"git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not
clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default
behaviour when neither is given to override it.
* mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not:
git-remote.txt: describe behavior without --tags and --no-tags
It seems to be a common mistake to try using a single remote
(e.g. 'origin') to fetch from one place (i.e. upstream) while
pushing to another (i.e. your publishing point).
That will never work satisfactorily, and it is easy to understand
why if you think about what refs/remotes/origin/* would mean in such
a world. It fundamentally cannot reflect the reality. If it
follows the state of your upstream, it cannot match what you have
published, and vice versa.
It may be that misinformation is spread by some people. Let's
counter them by adding a few words to our documentation.
- The description was referring to <oldurl> and <newurl>, but never
mentioned <name> argument you give from the command line. By
mentioning "remote <name>", stress the fact that it is configuring
a single remote.
- Add a reminder that explicitly states that this is about a single
remote, which the triangular workflow is not about.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All other man files have capitalized descriptions which
immediately follow the command's name. Let's capitalize
this one too for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Albert L. Lash, IV <alash3@bloomberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git remote set-head" has always supported --add and --delete
as synonyms for the -a and -d option but forgot to document
them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
linux-nfs.org seems to have restructured their repository layout since
8391c60 (git-remote.txt: fix example url, 2007-11-02), and Bruce's
repo is now at git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/bfields/linux.git.
Bruce also has a more richer internal branch structure (master,
everything, for-3.1, ...), so updating the existing example to use his
current repo may be confusing.
To simplify, I've replaced the NFS repo with Greg's staging repo.
I've also updated the output of the surrounding commands to match the
output of a current run through.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'git remote show' and 'prune' subcommands are documented as taking
only a single remote name argument, but that is not the case; they
will simply iterate the action over all remotes given. Update the
documentation and tests to match.
With the last user of the -f flag gone, we also remove the code
supporting it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All remote subcommands are spelled out words except 'rm'. 'rm', being a
popular UNIX command name, may mislead users that there are also 'ls' or
'mv'. Use 'remove' to fit with the rest of subcommands.
'rm' is still supported and used in the test suite. It's just not
widely advertised.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.
It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:
1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
of `master{tilde}1`.
2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
quoting.
This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).
Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:
- HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")
- some code examples used the right-arrow character
instead of '->' because they failed to quote
- api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
HTML contained a bogus snippet like:
<tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>
which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
sections of the page.
- git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)
- mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
author@example.com
- the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".
- using "prime" notation like:
commit `C` and its replacement `C'`
confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
to be inside matched quotes
- asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
asterisks. In particular,
`credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`
properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
literally passed through the backslash in the second
case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The canonical order of command line arguments is always to have dashed
commands before other parameters, but the "git remote set-branches"
subcommand was described to take "name" before an optional "--add".
Signed-off-by: Philip Jägenstedt <philip@foolip.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was correct to say "The file $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master stores the
commit object name at the tip of the master branch" in the older days,
but not anymore, as refs can be packed into $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file.
Update the document to talk in terms of a more abstract concept "ref" and
"symbolic ref" where we are not describing the underlying implementation
detail.
This on purpose leaves two instances of $GIT_DIR/ in the git-remote
documentation; they do talk about $GIT_DIR/remotes/ and $GIT_DIR/branches/
file hierarchy that used to be the place to store configuration around
remotes before the configuration mechanism took them over.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
$GIT_DIR/remotes/<name>/<branch> should be
$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/<name>/<branch>.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/maint-remote-mirror-safer:
remote: deprecate --mirror
remote: separate the concept of push and fetch mirrors
remote: disallow some nonsensical option combinations
The configuration created by plain --mirror is dangerous and
useless, and we now have --mirror=fetch and --mirror=push to
replace it. Let's warn the user.
One alternative to this is to try to guess which type the
user wants. In a non-bare repository, a fetch mirror doesn't
make much sense, since it would overwrite local commits. But
in a bare repository, you might use either type, or even
both (e.g., if you are acting as an intermediate drop-point
across two disconnected networks).
So rather than try for complex heuristics, let's keep it
simple. The user knows what they're trying to do, so let
them tell us.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-remote currently has one option, "--mirror", which sets
up mirror configuration which can be used for either
fetching or pushing. It looks like this:
[remote "mirror"]
url = wherever
fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
mirror = true
However, a remote like this can be dangerous and confusing.
Specifically:
1. If you issue the wrong command, it can be devastating.
You are not likely to "push" when you meant to "fetch",
but "git remote update" will try to fetch it, even if
you intended the remote only for pushing. In either
case, the results can be quite destructive. An
unintended push will overwrite or delete remote refs,
and an unintended fetch can overwrite local branches.
2. The tracking setup code can produce confusing results.
The fetch refspec above means that "git checkout -b new
master" will consider refs/heads/master to come from
the remote "mirror", even if you only ever intend to
push to the mirror. It will set up the "new" branch to
track mirror's refs/heads/master.
3. The push code tries to opportunistically update
tracking branches. If you "git push mirror foo:bar",
it will see that we are updating mirror's
refs/heads/bar, which corresponds to our local
refs/heads/bar, and will update our local branch.
To solve this, we split the concept into "push mirrors" and
"fetch mirrors". Push mirrors set only remote.*.mirror,
solving (2) and (3), and making an accidental fetch write
only into FETCH_HEAD. Fetch mirrors set only the fetch
refspec, meaning an accidental push will not force-overwrite
or delete refs on the remote end.
The new syntax is "--mirror=<fetch|push>". For
compatibility, we keep "--mirror" as-is, setting up both
types simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".
See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.
This patch is a straightforward application of
perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'
except in the RelNotes directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add ‘git remote set-branches’ for changing the list of tracked refs
for a remote repository with one "porcelain-level" command. This
complements the longstanding ‘git remote add --track’ option.
The interface is based on the ‘git remote set-url’ subcommand.
git remote set-branches base --add C
git remote set-branches base A B D
git remote set-branches base --delete D; # not implemented
Suggested-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add '--[no-]tags' options to 'git remote add' which add the
'remote.REMOTE.tagopt = --[no-]tags' to the configuration file.
This mimics the "--tags" and "--no-tags" options of "git fetch".
Signed-off-by: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'git remote set-url' for changing URL of remote repository with
one "porcelain-level" command.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
When the usage string for a subcommand must be printed,
only print the information relevant to that command.
This commit also removes the complete options list from
the first line of the subcommand usage string. Instead,
individual options are documented in the detailed
description following the general usage line.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, git remote update <remote> would fail unless there was
a remote group configured with the same name as the remote.
git remote update will now fall back to using the remote if no matching
group can be found.
This enables "git remote update -p <remote>..." to fetch and prune one
or more remotes, for example.
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the --prune (or -p) option, git remote update will also prune
all the remotes that it fetches. Previously, you had to do a manual
git remote prune <remote> for each of the remotes you wanted to
prune, and this could be tedious with many remotes.
A single command will now update a set of remotes, and remove all
stale branches: git remote update -p [group]
Signed-off-by: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Provide a porcelain command for setting and deleting
$GIT_DIR/remotes/<remote>/HEAD.
While we're at it, document what $GIT_DIR/remotes/<remote>/HEAD is all
about.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new rename subcommand does the followings:
1) Renames the remote.foo configuration section to remote.bar
2) Updates the remote.bar.fetch refspecs
3) Updates the branch.*.remote settings
4) Renames the tracking branches: renames the normal refs and rewrites
the symrefs to point to the new refs.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To tell command names from options in a glance.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a
clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and
the command you type, `git whatever <options>`. So we use a dash
after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter.
I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some
spots.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)
This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.
The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command is really too quiet which make it unconfortable to use.
Also implement a --dry-run option, in place of the original -n one, to
list stale tracking branches that will be pruned, but do not actually
prune them.
Add a test case for --dry-run.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The perl version accepted a -n flag, to show local informations only
without querying remote heads, that seems to have been lost in the C
revrite.
This restores the older behaviour and add a test case.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch adds a remote.*.mirror configuration option that,
when set, automatically puts git-push in --mirror mode for that
remote.
Furthermore, the option is set automatically by `git remote
add --mirror'.
The code in remote.c to parse remote.*.skipdefaultupdate
had a subtle problem: a comment in the code indicated that
special care was needed for boolean options, but this care was
not used in parsing the option. Since I was touching related
code, I did this fix too.
[jc: and I further fixed up the "ignore boolean" code.]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the text, the argument of -m is <master> which should be used in the
command synopsis, too.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:
@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
# Inline macros.
# Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
# (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
# Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
(?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
# Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]
This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
git-remote.txt: fix example url
* maint:
git-clean: honor core.excludesfile
Documentation: Fix man page breakage with DocBook XSL v1.72
git-remote.txt: fix typo
core-tutorial.txt: Fix argument mistake in an example.
replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc
Grammar fixes for gitattributes documentation
Don't allow fast-import tree delta chains to exceed maximum depth
revert/cherry-pick: allow starting from dirty work tree.
t/t3404: fix test for a bogus todo file.
Conflicts:
fast-import.c
