It was not obvious from the text that pager.<cmd> is a boolean
setting.
While we're changing the description, make some other
improvements: lest we forget and fret, clarify that -p and
pager.<cmd> do not kick in when stdout is not a tty; point to
related core.pager and GIT_PAGER settings; use renamed --paginate
option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Based on its name, people may read the 'git revert' documentation when
they want to undo local changes, especially people who have used other
SCM's. 'git revert' may not be what they had in mind, but git
provides several other ways to undo changes to files. We can help
them by pointing them towards the git commands that do what they might
want to do.
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was already documented in RelNotes-1.6.0, but not in the git-config
manual page.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash -h" showed some incomplete and ugly usage information.
For example, the useful "--keep-index" option for "save" or the "--index"
option for "apply" were not shown. Also in the documentation synopsis they
were not shown, so that there is no incentive to scroll down and even see
that such options exist.
This patch improves the git-stash synopsis in the documentation by
mentioning that further options to the stash commands and then copies
this synopsis to the usage information string of git-stash.sh.
For the latter, the dashless git command string has to be inserted on the
second and the following usage lines. The code of this is taken from
git-sh-setup so that all lines will show the command string.
Note that the "create" command is not advertised at all now, because
it was not mentioned in git-stash.txt.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-apply documentation says that --binary is a historical option.
This patch lets git-am ignore --binary and removes advertisements of this
option.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 8c02eee (git-rev-list(1): group options; reformat; document more
options, 2006-09-01), git-rev-list documentation talks as if it supports
any kind of diff output. It doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This completely rewrites the documentation of --full-history with lots
of examples.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All BibTeX entries starts with an @ followed by an entry type. Since
there are many entry types and own can be defined, the pattern matches
legal entry type names instead of just the default types (which would
be a long list). The pattern also matches strings and comments since
they will also be useful to position oneself in a bib-file.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the hunk header pattern text was written patterns for Ruby and
Pascal/Delphi have been added. For users to be able to find them they
should be documented not only in code.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The post-update hook, which is required to be enabled in order for
the repository to be accessible over HTTP, is not enabled by
chmod a+x anymore, but instead by dropping the .sample suffix.
This patch emphasizes this change in the release notes (since
I believe this is rather noticeable backwards-incompatible change).
It also adjusts the documentation which still described the old way
and fixes t/t5540-http-push.sh, which was broken for 1.5 month
but apparently noone ever runs this test.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
18a2197 (Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting,
2008-08-10) introduced the third paragraph that is continued, but it seems
to confuse docbook toolchain on FC9 machines.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual
Fix deleting reflog entries from HEAD reflog
reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete'
Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting
Conflicts:
Documentation/user-manual.txt
- Add an escape to @{now}. Without the escape, the brace does
something magic and eats half the sentence up to the closing brace
at 'timestamp}'.
- Join the last paragraph with a '+'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds a --force flag to git-rm, making it somewhat easier for
subversion people to switch.
Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the '--' option that can be used to pass rev-list options
(not just arguments), and give an example usage of '-- --all'. Remove
reference to "the new branch name"; filter-branch takes arbitrary
arguments to rev-list since dfd05e3.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked
files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore. So
don't use it to motivate gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows one to use public svn:// URLs for fetch and
svn+ssh:// URLs for committing (without using the complicated
rewriteRoot option, reimporting or git-filter-branch).
Using this can also help avoid unnecessary server
authentication/encryption overhead on busy SVN servers.
Along with the new --revision option, this can also be allowed
to override the branch detection in dcommit, too. This is
potentially dangerous and not recommended! (And also purposely
undocumented, but the loaded gun is there in case somebody
wants to make it safe).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ef98c5ca lifted the 16 parents restriction in builtin-commit-tree.c,
but forgot to update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I see quite a few pages on k.org site, e.g.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rerere.html
(scroll down to find "After this test merge")
are misformatted to lose teletype text '+' that is followed by a comma,
and turns the following paragraph all typeset in teletype.
This patch seems to fix the issue at the site (meaning, with the
particular vintage of asciidoc and docbook toolchain), without breaking
things with the version I have at my primary development machine, but
wider testing is very much appreciated.
After this patch,
git grep '`+`,' -- Documentation
should report noting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lt/config-fsync:
Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Long time ago, the feature of "diff-tree --stdin" to take a commit and its
parents on one line was broken, and did not support the common:
git rev-list --parents $commits... -- $paths... |
git diff-tree --stdin -v -p
usage pattern by Porcelains properly. For diff-tree to talk sensibly
about commits, it needs to see commits, not just trees; the code was fixed
to take list of commits on the standard input in 1.2.0.
However we left the documentation stale for a long time, until Karl
Hasselström finally noticed it very recently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line
$ git clone --mirror $URL
is now a short-hand for
$ git clone --bare $URL
$ (cd $(basename $URL) && git remote add --mirror origin $URL)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-name-rev: allow --name-only in combination with --stdin
builtin-name-rev.c: split deeply nested part from the main function
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
git-add -i ranges expect number-number. But for the supremely lazy, typing in
that second number when selecting "from patch 7 to the end" is wasted effort.
So treat an empty second number in a range as "until the last item".
Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since version 1.5.6 "git bisect" doesn't use a "bisect" branch any
more, but the user manual had not been updated to reflect this.
So this patch does that and while at it also adds a few words about
"git bisect skip" and points user to the "git bisect" man page for
more information.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although it does not matter for Git itself, tools that
export to systems that explicitly track copies and
renames can benefit from such information.
This patch makes fast-export output correct action
logs when -M or -C are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svnimport is no longer supported, so don't mention it in the
documentation. This also updates the description, removing the
historical discussion, since it mostly dealt with how it differed from
svnimport. The new description gives some starting points into the
rest of the documentation.
Noticed by Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@docte.hr>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to
allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths
in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where
it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers
keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned
files.
The default is to notice ctime changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When run in a working copy subdirectory, git-ls-tree will automagically
add the prefix to the pathspec, which can result in an unexpected behavior
when the tree object accessed is not the root tree object.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" no longer calls "git-fetch-pack", so the documentation is a bit
stale. Instead, state that the -u option is to be used when accessing a
repository over ssh.
Signed-off-by: Steve Haslam <shaslam@lastminute.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After looking the git-tag manpage, someone on #git wondered how
to tag a commit that is not a branch head. This patch changes
the synopsis to say "<commit> | <object>" instead of "<head>" to
address his question.
Samuel Bronson had the idea of putting "<commit> | <object>"
for "<object>" because most tags point to commits (and for the
rest of the manpage, all tags point to commits).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git checkout' uses '--' to separate options from paths, but it was not
mentioned in the documentation
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The example to remove paths using index-filter was done with
"git update-index --remove"; "git rm --cached" would be more familiar to
new people and is sufficient for this particular case.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-rerere documentation talks about commands that invoke
"git rerere clear" automatically. git am --abort is added and
a typo is fixed additionally.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the documentation, where you cannot get compile errors for using the
wrong member name, there were two mentions of 'path' left.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name path_list was correct for the first usage of that data structure,
but it really is a general-purpose string list.
$ perl -i -pe 's/path-list/string-list/g' $(git grep -l path-list)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path_list/string_list/g' $(git grep -l path_list)
$ git mv path-list.h string-list.h
$ git mv path-list.c string-list.c
$ perl -i -pe 's/has_path/has_string/g' $(git grep -l has_path)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path/string/g' string-list.[ch]
$ git mv Documentation/technical/api-path-list.txt \
Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
$ perl -i -pe 's/strdup_paths/strdup_strings/g' $(git grep -l strdup_paths)
... and then fix all users of string-list to access the member "string"
instead of "path".
Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt needed some rewrapping, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/",
but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name
for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good
compromise.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After failing to apply patches in the middle of a series, "git am --abort"
lets you go back to the original commit.
[jc: doc/help update from Olivier, and fixups for "am -3" squashed in]
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.6.4
builtin-rm: fix index lock file path
http-fetch: do not SEGV after fetching a bad pack idx file
rev-list: honor --quiet option
api-run-command.txt: typofix
Currently fast-import/export cannot be used for
repositories with submodules. This patch extends
the relevant programs to make them correctly
process gitlinks.
Links can be represented by two forms of the
Modify command:
M 160000 SHA1 some/path
which sets the link target explicitly, or
M 160000 :mark some/path
where the mark refers to a commit. The latter
form can be used by importing tools to build
all submodules simultaneously in one physical
repository, and then simply fetch them apart.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-merge documentation's "HOW MERGE WORKS" section is confusingly
composed and actually omits the most interesting part, the merging of
the arguments into HEAD itself, surprisingly not actually mentioning
the fast-forward merge anywhere.
This patch replaces the "[NOTE]" screenful of highly technical details
by a single sentence summing up the interesting information, and instead
explains how are the arguments compared with HEAD and the three possible
inclusion states that are named "Already up-to-date", "Fast-forward"
and "True merge". It also makes it clear that the rest of the section
talks only about the true merge situation, and slightly expands the
talk on solving conflicts.
Junio initiated the removal of the Note screenful altogether and
offered many stylistical fixes.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch explains more carefully that `.gitignore` concerns only
untracked files and refers the reader to
git update-index --assume-unchanged
in the need of ignoring uncommitted changes in already tracked files.
The description of this option is lifted to a more "porcelainish"
level and explains the caveats of this usecase.
Whether feasible or not, I believe adding this functionality to
the porcelain is out of the scope of this patch. (And I personally
think that referring to the plumbing in the case of such a special
usage is fine.)
This is currently probably one of the top FAQs at #git and the
--assume-unchanged switch is not widely known; gitignore(5) is the first
place where people are likely to look for it.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch rewrites the general description yet again, first clarifying
the high-level concept, mentioning the difference to remotes and using
the subtree merge strategy, then getting to the details about tree
entries and .gitmodules file.
The patch also makes few smallar grammar fixups within the rest of the
description and clarifies how does 'init' relate to 'update --init'.
Cc: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace "run_command_v_opt_dir" by "run_command_v_opt_cd".
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that v1.4.4.5 supports pack index v2, and describe how to keep
your repositories backwards-compatible, shall you need to.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Figuring out how submodules work conceptually is quite a bumpy
ride for a newcomer; the user manual helps (if one knows to actually
look into it), but the reference documentation should provide good
quick intro as well. This patch attempts to do that, with suggestions
from Heikki Orsila.
Cc: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Start preparing 1.5.6.4 release notes
git fetch-pack: do not complain about "no common commits" in an empty repo
rebase-i: keep old parents when preserving merges
t7600-merge: Use test_expect_failure to test option parsing
Fix buffer overflow in prepare_attr_stack
Fix buffer overflow in git diff
Fix buffer overflow in git-grep
git-cvsserver: fix call to nonexistant cleanupWorkDir()
Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt et al.: Fix misleading -n description
Conflicts:
RelNotes
The manual page of git-cherry-pick and git-revert asserts that -n works
primarily on the working tree, while in fact the primary object it operates
on is the index, and the changes only "accidentally" propagate to the
working tree. This e.g. leads innocent #git IRC folks to believe that you
can use -n to prepare changes for git-add -i staging.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather
meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".
This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-add -i ranges expect number-number. But for the supremely lazy, typing in
that second number when selecting "from patch 7 to the end" is wasted effort.
So treat an empty second number in a range as "until the last item".
Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
