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2009-12-03Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparamLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
Newer DocBook stylesheets want man.base.url.for.relative.links parameter set when formatting manpages with external references to turn them into full URLs, and leave a helpful "you should set this parameter" message in the output. Earlier we added the MAN_BASE_URL make variable to specify the value for it. When MAN_BASE_URL is not given, it ought to be safe to set the parameter to empty; it would result in an empty leading path for older stylesheets that ignore the parameter, and newer ones would produce the same "relative URL" without the message. Unfortunately, older xmlto (at least version 0.0.18 released in early 2004 that comes with RHEL/CentOS 5) does not understand the --stringparam command line option, so we cannot add the parameter definition unconditionally to the command line. Work it around by passing the parameter only when set. If you do not have a suitable URL prefix, you can pass a quoted empty string to it, like so: $ make MAN_BASE_URL='""' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03Git 1.6.5.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.linksLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
Even setting it to empty is better than leaving it unset as it prevents the warning cruft from appearing in the output. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from MakeLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>
2009-12-02Prepare for 1.6.5.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+32
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-01Documentation: Fix a few i.e./e.g. mix-upsLibravatar Michael J Gruber2-2/+2
A git bundle can be transported by several means (such as e-mail), not only by snekaernet, so use e.g. instead of i.e. The mix-up in git-bundle.txt is obvious. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-30Documentation: Document --branch option in git clone synopsisLibravatar David Soria Parra1-1/+1
Document the --branch option as [-b <name>] in git clones synopsis. Signed-off-by: David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-23pack-objects: split implications of --all-progress from progress activationLibravatar Nicolas Pitre1-3/+9
Currently the --all-progress flag is used to use force progress display during the writing object phase even if output goes to stdout which is primarily the case during a push operation. This has the unfortunate side effect of forcing progress display even if stderr is not a terminal. Let's introduce the --all-progress-implied argument which has the same intent except for actually forcing the activation of any progress display. With this, progress display will be automatically inhibited whenever stderr is not a terminal, or full progress display will be included otherwise. This should let people use 'git push' within a cron job without filling their logs with useless percentage displays. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Tested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-19Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()Libravatar Greg Price1-5/+0
graph_release() was removed in 064bfbd. Cut it from the API documentation and a comment. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-16Git 1.6.5.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+65
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-15Merge branch 'jk/maint-1.6.3-ls-files-i' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
* jk/maint-1.6.3-ls-files-i: ls-files: unbreak "ls-files -i"
2009-11-15Merge branch 'jc/maint-blank-at-eof' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+5
* jc/maint-blank-at-eof: diff -B: colour whitespace errors diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line diff.c: shuffling code around diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof} diff --color: color blank-at-eof diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
2009-11-15Merge branch 'tr/maint-roff-quote' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+24
* tr/maint-roff-quote: Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
2009-11-15Merge branch 'ja/fetch-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-67/+76
* ja/fetch-doc: Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
2009-11-15Merge branch 'cb/doc-fetch-pull-merge' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-45/+66
* cb/doc-fetch-pull-merge: modernize fetch/merge/pull examples
2009-11-15Merge branch 'jc/receive-pack-auto' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* jc/receive-pack-auto: receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info" gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
2009-11-14git-add.txt: fix formatting of --patch sectionLibravatar Stephen Boyd1-4/+4
Extra paragraphs should be prefixed with a plus sign. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04Fix documentation grammar typoLibravatar Gisle Aas1-1/+1
Introduced in 492cf3f (More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev', 2009-10-29) Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-01Merge branch 'bg/clone-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+13
* bg/clone-doc: git-clone.txt: Fix grammar and formatting
2009-10-30More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'Libravatar Gisle Aas1-4/+13
Also adds a note about why the output in the examples might give different output today. Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-30ls-files: unbreak "ls-files -i"Libravatar Jeff King1-2/+4
Commit b5227d8 changed the behavior of "ls-files" with respect to includes, but accidentally broke the "-i" option The original behavior was: 1. if no "-i" is given, cull all results according to --exclude* 2. if "-i" is given, show the inverse of (1) The broken behavior was: 1. if no "-i" is given: a. for "-o", cull results according to --exclude* b. for index files, always show all 2. if "-i" is given: a. for "-o", shows the inverse of (1a) b. for index files, always show all The fixed behavior keeps the new (1b) behavior introduced by b5227d8, but fixes the (2b) behavior to show only ignored files, not all files. This patch also tweaks the documentation. The original text was somewhat obscure in the first place, but it is also now inaccurate (the relationship between (1b) and (2b) is not quite a "reverse"). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-25GIT 1.6.5.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+21
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-23Fix list of released versions in the toc documentLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
2009-10-23Merge branch 'jn/maint-1.6.3-check-ref-format-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+6
* jn/maint-1.6.3-check-ref-format-doc: Documentation: describe check-ref-format --branch
2009-10-22Quote ' as \(aq in manpagesLibravatar Thomas Rast2-0/+24
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'. This does achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages. Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the groff_char manpage. Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF which you need to enable to get the new quoting. Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-22Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groupsLibravatar Jari Aalto1-43/+45
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-22Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option filesLibravatar Jari Aalto1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21git-clone.txt: Fix grammar and formattingLibravatar Björn Gustavsson1-13/+13
Add the missing definite article ("the") in several places. Change "note to..." to "note for...", since "note to" means that that the note is addressed to someone (source: Google search). Change "progressbar" to "progress bar" (source: Wikipedia). Format git commands, options, and file names consistently using back quotes (i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document). Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
Introduce two new configuration variables, receive.autogc (defaults to true) and receive.updateserverinfo (defaults to false). When these are set, receive-pack runs "gc --auto --quiet" and "update-server-info" respectively after it finishes receiving data from "git push" and updating refs. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
2009-10-21Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabeticallyLibravatar Jari Aalto1-24/+24
git-fetch.{1,html} will be helped with this patch Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21modernize fetch/merge/pull examplesLibravatar Clemens Buchacher3-45/+66
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and move the examples to the corresponding manpages. Furthermore, - show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a frequently asked question, - explain the default fetch refspec. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21Document `delta` attribute in "git help attributes".Libravatar Nasser Grainawi1-0/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-20Documentation/git-gc.txt: change "references" to "reference"Libravatar Matt Kraai1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-18document push's new quiet optionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-16GIT 1.6.5.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+21
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-13Merge branch 'maint-1.6.4' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
* maint-1.6.4: git-stash documentation: mention default options for 'list'
2009-10-12Documentation: describe check-ref-format --branchLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+6
Unless one already knew, it was not obvious what sort of shorthand "git check-ref-format --branch" expands. Explain it. The --branch argument is not optional. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-12git-stash documentation: mention default options for 'list'Libravatar Miklos Vajna1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-10GIT 1.6.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-6/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09Documentation: clone: clarify discussion of initial branchLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+3
When saying the initial branch is equal to the currently active remote branch, it is probably intended that the branch heads point to the same commit. Maybe it would be more useful to a new user to emphasize that the tree contents and history are the same. More important, probably, is that this new branch is set up so that "git pull" merges changes from the corresponding remote branch. The next paragraph addresses that directly. What the reader needs to know to begin with is that (1) the initial branch is your own; if you do not pull, it won't get updated, and that (2) the initial branch starts out at the same commit as the upstream. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09racy-git.txt: explain nsec problem in more detailLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+6
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day. Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on filesystem code for that to happen. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09Documentation: clarify "working tree" definitionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+3
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09Documentation: clarify branch creationLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-8/+8
The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not the most common case. More often, "git branch" is used to begin a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting commit (e.g. origin/pu^2). Clarify the language so it can apply to these cases. Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording. Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09Documentation: branch: update --merged descriptionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-4/+6
Update the documentation for --merged and --no-merged to explain the meaning of the optional parameter introduced in commit 049716b (branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit, 2008-07-08). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09Documentation: clarify mergeoptions descriptionLibravatar Jonathan Nieder2-3/+3
Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same" instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey the meaning better here.) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09Documentation: git fmt-merge-msg does not have to be a scriptLibravatar Jonathan Nieder2-5/+6
The fmt-merge-message builtin can be invoked as "git fmt-merge-msg" rather than through the hard link in GIT_EXEC_PATH. Although this is unlikely to confuse most script writers, it should not hurt to make the documentation a little clearer anyway. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-08Update draft release notes to 1.6.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+10
2009-10-02filter-branch: add --prune-empty to option summaryLibravatar Adam Brewster1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Adam Brewster <adambrewster@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2009-09-29Documentation/git-gc.txt: default --aggressive window is 250, not 10Libravatar Brandon Casey1-1/+1
The default --aggressive window has been 250 since 1c192f34 "gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive", released in git v1.6.3. Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2009-09-22Update "describe" documentation to match realityLibravatar Thiago Farina1-1/+1
A sample "git describe -h" did not match what the program actually says. Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>