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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Makefile | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/callouts.xsl | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cvs-migration.txt | 352 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.txt | 53 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 233 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge-index.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rerere.txt | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-svn.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tutorial-2.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tutorial.txt | 46 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index c00f5f62b7..d68bc4a788 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ man7: $(DOC_MAN7) install: man $(INSTALL) -d -m755 $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir) $(DESTDIR)$(man7dir) - $(INSTALL) $(DOC_MAN1) $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir) - $(INSTALL) $(DOC_MAN7) $(DESTDIR)$(man7dir) + $(INSTALL) -m644 $(DOC_MAN1) $(DESTDIR)$(man1dir) + $(INSTALL) -m644 $(DOC_MAN7) $(DESTDIR)$(man7dir) # diff --git a/Documentation/callouts.xsl b/Documentation/callouts.xsl index ad03755d8f..6a361a2136 100644 --- a/Documentation/callouts.xsl +++ b/Documentation/callouts.xsl @@ -13,4 +13,18 @@ <xsl:apply-templates/> <xsl:text>.br </xsl:text> </xsl:template> + +<!-- sorry, this is not about callouts, but attempts to work around + spurious .sp at the tail of the line docbook stylesheets seem to add --> +<xsl:template match="simpara"> + <xsl:variable name="content"> + <xsl:apply-templates/> + </xsl:variable> + <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($content)"/> + <xsl:if test="not(ancestor::authorblurb) and + not(ancestor::personblurb)"> + <xsl:text> </xsl:text> + </xsl:if> +</xsl:template> + </xsl:stylesheet> diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 9090762819..f5a552ee87 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -125,21 +125,28 @@ apply.whitespace:: branch.<name>.remote:: When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` which remote to fetch. + If this option is not given, `git fetch` defaults to remote "origin". branch.<name>.merge:: - When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` the default remote branch - to be merged. - -pager.color:: + When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` the default refspec to + be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value has exactly to match + a remote part of one of the refspecs which are fetched from the remote + given by "branch.<name>.remote". + The merge information is used by `git pull` (which at first calls + `git fetch`) to lookup the default branch for merging. Without + this option, `git pull` defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. + Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. + +color.pager:: A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true). -diff.color:: +color.diff:: When true (or `always`), always use colors in patch. When false (or `never`), never. When set to `auto`, use colors only when the output is to the terminal. -diff.color.<slot>:: +color.diff.<slot>:: Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of `plain` (context text), `meta` @@ -264,19 +271,19 @@ showbranch.default:: The default set of branches for gitlink:git-show-branch[1]. See gitlink:git-show-branch[1]. -status.color:: +color.status:: A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of gitlink:git-status[1]. May be set to `true` (or `always`), `false` (or `never`) or `auto`, in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. -status.color.<slot>:: +color.status.<slot>:: Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is one of `header` (the header text of the status message), `updated` (files which are updated but not committed), `changed` (files which are changed but not updated in the index), or `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git). The values of - these variables may be specified as in diff.color.<slot>. + these variables may be specified as in color.diff.<slot>. tar.umask:: By default, gitlink:git-tar-tree[1] sets file and directories modes diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt index 6812683a16..b657f4589f 100644 --- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt @@ -1,113 +1,21 @@ git for CVS users ================= -So you're a CVS user. That's OK, it's a treatable condition. The job of -this document is to put you on the road to recovery, by helping you -convert an existing cvs repository to git, and by showing you how to use a -git repository in a cvs-like fashion. +Git differs from CVS in that every working tree contains a repository with +a full copy of the project history, and no repository is inherently more +important than any other. However, you can emulate the CVS model by +designating a single shared repository which people can synchronize with; +this document explains how to do that. Some basic familiarity with git is required. This link:tutorial.html[tutorial introduction to git] should be sufficient. -First, note some ways that git differs from CVS: +Developing against a shared repository +-------------------------------------- - * Commits are atomic and project-wide, not per-file as in CVS. - - * Offline work is supported: you can make multiple commits locally, - then submit them when you're ready. - - * Branching is fast and easy. - - * Every working tree contains a repository with a full copy of the - project history, and no repository is inherently more important than - any other. However, you can emulate the CVS model by designating a - single shared repository which people can synchronize with; see below - for details. - -Importing a CVS archive ------------------------ - -First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from -link:http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make -sure it is in your path. The magic command line is then - -------------------------------------------- -$ git cvsimport -v -d <cvsroot> -C <destination> <module> -------------------------------------------- - -This puts a git archive of the named CVS module in the directory -<destination>, which will be created if necessary. The -v option makes -the conversion script very chatty. - -The import checks out from CVS every revision of every file. Reportedly -cvsimport can average some twenty revisions per second, so for a -medium-sized project this should not take more than a couple of minutes. -Larger projects or remote repositories may take longer. - -The main trunk is stored in the git branch named `origin`, and additional -CVS branches are stored in git branches with the same names. The most -recent version of the main trunk is also left checked out on the `master` -branch, so you can start adding your own changes right away. - -The import is incremental, so if you call it again next month it will -fetch any CVS updates that have been made in the meantime. For this to -work, you must not modify the imported branches; instead, create new -branches for your own changes, and merge in the imported branches as -necessary. - -Development Models ------------------- - -CVS users are accustomed to giving a group of developers commit access to -a common repository. In the next section we'll explain how to do this -with git. However, the distributed nature of git allows other development -models, and you may want to first consider whether one of them might be a -better fit for your project. - -For example, you can choose a single person to maintain the project's -primary public repository. Other developers then clone this repository -and each work in their own clone. When they have a series of changes that -they're happy with, they ask the maintainer to pull from the branch -containing the changes. The maintainer reviews their changes and pulls -them into the primary repository, which other developers pull from as -necessary to stay coordinated. The Linux kernel and other projects use -variants of this model. - -With a small group, developers may just pull changes from each other's -repositories without the need for a central maintainer. - -Emulating the CVS Development Model ------------------------------------ - -Start with an ordinary git working directory containing the project, and -remove the checked-out files, keeping just the bare .git directory: - ------------------------------------------------- -$ mv project/.git /pub/repo.git -$ rm -r project/ ------------------------------------------------- - -Next, give every team member read/write access to this repository. One -easy way to do this is to give all the team members ssh access to the -machine where the repository is hosted. If you don't want to give them a -full shell on the machine, there is a restricted shell which only allows -users to do git pushes and pulls; see gitlink:git-shell[1]. - -Put all the committers in the same group, and make the repository -writable by that group: - ------------------------------------------------- -$ chgrp -R $group repo.git -$ find repo.git -mindepth 1 -type d |xargs chmod ug+rwx,g+s -$ GIT_DIR=repo.git git repo-config core.sharedrepository true ------------------------------------------------- - -Make sure committers have a umask of at most 027, so that the directories -they create are writable and searchable by other group members. - -Suppose this repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host +Suppose a shared repository is set up in /pub/repo.git on the host foo.com. Then as an individual committer you can clone the shared -repository: +repository over ssh with: ------------------------------------------------ $ git clone foo.com:/pub/repo.git/ my-project @@ -121,7 +29,8 @@ $ git pull origin ------------------------------------------------ which merges in any work that others might have done since the clone -operation. +operation. If there are uncommitted changes in your working tree, commit +them first before running git pull. [NOTE] ================================ @@ -129,20 +38,22 @@ The first `git clone` places the following in the `my-project/.git/remotes/origin` file, and that's why the previous step and the next step both work. ------------ -URL: foo.com:/pub/project.git/ my-project -Pull: master:origin +URL: foo.com:/pub/project.git/ +Pull: refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master ------------ ================================ -You can update the shared repository with your changes using: +You can update the shared repository with your changes by first committing +your changes, and then using the gitlink:git-push[1] command: ------------------------------------------------ $ git push origin master ------------------------------------------------ -If someone else has updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like -`cvs commit`, will complain, in which case you must pull any changes -before attempting the push again. +to "push" those commits to the shared repository. If someone else has +updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like `cvs commit`, will +complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the +push again. In the `git push` command above we specify the name of the remote branch to update (`master`). If we leave that out, `git push` tries to update @@ -151,21 +62,77 @@ in the local repository. So the last `push` can be done with either of: ------------ $ git push origin -$ git push repo.shared.xz:/pub/scm/project.git/ +$ git push foo.com:/pub/project.git/ ------------ as long as the shared repository does not have any branches other than `master`. -[NOTE] -============ -Because of this behavior, if the shared repository and the developer's -repository both have branches named `origin`, then a push like the above -attempts to update the `origin` branch in the shared repository from the -developer's `origin` branch. The results may be unexpected, so it's -usually best to remove any branch named `origin` from the shared -repository. -============ +Setting Up a Shared Repository +------------------------------ + +We assume you have already created a git repository for your project, +possibly created from scratch or from a tarball (see the +link:tutorial.html[tutorial]), or imported from an already existing CVS +repository (see the next section). + +Assume your existing repo is at /home/alice/myproject. Create a new "bare" +repository (a repository without a working tree) and fetch your project into +it: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ mkdir /pub/my-repo.git +$ cd /pub/my-repo.git +$ git --bare init-db --shared +$ git --bare fetch /home/alice/myproject master:master +------------------------------------------------ + +Next, give every team member read/write access to this repository. One +easy way to do this is to give all the team members ssh access to the +machine where the repository is hosted. If you don't want to give them a +full shell on the machine, there is a restricted shell which only allows +users to do git pushes and pulls; see gitlink:git-shell[1]. + +Put all the committers in the same group, and make the repository +writable by that group: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ chgrp -R $group /pub/my-repo.git +------------------------------------------------ + +Make sure committers have a umask of at most 027, so that the directories +they create are writable and searchable by other group members. + +Importing a CVS archive +----------------------- + +First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from +link:http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make +sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory +of the project you are interested in and run gitlink:git-cvsimport[1]: + +------------------------------------------- +$ git cvsimport -C <destination> +------------------------------------------- + +This puts a git archive of the named CVS module in the directory +<destination>, which will be created if necessary. + +The import checks out from CVS every revision of every file. Reportedly +cvsimport can average some twenty revisions per second, so for a +medium-sized project this should not take more than a couple of minutes. +Larger projects or remote repositories may take longer. + +The main trunk is stored in the git branch named `origin`, and additional +CVS branches are stored in git branches with the same names. The most +recent version of the main trunk is also left checked out on the `master` +branch, so you can start adding your own changes right away. + +The import is incremental, so if you call it again next month it will +fetch any CVS updates that have been made in the meantime. For this to +work, you must not modify the imported branches; instead, create new +branches for your own changes, and merge in the imported branches as +necessary. Advanced Shared Repository Management ------------------------------------- @@ -178,127 +145,30 @@ You can enforce finer grained permissions using update hooks. See link:howto/update-hook-example.txt[Controlling access to branches using update hooks]. -CVS annotate ------------- +Providing CVS Access to a git Repository +---------------------------------------- + +It is also possible to provide true CVS access to a git repository, so +that developers can still use CVS; see gitlink:git-cvsserver[1] for +details. + +Alternative Development Models +------------------------------ + +CVS users are accustomed to giving a group of developers commit access to +a common repository. As we've seen, this is also possible with git. +However, the distributed nature of git allows other development models, +and you may want to first consider whether one of them might be a better +fit for your project. + +For example, you can choose a single person to maintain the project's +primary public repository. Other developers then clone this repository +and each work in their own clone. When they have a series of changes that +they're happy with, they ask the maintainer to pull from the branch +containing the changes. The maintainer reviews their changes and pulls +them into the primary repository, which other developers pull from as +necessary to stay coordinated. The Linux kernel and other projects use +variants of this model. -So, something has gone wrong, and you don't know whom to blame, and -you're an ex-CVS user and used to do "cvs annotate" to see who caused -the breakage. You're looking for the "git annotate", and it's just -claiming not to find such a script. You're annoyed. - -Yes, that's right. Core git doesn't do "annotate", although it's -technically possible, and there are at least two specialized scripts out -there that can be used to get equivalent information (see the git -mailing list archives for details). - -git has a couple of alternatives, though, that you may find sufficient -or even superior depending on your use. One is called "git-whatchanged" -(for obvious reasons) and the other one is called "pickaxe" ("a tool for -the software archaeologist"). - -The "git-whatchanged" script is a truly trivial script that can give you -a good overview of what has changed in a file or a directory (or an -arbitrary list of files or directories). The "pickaxe" support is an -additional layer that can be used to further specify exactly what you're -looking for, if you already know the specific area that changed. - -Let's step back a bit and think about the reason why you would -want to do "cvs annotate a-file.c" to begin with. - -You would use "cvs annotate" on a file when you have trouble -with a function (or even a single "if" statement in a function) -that happens to be defined in the file, which does not do what -you want it to do. And you would want to find out why it was -written that way, because you are about to modify it to suit -your needs, and at the same time you do not want to break its -current callers. For that, you are trying to find out why the -original author did things that way in the original context. - -Many times, it may be enough to see the commit log messages of -commits that touch the file in question, possibly along with the -patches themselves, like this: - - $ git-whatchanged -p a-file.c - -This will show log messages and patches for each commit that -touches a-file. - -This, however, may not be very useful when this file has many -modifications that are not related to the piece of code you are -interested in. You would see many log messages and patches that -do not have anything to do with the piece of code you are -interested in. As an example, assuming that you have this piece -of code that you are interested in in the HEAD version: - - if (frotz) { - nitfol(); - } - -you would use git-rev-list and git-diff-tree like this: - - $ git-rev-list HEAD | - git-diff-tree --stdin -v -p -S'if (frotz) { - nitfol(); - }' - -We have already talked about the "\--stdin" form of git-diff-tree -command that reads the list of commits and compares each commit -with its parents (otherwise you should go back and read the tutorial). -The git-whatchanged command internally runs -the equivalent of the above command, and can be used like this: - - $ git-whatchanged -p -S'if (frotz) { - nitfol(); - }' - -When the -S option is used, git-diff-tree command outputs -differences between two commits only if one tree has the -specified string in a file and the corresponding file in the -other tree does not. The above example looks for a commit that -has the "if" statement in it in a file, but its parent commit -does not have it in the same shape in the corresponding file (or -the other way around, where the parent has it and the commit -does not), and the differences between them are shown, along -with the commit message (thanks to the -v flag). It does not -show anything for commits that do not touch this "if" statement. - -Also, in the original context, the same statement might have -appeared at first in a different file and later the file was -renamed to "a-file.c". CVS annotate would not help you to go -back across such a rename, but git would still help you in such -a situation. For that, you can give the -C flag to -git-diff-tree, like this: - - $ git-whatchanged -p -C -S'if (frotz) { - nitfol(); - }' - -When the -C flag is used, file renames and copies are followed. -So if the "if" statement in question happens to be in "a-file.c" -in the current HEAD commit, even if the file was originally -called "o-file.c" and then renamed in an earlier commit, or if -the file was created by copying an existing "o-file.c" in an -earlier commit, you will not lose track. If the "if" statement -did not change across such a rename or copy, then the commit that -does rename or copy would not show in the output, and if the -"if" statement was modified while the file was still called -"o-file.c", it would find the commit that changed the statement -when it was in "o-file.c". - -NOTE: The current version of "git-diff-tree -C" is not eager - enough to find copies, and it will miss the fact that a-file.c - was created by copying o-file.c unless o-file.c was somehow - changed in the same commit. - -You can use the --pickaxe-all flag in addition to the -S flag. -This causes the differences from all the files contained in -those two commits, not just the differences between the files -that contain this changed "if" statement: - - $ git-whatchanged -p -C -S'if (frotz) { - nitfol(); - }' --pickaxe-all - -NOTE: This option is called "--pickaxe-all" because -S - option is internally called "pickaxe", a tool for software - archaeologists. +With a small group, developers may just pull changes from each other's +repositories without the need for a central maintainer. diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 6342ea33e4..d86c0e7f19 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-add(1) NAME ---- -git-add - Add files to the index file +git-add - Add file contents to the changeset to be committed next SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -11,16 +11,31 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index, -for people used to do "cvs add". +All the changed file contents to be committed together in a single set +of changes must be "added" with the 'add' command before using the +'commit' command. This is not only for adding new files. Even modified +files must be added to the set of changes about to be committed. -It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use +This command can be performed multiple times before a commit. The added +content corresponds to the state of specified file(s) at the time the +'add' command is used. This means the 'commit' command will not consider +subsequent changes to already added content if it is not added again before +the commit. + +The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of what is included +for the next commit. + +This command only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use "git update-index --add". +Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a +commit. + + OPTIONS ------- <file>...:: - Files to add to the index (see gitlink:git-ls-files[1]). + Files to add content from. -n:: Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist. @@ -34,27 +49,12 @@ OPTIONS for command-line options). -DISCUSSION ----------- - -The list of <file> given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files` -command to list files that are not registered in the index and -are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or -`.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things: - -. You can put the name of a directory on the command line, and - the command will add all files in it and its subdirectories; - -. Giving the name of a file that is already in index does not - run `git-update-index` on that path. - - EXAMPLES -------- git-add Documentation/\\*.txt:: - Adds all `\*.txt` files that are not in the index under - `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories. + Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` + directory and its subdirectories. + Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the command to include the files from @@ -62,15 +62,18 @@ subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. git-add git-*.sh:: - Adds all git-*.sh scripts that are not in the index. + Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts. Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not - add `subdir/git-foo.sh` to the index. + consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`. See Also -------- +gitlink:git-status[1] gitlink:git-rm[1] -gitlink:git-ls-files[1] +gitlink:git-mv[1] +gitlink:git-commit[1] +gitlink:git-update-index[1] Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 4f5b5d5028..71417feba8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ git-branch - List, create, or delete branches. SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-branch' [-r] [-a] [-v] [--abbrev=<length>] +'git-branch' [-r | -a] [-v [--abbrev=<length>]] 'git-branch' [-l] [-f] <branchname> [<start-point>] +'git-branch' (-m | -M) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch> 'git-branch' (-d | -D) <branchname>... DESCRIPTION @@ -24,6 +25,12 @@ It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>. If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head equal to that of the currently checked out branch. +With a '-m' or '-M' option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>. +If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match +<newbranch>, and a reflog entry is created to remember the branch +renaming. If <newbranch> exists, -M must be used to force the rename +to happen. + With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted. You may specify more than one branch for deletion. If the branch currently has a ref log then the ref log will also be deleted. @@ -46,6 +53,12 @@ OPTIONS Force the creation of a new branch even if it means deleting a branch that already exists with the same name. +-m:: + Move/rename a branch and the corresponding reflog. + +-M:: + Move/rename a branch even if the new branchname already exists. + -r:: List the remote-tracking branches. @@ -53,7 +66,7 @@ OPTIONS List both remote-tracking branches and local branches. -v:: - Show sha1 and subject message for each head. + Show sha1 and commit subjectline for each head. --abbrev=<length>:: Alter minimum display length for sha1 in output listing, @@ -70,6 +83,12 @@ OPTIONS be given as a branch name, a commit-id, or a tag. If this option is omitted, the current branch is assumed. +<oldbranch>:: + The name of an existing branch to rename. + +<newbranch>:: + The new name for an existing branch. The same restrictions as for + <branchname> applies. Examples diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index d5efa00dea..985043faca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -16,22 +16,21 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Clones a repository into a newly created directory. All remote -branch heads are copied under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`, except -that the remote `master` is also copied to `origin` branch. -In addition, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin` file is set up to have -this line: +Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates +remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository +(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master +branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch. - Pull: master:origin - -This is to help the typical workflow of working off of the -remote `master` branch. Every time `git pull` without argument -is run, the progress on the remote `master` branch is tracked by -copying it into the local `origin` branch, and merged into the -branch you are currently working on. Remote branches other than -`master` are also added there to be tracked. +After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update +all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without +arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the +current branch. +This default configuration is achieved by creating references to +the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and +by initializing `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch` +configuration variables. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 517a86b238..97d66ef4d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -14,25 +14,41 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if -'-a' is specified, and makes a commit object. The command specified -by either the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables are used to edit -the commit log message. +Use 'git commit' when you want to record your changes into the repository +along with a log message describing what the commit is about. All changes +to be committed must be explicitly identified using one of the following +methods: -Several environment variable are used during commits. They are -documented in gitlink:git-commit-tree[1]. +1. by using gitlink:git-add[1] to incrementally "add" changes to the + next commit before using the 'commit' command (Note: even modified + files must be "added"); +2. by using gitlink:git-rm[1] to identify content removal for the next + commit, again before using the 'commit' command; + +3. by directly listing files containing changes to be committed as arguments + to the 'commit' command, in which cases only those files alone will be + considered for the commit; + +4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically "add" + changes from all known files i.e. files that have already been committed + before, and perform the actual commit. + +The gitlink:git-status[1] command can be used to obtain a +summary of what is included by any of the above for the next +commit by giving the same set of parameters you would give to +this command. + +If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after +that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1]. -This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and -`post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more -information. OPTIONS ------- -a|--all:: - Update all paths in the index file. This flag notices - files that have been modified and deleted, but new files - you have not told git about are not affected. + Tell the command to automatically stage files that have + been modified and deleted, but new files you have not + told git about are not affected. -c or -C <commit>:: Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message @@ -55,16 +71,13 @@ OPTIONS -s|--signoff:: Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. --v|--verify:: - Look for suspicious lines the commit introduces, and - abort committing if there is one. The definition of - 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has - trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation - has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB - character. This is the default. - --n|--no-verify:: - The opposite of `--verify`. +--no-verify:: + By default, the command looks for suspicious lines the + commit introduces, and aborts committing if there is one. + The definition of 'suspicious lines' is currently the + lines that has trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose + indentation has a SP character immediately followed by a + TAB character. This option turns off the check. -e|--edit:: The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with @@ -95,69 +108,137 @@ but can be used to amend a merge commit. -- -i|--include:: - Instead of committing only the files specified on the - command line, update them in the index file and then - commit the whole index. This is the traditional - behavior. - --o|--only:: - Commit only the files specified on the command line. - This format cannot be used during a merge, nor when the - index and the latest commit does not match on the - specified paths to avoid confusion. + Before making a commit out of staged contents so far, + stage the contents of paths given on the command line + as well. This is usually not what you want unless you + are concluding a conflicted merge. \--:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. <file>...:: - Files to be committed. The meaning of these is - different between `--include` and `--only`. Without - either, it defaults `--only` semantics. - -If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after -that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1]. + When files are given on the command line, the command + commits the contents of the named files, without + recording the changes already staged. The contents of + these files are also staged for the next commit on top + of what have been staged before. -Discussion ----------- - -`git commit` without _any_ parameter commits the tree structure -recorded by the current index file. This is a whole-tree commit -even the command is invoked from a subdirectory. - -`git commit --include paths...` is equivalent to - - git update-index --remove paths... - git commit - -That is, update the specified paths to the index and then commit -the whole tree. - -`git commit paths...` largely bypasses the index file and -commits only the changes made to the specified paths. It has -however several safety valves to prevent confusion. - -. It refuses to run during a merge (i.e. when - `$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD` exists), and reminds trained git users - that the traditional semantics now needs -i flag. - -. It refuses to run if named `paths...` are different in HEAD - and the index (ditto about reminding). Added paths are OK. - This is because an earlier `git diff` (not `git diff HEAD`) - would have shown the differences since the last `git - update-index paths...` to the user, and an inexperienced user - may mistakenly think that the changes between the index and - the HEAD (i.e. earlier changes made before the last `git - update-index paths...` was done) are not being committed. - -. It reads HEAD commit into a temporary index file, updates the - specified `paths...` and makes a commit. At the same time, - the real index file is also updated with the same `paths...`. +EXAMPLES +-------- +When recording your own work, the contents of modified files in +your working tree are temporarily stored to a staging area +called the "index" with gitlink:git-add[1]. Removal +of a file is staged with gitlink:git-rm[1]. After building the +state to be committed incrementally with these commands, `git +commit` (without any pathname parameter) is used to record what +has been staged so far. This is the most basic form of the +command. An example: + +------------ +$ edit hello.c +$ git rm goodbye.c +$ git add hello.c +$ git commit +------------ + +//////////// +We should fix 'git rm' to remove goodbye.c from both index and +working tree for the above example. +//////////// + +Instead of staging files after each individual change, you can +tell `git commit` to notice the changes to the files whose +contents are tracked in +your working tree and do corresponding `git add` and `git rm` +for you. That is, this example does the same as the earlier +example if there is no other change in your working tree: + +------------ +$ edit hello.c +$ rm goodbye.c +$ git commit -a +------------ + +The command `git commit -a` first looks at your working tree, +notices that you have modified hello.c and removed goodbye.c, +and performs necessary `git add` and `git rm` for you. + +After staging changes to many files, you can alter the order the +changes are recorded in, by giving pathnames to `git commit`. +When pathnames are given, the command makes a commit that +only records the changes made to the named paths: + +------------ +$ edit hello.c hello.h +$ git add hello.c hello.h +$ edit Makefile +$ git commit Makefile +------------ + +This makes a commit that records the modification to `Makefile`. +The changes staged for `hello.c` and `hello.h` are not included +in the resulting commit. However, their changes are not lost -- +they are still staged and merely held back. After the above +sequence, if you do: + +------------ +$ git commit +------------ + +this second commit would record the changes to `hello.c` and +`hello.h` as expected. + +After a merge (initiated by either gitlink:git-merge[1] or +gitlink:git-pull[1]) stops because of conflicts, cleanly merged +paths are already staged to be committed for you, and paths that +conflicted are left in unmerged state. You would have to first +check which paths are conflicting with gitlink:git-status[1] +and after fixing them manually in your working tree, you would +stage the result as usual with gitlink:git-add[1]: + +------------ +$ git status | grep unmerged +unmerged: hello.c +$ edit hello.c +$ git add hello.c +------------ + +After resolving conflicts and staging the result, `git ls-files -u` +would stop mentioning the conflicted path. When you are done, +run `git commit` to finally record the merge: + +------------ +$ git commit +------------ + +As with the case to record your own changes, you can use `-a` +option to save typing. One difference is that during a merge +resolution, you cannot use `git commit` with pathnames to +alter the order the changes are committed, because the merge +should be recorded as a single commit. In fact, the command +refuses to run when given pathnames (but see `-i` option). + + +ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES +--------------------- +The command specified by either the VISUAL or EDITOR environment +variables is used to edit the commit log message. + +HOOKS +----- +This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and +`post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more +information. -`git commit --all` updates the index file with _all_ changes to -the working tree, and makes a whole-tree commit, regardless of -which subdirectory the command is invoked in. +SEE ALSO +-------- +gitlink:git-add[1], +gitlink:git-rm[1], +gitlink:git-mv[1], +gitlink:git-merge[1], +gitlink:git-commit-tree[1] Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt index 6cd0601082..0cf505ea84 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ If "git-merge-index" is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit code. -Typically this is run with the a script calling the merge command from -the RCS package. +Typically this is run with the a script calling git's imitation of +the merge command from the RCS package. A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the distribution. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index d4ae99fa53..197f4b512f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -49,12 +49,14 @@ corresponding remotes file---see below), then all the refs that exist both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. + -Some short-cut notations are also supported. +`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. + -* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. -* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to - <ref>`:`<ref>, hence updates <ref> in the destination from <ref> - in the source. +A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to +<ref>`:`<ref>, hence updates <ref> in the destination from <ref> +in the source. ++ +Pushing an empty <src> allows you to delete the <dst> ref from +the remote repository. \--all:: Instead of naming each ref to push, specifies that all @@ -75,7 +77,8 @@ include::urls.txt[] Author ------ -Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> +Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, later rewritten in C +by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Documentation -------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt index 8b6b651237..116dca4c06 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt @@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolve SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-rerere' - +'git-rerere' [clear|diff|status] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -27,6 +26,38 @@ results and applying the previously recorded hand resolution. You need to create `$GIT_DIR/rr-cache` directory to enable this command. + +COMMANDS +-------- + +Normally, git-rerere is run without arguments or user-intervention. +However, it has several commands that allow it to interact with +its working state. + +'clear':: + +This resets the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be +is aborted. Calling gitlink:git-am[1] --skip or gitlink:git-rebase[1] +[--skip|--abort] will automatcally invoke this command. + +'diff':: + +This displays diffs for the current state of the resolution. It is +useful for tracking what has changed while the user is resolving +conflicts. Additional arguments are passed directly to the system +diff(1) command installed in PATH. + +'status':: + +Like diff, but this only prints the filenames that will be tracked +for resolutions. + +'gc':: + +This command is used to prune records of conflicted merge that +occurred long time ago. + + DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt index a45067e164..c589a98630 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt @@ -57,11 +57,13 @@ See '<<fetch-args,Additional Fetch Arguments>>' if you are interested in manually joining branches on commit. 'dcommit':: - Commit all diffs from the current HEAD directly to the SVN + Commit all diffs from a specified head directly to the SVN repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or - not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD). It is recommended + not there is a diff between SVN and head). It is recommended that you run git-svn fetch and rebase (not pull) your commits against the latest changes in the SVN repository. + An optional command-line argument may be specified as an + alternative to HEAD. This is advantageous over 'commit' (below) because it produces cleaner, more linear history. diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt index 42b6e7d7d2..6389de5ef7 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ $ echo 'hello world' > file.txt $ git add . $ git commit -a -m "initial commit" Committing initial tree 92b8b694ffb1675e5975148e1121810081dbdffe + create mode 100644 file.txt $ echo 'hello world!' >file.txt $ git commit -a -m "add emphasis" ------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index fe4491de41..02dede320c 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -87,14 +87,48 @@ thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body. -To add a new file, first create the file, then ------------------------------------------------- -$ git add path/to/new/file ------------------------------------------------- +Git tracks content not files +---------------------------- + +With git you have to explicitly "add" all the changed _content_ you +want to commit together. This can be done in a few different ways: + +1) By using 'git add <file_spec>...' + + This can be performed multiple times before a commit. Note that this + is not only for adding new files. Even modified files must be + added to the set of changes about to be committed. The "git status" + command gives you a summary of what is included so far for the + next commit. When done you should use the 'git commit' command to + make it real. + + Note: don't forget to 'add' a file again if you modified it after the + first 'add' and before 'commit'. Otherwise only the previous added + state of that file will be committed. This is because git tracks + content, so what you're really 'add'ing to the commit is the *content* + of the file in the state it is in when you 'add' it. + +2) By using 'git commit -a' directly + + This is a quick way to automatically 'add' the content from all files + that were modified since the previous commit, and perform the actual + commit without having to separately 'add' them beforehand. This will + not add content from new files i.e. files that were never added before. + Those files still have to be added explicitly before performing a + commit. + +But here's a twist. If you do 'git commit <file1> <file2> ...' then only +the changes belonging to those explicitly specified files will be +committed, entirely bypassing the current "added" changes. Those "added" +changes will still remain available for a subsequent commit though. + +However, for normal usage you only have to remember 'git add' + 'git commit' +and/or 'git commit -a'. + -then commit as usual. No special command is required when removing a -file; just remove it, then tell `commit` about the file as usual. +Viewing the changelog +--------------------- At any point you can view the history of your changes using |