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2008-03-23Fix the wrong output of `git-show v1.3.0~155^2~4` in documentation.Libravatar Guanqun Lu1-1/+1
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation. Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-123/+123
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-31Merge branch 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/gitLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git: Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo Documentation: fix remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate description
2007-12-31Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typoLibravatar Gustaf Hendeby1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-12-13Fix spelling mistakes in user manualLibravatar Shawn Bohrer1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-30Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* maint: Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere cvsimport: fix usage of cvsimport.module t7003-filter-branch: Fix test of a failing --msg-filter. cvsimport: miscellaneous packed-ref fixes cvsimport: use rev-parse to support packed refs Add basic cvsimport tests
2007-11-30Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhereLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-25Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-24/+201
* maint: user-manual: recovering from corruption user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits user-manual: failed push to public repository user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start git-checkout: describe detached head correctly
2007-11-25user-manual: recovering from corruptionLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-1/+130
Some instructions on dealing with corruption of the object database. Most of this text is from an example by Linus, identified by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> with a little further editing by me. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commitsLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-9/+11
It's important to remember that git doesn't really allowing "editing" or "modifying" commits, only replacing them by new commits. Redo some of the language to make this clearer. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25user-manual: failed push to public repositoryLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-9/+49
More details on the case of a failed push to a public (non-shared) repository. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at startLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-6/+12
Some explanation here might help. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-19Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+77
* maint: Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc. user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..." git-remote.txt: fix example url
2007-11-18user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-4/+11
We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here. The note about the difference between diff and the combined output of git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it. Add a reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."Libravatar Steffen Prohaska1-0/+66
This commit adds a discussion of the challenge of bisecting merge commits to the user manual. The original author is Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, who posted the text to the mailing list <http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119403257315527&w=2>. His email was adapted for the manual. The discussion is added to "Rewriting history and maintainig patch series". The text added requires good understanding of merging and rebasing. Therefore it should not be placed too early in the manual. Right after the section on "Problems with rewriting history", the discussion of bisect gives another reason for linearizing as much of the history as possible. The text includes suggestions and fixes by Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> and Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-17user-manual.txt: minor clarification.Libravatar Sergei Organov1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14user-manual: minor rewording for clarity.Libravatar Sergei Organov1-2/+2
Junio screwed up when applying the previous round of the patch; rewording from "previous" to "old" does make the description clearer. Also revert the rewording from head to branch. The description is talking about the branch's tip commit and using the word head is clearer. Based on input from Sergei and Bruce. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14user-manual.txt: fix a few mistakesLibravatar Sergei Organov1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-15manual: use 'URL' instead of 'url'.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-4/+4
Just for consistency, use the spelling URL everywhere. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15manual: add some markup.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-5/+5
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15manual: Fix example finding commits referencing given content.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
If I'm handed a file, then it typically lives outside the working directory. git-log only operates on in-tree files, so the first 'filename' should be an in-tree one, or it should look at all files. This patch does the latter, so it would also find renamed files. However, it is also slower. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15Fix some typos, punctuation, missing words, minor markup.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-13/+14
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15manual: Fix or remove em dashes.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-10/+10
em dashes were used inconsistently in the manual. This changes them to the way they are used in US English. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-09-25user-manual: Explain what submodules are good for.Libravatar Michael Smith1-12/+42
Rework the introduction to the Submodules section to explain why someone would use them, and fix up submodule references from the tree-object and todo sections. Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-23User Manual: add a chapter for submodulesLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+202
Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-23user-manual: don't assume refs are stored under .git/refsLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-7/+11
The scripts taken from Tony Luck's howto assume all refs can be found under .git/refs, but this is not necessarily true, especially since git-gc runs git-pack-refs. Also add a note warning of this in the chapter that introduces refs, and fix the same incorrect assumption in one other spot. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: todo updates and cleanupLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-13/+16
Format a couple lists. Reminder that we may want to add submodule documentation some day.
2007-09-15user-manual: fix introduction to packfilesLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-2/+2
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we need a different introduction here. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: move packfile and dangling object discussionLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-148/+147
The discussions of packfiles and dangling objects both belong in the object database section. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: rewrite object database discussionLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-139/+196
Rewrite the introduction. Rewrite each section completely to make them work in the new order, to add some examples, and to move plumbing commands (like git-commit-tree) to the following chapter. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: reorder commit, blob, tree discussionLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-41/+41
The bottom-up blog, tree, commit order makes sense unless you want to give explicit examples--it's easier to discover objects to examine if you go in the other order...., Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: rewrite index discussionLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-49/+55
Add an example using git-ls-files, standardize on the new "index" terminology (as opposed to "cache"), attempt to clarify discussion and make it a little shorter, avoid some unnecessary jargon ("write-back cache"). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: create new "low-level git operations" chapterLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-9/+24
The low-level index operations aren't as important to regular users as the rest of this "git concepts" chapter; so move it into a separate chapter, and do some minor cleanup. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: rename "git internals" to "git concepts"Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-6/+10
"git internals" sounds like something only git developers must know about, but this stuff should be of wider interest. Rename the chapter and give it a slightly friendlier introduction. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: move object format details to hacking-git chapterLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-23/+32
Most of this is probably only of interest to git developers. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15user-manual: adjust section levels in "git internals"Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-5/+12
The descriptions of the various object types should all be a subsection of the "Object Database" section. I cribbed most of this chapter from the README (now core-intro.txt and git(7)), because there's stuff in there people need to know and I was too lazy to rewrite it. The audience isn't quite right, though--the chapter is a mixture of user- and developer- level documentation that isn't as appropriate now as it was originally. So, reserve this chapter for stuff users need to know, and move the source code introduction into a new "git hacking" chapter where we'll also move any hacker-only technical details. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-28Porcelain level "log" family should recurse when diffing.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Most notably, "git log --name-status" stopped at top level directory changes without "-r" option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-26Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar J. Bruce Fields1-84/+48
Conflicts: Documentation/user-manual.txt
2007-08-26Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix a few omissions of gitlink commands.Libravatar David Kastrup1-6/+8
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
2007-08-26user-manual: fix incorrect header levelLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-1/+1
This section is a subsection of the "Examples" section. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26user-manual: use pithier example commitLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-25/+20
Actually, we should have a competition for the favorite example commit. Criteria: - length: one-line changes with one-line comments preferred, and no long lines - significance/memorability - comic value Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlierLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-5/+5
Use the word "commit" as a synonym for "version" from the start. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26user-manual: minor editing for concisenessLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-7/+3
Just cutting out a few unnecessary words. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for concisenessLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-45/+18
The immediate motivation for writing this section was to explain the various places ignore patterns could be used. However, I still think .gitignore is the case most people will want to learn about first. It also makes it a bit more concrete to introduce ignore patterns in the context of .gitignore first. And the existance of gitignore(5) relieves the pressure to explain it all here. So, stick to the .gitignore example, with only a brief mention of the others, explain the syntax only by example, and leave the rest to gitignore(5). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
2007-08-26Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix a few omissions of gitlink commands.Libravatar David Kastrup1-9/+11
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
2007-08-24Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.Libravatar Brian Hetro1-6/+6
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation. Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-05user-manual: mention git-guiLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-2/+9
The git gui project seems to be still in early stages, but at a point where it's worth mentioning as an alternative way of creating commits. One feature of interest is the ability to manipulate individual diff hunks. However, people have found that feature not to be easily discoverable from the user-interface. Pending some ui improvements, a parenthetical hint here may help. (Thanks to Steffen Prohask and Junio Hamano for suggesting the language.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-05user-manual: mention git stashLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+32
Mention the git-stash command as a way to temporarily set aside work in progress. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-05user-manual: update for new default --track behaviorLibravatar J. Bruce Fields1-14/+9
Update documentation to reflect the --track default. That change seems to have happened in the 1.5.3 -rc's, so bump the "for version x.y.z or newer" warning as well. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-07-24user-manual: fix typolets.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>