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2019-09-09Documentation: wrap blocks with "--"Libravatar Martin Ågren1-7/+11
The documentation for each of these options contains a list. After the list, AsciiDoc interprets the continuation as a continuation of the *list*, not as a continution of the larger block. As a result, we get too much indentation. Wrap the entire blocks in "--" to fix this. With Asciidoctor, this commit is a no-op, and the two programs now render these identically. These two files share the same problem and indeed, they both document `--untracked-files` in quite similar ways. I haven't checked to what extent that is intentional or warranted, and to what extent they have simply drifted apart. I consider such an investigation and possible cleanup as out of scope for this commit and this patch series. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-01Documentation/git-status: fix titles in porcelain v2 sectionLibravatar Todd Zullinger1-4/+8
Asciidoc uses either one-line or two-line syntax for document/section titles[1]. The two-line form is used in git-status. Fix a few section titles in the porcelain v2 section which were inadvertently using markdown syntax. [1] http://asciidoc.org/userguide.html#X17 Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-26git-status.txt: render tables correctly under AsciidoctorLibravatar Martin Ågren1-77/+85
Asciidoctor removes the indentation of each line in these tables, so the last lines of each table have a completely broken alignment. Similar to 379805051d ("Documentation: render revisions correctly under Asciidoctor", 2018-05-06), use an explicit literal block to indicate that we want to keep the leading whitespace in the tables. Because this gives us some extra indentation, we can remove the one that we have been carrying explicitly. That is, drop the first four spaces of indentation on each line. With Asciidoc (8.6.10), this results in identical rendering before and after this commit, both for git-status.1 and git-status.html. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-22Documentation: spelling and grammar fixesLibravatar Ville Skyttä1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-13add status config and command line options for rename detectionLibravatar Ben Peart1-0/+10
After performing a merge that has conflicts git status will, by default, attempt to detect renames which causes many objects to be examined. In a virtualized repo, those objects do not exist locally so the rename logic triggers them to be fetched from the server. This results in the status call taking hours to complete on very large repos vs seconds with this patch. Add a new config status.renames setting to enable turning off rename detection during status and commit. This setting will default to the value of diff.renames. Add a new config status.renamelimit setting to to enable bounding the time spent finding out inexact renames during status and commit. This setting will default to the value of diff.renamelimit. Add --no-renames command line option to status that enables overriding the config setting from the command line. Add --find-renames[=<n>] command line option to status that enables detecting renames and optionally setting the similarity index. Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Original-Patch-by: Alejandro Pauly <alpauly@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <Ben.Peart@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-25Merge branch 'en/doc-typoes'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Docfix. * en/doc-typoes: Documentation: normalize spelling of 'normalised' Documentation: fix several one-character-off spelling errors
2018-04-09Documentation: fix several one-character-off spelling errorsLibravatar Elijah Newren1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-22Merge branch 'sb/status-doc-fix' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * sb/status-doc-fix: Documentation/git-status: clarify status table for porcelain mode
2018-03-08Merge branch 'jh/status-no-ahead-behind'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
"git status" can spend a lot of cycles to compute the relation between the current branch and its upstream, which can now be disabled with "--no-ahead-behind" option. * jh/status-no-ahead-behind: status: support --no-ahead-behind in long format status: update short status to respect --no-ahead-behind status: add --[no-]ahead-behind to status and commit for V2 format. stat_tracking_info: return +1 when branches not equal
2018-02-28Merge branch 'sb/status-doc-fix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Docfix. * sb/status-doc-fix: Documentation/git-status: clarify status table for porcelain mode
2018-02-27Merge branch 'nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+13
"git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not report the old and new pathnames correctly. * nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status: wt-status.c: handle worktree renames wt-status.c: rename rename-related fields in wt_status_change_data wt-status.c: catch unhandled diff status codes wt-status.c: coding style fix Use DIFF_DETECT_RENAME for detect_rename assignments t2203: test status output with porcelain v2 format
2018-02-15Documentation/git-status: clarify status table for porcelain modeLibravatar Stefan Beller1-2/+2
It is possible to have the output ' A' from 'git status --porcelain' by adding a file using the '--intend-to-add' flag. Make this clear by adding the pattern in the table of the documentation. However the mode 'DM' (deleted in the index, modified in the working tree) is not possible in the non-merge case in which the file only shows as 'D ' (and adding it back to the worktree would show an additional line of an '??' untracked file). It is also not possible in the merge case as then the mode involves a 'U' on one side of the merge. Remove that pattern. Reported-by: Ross Light <light@google.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-24status: add --[no-]ahead-behind to status and commit for V2 format.Libravatar Jeff Hostetler1-0/+5
Teach "git status" and "git commit" to accept "--no-ahead-behind" and "--ahead-behind" arguments to request quick or full ahead/behind reporting. When "--no-ahead-behind" is given, the existing porcelain V2 line "branch.ab +x -y" is replaced with a new "branch.ab +? -?" line. This indicates that the branch and its upstream are or are not equal without the expense of computing the full ahead/behind values. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-23Merge branch 'nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-10/+13
"git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not report the old and new pathnames correctly. * nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status: wt-status.c: handle worktree renames wt-status.c: rename rename-related fields in wt_status_change_data wt-status.c: catch unhandled diff status codes wt-status.c: coding style fix Use DIFF_DETECT_RENAME for detect_rename assignments t2203: test status output with porcelain v2 format
2017-12-27wt-status.c: handle worktree renamesLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-10/+13
Before 425a28e0a4 (diff-lib: allow ita entries treated as "not yet exist in index" - 2016-10-24) there are never "new files" in the index, which essentially disables rename detection because we only detect renames when a new file appears in a diff pair. After that commit, an i-t-a entry can appear as a new file in "git diff-files". But the diff callback function in wt-status.c does not handle this case and produces incorrect status output. PS. The reader may notice that this patch adds a new xstrdup() but not a free(). Yes we leak memory (the same for head_path). But wt_status so far has been short lived, this leak should not matter in practice. Noticed-by: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@dropbox.com> Helped-by: Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-13Merge branch 'jk/no-optional-locks'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+13
Doc update for a feature available in Git v2.14 and upwards. * jk/no-optional-locks: git-status.txt: mention --no-optional-locks
2017-11-27git-status.txt: mention --no-optional-locksLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+13
If you come to the documentation thinking "I do not want Git to take any locks for my background processes", then you may easily run across "--no-optional-locks" in git.txt. But it's quite reasonable to hit a specific instance of the problem: you have "git status" running in the background, and you notice that it causes lock contention with other processes. So you look in git-status.txt to see if there is a way to disable it, but there's no mention of the flag. Let's add a short note mentioning that status does indeed touch the index (and why), with a pointer to the global option. That can point users in the right direction and help them make a more informed decision about what they're disabling. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-31status: document options to show matching ignored filesLibravatar Jameson Miller1-1/+20
Signed-off-by: Jameson Miller <jamill@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-03Merge branch 'mr/doc-negative-pathspec'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Doc updates. * mr/doc-negative-pathspec: docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspec
2017-09-25docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspecLibravatar Manav Rathi1-0/+2
The ability to exclude paths with a negative pathspec is not mentioned in the man pages for git grep and other commands where it might be useful. Add an example and a pointer to the pathspec glossary entry in the man page for git grep to help the user to discover this ability. Add similar pointers from the git-add and git-status man pages. Additionally, - Add a test for the behaviour when multiple exclusions are present. - Add a test for the ^ alias. - Improve name of existing test. - Improve grammar in glossary description of the exclude pathspec. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-18status: add optional stash count informationLibravatar Liam Beguin1-0/+3
Introduce '--show-stash' and its configuration option 'status.showStash' to allow git-status to show information about currently stashed entries. Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-29submodule.c: correctly handle nested submodules in is_submodule_modifiedLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+2
Suppose I have a superproject 'super', with two submodules 'super/sub' and 'super/sub1'. 'super/sub' itself contains a submodule 'super/sub/subsub'. Now suppose I run, from within 'super': echo hi >sub/subsub/stray-file echo hi >sub1/stray-file Currently we get would see the following output in git-status: git status --short m sub ? sub1 With this patch applied, the untracked file in the nested submodule is displayed as an untracked file on the 'super' level as well. git status --short ? sub ? sub1 This doesn't change the output of 'git status --porcelain=1' for nested submodules, because its output is always ' M' for either untracked files or local modifications no matter the nesting level of the submodule. 'git status --porcelain=2' is affected by this change in a nested submodule, though. Without this patch it would report the direct submodule as modified and having no untracked files. With this patch it would report untracked files. Chalk this up as a bug fix. This bug fix also affects the default output (non-short, non-porcelain) of git-status, which is not tested here. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-29short status: improve reporting for submodule changesLibravatar Stefan Beller1-0/+11
If I add an untracked file to a submodule or modify a tracked file, currently "git status --short" treats the change in the same way as changes to the current HEAD of the submodule: $ git clone --quiet --recurse-submodules https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit $ echo hello >gerrit/plugins/replication/stray-file $ sed -i -e 's/.*//' gerrit/plugins/replication/.mailmap $ git -C gerrit status --short M plugins/replication This is by analogy with ordinary files, where "M" represents a change that has not been added yet to the index. But this change cannot be added to the index without entering the submodule, "git add"-ing it, and running "git commit", so the analogy is counterproductive. Introduce new status letters " ?" and " m" for this. These are similar to the existing "??" and " M" but mean that the submodule (not the parent project) has new untracked files and modified files, respectively. The user can use "git add" and "git commit" from within the submodule to add them. Changes to the submodule's HEAD commit can be recorded in the index with a plain "git add -u" and are shown with " M", like today. To avoid excessive clutter, show at most one of " ?", " m", and " M" for the submodule. They represent increasing levels of change --- the last one that applies is shown (e.g., " m" if there are both modified files and untracked files in the submodule, or " M" if the submodule's HEAD has been modified and it has untracked files). While making these changes, we need to make sure to not break porcelain level 1, which shares code with "status --short". We only change "git status --short". Non-short "git status" and "git status --porcelain=2" already handle these cases by showing more detail: $ git -C gerrit status --porcelain=2 1 .M S.MU 160000 160000 160000 305c864db28eb0c77c8499bc04c87de3f849cf3c 305c864db28eb0c77c8499bc04c87de3f849cf3c plugins/replication $ git -C gerrit status [...] modified: plugins/replication (modified content, untracked content) Scripts caring about these distinctions should use --porcelain=2. Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-02Documentation: improve description for core.quotePathLibravatar Andreas Heiduk1-4/+3
Linking the description for pathname quoting to the configuration variable "core.quotePath" removes inconstistent and incomplete sections while also giving two hints how to deal with it: Either with "-c core.quotePath=false" or with "-z". Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-11git-status.txt: describe --porcelain=v2 formatLibravatar Jeff Hostetler1-4/+122
Update status manpage to include information about porcelain v2 format. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-05status: support --porcelain[=<version>]Libravatar Jeff Hostetler1-2/+5
Update --porcelain argument to take optional version parameter to allow multiple porcelain formats to be supported in the future. The token "v1" is the default value and indicates the traditional porcelain format. (The token "1" is an alias for that.) Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-21Documentation: explain optional arguments betterLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+3
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two ways: * Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands creating commits) when used without the optional argument. * Document the syntax of these options. For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g. "git status -u no" does not work. Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '=' sign between the option and its argument. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-26Merge branch 'nd/untracked-cache'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
Teach the index to optionally remember already seen untracked files to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft. * nd/untracked-cache: (24 commits) git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cache untracked cache: guard and disable on system changes mingw32: add uname() t7063: tests for untracked cache update-index: test the system before enabling untracked cache update-index: manually enable or disable untracked cache status: enable untracked cache untracked-cache: temporarily disable with $GIT_DISABLE_UNTRACKED_CACHE untracked cache: mark index dirty if untracked cache is updated untracked cache: print stats with $GIT_TRACE_UNTRACKED_STATS untracked cache: avoid racy timestamps read-cache.c: split racy stat test to a separate function untracked cache: invalidate at index addition or removal untracked cache: load from UNTR index extension untracked cache: save to an index extension ewah: add convenient wrapper ewah_serialize_strbuf() untracked cache: don't open non-existent .gitignore untracked cache: mark what dirs should be recursed/saved untracked cache: record/validate dir mtime and reuse cached output untracked cache: make a wrapper around {open,read,close}dir() ...
2015-04-28Merge branch 'mg/status-v-v'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* mg/status-v-v: status: document the -v/--verbose option
2015-04-23status: document the -v/--verbose optionLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+8
Document `git status -v`, including its new doubled `-vv` form. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming conventionLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-12git-status.txt: advertisement for untracked cacheLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+4
When a good user sees the "too long, consider -uno" advice when running `git status`, they should check out the man page to find out more. This change suggests they try untracked cache before -uno. Helped-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-19doc: fix 'git status --help' character quotingLibravatar Philip Oakley1-2/+2
Correct backtick quoting for some of the modification states to give consistent web rendering. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31Merge branch 'dw/doc-status-no-longer-shows-pound-prefix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* dw/doc-status-no-longer-shows-pound-prefix: doc: status, remove leftover statement about '#' prefix
2014-03-21doc: status, remove leftover statement about '#' prefixLibravatar Dirk Wallenstein1-1/+1
This hasn't been true since 2556b996 (status: disable display of '#' comment prefix by default, 2013-09-06). Signed-off-by: Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-11Improve documentation concerning the status.submodulesummary settingLibravatar Jens Lehmann1-1/+7
'git status' and 'git commit' can be told to also show the output of "git submodule summary" by setting the "status.submodulesummary" config option. But status and commit also honor the "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and the "submodule.<name>.ignore" settings, which then disable the summary partly or completely. This - and the fact that the last two settings do not affect the "git submodule" commands at all - is not well documented. Extend the documentation in those places where "status.submodulesummary", "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and "submodule.<name>.ignore" are described to better explain these dependencies. Thanks-to: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-21Merge branch 'tb/document-status-u-tradeoff'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+10
Suggest users to look into using--untracked=no option when "git status" takes too long. * tb/document-status-u-tradeoff: status: advise to consider use of -u when read_directory takes too long git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u option
2013-03-15git status: document trade-offs in choosing parameters to the -u optionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+10
In some repostories users experience that "git status" command takes long time. The command spends some time searching the file system for untracked files. Explain the trade-off struck by the default choice of `normal` to help users make an appropriate choice better, before talking about the configuration variable. Inspired by Torsten Bögershausen. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-18status: add --long output format optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+3
You can currently set the output format to --short or --porcelain. There is no --long, because we default to it already. However, you may want to override an alias that uses "--short" to get back to the default. This requires a little bit of refactoring, because currently we use STATUS_FORMAT_LONG internally to mean the same as "the user did not specify anything". By expanding the enum to include STATUS_FORMAT_NONE, we can distinguish between the implicit and explicit cases. This effects these conditions: 1. The user has asked for NUL termination. With NONE, we currently default to turning on the porcelain mode. With an explicit --long, we would in theory use NUL termination with the long mode, but it does not support it. So we can just complain and die. 2. When an output format is given to "git commit", we default to "--dry-run". This behavior would now kick in when "--long" is given, too. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-08Merge branch 'jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b' into HEADLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
* jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b: status: respect "-b" for porcelain format status: fix null termination with "-b" status: refactor null_termination option commit: refactor option parsing Conflicts: wt-status.h
2012-05-08status: respect "-b" for porcelain formatLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
There is no reason not to, as the user has to explicitly ask for it, so we are not breaking compatibility by doing so. We can do this simply by moving the "show_branch" flag into the wt_status struct. As a bonus, this saves us from passing it explicitly, simplifying the code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-05-03Merge branch 'nd/columns'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output. By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1) * nd/columns: tag: add --column column: support piping stdout to external git-column process status: add --column branch: add --column help: reuse print_columns() for help -a column: add dense layout support t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1 column: add columnar layout Stop starting pager recursively Add column layout skeleton and git-column
2012-04-27status: add --columnLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+2
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>
2011-07-22Merge branch 'mz/doc-synopsis-verse'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* mz/doc-synopsis-verse: Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections Conflicts: Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
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>
2011-06-29Merge branch 'jk/maint-1.7.2-status-ignored'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* jk/maint-1.7.2-status-ignored: git status --ignored: tests and docs status: fix bug with missing --ignore files Conflicts: Documentation/git-status.txt t/t7508-status.sh
2011-06-02git status --ignored: tests and docsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-26docs: make sure literal "->" isn't converted to arrowLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+4
Recent versions of asciidoc will treat "->" as a single-glyph arrow symbol, unless it is inside a literal code block. This is a problem if we are discussing literal output and want to show the ASCII characters. Our usage falls into three categories: 1. Inside a code block. These can be left as-is. 2. Discussing literal output or code, but inside a paragraph. This patch escapes these as "\->". 3. Using the arrow as a symbolic element, such as "use the Edit->Account Settings menu". In this case, the arrow symbol is preferable, so we leave it as-is. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>