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2010-11-17Document that rev-list --graph triggers parent rewriting.Libravatar Yann Dirson1-0/+2
This may help to understand why --graph causes more comments to be selected. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-09Documentation: document show -sLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-0/+3
Git's diff machinery has supported a -s (silence diff output) option as far back as v0.99~900 (Silent flag for show-diff, 2005-04-13), but the option is only advertised in an odd corner of the git diff-tree manual. The main use is to retrieve basic metadata about a commit: git show -s rev Explain this in the 'git log' manual and provide an example in the 'git show' examples section. This is kind of a cop-out, since it would be more useful to explain it in the 'git show' manual proper, which says: The command takes options applicable to the git diff-tree command to control how the changes the commit introduces are shown. This manual page describes only the most frequently used options. Fixing that is a larger task for another day. Reported-by: Will Hall <will@gnatter.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Use parentheses and `...' where appropriateLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the same purpose. Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08Use angles for placeholders consistentlyLibravatar Štěpán Němec1-8/+8
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-30rev-list-options: clarify --parents and --childrenLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-4/+4
Make it clearer that --parents resp. --children list the parent resp. child commits next to each commit, so that I understand next time. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipsesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by rev-list and diff is actually three period characters. If it gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would stop readers from copying and pasting it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-30Merge branch 'tr/rev-list-count'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* tr/rev-list-count: bash completion: Support "divergence from upstream" messages in __git_ps1 rev-list: introduce --count option Conflicts: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
2010-06-12rev-list: introduce --count optionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-0/+9
Add a --count option that, instead of actually listing the commits, merely counts them. This is mostly geared towards script use, and to this end it acts specially when used with --left-right: it outputs the left and right counts separately. Previously, scripts would have to run a shell loop or small inline script over to achieve the same. (Without --left-right, a simple |wc -l does the job.) Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: Explain --ancestry-pathLibravatar Johan Herland1-2/+48
Add a short paragraph explaining --ancestry-path, followed by a more detailed example. This mirrors how the other history simplification options are documented. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: Fix missing line in example history graphLibravatar Johan Herland1-1/+1
In the detailed explanation of how the revision machinery does history simplification, the current text presents an example history and explains how various options of the revision machinery affect the resulting list of commits. The first simplification mode mentioned is the default mode, in which a number of commits is omitted from the example graph according to the history simplification rules. The text states (among other things) that commit "C was considered via N, but is TREESAME", and therefore omitted. However, the accompanying graph does not list the effect on the implicit parentage, i.e. that commit I takes C's place as a parent of N. Running 'git rev-list --parents P' does indeed list I as a second parent of N, and the accompanying graph should therefore also show this line. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24Merge branch 'pb/log-first-parent-p-m'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+11
* pb/log-first-parent-p-m: show --first-parent/-m: do not default to --cc show -c: show patch text revision: introduce setup_revision_opt t4013: add tests for log -p -m --first-parent git log -p -m: document -m and honor --first-parent
2010-02-17docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhereLibravatar Jeff King1-11/+11
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>
2010-02-12git log -p -m: document -m and honor --first-parentLibravatar Petr Baudis1-2/+11
git log -p -m is used to show one merge entry per parent, with an appropriate diff; this can be useful when examining histories where full set of changes introduced by a merged branch is interesting, not only the conflicts. This patch properly documents the -m switch, which has so far been mentioned only as a fairly special diff-tree flag. It also makes the code show full patch entry only for the first parent when --first-parent is used. Thus: git log -p -m --first-parent will show the history from the "main branch perspective", while also including full diff of changes introduced by other merged in branches. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-31Fix typos in technical documentation.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=patternLibravatar Ilari Liusvaara1-6/+12
Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in manner similar to --glob option. With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?" as: 'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin' Original-idea-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20rev-parse --globLibravatar Ilari Liusvaara1-0/+7
Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic). Example: 'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin' To show what you have that origin doesn't. Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-24Documentation: update descriptions of revision options related to '--bisect'Libravatar Christian Couder1-12/+27
In commit ad3f9a7 (Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument) the '--bisect' option was added to easily pass bisection refs to commands using the revision machinery. This patch updates the documentation of the related options to describe the new behavior. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20Make --stdin option to "log" family read also pathspecsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+3
Similar to the command line arguments, after giving zero or more revs, you can feed a line "--" and then feed pathspecs one at a time. With this ( echo ^maint echo -- echo Documentation ) | git log --stat --oneline --stdin master -- t lists commits that touch Documentation/ or t/ between maint and master. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20Teach --stdin option to "log" familyLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Move the logic to read revs from standard input that rev-list knows about from it to revision machinery, so that all the users of setup_revisions() can feed the list of revs from the standard input when "--stdin" is used on the command line. Allow some users of the revision machinery that want different semantics from the "--stdin" option to disable it by setting an option in the rev_info structure. This also cleans up the kludge made to bundle.c via cut and paste. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-13Document 'git (rev-list|log) --merges'Libravatar SZEDER Gábor1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07git-rev-list.txt: make ascii markup uniform with other pages.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-11/+11
Other pages use --option=<argument>, not --option='argument', do the same here. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-07Documentation: fix badly indented paragraphs in "--bisect-all" descriptionLibravatar Christian Couder1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-20Support 'raw' date formatLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-1/+3
Talking about --date, one thing I wanted for the 1234567890 date was to get things in the raw format. Sure, you get them with --pretty=raw, but it felt a bit sad that you couldn't just ask for the date in raw format. So here's a throw-away patch (meaning: I won't be re-sending it, because I really don't think it's a big deal) to add "--date=raw". It just prints out the internal raw git format - seconds since epoch plus timezone (put another way: 'date +"%s %z"' format) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18Documentation: rev-list-options.txt: added --branches, --tags & --remotes.Libravatar Mark Burton1-0/+15
Added simple descriptions of these options (based on description of --all). Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-12Merge branch 'lt/decorate'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+54
* lt/decorate: rev-list documentation: clarify the two parts of history simplification Document "git log --simplify-by-decoration" Document "git log --source" revision traversal: '--simplify-by-decoration' Make '--decorate' set an explicit 'show_decorations' flag revision: make tree comparison functions take commits rather than trees Add a 'source' decorator for commits Conflicts: Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
2008-11-12rev-list documentation: clarify the two parts of history simplificationLibravatar Santi Béjar1-2/+46
One set of options and parameters determine what commits are involved in the simplification process, and another set of options determine how the simplification is done. Clarify their distinction at the beginning. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-12Document "git log --simplify-by-decoration"Libravatar Nanako Shiraishi1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
* maint: Documentation: bisect: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd" Documentation: rev-list: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd" checkout: Don't crash when switching away from an invalid branch.
2008-11-09Documentation: rev-list: change a few instances of "git-cmd" to "git cmd"Libravatar Christian Couder1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* maint: Add reference for status letters in documentation. Document that git-log takes --all-match. Update draft 1.6.0.4 release notes
2008-11-02Document that git-log takes --all-match.Libravatar Mikael Magnusson1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-02Merge branch 'tr/filter-branch'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+42
* tr/filter-branch: revision --simplify-merges: make it a no-op without pathspec revision --simplify-merges: do not leave commits unprocessed revision --simplify-merges: use decoration instead of commit->util field Documentation: rev-list-options: move --simplify-merges documentation filter-branch: use --simplify-merges filter-branch: fix ref rewriting with --subdirectory-filter filter-branch: Extend test to show rewriting bug Topo-sort before --simplify-merges revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification revision.c: whitespace fix
2008-08-12Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* maint: Do not talk about "diff" in rev-list documentation.
2008-08-12Do not talk about "diff" in rev-list documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Since 8c02eee (git-rev-list(1): group options; reformat; document more options, 2006-09-01), git-rev-list documentation talks as if it supports any kind of diff output. It doesn't. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12Documentation: rev-list-options: move --simplify-merges documentationLibravatar Thomas Rast1-6/+42
Fits --simplify-merges documentation into the 'History Simplification' section, including example. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12Merge branch 'jc/post-simplify' into tr/rev-list-docsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
* jc/post-simplify: Topo-sort before --simplify-merges revision traversal: show full history with merge simplification revision.c: whitespace fix Conflicts: Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
2008-08-12Documentation: rev-list-options: Rewrite simplification descriptions for clarityLibravatar Thomas Rast1-17/+136
This completely rewrites the documentation of --full-history with lots of examples. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix a typoLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* maint: Re-fix rev-list-options documentation
2008-08-11Re-fix rev-list-options documentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
18a2197 (Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting, 2008-08-10) introduced the third paragraph that is continued, but it seems to confuse docbook toolchain on FC9 machines. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* maint: Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual Fix deleting reflog entries from HEAD reflog reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete' Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting Conflicts: Documentation/user-manual.txt
2008-08-10Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formattingLibravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+2
- Add an escape to @{now}. Without the escape, the brace does something magic and eats half the sentence up to the closing brace at 'timestamp}'. - Join the last paragraph with a '+'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-02revision traversal: show full history with merge simplificationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
The --full-history traversal keeps all merges in addition to non-merge commits that touch paths in the given pathspec. This is useful to view both sides of a merge in a topology like this: A---M---o / / ---O---B even when A and B makes identical change to the given paths. The revision traversal without --full-history aims to come up with the simplest history to explain the final state of the tree, and one of the side branches can be pruned away. The behaviour to keep all merges however is inconvenient if neither A nor B touches the paths we are interested in. --full-history reduces the topology to: ---O---M---o in such a case, without removing M. This adds a post processing phase on top of --full-history traversal to remove needless merges from the resulting history. The idea is to compute, for each commit in the "full history" result set, the commit that should replace it in the simplified history. The commit to replace it in the final history is determined as follows: * In any case, we first figure out the replacement commits of parents of the commit we are looking at. The commit we are looking at is rewritten as if the replacement commits of its original parents are its parents. While doing so, we reduce the redundant parents from the rewritten parent list by not just removing the identical ones, but also removing a parent that is an ancestor of another parent. * After the above parent simplification, if the commit is a root commit, an UNINTERESTING commit, a merge commit, or modifies the paths we are interested in, then the replacement commit of the commit is itself. In other words, such a commit is not dropped from the final result. The first point above essentially means that the history is rewritten in the bottom up direction. We can rewrite the parent list of a commit only after we know how all of its parents are rewritten. This means that the processing needs to happen on the full history (i.e. after limit_list()). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-01Documentation: clarify diff --ccLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
The definition of an "uninteresting" hunk was not in line with reality. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-23Documentation: clarify diff --ccLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
The definition of an "uninteresting" hunk was not in line with reality. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'jc/blame' (early part) into HEADLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* 'jc/blame' (early part): git-blame --reverse builtin-blame.c: allow more than 16 parents builtin-blame.c: move prepare_final() into a separate function. rev-list --children revision traversal: --children option Conflicts: Documentation/rev-list-options.txt revision.c
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-10/+20
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>
2008-06-03Documentation: git-log cannot use rev-list specific optionsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
The log family and git-rev-list share the same set of options that come from revision walking machinery, but they both have options unique to them. Notably, --header, --timestamp, --stdin and --quiet apply only to rev-list. Exclude them from the git-log documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-23Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: rev-parse --symbolic-full-name: don't print '^' if SHA1 is not a ref Add missing "short" alternative to --date in rev-list-options.txt git-show.txt: Not very stubby these days. Clarify repack -n documentation
2008-05-23Add log.date config variableLibravatar Heikki Orsila1-1/+2
log.date config variable sets the default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date value is similar to using git log's --date option. Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>