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2010-11-03Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-3/+3
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in comment and usage strings. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> 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>
2010-08-02Documentation: flesh out “git pull” descriptionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-11/+54
The current description in the pull man page does not say much more than that “git pull” is fetch + merge. Though that is all a person needs to know in the end, it would be useful to summarize a bit about what those commands do for new readers. Most of this description is taken from the “git merge” docs. Now that we explain how to back out of a failed merge (reset --merge), we can tone down the warning against that a bit. Except, as Thomas noticed, there’s a risk with that because people might read this version of the manpage online and then conclude that it is safe to try a merge with uncommitted changes, only to find that their “git reset” doesn't support --merge yet. Or worse, verify that their git-reset has --merge by a quick test (1b5b465 is in 1.6.2) but then find that it does not help with backing out of a merge (e11d7b5 is only in 1.7.0!). So keep the warning. With clarifications from Ævar, Thomas, and Junio. Noticed-by: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> Cc: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24fetch and pull: learn --progressLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-1/+3
Note that in the documentation for git-pull, documentation for the --progress option is displayed under the "Options related to fetching" subtitle via fetch-options.txt. Also, update the documentation of the -q/--quiet option for git-pull to mention its effect on progress reporting during fetching. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch onesLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-0/+8
After 3f7a9b5 (Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files, Thu Oct 22 2009), the -q/-v options were mentioned only for the merge options section, giving the impression that git-fetch did not take those arguments. Follow 90e4311 (git-pull: do not mention --quiet and --verbose twice, Mon Sep 7 2009) and hide -q/-v for merge options, while mentioning -q/-v before the merge- and fetch-specific options. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-6/+6
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 $PATH.
2010-01-09Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty treesLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+4
We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert (over)users of git-pull to the issue. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2009-10-30Merge branch 'ja/fetch-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
* ja/fetch-doc: Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
2009-10-22Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option filesLibravatar Jari Aalto1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21modernize fetch/merge/pull examplesLibravatar Clemens Buchacher1-45/+4
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and move the examples to the corresponding manpages. Furthermore, - show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a frequently asked question, - explain the default fetch refspec. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21Update my e-mail addressLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-5/+5
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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/+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 Nieder1-1/+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>
2008-06-12Documentation/git-pull.txt: Use more standard [NOTE] markupLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Unlike other manual pages (e.g. git-blame.txt), this used *NOTE:* to show a side note headed with boldface string "NOTE". Use a paragraph headed by [NOTE] like others instead. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-3/+3
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>
2008-06-06documentation: 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>
2008-05-06Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examplesLibravatar Christian Couder1-34/+52
Before this patch in "git-add.txt" and "git-format-patch.txt", the commands used in the examples were "git-CMD" instead of "git CMD". This patch fixes that. In "git-pull.txt" only the last example had the code sample in an asciidoc "Listing Block", and in the other two files, none. This patch fixes that by putting all code samples in listing blocks. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* maint: git-pull documentation: warn about the option order
2008-03-10git-pull documentation: warn about the option orderLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
We might eventually be loosening this rule, but there is a longstanding restriction that the users currently need to be aware of. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19Correct git-pull documentationLibravatar Jay Soffian1-8/+12
The --rebase option was documented in the wrong place (under MERGE STRATEGIES instead of OPTIONS). Noted the branch.<name>.rebase option. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11git-pull documentation: fix markupLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
A note paragraph was mistakenly made into an indented monospace display. Noticed by Miklos Vajna. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-26pull --rebase: be cleverer with rebased upstream branchesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+5
When the upstream branch is tracked, we can detect if that branch was rebased since it was last fetched. Teach git to use that information to rebase from the old remote head onto the new remote head. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-25git pull manpage: don't include -n from fetch-options.txtLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+1
The -n option stands for --no-summary in git pull [jes: reworded the description to avoid mentioning 'git-fetch'; also exclude '-n' conditional on git-pull -- ugly because of the missing "else" statement in asciidoc] Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-5/+5
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>
2007-11-28Teach 'git pull' about --rebaseLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+10
When calling 'git pull' with the '--rebase' option, it performs a fetch + rebase instead of a fetch + merge. This behavior is more desirable than fetch + pull when a topic branch is ready to be submitted and needs to be update. fetch + rebase might also be considered a better workflow with shared repositories in any case, or for contributors to a centrally managed repository, such as WINE's. As a convenience, you can set the default behavior for a branch by defining the config variable branch.<name>.rebase, which is interpreted as a bool. This setting can be overridden on the command line by --rebase and --no-rebase. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-05Add urls.txt to git-clone man pageLibravatar Andrew Ruder1-1/+1
Since git-clone is one of the many commands taking URLs to remote repositories as an argument, it should include the URL-types list from urls.txt. Split up urls.txt into urls.txt and urls-remotes.txt. The latter should be used by anything besides git-clone where a discussion of using .git/config and .git/remotes/ to name URLs just doesn't make as much sense. Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
2007-02-08Documentation/git-pull: describe default behaviour and config interactionsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+54
The way 'git pull' without explicit parameters work were not explained well in any existing documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28[PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config.Libravatar Tom Prince1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page titleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-14some doc updatesLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-1/+2
1) talk about "git merge" instead of "git pull ." 2) suggest "git repo-config" instead of directly editing config files 3) echo "URL: blah" > .git/remotes/foo is obsolete and should be "git repo-config remote.foo.url blah" 4) support for partial URL prefix has been removed (see commit ea560e6d64374ec1f6c163c276319a3da21a1345) so drop mention of it. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-01Documentation: update git-pull.txt for new clone behaviorLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-44/+25
Update examples, stop using branch named "origin" as an example. Remove large example of use of remotes; that particular case is nicely automated by default, so it's not so pressing to explain, and we can refer to git-repo-config for the details. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29Mention that pull can work locally in the synopsisLibravatar Robin Rosenberg1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09Remove trailing dot after short descriptionLibravatar Fredrik Kuivinen1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-06Docs: move git url and remotes text to separate sectionsLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-1/+2
The sections on git urls and remotes files in the git-fetch, git-pull, and git-push manpages seem long enough to be worth a manpage section of their own. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-16Examples of resetting.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place would be very helpful. Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-06Refactored merge options into separate merge-options.txt.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-10/+7
Refactored fetch options into separate fetch-options.txt. Made git-merge use merge-options. Made git-fetch use fetch-options. Made git-pull use merge-options and fetch-options. Added --help option to git-pull and git-format-patch scripts. Rewrote Documentation/Makefile to dynamically determine include dependencies. Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-06Refactor merge strategies into separate includable file.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-35/+1
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-05Documentation: git-fetch/pull updates.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion. Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines. Add a couple of cross references. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-04Added a few examples to git-pull man page.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-9/+54
Clarified and added notes for pull/push refspecs. Converted to back-ticks for literal text examples. [jc: Also fixed git-pull description that still talked about its calling git-resolve or git-octopus (we do not anymore; instead we just call git-merge). BTW, I am reasonably impressed by how well "git-am -3" applied this patch, which had some conflicts because I've updated the documentation somewhat.] Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-04Documentation: -merge and -pull: describe merge strategies.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+67
... and give a couple of examples of running 'git pull' against local repository. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-01Document the use of "current directory" as pull source.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
The repository to pull from can be a local repository, and as a special case the current directory can be specified to perform merges across local branches. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-19git-fetch/push/pull: documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
The documentation was lazily sharing the argument description across these commands. Lazy may be a way of life, but that does not justify confusing others ;-). 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>
2005-09-20[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 Hamano1-0/+41
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>