The gitattributes documentation has a section on the "diff"
attribute, with subsections for each of the things you might
want to configure in your diff config section (external
diff, hunk headers, etc). The first such subsection
specifically notes that the definition of the diff driver
should go into $GIT_DIR/config, but subsequent sections do
not.
This location is implied if you are reading the
documentation sequentially, but it is not uncommon for a new
user to jump to (or be referred to) a specific section. For
a new user who does not know git well enough to recognize
the config syntax, it is not clear that those directives
don't also go into the gitattributes file.
This patch just mentions the config file in each subsection,
similar to the way it is mentioned in the first.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.6.1:
Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
* maint-1.6.0:
Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and
gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files.
Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise, the sentence "Defaults to HEAD." can be mis-read to mean
that "git checkout -- hello.c" checks-out from HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command "git checkout" checks out from the index by default, not
HEAD (the introducing comment were correct, but the detailled
explanation added below were not).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* dm/maint-docco:
Documentation: Remove spurious uses of "you" in git-bisect.txt.
Documentation: minor grammatical fix in git-check-ref-format.txt
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-check-attr.txt
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-cat-file.txt
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording in git-bundle.txt
Documentation: remove some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txt
Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt.
Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt.
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt.
Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.
* maint-1.6.1:
Fix bash completion in path with spaces
bash completion: only show 'log --merge' if merging
git-tag(1): add hint about commit messages
Documentation: update graph api example.
Conflicts:
contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
* maint-1.6.0:
Fix bash completion in path with spaces
bash completion: only show 'log --merge' if merging
git-tag(1): add hint about commit messages
Documentation: update graph api example.
If a tag is not annotated, git tag displays the commit message
instead. Add this hint to the manpage to unhide this secret.
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@ikn.schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of commit 03300c0 the graph API uses '*' for all nodes including merges.
This updates the example in the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users were confused about the meaning and use of the --root option.
Notably, since 68c2ec7 (format-patch: show patch text for the root
commit, 2009-01-10), --root has nothing to do with showing the patch
text for the root commit any more.
Shorten and clarify the corresponding paragraph in the DESCRIPTION
section, document --root under OPTIONS, and add an explicit note that
root commits are formatted regardless.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
the "--use-separate-remote" option no longer exists, having since
become the default for a clone.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were added by accident in a42dea3.
This patch also rewords the description of how ranges of commits can be
skipped.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit also converts all reference specifications to a monospaced font,
as the embedded ~ character used in some of the references sometimes causes
the text up to the next ~ to be displayed incorrectly as a subscript when the
HTML pages are generated. This was tested with asciidoc 8.2.5.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'Everyday GIT' guide was using the old dashed form
of git-init.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example:
git format-patch --numbered-files --stdout --attach HEAD~~
will create two messages with files 1 and 2 attached respectively.
Without --attach/--inline but with --stdout, --numbered-files option
can be simply ignored, because we are not creating any file ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid splitting sentences across examples of command usage.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing text was very vague about what exactly it means
for difference to "contain" a change. This seems to cause
confusion on the mailing list every month or two.
To fix it we:
1. use "introduce or remove an instance of" instead of
"contain"
2. point the user to gitdiffcore(7), which contains a more
complete explanation
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reword this section to make it less chatty. Also make minor grammatical
fixes.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
