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2015-03-05reflog_expire(): ignore --updateref for symbolic referencesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+2
If we are expiring reflog entries for a symbolic reference, then how should --updateref be handled if the newest reflog entry is expired? Option 1: Update the referred-to reference. (This is what the current code does.) This doesn't make sense, because the referred-to reference has its own reflog, which hasn't been rewritten. Option 2: Update the symbolic reference itself (as in, REF_NODEREF). This would convert the symbolic reference into a non-symbolic reference (e.g., detaching HEAD), which is surely not what a user would expect. Option 3: Error out. This is plausible, but it would make the following usage impossible: git reflog expire ... --updateref --all Option 4: Ignore --updateref for symbolic references. We choose to implement option 4. Note: another problem in this code will be fixed in a moment. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-05reflog: improve and update documentationLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-58/+85
Revamp the "git reflog" usage documentation in the manpage and the command help to match the current reality and improve its clarity: * Add documentation for some options that had been left out. * Group the subcommands and options more logically and move more common subcommands/options higher. * Improve some explanations. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29Merge branch 'jc/prune-all'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+7
We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. Update "git gc" and "git reflog" with a new parsing function for expiry dates. * jc/prune-all: prune: introduce OPT_EXPIRY_DATE() and use it api-parse-options.txt: document "no-" for non-boolean options git-gc.txt, git-reflog.txt: document new expiry options date.c: add parse_expiry_date()
2013-04-18git-gc.txt, git-reflog.txt: document new expiry optionsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-2/+7
Document the new values that can be used for expiry values where their use makes sense: * git reflog expire --expire=[all|never] * git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=[all|never] * git gc --prune=all Other combinations aren't useful and therefore no documentation is added (even though they are allowed): * git gc --prune=never is redundant with "git gc --no-prune" * git prune --expire=all is equivalent to providing no --expire option * git prune --expire=never is a NOP Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+3
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>
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>
2011-03-11doc: 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.
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>
2010-07-05Documentation: 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>
2010-03-21Merge branch 'maint-1.6.6' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+0
* maint-1.6.6: Documentation/git-clone: Transform description list into item list Documentation/urls: Remove spurious example markers Documentation/gitdiffcore: Remove misleading date in heading Documentation/git-reflog: Fix formatting of command lists
2010-03-21Documentation/git-reflog: Fix formatting of command listsLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+0
A misplaced list continuation mark appears literally in the rendered doc. Fix this by removing it. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
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.
2008-12-19Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntaxLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.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>
2008-07-05manpages: use teletype font for sample command linesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
I think that some of these uses of italics were meant to be rendered in quotation marks, anyway. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize command names in synopsesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-5/+5
To tell command names from options in a glance. 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 Nieder1-1/+1
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>
2008-06-06documentation: 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>
2008-03-03git-reflog.txt: Document new commands --updateref and --rewriteLibravatar Brandon Casey1-0/+9
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-22Merge branch 'bc/reflog-fix' into js/reflog-deleteLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+13
* bc/reflog-fix: (1490 commits) builtin-reflog.c: don't install new reflog on write failure hash: fix lookup_hash semantics gitweb: Better chopping in commit search results builtin-tag.c: remove cruft git-merge-index documentation: clarify synopsis send-email: fix In-Reply-To regression git-reset --hard and git-read-tree --reset: fix read_cache_unmerged() Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l diff: fix java funcname pattern for solaris t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/sh git_config_*: don't assume we are parsing a config file prefix_path: use is_absolute_path() instead of *orig == '/' git-clean: handle errors if removing files fails Clarified the meaning of git-add -u in the documentation git-clone.sh: properly configure remote even if remote's head is dangling git.el: Set process-environment instead of invoking env Documentation/git-stash: document options for git stash list send-email: squelch warning due to comparing undefined $_ to "" cvsexportcommit: be graceful when "cvs status" reorders the arguments Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all. ... Conflicts: Documentation/git-reflog.txt t/t1410-reflog.sh
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>
2007-11-20Doc fix for git-reflog: mention @{...} syntax, and <ref> in synopsys.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-4/+11
The HEAD@{...} syntax was documented in git-rev-parse manpage, which is hard to find by someone looking for the documentation of porcelain. git-reflog is probably the place where one expects to find this. While I'm there, "git revlog show whatever" was also undocumented. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-17Teach "git reflog" a subcommand to delete single entriesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+5
This commit implements the "delete" subcommand: git reflog delete master@{2} will delete the second reflog entry of the "master" branch. With this, it should be easy to implement "git stash pop" everybody seems to want these days. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15git-reflog: document --verboseLibravatar Michele Ballabio1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-08-24Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.Libravatar Brian Hetro1-1/+1
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation. Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-19Correct documentation of 'reflog show' to explain it shows HEADLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+2
By default 'git reflog show' will show the reflog of 'HEAD' and not the reflog of the current branch. This is most likely due to the work done a while ago as part of the detached HEAD series to allow HEAD to have its own reflog independent of each branch's reflog. Since 'git reflog show' is really just an obscure alias for 'git log -g --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline' it should behave the same way and its documentation should match. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16Document git reflog --stale-fixLibravatar Jakub Narebski1-0/+13
Document --stale-fix, used in "git reflog expire --stale-fix --all" to remove invalid reflog entries, to fix situation after running non reflog-aware git-prune from an older git in the presence of reflogs (see RelNotes-1.5.0.txt). Based on description of commit 1389d9ddaa68a4cbf5018d88f971b9bbb7aaa3c9 "reflog expire --fix-stale" which introduced this option. 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>
2007-02-08git reflog showLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-4/+13
It makes "git reflog [show]" act as git log -g --pretty=oneline --abbrev-cmit and is fairly straightforward. So you can just write git reflog or git reflog show and it will show you the reflog in a nice format. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-15git reflog expire: document --stale-fix option.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-27git-reflog: gc.* configuration and documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+59
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>