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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-10-16 16:16:01 +0900
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-10-16 16:16:01 +0900
commitfb468f0b1c3b65c01d25e78e612ff54cf2b588e3 (patch)
tree9aa24dad60333a4762c4cbd4ec4a5170bb658302 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jn/mailmap-update' (diff)
parentgit-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable (diff)
downloadtgif-fb468f0b1c3b65c01d25e78e612ff54cf2b588e3.tar.xz
Merge branch 'fe/doc-updates'
Doc updates. * fe/doc-updates: git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-archimport.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-column.txt35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt4
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
index ea70653369..a595a0ffee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archimport(1)
NAME
----
-git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into Git
+git-archimport - Import a GNU Arch repository into Git
SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Imports a project from one or more Arch repositories. It will follow branches
+Imports a project from one or more GNU Arch repositories.
+It will follow branches
and repositories within the namespaces defined by the <archive/branch>
parameters supplied. If it cannot find the remote branch a merge comes from
it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it
diff --git a/Documentation/git-column.txt b/Documentation/git-column.txt
index 03d18465d4..763afabb6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-column.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-column.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-This command formats its input into multiple columns.
+This command formats the lines of its standard input into a table with
+multiple columns. Each input line occupies one cell of the table. It
+is used internally by other git commands to format output into
+columns.
OPTIONS
-------
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS
--mode=<mode>::
Specify layout mode. See configuration variable column.ui for option
- syntax.
+ syntax in linkgit:git-config[1].
--raw-mode=<n>::
Same as --mode but take mode encoded as a number. This is mainly used
@@ -43,6 +46,34 @@ OPTIONS
--padding=<N>::
The number of spaces between columns. One space by default.
+EXAMPLES
+------
+
+Format data by columns:
+------------
+$ seq 1 24 | git column --mode=column --padding=5
+1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22
+2 5 8 11 14 17 20 23
+3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24
+------------
+
+Format data by rows:
+------------
+$ seq 1 21 | git column --mode=row --padding=5
+1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+8 9 10 11 12 13 14
+15 16 17 18 19 20 21
+------------
+
+List some tags in a table with unequal column widths:
+------------
+$ git tag --list 'v2.4.*' --column=row,dense
+v2.4.0 v2.4.0-rc0 v2.4.0-rc1 v2.4.0-rc2 v2.4.0-rc3
+v2.4.1 v2.4.10 v2.4.11 v2.4.12 v2.4.2
+v2.4.3 v2.4.4 v2.4.5 v2.4.6 v2.4.7
+v2.4.8 v2.4.9
+------------
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index e027fb8c4b..ccdc5f83d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is
shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
additional commits on top of the tagged object and the
-abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
+abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. The result
+is a "human-readable" object name which can also be used to
+identify the commit to other git commands.
By default (without --all or --tags) `git describe` only shows
annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags