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2018-04-25Merge branch 'ak/bisect-doc-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * ak/bisect-doc-typofix: Documentation/git-bisect.txt: git bisect term → git bisect terms
2018-04-07Documentation/git-bisect.txt: git bisect term → git bisect termsLibravatar Anders Kaseorg1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-13bisect: mention "view" as an alternative to "visualize"Libravatar Robert P. J. Day1-7/+6
Tweak a small number of files to mention "view" as an alternative to "visualize". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-01git-bisect.txt: add missing wordLibravatar Quentin Pradet1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Quentin Pradet <quentin.pradet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-23Merge branch 'ad/bisect-terms'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Documentation fix. * ad/bisect-terms: Documentation/bisect: improve on (bad|new) and (good|bad)
2017-01-13Documentation/bisect: improve on (bad|new) and (good|bad)Libravatar Christian Couder1-2/+2
The following part of the description: git bisect (bad|new) [<rev>] git bisect (good|old) [<rev>...] may be a bit confusing, as a reader may wonder if instead it should be: git bisect (bad|good) [<rev>] git bisect (old|new) [<rev>...] Of course the difference between "[<rev>]" and "[<rev>...]" should hint that there is a good reason for the way it is. But we can further clarify and complete the description by adding "<term-new>" and "<term-old>" to the "bad|new" and "good|old" alternatives. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08doc: more consistency in environment variables formatLibravatar Tom Russello1-1/+1
Wrap with backticks (monospaced font) unwrapped or single-quotes wrapped (italic type) environment variables which are followed by the word "environment". It was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/\'?(\\\$?[0-9A-Z\_]+)\'?(?= environment ?)/\`\1\`/g" *.txt One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines). Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-29Merge branch 'jc/em-dash-in-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
AsciiDoc markup fixes. * jc/em-dash-in-doc: Documentation: AsciiDoc spells em-dash as double-dashes, not triple
2015-10-29Merge branch 'xf/user-manual-markup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
AsciiDoc markup fixes. * xf/user-manual-markup: Documentation: match undefline with the text in old release notes Documentation: match underline with the text Documentation: fix header markup
2015-10-22Documentation: AsciiDoc spells em-dash as double-dashes, not tripleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Again, we do not usually process release notes with AsciiDoc, but it is better to be consistent. This incidentally reveals breakages left by an ancient 5e00439f (Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto, 2012-10-23). The index-format documentation was originally written to be read as straight text without formatting and when the commit forced everything in Documentation/ to go through AsciiDoc, it did not do any adjustment--hence the double-dashes will be seen in the resulting text that is rendered as preformatted fixed-width without converted into em-dashes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22Documentation: match underline with the textLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Even though AsciiDoc is more lenient when deciding if an underline is for the contents on the previous line to find section headers, we should match the length of them for other formatters to help them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-03bisect: allow setting any user-specified in 'git bisect start'Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+35
This allows a natural user-interface when looking for any change in the code, not just regression. For example: git bisect start --term-old fast --term-new slow git bisect fast git bisect slow ... There were several proposed user-interfaces for this feature. This patch implements it as options to 'git bisect start' for the following reasons: * By construction, the terms will be valid for one and only one bisection. * Unlike positional arguments, using named options avoid having to remember an order. * We can combine user-defined terms and passing old/new commits as argument to "git bisect start". * The implementation is relatively simple. See previous discussions: http://mid.gmane.org/1435337896-20709-3-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-03bisect: add 'git bisect terms' to view the current termsLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+10
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-03bisect: add the terms old/newLibravatar Antoine Delaite1-2/+56
When not looking for a regression during a bisect but for a fix or a change in another given property, it can be confusing to use 'good' and 'bad'. This patch introduce `git bisect new` and `git bisect old` as an alternative to 'bad' and good': the commits which have a certain property must be marked as `new` and the ones which do not as `old`. The output will be the first commit after the change in the property. During a new/old bisect session you cannot use bad/good commands and vice-versa. Some commands are still not available for old/new: * git rev-list --bisect does not treat the revs/bisect/new and revs/bisect/old-SHA1 files. Old discussions: - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/86063 introduced bisect fix unfixed to find fix. - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/182398 discussion around bisect yes/no or old/new. - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199758 last discussion and reviews New discussions: - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271320 ( v2 1/7-4/7 ) - http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/271343 ( v2 5/7-7/7 ) Signed-off-by: Antoine Delaite <antoine.delaite@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Louis Stuber <stuberl@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Valentin Duperray <Valentin.Duperray@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Franck Jonas <Franck.Jonas@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Lucien Kong <Lucien.Kong@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Thomas Nguy <Thomas.Nguy@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Huynh Khoi Nguyen Nguyen <Huynh-Khoi-Nguyen.Nguyen@ensimag.imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-26Documentation/bisect: revise overall contentLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-54/+68
Thoroughly revise the "git bisect" manpage, including: * Beef up the "Description" section. * Make the first long example less specific to kernel development. * De-emphasize implementation details in a couple of places. * Add "(roughly N steps)" in the places where example output is shown. * Properly markup code within the prose. * Lots of wordsmithing. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-26Documentation/bisect: move getting help section to the endLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-6/+5
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix ↵Libravatar Jason St. John1-1/+1
other minor grammatical issues Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14Merge branch 'mg/bisect-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* mg/bisect-doc: git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisect
2013-02-11git-bisect.txt: clarify that reset quits bisectLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-1/+6
"reset" can be easily misunderstood as resetting a bisect session to its start without finishing it. Clarify that it actually quits the bisect session. Reported-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-09bisect: add support for bisecting bare repositoriesLibravatar Jon Seymour1-0/+2
This enhances the support for bisecting history in bare repositories. The "git bisect" command no longer needs to be run inside a repository with a working tree; it defaults to --no-checkout when run in a bare repository. Two tests are included to demonstrate this behaviour. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04bisect: add documentation for --no-checkout option.Libravatar Jon Seymour1-1/+31
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sectionsLibravatar Martin von Zweigbergk1-0/+1
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse] does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections for consistency. Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting within the document more consistent. While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with other commands. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-22Merge branch 'mg/doc-bisect-tweak-worktree'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+38
* mg/doc-bisect-tweak-worktree: git-bisect.txt: example for bisecting with hot-fix git-bisect.txt: streamline run presentation
2011-03-19Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* maint: gitweb: Always call parse_date with timezone parameter bisect: explain the rationale behind 125
2011-03-19bisect: explain the rationale behind 125Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-15git-bisect.txt: example for bisecting with hot-fixLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+33
Give an example on how to bisect when older revisions need a hot-fix to build, run or test. Triggered by the binutils/kernel issue at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.binutils/52601/focus=1112779 Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-15git-bisect.txt: streamline run presentationLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-26/+8
Streamline the presentation of "bisect run" by removing one example which does not introduce new concepts. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+0
The point of these sections is generally to: 1. Give credit where it is due. 2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or file bug reports. But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless. So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section to give credit to the major contributors and point to shortlog and blame for more information. Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can follow that to the main git manpage.
2009-11-08Documentation: add "Fighting regressions with git bisect" articleLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+5
This patch adds an asciidoc version of the "Fighting regressions with git bisect" article that the author wrote for the Linux-Kongress 2009 (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009). This paper might be interesting to people who want to learn as much as possible about "git bisect" from a single document. The slides of the related presentation are available at: http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/fighting_regressions_with_git_bisect_christian_couder.pdf But the Linux Kongress people will not publish this paper online because they print the papers on their UpTimes magazine (http://www.lob.de/isbn/978-3-86541-358-1). But they don't take away the rights of the author (which is very nice), so I have the right to publish it. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-13bisect reset: Allow resetting to any commit, not just a branchLibravatar Anders Kaseorg1-6/+17
‘git bisect reset’ accepts an optional argument specifying a branch to check out after cleaning up the bisection state. This lets you specify an arbitrary commit. In particular, this provides a way to clean the bisection state without moving HEAD: ‘git bisect reset HEAD’. This may be useful if you are not interested in the state before you began a bisect, especially if checking out the old commit would be expensive and invalidate most of your compiled tree. Clarify the ‘git bisect reset’ documentation to explain this optional argument, which was previously mentioned only in the usage message. Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-13Documentation: remove warning saying that "git bisect skip" may slow bisectionLibravatar Christian Couder1-3/+2
This warning was probably useless anyway, but it is even more so now that filtering of skipped commits is done in C and that there is a mechanism to skip away from broken commits. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-26Merge branch 'dm/maint-docco'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-11/+11
* dm/maint-docco: Documentation: Remove spurious uses of "you" in git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fix in git-check-ref-format.txt Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-check-attr.txt Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-cat-file.txt Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording in git-bundle.txt Documentation: remove some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txt
2009-03-25Documentation: Remove spurious uses of "you" in git-bisect.txt.Libravatar David J. Mellor1-3/+3
These were added by accident in a42dea3. This patch also rewords the description of how ranges of commits can be skipped. Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22Documentation: remove some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txtLibravatar David J. Mellor1-11/+11
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-21Merge branch 'dm/maint-docco'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-83/+88
* dm/maint-docco: Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt. Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt. Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.
2009-03-20Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt.Libravatar David J. Mellor1-20/+24
Avoid splitting sentences across examples of command usage. Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-19Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.Libravatar David J. Mellor1-8/+9
Added fixes missing from 2364259. Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.Libravatar David J. Mellor1-77/+77
Reword this section to make it less chatty. Also make minor grammatical fixes. Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-05Documentation - More examples for git bisectLibravatar John Tapsell1-1/+17
Including passing parameters to the programs, and running more complicated checks without requiring a seperate shell script. Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-02Documentation: describe how to "bisect skip" a range of commitsLibravatar Christian Couder1-1/+20
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2008-11-09Documentation: bisect: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"Libravatar Christian Couder1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize gitk's name (where it was in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The name `gitk` is sometimes meant to be entered at the command prompt, but most uses are just referring to the program with that name (not the incantation to start it). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+3
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i" done git diff . Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and the command you type, `git whatever <options>`. So we use a dash after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter. I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some spots. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation formatting and cleanupLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-14documentation: bisect: remove bits talking about a bisection branchLibravatar Christian Couder1-4/+3
... because we are now bisecting using a detached HEAD. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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