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2016-08-15clone: implement optional referencesLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+4
In a later patch we want to try to create alternates for submodules, but they might not exist in the referenced superproject. So add a way to skip the non existing references and report them. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-06Merge branch 'sb/clone-shallow-passthru'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream of the submodules are not prepared for. * sb/clone-shallow-passthru: clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodules
2016-06-20clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodulesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
In v2.9.0, we prematurely flipped the default to force cloning submodules shallowly, when the superproject is getting cloned shallowly. This is likely to fail when the upstream repositories submodules are cloned from a repository that is not prepared to serve histories that ends at a commit that is not at the tip of a branch, and we know the world is not yet ready. Use a safer default to clone the submodules fully, unless the user tells us that she knows that the upstream repository of the submodules are willing to cooperate with "--shallow-submodules" option. Noticed-by: Vadim Eisenberg <VADIME@il.ibm.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-06Merge branch 'sb/clone-shallow-passthru'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+8
"git clone" learned "--shallow-submodules" option. * sb/clone-shallow-passthru: clone: add `--shallow-submodules` flag
2016-04-26clone: add `--shallow-submodules` flagLibravatar Stefan Beller1-3/+10
When creating a shallow clone of a repository with submodules, the depth argument does not influence the submodules, i.e. the submodules are done as non-shallow clones. It is unclear what the best default is for the depth of submodules of a shallow clone, so we need to have the possibility to do all kinds of combinations: * shallow super project with shallow submodules e.g. build bots starting always from scratch. They want to transmit the least amount of network data as well as using the least amount of space on their hard drive. * shallow super project with unshallow submodules e.g. The superproject is just there to track a collection of repositories and it is not important to have the relationship between the repositories intact. However the history of the individual submodules matter. * unshallow super project with shallow submodules e.g. The superproject is the actual project and the submodule is a library which is rarely touched. The new switch to select submodules to be shallow or unshallow supports all of these three cases. It is easy to transition from the first to the second case by just unshallowing the submodules (`git submodule foreach git fetch --unshallow`), but it is not possible to transition from the second to the first case (as we would have already transmitted the non shallow over the network). That is why we want to make the first case the default in case of a shallow super project. This leads to the inconvenience in the second case with the shallow super project and unshallow submodules, as you need to pass `--no-shallow-submodules`. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-04-06Merge branch 'sb/submodule-parallel-update'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in parallel. * sb/submodule-parallel-update: clone: allow an explicit argument for parallel submodule clones submodule update: expose parallelism to the user submodule helper: remove double 'fatal: ' prefix git submodule update: have a dedicated helper for cloning run_processes_parallel: rename parameters for the callbacks run_processes_parallel: treat output of children as byte array submodule update: direct error message to stderr fetching submodules: respect `submodule.fetchJobs` config option submodule-config: drop check against NULL submodule-config: keep update strategy around
2016-03-01clone: allow an explicit argument for parallel submodule clonesLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+5
Just pass it along to "git submodule update", which may pick reasonable defaults if you don't specify an explicit number. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-17Merge branch 'jk/drop-rsync-transport'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when the source repository has packed references for a long time, and nobody noticed nor complained about it. * jk/drop-rsync-transport: transport: drop support for git-over-rsync
2016-02-01transport: drop support for git-over-rsyncLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+1
The git-over-rsync protocol is inefficient and broken, and has been for a long time. It transfers way more objects than it needs (grabbing all of the remote's "objects/", regardless of which objects we need). It does its own ad-hoc parsing of loose and packed refs from the remote, but doesn't properly override packed refs with loose ones, leading to garbage results (e.g., expecting the other side to have an object pointed to by a stale packed-refs entry, or complaining that the other side has two copies of the refs[1]). This latter breakage means that nobody could have successfully pulled from a moderately active repository since cd547b4 (fetch/push: readd rsync support, 2007-10-01). We never made an official deprecation notice in the release notes for git's rsync protocol, but the tutorial has marked it as such since 914328a (Update tutorial., 2005-08-30). And on the mailing list as far back as Oct 2005, we can find Junio mentioning it as having "been deprecated for quite some time."[2,3,4]. So it was old news then; cogito had deprecated the transport in July of 2005[5] (though it did come back briefly when Linus broke git-http-pull!). Of course some people professed their love of rsync through 2006, but Linus clarified in his usual gentle manner[6]: > Thanks! This is why I still use rsync, even though > everybody and their mother tells me "Linus says rsync is > deprecated." No. You're using rsync because you're actively doing something _wrong_. The deprecation sentiment was reinforced in 2008, with a mention that cloning via rsync is broken (with no fix)[7]. Even the commit porting rsync over to C from shell (cd547b4) lists it as deprecated! So between the 10 years of informal warnings, and the fact that it has been severely broken since 2007, it's probably safe to simply remove it without further deprecation warnings. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/285101 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/10093 [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17734 [4] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18911 [5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5617 [6] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19354 [7] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103635 Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-20Merge branch 'ss/clone-depth-single-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+4
Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity. * ss/clone-depth-single-doc: docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
2016-01-08docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-cloneLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-1/+1
It is not wrong to talk about "revisions" here, but in this context revisions are always commits, and that is how we already name it in the git-fetch docs. So align the docs by always referring to "commits". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-07docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branchLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-5/+4
It is confusing to document how --depth behaves as part of the --single-branch docs. Better move that part to the --depth docs, saying that it implies --single-branch by default. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22clone: allow "--dissociate" without referenceLibravatar Alex Riesen1-2/+7
The "--reference" option is not the only way to provide a repository to borrow objects from. A repository that borrows from another repository can be cloned with "clone --local" and the resulting repository will borrow from the same repository, which the user may want to "--dissociate" from. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15clone: --dissociate option to mark that reference is only temporaryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+9
While use of the --reference option to borrow objects from an existing local repository of the same project is an effective way to reduce traffic when cloning a project over the network, it makes the resulting "borrowing" repository dependent on the "borrowed" repository. After running git clone --reference=P $URL Q the resulting repository Q will be broken if the borrowed repository P disappears. The way to allow the borrowed repository to be removed is to repack the borrowing repository (i.e. run "git repack -a -d" in Q); while power users may know it very well, it is not easily discoverable. Teach a new "--dissociate" option to "git clone" to run this repacking for the user. Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-11docs/git-clone: clarify use of --no-hardlinks optionLibravatar Albert L. Lash, IV1-7/+4
Current text claims optimization, implying the use of hardlinks, when this option ratchets down the level of efficiency. This change explains the difference made by using this option, namely copying instead of hardlinking, and why it may be useful. Signed-off-by: Albert L. Lash, IV <alash3@bloomberg.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-07Merge branch 'ow/manpages-typofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Various typofixes, all looked correct. * ow/manpages-typofix: Documentation: fix typos in man pages
2014-02-05Documentation: fix typos in man pagesLibravatar Øystein Walle1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-10git-clone.txt: remove shallow clone limitationsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-6/+1
Now that git supports data transfer from or to a shallow clone, these limitations are not true anymore. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-15Revert "git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow clone"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+5
This reverts commit dacd2bcc414e0b7aac36aaa400da0a743c4741cc. "It fails reliably without corrupting the receiving repository when it should fail" may be better than the situation before the receiving end was hardened recently, but the fact that sometimes the push does not go through still remains. It is better to advice the users that they cannot push from a shallow repository as a limitation before they decide to use (or not to use) a shallow clone. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-12git-clone.txt: remove the restriction on pushing from a shallow cloneLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-5/+7
The document says one cannot push from a shallow clone. But that is not true (maybe it was at some point in the past). The client does not stop such a push nor does it give any indication to the receiver that this is a shallow push. If the receiver accepts it, it's in. Since 52fed6e (receive-pack: check connectivity before concluding "git push" - 2011-09-02), receive-pack is prepared to deal with broken push, a shallow push can't cause any corruption. Update the document to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-22Documentation: Update 'linux-2.6.git' -> 'linux.git'Libravatar W. Trevor King1-2/+2
The 3.x tree has been out for a while now. The -2.6 repository name survived the initial release [1], but kernel.org now only lists 'linux.git' (for aegl as well as torvalds) [2]. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147422 On 2011-05-30 01:47:57 GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote: > ... yes, that means that my git tree is still called > "linux-2.6.git" on kernel.org. [2]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/ Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-22doc/clone: Pick more compelling paths for the --reference exampleLibravatar W. Trevor King1-4/+4
There may be times when using one of your local repositories as a reference for a new clone make sense, but the implied version-bump in the old example isn't one of them. I think a more intuitive example is multi-user system with a central reference clone, and the new paths hint at this use case. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-22doc/clone: Remove the '--bare -l -s' exampleLibravatar W. Trevor King1-7/+0
There are other examples in git-clone.txt demonstrating both '--bare' and '-l -s'. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17documentation: trivial style cleanupsLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-2/+2
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@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 Ackermann1-7/+7
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GITLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT, to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days. Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding guideline. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-25Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branchLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+2
This change was already done by 0e615b252f3 (Matthieu Moy, Tue Nov 2 2010, Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"), but new instances of remote tracking (without dash) were introduced in the meantime. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-08Merge branch 'rt/maint-clone-single' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+11
A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating the whole point of specifying "only this branch". * rt/maint-clone-single: clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
2012-09-20clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branchLibravatar Ralf Thielow1-4/+11
After running "git clone --single", the resulting repository has the usual default "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" wildcard fetch refspec installed, which means that a subsequent "git fetch" will end up grabbing all the other branches. Update the fetch refspec to cover only the singly cloned ref instead to correct this. That means: If "--single" is used without "--branch" or "--mirror", the fetch refspec covers the branch on which remote's HEAD points to. If "--single" is used with "--branch", it'll cover only the branch specified in the "--branch" option. If "--single" is combined with "--mirror", then it'll cover all refs of the cloned repository. If "--single" is used with "--branch" that specifies a tag, then it'll cover only the ref for this tag. Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-30clone: allow --no-local to turn off local optimizationsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+3
This is basically the same as using "file://", but is a little less subtle for the end user. It also allows relative paths to be specified. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-30docs/clone: mention that --local may be ignoredLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+10
The --local flag is not "treat this like a local repository", but rather "if we are local, turn on optimizations". Therefore it does nothing in the case of: git clone --local file:///path/to/repo Let's make that more clear in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-16clone: allow --branch to take a tagLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+3
Because a tag ref cannot be put to HEAD, HEAD will become detached. This is consistent with "git checkout <tag>". This is mostly useful in shallow clone, where it allows you to clone a tag in addtion to branches. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-08clone: add --single-branch to fetch only one branchLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+10
When --single-branch is given, only one branch, either HEAD or one specified by --branch, will be fetched. Also only tags that point to the downloaded history are fetched. This helps most in shallow clones, where it can reduce the download to minimum and that is why it is enabled by default when --depth is given. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-22clone: accept config options on the command lineLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+11
Clone does all of init, "remote add", fetch, and checkout without giving the user a chance to intervene and set any configuration. This patch allows you to set config options in the newly created repository after the clone, but before we do any other operations. In many cases, this is a minor convenience over something like: git clone git://... git config core.whatever true But in some cases, it can bring extra efficiency by changing how the fetch or checkout work. For example, setting line-ending config before the checkout avoids having to re-checkout all of the contents with the correct line endings. It also provides a mechanism for passing information to remote helpers during a clone; the helpers may read the git config to influence how they operate. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-25init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dirLibravatar Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy1-2/+1
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-19init, clone: support --separate-git-dir for .git fileLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+10
--separate-git-dir tells git to create git dir at the specified location, instead of where it is supposed to be. A .git file that points to that location will be put in place so that it appears normal to repo discovery process. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-11/+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.
2010-11-29Merge branch 'jl/clone-recurse-sm-synonym'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
* jl/clone-recurse-sm-synonym: clone: Add the --recurse-submodules option as alias for --recursive
2010-11-05clone: Add the --recurse-submodules option as alias for --recursiveLibravatar Jens Lehmann1-1/+3
Since 1.6.5 "git clone" honors the --recursive option to recursively check out submodules too. As this option can easily be misinterpreted when it is added to other commands like "git grep", add the new --recurse-submodules option as an alias for --recursive so the same option can be used for all commands recursing into submodules. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while "remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally. The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do. This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-06Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verboselyLibravatar Uwe Kleine-König1-1/+6
Some people in #linux-rt noticed that describing what "--mirror" option does with "it mirrors" is way insufficient. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com> Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-21Sync with Git 1.7.0.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
* maint: Git 1.7.0.3 .mailmap: Map the the first submissions of MJG by e-mail Documentation/git-clone: Transform description list into item list Documentation/urls: Remove spurious example markers Documentation/gitdiffcore: Remove misleading date in heading Documentation/git-reflog: Fix formatting of command lists
2010-03-21Merge branch 'maint-1.6.6' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
* maint-1.6.6: Documentation/git-clone: Transform description list into item list Documentation/urls: Remove spurious example markers Documentation/gitdiffcore: Remove misleading date in heading Documentation/git-reflog: Fix formatting of command lists
2010-03-21Documentation/git-clone: Transform description list into item listLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-5/+5
so that the list of examples is formatted in the same way as for git-fetch, and, more importantly, the different identation for the code blocks in the examples (compared to the immediately preceding code blocks from url.txt) doesn't look like misformatted, but is clarified by the items' bullets. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-15Merge branch 'tc/transport-verbosity'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* tc/transport-verbosity: transport: update flags to be in running order fetch and pull: learn --progress push: learn --progress transport->progress: use flag authoritatively clone: support multiple levels of verbosity push: support multiple levels of verbosity fetch: refactor verbosity option handling into transport.[ch] Documentation/git-push: put --quiet before --verbose Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch ones Documentation/git-clone: mention progress in -v Conflicts: transport.h
2010-03-10Merge branch 'sd/init-template'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* sd/init-template: wrap-for-bin: do not export an empty GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR t/t0001-init.sh: add test for 'init with init.templatedir set' init: having keywords without value is not a global error. Add a "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section to git-init[1]. Add `init.templatedir` configuration variable.
2010-02-24Documentation/git-clone: mention progress in -vLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-1/+2
After 5a518ad (clone: use --progress to force progress reporting), -v/--verbose did not affect whether progress status was reported to stderr, and users accustomed to using -v to do so since 21188b1 (Implement git clone -v) may be confused. Mitigate such risks by stating -v does not affect progress in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhereLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it is missing some of the refs they expected to see. This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just "refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note: - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming "refs/heads/"). - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs). - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17Add a "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section to git-init[1].Libravatar Steven Drake1-2/+1
Create a more inoformative section to describe template directory and refer to it in config.txt and with the '--template' option of git-init and git-clone commands. Signed-off-by: Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-28clone: use --progress to force progress reportingLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-0/+3
Follow the argument convention of git-pack-objects, such that a separate option (--preogress) is used to force progress reporting instead of -v/--verbose. -v/--verbose now does not force progress reporting. Make git-clone.txt say so. This should cover all the bases in 21188b1 (Implement git clone -v), which implemented the option to force progress reporting. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>