I'm afraid I'll be accused of trying to suck all the jokes and the
personality out of the git documentation. I'm not! Really!
That said, "man git" is one of the first things a new user is likely try,
and it seems a little cruel to start off with a somewhat obscure joke
about the architecture of git.
So instead I'm trying for a relatively straightforward description of what
git does, and what features distinguish it from other systems, together
with immediate links to introductory documentation.
I also did some minor reorganization in an attempt to clarify the
classification of commands. And revised a bit for conciseness (as is
obvious from the diffstat--hopefully I didn't cut anything important).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* master:
Optionally do not list empty directories in git-ls-files --others
Document git-rebase behavior on conflicts.
Fix error handling for nonexistent names
Without the --directory flag, git-ls-files wouldn't ever list directories,
producing no output for empty directories, which is good since they cannot
be added and they bear no content, even untracked one (if Git ever starts
tracking directories on their own, this should obviously change since the
content notion will change).
With the --directory flag however, git-ls-files would list even empty
directories. This may be good in some situations but sometimes you want to
prevent that. This patch adds a --no-empty-directory option which makes
git-ls-files omit empty directories.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
* rs/tar-tree:
tar-tree: Use the prefix field of a tar header
tar-tree: Remove obsolete code
tar-tree: Use write_entry() to write the archive contents
tar-tree: Introduce write_entry()
tar-tree: Use SHA1 of root tree for the basedir
git-apply: safety fixes
Removed bogus "<snap>" identifier.
Clarify and expand some hook documentation.
commit-tree: check return value from write_sha1_file()
send-email: Identify author at the top when sending e-mail
Format tweaks for asciidoc.
Clarify update and post-update hooks.
Made a few references to the hooks documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some documentation "options" were followed by independent preformatted
paragraphs. Now they are associated plain text paragraphs. The
difference is clear in the generated html.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/name:
core.warnambiguousrefs: warns when "name" is used and both "name" branch and tag exists.
contrib/git-svn: allow rebuild to work on non-linear remote heads
http-push: don't assume char is signed
http-push: add support for deleting remote branches
Be verbose when !initial commit
Fix multi-paragraph list items in OPTIONS section
http-fetch: nicer warning for a server with unreliable 404 status
This patch makes the html docs right, makes the asciidoc docs a bit odd
but consistent with what is there already, and makes the manpages look
OK using docbook-xsl 1.68, but miss a paragraph separator when using 1.69.
For the manpages, current is like
-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form
username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
With this patch, docbook-xsl v1.68 looks like
-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form
username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT author and
while docbook-xsl v1.69 becomes
-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form
username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT author and
The extra indentation is to keep the v1.69 manpage looking sane.
* master:
3% tighter packs for free
Rewrite synopsis to clarify the two primary uses of git-checkout.
Fix minor typo.
Reference git-commit-tree for env vars.
Clarify git-rebase example commands.
Document the default source of template files.
Call out the two different uses of git-branch and fix a typo.
Add git-show reference
The fsck-objects command (back then it was called fsck-cache)
used to complain if objects referred to by files in .git/refs/
or objects stored in files under .git/objects/??/ were not found
as stand-alone SHA1 files (i.e. found in alternate object pools
or packed archives stored under .git/objects/pack). Back then,
packs and alternates were new curiosity and having everything as
loose objects were the norm.
When we adjusted the behaviour of fsck-cache to consider objects
found in packs are OK, we introduced the --standalone flag as a
backward compatibility measure.
It still correctly checks if your repository is complete and
consists only of loose objects, so in that sense it is doing the
"right" thing, but checking that is pointless these days. This
commit removes --standalone flag.
See also:
23676d407c8a498a05c3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The code which tried to update the master branch was somewhat broken.
=> People should do that manually, with "git merge".
Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
docbook-xsl v1.68 incorrectly converts "<screen>" from docbook to
manpage by not rendering it verbatim. v1.69 handles it correctly, but
not many current popular distributions ship with it.
asciidoc by default converts "listingblock" to "<screen>". This change
causes asciidoc in git to convert "listingblock" to "<literallayout>", which
both old and new docbook-xsl handle correctly.
The difference can be seen in any manpage which includes a multi-line
example, such as git-branch.
[jc: the original patch was an disaster for html backends, so I made
it apply only to docbook backends. ]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Pair up git-add and git-rm by adding a 'see also' section that
references the opposite command to each of their documentation files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In particular, git-tools.txt isn't a manpage, and my Asciidoc gets upset
by it. The simplest fix is to Remove articles from the list of manpages
the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... and stripped trailing whitespace to appease the Gods...
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sometimes it is convient for a Porcelain to be able to checkout all
unmerged files in all stages so that an external merge tool can be
executed by the Porcelain or the end-user. Using git-unpack-file
on each stage individually incurs a rather high penalty due to the
need to fork for each file version obtained. git-checkout-index -a
--stage=all will now do the same thing, but faster.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* lt/rev-list:
setup_revisions(): handle -n<n> and -<n> internally.
git-log (internal): more options.
git-log (internal): add approxidate.
Rip out merge-order and make "git log <paths>..." work again.
Tie it all together: "git log"
Introduce trivial new pager.c helper infrastructure
git-rev-list libification: rev-list walking
Splitting rev-list into revisions lib, end of beginning.
rev-list split: minimum fixup.
First cut at libifying revlist generation
A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party
and external projects.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Found with:
for i in *.txt; do
grep -A 2 "SYNOPSIS" "$i" | grep -q "^\[verse\]$" && continue
multiline=$(grep -A 3 "SYNOPSIS" "$i" | tail -n 1)
test -n "$multiline" && echo "$i: $multiline"
done
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We were missing the --whitespace option in the usage string for
git-apply and git-am, so this commit adds them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Well, assuming breaking --merge-order is fine, here's a patch (on top of
the other ones) that makes
git log <filename>
actually work, as far as I can tell.
I didn't add the logic for --before/--after flags, but that should be
pretty trivial, and is independent of this anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since git-checkout-index is often used from scripts which
may have a stream of filenames they wish to checkout it is
more convenient to use --stdin than xargs. On platforms
where fork performance is currently sub-optimal and
the length of a command line is limited (*cough* Cygwin
*cough*) running a single git-checkout-index process for
a large number of files beats spawning it multiple times
from xargs.
File names are still accepted on the command line if
--stdin is not supplied. Nothing is performed if no files
are supplied on the command line or by stdin.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When the user specifies a username -> Full Name <email@addr.es> map
file with the -A option, save a copy of that file as
$git_dir/svn-authors. When running git-svnimport with an existing GIT
directory, use $git_dir/svn-authors (if it exists) unless a file was
explicitly specified with -A.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-cvsimport uses a username => Full Name <email@addr.es> mapping
file with this syntax:
kha=Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Since there is no reason to use another format for git-svnimport, use
the same format.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
