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diff --git a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt index 2b2abebd60..4f67c4cde6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ git-sh-setup(1) NAME ---- -git-sh-setup - Common git shell script setup code +git-sh-setup - Common Git shell script setup code SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-sh-setup' +[verse] +'. "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup"' DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -16,9 +17,9 @@ This is not a command the end user would want to run. Ever. This documentation is meant for people who are studying the Porcelain-ish scripts and/or are writing new ones. -The `git-sh-setup` scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using +The 'git sh-setup' scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using `.`) by other shell scripts to set up some variables pointing at -the normal git directories and a few helper shell functions. +the normal Git directories and a few helper shell functions. Before sourcing it, your script should set up a few variables; `USAGE` (and `LONG_USAGE`, if any) is used to define message @@ -40,9 +41,16 @@ usage:: die with the usage message. set_reflog_action:: - set the message that will be recorded to describe the - end-user action in the reflog, when the script updates a - ref. + Set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment to a given string (typically + the name of the program) unless it is already set. Whenever + the script runs a `git` command that updates refs, a reflog + entry is created using the value of this string to leave the + record of what command updated the ref. + +git_editor:: + runs an editor of user's choice (GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, VISUAL or + EDITOR) on a given file, but error out if no editor is specified + and the terminal is dumb. is_bare_repository:: outputs `true` or `false` to the standard output stream @@ -53,20 +61,35 @@ cd_to_toplevel:: runs chdir to the toplevel of the working tree. require_work_tree:: - checks if the repository is a bare repository, and dies - if so. Used by scripts that require working tree - (e.g. `checkout`). - - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + checks if the current directory is within the working tree + of the repository, and otherwise dies. + +require_work_tree_exists:: + checks if the working tree associated with the repository + exists, and otherwise dies. Often done before calling + cd_to_toplevel, which is impossible to do if there is no + working tree. + +require_clean_work_tree <action> [<hint>]:: + checks that the working tree and index associated with the + repository have no uncommitted changes to tracked files. + Otherwise it emits an error message of the form `Cannot + <action>: <reason>. <hint>`, and dies. Example: ++ +---------------- +require_clean_work_tree rebase "Please commit or stash them." +---------------- + +get_author_ident_from_commit:: + outputs code for use with eval to set the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, + GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE variables for a given commit. + +create_virtual_base:: + modifies the first file so only lines in common with the + second file remain. If there is insufficient common material, + then the first file is left empty. The result is suitable + as a virtual base input for a 3-way merge. GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite - +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |