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2006-11-22Move --pretty options into Documentation/pretty-formats.txtLibravatar Chris Riddoch1-4/+1
Asciidoc-include it into the manuals for programs that use the --pretty command-line option, for consistency among the docs. This describes all the pretty-formats currently listed in the cmit_fmt enum in commit.h, and also briefly describes the presence and format of the 'Merge: ' line in some pretty formats. There's a hedge that limiting your view of history can affect what goes in the Merge: line, and that --abbrev/--no-abbrev do nothing to the 'raw' format. Signed-off-by: Chris Riddoch <chris@syntacticsugar.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03Documentation: Spelling fixesLibravatar Horst H. von Brand1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-03fix various typos in documentationLibravatar Matthias Kestenholz1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-09Improve the git-diff-tree -c/-cc documentationLibravatar Petr Baudis1-9/+16
This tries to clarify the -c/-cc documentation and clean up the style and grammar. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-07Document git-diff-tree --alwaysLibravatar Petr Baudis1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-02Documentation: git-diff-tree --cc also omits empty commitsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
A misguided attempt to show logs at all time was inserted only to the documentation of this flag. Worse yet, it was not even implemented, causing more confusion. Drop it. We might want to have an option to show --pretty even when there is no diff output, but that is applicable to all forms of diff, not just --cc. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-28Documentation: diff -c/--ccLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+17
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-05Wrap synopsis lines and use [verse] to keep formattingLibravatar Jonas Fonseca1-1/+3
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-29Documentation: spell.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-11Add --no-commit-id option for git-diff-tree, use it in gitkLibravatar Pavel Roskin1-1/+5
This patch introduces -no-commit-id option for git-diff-tree, which suppresses commit ID output. [jc: dropped gitk part for now.] Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-28Documentation changes to recursive option for git-diff-treeLibravatar Chris Shoemaker1-1/+4
Update docs and usages regarding '-r' recursive option for git-diff-tree. Remove '-r' from common diff options, mention it only for git-diff-tree. Remove one extraneous use of '-r' with git-diff-files in get-merge.sh. Sync the synopsis and usage string for git-diff-tree. Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10Remove the version tags from the manpagesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-03[PATCH] Random documentation fixesLibravatar Jonas Fonseca1-10/+12
The fixes focuses on improving the HTML output. Most noteworthy: - Fix the Makefile to also make various *.html files depend on included files. - Consistently use 'NOTE: ...' instead of '[ ... ]' for additional info. - Fix ending '::' for description lists in OPTION section etc. - Fix paragraphs in description lists ending up as preformated text. - Always use listingblocks (preformatted text wrapped in lines with -----) for examples that span empty lines, so they are put in only one HTML block. - Use '1.' instead of '(1)' for numbered lists. - Fix linking to other GIT docs. - git-rev-list.txt: put option descriptions in an OPTION section. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-23Merge 'fixes' branch.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-23[PATCH] document command to show diff of a commitLibravatar Robert Watson1-1/+4
Document the best way to show the change introduced by a commit, based on the suggestion by Linus on the list. 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 Hamano1-2/+2
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>
2005-08-05[PATCH] Assorted documentation patchesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections not related to the terminology unification. I really appreciate it.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-07-13[PATCH] Clean up diff option descriptions.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-43/+3
I got tired of maintaining almost duplicated descriptions in diff-* brothers, both in usage string and documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-19[PATCH] Update diff documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+16
This updates diff documentation to discuss --find-copies-harder, and adds descriptions for options that were not described earlier. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-03[PATCH] diff: Fix docs and add -O to diff-helper.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
This patch updates diff documentation and usage strings: - clarify the semantics of -R. It is not "output in reverse"; rather, it is "I will feed diff backwards". Semantically they are different when -C is involved. - describe -O in usage strings of diff-* brothers. It was implemented, documented but not described in usage text. Also it adds -O to diff-helper. Like -S (and unlike -M/-C/-B), this option can work on sanitized diff-raw output produced by the diff-* brothers. While we are at it, the call it makes to diffcore is cleaned up to use the diffcore_std() like everybody else, and the declaration for the low level diffcore routines are moved from diff.h (public) to diffcore.h (private between diff.c and diffcore backends). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-30[PATCH] Add -O<orderfile> option to diff-* brothers.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
A new diffcore filter diffcore-order is introduced. This takes a text file each of whose line is a shell glob pattern. Patches that match a glob pattern on an earlier line in the file are output before patches that match a later line, and patches that do not match any glob pattern are output last. A typical orderfile for git project probably should look like this: README Makefile Documentation *.h *.c Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-30[PATCH] Add -B flag to diff-* brothers.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
A new diffcore transformation, diffcore-break.c, is introduced. When the -B flag is given, a patch that represents a complete rewrite is broken into a deletion followed by a creation. This makes it easier to review such a complete rewrite patch. The -B flag takes the same syntax as the -M and -C flags to specify the minimum amount of non-source material the resulting file needs to have to be considered a complete rewrite, and defaults to 99% if not specified. As the new test t4008-diff-break-rewrite.sh demonstrates, if a file is a complete rewrite, it is broken into a delete/create pair, which can further be subjected to the usual rename detection if -M or -C is used. For example, if file0 gets completely rewritten to make it as if it were rather based on file1 which itself disappeared, the following happens: The original change looks like this: file0 --> file0' (quite different from file0) file1 --> /dev/null After diffcore-break runs, it would become this: file0 --> /dev/null /dev/null --> file0' file1 --> /dev/null Then diffcore-rename matches them up: file1 --> file0' The internal score values are finer grained now. Earlier maximum of 10000 has been raised to 60000; there is no user visible changes but there is no reason to waste available bits. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-29[PATCH] Pickaxe fixes.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
A bug in the command line argument parsing code was making pickaxe not to work at all in diff-cache and diff-files commands. Embarrassingly enough, the working pickaxe in diff-tree tells me that it was not working in these two commands from day one. This patch fixes it. Also updates the documentation to describe the --pickaxe-all option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-29[PATCH] Document the --root switch of git-diff-treeLibravatar Thomas Glanzmann1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-25[PATCH] show changed tree objects with recursive git-diff-treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
This adds a "-t" flag to tell the raw diff output to include the tree objects in the output when doing a recursive diff. Since that's how the non-recursive output already handles trees and the flag thus doesn't make sense without "-r", I made "-t" imply "-r". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-21[PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Update the diff-raw format as Linus and I discussed, except that it does not use sequence of underscore '_' letters to express nonexistence. All '0' mode is used for that purpose instead. The new diff-raw format can express rename/copy, and the earlier restriction that -M and -C _must_ be used with the patch format output is no longer necessary. The patch makes -M and -C flags independent of -p flag, so you need to say git-whatchanged -M -p to get the diff/patch format. Updated are both documentations and tests. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-21[PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
This steals the "pickaxe" feature from JIT and make it available to the bare Plumbing layer. From the command line, the user gives a string he is intersted in. Using the diff-core infrastructure previously introduced, it filters the differences to limit the output only to the diffs between <src> and <dst> where the string appears only in one but not in the other. For example: $ ./git-rev-list HEAD | ./git-diff-tree -Sdiff-tree-helper --stdin -M would show the diffs that touch the string "diff-tree-helper". In real software-archaeologist application, you would typically look for a few to several lines of code and see where that code came from. The "pickaxe" module runs after "rename/copy detection" module, so it even crosses the file rename boundary, as the above example demonstrates. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-21[PATCH] Diff overhaul, adding half of copy detection.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
This introduces the diff-core, the layer between the diff-tree family and the external diff interface engine. The calls to the interface diff-tree family uses (diff_change and diff_addremove) have not changed and will not change. The purpose of the diff-core layer is to provide an infrastructure to transform the set of differences sent from the applications, before sending them to the external diff interface. The recently introduced rename detection code has been rewritten to use the diff-core facility. When applications send in separate creates and deletes, matching ones are transformed into a single rename-and-edit diff, and sent out to the external diff interface as such. This patch also enhances the rename detection code further to be able to detect copies. Currently this happens only as long as copy sources appear as part of the modified files, but there already is enough provision for callers to report unmodified files to diff-core, so that they can be also used as copy source candidates. Extending the callers this way will be done in a separate patch. Please see and marvel at how well this works by trying out the newly added t/t4003-diff-rename-1.sh test script. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20[PATCH] Document -R option for git-diff-tree.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Obviously we would want to document this as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-19[PATCH] Detect renames in diff family.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
This rips out the rename detection engine from diff-helper and moves it to the diff core, and updates the internal calling convention used by diff-tree family into the diff core. In order to give the same option name to diff-tree family as well as to diff-helper, I've changed the earlier diff-helper '-r' option to '-M' (stands for Move; sorry but the natural abbreviation 'r' for 'rename' is already taken for 'recursive'). Although I did a fair amount of test with the git-diff-tree with existing rename commits in the core GIT repository, this should still be considered beta (preview) release. This patch depends on the diff-delta infrastructure just committed. This implements almost everything I wanted to see in this series of patch, except a few minor cleanups in the calling convention into diff core, but that will be a separate cleanup patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-10[PATCH 1/4] split core-git.txt and updateLibravatar David Greaves1-0/+126
Split the core-git.txt file Formatting fix to the diff-format.txt Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>