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2013-06-26Merge branch 'ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days: fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"
2013-06-18fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"Libravatar Phil Hord1-2/+2
Documentation and some comments still refer to files in builtin/ as 'builtin-*.[cho]'. Update these to show the correct location. Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-02Merge branch 'tr/line-log'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+18
* tr/line-log: git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff description line-log: fix documentation formatting log -L: improve comments in process_all_files() log -L: store the path instead of a diff_filespec log -L: test merge of parallel modify/rename t4211: pass -M to 'git log -M -L...' test log -L: fix overlapping input ranges log -L: check range set invariants when we look it up Speed up log -L... -M log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname Implement line-history search (git log -L) Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L' Refactor parse_loc
2013-04-22git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff descriptionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-4/+0
This option is a remnant of an earlier log -L version, and not currently implemented. Remove it until (if at all) it is implemented again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be requiredLibravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-2/+2
In its current form, the note talks about separating options from "branch names" and "refnames" in the same sentence. This is entirely inaccurate, as <revision range> need not be a set of branch names or ref names. Rewrite it to use the word "revision range", to be consistent with the SYNOPSIS. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21git-log.txt: generalize <since>..<until>Libravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-7/+9
'<since>..<until>' is misleading, as there are many other forms that 'git log' can accept as an argument. Replace it with <revision range>, referring to the section "Specifying Ranges" in revisions.txt, and rewrite the section appropriately. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21git-log.txt: order OPTIONS properly; move <since>..<until>Libravatar Ramkumar Ramachandra1-7/+7
The OPTIONS section lists <since>..<until> as the first item, but this is inconsistent with the ordering in SYNOPSIS. Move it down until it appears just before [[--] <path>...]. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21line-log: fix documentation formattingLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
The second paragraph of the added description for the -L option "<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:", and the list of forms that follow the headline, were indented one level too short, due to the missing "+" to signal that the next paragraph continues the previous one. Also "You can specify this option more than once" is about the -L option, not about its various forms of starting and ending points. Move it to the end of the main text. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcnameLibravatar Thomas Rast1-5/+6
This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there up to (but not including) the next funcname. So you can say git log -L:main:main.c and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided there are no other funcnames matching 'main'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28Implement line-history search (git log -L)Libravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+22
This is a rewrite of much of Bo's work, mainly in an effort to split it into smaller, easier to understand routines. The algorithm is built around the struct range_set, which encodes a series of line ranges as intervals [a,b). This is used in two contexts: * A set of lines we are tracking (which will change as we dig through history). * To encode diffs, as pairs of ranges. The main routine is range_set_map_across_diff(). It processes the diff between a commit C and some parent P. It determines which diff hunks are relevant to the ranges tracked in C, and computes the new ranges for P. The algorithm is then simply to process history in topological order from newest to oldest, computing ranges and (partial) diffs. At branch points, we need to merge the ranges we are watching. We will find that many commits do not affect the chosen ranges, and mark them TREESAME (in addition to those already filtered by pathspec limiting). Another pass of history simplification then gets rid of such commits. This is wired as an extra filtering pass in the log machinery. This currently only reduces code duplication, but should allow for other simplifications and options to be used. Finally, we hook a diff printer into the output chain. Ideally we would wire directly into the diff logic, to optionally use features like word diff. However, that will require some major reworking of the diff chain, so we completely replace the output with our own diff for now. As this was a GSoC project, and has quite some history by now, many people have helped. In no particular order, thanks go to Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> Apologies to everyone I forgot. Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-20Merge branch 'ap/log-mailmap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Teach commands in the "log" family to optionally pay attention to the mailmap. * ap/log-mailmap: log --use-mailmap: optimize for cases without --author/--committer search log: add log.mailmap configuration option log: grep author/committer using mailmap test: add test for --use-mailmap option log: add --use-mailmap option pretty: use mailmap to display username and email mailmap: add mailmap structure to rev_info and pp mailmap: simplify map_user() interface mailmap: remove email copy and length limitation Use split_ident_line to parse author and committer string-list: allow case-insensitive string list
2013-01-10log: add --use-mailmap optionLibravatar Antoine Pelisse1-0/+5
Add the --use-mailmap option to log commands. It allows to display names from mailmap file when displaying logs, whatever the format used. Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blobLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
Anywhere we mention mailmap.file, it is probably worth mentioning mailmap.blob, as well. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-06doc: move rev-list option -<n> from git-log.txt to rev-list-options.txtLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-4/+2
rev-list-options.txt is included in git-rev-list.txt. This makes sure rev-list man page also shows that, and at one place, together with equivalent options -n and --max-count. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
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>
2011-08-30Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+7
* maint: Documentation: clarify effects of -- <path> arguments
2011-08-30Documentation: clarify effects of -- <path> argumentsLibravatar Thomas Rast1-4/+7
'git log -- <path>' does not "show commits that affect the specified paths" in a literal sense unless --full-history is given (for example, a file that only existed on a side branch will turn up no commits at all!). Reword it to specify the actual intent of the filtering, and point to the "History Simplification" section. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04docs: put listed example commands in backticksLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+8
Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of special characters. Some manpages make a list of examples, like: git foo:: Run git foo. git foo -q:: Use the "-q" option. to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be difficult). This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without character interpretation). As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which "git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list, and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sectionsLibravatar Martin von Zweigbergk1-0/+1
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse] does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections for consistency. Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting within the document more consistent. While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with other commands. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-30log/pretty-options: Document --[no-]notes and deprecate old notes optionsLibravatar Johan Herland1-2/+2
Document the behavior or the new --notes, --notes=<ref> and --no-notes options, and list --show-notes[=<ref>] and --[no-]standard-notes options as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-19Merge branch 'mg/rev-list-n-reverse-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+6
* mg/rev-list-n-reverse-doc: git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper order git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limiting
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+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.
2011-03-09git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper orderLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-5/+5
Match the order of the description to the one in which they get applied: commit limiting commit ordering commit formatting diff options Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-08git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limitingLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+1
They are applied after commit ordering and formatting options, in particular --reverse. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something". See discussion in e.g. http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com for more details. This patch is a straightforward application of perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/' except in the RelNotes directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML documentation. In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a hard copy of the git reference manual. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09Documentation/git-log: Clarify --full-diffLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+3
The current description gives the impression that "--full-diff" affects "log -p" only. Make it clearer that it affects all diff-based output types. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-15Merge branch 'eb/doc-log-manpage'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+9
* eb/doc-log-manpage: Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.
2010-07-08Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.Libravatar Eli Barzilay1-6/+9
This will reduce considerably the common confusion where people miss the `--follow' option, and wonder why `-M'/`-C' is not working. * Move the diff options include to after the log-specific flags, and add a "Common diff options" subtitle before them. (These options apply only when patches are shown, which is not a common use case among newbies, so having them first is confusing.) * Move the `--follow' description to the top of the listed options. The options before that seem less important: `--full-diff' applies only when patches are shown, `--source' and `--decorate' are less useful with many common commit specifications. * Clarify that `--follow' works only for a single path argument. Signed-off-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parseLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+1
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes. Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except - when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or - in very technical context (git-send-pack). Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13Merge branch 'jn/notes-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+42
* jn/notes-doc: Documentation/notes: nitpicks Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configuration Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refs Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref Documentation/notes: add configuration section Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobs Documentation/notes: document format of notes trees
2010-05-21Merge branch 'by/log-follow'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* by/log-follow: tests: rename duplicate t4205 Make git log --follow find copies among unmodified files. Make diffcore_std only can run once before a diff_flush Add a macro DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR.
2010-05-08Merge branch 'sd/log-decorate'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* sd/log-decorate: log.decorate: only ignore it under "log --pretty=raw" script with rev-list instead of log log --pretty/--oneline: ignore log.decorate log.decorate: usability fixes Add `log.decorate' configuration variable. git_config_maybe_bool() Conflicts: builtin/log.c
2010-05-08Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION sectionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+42
Add a configuration section summarizing variables that affect the log family of commands. Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-07Make git log --follow find copies among unmodified files.Libravatar Bo Yang1-1/+1
'git log --follow <path>' don't track copies from unmodified files, and this patch fix it. Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17log.decorate: usability fixesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
The configuration is meant to suppliment --decorate command line option that can be used as a boolean to turn the feature on, so it is natural to expect [log] decorate decorate = yes to work. The original commit would segfault with the first one, and would not understand the second one. Once a user has this configuration in ~/.gitconfig, there needs to be a way to override it from the command line. Add --no-decorate option to log family and also allow --decorate=no to mean the same thing. Since we allow setting log.decorate to 'true', the command line also should accept --decorate=yes and behave accordingly. New tests in t4202 are designed to exercise the interaction between the configuration variable and the command line option that overrides it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-12git log -p -m: document -m and honor --first-parentLibravatar Petr Baudis1-0/+9
git log -p -m is used to show one merge entry per parent, with an appropriate diff; this can be useful when examining histories where full set of changes introduced by a merged branch is interesting, not only the conflicts. This patch properly documents the -m switch, which has so far been mentioned only as a fairly special diff-tree flag. It also makes the code show full patch entry only for the first parent when --first-parent is used. Thus: git log -p -m --first-parent will show the history from the "main branch perspective", while also including full diff of changes introduced by other merged in branches. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-22Merge branch 'il/rev-glob'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+11
* il/rev-glob: Documentation: improve description of --glob=pattern and friends rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=pattern rev-parse --glob
2010-01-20rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=patternLibravatar Ilari Liusvaara1-2/+2
Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in manner similar to --glob option. With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?" as: 'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin' Original-idea-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20rev-parse --globLibravatar Ilari Liusvaara1-0/+11
Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic). Example: 'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin' To show what you have that origin doesn't. Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+2
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.
2009-08-18git-log: allow --decorate[=short|full]Libravatar Lars Hjemli1-2/+6
Commit de435ac0 changed the behavior of --decorate from printing the full ref (e.g., "refs/heads/master") to a shorter, more human-readable version (e.g., just "master"). While this is nice for human readers, external tools using the output from "git log" may prefer the full version. This patch introduces an extension to --decorate to allow the caller to specify either the short or the full versions. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-11Document "git log --source"Libravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-01Improve git-log documentation wrt file filtersLibravatar martin f. krafft1-3/+6
The need for "--" in the git-log synopsis was previously unclear and confusing. This patch makes it a little clearer. Thanks to hyy <yiyihu@gmail.com> for his help. [sp: Changed -- to \-- per prior commit e1ccf53.] Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-07-30Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSISLibravatar Abhijit Menon-Sen1-3/+3
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 $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27Clarify that "git log x.c y.h" lists commits that touch either fileLibravatar Abhijit Menon-Sen1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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 formatting and cleanupLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
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 Nieder1-1/+1
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>