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2009-06-27read-tree: migrate to parse-optionsLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-1/+4
Cleanup the documentation to explicitly state that --exclude-directory is only meaningful when used with -u. Also make the documentation more consistent with the usage message printed with read-tree --help-all. The -m, --prefix, --reset options are performing similar actions (setting some flags, read_cache_unmerged(), checking for illegal option combinations). Instead of performing these actions when the options are parsed, we delay performing them until after parse-opts has finished. The bit fields in struct unpack_trees_options have been promoted to full unsigned ints. This is necessary to avoid "foo ? 1 : 0" constructs to set these fields. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-30Correct typos in RelNotes-1.6.1Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-09checkout: do not lose staged removalLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
The logic to checkout a different commit implements the safety to never lose user's local changes. For example, switching from a commit to another commit, when you have changed a path that is different between them, need to merge your changes to the version from the switched-to commit, which you may not necessarily be able to resolve easily. By default, "git checkout" refused to switch branches, to give you a chance to stash your local changes (or use "-m" to merge, accepting the risks of getting conflicts). This safety, however, had one deliberate hole since early June 2005. When your local change was to remove a path (and optionally to stage that removal), the command checked out the path from the switched-to commit nevertheless. This was to allow an initial checkout to happen smoothly (e.g. an initial checkout is done by starting with an empty index and switching from the commit at the HEAD to the same commit). We can tighten the rule slightly to allow this special case to pass, without losing sight of removal explicitly done by the user, by noticing if the index is truly empty when the operation begins. For historical background, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/4641/focus=4646 This case is marked as *0* in the message, which both Linus and I said "it feels somewhat wrong but otherwise we cannot start from an empty index". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-21/+21
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 Nieder1-7/+7
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 Nieder1-16/+16
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>
2008-06-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
* maint: git-read-tree: document -v option. Remove exec bit from builtin-fast-export.c
2008-06-09git-read-tree: document -v option.Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> 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>
2008-05-28Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSOLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-4/+4
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>
2007-06-16Document git read-tree --trivialLibravatar Jakub Narebski1-1/+7
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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>
2007-06-02Create a new manpage for the gitignore format, and reference it elsewhereLibravatar Josh Triplett1-1/+2
Only git-ls-files(1) describes the gitignore format in detail, and it does so with reference to git-ls-files options. Most users don't use the plumbing command git-ls-files directly, and shouldn't have to look in its manpage for information on the gitignore format. Create a new manpage gitignore(5) (Documentation/gitignore.txt), and factor out the gitignore documentation into that file, changing it to refer to .gitignore and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude as used by porcelain commands. Reference gitignore(5) from other relevant manpages and documentation. Remove now-redundant information on exclude patterns from git-ls-files(1), leaving only information on how git-ls-files options specify exclude patterns and what precedence they have. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-03git-read-tree --index-output=<file>Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+13
This corrects the interface mistake of the previous one, and gives a command line parameter to the only plumbing command that currently needs it: "git-read-tree". We can add the calls to set_alternate_index_output() to other plumbing commands that update the index if/when needed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-05read-tree: document --exclude-per-directoryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+15
This documents the new option to read-tree that is used for the improved "branch switching" code. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-07Merge branch 'master' into nextLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* master: Documentation: git aliases git-cvsserver asciidoc formatting tweaks config.txt grammar, typo, and asciidoc fixes Documentation: git-ls-tree (typofix) Document git-ls-tree --fullname Document git aliases support make clean: remove dist-doc targets. Misc doc improvements Documentation: add missing docs make check-docs found. Some doc typo fixes Off-by-one error in get_path_prefix(), found by Valgrind gitk: Re-read the descendent/ancestor tag & head info on update
2006-06-07Some doc typo fixesLibravatar Francis Daly1-1/+1
All should be clear enough, except perhaps committish / commitish. I just kept the more-used one within the current docs. [jc: with rephrasing of check-ref-format description later discussed on the list] Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-04Merge branch 'vb/sendemail' into nextLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* vb/sendemail: Cleanup git-send-email.perl:extract_valid_email read-tree --reset: update working tree file for conflicted paths. Documentation: Spelling fixes Builtin git-rev-parse. fetch: do not report "same" unless -verbose.
2006-06-03Documentation: Spelling fixesLibravatar Horst H. von Brand1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-01read-tree: --prefix=<path>/ option.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
With "--prefix=<path>/" option, read-tree keeps the current index contents, and reads the contents of named tree-ish under directory at `<prefix>`. The original index file cannot have anything at the path `<prefix>` itself, and have nothing in `<prefix>/` directory. This can be used to graft an independent tree into a subdirectory of the current index. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-02Documentation: read-tree --aggressiveLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08Documentation/git-read-tree.txt: Add --reset to SYNOPSIS.Libravatar Nikolai Weibull1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-05Documentaiton (read-tree): update description of 3-wayLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-12/+31
The merge-one-file used to leave the working tree intact, but it has long been changed to leave the merge result there since 2a68a8659f7dc55fd285d235ae2d19e7a8116c30 commit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-05Added documentation for few missing options.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-33/+41
More $ shell prompts in examples. Minor English grammar improvements. Added a few "See Also"s. Use back-ticks on more command examples. Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-02documentation: clarify read-tree --resetLibravatar No name1-4/+6
[jc: light edit applied on top of the original] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-15Documentation: do not blindly run 'cat' .git/HEAD, or echo into it.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Many places in the documentation we still talked about reading what commit is recorded in .git/HEAD or writing the new head information into it, both assuming .git/HEAD is a symlink. That is not necessarily so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-14Document a couple of missing command-line options.Libravatar Nikolai Weibull1-0/+4
This patch adds documentation to quite a few command-line options. Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-11Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docsLibravatar Lukas_Sandström1-10/+10
This patch makes the documentation refer to the index as index instead of cache, but some references still remain. (e.g. git-update-index.txt) Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se> 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>
2005-10-03[PATCH] Random documentation fixesLibravatar Jonas Fonseca1-2/+2
The fixes focuses on improving the HTML output. Most noteworthy: - Fix the Makefile to also make various *.html files depend on included files. - Consistently use 'NOTE: ...' instead of '[ ... ]' for additional info. - Fix ending '::' for description lists in OPTION section etc. - Fix paragraphs in description lists ending up as preformated text. - Always use listingblocks (preformatted text wrapped in lines with -----) for examples that span empty lines, so they are put in only one HTML block. - Use '1.' instead of '(1)' for numbered lists. - Fix linking to other GIT docs. - git-rev-list.txt: put option descriptions in an OPTION section. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20Document -i flag to git-read-treeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+11
Somehow I missed it when we updated read-tree to support the recursive merge strategy. Also -i should require -m as well, which the command did not check. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20[PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macroLibravatar Sergey Vlasov1-2/+2
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 Hamano1-12/+12
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>
2005-08-05[PATCH] Assorted documentation patchesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-4/+4
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections not related to the terminology unification. I really appreciate it.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-06-07[PATCH] read-tree: update documentation for 3-way merge.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-24/+66
This explains the new merge world order that formally assigns specific meaning to each of three tree-ish command line arguments. It also mentions -u option Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07[PATCH] read-tree: save more user hassles during fast-forward.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+74
This implements the "never lose the current cache information or the work tree state, but favor a successful merge over merge failure" principle in the fast-forward two-tree merge operation. It comes with a set of tests to cover all the cases described in the case matrix found in the new documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-10[PATCH 3/4] split core-git.txt and updateLibravatar David Greaves1-2/+4
Update git environment variable docs Update first section of command docs (Manipulation commands section) Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
2005-05-10[PATCH 1/4] split core-git.txt and updateLibravatar David Greaves1-0/+150
Split the core-git.txt file Formatting fix to the diff-format.txt Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>