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2010-02-17docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhereLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+5
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>
2009-08-05git-merge-base/git-show-branch --merge-base: Documentation and testLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-3/+5
Currently, the documentation suggests that 'git merge-base -a' and 'git show-branch --merge-base' are equivalent (in fact it claims that the former cannot handle more than two revs). Alas, the handling of more than two revs is very different. Document this by tests and correct the documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-05git-merge-base/git-show-branch: Cleanup documentation and usageLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-2/+3
Make sure that usage strings and documentation coincide with each other and with the actual code. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-01git-show-branch.txt: document --date-order optionLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-3/+9
Copy the description of date-order from rev-list-options.txt, and then reword it to be commit specific. While we're at it, put <rev> <glob>... on a new line to not exceed 80 characters. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-18Merge branch 'mh/show-branch-color'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* mh/show-branch-color: bash completion: show-branch color support show-branch: color the commit status signs Conflicts: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
2009-04-23git-show-branch.txt: cleanup example descriptionLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-3/+4
Add a missing quote and properly escape the ' character so docs don't look odd. Add 'the' to make some sentences more gramatically correct. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-22show-branch: color the commit status signsLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-0/+9
Make it possible to color the status character ('*' '!' '+' '-') of each commit corresponding to the branch it's in. This makes it easier to follow a particular branch, especially if there are larger gaps in the output. Add the config option color.showbranch and the command line options --color and --no-color to control the colored output. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-04git-show-branch doc: show -g as synonym to --reflog in the listLibravatar jidanni@jidanni.org1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-21Documentation/git-show-branch: work around "single quote" typesetting glitchLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-1/+1
The displayed example is typeset with acute accents around the string that should be surrounded by a pair of single quotes in manpage. Replace them with double quotes (the semantics of the example does not change). Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntaxLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-1/+1
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: 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 Nieder1-2/+2
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 Nieder1-2/+2
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 Beyer1-2/+4
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>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-1/+1
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>
2007-02-03show-branch -g: default to the current branch.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+5
Now we have a separate reflog on HEAD, show-branch -g without an explicit parameter defaults to the current branch, or HEAD when it is detached from branches. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24reflog inspection: introduce shortcut "-g"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+3
A short-hand "-g" for "git log --walk-reflogs" and "git show-branch --reflog" makes it easier to access the reflog info. [jc: added -g to show-branch for symmetry] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19show-branch --reflog: show the reflog message at the top.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+12
This changes the output so the list at the top shows the reflog message, along with their relative timestamps. You can use --reflog=<n> to show <n> most recent log entries, or use --reflog=<n>,<b> to show <n> entries going back from the entry <b>. <b> can be either a number (so --reflog=4,20 shows 4 records starting from @{20}) or a timestamp (e.g. --reflog='4,1 day'). Here is a sample output (with --list option): $ git show-branch --reflog=10 --list jc/show-reflog [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^ [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow retrievi [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4 [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: use This shows what I did more cleanly: $ git show-branch --reflog=10 jc/show-reflog ! [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref ! [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^ ! [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: ! [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: ! [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ ! [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read ! [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend rea ! [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow ! [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4 ! [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --r ---------- + [jc/show-reflog@{0}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog + [jc/show-reflog@{2}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog +++ [jc/show-reflog@{1}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog +++++ [jc/show-reflog@{4}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro + [jc/show-reflog@{5}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro + [jc/show-reflog@{6}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro + [jc/show-reflog@{7}] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the r + [jc/show-reflog@{9}] show-branch --reflog: use updated rea + [jc/show-reflog@{9}^] read_ref_at(): allow reporting the c + [jc/show-reflog@{9}~2] show-branch --reflog: show the refl + [jc/show-reflog@{9}~3] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the ++++++++++ [jc/show-reflog@{8}] dwim_ref(): Separate name-to-ref DWIM At @{9}, I had a commit to complete 5 patch series, but I wanted to consolidate two commits that enhances read_ref_at() into one (they were @{9}^ and @{9}~3), and another two that touch show-branch into one (@{9} and @{9}~2). I first saved them with "format-patch -4", and then did a reset at @{8}. At @{7}, I applied one of them with "am", and then used "git-apply" on the other one, and amended the commit at @{6} (so @{6} and @{7} has the same parent). I did not like the log message, so I amended again at @{5}. Then I cherry-picked @{9}~2 to create @{3} (the log message shows that it needs to learn to set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION -- it uses "git-commit" and the log entry is attributed for it). Another cherry-pick built @{2} out of @{9}, but what I wanted to do was to squash these two into one, so I did a "reset HEAD^" at @{1} and then made the final commit by amending what was at the top. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-26show-branch --reflog: add documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-22Make git-show-branch options similar to git-branch.Libravatar Brian Gernhardt1-4/+6
Branch has "-r" for remote branches and "-a" for local and remote. It seems logical to mirror that in show-branch. Also removes the dubiously useful "--tags" option (as part of changing the meaning for "--all"). Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-18Add documentation for show-branch --topicsLibravatar Brian Gernhardt1-1/+9
Add a quick paragraph explaining the --topics option for show-branch. The explanation is an abbreviated version of the commit message from d320a5437f8304cf9ea3ee1898e49d643e005738. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-06show-branch: match documentation and usageLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17Fix minor typo.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09Remove trailing dot after short descriptionLibravatar Fredrik Kuivinen1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-05git/Documentation: fix SYNOPSIS style bugsLibravatar Dmitry V. Levin1-3/+3
This trivial patch fixes SYNOPSIS style bugs. Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-15show-branch: --current includes the current branch.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+11
With this, the command includes the current branch to the list of revs to be shown when it is not given on the command line. This is handy to use in the configuration file like this: [showbranch] default = --current default = heads/* ; primary branches, not topics under ; subdirectories Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-15show-branch: make the current branch and merge commits stand out.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+8
This changes the character used to mark the commits that is on the branch from '+' to '*' for the current branch, to make it stand out. Also we show '-' for merge commits. When you have a handful branches with relatively long diversion, it is easier to see which one is the current branch this way. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-15Documentation: show-branch.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+23
Describe showbranch.default configuration item and give an example. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-29Documentation: spell.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08Add documentation for the --topo-order option to git-show-branch.Libravatar Nikolai Weibull1-1/+7
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-04show-branch: allow glob pattern to name branches to show.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+17
With this, you can say "git-show-branch topic/* master" to show all the topic branches you have under .git/refs/heads/topic/ and your master branch. Another example is "git-show-branch --list v1.0*" to show all the v1.0 tags. You can disambiguate by saying "heads/topic/*" to show only topic branches if you have tags under .git/refs/tags/topic/ as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-11show-branch: optionally use unique prefix as name.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+10
git-show-branch acquires two new options. --sha1-name to name commits using the unique prefix of their object names, and --no-name to not to show names at all. This was outlined in <7vk6gpyuyr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated versionLibravatar Christian Meder1-1/+1
The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version of the git commands. Adapt the remaining offenders. Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> 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>
2005-09-20[PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macroLibravatar Sergey Vlasov1-1/+1
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>
2005-09-09show-branch: --list and --independentLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+14
The --list option is what 'git branch' without parameter should have been; it shows the one-line commit message for each branch name. The --independent option is used to filter out commits that can be reachable from other commits, to make detection of fast forward condition in multi-head merge easier. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-08Show all merge-base candidates from show-branch --merge-baseLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
This would make things easier to use for Octopus. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07Big tool rename.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
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>
2005-08-29Accumulated documentation updates.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-22Clean-up output from "git show-branch" and document it.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+107
When showing only one branch a lot of default output becomes redundant, so clean it up a bit, and document what is shown. Retire the earlier implementation "git-show-branches-script". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>