional information that the client can send in its first message to the server during a Git client-server interaction. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'hn/string-list-doc'

2017-10-11T05:52:22Z

Docfix. * hn/string-list-doc: api-argv-array.txt: remove broken link to string-list API

Merge branch 'jr/hash-migration-plan-doc'

2017-10-11T05:52:22Z

Lay out plans for weaning us off of SHA-1. * jr/hash-migration-plan-doc: technical doc: add a design doc for hash function transition

api-argv-array.txt: remove broken link to string-list API

2017-10-06T12:16:03Z

In 4f665f2cf3 (string-list.h: move documentation from Documentation/api/ into header, 2017-09-26) the string-list API documentation was moved to string-list.h. The argv-array API documentation may follow a similar course in the future. Until then, prevent the broken link from making it to the end-user documentation. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano