* jn/format-patch-doc:
Documentation/format-patch: suggest Toggle Word Wrap add-on for Thunderbird
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail
Documentation: publicize KMail hints for sending patches inline
Documentation: hints for sending patches inline with Thunderbird
Documentation: explain how to check for patch corruption
Remove spurious "=" after --relative-marks.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jh/dirstat:
--dirstat: In case of renames, use target filename instead of source filename
Teach --dirstat not to completely ignore rearranged lines within a file
--dirstat-by-file: Make it faster and more correct
--dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diff
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reading the diff-family and config man pages one may think that the
color.diff and color.ui settings apply to all diff commands. Make it
clearer that they do not apply to the plumbing variants
diff-{files,index,tree}.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark subcommand names as 'subcommand' to make them stand out.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The options '---use-log-author' and '--add-author-from' are applicable to other
subcommands except 'fetch' -- therefore move them from the 'fetch' section to
the more general 'options' section.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option '--add-author-from' is used in 'commit-diff', 'set-tree', and
'dcommit' subcommands.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Of the (now) three methods to send unmangled patches using Thunderbird,
this method is listed first because it provides a single-click on-demand
option rather than a permanent change of configuration like the other
two methods.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
6abd933 (git-svn: allow the mergeinfo property to be set, 2010-09-24)
introduced the --mergeinfo option. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "cherry-pick -x" could be misread in the way that a
"git notes" object is attached to the new commit, which is not the case.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The hints in SubmittingPatches about stopping GMail from clobbering
patches are widely useful both as examples of "git send-email" and
"git imap-send" usage.
Move the documentation to the appropriate places.
While at it, don't encourage storing passwords in config files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These hints are in git's private SubmittingPatches document but a
wider audience might be interested. Move them to the "git
format-patch" manpage.
I'm not sure what gotchas these hints are meant to work around.
They might be completely false.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The standard reference for this information is the article
"Plain text e-mail - Thunderbird#Completely_plain_email" at
kb.mozillazine.org, but the hints hidden away in git's
SubmittingPatches file are more complete. Move them to the
"git format-patch" manual so they can be installed with git and
read by a wide audience.
While at it, make some tweaks:
- update "Approach #1" so it might work with Thunderbird 3;
- remove ancient version numbers from the descriptions of both
approaches so current readers might have more reason to
complain if they don't work.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
SubmittingPatches has some excellent advice about how to check a patch
for corruption before sending it off. Move it to the format-patch
manual so it can be installed with git's documentation for use by
people not necessarily interested in the git project's practices.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a DISCUSSION section to the "git format-patch" manual to encourage
people to send patches in a form that can be applied by "git am"
automatically. There are two such forms:
1. The default form in which most metadata goes in the mail header
and the message body starts with the patch description;
2. The snipsnip form in which a message starts with pertinent
discussion and ends with a patch after a "scissors" mark.
The example requires QP encoding in the "Subject:" header intended for
the mailer to give the reader a chance to reflect on that, rather than
being startled by it later. By contrast, in-body "From:" and
"Subject:" lines should be human-readable and not QP encoded.
Inspired-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Restructure the text of git-merge-base to better explain more clearly
the different modes of operation.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike plain merge-base, merge-base --octopus only requires at least one
commit argument; update the synopsis to reflect that.
Add a sentence to the discussion that when --octopus is used, we do expect
'2' (the common ansestor across all) as the result.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The local value of the config variable tar.umask is not passed to the
other side with --remote. We may want to change that, but for now just
document this fact.
Reported-by: Jacek Masiulaniec <jacek.masiulaniec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a spurious empty line which prevented asciidoc from recognizing a
list continuation mark ('+'), so that it does not get output literally any
more.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from which
I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile rule in
gnulib to help prevent recurrence.
Running the command below spotted a few in git, too:
git ls-files | xargs perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt])\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e '{$n=($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1); ($v=$&)=~s/\n/\\n/g;' \
-e 'print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n"}'
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently, the --dirstat analysis ignores when lines within a file are
rearranged, because the "damage" calculated by show_dirstat() is 0.
However, if the object name has changed, we already know that there is
some damage, and it is unintuitive to claim there is _no_ damage.
Teach show_dirstat() to assign a minimum amount of damage (== 1) to
entries for which the analysis otherwise yields zero damage, to still
represent that these files are changed, instead of saying that there
is no change.
Also, skip --dirstat analysis when the object names are the same (e.g. for
a pure file rename).
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
