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author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-03-10 21:47:01 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-03-10 21:47:01 -0800 |
commit | 8bb2b516d56722776255faaccc0b1d63e444a93e (patch) | |
tree | 37d7bfcf32e63e27905db808b23bd25b8d03286a /Documentation | |
parent | Documentation: s/seperator/separator/ (diff) | |
parent | user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents (diff) | |
download | tgif-8bb2b516d56722776255faaccc0b1d63e444a93e.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git into maint
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
user-manual: fix inconsistent example
glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rwxr-xr-x | Documentation/install-webdoc.sh | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sort_glossary.pl | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 45 |
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh b/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh index b3981936e3..cd3a18eb7f 100755 --- a/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh +++ b/Documentation/install-webdoc.sh @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ T="$1" -for h in *.html *.txt howto/*.txt howto/*.html RelNotes-*.txt +for h in *.html *.txt howto/*.txt howto/*.html RelNotes-*.txt *.css do if test -f "$T/$h" && diff -u -I'Last updated [0-9][0-9]-[A-Z][a-z][a-z]-' "$T/$h" "$h" diff --git a/Documentation/sort_glossary.pl b/Documentation/sort_glossary.pl index e0bc552a64..05dc7b2c7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sort_glossary.pl +++ b/Documentation/sort_glossary.pl @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ This list is sorted alphabetically: '; @keys=sort {uc($a) cmp uc($b)} keys %terms; -$pattern='(\b(?<!link:git-)'.join('\b|\b(?<!link:git-)',reverse @keys).'\b)'; +$pattern='(\b(?<!link:git-)'.join('\b|\b(?<!-)',reverse @keys).'\b)'; foreach $key (@keys) { $terms{$key}=~s/$pattern/sprintf "<<ref_".no_spaces($1).",$1>>";/eg; print '[[ref_'.no_spaces($key).']]'.$key."::\n" diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index a5e7b536f2..0919574fb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -437,11 +437,14 @@ We will sometimes represent git history using diagrams like the one below. Commits are shown as "o", and the links between them with lines drawn with - / and \. Time goes left to right: + +................................................ o--o--o <-- Branch A / o--o--o <-- master \ o--o--o <-- Branch B +................................................ If we need to talk about a particular commit, the character "o" may be replaced with another letter or number. @@ -601,8 +604,8 @@ a new stanza: $ cat .git/config ... [remote "linux-nfs"] - url = git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git - fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs-read/* + url = git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git + fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/* ... ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1133,17 +1136,9 @@ modified in two different ways in the remote branch and the local branch--then you are warned; the output may look something like this: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git pull . next -Trying really trivial in-index merge... -fatal: Merge requires file-level merging -Nope. -Merging HEAD with 77976da35a11db4580b80ae27e8d65caf5208086 -Merging: -15e2162 world -77976da goodbye -found 1 common ancestor(s): -d122ed4 initial -Auto-merging file.txt +$ git merge next + 100% (4/4) done +Auto-merged file.txt CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in file.txt Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1439,7 +1434,7 @@ modifying the working directory, you can do that with gitlink:git-show[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git show HEAD^ path/to/file +$ git show HEAD^:path/to/file ------------------------------------------------- which will display the given version of the file. @@ -1936,25 +1931,29 @@ $ git commit You have performed no merges into mywork, so it is just a simple linear sequence of patches on top of "origin": - +................................................ o--o--o <-- origin \ o--o--o <-- mywork +................................................ Some more interesting work has been done in the upstream project, and "origin" has advanced: +................................................ o--o--O--o--o--o <-- origin \ a--b--c <-- mywork +................................................ At this point, you could use "pull" to merge your changes back in; the result would create a new merge commit, like this: - +................................................ o--o--O--o--o--o <-- origin \ \ a--b--c--m <-- mywork +................................................ However, if you prefer to keep the history in mywork a simple series of commits without any merges, you may instead choose to use @@ -1971,9 +1970,11 @@ point at the latest version of origin, then apply each of the saved patches to the new mywork. The result will look like: +................................................ o--o--O--o--o--o <-- origin \ a'--b'--c' <-- mywork +................................................ In the process, it may discover conflicts. In that case it will stop and allow you to fix the conflicts; after fixing conflicts, use "git @@ -2081,24 +2082,30 @@ The primary problem with rewriting the history of a branch has to do with merging. Suppose somebody fetches your branch and merges it into their branch, with a result something like this: +................................................ o--o--O--o--o--o <-- origin \ \ t--t--t--m <-- their branch: +................................................ Then suppose you modify the last three commits: +................................................ o--o--o <-- new head of origin / o--o--O--o--o--o <-- old head of origin +................................................ If we examined all this history together in one repository, it will look like: +................................................ o--o--o <-- new head of origin / o--o--O--o--o--o <-- old head of origin \ \ t--t--t--m <-- their branch: +................................................ Git has no way of knowing that the new head is an updated version of the old head; it treats this situation exactly the same as it would if @@ -2159,9 +2166,11 @@ commit. Git calls this process a "fast forward". A fast forward looks something like this: +................................................ o--o--o--o <-- old head of the branch \ o--o--o <-- new head of the branch +................................................ In some cases it is possible that the new head will *not* actually be @@ -2169,11 +2178,11 @@ a descendant of the old head. For example, the developer may have realized she made a serious mistake, and decided to backtrack, resulting in a situation like: +................................................ o--o--o--o--a--b <-- old head of the branch \ o--o--o <-- new head of the branch - - +................................................ In this case, "git fetch" will fail, and print out a warning. |