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2010-11-03user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEADLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+5
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch termsLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-3/+16
Now that the documentation is mostly consistant in the use of "remote branch" Vs "remote-tracking branch", let's make this distinction explicit early in the user-manual. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-4/+5
"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while "remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally. The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do. This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in comment and usage strings. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-1/+1
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something". See discussion in e.g. http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com for more details. This patch is a straightforward application of perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/' except in the RelNotes directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-21Merge branch 'sn/doc-opt-notation' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* sn/doc-opt-notation: Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation Use angles for placeholders consistently
2010-10-13Better advice on using topic branches for kernel developmentLibravatar Luck, Tony1-3/+6
Linus Torvalds wrote: > The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at > all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just > pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do > their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are > unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version. Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual. Fix the manual to give them better guidance. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML documentation. In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a hard copy of the git reference manual. 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>
2010-09-29user-manual: fix anchor name Finding-comments-With-given-ContentLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-1/+1
Change the anchor name to Finding-commits-With-given-Content so that it corresponds to the actual content there. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-29user-manual: be consistent in illustrations to 'git rebase'Libravatar Kirill Smelkov1-2/+2
Since we use a-b-c for mywork commits in one place, I think it would be logical to also use a-b-c too in other illustration on this topic. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manualLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parseLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-4/+4
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes. Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except - when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or - in very technical context (git-send-pack). Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-01Updates for dirty submodules in release notes and user manualLibravatar Jens Lehmann1-0/+20
In the release notes "git status" was not mentioned, also shortly explain the "-dirty" output generated by diff. Added a paragraph to the "Pitfalls with submodules" section in user-manual.txt describing new and old behavior of "git status" and "git diff" for dirty submodules. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-31Fix typos in technical documentation.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-23Merge branch 'mm/maint-hint-failed-merge'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+18
* mm/maint-hint-failed-merge: user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes. merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.
2009-11-22User Manual: Write "Git" instead of "GIT"Libravatar Björn Gustavsson1-2/+2
In the Table of Contents, there is a notable inconsistency: first there is "GIT Glossary", followed by "Git Quick Reference" on the very next line. Running "grep -c" on user-manual.txt, I find 780 occurrrences of "git", 37 occurrences of "Git", and 9 occurrences of "GIT". In general, "git" is the preferred spelling, except at the beginning of a sentence. Therefore, change "GIT Glossary" to "Git Glossary" for consistency with the rest of the document. Looking at the other eight occurrences of "GIT" I found one other occurrence that should be changed: * The mention of "StGIT". Looking at the web pages for "Stacked Git" at http://www.procode.org/stgit, I only saw the spelling "StGit", except in http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGIT_Tutorial, but that page was last updated in 2006. The other seven occurrences should not be changed: * Three occurrences were in the output of 'git show-branch' run on the git.git repository. * One occurrence was in the output of 'git cat-file'. * One occurrence was as part of the file name "GIT-VERSION-GEN". * Two occurrences were in comments in scripts quoted in a description of Tony Luck's workflow. Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes.Libravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+18
We explain the user why uncommited changes can be problematic with merge, and point to "commit" and "stash" for the solution. While talking about commited Vs uncommited changes, we also make it clear that the result of a merge is normally commited. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24Use 'fast-forward' all over the placeLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-7/+7
It's a compound word. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"Libravatar Ori Avtalion1-1/+1
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to use the term "git commands" consistently. Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-28Documentation: teach stash/pop workflow instead of stash/applyLibravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+2
Recent discussion on the list showed some comments in favour of a stash/pop workflow: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124234911423358&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124235348327711&w=2 Change the stash documentation and examples to document pop in its own right (and apply in terms of pop), and use stash/pop in the examples. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-06user-manual: the name of the hash function is SHA-1, not sha1Libravatar Felipe Contreras1-25/+25
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-06user-manual: remove some git-foo usageLibravatar Felipe Contreras1-74/+74
Also, use `git foo` when it make sense. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17Documentation: remove extra quoting/emphasis around literal textsLibravatar Chris Johnsen1-3/+3
If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments. config.txt Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough. Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present in the described config value, so drop them. git-checkout.txt Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of certain shells (tcsh). git-merge.txt Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge conflict markers. The quotes should are not important. git-rev-parse.txt Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary. gitcli.txt Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it. glossary-content.txt user-manual.txt Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines. Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint-1.6.0: User-manual: "git stash <comment>" form is long gone add test-dump-cache-tree in Makefile fix typo in Documentation apply: fix access to an uninitialized mode variable, found by valgrind
2009-02-03User-manual: "git stash <comment>" form is long goneLibravatar William Pursell1-1/+1
These days you must explicitly say "git stash save <comment>". Signed-off-by: William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-05Be consistent in switch usage for tarLibravatar Henrik Austad1-1/+1
tar handles switches with and witout preceding '-', but the documentation should be consistent nonetheless. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-05Use capitalized names where appropriateLibravatar Henrik Austad1-2/+2
The Linux kernel and Emacs are both spelled capitalized Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+9
* maint: work around Python warnings from AsciiDoc git-svn: Make following parents atomic
2008-12-09work around Python warnings from AsciiDocLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-9/+9
It appears that a reference to an anchor defined as [[anchor-name]] from another place using <<anchor-name>> syntax, when the anchor name contains a string "-with-" in its name, triggers these warnings from Python interpreter. asciidoc -b docbook -d book user-manual.txt <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 There currently is no reference to "Finding comments with given content", but for consistency and for futureproofing, the anchor is also updated as the other ones that are actually used and trigger these warnings. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-02Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
* maint: User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B
2008-12-02User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix BLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-27Merge branch 'rw/maint-typofix' into rw/typofixLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* rw/maint-typofix: Fix typos in the documentation.
2008-11-27Fix typos in the documentation.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-17Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginningLibravatar Christian Couder1-1/+11
Talking about "git help" is useful because it has a few more features (like when using it without arguments or with "-a") and it may work on non unix like platforms. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-22git-remote: list branches in vertical listsLibravatar Johannes Sixt1-1/+3
Previously, branches were listed on a single line in each section. But if there are many branches, then horizontal, line-wrapped lists are very inconvenient to scan for a human. This makes the lists vertical, i.e one branch per line is printed. Since "git remote" is porcelain, we can easily make this backwards-incompatible change. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Adjust for the new way of enabling the default post-update hookLibravatar Petr Baudis1-1/+1
The post-update hook, which is required to be enabled in order for the repository to be accessible over HTTP, is not enabled by chmod a+x anymore, but instead by dropping the .sample suffix. This patch emphasizes this change in the release notes (since I believe this is rather noticeable backwards-incompatible change). It also adjusts the documentation which still described the old way and fixes t/t5540-http-push.sh, which was broken for 1.5 month but apparently noone ever runs this test. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> 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: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manualLibravatar Ivan Stankovic1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ivan Stankovic <pokemon@fly.srk.fer.hr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08Documentation: user-manual: "git commit -a" doesn't motivate .gitignoreLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore. So don't use it to motivate gitignore. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30documentation: user-manual: update "using-bisect" sectionLibravatar Christian Couder1-6/+21
Since version 1.5.6 "git bisect" doesn't use a "bisect" branch any more, but the user manual had not been updated to reflect this. So this patch does that and while at it also adds a few words about "git bisect skip" and points user to the "git bisect" man page for more information. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-29`git submodule add` now requires a <path>Libravatar Abhijit Menon-Sen1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21Rename .git/rebase to .git/rebase-applyLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/", but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good compromise. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge". This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08user-manual: typo and grammar fixesLibravatar Eric Hanchrow1-9/+9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-18/+18
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and the command you type, `git whatever <options>`. So we use a dash after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter. I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some spots. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05Documentation: rewrap to prepare for "git-" vs "git " changeLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+4
Rewrap lines in preparation for added dashes. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05Documentation: fix gitlinksLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
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 Nieder1-38/+38
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>
2008-07-01Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands. Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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