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2011-03-15Merge branch 'jk/doc-credits' of git://github.com/peff/gitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+0
* 'jk/doc-credits' of git://github.com/peff/git: docs: point git.txt author credits to git-scm.com doc: add missing git footers doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
2011-03-14Documentation: "rebase <onto> <that>" stays on <that> branch upon exitLibravatar Drew Northup1-2/+3
This change makes it clearer that the change to the history effected by executing 'git rebase master' while on 'topic' branch, and by executing 'git rebase master topic' on any branch, will be the same; the implicit checkout of the second form will remain after the rebase exits. Signed-off-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> 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 For (1), they are out of date and incomplete.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 For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless.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.
2010-11-23rebase: support --verifyLibravatar Martin von Zweigbergk1-0/+4
Interactive rebase allows the '--verify' option to be passed, but it will be ignored. Implement proper support for the option for both interactive and non-interactive rebase by making it override any previous '--no-verify'. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-03Merge branch 'jn/doc-backslash'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jn/doc-backslash: Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion Documentation: remove stray backslashes from "Fighting regressions" article Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual Documentation: avoid stray backslashes in core tutorial Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manual Documentation: remove stray backslash from "git bundle" manual Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docs Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopses Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" example Documentation: add missing quotes to "git grep" examples Documentation: clarify quoting in "git add" example Documentation: unbreak regex in show-ref manual Documentation: quoting trouble in "git rm" discussion Documentation: tweak description of log.date
2010-08-31Merge branch 'hv/autosquash-config'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* hv/autosquash-config: add configuration variable for --autosquash option of interactive rebase
2010-08-21Merge branch 'mm/rebase-i-exec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+24
* mm/rebase-i-exec: git-rebase--interactive.sh: use printf instead of echo to print commit message git-rebase--interactive.sh: rework skip_unnecessary_picks test-lib: user-friendly alternatives to test [-d|-f|-e] rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell command Conflicts: git-rebase--interactive.sh t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh
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>
2010-08-11rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell commandLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-0/+24
The typical usage pattern would be to run a test (or simply a compilation command) at given points in history. The shell command is ran (from the worktree root), and the rebase is stopped when the command fails, to give the user an opportunity to fix the problem before continuing with "git rebase --continue". This needs a little rework of skip_unnecessary_picks, which wasn't robust enough to deal with lines like exec >"file name with many spaces" in the todolist. The new version extracts command, sha1 and rest from each line, but outputs the line itself verbatim to avoid changing the whitespace layout. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-03rebase: support -X to pass through strategy optionsLibravatar Mike Lundy1-0/+7
git-rebase calls out to merge strategies, but did not support merge strategy options so far. Add this, in the same style used in git-merge. Sadly we have to do the full quoting/eval dance here, since merge-recursive supports the --subtree=<path> option which potentially contains whitespace. This patch does not cover git rebase -i, which does not call any merge strategy directly except in --preserve-merges, and even then only for merges. [jc: with a trivial fix-up for 'expr'] Signed-off-by: Mike Lundy <mike@fluffypenguin.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-14add configuration variable for --autosquash option of interactive rebaseLibravatar Heiko Voigt1-0/+8
If you use this feature regularly you can now enable it by default. In case the user wants to override this config on the commandline --no-autosquash can be used to force disabling. Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-11rebase -i -p: document shortcomingsLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+27
The rebase --preserve-merges facility presents a list of commits in its instruction sheet and uses a separate table to keep track of their parents. Unfortunately, in practice this means that with -p after most attempts to rearrange patches, some commits have the "wrong" parent and the resulting history is rarely what the caller expected. Yes, it would be nice to fix that. But first, add a warning to the manual to help the uninitiated understand what is going on. Reported-by: Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-02Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebaseLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+4
Describe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were introduced in these commits: 619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18) 61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20) 230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07) Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18Documentation: rebase -i ignores options passed to "git am"Libravatar Markus Heidelberg1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24Teach rebase the --no-ff option.Libravatar Marc Branchaud1-2/+21
For git-rebase.sh, --no-ff is a synonym for --force-rebase. For git-rebase--interactive.sh, --no-ff cherry-picks all the commits in the rebased branch, instead of fast-forwarding over any unchanged commits. --no-ff offers an alternative way to deal with reverted merges. Instead of "reverting the revert" you can use "rebase --no-ff" to recreate the branch with entirely new commits (they're new because at the very least the committer time is different). This obviates the need to revert the reversion, as you can re-merge the new topic branch directly. Added an addendum to revert-a-faulty-merge.txt describing the situation and how to use --no-ff to handle it. Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-21git-rebase.txt: Fix spellingLibravatar Horst H. von Brand1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-19/+19
* 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
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-19/+19
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.
2010-01-06rebase -i --autosquash: auto-squash commitsLibravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+10
Teach a new option, --autosquash, to the interactive rebase. When the commit log message begins with "!fixup ...", and there is a commit whose title begins with the same ..., automatically modify the todo list of rebase -i so that the commit marked for squashing come right after the commit to be modified, and change the action of the moved commit from pick to squash. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-07Add a command "fixup" to rebase --interactiveLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-5/+8
The command is like "squash", except that it discards the commit message of the corresponding commit. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22Merge branch 'tr/maint-merge-ours-clarification' (early part)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+13
* 'tr/maint-merge-ours-clarification' (early part): rebase docs: clarify --merge and --strategy Documentation: clarify 'ours' merge strategy
2009-11-16rebase docs: clarify --merge and --strategyLibravatar Thomas Rast1-3/+13
Add a paragraph about the swapped sides in a --merge rebase, which was otherwise only documented in the sources. Add a paragraph about the effects of the 'ours' strategy to the -s description. Also remove the mention of the 'octopus' strategy, which was copied from the git-merge description but is pointless in a rebase. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-07Teach 'rebase -i' the command "reword"Libravatar Björn Gustavsson1-3/+6
Make it easier to edit just the commit message for a commit using 'git rebase -i' by introducing the "reword" command. Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-05git apply: option to ignore whitespace differencesLibravatar Giuseppe Bilotta1-1/+2
Introduce --ignore-whitespace option and corresponding config bool to ignore whitespace differences while applying patches, akin to the 'patch' program. 'git am', 'git rebase' and the bash git completion are made aware of this option. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-18am, rebase: teach quiet optionLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-0/+4
git-am and git-rebase are talkative scripts. Teach them to be quiet when told, allowing them to speak only when they fail or experience errors. The quiet option is maintained when git-am or git-rebase fails to apply a patch. This means subsequent --resolved, --continue, --skip, --abort invocations will be quiet if the original invocation was quiet. Drop a handful of >&2 redirection; the rest of the program sends all the info messages to stdout, not to stderr. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-21doc/git-rebase.txt: remove mention of multiple strategiesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+1
git-rebase.sh does not seem to support this. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-18rebase: add options passed to git-amLibravatar Michele Ballabio1-0/+5
Add the options --committer-date-is-author-date and --ignore-date to git-rebase. They were introduced in commit a79ec62d0 for git-am. These options imply --force-rebase. Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-18document --force-rebaseLibravatar Michele Ballabio1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-02git-rebase: Add --stat and --no-stat for producing diffstat on rebaseLibravatar Tor Arne Vestbø1-1/+16
The behavior of --verbose is unchanged, but uses a different state variable internally, so that the meaning of verbose output may be expanded without affecting the diffstat. This is also reflected in the documentation. The configuration option rebase.stat works the same was as merg.stat, but the default is currently false. Signed-off-by: Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-28git-rebase: Update --whitespace documentationLibravatar Todd Zullinger1-1/+1
The parameters accepted by the --whitespace option of "git apply" have changed over time, and the documentation for "git rebase" was out of sync. Remove the specific parameter list from the "git rebase" documentation and simply point to the "git apply" documentation for details, as is already done in the "git am" documentation. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-12git-rebase.txt: --interactive does not work with --whitespaceLibravatar Mark Burton1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-11rebase: update documentation for --rootLibravatar Thomas Rast1-5/+16
Since the new option depends on --onto and omission of <upstream>, use a separate invocation style, and omit most options to save space. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19Merge branch 'tr/workflow-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+125
* tr/workflow-doc: Documentation: add manpage about workflows Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
2008-10-19Merge branch 'ae/preservemerge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* ae/preservemerge: rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode
2008-10-14rebase: Document --no-verify option to bypass pre-rebase hookLibravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-30rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive modeLibravatar Andreas Ericsson1-2/+1
As a result of implementation details, 'git rebase' could previously only preserve merges in interactive mode. That limitation was hard for users to understand and awkward to explain. This patch works around it by running the interactive rebase helper git-rebase--interactive with GIT_EDITOR set to ':' when the user passes "-p" but not "-i" to the rebase command. The effect is that the interactive rebase helper is used but the user never sees an editor. The test-case included in this patch was originally written by Stephen Habermann <stephen@exigencecorp.com>, but has been extensively modified since its creation. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-24Fixed some grammatical errors in git-rebase.txt documentation.Libravatar Garry Dolley1-4/+4
Generally, the dependent clause "for example" is suffixed with a comma. Used present tense where appropriate to be consistent with the other paragraphs. Rewrote the paragraph in the second hunk to be more clear. Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-15Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebaseLibravatar Thomas Rast1-5/+125
Document how to recover if the upstream that you pull from has rebased the branches you depend your work on. Hopefully this can also serve as a warning to potential rebasers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21Rename .git/rebase to .git/rebase-applyLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-2/+2
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/", but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good compromise. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> 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>
2008-07-15Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge". This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebaseLibravatar Brian Gernhardt1-1/+2
Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we recently added it to am and rebase. These facts should be reflected in the documentation. git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in the very first example so no changes were needed there. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-13/+13
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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>
2008-07-05Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and the command you type, `git whatever <options>`. So we use a dash after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter. I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some spots. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation formatting and cleanupLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-11/+11
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 Nieder1-10/+10
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>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-5/+10
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>
2008-03-10update 'git rebase' documentationLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-2/+1
Being in the project's top directory when starting or continuing a rebase is not necessary since 533b703 (Allow whole-tree operations to be started from a subdirectory, 2007-01-12). Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01Documentation/git-rebase.txt: Add --strategy to synopsysLibravatar Mike Hommey1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>