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2012-09-11Git 1.7.11.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-34/+57
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-11Merge branch 'sz/submodule-force-update' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+8
* sz/submodule-force-update: Make 'git submodule update --force' always check out submodules.
2012-09-11Merge branch 'jc/maint-config-exit-status' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
* jc/maint-config-exit-status: config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
2012-09-11Merge branch 'mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
* mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command: git-config doc: unconfuse an example git-config.txt: fix example
2012-09-11Merge branch 'jk/docs-docbook-monospace-display' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-3/+3
* jk/docs-docbook-monospace-display: docs: monospace listings in docbook output
2012-09-10Almost 1.7.11.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+29
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-24Prepare for 1.7.11.6Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+34
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-24Merge branch 'mv/pull-r-for-rebase' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
A minor documentation update. * mv/pull-r-for-rebase: man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase
2012-08-24Merge branch 'jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
We did not document that many commands take unique prefix abbreviations of long options (e.g. "--option" may be the only flag that the command accepts that begin with "--opt", in which case you can give "--opt") anywhere easy to find for new people. * jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli: gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
2012-08-24Merge branch 'jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+24
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but also about "don't mix lineages". * jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc: rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
2012-08-24Merge branch 'hv/coding-guidelines' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective. * hv/coding-guidelines: Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
2012-08-24Merge branch 'jc/tag-doc' into maint-1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano7-16/+27
Our documentation used to assume having files in .git/refs/* directories was the only to have branches and tags, but that is not true for quite some time. * jc/tag-doc: Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
2012-08-24Make 'git submodule update --force' always check out submodules.Libravatar Stefan Zager1-1/+8
Currently, it will only do a checkout if the sha1 registered in the containing repository doesn't match the HEAD of the submodule, regardless of whether the submodule is dirty. As discussed on the mailing list, the '--force' flag is a strong indicator that the state of the submodule is suspect, and should be reset to HEAD. Signed-off-by: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com> Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-18git-config doc: unconfuse an exampleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
One fictitious command "proxy-command" is enclosed inside a double quote pair, while another fictitious command "default-proxy" is not in the example, but the quoting does not change anything in the pair of examples. Remove the quotes to avoid unnecessary confusion. Noticed by Michael Haggerty. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-18git-config.txt: fix exampleLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
The "--add" option is required to add a new value to a multivalued configuration entry. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-17man: git pull -r is a short for --rebaseLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+1
Letting the "--rebase" option squat on the short-and-sweet single letter option "-r" was an unintended accident and was not even documented, but the short option seems to be already used in the wild. Let's document it so that other options that begin with "r" would not be tempted to steal it. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-16gitcli: describe abbreviation of long optionsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-15Git 1.7.11.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-15rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order descriptionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-7/+24
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but also about "don't mix lineages". Reword the description for both "--date-order" and "--topo-order", and add an illustration to it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-15Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelinesLibravatar Heiko Voigt1-0/+8
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective. Spell some of the guidelines out. Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-07docs: monospace listings in docbook outputLibravatar Jeff King2-3/+3
When asciidoc converts a listing block like: ---------------------- $ git log --merge ---------------------- it marks it to be displayed in a monospace font. This works fine when generating HTML output. However, when generating docbook output, we override the expansion of a listingblock to work around bugs in some versions of the docbook toolchain. Our override did not mark the listingblock with the "monospaced" class. The main output that uses docbook as an intermediate format is the manpages. We didn't notice any issue there because the monospaced class seems to be ignored when generating roff from the docbook manpages. However, when generating texinfo to make info pages, docbook does respect this class. The resulting texinfo output properly uses "@example" blocks to display the listing in this case. Besides possibly looking prettier in some texinfo backends, one important effect is that the monospace font suppresses texinfo's expansion of "--" and "---" into en-dashes and em-dashes. With the current code, the example above ends up looking like "git log -merge", which is confusing and wrong. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-06Prepare for 1.7.11.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+28
Hopefully that will be the final 1.7.11.x maintenance release. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-06Merge branch 'ms/daemon-doc-typo' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* ms/daemon-doc-typo: Documentation/git-daemon: add missing word
2012-08-06Merge branch 'rr/doc-commit' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* rr/doc-commit: commit: document a couple of options
2012-08-06doc: A few minor copy edits.Libravatar Štěpán Němec5-10/+10
- (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>
2012-08-06Merge branch 'mh/maint-revisions-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+37
* mh/maint-revisions-doc: Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentation Make <refname> documentation more consistent.
2012-08-06Merge branch 'jc/mergetool-tool-help' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
* jc/mergetool-tool-help: mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does
2012-08-06Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directoriesLibravatar Junio C Hamano7-16/+27
It is an implementation detail that a new tag is created by adding a file in the .git/refs/tags directory. The only thing the user needs to know is that a "git tag" creates a ref in the refs/tags namespace, and without "-f", it does not overwrite an existing tag. Inspired by a report from 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>; I think I caught all the existing mention in Documentation/ directory in the tip of 1.7.9.X maintenance track, but we may have added new ones since then. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-30Git 1.7.11.4Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+33
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-30Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
"$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log message user edits was not documented. * jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg: commit: document the temporary commit message file
2012-07-30Merge branch 'kk/maint-commit-tree' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
"git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. * kk/maint-commit-tree: Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis" commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
2012-07-30Merge branch 'pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+3
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it. * pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch: am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
2012-07-30config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+4
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255. Also define a "catch-all" status and document it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-24Enumerate revision range specifiers in the documentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+31
It was a bit hard to learn how <rev>^@, <rev>^! and various other forms of range specifiers are used, because they were discussed mostly in the prose part of the documentation, unlike various forms of extended SHA-1 expressions that are listed in an enumerated list. Also add a few more examples showing use of <rev>, <rev>..<rev> and <rev>^! forms, stolen from a patch by Max Horn. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23commit: document the temporary commit message fileLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want to know about it for two reasons: 1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself for formatting a commit message. 2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want to recover the commit message they typed. Let's put a note in git-commit(1). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync between the implementation and the documentation. In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help for a complete list. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22Git 1.7.11.3Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+55
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-17Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
This reverts commit d28436736a078a429213003a9472e8caeb86c286, which was done without realizing that the updated command line argument order was lost by mistake.
2012-07-16Documentation/git-daemon: add missing wordLibravatar Michael Schubert1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-13am: indicate where a failed patch is to be foundLibravatar Paul Gortmaker1-0/+3
If "git am" fails to apply something, the end user may need to know where to find the patch that failed to apply, so that the user can do other things (e.g. trying "GNU patch" on it, running "diffstat" to see what it tried to change, etc.) The input to "am" may have contained more than one patch, or the message may have been MIME encoded, and knowing what the user fed to "am" does not help very much for this purpose. Also introduce advice.amworkdir configuration to allow people who learned where to look to squelch this message. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11Git 1.7.11.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+55
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-11Merge branch 'cn/cherry-pick-range-docs' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+13
The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading. * cn/cherry-pick-range-docs: git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified
2012-07-05Make <refname> documentation more consistent.Libravatar Max Horn1-6/+6
Formerly, the documentation for <refname> would occasionally say <name> instead of <refname>. Now it uniformly uses <refname>. Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-22Documentation: Fix misspellingsLibravatar Leila Muhtasib2-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Leila Muhtasib <muhtasib@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-21Git 1.7.11.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-20docs: always define git-relative-html-prefix attributeLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+2
Commit fe77b41 introduced a new attribute to let the linkgit macro create cross-directory HTML references from the technical/ and howto/ subdirectories back to the main documentation. We define that attribute to "../" on the command-line when building inside those subdirectories, and otherwise leave it unset under the assumption that it would default to being blank. Instead, asciidoc omits the link entirely, leading to broken documentation. Fix this by defining git-relative-html-prefix to blank in asciidoc.conf (and an instance on the command-line, when present, will override it). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-19git-commit-tree(1): update synopsisLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Even with many new kinds of options, the command still takes the single <tree> as the first argument. Probably we would want to update the command to allow it to take <tree>-ish at the end for consistency. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-19Documentation: spelling fixesLibravatar Miklos Vajna6-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-17Git 1.7.11Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-9/+5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-17Sync with 1.7.10.5Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+14