Modify various document (man page) files to explain
in more detail what --signoff means.
This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where
paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit
doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...".
Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue
that developers understood --signoff when they use it.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional
(which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end
of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and
every one of them.
* mm/keyid-docs:
Documentation: explain optional arguments better
Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O
Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two
ways:
* Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands
creating commits) when used without the optional argument.
* Document the syntax of these options.
For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is
easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g.
"git status -u no" does not work.
Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having
an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '='
sign between the option and its argument.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way
option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired
for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to
override it.
Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d96a275b91.
It used to be possible to apply a patch series with "git am mbox"
and then only after seeing a failure, switch to three-way mode via
"git am -3" (no other options or arguments). The commit being
reverted broke this workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way
option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired
for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to
override it.
Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
* mm/am-c-doc:
Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable
Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
It was already documented, but the user had to follow the link to
git-mailinfo.txt to find it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Parse the option and pass it directly to git-mailinfo.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --patch-format option has been supported for a while but it is not
mentioned in the man page and the short help cannot tell the user what
the supported formats are. Add the option to the man page along with the
supported options.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not obvious when looking at a new command what hooks will affect
it. Add a HOOKS section to the git-am(1) page, imitating
git-commit(1), to make it easier for people to discover e.g. the
applypatch-msg hook that can implement a custom subject-mangling
strategy (e.g., removing a "bug #nnnn:" prefix introduced by a bug
tracker).
Reported-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git am was previously modified to provide --continue for consistency
with rebase, merge etc, and the documentation changed to showing
--continue as the primary form.
Complete the work by replacing remaining uses of --resolved by
--continue, most notably in suggested command reminders.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
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>
"git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of existing
the "--exclude" option.
By Johannes Berg
* jb/am-include:
am: support --include option
am supports a number of pass-through options
to apply, like --exclude and --directory. Add
--include to this list.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am could pass -k to mailinfo, but not -b. Introduce an option
that does so. We change the meaning of the 'keep' state file, but are
careful not to cause a problem unless you downgrade in the middle of
an 'am' run.
This uncovers a bug in mailinfo -b, hence the failing test.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --exclude=<path> option is passed down to apply; document it as such.
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git am --abort' is around for quite a long time now, and users should
normally not poke around inside the .git directory, yet the
documentation of 'git am' still recommends the following:
... if you decide to start over from scratch,
run `rm -f -r .git/rebase-apply` ...
Suggest 'git am --abort' instead.
It's not quite the same as the original, because 'git am --abort' will
restore the original branch, while simply removing '.git/rebase-apply'
won't, but that's rather a thinko in the original wording, because
that won't actually "start over _from scratch_".
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
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.
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>
* sh/am-keep-cr:
git-am: Add tests for `--keep-cr`, `--no-keep-cr` and `am.keepcr`
git-am: Add am.keepcr and --no-keep-cr to override it
git-am: Add command line parameter `--keep-cr` passing it to git-mailsplit
documentation: 'git-mailsplit --keep-cr' is not hidden anymore
This patch adds the configuration `am.keepcr` for git-am. It also adds
`--no-keep-cr` parameter for git-am to give the possibility to
override configuration from command line.
Signed-off-by: Stefan-W. Hahn <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
c2ca1d7 (Allow mailsplit (and hence git-am) to handle mails with CRLF
line-endings, 2009-08-04) fixed "git mailsplit" to help people with
MUA whose output from save-as command uses CRLF as line terminators by
stripping CR at the end of lines.
However, when you know you are feeding output from "git format-patch"
directly to "git am", and especially when your contents have CR at the
end of line, such stripping is undesirable. To help such a use case,
teach --keep-cr option to "git am" and pass that to "git mailinfo".
Signed-off-by: Stefan-W. Hahn <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rebase calls this same function "--continue", which means
users may be trained to type it. There is no reason to
deprecate --resolved (or -r), so we will keep it as a
synonym.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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.
Describe what a scissors mark looks like, and explain in what situation
it is often used.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce --ignore-whitespace option and corresponding config bool to
ignore whitespace differences while applying patches, akin to the
'patch' program.
'git am', 'git rebase' and the bash git completion are made aware of
this option.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-am and git-rebase are talkative scripts. Teach them to be quiet when
told, allowing them to speak only when they fail or experience errors.
The quiet option is maintained when git-am or git-rebase fails to apply
a patch. This means subsequent --resolved, --continue, --skip, --abort
invocations will be quiet if the original invocation was quiet.
Drop a handful of >&2 redirection; the rest of the program sends all the
info messages to stdout, not to stderr.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's nice to know that 'it' is git-am or the subject line. Whitespace
implies characters so just remove characters.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This new option tells 'git-am' to ignore the date header field
recorded in the format-patch output. The commits will have the
timestamp when they are created instead.
You can work a lot in one day to accumulate many changes, but
apply and push to the public repository only some of them at
the end of the first day. Then next day you can spend all your
working hours reading comics or chatting with your coworkers,
and apply your remaining patches from the previous day using
this option to pretend that you have been working at the end
of the day.
Signed-off-by: しらいしななこ <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With --reject, git-am simply passes the --reject option to git-apply and thus
allows people to work with reject files if they so prefer.
Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thanks to a200337 (git-am: propagate -C<n>, -p<n> options as well,
2008-12-04) and commits around it, "git am" is equipped to correctly
propagate the command line flags such as -C/-p/-whitespace across a patch
failure and restart.
It is trivial to support --directory option now, resurrecting previous
attempts by Kevin and Simon.
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>
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>
