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2013-07-01Merge branch 'kb/am-deprecate-resolved'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Promote "git am --continue" over "git am --resolved" for UI consistency. * kb/am-deprecate-resolved: am: replace uses of --resolved with --continue
2013-07-01Merge branch 'wk/doc-in-linux-3.x-era'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-14/+20
Update documentation to match more recent realities. * wk/doc-in-linux-3.x-era: Documentation: Update 'linux-2.6.git' -> 'linux.git' Documentation: Update the NFS remote examples to use the staging repo doc/clone: Pick more compelling paths for the --reference example doc/clone: Remove the '--bare -l -s' example
2013-06-27am: replace uses of --resolved with --continueLibravatar Kevin Bracey1-1/+1
git am was previously modified to provide --continue for consistency with rebase, merge etc, and the documentation changed to showing --continue as the primary form. Complete the work by replacing remaining uses of --resolved by --continue, most notably in suggested command reminders. Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26Merge branch 'wk/doc-git-has-grown'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* wk/doc-git-has-grown: user-manual: Update download size for Git and the kernel
2013-06-26Merge branch 'ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+7
* ph/builtin-srcs-are-in-subdir-these-days: fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"
2013-06-23user-manual: Update download size for Git and the kernelLibravatar W. Trevor King1-3/+3
They've grown since d19fbc3 (Documentation: add git user's manual, 2007-01-07) when the stats were initially added. I've rounded download sizes up to the nearest multiple of ten MiB to decrease the precision and give a bit of growing room. Exact sizes: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 156872, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (40826/40826), done. remote: Total 156872 (delta 115322), reused 155492 (delta 114094) Receiving objects: 100% (156872/156872), 37.29 MiB | 7.54 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (115322/115322), done. $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/linux/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 3057404, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (474769/474769), done. Receiving objects: 100% (3057404/3057404), 634.33 MiB | 27.95 MiB/s, done. remote: Total 3057404 (delta 2570385), reused 3040910 (delta 2554408) Resolving deltas: 100% (2570385/2570385), done. Checking out files: 100% (43012/43012), done. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-22Documentation: Update 'linux-2.6.git' -> 'linux.git'Libravatar W. Trevor King1-4/+4
The 3.x tree has been out for a while now. The -2.6 repository name survived the initial release [1], but kernel.org now only lists 'linux.git' (for aegl as well as torvalds) [2]. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147422 On 2011-05-30 01:47:57 GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote: > ... yes, that means that my git tree is still called > "linux-2.6.git" on kernel.org. [2]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/ Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-22Documentation: Update the NFS remote examples to use the staging repoLibravatar W. Trevor King1-10/+16
linux-nfs.org seems to have restructured their repository layout since 8391c60 (git-remote.txt: fix example url, 2007-11-02), and Bruce's repo is now at git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/bfields/linux.git. Bruce also has a more richer internal branch structure (master, everything, for-3.1, ...), so updating the existing example to use his current repo may be confusing. To simplify, I've replaced the NFS repo with Greg's staging repo. I've also updated the output of the surrounding commands to match the output of a current run through. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-18fix "builtin-*" references to be "builtin/*"Libravatar Phil Hord1-6/+7
Documentation and some comments still refer to files in builtin/ as 'builtin-*.[cho]'. Update these to show the correct location. Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Assisted-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-01Merge branch 'da/downcase-u-in-usage' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* da/downcase-u-in-usage: contrib/mw-to-git/t/install-wiki.sh: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/examples/git-remote.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string tests: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" string templates/hooks--update.sample: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/examples: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: use spaces instead of tabs contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: fix broken error message contrib/fast-import: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/credential: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-cvsexportcommit: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-archimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-merge-one-file: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-relink: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-sh-setup: use a lowercase "usage:" string
2013-03-19Merge branch 'wk/user-manual-literal-format'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-142/+144
* wk/user-manual-literal-format: user-manual: Standardize backtick quoting
2013-03-19Merge branch 'da/downcase-u-in-usage'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* da/downcase-u-in-usage: contrib/mw-to-git/t/install-wiki.sh: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/examples/git-remote.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string tests: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" string templates/hooks--update.sample: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/hooks/setgitperms.perl: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/examples: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: use spaces instead of tabs contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py: fix broken error message contrib/fast-import: use a lowercase "usage:" string contrib/credential: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-cvsimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-cvsexportcommit: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-archimport: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-merge-one-file: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-relink: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-svn: use a lowercase "usage:" string git-sh-setup: use a lowercase "usage:" string
2013-03-01Merge branch 'wk/user-manual' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-56/+77
* wk/user-manual: user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
2013-02-27Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days: user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the) user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
2013-02-25user-manual: Standardize backtick quotingLibravatar W. Trevor King1-142/+144
I tried to always use backticks for: * Paths and filenames (e.g. `.git/config`) * Compound refs (e.g. `origin/HEAD`) * Git commands (e.g. `git log`) * Command arguments (e.g. `--pretty`) * URLs (e.g. `git://`), as a subset of command arguments * Special characters (e.g. `+` in diffs). * Config options (e.g. `branch.<name>.remote`) Branch and tag names are sometimes set off with double quotes, sometimes set off with backticks, and sometimes left bare. I tried to judge when the intention was introducing new terms or conventions (double quotes), to reference a recently used command argument (backticks), or to reference the abstract branch/commit (left bare). Obviously these are not particularly crisp definitions, so my decisions are fairly arbitrary ;). When a reference had already been introduced, I changed further double-quoted instances to backticked instances. When new backticks increased the length of a line beyond others in that block, I re-wrapped blocks to 72 columns. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25Merge branch 'wk/user-manual'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-56/+77
Further updates to the user manual. * wk/user-manual: user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
2013-02-25Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days: user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the)
2013-02-24Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" stringLibravatar David Aguilar1-2/+2
Make the usage string in the example script consistent with Git. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updatesLibravatar W. Trevor King1-1/+3
If you try and update a submodule with a dirty working directory, you get an error message like: $ git submodule update error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout: ... Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches. Aborting ... Mention this in the submodule notes. The previous phrase was short enough that I originally thought it might have been referring to the reflog note (obviously, uncommitted changes will not show up in the reflog either ;). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" textLibravatar W. Trevor King1-9/+5
Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?). Add an explicit push before request-pull to satisfy request-pull, which checks to make sure the references are publically available. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'Libravatar W. Trevor King1-46/+69
I think this interface is often more convenient than extended cherry picking or using 'git format-patch'. In fact, I removed the cherry-pick section entirely. The entry-level suggestions for rerolling are now: 1. git commit --amend 2. git format-patch origin git reset --hard origin ...edit and reorder patches... git am *.patch 3. git rebase -i origin Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Noticed by Drew Northup Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-40/+55
* maint: user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball user-manual: use 'git config --global user.*' for setup user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch config user-manual: give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +master user-manual: use 'remote add' to setup push URLs
2013-02-18user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarballLibravatar W. Trevor King1-3/+12
This functionality was introduced by 0e804e09 (archive: provide builtin .tar.gz filter, 2011-07-21) for v1.7.7. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: use 'git config --global user.*' for setupLibravatar W. Trevor King1-5/+13
A simple command line call is easier than spawning an editor, especially for folks new to ideas like the "command line" and "text editors". This is also the approach suggested by 'git commit' if you try and commit without having configured user.name or user.email. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch configLibravatar W. Trevor King1-27/+13
I hardly ever setup remote.<name>.url using 'git config'. While it may be instructive to do so, we should also point out 'git remote add'. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +masterLibravatar W. Trevor King1-0/+7
This mirrors existing language in the description of 'git fetch'. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18user-manual: use 'remote add' to setup push URLsLibravatar W. Trevor King1-5/+10
There is no need to use here documents to setup this configuration. It is easier, less confusing, and more robust to use `git remote add` directly. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+4
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days: user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
2013-02-14user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuseLibravatar W. Trevor King1-3/+4
acd2a45 (Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository via push, 2009-02-11) changed the default to refuse such a push, but it forgot to update the docs. 7d182f5 (Documentation: receive.denyCurrentBranch defaults to 'refuse', 2010-03-17) updated Documentation/config.txt, but forgot to update the user manual. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+10
* maint: user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing user-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typo user-manual: Fix 'http' -> 'HTTP' typos user-manual: Fix 'both: so' -> 'both; so' typo
2013-02-10user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packingLibravatar W. Trevor King1-12/+6
This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about auto (e9831e8, git-gc --auto: add documentation, 2007-09-17). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10user-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typoLibravatar W. Trevor King1-1/+1
Use an em-dash, not a hyphen, to join these clauses. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10user-manual: Fix 'http' -> 'HTTP' typosLibravatar W. Trevor King1-3/+3
HTTP is an acronym which has not (yet) made the transition to word status (unlike "laser", probably because lasers are inherently cooler than HTTP ;). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10user-manual: Fix 'both: so' -> 'both; so' typoLibravatar W. Trevor King1-1/+1
The clause "so `git log ...` will return no commits..." is independent, not a description of "both", so a semicolon is more appropriate. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Libravatar Thomas Ackermann1-106/+106
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 Ackermann1-2/+2
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>
2012-10-26Doc User-Manual: Patch cover letter, three dashes, and --notesLibravatar Philip Oakley1-0/+7
Show that git format-patch can have a cover letter, include patch commentary below the three dashes, and notes can also be included. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-09-13Documentation: describe subject more preciselyLibravatar Jeremy White1-3/+6
The discussion of email subject throughout the documentation is misleading; it indicates that the first line will always become the subject. In fact, the subject is generally all lines up until the first full blank line. This patch refines that, and makes more use of the concept of a commit title, with the title being all text up to the first blank line. Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-14doc: A few minor copy edits.Libravatar Štěpán Němec1-6/+6
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its linkification in frontends that support it; remove them - (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not the other way around - trivial typo and wording fixes Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-19Documentation: spelling fixesLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+4
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>
2012-02-28fsck: --no-dangling omits "dangling object" informationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-8/+7
The default output from "fsck" is often overwhelmed by informational message on dangling objects, especially if you do not repack often, and a real error can easily be buried. Add "--no-dangling" option to omit them, and update the user manual to demonstrate its use. Based on a patch by Clemens Buchacher, but reverted the part to change the default to --no-dangling, which is unsuitable for the first patch. The usual three-step procedure to break the backward compatibility over time needs to happen on top of this, if we were to go in that direction. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>