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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-apply.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-status.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 2 |
10 files changed, 58 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 72741ebda1..c3b0816ed7 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): description (50 characters is the soft limit, see DISCUSSION in git-commit(1)), and should skip the full stop - the body should provide a meaningful commit message, which: - - uses the imperative, present tense: "change", - not "changed" or "changes". - - includes motivation for the change, and contrasts - its implementation with previous behaviour + . explains the problem the change tries to solve, iow, what + is wrong with the current code without the change. + . justifies the way the change solves the problem, iow, why + the result with the change is better. + . alternate solutions considered but discarded, if any. + - describe changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" + instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed + xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase + to change its behaviour. + - try to make sure your explanation can be understood without + external resources. Instead of giving a URL to a mailing list + archive, summarize the relevant points of the discussion. - add a "Signed-off-by: Your Name <you@example.com>" line to the commit message (or just use the option "-s" when committing) to confirm that you agree to the Developer's Certificate of Origin @@ -90,7 +98,10 @@ your commit head. Instead, always make a commit with complete commit message and generate a series of patches from your repository. It is a good discipline. -Describe the technical detail of the change(s). +Give an explanation for the change(s) that is detailed enough so +that people can judge if it is good thing to do, without reading +the actual patch text to determine how well the code does what +the explanation promises to do. If your description starts to get too long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your commit to finer grained pieces. @@ -99,9 +110,8 @@ help reviewers check the patch, and future maintainers understand the code, are the most beautiful patches. Descriptions that summarise the point in the subject well, and describe the motivation for the change, the approach taken by the change, and if relevant how this -differs substantially from the prior version, can be found on Usenet -archives back into the late 80's. Consider it like good Netiquette, -but for code. +differs substantially from the prior version, are all good things +to have. Oh, another thing. I am picky about whitespaces. Make sure your changes do not trigger errors with the sample pre-commit hook shipped diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c5e183516a..84e308fce5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -376,15 +376,6 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. -core.abbrevguard:: - Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show - an abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are - added to the repository over time, a short name that used to be - unique will stop being unique. Git uses this many extra hexdigits - that are more than necessary to make the object name currently - unique, in the hope that its output will stay unique a bit longer. - Defaults to 0. - core.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 3ac2beac62..c57460c03d 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -74,10 +74,13 @@ separate lines indicate the old and the new mode. combined diff format -------------------- -"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff" can take '-c' or -'--cc' option to produce 'combined diff'. For showing a merge commit -with "git log -p", this is the default format; you can force showing -full diff with the '-m' option. +Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or `--cc` option to +produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default +format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or +linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m' option to any +of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents +of a merge. + A 'combined diff' format looks like this: ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 881652f490..2dcfc097d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to files. With the `--index` option the patch is also applied to the index, and -with the `--cache` option the patch is only applied to the index. +with the `--cached` option the patch is only applied to the index. Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files, and does not require them to be in a git repository. diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index b586c0f442..8f89f6f08c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -214,10 +214,11 @@ FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in linkgit:git-rebase[1].) -u[<mode>]:: --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: - Show untracked files (Default: 'all'). + Show untracked files. + -The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify -the handling of untracked files. +The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to +specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the +default is 'normal', i.e. show untracked files and directories. + The possible options are: + @@ -225,9 +226,8 @@ The possible options are: - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories - 'all' - Also shows individual files in untracked directories. + -See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable -used to change the default for when the option is not -specified. +The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles +configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. -v:: --verbose:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index fac1cf55e5..152e695c81 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ EXAMPLES -------- An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most recent -3 tagged commits:: +3 tagged commits: ------------ #!/bin/sh @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Ref: %(*refname) A simple example showing the use of shell eval on the output, -demonstrating the use of --shell. List the prefixes of all heads:: +demonstrating the use of --shell. List the prefixes of all heads: ------------ #!/bin/sh @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ done A bit more elaborate report on tags, demonstrating that the format -may be an entire script:: +may be an entire script: ------------ #!/bin/sh @@ -204,3 +204,15 @@ eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \ refs/tags` eval "$eval" ------------ + +Author +------ +Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. + +Documentation +------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt index abe7bf9ff9..3422765827 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-remote.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git ls-remote' [--heads] [--tags] [-u <exec> | --upload-pack <exec>] - <repository> <refs>... + <repository> [<refs>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index dae190a5f2..5102a23f8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -38,20 +38,20 @@ OPTIONS -u[<mode>]:: --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: - Show untracked files (Default: 'all'). + Show untracked files. + -The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify -the handling of untracked files. The possible options are: +The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to +specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the +default is 'normal', i.e. show untracked files and directories. ++ +The possible options are: + --- - 'no' - Show no untracked files - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories - 'all' - Also shows individual files in untracked directories. --- + -See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable -used to change the default for when the option is not -specified. +The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles +configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. --ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can be diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt index 916a38aa99..0f848de8b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-verify-pack - Validate packed git archive files SYNOPSIS -------- -'git verify-pack' [-v|--verbose] [--] <pack>.idx ... +'git verify-pack' [-v|--verbose] [-s|--stat-only] [--] <pack>.idx ... DESCRIPTION diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 44a2ef1de1..9c47ad885b 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ limiting may be applied. -n 'number':: --max-count=<number>:: - Limit the number of commits output. + Limit the number of commits to output. --skip=<number>:: |