Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.
The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The default can also be changed with "format.suffix" configuration.
Leaving it empty would not add any suffix.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Promiscous pull shows the distributed nature of git better.
* Add a new step after that to teach "remote add".
* Highlight that with the shorthand defined you will get
remote tracking branches for free.
* Fix Alice's workflow.
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The text is just copied from git-send-pack.txt.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead, we complain to the user and suggest that they explicitly
specify the remote and branch. We depend on the exit status of
git-symbolic-ref, so let's go ahead and document that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When we are on a detached HEAD, there is no current branch.
There is no reason to leak the error messages to the end user
since this is a situation we expect to see.
This adds -q option to git-symbolic-ref to exit without issuing
an error message if the given name is not a symbolic ref.
By the way, with or without this patch, there currently is no
good way to tell failure modes between "git symbolic-ref HAED"
and "git symbolic-ref HEAD". Both says "is not a symbolic ref".
We may want to do something about it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We've squelched output from merge-recursive, and git-merge when
used with recursive does not attempt the trivial one first
anymore, so there won't be "Trying ... Nope." messages now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
My prior version of git-describe ran very slowly on even reasonably
sized projects like git.git and linux.git as it tended to identify
a large number of possible tags and then needed to generate the
revision list for each of those tags to sort them and select the
best tag to describe the input commit.
All we really need is the number of commits in the input revision
which are not in the tag. We can generate these counts during
the revision walking and tag matching loop by assigning a color to
each tag and coloring the commits as we walk them. This limits us
to identifying no more than 26 possible tags, as there is limited
space available within the flags field of struct commit.
The limitation of 26 possible tags is hopefully not going to be a
problem in real usage, as most projects won't create 26 maintenance
releases and merge them back into a development trunk after the
development trunk was tagged with a release candidate tag. If that
does occur git-describe will start to revert to its old behavior of
using the newer maintenance release tag to describe the development
trunk, rather than the development trunk's own tag. The suggested
workaround would be to retag the development trunk's tip.
However since even 26 possible tags can take a while to generate a
description for on some projects I'm defaulting the limit to 10 but
offering the user --candidates to increase the number of possible
matches if they need a more accurate result. I specifically chose
10 for the default as it seems unlikely projects will have more
than 10 maintenance releases merged into a development trunk before
retagging the development trunk, and it seems to perform about the
same on linux.git as v1.4.4.4 git-describe.
A large amount of debugging information was also added during
the development of this change, so I've left it in to be toggled
on with --debug. It may be useful to the end user to help them
understand why git-describe took one particular tag over another.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
1) talk about "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
2) suggest "git repo-config" instead of directly editing config files
3) echo "URL: blah" > .git/remotes/foo is obsolete and should be
"git repo-config remote.foo.url blah"
4) support for partial URL prefix has been removed (see commit
ea560e6d64) so drop mention of it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We say "this shows only the most often used ones"; so instead of
teaching --max-number=<n> form, list -<n> form which is much
easier to type.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
>
> I think the output from merge-recursive can be categorized into 5
> verbosity levels:
>
> 1. "CONFLICT", "Rename", "Adding here instead due to D/F conflict"
> (outermost)
>
> 2. "Auto-merged successfully" (outermost)
>
> 3. The first "Merging X with Y".
>
> 4. outermost "Merging:\ntitle1\ntitle2".
>
> 5. outermost "found N common ancestors\nancestor1\nancestor2\n..."
> and anything from inner merge.
>
> I would prefer the default verbosity level to be 2 (that is, show
> both 1 and 2).
and this change makes it so. I think level 3 is probably pointless
as its only one line of output above level 2, but I can see how some
users may want to view it but not view the slightly more verbose
output of level 4.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Steven Grimm noticed that git-repack's verbosity is inconsistent
because pack-objects is chatty and prune-packed is not. This
makes the latter a bit more chatty and gives -q option to
squelch it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Despite what the documentation claims, git-commit does not check commit
for suspicious lines: all hooks are disabled by default,
and the pre-comit hook could be changed to do something else.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
These days, the command does a lot more than just initialise the
object database (such as setting default config-variables,
installing template hooks...), and "git init" is actually a more
sensible name nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Oops. Commit 515377ea9e missed one
file, git-init documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now that git-svn requires the SVN::* Perl library, the manpage doesn't need
to describe what happens when you don't have it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since we are talking about allowing potentially incompatible UI
changes in v1.5.0 iff the change improves the general situation,
I would say why not.
There is --no-utf8 flag to avoid re-coding from botching the log
message just in case, but we may not even need it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes the earlier "wait for 10 minutes before importing" safety
overridable with "-a(ll)" flag, and adds necessary documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, document --{trunk,branches,tags} options while we're
documenting multi-init options.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarify definition of "reachable" (what chain?)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Make "init" the equivalent of "init-db". This should make first GIT
impression a little more friendly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
