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Jason St. John
06ab60c066 Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21 13:57:10 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
d5fa1f1a69 The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 11:08:37 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
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are out of date and incomplete.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wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and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.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Štěpán Němec
0adda9362a Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
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>
2010-10-08 12:31:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1125297ca1 Merge branch 'js/ls-files-x-doc'
* js/ls-files-x-doc:
  ls-files documentation: reword for consistency
  git-ls-files.txt: clarify -x/--exclude option

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
2010-09-18 14:46:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4c608520ed ls-files documentation: reword for consistency
Similar to descriptions of other options, state what -x does in imperative
mood.  Start sentences for -X and --exclude-per-directory options in
capital letters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-15 17:38:50 -07:00
Jay Soffian
75609a0d44 git-ls-files.txt: clarify -x/--exclude option
Since b5227d8, -x/--exclude does not apply to cached files.
This is easy to miss unless you read the discussion in the
EXCLUDE PATTERNS section. Clarify that the option applies
to untracked files and direct the reader to EXCLUDE PATTERNS.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-15 17:30:36 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
12378c0aa8 Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopses
For some reason, various manual pages have an asterisk escaped
with \ in the synopsis.  Since there is no other asterisk to pair it
with, Asciidoc does not consider this asterisk escapable, so it passes
the backslash through.

Each page either uses [verse] or has only one asterisk, so it
is safe to drop the backslashes (checked with asciidoc 8.5.2).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:22 -07:00
Thomas Rast
8497421715 ls-files: learn a debugging dump format
Teach git-ls-files a new option --debug that just tacks all available
data from the cache onto each file's line.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-02 13:16:16 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
5bc0e247c4 Document ls-files -t as semi-obsolete.
The behavior of "git ls-files -t" is very misleading (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/126516 and
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144394/focus=144397
for examples of mislead users) and badly documented, hence we point the
users to superior alternatives.

The feature is marked as "semi-obsolete" but not "scheduled for removal"
since it's a plumbing command, scripts might use it, and Git testsuite
already uses it to test the state of the index.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-28 13:56:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
77b3b7969d Merge branch 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast
* 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast:
  Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch
  Documentation: simplify How Merge Works
  Documentation: merge: add a section about fast-forward
  Documentation: emphasize when git merge terminates early
  Documentation: merge: add an overview
  Documentation: merge: move merge strategy list to end
  Documentation: suggest `reset --merge` in How Merge Works section
  Documentation: merge: move configuration section to end
  Documentation: emphasise 'git shortlog' in its synopsis
  Documentation: show-files is now called git-ls-files
  Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
  Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
2010-01-24 10:58:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
add0951ab0 Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
  Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
  Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
  Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
  Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-config.txt
	Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-20 20:28:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
73d66323ac Merge branch 'nd/sparse'
* nd/sparse: (25 commits)
  t7002: test for not using external grep on skip-worktree paths
  t7002: set test prerequisite "external-grep" if supported
  grep: do not do external grep on skip-worktree entries
  commit: correctly respect skip-worktree bit
  ie_match_stat(): do not ignore skip-worktree bit with CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID
  tests: rename duplicate t1009
  sparse checkout: inhibit empty worktree
  Add tests for sparse checkout
  read-tree: add --no-sparse-checkout to disable sparse checkout support
  unpack-trees(): ignore worktree check outside checkout area
  unpack_trees(): apply $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout to the final index
  unpack-trees(): "enable" sparse checkout and load $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout
  unpack-trees.c: generalize verify_* functions
  unpack-trees(): add CE_WT_REMOVE to remove on worktree alone
  Introduce "sparse checkout"
  dir.c: export excluded_1() and add_excludes_from_file_1()
  excluded_1(): support exclude files in index
  unpack-trees(): carry skip-worktree bit over in merged_entry()
  Read .gitignore from index if it is skip-worktree
  Avoid writing to buffer in add_excludes_from_file_1()
  ...

Conflicts:
	.gitignore
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-update-index.txt
	Makefile
	entry.c
	t/t7002-grep.sh
2010-01-13 11:58:34 -08:00
Thomas Rast
4fdff3d210 Documentation: show-files is now called git-ls-files
Amazingly, a reference to 'show files' survived from the core command
documentation introduced in c64b9b8 (Reference documentation for the
core git commands., 2005-05-05)!

However, the tool is now called git-ls-files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-10 13:13:05 +01:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
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.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
92396402e2 Merge branch 'jk/maint-1.6.3-ls-files-i'
* jk/maint-1.6.3-ls-files-i:
  ls-files: unbreak "ls-files -i"
2009-11-10 12:33:28 -08:00
Jeff King
500348aa68 ls-files: unbreak "ls-files -i"
Commit b5227d8 changed the behavior of "ls-files" with
respect to includes, but accidentally broke the "-i" option
The original behavior was:

  1. if no "-i" is given, cull all results according to --exclude*
  2. if "-i" is given, show the inverse of (1)

The broken behavior was:

  1. if no "-i" is given:
     a. for "-o", cull results according to --exclude*
     b. for index files, always show all
  2. if "-i" is given:
     a. for "-o", shows the inverse of (1a)
     b. for index files, always show all

The fixed behavior keeps the new (1b) behavior introduced
by b5227d8, but fixes the (2b) behavior to show only ignored
files, not all files.

This patch also tweaks the documentation. The original text
was somewhat obscure in the first place, but it is also now
inaccurate (the relationship between (1b) and (2b) is not
quite a "reverse").

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-30 14:41:29 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
44a3691362 Introduce "skip-worktree" bit in index, teach Git to get/set this bit
Detail about this bit is in Documentation/git-update-index.txt.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-23 17:11:28 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
4d590f0607 git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-06 14:01:13 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
323b9db839 Fix Documentation typos surrounding the word 'handful'.
Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use
the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-13 00:18:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c297432d0d Documentation: clarify what is shown in "git-ls-files -s" output
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-28 23:02:11 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.

Using

	doit () {
	  perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
	}
	for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
	        merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
	do
	  doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
	done
	git diff

.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
483bc4f045 Documentation formatting and cleanup
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.

While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:16 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b1889c36d8 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)

This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.

The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:15 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -07:00
Christian Couder
9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(1)
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -07:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
 # Inline macros.
 # Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
 # (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
 # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
 (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]

This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
56c3eb1732 Documentation: ls-files -v is about "assume unchanged".
And refer the reader to update-index documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-21 13:50:58 -08:00
Jeff King
8e7b07c8a7 git-ls-files: add --exclude-standard
This provides a way for scripts to get at the new standard exclude
function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-15 22:24:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a7a0f3d3f8 Document ls-files --with-tree=<tree-ish>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-14 16:59:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Josh Triplett
cedb8d5d33 Create a new manpage for the gitignore format, and reference it elsewhere
Only git-ls-files(1) describes the gitignore format in detail, and it does so
with reference to git-ls-files options.  Most users don't use the plumbing
command git-ls-files directly, and shouldn't have to look in its manpage for
information on the gitignore format.

Create a new manpage gitignore(5) (Documentation/gitignore.txt), and factor
out the gitignore documentation into that file, changing it to refer to
.gitignore and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude as used by porcelain commands.  Reference
gitignore(5) from other relevant manpages and documentation.  Remove
now-redundant information on exclude patterns from git-ls-files(1), leaving
only information on how git-ls-files options specify exclude patterns and what
precedence they have.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-06-02 11:59:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d1c7c27ea3 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.1' into maint
* maint-1.5.1:
  Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
  More echo "$user_message" fixes.
  Add tests for the last two fixes.
  git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
  Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
  Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
2007-05-26 01:30:40 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
5adf317b31 Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-25 20:54:23 -07:00
Michael Spang
0fc4baebf3 Fix minor documentation errors
- git-ls-files.txt: typo in description of --ignored
- git-clean.txt: s/forceRequire/requireForce/

Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-07 15:39:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c3f0baacad Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:53:37 -08:00
Matthias Lederhofer
ff4d78041e Documentation about exclude/ignore files
Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt,
instead of .git/ignore, and update the list of commands looking
at .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-13 21:52:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b86bec6c4f Documentation: add another example to git-ls-files
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-07 20:19:00 -07:00
sean
e994004f93 Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.
A bare "--" doesn't show up in man or html pages correctly
as two individual dashes unless backslashed as \--
in the asciidoc source.  Note, no backslash is needed
inside a literal block.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05 14:21:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d93067d9c7 Merge branch 'master' into next
* master:
  Optionally do not list empty directories in git-ls-files --others
  Document git-rebase behavior on conflicts.
  Fix error handling for nonexistent names
2006-03-26 23:44:14 -08:00
Petr Baudis
b0a3de4231 Optionally do not list empty directories in git-ls-files --others
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>
2006-03-26 19:08:24 -08:00
Eric Wong
ad0cae4cb9 ls-files: add --abbrev[=<n>] option
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17 14:10:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ee072260db Merge branch 'jc/nostat'
* jc/nostat:
  cache_name_compare() compares name and stage, nothing else.
  "assume unchanged" git: documentation.
  ls-files: split "show-valid-bit" into a different option.
  "Assume unchanged" git: --really-refresh fix.
  ls-files: debugging aid for CE_VALID changes.
  "Assume unchanged" git: do not set CE_VALID with --refresh
  "Assume unchanged" git
2006-02-21 22:33:21 -08:00
Carl Worth
c8af25ca01 git-ls-files: Fix, document, and add test for --error-unmatch option.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-21 18:37:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
41ac06c7a3 Documentation: git-ls-files asciidocco.
Noticed by Jon Nelson.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-13 21:52:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f9666adfea "assume unchanged" git: documentation.
This updates documentation to describe the "assume unchanged"
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 01:48:47 -08:00
Petr Baudis
a325957062 Document git-ls-files --directory
Add the appropriate bit of documentation.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-21 19:12:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
89438677ab Documentation: spell.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-29 01:32:56 -08:00