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2008-09-06Update draft release notes for 1.6.0.2Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-05Mention the fact that 'git annotate' is only for backward compatibility.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
When somebody is reading git-blame.txt (or git-annotate.txt) for the first time, the message we would like to send is: (1) Here is why you would want to use this command, what it can do (perhaps more than what you would have expected from "$scm blame"), and how you tell it to do what it does. This is obvious. (2) You might have heard of the command with the other name. There is no difference between the two, except they differ in their default output formats. This is essential to answer: "git has both? how are they different?" (3) We tend to encourage blame over annotate for new scripts and new people, but there is no reason to choose one over the other. This is not as important as (2), but would be useful to avoid repeated questions about "when will we start deprecating this?" As long as we describe (2) on git-annotate page clearly enough, people who read git-blame page first and get curious can refer to git-annotate page. While at it, subtly hint (3) without being overly explicit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-03Start 1.6.0.2 maintenance cycleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+50
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-03Fix passwd(5) ref and reflect that commit doens't use commit-treeLibravatar Jonas Fonseca3-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-01Improve documentation for --dirstat diff optionLibravatar Heikki Orsila1-6/+5
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-01Documentation: minor cleanup in a use case in 'git stash' manualLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
There is no need to explicitly pass the file to be committed to 'git commit', because it's contents is already in the index. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-01Documentation: fix disappeared lines in 'git stash' manpageLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-7/+7
Asciidoc removes lines starting with a dot when creating manpages. Since those lines were comments in use case examples showing shell commands, preceed those lines with a hash sign. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-01Documentation: fix reference to a for-each-ref optionLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
... to match the synopsis section Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31Document sendemail.envelopesender configurationLibravatar Ask Bjørn Hansen1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributesLibravatar Gustaf Hendeby2-2/+2
The SYNOPSIS section of gitattibutes and gitmodule fail to clearly specify the name of the in tree files used. This patch brings in the initial `.' and the fact that the `.gitmodules' file should reside at the top-level of the working tree. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30config.txt: Add missing colons after option nameLibravatar Teemu Likonen1-1/+1
gitcvs.usecrlfattr --> gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: This fixes an asciidoc markup issue. Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30gitattributes: -crlf is not binaryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+37
The description of crlf attribute incorrectly said that "-crlf" means binary. It is true that for binary files you would want "-crlf", but that is not the same thing. We also have supported attribute macros and via that mechanism a handy "binary" to specify "-crlf -diff" at the same time. It was not documented anywhere as far as I can tell, even though the support was there from the very beginning. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30Fix example in git-name-rev documentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Since 59d3f54 (name-rev: avoid "^0" when unneeded, 2007-02-20), name-rev stopped showing an unnecessary "^0" to dereference a tag down to a commit. The patch should have made a matching update to the documentation, but we forgot. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-29tutorial: gentler illustration of Alice/Bob workflow using gitkLibravatar Paolo Ciarrocchi1-1/+28
Update to gitutorial as discussedin the git mailing list: http://marc.info/?t=121969390900002&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-29pretty=format: respect date format optionsLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
When running a command like: git log --pretty=format:%ad --date=short the date option was ignored. This patch causes it to use whatever format was specified by --date (or by --relative-date, etc), just as the non-user formats would do. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-29Document gitk --argscmd flag.Libravatar Yann Dirson1-0/+7
This was part of my original patch, but appears to have been lost. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-24GIT 1.6.0.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-6/+11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-24Documentation: clarify pager configurationLibravatar Jonathan Nieder2-3/+9
The unwary user may not know how to disable the -FRSX options. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-24Documentation: clarify pager.<cmd> configurationLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-3/+5
It was not obvious from the text that pager.<cmd> is a boolean setting. While we're changing the description, make some other improvements: lest we forget and fret, clarify that -p and pager.<cmd> do not kick in when stdout is not a tty; point to related core.pager and GIT_PAGER settings; use renamed --paginate option. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-20Update draft release notes for 1.6.0.1Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+18
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-20Add hints to revert documentation about other ways to undo changesLibravatar Tarmigan Casebolt1-0/+9
Based on its name, people may read the 'git revert' documentation when they want to undo local changes, especially people who have used other SCM's. 'git revert' may not be what they had in mind, but git provides several other ways to undo changes to files. We can help them by pointing them towards the git commands that do what they might want to do. Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Cc: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-18adapt git-cvsserver manpage to dash-free syntaxLibravatar Robert Schiele1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-17Start 1.6.0.X maintenance seriesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-17GIT 1.6.0Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-12/+16
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-16Documentation: document the pager.* configuration settingLibravatar Miklos Vajna1-0/+5
It was already documented in RelNotes-1.6.0, but not in the git-config manual page. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-16git-stash: improve synopsis in help and manual pageLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-3/+10
"git stash -h" showed some incomplete and ugly usage information. For example, the useful "--keep-index" option for "save" or the "--index" option for "apply" were not shown. Also in the documentation synopsis they were not shown, so that there is no incentive to scroll down and even see that such options exist. This patch improves the git-stash synopsis in the documentation by mentioning that further options to the stash commands and then copies this synopsis to the usage information string of git-stash.sh. For the latter, the dashless git command string has to be inserted on the second and the following usage lines. The code of this is taken from git-sh-setup so that all lines will show the command string. Note that the "create" command is not advertised at all now, because it was not mentioned in git-stash.txt. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-16git-am: ignore --binary optionLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-6/+1
The git-apply documentation says that --binary is a historical option. This patch lets git-am ignore --binary and removes advertisements of this option. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-14git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter doesLibravatar Matt McCutchen1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12GIT 1.6.0-rc3Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
* maint: Do not talk about "diff" in rev-list documentation.
2008-08-12Do not talk about "diff" in rev-list documentation.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+2
Since 8c02eee (git-rev-list(1): group options; reformat; document more options, 2006-09-01), git-rev-list documentation talks as if it supports any kind of diff output. It doesn't. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12Documentation: rev-list-options: Rewrite simplification descriptions for clarityLibravatar Thomas Rast1-17/+136
This completely rewrites the documentation of --full-history with lots of examples. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12Teach git diff about BibTeX head hunk patternsLibravatar Gustaf Hendeby1-0/+2
All BibTeX entries starts with an @ followed by an entry type. Since there are many entry types and own can be defined, the pattern matches legal entry type names instead of just the default types (which would be a long list). The pattern also matches strings and comments since they will also be useful to position oneself in a bib-file. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-12gitattributes: Document built in hunk header patternsLibravatar Gustaf Hendeby1-3/+10
Since the hunk header pattern text was written patterns for Ruby and Pascal/Delphi have been added. For users to be able to find them they should be documented not only in code. Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix a typoLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Adjust for the new way of enabling the default post-update hookLibravatar Petr Baudis3-13/+20
The post-update hook, which is required to be enabled in order for the repository to be accessible over HTTP, is not enabled by chmod a+x anymore, but instead by dropping the .sample suffix. This patch emphasizes this change in the release notes (since I believe this is rather noticeable backwards-incompatible change). It also adjusts the documentation which still described the old way and fixes t/t5540-http-push.sh, which was broken for 1.5 month but apparently noone ever runs this test. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
* maint: Re-fix rev-list-options documentation
2008-08-11Re-fix rev-list-options documentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+1
18a2197 (Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting, 2008-08-10) introduced the third paragraph that is continued, but it seems to confuse docbook toolchain on FC9 machines. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-4/+4
* maint: Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual Fix deleting reflog entries from HEAD reflog reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete' Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting Conflicts: Documentation/user-manual.txt
2008-08-10Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manualLibravatar Ivan Stankovic1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ivan Stankovic <pokemon@fly.srk.fer.hr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-10Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formattingLibravatar Thomas Rast1-2/+2
- Add an escape to @{now}. Without the escape, the brace does something magic and eats half the sentence up to the closing brace at 'timestamp}'. - Join the last paragraph with a '+'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-09Update draft RelNotes for 1.6.0Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-6/+6
* maint: asciidoc markup fixes Fail properly when cloning from invalid HTTP URL Conflicts: Documentation/git-push.txt
2008-08-08builtin-rm: Add a --force flagLibravatar Pieter de Bie1-1/+2
This adds a --force flag to git-rm, making it somewhat easier for subversion people to switch. Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08Documentation: filter-branch: document how to filter all refsLibravatar Thomas Rast1-5/+16
Document the '--' option that can be used to pass rev-list options (not just arguments), and give an example usage of '-- --all'. Remove reference to "the new branch name"; filter-branch takes arbitrary arguments to rev-list since dfd05e3. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08Documentation: user-manual: "git commit -a" doesn't motivate .gitignoreLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore. So don't use it to motivate gitignore. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08git-svn: add ability to specify --commit-url for dcommitLibravatar Eric Wong1-0/+9
This allows one to use public svn:// URLs for fetch and svn+ssh:// URLs for committing (without using the complicated rewriteRoot option, reimporting or git-filter-branch). Using this can also help avoid unnecessary server authentication/encryption overhead on busy SVN servers. Along with the new --revision option, this can also be allowed to override the branch detection in dcommit, too. This is potentially dangerous and not recommended! (And also purposely undocumented, but the loaded gun is there in case somebody wants to make it safe). Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08Documentation: commit-tree: remove 16 parents restrictionLibravatar Thomas Rast1-5/+5
ef98c5ca lifted the 16 parents restriction in builtin-commit-tree.c, but forgot to update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-07asciidoc markup fixesLibravatar Junio C Hamano3-5/+5
I see quite a few pages on k.org site, e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rerere.html (scroll down to find "After this test merge") are misformatted to lose teletype text '+' that is followed by a comma, and turns the following paragraph all typeset in teletype. This patch seems to fix the issue at the site (meaning, with the particular vintage of asciidoc and docbook toolchain), without breaking things with the version I have at my primary development machine, but wider testing is very much appreciated. After this patch, git grep '`+`,' -- Documentation should report noting. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-07Merge branch 'lt/config-fsync' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* lt/config-fsync: Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine