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2016-05-10commit: add a commit.verbose config variableLibravatar Pranit Bauva1-1/+2
Add commit.verbose configuration variable as a convenience for those who always prefer --verbose. Add tests to check the behavior introduced by this commit and also to verify that behavior of status doesn't break because of this commit. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-05Expand documentation describing --signoffLibravatar David A. Wheeler1-1/+5
Modify various document (man page) files to explain in more detail what --signoff means. This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...". Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue that developers understood --signoff when they use it. Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-21Documentation: explain optional arguments betterLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+3
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two ways: * Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands creating commits) when used without the optional argument. * Document the syntax of these options. For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g. "git status -u no" does not work. Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '=' sign between the option and its argument. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-21Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-01Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Doc grammar fix. * mc/commit-doc-grammofix: Documentation/git-commit: grammofix
2015-05-19Documentation/git-commit: grammofixLibravatar Michael Coleman1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <michael.karl.coleman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-27Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log messageLibravatar Fredrik Gustafsson1-4/+7
The `-v` shows a unified diff in the editor to edit the commit message to help the user to describe the change. The diff is stripped and will not become a part of the commit message. Add a note about this with the `-v` description and slightly modify the description for the default `--cleanup` mode. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-23Merge branch 'nd/config-doc-camelCase'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Documentation updates. * nd/config-doc-camelCase: *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention
2015-03-13*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming conventionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-06commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -vLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+4
git commit and git status in long format show the diff between HEAD and the index when given -v. This allows previewing a commit to be made. They also list tracked files with unstaged changes, but without a diff. Introduce '-v -v' which shows the diff between the index and the worktree in addition to the HEAD index diff. This allows a review of unstaged changes which might be missing from the commit. In the case of '-v -v', additonal header lines Changes to be committed: and Changes not staged for commit: are inserted before the diffs, which are equal to those in the status part; the latter preceded by 50*"-" to make it stick out more. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-18Merge branch 'jc/doc-commit-only'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
* jc/doc-commit-only: Documentation/git-commit: clarify that --only/--include records the working tree contents
2014-11-07Documentation/git-commit: clarify that --only/--include records the working ↵Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
tree contents With the original phrasing, it is possible to misunderstand as if the contents in the index for only the specified paths are made into the new commit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-08Merge branch 'jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Make sure that the help text given to describe the "<param>" part of the "git cmd --option=<param>" does not contain SP or _, e.g. "--gpg-sign=<key-id>" option for "git commit" is not spelled as "--gpg-sign=<key id>". * jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words: parse-options: make sure argh string does not have SP or _ update-index: teach --cacheinfo a new syntax "mode,sha1,path" parse-options: multi-word argh should use dash to separate words
2014-03-25Merge branch 'nd/commit-editor-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
"git commit --cleanup=<mode>" learned a new mode, scissors. * nd/commit-editor-cleanup: commit: add --cleanup=scissors wt-status.c: move cut-line print code out to wt_status_add_cut_line wt-status.c: make cut_line[] const to shrink .data section a bit
2014-03-24parse-options: multi-word argh should use dash to separate wordsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that you must not use a space. Because it is more common for the command line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to use spaces in these places. Rephrase the documentation to avoid this strangeness. Fix a few existing multi-word argument help strings, i.e. - GPG key-ids given to -S/--gpg-sign are "key-id"; - Refs used for storing notes are "notes-ref"; and - Expiry timestamps given to --expire are "expiry-date". and update the corresponding documentation pages. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-25commit: add --cleanup=scissorsLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+7
Since 1a72cfd (commit -v: strip diffs and submodule shortlogs from the commit message - 2013-12-05) we have a less fragile way to cut out "git status" at the end of a commit message but it's only enabled for stripping submodule shortlogs. Add new cleanup option that reuses the same mechanism for the entire "git status" without accidentally removing lines starting with '#'. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24commit-tree: add and document --no-gpg-signLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Document how to override commit.gpgsign configuration that is set to true per "git commit" invocation (parse-options machinery lets us say "--no-gpg-sign" to do so). "git commit-tree" does not use parse-options, so manually add the corresponding option for now. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17documentation: trivial style cleanupsLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-1/+1
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>
2013-05-02Documentation/git-commit: Typo under --editLibravatar Anders Granskogen Bjørnstad1-2/+2
-C takes a commit object, not a file. Signed-off-by: Anders Granskogen Bjørnstad <andersgb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-12Merge branch 'cn/commit-amend-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+9
* cn/commit-amend-doc: Documentation/git-commit: reword the --amend explanation
2013-04-05Documentation/git-commit: reword the --amend explanationLibravatar Carlos Martín Nieto1-8/+9
The explanation for 'git commit --amend' talks about preparing a tree object, which shouldn't be how user-facing documentation talks about commit. Reword it to say it works as usual, but replaces the current commit. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-03Merge branch 'bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+19
'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when $msg already ended with one. * bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option: Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
2013-03-27Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* maint-1.8.1: merge-tree: fix typo in merge-tree.c::unresolved git-commit doc: describe use of multiple `-m` options git-pull doc: fix grammo ("conflicts" is plural)
2013-03-27git-commit doc: describe use of multiple `-m` optionsLibravatar Christian Helmuth1-0/+2
The text is copied from Documentation/git-tag.txt. Signed-off-by: Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth@genode-labs.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup sectionLibravatar Brandon Casey1-10/+19
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@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 Ackermann1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurableLibravatar Ralf Thielow1-1/+3
The default of the "cleanup" option in "git commit" is not configurable. Users who don't want to use the default have to pass this option on every commit since there's no way to configure it. This commit introduces a new config option "commit.cleanup" which can be used to change the default of the "cleanup" option in "git commit". Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-27Merge branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
* branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign': Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"
2012-11-20Merge branch 'mm/maint-doc-commit-edit' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* mm/maint-doc-commit-edit: Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly
2012-11-20Merge branch 'as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+3
* as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite: commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description
2012-11-15Merge branch 'mm/maint-doc-commit-edit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* mm/maint-doc-commit-edit: Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly
2012-11-15Merge branch 'as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+3
* as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite: commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description
2012-11-04Merge branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign'Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+5
* tj/maint-doc-commit-sign: Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"
2012-11-02commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite descriptionLibravatar Andreas Schwab1-4/+3
In e858af6 (commit: document a couple of options) the description of the --no-post-rewrite option was put inside the paragraph for the --amend option. Move it down after the paragraph. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-11-02Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitlyLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"Libravatar Tom Jones1-1/+5
git commit -S, --gpg-sign was mentioned in the program's help message, but not in the manpage. This adds an equivalent entry for the option in the manpage. Signed-off-by: Tom Jones <tom@oxix.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-18status: add --long output format optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
You can currently set the output format to --short or --porcelain. There is no --long, because we default to it already. However, you may want to override an alias that uses "--short" to get back to the default. This requires a little bit of refactoring, because currently we use STATUS_FORMAT_LONG internally to mean the same as "the user did not specify anything". By expanding the enum to include STATUS_FORMAT_NONE, we can distinguish between the implicit and explicit cases. This effects these conditions: 1. The user has asked for NUL termination. With NONE, we currently default to turning on the porcelain mode. With an explicit --long, we would in theory use NUL termination with the long mode, but it does not support it. So we can just complain and die. 2. When an output format is given to "git commit", we default to "--dry-run". This behavior would now kick in when "--long" is given, too. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-13Documentation: describe subject more preciselyLibravatar Jeremy White1-2/+4
The discussion of email subject throughout the documentation is misleading; it indicates that the first line will always become the subject. In fact, the subject is generally all lines up until the first full blank line. This patch refines that, and makes more use of the concept of a commit title, with the title being all text up to the first blank line. Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-24Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Document $GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG file. * jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg: commit: document the temporary commit message file
2012-07-23commit: document the temporary commit message fileLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want to know about it for two reasons: 1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself for formatting a commit message. 2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want to recover the commit message they typed. Let's put a note in git-commit(1). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-25Merge branch 'rr/doc-commit'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* rr/doc-commit: commit: document a couple of options
2012-06-08commit: document a couple of optionsLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-0/+8
Document git commit '--branch' and '--no-post-rewrite'. Mention that '-z' can also be spelt as '--null'. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03Documentation/git-commit: rephrase the "initial-ness" of templatesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+8
The description of "commit -t <file>" said the file is used "as the initial version" of the commit message, but in the context of an SCM, "version" is a loaded word that can needlesslyl confuse readers. Explain the purpose of the mechanism without using "version". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-01git-commit.txt: clarify -t requires editing messageLibravatar Adam Monsen1-5/+5
Make it clear that, when using commit --template, the message *must* be changed or the commit will be aborted. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Ivan Heffner <iheffner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29Merge branch 'jn/maint-doc-dashdash' into jn/doc-dashdashLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jn/maint-doc-dashdash: Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
2011-06-29Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDocLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces (outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash. Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus signs. Thus from time to time there have been patches to add backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line; see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly, 2006-05-05, for example. AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash, though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages (e.g., HTML). Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30). AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that requirement. Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by alphanumeric characters. The unescaped markup for option names (e.g., "--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em dashes when formatted by an older toolchain. (This patch will not change that.) The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash by current asciidoc. Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use "{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command name. The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23). List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09Add support for -p/--patch to git-commitLibravatar Conrad Irwin1-9/+16
The --interactive flag is already shared by git add and git commit, share the -p and --patch flags too. Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-08Use a temporary index for git commit --interactiveLibravatar Conrad Irwin1-1/+2
Change the behaviour of git commit --interactive so that when you abort the commit (by leaving the commit message empty) the index remains unchanged. Hitherto an aborted commit --interactive has added the selected hunks to the index regardless of whether the commit succeeded or not. Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-6/+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.