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2016-08-12Git 2.9.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-10Yet another batch for 2.9.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+68
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-10Merge branch 'jh/clean-smudge-f-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
A minor documentation update. This was split out from a stalled jh/clean-smudge-annex topic before discarding it. * jh/clean-smudge-f-doc: clarify %f documentation
2016-08-10Merge branch 'jc/hashmap-doc-init' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State that it is safe to do so. * jc/hashmap-doc-init: hashmap: clarify that hashmap_entry can safely be discarded
2016-08-08Hopefully final batch for 2.9.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-08Merge branch 'sb/pack-protocol-doc-nak' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
A doc update. * sb/pack-protocol-doc-nak: Documentation: pack-protocol correct NAK response
2016-08-08Merge branch 'jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
Belated doc update for a feature added in v1.8.5. * jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude: diff: document diff-filter exclusion
2016-08-03clarify %f documentationLibravatar Joey Hess1-0/+5
It's natural to expect %f to be an actual file on disk; help avoid that mistake. Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-08-02hashmap: clarify that hashmap_entry can safely be discardedLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
The API documentation said that the hashmap_entry structure to be embedded in the caller's structure is to be treated as opaque, which left the reader wondering if it can safely be discarded when it no longer is necessary. If the hashmap_entry structure had references to external resources such as allocated memory or an open file descriptor, merely free(3)ing the containing structure (when the caller's structure is on the heap) or letting it go out of scope (when it is on the stack) would end up leaking the external resource. Document that there is no need for hashmap_entry_clear() that corresponds to hashmap_entry_init() to give the API users a little bit of peace of mind. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-28Some fixes for 2.9.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+58
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-28Merge branch 'nd/doc-new-command' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Typofix in a doc. * nd/doc-new-command: new-command.txt: correct the command description file
2016-07-28Merge branch 'mm/doc-tt' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano62-227/+228
More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font. * mm/doc-tt: doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation doc: typeset long options with argument as literal doc: typeset '--' as literal doc: typeset long command-line options as literal doc: typeset short command-line options as literal Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
2016-07-22Documentation: pack-protocol correct NAK responseLibravatar Stefan Beller1-1/+1
In the transport protocol we use NAK to signal the non existence of a common base, so fix the documentation. This helps readers of the document, as they don't have to wonder about the difference between NAK and NACK. As NACK is used in git archive and upload-archive, this is easy to get wrong. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-15Git 2.9.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-14diff: document diff-filter exclusionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
In v1.8.5 days, 7f2ea5f0 (diff: allow lowercase letter to specify what change class to exclude, 2013-07-17) taught the "--diff-filter" mechanism to take lowercase letters as exclusion, but we forgot to document it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-11Git 2.9.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+57
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-11Merge branch 'jn/preformatted-doc-url' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html instead. * jn/preformatted-doc-url: doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no more
2016-07-11Merge branch 'sb/clone-shallow-passthru' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream of the submodules are not prepared for. * sb/clone-shallow-passthru: clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodules
2016-07-11Merge branch 'mg/signature-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+187
Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use GPG signature have been documented. * mg/signature-doc: Documentation/technical: signed merge tag format Documentation/technical: signed commit format Documentation/technical: signed tag format Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
2016-07-06More fixes for 2.9.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-06Merge branch 'jk/fetch-prune-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Minor doc update. * jk/fetch-prune-doc: fetch: document that pruning happens before fetching
2016-07-06Merge branch 'dn/gpg-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-2/+2
The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. * dn/gpg-doc: Documentation: GPG capitalization
2016-07-06Merge branch 'ap/git-svn-propset-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+14
"git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is documented now. * ap/git-svn-propset-doc: git-svn: document the 'git svn propset' command
2016-07-06Merge branch 'tr/doc-tt' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano36-217/+224
The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, configuration variables and environment variables are consistently typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. * tr/doc-tt: doc: change configuration variables format doc: more consistency in environment variables format doc: change environment variables format doc: clearer rule about formatting literals
2016-06-28doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy11-26/+26
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentationLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+3
The current practice is: git/Documentation$ git grep "'HEAD'" | wc -l 24 git/Documentation$ git grep "\`HEAD\`" | wc -l 66 Let's adopt the majority as a guideline. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long options with argument as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+2
We previously reformatted '--option' to `--option`. This patch reformats '--option <arg>' to `--option <arg>`. Obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]* <[^>]*>)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset '--' as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy3-4/+4
This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'--'/\`--\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy46-149/+149
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of forward-quotes, for long options. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to describe rewritten history). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset short command-line options as literalLibravatar Matthieu Moy23-52/+52
It was common in our documentation to surround short option names with forward quotes, which renders as italic in HTML. Instead, use backquotes which renders as monospace. This is one more step toward conformance to Documentation/CodingGuidelines. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(-[a-z])'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentationLibravatar Matthieu Moy1-2/+2
Replace spaces with tabs to avoid a warning when further patches change these lines. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-27Start preparing for 2.9.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+28
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-27new-command.txt: correct the command description fileLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
It has always been command-list.txt even at the time this new-command.txt document is added. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-22doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no moreLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git.html says There was no service found for the uri requested. Link to the rendered documentation on Jekyll instead. Reported-by: Andrea Stacchiotti <andreastacchiotti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-20clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodulesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+2
In v2.9.0, we prematurely flipped the default to force cloning submodules shallowly, when the superproject is getting cloned shallowly. This is likely to fail when the upstream repositories submodules are cloned from a repository that is not prepared to serve histories that ends at a commit that is not at the tip of a branch, and we know the world is not yet ready. Use a safer default to clone the submodules fully, unless the user tells us that she knows that the upstream repository of the submodules are willing to cooperate with "--shallow-submodules" option. Noticed-by: Vadim Eisenberg <VADIME@il.ibm.com> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-17Documentation/technical: signed merge tag formatLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+74
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-17Documentation/technical: signed commit formatLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+48
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-17Documentation/technical: signed tag formatLibravatar Michael J Gruber1-0/+47
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-17Documentation/technical: describe signature formatsLibravatar Michael J Gruber2-0/+18
We use different types of signature formats in different places. Set up the infrastructure and overview to describe them systematically in our technical documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-16Documentation: GPG capitalizationLibravatar Dave Nicolson2-2/+2
When "GPG" is used in a sentence it is now consistently capitalized. When referring to the binary it is left as "gpg". Signed-off-by: David Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-15git-svn: document the 'git svn propset' commandLibravatar Alfred Perlstein1-0/+14
Add example usage to the git-svn documentation. Reported-by: Joseph Pecoraro <pecoraro@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-14fetch: document that pruning happens before fetchingLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
This was changed in 10a6cc8 (fetch --prune: Run prune before fetching, 2014-01-02), but it seems that nobody in that discussion realized we were advertising the "after" explicitly. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-13Git 2.9Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-10Hopefully the final last-minute update before 2.9 finalLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-10Merge branch 'jk/diff-compact-heuristic'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+12
It turns out that the earlier effort to update the heuristics may want to use a bit more time to mature. Turn it off by default. * jk/diff-compact-heuristic: diff: disable compaction heuristic for now
2016-06-10diff: disable compaction heuristic for nowLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+12
http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160610075043.GA13411@sigill.intra.peff.net reports that a change to add a new "function" with common ending with the existing one at the end of the file is shown like this: def foo do_foo_stuff() + common_ending() +end + +def bar + do_bar_stuff() + common_ending() end when the new heuristic is in use. In reality, the change is to add the blank line before "def bar" and everything below, which is what the code without the new heuristic shows. Disable the heuristics by default, and resurrect the documentation for the option and the configuration variables, while clearly marking the feature as still experimental. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08doc: change configuration variables formatLibravatar Tom Russello17-86/+86
This change configuration variables that where in italic style to monospace font according to the guideline. It was obtained with grep '[[:alpha:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]*::$' config.txt | \ sed -e 's/::$//' -e 's/\./\\\\./' | \ xargs -iP perl -pi -e "s/\'P\'/\`P\`/g" ./*.txt Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08doc: more consistency in environment variables formatLibravatar Tom Russello17-27/+27
Wrap with backticks (monospaced font) unwrapped or single-quotes wrapped (italic type) environment variables which are followed by the word "environment". It was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/\'?(\\\$?[0-9A-Z\_]+)\'?(?= environment ?)/\`\1\`/g" *.txt One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines). Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08doc: change environment variables formatLibravatar Tom Russello9-101/+101
This change GIT_* variables that where in italic style to monospaced font according to the guideline. It was obtained with perl -pi -e "s/\'(GIT_.*?)\'/\`\1\`/g" *.txt One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines). Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08doc: clearer rule about formatting literalsLibravatar Tom Russello1-3/+10
Make the guideline text that we want for our documentation clearer. Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>