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2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
2009-10-30Merge branch 'jn/show-normalized-refs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+19
* jn/show-normalized-refs: check-ref-format: simplify --print implementation git check-ref-format --print Add tests for git check-ref-format Conflicts: Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
2009-10-18Merge branch 'jn/maint-1.6.3-check-ref-format-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
* jn/maint-1.6.3-check-ref-format-doc: Documentation: describe check-ref-format --branch
2009-10-12git check-ref-format --printLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+19
Tolerating empty path components in ref names means each ref does not have a unique name. This creates difficulty for porcelains that want to see if two branches are equal. Add a helper associating to each ref a canonical name. If a user asks a porcelain to create a ref "refs/heads//master", the porcelain can run "git check-ref-format --print refs/heads//master" and only deal with "refs/heads/master" from then on. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-12Documentation: describe check-ref-format --branchLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+6
Unless one already knew, it was not obvious what sort of shorthand "git check-ref-format --branch" expands. Explain it. The --branch argument is not optional. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-23Merge branch 'rr/forbid-bs-in-ref'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* rr/forbid-bs-in-ref: Disallow '\' in ref names
2009-05-13Documentation: clarify / requirement in 'git check-ref-format'Libravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+4
'git check-ref-format' checks for the presence of at least one '/', the idea being that there should be no refs directly below 'refs/', so there should be a category like 'heads/' or 'tags/' in a refname. Try and make this clearer in the man page. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-09Disallow '\' in ref namesLibravatar Robin Rosenberg1-0/+2
This is asking for trouble since '\' is a directory separator in Windows and thus may produce unpredictable results. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-06Merge branch 'jc/name-branch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+19
* jc/name-branch: Don't permit ref/branch names to end with ".lock" check_ref_format(): tighten refname rules strbuf_check_branch_ref(): a helper to check a refname for a branch Fix branch -m @{-1} newname check-ref-format --branch: give Porcelain a way to grok branch shorthand strbuf_branchname(): a wrapper for branch name shorthands Rename interpret/substitute nth_last_branch functions Conflicts: Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
2009-03-24Don't permit ref/branch names to end with ".lock"Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+2
We already skip over loose refs under $GIT_DIR/refs if the name ends with ".lock", so creating a branch named "foo.lock" will not appear in the output of "git branch", "git for-each-ref", nor will its commit be considered reachable by "git rev-list --all". In the latter case this is especially evil, as it may cause repository corruption when objects reachable only through such a ref are deleted by "git prune". It should be reasonably safe to deny use of ".lock" as a ref suffix. In prior versions of Git such branches would be "phantom branches"; you can create it, but you can't see it in "git branch" output. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-24check_ref_format(): tighten refname rulesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
This changes the rules for refnames to forbid: (1) a refname that contains "@{" in it. Some people and foreign SCM converter may have named their branches as frotz@24 and we still want to keep supporting it. However, "git branch frotz@{24}" is a disaster. It cannot even checked out because "git checkout frotz@{24}" will interpret it as "detach the HEAD at twenty-fourth reflog entry of the frotz branch". (2) a refname that ends with a dot. We already reject a path component that begins with a dot, primarily to avoid ambiguous range interpretation. If we allowed ".B" as a valid ref, it is unclear if "A...B" means "in dot-B but not in A" or "either in A or B but not in both". But for this to be complete, we need also to forbid "A." to avoid "in B but not in A-dot". This was not a problem in the original range notation, but we should have added this restriction when three-dot notation was introduced. Unlike "no dot at the beginning of any path component" rule, this rule does not have to be "no dot at the end of any path component", because you cannot abbreviate the tail end away, similar to you can say "dot-B" to mean "refs/heads/dot-B". For these reasons, it is not likely people created branches with these names on purpose, but we have allowed such names to be used for quite some time, and it is possible that people created such branches by mistake or by accident. To help people with branches with such unfortunate names to recover, we still allow "branch -d 'bad.'" to delete such branches, and also allow "branch -m bad. good" to rename them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22check-ref-format --branch: give Porcelain a way to grok branch shorthandLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+12
The command may not be the best place to add this new feature, but $ git check-ref-format --branch "@{-1}" allows Porcelains to figure out what branch you were on before the last branch switching. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22Documentation: minor grammatical fix in git-check-ref-format.txtLibravatar David J. Mellor1-20/+20
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
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>
2008-07-01Documentation formatting and cleanupLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
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 Nieder1-2/+2
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>
2008-06-06documentation: 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>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-3/+3
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2006-06-07Some doc typo fixesLibravatar Francis Daly1-2/+3
All should be clear enough, except perhaps committish / commitish. I just kept the more-used one within the current docs. [jc: with rephrasing of check-ref-format description later discussed on the list] Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-21Elaborate on why ':' is a bad idea in a ref name.Libravatar Shawn Pearce1-0/+2
With the new cat-file syntax of 'v1.3.3:refs.c' we should mention it as part of the reason why ':' is not permitted in a ref name. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09Remove trailing dot after short descriptionLibravatar Fredrik Kuivinen1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-16Forbid pattern maching characters in refnames.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+5
by marking '?', '*', and '[' as bad_ref_char(). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-16ref-format documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+50
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>