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2017-06-15doc: git-reset: fix a trivial typoLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-16reset: add an example of how to split a commit into twoLibravatar Jacob Keller1-0/+48
It is often useful to break a commit into multiple parts that are more logical separations. This can be tricky to learn how to do without the brute-force method if re-writing code or commit messages from scratch. Add a section to the git-reset documentation which shows an example process for how to use git add -p and git commit -c HEAD@{1} to interactively break a commit apart and re-use the original commit message as a starting point when making the new commit message. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-16Revert "reset: add an example of how to split a commit into two"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-38/+0
This reverts commit 7326451bedaa67d29afe02184b166e28d9393c91; a better rewrite will be queued separately.
2017-02-03reset: add an example of how to split a commit into twoLibravatar Jacob Keller1-0/+38
It is often useful to break a commit into multiple parts that are more logical separations. This can be tricky to learn how to do without the brute-force method if re-writing code or commit messages from scratch. Add a section to the git-reset documentation which shows an example process for how to use git add -p and git commit -c HEAD@{1} to interactively break a commit apart and re-use the original commit message as a starting point when making the new commit message. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-04-08Merge branch 'jl/nor-or-nand-and'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Eradicate mistaken use of "nor" (that is, essentially "nor" used not in "neither A nor B" ;-)) from in-code comments, command output strings, and documentations. * jl/nor-or-nand-and: code and test: fix misuses of "nor" comments: fix misuses of "nor" contrib: fix misuses of "nor" Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
2014-03-31Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"Libravatar Justin Lebar1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-05reset: support "--mixed --intent-to-add" modeLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+4
When --mixed is used, entries could be removed from index if the target ref does not have them. When "reset" is used in preparation for commit spliting (in a dirty worktree), it could be hard to track what files to be added back. The new option --intent-to-add simplifies it by marking all removed files intent-to-add. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
2013-07-19Documentation: "git reset <tree-ish> <pathspec>" takes a tree-ish, not tree-shLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+1
Reported-By: Ibrahim M. Ghazal <imgx64@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-16reset: update documentation to require only tree-ish with pathsLibravatar Martin von Zweigbergk1-9/+9
When resetting with paths, we no longer require a commit argument, but only a tree-ish. Update the documentation and synopsis accordingly. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-29doc: git-reset: make "<mode>" optionalLibravatar Krzysztof Mazur1-4/+4
The git-reset's "<mode>" is an optional argument, however it was documented as required. The "<mode>" is documented as one of: --soft, --mixed, --hard, --merge or --keep, so "<mode>" should be used instead of "--<mode>". Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
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>
2011-11-23builtin-reset: Documentation updateLibravatar Vincent van Ravesteijn1-4/+4
The second mode of 'git reset' is defined by the --patch option, while the third mode is defined by the <mode> option. Hence, these options are mandatory in the description of the individual modes. Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-05git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch'Libravatar Valentin Haenel1-3/+4
Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis. Also include a better explanation of this option and additionally refer the reader to the patch mode description of git-add documentation. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-9/+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.
2011-01-21Documentation: do not treat reset --keep as a special caseLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-7/+2
The current treatment of "git reset --keep" emphasizes how it differs from --hard (treatment of local changes) and how it breaks down into plumbing (git read-tree -m -u HEAD <commit> followed by git update-ref HEAD <commit>). This can discourage people from using it, since it might seem to be a complex or niche option. Better to emphasize what the --keep flag is intended for --- moving the index and worktree from one commit to another, like "git checkout" would --- so the reader can make a more informed decision about the appropriate situations in which to use it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-18git-reset.txt: make modes description more consistentLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-17/+26
Currently, the structure of the individual mode entries is different which makes it difficult to grasp the differences between the modes. Also, the same items are named differently (e.g. <commit>, "the named commit", "the given commit", "the commit being switched to"). Structure and word all mode entries consistently. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-18git-reset.txt: point to git-checkoutLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+7
for the case of updating a file in index and worktree, or from the index to the worktree. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-18git-reset.txt: use "working tree" consistentlyLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-7/+7
as per git help glossary Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-18git-reset.txt: reset --soft is not a no-opLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-4/+4
Make it clearer that git reset --soft actually does something (changing HEAD). While it is mentioned in the previous paragraph already it can be easily overlooked otherwise. Also, git reset --soft does not look at the index nor the worktree, so there is no "good order" requirement. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-18git-reset.txt: reset does not change files in targetLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+4
git-reset obviously cannot change files in an existing commit. Make it not sound as if it could: reset can change HEAD and, in that sense, can change which state a file in HEAD is in. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-18git-reset.txt: clarify branch vs. branch headLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+2
"Change the branch" can be misunderstood to mean "change which branch is checked out". Make it clearer that git-reset changes the branch head of the currently checked out branch. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20Merge branch 'vs/doc-spell' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* vs/doc-spell: Documentation: spelling fixes
2010-07-20Documentation: spelling fixesLibravatar Ville Skyttä1-1/+1
[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-19Documentation/reset: move "undo permanently" example behind "make topic"Libravatar Thomas Rast1-13/+13
I consider the latter usage more important. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-19Documentation/reset: reorder examples to match descriptionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-23/+23
A previous commit moved the <paths> mode (undoes git-add) to the front in the description, so make the examples follow the same order. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-19Documentation/reset: promote 'examples' one section upLibravatar Thomas Rast1-107/+109
Move the examples section upwards, before the discussion that gives the gory details. Adjust the style of the heading accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-19Documentation/reset: separate options by modeLibravatar Thomas Rast1-26/+33
Remove all but -q from the OPTIONS section, and instead explain the options separated by usage mode, since they only apply to one each. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-19Documentation/git-reset: reorder modes for soft-mixed-hard progressionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-6/+6
Reorder the documetation so that the soft/mixed/hard modes are in this order. This way they form a natural progression towards changing more of the state. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-08Documentation: improve description of "git reset --keep"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-06reset: disallow using --keep when there are unmerged entriesLibravatar Christian Couder1-2/+3
The use case for --keep option is to remove previous commits unrelated to the current changes in the working tree. So in this use case we are not supposed to have unmerged entries. This is why it seems safer to just disallow using --keep when there are unmerged entries. And this patch changes the error message when --keep was disallowed and there were some unmerged entries from: error: Entry 'file1' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge. fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD^'. to: fatal: Cannot do a keep reset in the middle of a merge. which is nicer. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-06Documentation: reset: describe new "--keep" optionLibravatar Christian Couder1-1/+48
and give an example to show how it can be used. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* 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
2010-01-13Merge branch 'cc/reset-more'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+89
* cc/reset-more: t7111: check that reset options work as described in the tables Documentation: reset: add some missing tables Fix bit assignment for CE_CONFLICTED "reset --merge": fix unmerged case reset: use "unpack_trees()" directly instead of "git read-tree" reset: add a few tests for "git reset --merge" Documentation: reset: add some tables to describe the different options reset: improve mixed reset error message when in a bare repo
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.
2010-01-04Documentation: reset: add some missing tablesLibravatar Christian Couder1-6/+29
and while at it also explain why --merge option is disallowed in some cases. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-03"reset --merge": fix unmerged caseLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Commit 9e8ecea (Add 'merge' mode to 'git reset', 2008-12-01) disallowed "git reset --merge" when there was unmerged entries. But it wished if unmerged entries were reset as if --hard (instead of --merge) has been used. This makes sense because all "mergy" operations makes sure that any path involved in the merge does not have local modifications before starting, so resetting such a path away won't lose any information. The previous commit changed the behavior of --merge to accept resetting unmerged entries if they are reset to a different state than HEAD, but it did not reset the changes in the work tree, leaving the conflict markers in the resulting file in the work tree. Fix it by doing three things: - Update the documentation to match the wish of original "reset --merge" better, namely, "An unmerged entry is a sign that the path didn't have any local modification and can be safely resetted to whatever the new HEAD records"; - Update read_index_unmerged(), which reads the index file into the cache while dropping any higher-stage entries down to stage #0, not to copy the object name from the higher stage entry. The code used to take the object name from the a stage entry ("base" if you happened to have stage #1, or "ours" if both sides added, etc.), which essentially meant that you are getting random results depending on what the merge did. The _only_ reason we want to keep a previously unmerged entry in the index at stage #0 is so that we don't forget the fact that we have corresponding file in the work tree in order to be able to remove it when the tree we are resetting to does not have the path. In order to differentiate such an entry from ordinary cache entry, the cache entry added by read_index_unmerged() is marked as CE_CONFLICTED. - Update merged_entry() and deleted_entry() so that they pay attention to cache entries marked as CE_CONFLICTED. They are previously unmerged entries, and the files in the work tree that correspond to them are resetted away by oneway_merge() to the version from the tree we are resetting to. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-03reset: use "unpack_trees()" directly instead of "git read-tree"Libravatar Stephan Beyer1-1/+1
This patch makes "reset_index_file()" call "unpack_trees()" directly instead of forking and execing "git read-tree". So the code is more efficient. And it's also easier to see which unpack_tree() options will be used, as we don't need to follow "git read-tree"'s command line parsing which is quite complex. As Daniel Barkalow found, there is a difference between this new version and the old one. The old version gives an error for "git reset --merge" with unmerged entries, and the new version does not when we reset the entries to some states that differ from HEAD. Instead, it resets the index entry and succeeds, while leaving the conflict markers in the corresponding file in the work tree (which will be corrected by the next patch). The code comes from the sequencer GSoC project: git://repo.or.cz/git/sbeyer.git (at commit 5a78908b70ceb5a4ea9fd4b82f07ceba1f019079) Mentored-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-30Documentation: reset: add some tables to describe the different optionsLibravatar Christian Couder1-0/+66
This patch adds a DISCUSSION section that contains some tables to show how the different "git reset" options work depending on the states of the files in the working tree, the index, HEAD and the target commit. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03General --quiet improvementsLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-0/+1
'git reset' is missing --quiet, and 'git gc' is not using OPT__QUIET. Let's fix that. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24Use 'fast-forward' all over the placeLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-2/+2
It's a compound word. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-15Implement 'git reset --patch'Libravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+13
This introduces a --patch mode for git-reset. The basic case is git reset --patch -- [files...] which acts as the opposite of 'git add --patch -- [files...]': it offers hunks for *un*staging. Advanced usage is git reset --patch <revision> -- [files...] which offers hunks from the diff between the index and <revision> for forward application to the index. (That is, the basic case is just <revision> = HEAD.) Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29Merge branch 'lt/reset-merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+28
* lt/reset-merge: Document "git-reset --merge" Add 'merge' mode to 'git reset'
2008-12-19Documentation: sync example output with git outputLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-1/+1
Don't confuse the user with old git messages. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17doc/git-reset: add reference to git-stashLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-0/+2
The "Interrupted workflow" situation is a good example for using git-stash. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09Document "git-reset --merge"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+28
The commit log message for the feature made it sound as if this is a saner version of --mixed, but the use case presented makes it clear that it is a better variant of --hard when your changes and somebody else's changes are mixed together. Perhaps we would want to rewrite the example that shows the use of --hard not to talk about recovering from a failed merge? Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-15Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewritingLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+3
This points readers at the "Recovering from upstream rebase" warning in git-rebase(1) when we talk about rewriting published history in the 'reset', 'commit --amend', and 'filter-branch' documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> 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 Nieder1-1/+1
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 Nieder1-1/+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>
2008-06-06documentation: 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>