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2014-04-24mergetool: document the default for --[no-]promptLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+5
The original motivation of using the prompt was to confirm to run a tool on this particular (as opposed to another) path, but the user can also take the prompt as to confirm to run this (as opposed to some other) tool. The latter of which of course is irritating for those who told which exact tool to use, which is the reason why we are flipping the default. During the review discussion of the patch, many people (including the maintainer) missed that a user can find the prompt useful way to skip running the tool on particular paths. Clarify it by adding a brief half-sentence to the description. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17documentation: trivial style cleanupsLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-1/+1
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-27Merge branch 'da/difftool-updates'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
"git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare temporary copy of the working tree when available. * da/difftool-updates: difftool: silence warning Add Code Compare v2.80.4 as a merge / diff tool for Windows mergetool,difftool: Document --tool-help consistently difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin difftool: Handle compare() returning -1 difftool: Wrap long lines for readability difftool: Check all return codes from compare() difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spaces difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree difftool: Call the temp directory "git-difftool" difftool: Move option values into a hash difftool: Eliminate global variables difftool: Simplify print_tool_help()
2012-08-10mergetool,difftool: Document --tool-help consistentlyLibravatar David Aguilar1-0/+3
Add an entry for --tool-help to the mergetool documentation. Move --tool-help in the difftool documentation so that it is listed immediately after --tool so that it is easier to find. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync between the implementation and the documentation. In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help for a complete list. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-10Merge branch 'jm/mergetool-pathspec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
* jm/mergetool-pathspec: mergetool: no longer need to save standard input mergetool: Use args as pathspec to unmerged files
2011-09-26mergetool: Use args as pathspec to unmerged filesLibravatar Jonathon Mah1-3/+4
Mergetool now treats its path arguments as a pathspec (like other git subcommands), restricting action to the given files and directories. Files matching the pathspec are filtered so mergetool only acts on unmerged paths; previously it would assume each path argument was in an unresolved state, and get confused when it couldn't check out their other stages. Running "git mergetool subdir" will prompt to resolve all conflicted blobs under subdir. Signed-off-by: Jonathon Mah <me@JonathonMah.com> Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> 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>
2011-03-19Merge branch 'ss/mergetool--lib'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* ss/mergetool--lib: mergetool--lib: Add Beyond Compare 3 as a tool mergetool--lib: Sort tools alphabetically for easier lookup
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.
2011-02-28mergetool--lib: Add Beyond Compare 3 as a toolLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-28mergetool--lib: Sort tools alphabetically for easier lookupLibravatar Sebastian Schuberth1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@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>
2010-07-19Documentation: Explain git-mergetool's use of temporary filesLibravatar David Aguilar1-0/+10
'git mergetool' creates '*.orig' backup files in its default configuration. Mention this in its documentation. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-8/+8
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.
2009-10-28mergetool--lib: add p4merge as a pre-configured mergetool optionLibravatar Scott Chacon1-1/+1
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update bash completion and documentation. Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-24mergetool--lib: add support for araxis mergeLibravatar David Aguilar1-1/+1
Araxis merge is now a built-in diff/merge tool. This adds araxis to git-completion and updates the documentation to mention araxis. Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07difftool/mergetool: add diffuse as merge and diff toolLibravatar Sebastian Pipping1-1/+1
This adds diffuse as a built-in merge tool. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07git-mergetool: add new merge tool TortoiseMergeLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-1/+2
TortoiseMerge comes with TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit for Windows. It can only be used as a merge tool with an existing base file. It cannot be used without a base nor as a diff tool. The documentation only mentions the slash '/' as command line option prefix, which refused to work, but the parser also accepts the dash '-' See http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=226 Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17Documentation: let asciidoc align related optionsLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-2/+4
Fixes the description of the -t option in git-mergetool, which failed to hint that it takes an argument. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-01Merge branch 'cb/mergetool'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
* cb/mergetool: mergetool: Don't keep temporary merge files unless told to mergetool: Add prompt to continue after failing to merge a file Add -y/--no-prompt option to mergetool Fix some tab/space inconsistencies in git-mergetool.sh
2008-12-09Improve language in git-merge.txt and related docsLibravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-2/+2
Improve some minor language and format issues like hyphenation, phrases, spacing, word order, comma, attributes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14Add -y/--no-prompt option to mergetoolLibravatar Charles Bailey1-1/+10
This option lets git mergetool invoke the conflict resolution program without waiting for a user prompt each time. Also added a mergetool.prompt (default true) configuration variable controlling the same behaviour Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> 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>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-8/+8
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 Nieder1-1/+1
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 Nieder1-8/+8
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>
2008-06-06documentation: 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>
2008-03-08merge-tool documentation: describe custom command usageLibravatar Charles Bailey1-0/+22
The configuration variables for custom merge tools were documented only in config.txt but there was no reference to the functionality in git-mergetool.txt. Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-08git-mergetool documentaiton: show toolnames in typewriter fontLibravatar Charles Bailey1-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-2/+2
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>
2007-10-18mergetool: add support for ECMergeLibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-1/+1
Add support to mergetool for ECMerge available from http://www.elliecomputing.com/Products/merge_overview.asp Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-18mergetool: use path to mergetool in config var mergetool.<tool>.pathLibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-0/+6
This commit adds a mechanism to provide absolute paths to the external programs called by 'git mergetool'. A path can be specified in the configuation variable mergetool.<tool>.path. The configuration variable is similar to how we name branches and remotes. It is extensible if we need to specify more details about a tool. The mechanism is especially useful on Windows, where external programs are unlikely to be in PATH. [sp: Fixed a few minor issues prior to applying] Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-06-10[PATCH] git-mergetool: Allow gvimdiff to be used as a mergetoolLibravatar Dan McGee1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-05-03Document 'opendiff' value in config.txt and git-mergetool.txtLibravatar Arjen Laarhoven1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@yaph.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-29Fix minor formatting issue in man page for git-mergetoolLibravatar Theodore Ts'o1-5/+5
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2007-03-18mergetool: Add support for vimdiff.Libravatar James Bowes1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2007-03-13Add git-mergetool to run an appropriate merge conflict resolution programLibravatar Theodore Ts'o1-0/+46
The git-mergetool program can be used to automatically run an appropriate merge resolution program to resolve merge conflicts. It will automatically run one of kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, or emacs emerge programs. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>