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2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-3/+3
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc 8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the documentation could be built on either version. It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want inline literals on their own merits, which are: 1. The source is much easier to read when the literal contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead of `master{tilde}1`. 2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of quoting. This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up, or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the output). Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to making the source more readable, this patch fixes several formatting bugs: - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B") - some code examples used the right-arrow character instead of '->' because they failed to quote - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting HTML contained a bogus snippet like: <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt> which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole sections of the page. - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes) - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for author@example.com - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}". - using "prime" notation like: commit `C` and its replacement `C'` confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant to be inside matched quotes - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our asterisks. In particular, `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*` properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but literally passed through the backslash in the second case. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-16pretty: give placeholders to reflog identityLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+4
When doing a reflog walk, you can get some information about the reflog (such as the subject line), but not the identity information (i.e., name and email). Let's make those available, mimicing the options for author and committer identity. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-16pretty: Introduce ' ' modifier to add space if non-emptyLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+4
We have the '+' modifiier which helps combine format specifiers which may possibly be empty, e.g. '%s%+b%n'. Introduce an analogous ' ' (space) modifier which adds a space before non-empty items. This helps assemble "one line type" format specifiers. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13Merge branch 'wp/pretty-enhancement'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
* wp/pretty-enhancement: pretty: initialize new cmt_fmt_map to 0 pretty: add aliases for pretty formats pretty: add infrastructure for commit format aliases pretty: make it easier to add new formats
2010-06-02Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint: git-compat-util.h: use apparently more common __sgi macro to detect SGI IRIX Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase Documentation/pretty-{formats,options}: better reference for "format:<string>"
2010-06-02Documentation/pretty-{formats,options}: better reference for "format:<string>"Libravatar Nazri Ramliy1-2/+2
In "git help log" (and friends) it's not easy to find the possible placeholder for <string> for the "--pretty=format:<string>" option to git log. This patch makes the placeholder easier to find by adding a reference to the "PRETTY FORMATS" section and repeating the "format:<string>" phrase. Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-03pretty: add aliases for pretty formatsLibravatar Will Palmer1-1/+6
previously the only ways to alias a --pretty format within git were either to set the format as your default format (via the format.pretty configuration variable), or by using a regular git alias. This left the definition of more complicated formats to the realm of "builtin or nothing", with user-defined formats usually being reserved for quick one-offs. Here we allow user-defined formats to enjoy more or less the same benefits of builtins. By defining pretty.myalias, "myalias" can be used in place of whatever would normally come after --pretty=. This can be a format:, tformat:, raw (ie, defaulting to tformat), or the name of another builtin or user-defined pretty format. Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-05Add `%B' in format strings for raw commit body in `git log' and friendsLibravatar Eli Barzilay1-0/+1
Also update the documentation text and add a test. Signed-off-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14strbuf_expand: convert "%%" to "%"Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
The only way to safely quote arbitrary text in a pretty-print user format is to replace instances of "%" with "%x25". This is slightly unreadable, and many users would expect "%%" to produce a single "%", as that is what printf format specifiers do. This patch converts "%%" to "%" for all users of strbuf_expand(): (1) git-daemon interpolated paths (2) pretty-print user formats (3) merge driver command lines Case (1) was already doing the conversion itself outside of strbuf_expand(). Case (2) is the intended beneficiary of this patch. Case (3) users probably won't notice, but as this is user-facing behavior, consistently providing the quoting mechanism makes sense. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-30Merge branch 'jc/pretty-lf'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Conflicts: pretty.c t/t6006-rev-list-format.sh
2009-11-23strbuf_add_wrapped_text(): skip over colour codesLibravatar René Scharfe1-3/+1
Ignore display mode escape sequences (colour codes) for the purpose of text wrapping because they don't have a visible width. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22log --format: document %wLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20Merge branch 'jh/notes' (early part)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* 'jh/notes' (early part): Add selftests verifying concatenation of multiple notes for the same commit Refactor notes code to concatenate multiple notes annotating the same object Add selftests verifying that we can parse notes trees with various fanouts Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo() fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit" Add an expensive test for git-notes Speed up git notes lookup Add a script to edit/inspect notes Introduce commit notes Conflicts: .gitignore Documentation/pretty-formats.txt pretty.c
2009-10-19Introduce new pretty formats %g[sdD] for reflog informationLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+9
Add three new --pretty=format escapes: %gD long reflog descriptor (e.g. refs/stash@{0}) %gd short reflog descriptor (e.g. stash@{0}) %gs reflog message This is achieved by passing down the reflog info, if any, inside the pretty_print_context struct. We use the newly refactored get_reflog_selector(), and give it some extra functionality to extract a shortened ref. The shortening is cached inside the commit_reflogs struct; the only allocation of it happens in read_complete_reflog(), where it is initialised to 0. Also add another helper get_reflog_message() for the message extraction. Note that the --format="%h %gD: %gs" tests may not work in real repositories, as the --pretty formatter doesn't know to leave away the ": " on the last commit in an incomplete (because git-gc removed the old part) reflog. This equivalence is nevertheless the main goal of this patch. Thanks to Jeff King for reviews, the %gd testcase and documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-19Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notesLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-04Pretty-format: %[+-]x to tweak inter-item newlinesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
This teaches the "pretty" machinery to expand '%+x' to a LF followed by the expansion of '%x' if and only if '%x' expands to a non-empty string, and to remove LFs before '%-x' if '%x' expands to an empty string. This works for any supported expansion placeholder 'x'. This is expected to be immediately useful to reproduce the commit log message with "%s%+b%n"; "%s%n%b%n" adds one extra LF if the log message is a one-liner. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-22pretty.c: add %f format specifier to format_commit_message()Libravatar Stephen Boyd1-0/+1
This specifier represents the sanitized and filename friendly subject line of a commit. No checks are made against the length of the string, so users may need to trim the result to the desired length if using as a filename. This is commonly used by format-patch to massage commit subjects into filenames and output patches to files. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-24Give short-hands to --pretty=tformat:%formatstringLibravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+9
Allow --pretty="%h %s" (and --format="%h %s") as shorthand for an often used option --pretty=tformat:"%h %s". Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-08Move mailmap documentation into separate fileLibravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-4/+4
Include it directly from git-shortlog.txt, and refer to it from pretty-format.txt. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-08Change current mailmap usage to do matching on both name and email of ↵Libravatar Marius Storm-Olsen1-0/+2
author/committer. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17expand --pretty=format color optionsLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
Currently, the only colors available to --pretty=format users are red, green, and blue. Rather than expand it with a few new colors, this patch makes the usual config color syntax available, including more colors, backgrounds, and attributes. Because colors are no longer bounded to a single word (e.g., %Cred), this uses a more advanced syntax that features a beginning and end delimiter (but the old syntax still works). So you can now do: git log --pretty=tformat:'%C(yellow)%h%C(reset) %s' to emulate --pretty=oneline, or even git log --pretty=tformat:'%C(cyan magenta bold)%s%C(reset)' if you want to relive the awesomeness of 4-color CGA. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19Documentation: sync example output with git outputLibravatar Markus Heidelberg1-3/+3
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>
2008-09-04add '%d' pretty format specifier to show decorationLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+1
Add a new format placeholder, %d, which expands to a ref name decoration (think git log --decorate). It expands to an empty string if the commit has no decoration, or otherwise to a comma (and space) separated list of decorations, surrounded by parentheses and a leading space. Michael Dressel implemented an initial version and chose the letter d, Junio suggested to add a leading space and parentheses. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-29pretty=format: respect date format optionsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
When running a command like: git log --pretty=format:%ad --date=short the date option was ignored. This patch causes it to use whatever format was specified by --date (or by --relative-date, etc), just as the non-user formats would do. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-11Add pretty format %aN which gives the author name, respecting .mailmapLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+2
The pretty format %an does not respect .mailmap, but gives the exact author name recorded in the commit. Sometimes it is more desirable, however, to look if the email has another name mapped to it in .mailmap. This commit adds %aN (and %cN for the committer name) to do exactly that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05Documentation: be precise about which date --pretty usesLibravatar Nikolaus Schulz1-4/+4
This makes it explicit that the --pretty formats 'medium' and 'email' use the author date (and ignore the committer date). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-12document --pretty=tformat: optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+22
This was introduced in 4da45bef, but never documented anywhere. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-23pretty.c: add %x00 format specifier.Libravatar Govind Salinas1-0/+1
This adds a %xXX format which inserts two hexdigits after %x as a byte value in the resulting string. This can be used to add a NUL byte or any other byte that can make machine parsing easier. It is also necessary to use fwrite to print out the data since printf will terminate if you feed it a NUL. Signed-off-by: Govind Salinas <blix@sophiasuchtig.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-13Support output ISO 8601 format datesLibravatar Robin Rosenberg1-0/+2
Support output of full ISO 8601 style dates in e.g. git log and other places that use interpolation for formatting. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-05-13Documentation: Split description of pretty formats of commit logLibravatar Jakub Narebski1-36/+30
Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options (--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS" section in pretty-formats.txt While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and git-diff-tree(1). Those manpages now include pretty options in the same place as it was before, and description of formats just after all options. Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies: Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-11Add %m to '--pretty=format:'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
When used with '--boundary A...B', this shows the -/</> marker you would get with --left-right option to 'git-log' family. When symmetric diff is not used, everybody is shown to be on the "right" branch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-22pretty-formats: add 'format:<string>'Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+44
With this patch, $ git show -s \ --pretty=format:' Ze komit %h woss%n dunn buy ze great %an' shows something like Ze komit 04c5c88 woss dunn buy ze great Junio C Hamano The supported placeholders are: '%H': commit hash '%h': abbreviated commit hash '%T': tree hash '%t': abbreviated tree hash '%P': parent hashes '%p': abbreviated parent hashes '%an': author name '%ae': author email '%ad': author date '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style '%ar': author date, relative '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp '%cn': committer name '%ce': committer email '%cd': committer date '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style '%cr': committer date, relative '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp '%e': encoding '%s': subject '%b': body '%Cred': switch color to red '%Cgreen': switch color to green '%Cblue': switch color to blue '%Creset': reset color '%n': newline Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30Move commit reencoding parameter parsing to revision.cLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
This way, git-rev-list and git-diff-tree with --pretty can use it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-22Move --pretty options into Documentation/pretty-formats.txtLibravatar Chris Riddoch1-0/+78
Asciidoc-include it into the manuals for programs that use the --pretty command-line option, for consistency among the docs. This describes all the pretty-formats currently listed in the cmit_fmt enum in commit.h, and also briefly describes the presence and format of the 'Merge: ' line in some pretty formats. There's a hedge that limiting your view of history can affect what goes in the Merge: line, and that --abbrev/--no-abbrev do nothing to the 'raw' format. Signed-off-by: Chris Riddoch <chris@syntacticsugar.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>