diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/howto')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/new-command.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt index d7de5a3e9e..15a4c8031f 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/new-command.txt @@ -94,8 +94,10 @@ your language, document it in the INSTALL file. 6. There is a file command-list.txt in the distribution main directory that categorizes commands by type, so they can be listed in appropriate subsections in the documentation's summary command list. Add an entry -for yours. To understand the categories, look at git-commands.txt -in the main directory. +for yours. To understand the categories, look at command-list.txt +in the main directory. If the new command is part of the typical Git +workflow and you believe it common enough to be mentioned in 'git help', +map this command to a common group in the column [common]. 7. Give the maintainer one paragraph to include in the RelNotes file to describe the new feature; a good place to do so is in the cover diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt index 462255ed5d..19f59cc888 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The history immediately after the "revert of the merge" would look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W - / + / ---A---B where A and B are on the side development that was not so good, M is the @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ After the developers of the side branch fix their mistakes, the history may look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x - / + / ---A---B-------------------C---D where C and D are to fix what was broken in A and B, and you may already @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ In such a situation, you would want to first revert the previous revert, which would make the history look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---Y - / + / ---A---B-------------------C---D where Y is the revert of W. Such a "revert of the revert" can be done @@ -93,14 +93,14 @@ This history would (ignoring possible conflicts between what W and W..Y changed) be equivalent to not having W or Y at all in the history: ---o---o---o---M---x---x-------x---- - / + / ---A---B-------------------C---D and merging the side branch again will not have conflict arising from an earlier revert and revert of the revert. ---o---o---o---M---x---x-------x-------* - / / + / / ---A---B-------------------C---D Of course the changes made in C and D still can conflict with what was @@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ faulty A and B, and redone the changes on top of the updated mainline after the revert, the history would have looked like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---x - / \ + / \ ---A---B A'--B'--C' If you reverted the revert in such a case as in the previous example: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---x---Y---* - / \ / + / \ / ---A---B A'--B'--C' where Y is the revert of W, A' and B' are rerolled A and B, and there may @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ lot of overlapping changes that result in conflicts. So do not do "revert of revert" blindly without thinking.. ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W---x---x - / \ + / \ ---A---B A'--B'--C' In the history with rebased side branch, W (and M) are behind the merge |