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2010-07-20Documentation: spelling fixesLibravatar Ville Skyttä1-2/+2
[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-07Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
* maint: commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
2010-06-06commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is usedLibravatar Jay Soffian1-4/+5
commit --author was added by 146ea06 (git commit --author=$name: look $name up in existing commits), but its documentation was sorely lacking compared to its excellent commit message. This commit tries to improve the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-07Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messagesLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-1/+7
Change git-commit(1) to accept the --allow-empty-message option to allow a commit with an empty message. This is analogous to the existing --allow-empty option which allows a commit that records no changes. As these are mainly for interoperating with foreign SCM systems, and are not meant for normal use, ensure that "git commit -h" does not talk about them. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-19Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)Libravatar Jacob Helwig1-3/+3
Ever since the "See linkgit:git-config[1]..." paragraph was added to the description for --untracked-files (d6293d1), the paragraphs for the following options were indented at the same level as the "See linkgit:git-config[1]" paragraph. This problem showed up in the manpages, but not in the HTML documentation. While this does fix the alignment of the options following --untracked-files in the manpage, the "See linkgit..." portion of the description does not retain its previous indentation level in the manpages, or HTML documentation. Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+10
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next: Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull" Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-config.txt Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-17Merge branch 'jh/commit-status'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+13
* jh/commit-status: t7502: test commit.status, --status and --no-status commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status Conflicts: Documentation/git-commit.txt builtin-commit.c
2010-01-13commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-statusLibravatar James P. Howard, II1-1/+13
A new configuration variable commit.status, and new command line options --status, and --no-status control whether or not the git status information is included in the commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit message. It does not affect the effects of a user's commit.template settings. Signed-off-by: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-10/+10
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.
2010-01-07Merge branch 'mv/commit-date'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* mv/commit-date: Document date formats accepted by parse_date() builtin-commit: add --date option
2009-12-27Merge branch 'jk/1.7.0-status'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
* jk/1.7.0-status: status/commit: do not suggest "reset HEAD <path>" while merging commit/status: "git add <path>" is not necessarily how to resolve commit/status: check $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD only once t7508-status: test all modes with color t7508-status: status --porcelain ignores relative paths setting status: reduce duplicated setup code status: disable color for porcelain format status -s: obey color.status builtin-commit: refactor short-status code into wt-status.c t7508-status.sh: Add tests for status -s status -s: respect the status.relativePaths option docs: note that status configuration affects only long format commit: support alternate status formats status: add --porcelain output format status: refactor format option parsing status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function status: typo fix in usage git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore git stat -s: short status output git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit" Conflicts: t/t4034-diff-words.sh wt-status.c
2009-12-03Document date formats accepted by parse_date()Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03builtin-commit: add --date optionLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+4
This is like --author: allow a user to specify a given date without using the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-30Merge branch 'em/commit-claim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
2009-11-13add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere. This should make the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with spaces) a little more consistent. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04commit -c/-C/--amend: reset timestamp and authorship to committer with ↵Libravatar Erick Mattos1-1/+6
--reset-author When we use -c, -C, or --amend, we are trying one of two things: using the source as a template or modifying a commit with corrections. When these options are used, the authorship and timestamp recorded in the newly created commit are always taken from the original commit. This is inconvenient when we just want to borrow the commit log message or when our change to the code is so significant that we should take over the authorship (with the blame for bugs we introduce, of course). The new --reset-author option is meant to solve this need by regenerating the timestamp and setting the committer as the new author. Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-13git-commit doc: remove duplicated --dry-run descriptionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+1
60c2993 (Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run, 2009-08-15) wanted to update the documentation to say that "git status" is not the same as "git commit --dry-run" anymore, but it screwed up and also added the description of --dry-run that was already present. Noticed by Johannes Gilger. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-05commit: support alternate status formatsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+14
The status command recently grew "short" and "porcelain" options for alternate output formats. Since status is no longer "commit --dry-run", these formats are inaccessible to people who do want to see a dry-run in a parseable form. This patch makes those formats available to "git commit", implying the "dry-run" option when they are used. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-15Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-runLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-07commit: --dry-runLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
This teaches --dry-run option to "git commit". It is the same as "git status", but in the longer term we would want to change the semantics of "git status" not to be the preview of commit, and this is the first step for doing so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19Merge branch 'maint' to sync with GIT 1.6.0.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntaxLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-27Merge branch 'rw/maint-typofix' into rw/typofixLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* rw/maint-typofix: Fix typos in the documentation.
2008-11-27Fix typos in the documentation.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18git-commit.txt - mention that files listed on the command line must be known ↵Libravatar Mark Burton1-1/+2
to git. Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19Merge branch 'tr/workflow-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* tr/workflow-doc: Documentation: add manpage about workflows Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
2008-10-19Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* maint: Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit
2008-10-18Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commitLibravatar Abhijit Bhopatkar1-1/+2
'--signoff' uses commiter name always to add the signoff line, make it explicit in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-15Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewritingLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+4
This points readers at the "Recovering from upstream rebase" warning in git-rebase(1) when we talk about rewriting published history in the 'reset', 'commit --amend', and 'filter-branch' documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30git commit --author=$name: look $name up in existing commitsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
This allows "git commit --author=$name" to accept a name that is not in the required "A U Thor <author@example.xz>" format, and use that to look up an author name that matches from existing commits. When using this feature, it is the user's responsibility to give a name that uniquely matches the name s/he wants, as the logic returns the name from the first matching commit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21Update my e-mail addressLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-10/+10
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 Nieder1-1/+1
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>
2008-07-05git-commit(1): depersonalize descriptionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
The intent is to make git-commit(1) feel more like a manual page. The change also makes the page four words shorter. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation formatting and cleanupLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-10/+10
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>
2008-07-01Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pagesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
With the conversion of HTML documentation to man pages tutorial.html -> gittutorial (7) tutorial-2.html -> gittutorial-2 (7) cvs-migration.html -> gitcvs-migration (7) diffcore.html -> gitdiffcore (7) repository-layout.html -> gitrepository-layout (5) hooks.html -> githooks (5) glossary.html -> gitglossary (7) core-tutorial.html -> gitcore-tutorial (7) and the automatic update of references to these pages, a little debris was left behind. We clear it away. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-22Merge branch 'mo/status-untracked'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+17
* mo/status-untracked: Add configuration option for default untracked files mode Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option Conflicts: Documentation/git-commit.txt
2008-06-09Add configuration option for default untracked files modeLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-0/+4
By default, the untracked files mode for commit/status is 'normal' Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-filesLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-0/+1
This new argument teaches Git to not look for any untracked files, saving cycles on slow file systems, or large repos. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files optionLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-7/+11
This lets you specify how you want untracked files to be listed. The possible options are: normal - Show untracked files and directories all - Show all untracked files The 'all' mode is used, if the mode is not specified. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-14/+28
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list of the options a git command accepts. Currently there are several variants to describe the case that different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section. Some are: -f, --foo:: -f|--foo:: -f | --foo:: But AsciiDoc has the special form: -f:: --foo:: This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite, and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08git-commit.txt: Add missing long/short optionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-8/+9
Also split the "-c or -C <commit>" item into two separate items. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08git-commit.txt: Correct option alternativesLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-4/+4
This patch fixes the SYNOPSIS in git-commit.txt: * --amend could be used in conjunction with -c/-C/-F/-m; it is not mutually exclusive with them. * -m and -F are not alternative options to -c/-C; you can reuse authorship from a commit (-c/-C) but change the message (-m/-F). Furthermore, for long-option consistency --author <author> is changed to --author=<author>. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> 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>
2008-05-04Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man pageLibravatar Christian Couder1-2/+2
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)". Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-11Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
* maint-1.5.4: bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good" revision.c: make --date-order overriddable Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs Document option --only of git commit Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
2008-04-11Document option --only of git commitLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-0/+11
Its documentation was removed by 6c96753 (Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly, 2006-12-08), even though it is referenced from a few places, including builtin-commit.c (as part of the commentary in the commit message template). Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hookLibravatar Paolo Bonzini1-2/+2
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is). Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place. It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit message, and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a -t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set); "merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists); "squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option was given). If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort. The hook is not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used as a replacement for the pre-commit hook. The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage, that the user can then edit or discard altogether. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-15/+15
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>