It's been deprecated since 53c4031 (Johan Herland, Wed Feb 16 2011,
push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'), so it's OK to remove it
from documentation (even though it's still supported) to make the
explanations more readable.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous documentation was explaining _what_ the options were doing,
but were of little help explaining _why_ a user should set his default to
either of the options.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Break down the cases in which "git push" fails due to non-ff into
three categories, and give separate advise messages for each case.
By Christopher Tiwald (2) and Jeff King (1)
* ct/advise-push-default:
Fix httpd tests that broke when non-ff push advice changed
clean up struct ref's nonfastforward field
push: Provide situational hints for non-fast-forward errors
"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
When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not touch
the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty message", which was
utterly wrong.
By Junio C Hamano (4) and Adam Monsen (1)
* jc/commit-unedited-template:
Documentation/git-commit: rephrase the "initial-ness" of templates
git-commit.txt: clarify -t requires editing message
commit: rephrase the error when user did not touch templated log message
commit: do not trigger bogus "has templated message edited" check
t7501: test the right kind of breakage
Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking.
Also "branch" learns "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message.
By Jeff King
* jk/branch-quiet:
teach "git branch" a --quiet option
checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
I tentatively named the release notes "1.7.11" but this may have to
be renamed to "1.8" or some other name later. Let's see how well
we would do during this cycle.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "commit -t <file>" said the file is used "as the
initial version" of the commit message, but in the context of an SCM,
"version" is a loaded word that can needlesslyl confuse readers.
Explain the purpose of the mechanism without using "version".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clear that, when using commit --template, the message *must* be
changed or the commit will be aborted.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ivan Heffner <iheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Found by running this command:
$ git ls-files -z|xargs -0 perl -0777 -n \
-e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt]o)\s+\1\b/gims)' \
-e ' {' \
-e ' $n = ($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1);' \
-e ' ($v = $&) =~ s/\n/\\n/g;' \
-e ' print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n";' \
-e ' }'
Why not just git grep -E ...?
That wouldn't work then the doubled words are separated by a newline.
This is derived from a Makefile syntax-check rule in gnulib's maint.mk:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/top/maint.mk
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
There's currently no way to suppress the informational
"deleted branch..." or "set up tracking..." messages. This
patch provides a "-q" option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the other options were included in the synopsis, so it makes
sense to include these as well.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously GIT_EDITOR was not listed in git(1) "Environment Variables" section,
which could be very confusing to users. Include it in "other" subsection along
with a link to git-var(1), since that is the page that fully describes all
places where editor can be set and also their preference order.
Also, git-var(1) did not say that hardcoded fallback 'vi' may have been changed
at build time. A user could be puzzled if 'nano' pops up even when none of the
mentioned environment vars or config.editor are set. Clarify this.
Ideally, the build system should be changed to reflect the chosen fallback
editor when creating the man pages. Not sure if that is even possible though.
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Silva (MestreLion) <linux@rodrigosilva.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An alphabetic ordered list (a.) is converted to numerical in
the man page (1.) so context comments naming 'a' were confusing,
fix that by not using ordered list notation for 'a' anb 'b' items.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap.minhap.es>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change "it's" to "its" where a possessive is intended. Also add two
missing "the" that were noticed by Ben Walton.
Signed-off-by: David Waitzman <djw@bbn.com>
Even though 1.7.9.x series does not open the editor by default
when merging in general, it does do so in one occassion: when
merging an annotated tag. And worse yet, there is no good way
for older scripts to decline this.
Backport the support for GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
from 1.7.10 track to help those stuck on 1.7.9.x maintenance
track.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pushing a non-fast-forward update to a remote repository will result in
an error, but the hint text doesn't provide the correct resolution in
every case. Give better resolution advice in three push scenarios:
1) If you push your current branch and it triggers a non-fast-forward
error, you should merge remote changes with 'git pull' before pushing
again.
2) If you push to a shared repository others push to, and your local
tracking branches are not kept up to date, the 'matching refs' default
will generate non-fast-forward errors on outdated branches. If this is
your workflow, the 'matching refs' default is not for you. Consider
setting the 'push.default' configuration variable to 'current' or
'upstream' to ensure only your current branch is pushed.
3) If you explicitly specify a ref that is not your current branch or
push matching branches with ':', you will generate a non-fast-forward
error if any pushed branch tip is out of date. You should checkout the
offending branch and merge remote changes before pushing again.
Teach transport.c to recognize these scenarios and configure push.c
to hint for them. If 'git push's default behavior changes or we
discover more scenarios, extension is easy. Standardize on the
advice API and add three new advice variables, 'pushNonFFCurrent',
'pushNonFFDefault', and 'pushNonFFMatching'. Setting any of these
to 'false' will disable their affiliated advice. Setting
'pushNonFastForward' to false will disable all three, thus preserving the
config option for users who already set it, but guaranteeing new
users won't disable push advice accidentally.
Based-on-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Tiwald <christiwald@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
deltawalker has been supported since 284a126c3e, but was not added
to the list of valid diff tools reported by 'git difftool --help'.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous description was confusing. This rewrite makes it easier
to understand.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have had these options as harmless no-op for more than 3 years without
officially deprecating them. Let's announce the deprecation and start
warning against their use, but without failing the command just not yet,
so that we can later repurpose the option if we want to in the future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds the 'remaining' command to the documentation of
'git rerere'. This command was added in ac49f5ca (Feb 16 2011;
Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>) but
it was never documented.
Touch up the other rerere commands to reduce noise.
First noticed by Vincent van Ravesteijn.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By Vincent van Ravesteijn
* vr/branch-doc:
Documentation/git-branch: add default for --contains
Documentation/git-branch: fix a typo
Documentation/git-branch: cleanups
