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2007-07-11branch --track: code cleanup and saner handling of local branchesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+2
This patch cleans up some complicated code, and replaces it with a cleaner version, using code from remote.[ch], which got extended a little in the process. This also enables us to fix two cases: The earlier "fix" to setup tracking only when the original ref started with "refs/remotes" is wrong. You are absolutely allowed to use a separate layout for your tracking branches. The correct fix, of course, is to set up tracking information only when there is a matching remote.<nick>.fetch line containing a colon. Another corner case was not handled properly. If two remotes write to the original ref, just warn the user and do not set up tracking. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-08branch.autosetupmerge: allow boolean values, or "all"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+3
Junio noticed that switching on autosetupmerge unilaterally started cluttering the config for local branches. That is not the original intention of branch.autosetupmerge, which was meant purely for convenience when branching off of remote branches, but that semantics got lost somewhere. If you still want that "new" behavior, you can switch branch.autosetupmerge to the value "all". Otherwise, it is interpreted as a boolean, which triggers setting up defaults _only_ when branching off of a remote branch, i.e. the originally intended behavior. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02Documentation: minor cleanups to branch/checkout wordingLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
Change "to made" to "made to", which is a typo. Use "reflog" instead of "ref log", which is used elsewhere throughout the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02Documentation: quote {non-attributes} for asciidocLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Asciidoc treats {foo} as an attribute to be substituted; if 'foo' doesn't exist as an attribute, then the entire line gets dropped. When the literal {foo} is desired, \{foo} is required. The exceptions to this rule are: - inside literal blocks - if the 'foo' contains non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., {foo|bar} is assumed not to be an attribute) Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-04-23Reverse the order of -b and --track in the man page.Libravatar Brian Gernhardt1-1/+1
Using "-b --track newbranch oldbranch" gives the error: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing However, "--track -b ..." works just fine. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16Documentation: clarify track/no-track option.Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-4/+8
Fix the description of the --no-track option so it no longer says the opposite of what was intended. Also mention branch.autosetupmerge explicitly. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16Documentation: clarify git-checkout -f, minor editingLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-4/+5
"Force a re-read of everything" doesn't mean much to me. Also some minor grammar fixes. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-10git-branch, git-checkout: autosetup for remote branch trackingLibravatar Paolo Bonzini1-2/+13
In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence: git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic' branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch. This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions when creating your 'mytopic' branch. If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option. The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track option to countermand it even if the variable is set. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17Convert update-index references in docs to add.Libravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-3/+4
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing update-index. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13Documentation: Moving out of detached HEAD does not warn anymore.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+6
The documentation still talked about the unnecessary 'safety' in git-checkout. Pointed out by Matthias Lederhofer. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01add a quiet option to git-checkoutLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-1/+4
Those new messages are certainly nice, but there might be cases where they are simply unwelcome, like when git-commit is used within scripts. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-31Documentation: "git-checkout <tree> <path>" takes any tree-ishLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+7
Especially, it is not limited to branch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17Documentation: detached HEADLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+52
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention detached HEAD in repository-layout document. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-23Merge branch 'sp/reflog' into nextLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* sp/reflog: Enable ref log creation in git checkout -b. Create/delete branch ref logs. Include ref log detail in commit, reset, etc. Change order of -m option to update-ref. Correct force_write bug in refs.c Change 'master@noon' syntax to 'master@{noon}'. Log ref updates made by fetch. Force writing ref if it doesn't exist. Added logs/ directory to repository layout. General ref log reading improvements. Fix ref log parsing so it works properly. Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax Log ref updates to logs/refs/<ref> Convert update-ref to use ref_lock API. Improve abstraction of ref lock/write.
2006-05-21Reference git-check-ref-format in git-branch.Libravatar Shawn Pearce1-1/+4
Its nice to have git-check-ref-format actually get mentioned in git-branch's documentation as the syntax of a ref name must conform to what is described in git-check-ref-format. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-19Enable ref log creation in git checkout -b.Libravatar Shawn Pearce1-1/+6
Switch git checkout -b to use git-update-ref rather than echo and a shell I/O redirection. This is more in line with typical GIT commands and allows -b to be logged according to the normal ref logging rules. Added -l option to allow users to create the ref log at the same time as creating a branch. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-28Fix up remaining man pages that use asciidoc "callouts".Libravatar Sean Estabrooks1-9/+9
Unfortunately docbook does not allow a callout to be referenced from inside a callout list description. Rewrite one paragraph in git-reset man page to work around this limitation. Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-03-17Rewrite synopsis to clarify the two primary uses of git-checkout.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-10/+13
Fix a few typo/grammar problems. Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> 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>
2006-01-13checkout: merge local modifications while switching branches.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+69
* Instead of going interactive, introduce a command line switch '-m' to allow merging changes when normal two-way merge by read-tree prevents branch switching. * Leave the unmerged stages intact if automerge fails, but reset index entries of cleanly merged paths to that of the new branch, so that "git diff" (not "git diff HEAD") would show the local modifications. * Swap the order of trees in read-tree three-way merge used in the fallback, so that `git diff` to show the conflicts become more natural. * Describe the new option and give more examples in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-12Documentation: more examples.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-18git-checkout: revert specific paths to either index or a given tree-ish.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+39
When extra paths arguments are given, git-checkout reverts only those paths to either the version recorded in the index or the version recorded in the given tree-ish. This has been on the TODO list for quite a while. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20[PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macroLibravatar Sergey Vlasov1-1/+1
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands: perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \ README Documentation/*.txt perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \ README Documentation/*.txt Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07Big tool rename.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+43
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences since 0.99.6 are: (1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if something is implemented as a shell script or not. (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with 'index' if that is what they mean. There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near future. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>