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2012-05-02Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+7
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc, making the source not very readable. By Jeff King * jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal: docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-7/+7
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>
2012-04-24Merge branch 'hv/submodule-recurse-push'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+10
"git push --recurse-submodules" learns to optionally look into the histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out. By Heiko Voigt * hv/submodule-recurse-push: push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
2012-03-30push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand optionLibravatar Heiko Voigt1-4/+10
When using this option git will search for all submodules that have changed in the revisions to be send. It will then try to push the currently checked out branch of each submodule. This helps when a user has finished working on a change which involves submodules and just wants to push everything in one go. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-22push: add '--prune' optionLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-1/+9
When pushing groups of refs to a remote, there is no simple way to remove old refs that still exist at the remote that is no longer updated from us. This will allow us to remove such refs from the remote. With this change, running this command $ git push --prune remote refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/laptop/* removes refs/remotes/laptop/foo from the remote if we do not have branch "foo" locally anymore. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-02Merge branch 'fg/submodule-ff-check-before-push'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
* fg/submodule-ff-check-before-push: push: Don't push a repository with unpushed submodules
2011-08-20push: Don't push a repository with unpushed submodulesLibravatar Fredrik Gustafsson1-0/+6
When working with submodules it is easy to forget to push a submodule to the server but pushing a super-project that contains a commit for that submodule. The result is that the superproject points at a submodule commit that is not available on the server. This adds the option --recurse-submodules=check to push. When using this option git will check that all submodule commits that are about to be pushed are present on a remote of the submodule. To be able to use a combined diff, disabling a diff callback has been removed from combined-diff.c. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04docs: put listed example commands in backticksLibravatar Jeff King1-10/+10
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>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-10/+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.
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>
2010-08-20Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipsesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by rev-list and diff is actually three period characters. If it gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would stop readers from copying and pasting it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-25Documentation/git-push: Explain status output in more detailLibravatar Thomas Rast1-10/+23
Mention the effects of the receive.deny* family of options for the "remote rejected" case. While there, also split up the explanation into an easier-to-parse list format. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parseLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-1/+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>
2010-04-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Let check_preimage() use memset() to initialize "struct checkout" fetch/push: fix usage strings
2010-04-09fetch/push: fix usage stringsLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-1/+1
- use "<options>" instead of just "options". - use "[<repository> [<refspec>...]]" to indicate that <repository> and <refspec> are optional, and that <refspec> cannot be specified without specifying <repository>. Note that when called without specifying <repository> (eg. "git fetch -f"), it is accurate to say that the "git fetch [<options>] [<repository> ...]" case takes precedence over "git fetch [<options>] <group>". Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-15Merge branch 'tc/transport-verbosity'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+11
* tc/transport-verbosity: transport: update flags to be in running order fetch and pull: learn --progress push: learn --progress transport->progress: use flag authoritatively clone: support multiple levels of verbosity push: support multiple levels of verbosity fetch: refactor verbosity option handling into transport.[ch] Documentation/git-push: put --quiet before --verbose Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch ones Documentation/git-clone: mention progress in -v Conflicts: transport.h
2010-02-24push: learn --progressLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-1/+8
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24Documentation/git-push: put --quiet before --verboseLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-18Documentation: describe --thin more accuratelyLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-3/+4
The description for --thin was misleading and downright wrong. Correct it with some inspiration from the description of index-pack's --fix-thin and some background information from Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhereLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+3
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it is missing some of the refs they expected to see. This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just "refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note: - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help indicate that it was a hierarchy. I didn't do the same for longer paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming "refs/heads/"). - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs). - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-08Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+10
* maint: blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF git-push: document all the status flags used in the output Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
2010-02-08Merge branch 'jc/maint-push-doc-status' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+10
* jc/maint-push-doc-status: git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
2010-02-08git-push: document all the status flags used in the outputLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+10
We didn't talk about '-' (deletion), '*' (addition), nor '+' (forced). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24Documentation: move away misplaced 'push --upstream' descriptionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-7/+7
e9fcd1e (Add push --set-upstream, 2010-01-16) inadvertently patched the description of --upstream in the middle of that of --repo. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next: Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull" Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-config.txt Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-16Add push --set-upstreamLibravatar Ilari Liusvaara1-1/+8
Frequent complaint is lack of easy way to set up upstream (tracking) references for git pull to work as part of push command. So add switch --set-upstream (-u) to do just that. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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 Rast1-3/+3
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.
2009-12-30builtin-push: add --delete as syntactic sugar for :fooLibravatar Jan Krüger1-0/+4
Refspecs without a source side have been reported as confusing by many. As an alternative, this adds support for commands like: git push origin --delete somebranch git push origin --delete tag sometag Specifically, --delete will prepend a colon to all colon-less refspecs given on the command line, and will refuse to accept refspecs with colons to prevent undue confusion. Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-15Merge branch 'fc/doc-fast-forward'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+7
* fc/doc-fast-forward: Use 'fast-forward' all over the place Conflicts: builtin-merge.c
2009-10-24Use 'fast-forward' all over the placeLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-7/+7
It's a compound word. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-18document push's new quiet optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-13git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.Libravatar Nelson Elhage1-1/+2
git-push is not currently using -n for anything else, and it seems unlikely we will want to use it to mean anything else in the future, so add it as an alias for convenience. Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forwardLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+86
'git push' failing because of non-fast forward is a very common situation, and a beginner does not necessarily understand "fast forward" immediately. Add a new section to the git-push documentation and refer them to it. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-27add --porcelain option to git-pushLibravatar Larry D'Anna1-0/+11
If --porcelain is used git-push will produce machine-readable output. The output status line for each ref will be tab-separated and sent to stdout instead of stderr. The full symbolic names of the refs will be given. For example $ git push --dry-run --porcelain master :foobar 2>/dev/null \ | perl -pe 's/\t/ TAB /g' = TAB refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master TAB [up to date] - TAB :refs/heads/foobar TAB [deleted] Signed-off-by: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17git-push.txt: describe how to default to pushing only current branchLibravatar Chris Johnsen1-2/+24
Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-25Docs: Expand explanation of the use of + in git push refspecs.Libravatar Marc Branchaud1-5/+31
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-18Documentation/git-push: --all, --mirror, --tags can not be combinedLibravatar Gerrit Pape1-1/+1
While b259f09 made git-push output a better error message for 'git-push --all --tags', this commit fixes the synopsis in the documentation. Inconsistency spotted and fix suggested by Jari Aalto through http://bugs.debian.org/502567 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25Documentation: rework src/dst description in git pushLibravatar Anders Melchiorsen1-11/+12
This tries to make the description of ref matching in git push easier to read. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25Documentation: more git push examplesLibravatar Anders Melchiorsen1-3/+13
Include examples of using HEAD. The order of examples introduces new concepts one by one. This pushes the example of deleting a ref to the end of the list. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25Documentation: simplify refspec format descriptionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+5
The refspec format description was a mix of regexp and BNF, making it very difficult to read. The format was also wrong: it did not show that each part of a refspec is optional in different situations. Rather than having a confusing grammar, just present the format in informal prose. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18Documentation: avoid using undefined parametersLibravatar Anders Melchiorsen1-2/+2
The <ref> parameter has not been introduced, so rewrite to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18Documentation: mention branches rather than headsLibravatar Anders Melchiorsen1-2/+2
The "matching refs" semantics works only on matching branches these days. Instead of using "heads" which traditionally has been used more or less interchangeably with "refs", say "branch" explicitly here. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18Documentation: remove a redundant elaborationLibravatar Anders Melchiorsen1-2/+1
The comment in parentheses is wrong, as one has to leave out both the colon and <dst>. This situation is covered by the section a few lines down: A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source repository to the destination repository under the same name. So, just remove the parentheses. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18Documentation: git push repository can also be a remoteLibravatar Anders Melchiorsen1-1/+3
This is copied from pull-fetch-param.txt and helps the reader to not get stuck in the URL section. Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-11Documentation/git-push.txt: minor: compress one optionLibravatar jidanni@jidanni.org1-3/+1
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-08git-push.txt: Describe --repo option in more detailLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-5/+19
The --repo option was described in a way that the reader would have to assume that it is the same as the <repository> parameter. But it actually servers a purpose, which is now written down. Furthermore, the --mirror option was missing from the synopsis. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-08-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint: asciidoc markup fixes Fail properly when cloning from invalid HTTP URL Conflicts: Documentation/git-push.txt
2008-08-07asciidoc markup fixesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
I see quite a few pages on k.org site, e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rerere.html (scroll down to find "After this test merge") are misformatted to lose teletype text '+' that is followed by a comma, and turns the following paragraph all typeset in teletype. This patch seems to fix the issue at the site (meaning, with the particular vintage of asciidoc and docbook toolchain), without breaking things with the version I have at my primary development machine, but wider testing is very much appreciated. After this patch, git grep '`+`,' -- Documentation should report noting. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-01Update 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>
2008-07-29Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecsLibravatar Abhijit Menon-Sen1-8/+9
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>