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2015-05-21command-list.txt: add the common groups blockLibravatar Sébastien Guimmara1-1/+3
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each common command. Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt: init start a working area (see also: git help tutorial) worktree work on the current change (see also:[...] info examine the history and state (see also: git [...] history grow, mark and tweak your history remote collaborate (see also: git help workflows) storing information about common commands group, then map each common command to a group: git-add mainporcelain common worktree Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Helped-by: Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-01howto: document more tools for recovery corruptionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+237
Long ago, I documented a corruption recovery I did and gave some C code that I used to help find a flipped bit. I had to fix a similar case recently, and I ended up writing a few more tools. I hope nobody ever has to use these, but it does not hurt to share them, just in case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04Documentation: typofixesLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-2/+2
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about the following points: - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS; - Spell Linux as Capitalized; - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-06Merge branch 'ss/howto-manage-trunk'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+216
* ss/howto-manage-trunk: How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
2014-05-28How to keep a project's canonical history correct.Libravatar Stephen P. Smith1-0/+216
During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how the first parent could become reversed. This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct. Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix ↵Libravatar Jason St. John1-1/+1
other minor grammatical issues Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"Libravatar Justin Lebar3-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-05howto/maintain-git.txt: new version numbering schemeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+11
We wanted to call the upcoming release "Git 1.9", with its maintenance track being "Git 1.9.1", "Git 1.9.2", etc., but various third-party tools are reported to assume that there are at least three dewey-decimal components in our version number. Adjust the plan so that vX.Y.0 are feature releases while vX.Y.Z (Z > 0) are maintenance releases. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-04Merge branch 'sc/doc-howto-dumb-http'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* sc/doc-howto-dumb-http: doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
2013-10-28doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too oldLibravatar Sitaram Chamarty1-0/+4
Describe when it is still applicable, and tell people where to go for most normal cases. Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-25howto: add article on recovering a corrupted objectLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+242
This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-14Merge branch 'rj/doc-formatting-fix'Libravatar Jonathan Nieder2-6/+6
* rj/doc-formatting-fix: howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
2013-10-14howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'sLibravatar Ramsay Jones1-4/+4
Several uses of the '^' operator are being interpreted by asciidoc as requests to show the following text as a superscript. In order to fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the affected git command invocations. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'sLibravatar Ramsay Jones1-2/+2
The text contains two 'grep' invocations which include the 'start of line' regular expression character '^'. Asciidoc mis-interprets this use of '^' as a superscript request. In order to fix this formatting problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the affected 'grep' command invocations. Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-09-04use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'Libravatar Richard Hansen1-1/+1
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish' to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'. The only remaining instances of 'committish' are: * variable, function, and macro names * "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in gitglossary[7] Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-29many small typofixesLibravatar Ondřej Bílka1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> Reviewed-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22typofix: documentationLibravatar Ondřej Bílka1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-3/+3
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function. When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-05Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'Libravatar Junio C Hamano10-37/+37
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small caps to "Git". The latter was the intended spelling. Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to the command the end users would type. * ta/doc-no-small-caps: Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git' Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann8-30/+30
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GITLibravatar Thomas Ackermann3-7/+7
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT, to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days. Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding guideline. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-25Merge branch 'jc/doc-maintainer'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-91/+256
Describe tools for automation that were invented since this document was originally written. * jc/doc-maintainer: howto/maintain: document "### match next" convention in jch/pu branch howto/maintain: mark titles for asciidoc Documentation: update "howto maintain git"
2013-01-25howto/maintain: document "### match next" convention in jch/pu branchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-03howto/maintain: mark titles for asciidocLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+15
2013-01-03Documentation: update "howto maintain git"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-89/+241
The flow described in the document is still correct, but over time I have automated various parts of the workflow with tools and their use was not explained at all. Update it and outline the use of two key scripts from the 'todo' branch, "Reintegrate" and "cook". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-21Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txtLibravatar Thomas Ackermann1-0/+104
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To" section of the documentation suite. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-18Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidocLibravatar Thomas Ackermann11-34/+68
These were not originally meant for asciidoc, but they are already so close. Mark them up in asciidoc. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-28correct spelling: an URL -> a URLLibravatar Jim Meyering1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-31request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulledLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
When asking for a tag to be pulled, disambiguate by leaving tags/ prefix in front of the name of the tag. E.g. ... in the git repository at: git://example.com/git/git.git/ tags/v1.2.3 for you to fetch changes up to 123456... This way, older versions of "git pull" can be used to respond to such a request more easily, as "git pull $URL v1.2.3" did not DWIM to fetch v1.2.3 tag in older versions. Also this makes it clearer for humans that the pull request is made for a tag and he should anticipate a signed one. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18pulling signed tag: add howto documentLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+217
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-07Minor update to how-to maintain gitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+6
A few more parts of this document is stale that needs updating to reflect the reality, but I do not regularly rebase topics that are only in "pu" anymore, which may be noteworthy for a commit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09Documentation/merge subtree How-To: fix typoLibravatar Uwe Kleine-König1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-31Merge branch 'jn/cherry-revert-message-clean-up'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+0
* jn/cherry-revert-message-clean-up: tests: fix syntax error in "Use advise() for hints" test cherry-pick/revert: Use advise() for hints cherry-pick/revert: Use error() for failure message Introduce advise() to print hints Eliminate “Finished cherry-pick/revert” message t3508: add check_head_differs_from() helper function and use it revert: improve success message by adding abbreviated commit sha1 revert: don't print "Finished one cherry-pick." if commit failed revert: refactor commit code into a new run_git_commit() function revert: report success when using option --strategy
2010-08-22Typos in code comments, an error message, documentationLibravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-15Eliminate “Finished cherry-pick/revert” messageLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-6/+0
When cherry-pick was written (v0.99.6~63, 2005-08-27), “git commit” was quiet, and the output from cherry-pick provided useful information about the progress of a rebase. Now next to the output from “git commit”, the cherry-pick notification is so much noise (except for the name of the picked commit). $ git cherry-pick ..topic Finished cherry-pick of 499088b. [detached HEAD 17e1ff2] Move glob module to libdpkg Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> 8 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) rename {src => lib/dpkg}/glob.c (98%) rename {src => lib/dpkg}/glob.h (93%) Finished cherry-pick of ae947e1. [detached HEAD 058caa3] libdpkg: Add missing symbols to Versions script Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) $ The noise is especially troublesome when sifting through the output of a rebase or multiple cherry-pick that eventually failed. With the commit subject, it is already not hard to figure out where the commit came from. So drop the “Finished” message. Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24Teach rebase the --no-ff option.Libravatar Marc Branchaud1-0/+90
For git-rebase.sh, --no-ff is a synonym for --force-rebase. For git-rebase--interactive.sh, --no-ff cherry-picks all the commits in the rebased branch, instead of fast-forwarding over any unchanged commits. --no-ff offers an alternative way to deal with reverted merges. Instead of "reverting the revert" you can use "rebase --no-ff" to recreate the branch with entirely new commits (they're new because at the very least the committer time is different). This obviates the need to revert the reversion, as you can re-merge the new topic branch directly. Added an addendum to revert-a-faulty-merge.txt describing the situation and how to use --no-ff to handle it. Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24Use 'fast-forward' all over the placeLibravatar Felipe Contreras3-4/+4
It's a compound word. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-03Documentation: Typo / spelling / formatting fixesLibravatar Mike Ralphson2-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-13Fix Documentation typos surrounding the word 'handful'.Libravatar Jon Loeliger1-1/+1
Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording. Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-21Add a documentat on how to revert a faulty mergeLibravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+179
Linus and Junio explained issues that are involved in reverting a merge and how to continue working with a branch that was updated since such a revert on the mailing list. This is to help new people who did not see these messages. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-12Documentation: remove stale howto/rebase-and-edit.txtLibravatar Thomas Rast1-79/+0
The "rebase and edit" howto predates the much easier solution 'git rebase -i' by two years. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-07-21Update my e-mail addressLibravatar Junio C Hamano5-5/+5
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25update-hook-example: optionally allow non-fast-forwardLibravatar Dmitry Potapov1-33/+53
Sometimes it is desirable to have non-fast-forward branches in a shared repository. A typical example of that is the 'pu' branch. This patch extends the format of allowed-users and allow-groups files by using the '+' sign at the beginning as the mark that non-fast-forward pushes are permitted to the branch. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25fix update-hook-example to work with packed tag referencesLibravatar Dmitry Potapov1-1/+1
The update-hook-example used 'test -f' to check the tag present, which does not work if the checked reference is packed. This check has been changed to use 'git rev-parse $tag' instead. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-15Consistency: Use "libcurl" instead of "cURL library" and "curl"Libravatar Johan Herland1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-18Document that WebDAV doesn't need git on the server, and works over SSLLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-12/+33
I managed to set up a Git repository on a preconfigured WebDAV server, and using HTTPS, without installing Git on it or changing the server configuration. This works through a proxy too. This patch reflects this (it previously stated that Git was _necessary_ on the server, which isn't true). Also give a few hints to troubleshoting. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14Add using merge subtree How-ToLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+75
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-22Addendum to "MaintNotes"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+277
Add "how to maintain git" document. Foreward by Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-09add a howto document about corrupted blob recoveryLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-0/+134
Extracted from a post by Linus on the mailing list. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18Fixed update-hook example allow-users format.Libravatar Väinö Järvelä1-4/+4
The example provided with the update-hook-example does not work on either bash 2.05b.0(1)-release nor 3.1.17(1)-release. The matcher did not match the lines that it advertised to match, such as: refs/heads/bw/ linus refs/heads/tmp/* * In POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions, the star (*), is not an wildcard meaning "match everything", it matches 0 or more matches of the atom preceding it. So to match "refs/heads/bw/topic-branch", the matcher should be written as "refs/heads/bw/.*" to match "refs/heads/bw/" and everything after it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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