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2017-01-10ref-filter: modify "%(objectname:short)" to take lengthLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+3
Add support for %(objectname:short=<length>) which would print the abbreviated unique objectname of given length. When no length is specified, the length is 'DEFAULT_ABBREV'. The minimum length is 'MINIMUM_ABBREV'. The length may be exceeded to ensure that the provided object name is unique. Add tests and documentation for the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Helped-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-10ref-filter: implement %(if:equals=<string>) and %(if:notequals=<string>)Libravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+3
Implement %(if:equals=<string>) wherein the if condition is only satisfied if the value obtained between the %(if:...) and %(then) atom is the same as the given '<string>'. Similarly, implement (if:notequals=<string>) wherein the if condition is only satisfied if the value obtained between the %(if:...) and %(then) atom is different from the given '<string>'. This is done by introducing 'if_atom_parser()' which parses the given %(if) atom and then stores the data in used_atom which is later passed on to the used_atom of the %(then) atom, so that it can do the required comparisons. Add tests and documentation for the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-10ref-filter: implement %(if), %(then), and %(else) atomsLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+34
Implement %(if), %(then) and %(else) atoms. Used as %(if)...%(then)...%(end) or %(if)...%(then)...%(else)...%(end). If the format string between %(if) and %(then) expands to an empty string, or to only whitespaces, then the whole %(if)...%(end) expands to the string following %(then). Otherwise, it expands to the string following %(else), if any. Nesting of this construct is possible. This is in preparation for porting over `git branch -l` to use ref-filter APIs for printing. Add documentation and tests regarding the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-19Merge branch 'jk/trailers-placeholder-in-pretty'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
In addition to %(subject), %(body), "log --pretty=format:..." learned a new placeholder %(trailers). * jk/trailers-placeholder-in-pretty: ref-filter: add support to display trailers as part of contents pretty: add %(trailers) format for displaying trailers of a commit message
2016-12-11ref-filter: add support to display trailers as part of contentsLibravatar Jacob Keller1-0/+2
Add %(trailers) and %(contents:trailers) to display the trailers as interpreted by trailer_info_get. Update documentation and add a test for the new feature. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-05tag, branch, for-each-ref: add --ignore-case for sorting and filteringLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+3
This options makes sorting ignore case, which is great when you have branches named bug-12-do-something, Bug-12-do-some-more and BUG-12-do-what and want to group them together. Sorting externally may not be an option because we lose coloring and column layout from git-branch and git-tag. The same could be said for filtering, but it's probably less important because you can always go with the ugly pattern [bB][uU][gG]-* if you're desperate. You can't have case-sensitive filtering and case-insensitive sorting (or the other way around) with this though. For branch and tag, that should be no problem. for-each-ref, as a plumbing, might want finer control. But we can always add --{filter,sort}-ignore-case when there is a need for it. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of forward-quotes, for long options. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to describe rewritten history). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-09Documentation: fix linkgit referencesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
There are a handful of incorrect "linkgit:<page>[<section>]" instances in our documentation set. * Some have an extra colon after "linkgit:"; fix them by removing the extra colon; * Some refer to a page outside the Git suite, namely curl(1); fix them by using the `curl(1)` that already appears on the same page for the same purpose of referring the readers to its manual page. * Some spell the name of the page incorrectly, e.g. "rev-list" when they mean "git-rev-list"; fix them. * Some list the manual section incorrectly; fix them to make sure they match what is at the top of the target of the link. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-06Merge branch 'kn/for-each-tag-branch' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
A minor documentation update. * kn/for-each-tag-branch: for-each-ref: fix description of '--contains' in manpage
2016-03-30for-each-ref: fix description of '--contains' in manpageLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
'git for-each-ref's manpage says that '--contains' only lists tags, but it lists all kinds of refs. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-26Merge branch 'kn/ref-filter-atom-parsing'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+12
The ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in preparation for "branch --format" and friends. * kn/ref-filter-atom-parsing: ref-filter: introduce objectname_atom_parser() ref-filter: introduce contents_atom_parser() ref-filter: introduce remote_ref_atom_parser() ref-filter: align: introduce long-form syntax ref-filter: introduce align_atom_parser() ref-filter: introduce parse_align_position() ref-filter: introduce color_atom_parser() ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom ref-filter: introduce struct used_atom ref-filter: bump 'used_atom' and related code to the top ref-filter: use string_list_split over strbuf_split
2016-02-17ref-filter: align: introduce long-form syntaxLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-8/+12
Introduce optional prefixes "width=" and "position=" for the align atom so that the atom can be used as "%(align:width=<width>,position=<position>)". Add Documentation and tests for the same. Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <Karthik.188@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-01Merge branch 'jk/list-tag-2.7-regression'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
"git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. * jk/list-tag-2.7-regression: tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo" t6300: use test_atom for some un-modern tests
2016-01-26tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"Libravatar Jeff King1-1/+5
Since b7cc53e9 (tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs, 2015-07-11), git-tag has started showing tags with ambiguous names (i.e., when both "heads/foo" and "tags/foo" exists) as "tags/foo" instead of just "foo". This is both: - pointless; the output of "git tag" includes only refs/tags, so we know that "foo" means the one in "refs/tags". and - ambiguous; in the original output, we know that the line "foo" means that "refs/tags/foo" exists. In the new output, it is unclear whether we mean "refs/tags/foo" or "refs/tags/tags/foo". The reason this happens is that commit b7cc53e9 switched git-tag to use ref-filter's "%(refname:short)" output formatting, which was adapted from for-each-ref. This more general code does not know that we care only about tags, and uses shorten_unambiguous_ref to get the short-name. We need to tell it that we care only about "refs/tags/", and it should shorten with respect to that value. In theory, the ref-filter code could figure this out by us passing FILTER_REFS_TAGS. But there are two complications there: 1. The handling of refname:short is deep in formatting code that does not even have our ref_filter struct, let alone the arguments to the filter_ref struct. 2. In git v2.7.0, we expose the formatting language to the user. If we follow this path, it will mean that "%(refname:short)" behaves differently for "tag" versus "for-each-ref" (including "for-each-ref refs/tags/"), which can lead to confusion. Instead, let's add a new modifier to the formatting language, "strip", to remove a specific set of prefix components. This fixes "git tag", and lets users invoke the same behavior from their own custom formats (for "tag" or "for-each-ref") while leaving ":short" with its same consistent meaning in all places. We introduce a test in t7004 for "git tag", which fails without this patch. We also add a similar test in t3203 for "git branch", which does not actually fail. But since it is likely that "branch" will eventually use the same formatting code, the test helps defend against future regressions. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-20Merge branch 'ew/for-each-ref-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
* ew/for-each-ref-doc: for-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fields
2016-01-05for-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fieldsLibravatar Eric Wong1-2/+7
These were introduced back in 2006 at 3175aa1ec28c but never documented. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-05Merge branch 'kn/for-each-tag'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+16
The "ref-filter" code was taught about many parts of what "tag -l" does and then "tag -l" is being reimplemented in terms of "ref-filter". * kn/for-each-tag: tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options tag.c: implement '--format' option tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs tag.c: use 'ref-filter' data structures ref-filter: add option to match literal pattern ref-filter: add support to sort by version ref-filter: add support for %(contents:lines=X) ref-filter: add option to filter out tags, branches and remotes ref-filter: implement an `align` atom ref-filter: introduce match_atom_name() ref-filter: introduce handler function for each atom utf8: add function to align a string into given strbuf ref-filter: introduce ref_formatting_state and ref_formatting_stack ref-filter: move `struct atom_value` to ref-filter.c strtoul_ui: reject negative values
2015-10-05Merge branch 'jk/date-local'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
"git log --date=local" used to only show the normal (default) format in the local timezone. The command learned to take 'local' as an instruction to use the local timezone with other formats, e.g. "git show --date=rfc-local". * jk/date-local: t6300: add tests for "-local" date formats t6300: make UTC and local dates different date: make "local" orthogonal to date format date: check for "local" before anything else t6300: add test for "raw" date format t6300: introduce test_date() helper fast-import: switch crash-report date to iso8601 Documentation/rev-list: don't list date formats Documentation/git-for-each-ref: don't list date formats Documentation/config: don't list date formats Documentation/blame-options: don't list date formats
2015-09-17ref-filter: add support to sort by versionLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+3
Add support to sort by version using the "v:refname" and "version:refname" option. This is achieved by using the 'versioncmp()' function as the comparing function for qsort. This option is included to support sorting by versions in `git tag -l` which will eventually be ported to use ref-filter APIs. Add documentation and tests for the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-17ref-filter: add support for %(contents:lines=X)Libravatar Karthik Nayak1-1/+2
In 'tag.c' we can print N lines from the annotation of the tag using the '-n<num>' option. Copy code from 'tag.c' to 'ref-filter' and modify it to support appending of N lines from the annotation of tags to the given strbuf. Implement %(contents:lines=X) where X lines of the given object are obtained. While we're at it, remove unused "contents:<suboption>" atoms from the `valid_atom` array. Add documentation and test for the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-17ref-filter: implement an `align` atomLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+11
Implement an `align` atom which left-, middle-, or right-aligns the content between %(align:...) and %(end). The "align:" is followed by `<width>` and `<position>` in any order separated by a comma, where the `<position>` is either left, right or middle, default being left and `<width>` is the total length of the content with alignment. If the contents length is more than the width then no alignment is performed. e.g. to align a refname atom to the middle with a total width of 40 we can do: --format="%(align:middle,40)%(refname)%(end)". We introduce an `at_end` function for each element of the stack which is to be called when the `end` atom is encountered. Using this we implement end_align_handler() for the `align` atom, this aligns the final strbuf by calling `strbuf_utf8_align()` from utf8.c. Ensure that quote formatting is performed on the whole of %(align:...)...%(end) rather than individual atoms inside. We skip quote formatting for individual atoms when the current stack element is handling an %(align:...) atom and perform quote formatting at the end when we encounter the %(end) atom of the second element of then stack. Add documentation and tests for the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-03Documentation/git-for-each-ref: don't list date formatsLibravatar John Keeping1-3/+2
We are about to add a new set of supported date formats and do not want to have to maintain the same list in several different bits of documentation. Refer to git-rev-list(1) which contains the full list of supported formats. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-03for-each-ref: add '--contains' optionLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+5
Add the '--contains' option provided by 'ref-filter'. The '--contains' option lists only refs which contain the mentioned commit (HEAD if no commit is explicitly given). Add documentation and tests for the same. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-03for-each-ref: add '--merged' and '--no-merged' optionsLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-1/+9
Add the '--merged' and '--no-merged' options provided by 'ref-filter'. The '--merged' option lets the user to only list refs merged into the named commit. The '--no-merged' option lets the user to only list refs not merged into the named commit. Add documentation and tests for the same. Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-03for-each-ref: add '--points-at' optionLibravatar Karthik Nayak1-0/+3
Add the '--points-at' option provided by 'ref-filter'. The option lets the user to list only refs which points at the given object. Add documentation and tests for the same. Based-on-patch-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-22for-each-ref: accept "%(push)" formatLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+6
Just as we have "%(upstream)" to report the "@{upstream}" for each ref, this patch adds "%(push)" to match "@{push}". It supports the same tracking format modifiers as upstream (because you may want to know, for example, which branches have commits to push). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-27doc: remote author/documentation sections from more pagesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-8/+0
We decided at 48bb914e (doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages, 2011-03-11) to remove "author" and "documentation" sections from our documentation. Remove a few stragglers. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-22Add cross-references between docs for for-each-ref and show-refLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+4
Add cross-references between the manpages for git-for-each-ref(1) and git-show-ref(1). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-19for-each-ref: introduce %(color:...) for colorLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-0/+4
Enhance 'git for-each-ref' with color formatting options. You can now use the following format in for-each-ref: %(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) where color names are described in color.branch.*. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-19for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])Libravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-1/+5
Introduce %(upstream:track) to display "[ahead M, behind N]" and %(upstream:trackshort) to display "=", ">", "<", or "<>" appropriately (inspired by contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh). Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref: %(refname:short)%(upstream:trackshort) to display refs with terse tracking information. Note that :track and :trackshort only work with "upstream", and error out when used with anything else. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk markerLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-0/+4
'git branch' shows which branch you are currently on with an '*', but 'git for-each-ref' misses this feature. So, extend its format with %(HEAD) for the same effect. Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref: %(HEAD) %(refname:short) to display an asterisk next to the current ref. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-21git-for-each-ref.txt: 'raw' is a supported date formatLibravatar John Keeping1-1/+1
Commit 7dff9b3 (Support 'raw' date format) added a raw date format. Update the git-for-each-ref documentation to include this. Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-13Documentation: describe subject more preciselyLibravatar Jeremy White1-3/+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>
2011-09-08for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*).Libravatar Michał Górny1-3/+4
The %(body) placeholder returns the whole body of a tag or commit, including the signature. However, callers may want to get just the body without signature, or just the signature. Rather than change the meaning of %(body), which might break some scripts, this patch introduces a new set of placeholders which break down the %(contents) placeholder into its constituent parts. [jk: initial patch by mg, rebased on top of my refactoring and with tests by me] Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txtLibravatar Alexei Sholik1-0/+12
Signed-off-by: Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09Documentation: remove redundant colons in git-for-each-ref.txtLibravatar Alexei Sholik1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Use parentheses and `...' where appropriateLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the same purpose. Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopsesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
For some reason, various manual pages have an asterisk escaped with \ in the synopsis. Since there is no other asterisk to pair it with, Asciidoc does not consider this asterisk escapable, so it passes the backslash through. Each page either uses [verse] or has only one asterisk, so it is safe to drop the backslashes (checked with asciidoc 8.5.2). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18for-each-ref: Field with abbreviated objectnameLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+1
Introduce a :short modifier to objectname which outputs the abbreviated object name. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
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.
2009-04-13for-each-ref: utilize core.warnAmbiguousRefs for :short-formatLibravatar Bert Wesarg1-0/+2
core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select strict mode for the abbreviation for the ":short" format specifier of "refname" and "upstream". In strict mode, the abbreviated ref will never trigger the 'warn_ambiguous_refs' warning. I.e. for these refs: refs/heads/xyzzy refs/tags/xyzzy the abbreviated forms are: heads/xyzzy tags/xyzzy Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07for-each-ref: add "upstream" format fieldLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
The logic for determining the upstream ref of a branch is somewhat complex to perform in a shell script. This patch provides a plumbing mechanism for scripts to access the C logic used internally by git-status, git-branch, etc. For example: $ git for-each-ref \ --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)' \ refs/heads/ master origin/master Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-05for-each-ref: `:short` format for `refname`Libravatar Bert Wesarg1-0/+1
Tries to shorten the refname to a non-ambiguous name. Szeder Gábor noticed that the git bash completion takes a tremendous amount of time to strip leading components from heads and tags refs (i.e. refs/heads, refs/tags, ...). He proposed a new atom called 'refbasename' which removes at most two leading components from the ref name. I myself, proposed a more dynamic solution, which strips off common leading components with the matched pattern. But the current bash solution and both proposals suffer from one mayor problem: ambiguous refs. A ref is ambiguous, if it resolves to more than one full refs. I.e. given the refs refs/heads/xyzzy and refs/tags/xyzzy. The (short) ref xyzzy can point to both refs. ( Note: Its irrelevant whether the referenced objects are the same or not. ) This proposal solves this by checking for ambiguity of the shorten ref name. The shortening is done with the same rules for resolving refs but in the reverse order. The short name is checked if it resolves to a different ref. To continue the above example, the output would be like this: heads/xyzzy xyzzy So, if you want just tags, xyzzy is not ambiguous, because it will resolve to a tag. If you need the heads you get a also a non-ambiguous short form of the ref. To integrate this new format into the bash completion to get only non-ambiguous refs is beyond the scope of this patch. Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-01Documentation: fix reference to a for-each-ref optionLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
... to match the synopsis section Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-05Documentation: typos / spelling fixesLibravatar Mike Ralphson1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSISLibravatar Abhijit Menon-Sen1-1/+1
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural) are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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>
2008-07-01Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
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>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-1/+4
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>
2008-06-06git-for-each-ref.txt: minor improvementsLibravatar Lea Wiemann1-8/+9
Rewrapped synopsis and removed wrong asterisk behind --count option; clarified --sort=<key> description for multiple keys; documented that for-each-ref supports not only glob patterns but also prefixes like "refs/heads" as patterns, and that multiple patterns can be given. Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>