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Sven Strickroth
c32d4a8cfe global: Fix duplicate word typos
Used regex to find these typos:

    (?<!struct )(?<=\s)([a-z]{1,}) \1(?=\s)

Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2024-10-21 16:05:04 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
325772f0d5 Merge branch 'tb/notes-amlog-doc'
Document "amlog" notes.

* tb/notes-amlog-doc:
  Documentation: mention the amlog in howto/maintain-git.txt
2024-10-10 14:22:25 -07:00
Taylor Blau
ddfb5bcfc6 Documentation: mention the amlog in howto/maintain-git.txt
Part of the maintainer's job is to keep up-to-date and publish the
'amlog' which stores a mapping between a patch's 'Message-Id' e-mail
header and the commit generated by applying said patch.

But our Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt does not mention the amlog,
or the scripts which exist to help the maintainer keep the amlog
up-to-date.

(This bit me during the first integration round I did as interim
maintainer[1] involved a lot of manual clean-up. More recently it has
come up as part of a research effort to better understand a patch's
lifecycle on the list[2].)

Address this gap by briefly documenting the existence and purpose of the
'post-applypatch' hook in maintaining the amlog entries.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Y19dnb2M+yObnftj@nand.local/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAJoAoZ=4ARuH3aHGe5yC_Xcnou_c396q_ZienYPY7YnEzZcyEg@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-03 12:00:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9c4c840901 howto-maintain-git: discarding inactive topics
When a patch series happened to look interesting to the maintainer
but is not ready for 'next', it is applied on a topic branch and
merged to the 'seen' branch to keep an eye on it.  In an ideal
world, the participants give reviews and the original author
responds to the reviews, and such iterations may produce newer
versions of the patch series, and at some point, a concensus is
formed that the latest round is good enough for 'next'.  Then the
topic is merged to 'next' for inclusion in a future release.

In a much less ideal world we live in, however, a topic sometimes
get stalled.  The original author may not respond to hanging review
comments, may promise an update will be sent but does not manage to
do so, nobody talks about the topic on the list and nobody builds
upon it, etc.

Following the recent trend to document and give more transparency to
the decision making process, let's set a deadline to keep a topic
still alive, and actively discard those that are inactive for a long
period of time.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-26 12:13:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9e2cb073ec Merge branch 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates' into maint-2.46
Doc updates.

* jc/how-to-maintain-updates:
  howto-maintain: mention preformatted docs
2024-09-12 11:02:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74f94f27a9 Merge branch 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates'
Doc updates.

* jc/how-to-maintain-updates:
  howto-maintain: mention preformatted docs
2024-08-21 12:02:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8ad56325e9 Merge branch 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates' (early part) into maint-2.46
* 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates' (early part):
  howto-maintain: update daily tasks
  howto-maintain: cover a whole development cycle
2024-08-16 12:50:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
983555a1f2 howto-maintain: mention preformatted docs
Forgot to mention that the preformatted documentation repositories
are updated every time the master branch of the project advances.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-14 16:04:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3ff9ceca89 Merge branch 'jc/how-to-maintain-updates'
Doc update.

* jc/how-to-maintain-updates:
  howto-maintain: update daily tasks
  howto-maintain: cover a whole development cycle
2024-07-31 13:34:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bb0498b1bb howto-maintain: update daily tasks
Some "implementation details" of how I perform these integration
tasks day to day have changed since the document was originally
written.  Update to reflect the way things are currently done.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-19 13:53:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c93dda2e78 howto-maintain: cover a whole development cycle
The "policy" part is more important than the "daily operation" part
in that it establishes why certain maintainer tasks exist and are
performed the way they are.

The text briefly touches the role each integration branches play in
the workflow, but does not give the whole picture of what happens in
a single development cycle using these branches.  Extend the
description to describe a whole development cycle.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-07-19 13:53:53 -07:00
Beat Bolli
938e891a9a doc: avoid redundant use of cat
The update-hook-example.txt script uses this anti-pattern twice. Call grep
with the input file name directy. While at it, merge the two consecutive
grep calls.

Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-16 11:08:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
efbae0583b Merge branch 'js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment' into maint-2.43
Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.

* js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment:
  doc: refer to internet archive
  doc: update links for andre-simon.de
  doc: switch links to https
  doc: update links to current pages
2024-02-08 16:22:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ec5ab1482d Merge branch 'js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment'
Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.

* js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment:
  doc: refer to internet archive
  doc: update links for andre-simon.de
  doc: switch links to https
  doc: update links to current pages
2023-12-18 14:10:12 -08:00
Josh Soref
d05b08cd52 doc: switch links to https
These sites offer https versions of their content.
Using the https versions provides some protection for users.

Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-26 10:07:05 +09:00
Elijah Newren
3771d00257 documentation: fix choice of article
Diff best viewed with --color-diff.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
ce14cc0b00 documentation: fix subject/verb agreement
Diff best viewed with --color-diff.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
8936352242 documentation: add missing words
Diff best viewed with --color-diff.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 12:06:29 -07:00
Elijah Newren
cf6cac2005 documentation: wording improvements
Diff best viewed with --color-diff.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 12:04:21 -07:00
Wes Lord
d85e9448dd new-command.txt: update reference to builtin docs
Commit ec14d4ecb5 (builtin.h: take over documentation from
api-builtin.txt, 2017-08-02) deleted api-builtin.txt and moved the
contents into builtin.h, but new-command.txt still references the old
file.

Signed-off-by: Wes Lord <weslord@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-06 14:07:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
032e8da541 Merge branch 'tb/howto-maintain-git-fixes'
A pair of bugfixes to the Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt guide.

* tb/howto-maintain-git-fixes:
  Documentation: build redo-seen.sh from jch..seen
  Documentation: build redo-jch.sh from master..jch
2022-11-23 11:22:24 +09:00
Taylor Blau
098b1d07bc Merge branch 'tb/howto-using-redo-script'
Doc update.

* tb/howto-using-redo-script:
  Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt: fix Meta/redo-jch.sh invocation
2022-11-08 17:14:45 -05:00
Taylor Blau
c805f06b01 Documentation: build redo-seen.sh from jch..seen
In a similar spirit as the previous commit, the 'seen' branch gets
rebuilt by reintegrating topics between 'jch' and the (old) tip of
'seen'.

Update the instructions on how to generate Meta/redo-seen.sh for the
first time to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-31 18:52:21 -04:00
Taylor Blau
7fa56b1a00 Documentation: build redo-jch.sh from master..jch
Rebuilding the 'jch' branch begins by reintegrating any topics between
'master' and 'jch', not 'master' and 'seen'.

In the maintainer guide, the documentation isn't quite right, since the
initial input to Meta/Reintegrate is "master..seen", not "master..jch".
This can lead to confusing results when generating the Meta/redo-jch.sh
script for the first time.

Additionally, rebuilding 'jch' takes place in two steps. First, running
the script up to the first "### match next" cut-line, and then comparing
the result with what's on 'next' (i.e. with "git diff jch next"). Then,
the remaining set of topics get merged down to 'jch' (which aren't on
'next') by running the entire "redo-jch.sh" script.

Clarify the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-31 18:52:16 -04:00
Taylor Blau
c7ccd4eae9 Merge branch 'jr/embargoed-releases-doc'
The role the security mailing list plays in an embargoed release
has been documented.

* jr/embargoed-releases-doc:
  embargoed releases: also describe the git-security list and the process
2022-10-30 21:04:43 -04:00
Taylor Blau
6c3b077c71 Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt: fix Meta/redo-jch.sh invocation
The Meta/redo-jch.sh script is generated a few lines earlier by running:

    $ Meta/Reintegrate master..seen >Meta/redo-jch.sh

But the resulting script is not necessarily executable. Later mentions
of this script invoke it with sh (instead of directly), but this one is
an odd one out.

Update the documentation to invoke the Meta/redo-jch.sh script with sh
in case the maintainer has not made the script executable.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-26 13:35:41 -07:00
Julia Ramer
a294443fa1 embargoed releases: also describe the git-security list and the process
With the recent turnover on the git-security list, questions came up how
things are usually run. Rather than answering questions individually,
extend Git's existing documentation about security vulnerabilities to
describe the git-security mailing list, how things are run on that list,
and what to expect throughout the process from the time a security bug
is reported all the way to the time when a fix is released.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Ramer <gitprplr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-24 16:03:59 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
977c47b46d docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the various documentation pertaining to the *.pack format and related
files, and updating things that refer to it to link to the new
location.

By moving these we can properly link from the newly created
gitformat-commit-graph to a gitformat-chunk-format page.

Integrating "Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt" and
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" might logically be part of
this change, but as those cover parts of the wider "pack
format" (including associated files) that's documented outside of
"Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt" let's leave those for now,
subsequent commit(s) will address those.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
09420b7648 Document how we do embargoed releases
Whenever we fix critical vulnerabilities, we follow some sort of
protocol (e.g. setting a coordinated release date, keeping the fix under
embargo until that time, coordinating with packagers and/or hosting
sites, etc).

Similar in spirit to `Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt`, let's
formalize the details in a document.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-27 15:13:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a78e4d615 Merge branch 'js/pu-to-seen'
The documentation and some tests have been adjusted for the recent
renaming of "pu" branch to "seen".

* js/pu-to-seen:
  tests: reference `seen` wherever `pu` was referenced
  docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename `pu` -> `seen`
  docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen`
2020-07-06 22:09:16 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
77dc6049c3 docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename pu -> seen
This patch tries to rewrite history a bit: the mail contents that have
been added to Git's source code are actually fixed, we cannot change
them in hindsight.

But as the `pu` branch _was_ renamed, and as the documents were added to
Git's source code not so much as historical record, but to describe the
status quo, let's pretend that we have a time machine and adjust the
provided information accordingly.

Where appropriate, quotes were added for readability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-25 09:18:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
564956f358 update how-to-maintain-git
Some parts of the workflow described in the document has got a bit
stale with the recent toolchain improvements.  Update the procedure
a bit, and also describe the convention used around SQUASH??? fixups.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-09 07:57:57 -07:00
Elijah Newren
031fd4b93b Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
Corentin BOMPARD
68ed71b53c doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
Applying CodingGuidelines about monospace on pathnames and URLs.

See Documentation/CodingGuidelines.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Corentin BOMPARD <corentin.bompard@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan BERBEZIER <nathan.berbezier@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Pablo CHABANNE <pablo.chabanne@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-13 11:14:22 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5d8b3e5d8b Merge branch 'uk/merge-subtree-doc-update'
Belated documentation update to adjust to a new world order that
happened a yew years ago.

* uk/merge-subtree-doc-update:
  howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
2018-10-30 15:43:49 +09:00
Uwe Kleine-König
5e495f8122 howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
Without passing --allow-unrelated-histories the command sequence
fails as intended since commit e379fdf34f ("merge: refuse to create
too cool a merge by default"). To setup a subtree merging unrelated
histories is normal, so add the option to the howto document.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-25 14:45:15 +09:00
Mihir Mehta
ca8ed443a5 doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence
I noticed that git-merge-base was unlikely to actually be a git command,
and tried it in my shell. Seeing that it doesn't work, I cleaned up two
places in the docs where it appears.

Signed-off-by: Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-11 09:39:15 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
dae2ff9bb6 t/helper: merge test-sha1 into test-tool
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-27 08:45:47 -07:00
Jeff King
e52a53df38 doc: use https links to avoid http redirect
Many sites these days unconditionally redirect http requests
to their https equivalents. Let's make our links https in
the first place to save the client a redirect.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20 22:05:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4abeeb62a0 Merge branch 'po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration'
Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
tabs in it.  Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
work around them.

* po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration:
  doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
  doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing
2016-10-26 13:14:55 -07:00
Philip Oakley
6750f62699 doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
The asciidoctor doc-tool stack does not always respect the 'tab = 8 spaces' rule
expectation, particularly for the Git-for-Windows generated html pages. This
follows on from the 'doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing' fix.

Use just spaces within the block of the ascii art.

All other *.txt ascii art containing three dashes has been checked.
Asciidoctor correctly formats the other art blocks that do contain tabs.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-24 18:09:46 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
82f6178af6 new-command.txt: correct the command description file
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>
2016-06-27 06:11:57 -07:00
Sébastien Guimmara
413f50b901 command-list.txt: add the common groups block
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in
groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the
groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each
common command.

Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt:

    init         start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
    worktree     work on the current change (see also:[...]
    info         examine the history and state (see also: git [...]
    history      grow, mark and tweak your history
    remote       collaborate (see also: git help workflows)

storing information about common commands group, then map each common
command to a group:

    git-add          mainporcelain        common worktree

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by:  Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:03:37 -07:00
Jeff King
2b8bd44aab howto: document more tools for recovery corruption
Long ago, I documented a corruption recovery I did and gave
some C code that I used to help find a flipped bit.  I had
to fix a similar case recently, and I ended up writing a few
more tools.  I hope nobody ever has to use these, but it
does not hurt to share them, just in case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-01 22:44:03 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
f745acb028 Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:

 - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
 - Spell Linux as Capitalized;
 - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04 13:14:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
75866e6045 Merge branch 'ss/howto-manage-trunk'
* ss/howto-manage-trunk:
  How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
2014-06-06 11:39:12 -07:00
Stephen P. Smith
0678b649a1 How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how
the first parent could become reversed.

This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed
by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct.

Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-28 13:35:43 -07:00
Jason St. John
06ab60c066 Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21 13:57:10 -07:00
Justin Lebar
a58088abe2 Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31 15:16:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c7b8cf4985 howto/maintain-git.txt: new version numbering scheme
We wanted to call the upcoming release "Git 1.9", with its
maintenance track being "Git 1.9.1", "Git 1.9.2", etc., but various
third-party tools are reported to assume that there are at least
three dewey-decimal components in our version number.

Adjust the plan so that vX.Y.0 are feature releases while vX.Y.Z
(Z > 0) are maintenance releases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-05 14:14:00 -08:00