convert-objects was needed to convert from an old-style repository,
which hashed the compressed contents and used a different date format.
Such repositories are presumably no longer common and, if such
conversions are necessary, should be done by writing a frontend for
git-fast-import.
Linus, the original author, is OK with moving it to contrib.
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The basic idea was proposed by Steve Hoelzer; in order to make
the list easier to search, we keep the command list in the
script that generates it with "sort -d".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the documentation in git-filter-branch.sh to its own
man page, with a few touch ups (incorporating comments by Frank
Lichtenheld).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This describes the git-stash command.
I borrowed a few paragraphs from Johannes's version, and added a few
examples.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jakub Narebski pointed out that the git-gui blame viewer is not a
widely known feature, but is incredibly useful. Part of the issue
is advertising. Up until now we haven't even referenced git-gui from
within the core Git manual pages, mostly because I just wasn't sure
how I wanted to supply git-gui documentation to end-users, or how
that documentation should integrate with the core Git documentation.
Based upon Jakub's comment that many users may not even know that
the gui is available in a stock Git distribution I'm offering up
two basic manual pages: git-citool and git-gui. These should offer
enough of a starting point for users to identify that the gui exists,
and how to start it. Future releases of git-gui may contain their
own documentation system available from within a running git-gui.
But not today.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command can be used to initialize, update and inspect submodules. It
uses a .gitmodules file, readable by git-config, in the top level directory
of the 'superproject' to specify a mapping between submodule paths and
repository url.
Example .gitmodules layout:
[module "git"]
url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
With this entry in .gitmodules (and a commit reference in the index entry for
the path "git"), the command 'git submodule init' will clone the repository
at kernel.org into the directory "git".
Known issues
============
There is currently no way to override the url found in the .gitmodules file,
except by manually creating the subproject repository. The place to fix this
in the script has a rather long comment about a possible plan.
Funny paths will be quoted in the output from git-ls-files, but git-submodule
does not attempt to unquote (or even detect the presence of) such paths.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I believe noone uses git-applymbox, and noone definitely should, since it
is supposed to be completely superseded and everything by its younger
cousin git-am. The only known person in the universe to use it was Linus
and he declared some time ago that he will try to use git-am instead in his
famous dotest script.
The trouble is that git-applymbox existence creates confusing UI. I'm a bit
like a recycled newbie to the git porcelain and *I* was confused by
git-applymbox primitiveness until I've realized a while later that I'm of
course using the wrong command.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Every time _any_ documentation page changed, cmds-*.txt files
were regenerated, which caused git.{html,txt} to be remade. Try
not to update cmds-*.txt files if their new contents match the
old ones.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.
git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.
The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.
It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Makefile: update check-docs target
cmd-list: add git-remote
Documentation: Drop full-stop from git-fast-import title.
Minor corrections to release notes
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page. The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.
Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This moves the source of the list of commands and categorization
to the end of Documentation/cmd-list.perl, so that re-categorization
and re-ordering would become easier to manage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
