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Junio C Hamano 4209752da5 user-manual: describe how higher stages are set during a merge
Higher stages store the blobs involved from their side verbatim.  Removal
of uninteresting hunks are done by "diff --cc" upon demand and not stored
in the index.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-12 14:30:51 -07:00
Christian Couder 497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00
Christian Couder b27a23e35d Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:

cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.

[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-24 22:28:16 -07:00
Christian Couder a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Dmitry Potapov 208641cf85 git-gc --prune is deprecated
25ee9731c1 made the '--prune' option
deprecated and removed its description from the git-gc man page. This
patch removes all references to this option from the rest of the Git
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-22 21:53:37 -07:00
Guanqun Lu 0c829391cf Fix the wrong output of git-show v1.3.0~155^2~4 in documentation.
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.

Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-23 12:02:11 -07:00
Dan McGee 5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
 # Inline macros.
 # Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
 # (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
 # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
 (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]

This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c477553b2f Merge branch 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
  Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo
  Documentation: fix remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate description
2007-12-31 09:23:55 -08:00
Gustaf Hendeby 57283291b5 Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-12-31 11:27:15 -05:00
Shawn Bohrer 9e5d87d490 Fix spelling mistakes in user manual
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13 09:46:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 65c6a4696a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere
  cvsimport: fix usage of cvsimport.module
  t7003-filter-branch: Fix test of a failing --msg-filter.
  cvsimport: miscellaneous packed-ref fixes
  cvsimport: use rev-parse to support packed refs
  Add basic cvsimport tests
2007-11-30 16:21:33 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 10455d2a95 Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-30 15:09:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 1ab58e8d6f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  user-manual: recovering from corruption
  user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
  user-manual: failed push to public repository
  user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
  git-checkout: describe detached head correctly
2007-11-25 19:10:01 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields 1cdade2c4c user-manual: recovering from corruption
Some instructions on dealing with corruption of the object database.

Most of this text is from an example by Linus, identified by Nicolas
Pitre <nico@cam.org> with a little further editing by me.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 21:13:10 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields 7cb192eab0 user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
It's important to remember that git doesn't really allowing "editing" or
"modifying" commits, only replacing them by new commits.  Redo some of
the language to make this clearer.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 19:01:57 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields 81eb417ad4 user-manual: failed push to public repository
More details on the case of a failed push to a public (non-shared)
repository.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 18:14:28 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields 0c4a33b54f user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
Some explanation here might help.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 14:06:12 -05:00
Junio C Hamano 5d1d1c1479 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
  user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
  user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
  git-remote.txt: fix example url
2007-11-19 00:19:15 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields 5b98d9bca1 user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here.  The
note about the difference between diff and the combined output of
git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it.  Add a
reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18 19:22:26 -05:00
Steffen Prohaska 3fb0028253 user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
This commit adds a discussion of the challenge of bisecting
merge commits to the user manual.  The original author is
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, who posted the text to
the mailing list <http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119403257315527&w=2>.
His email was adapted for the manual.

The discussion is added to "Rewriting history and maintainig
patch series".  The text added requires good understanding of
merging and rebasing.  Therefore it should not be placed too
early in the manual.  Right after the section on "Problems with
rewriting history", the discussion of bisect gives another reason
for linearizing as much of the history as possible.

The text includes suggestions and fixes by
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> and
Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18 18:15:47 -05:00
Sergei Organov e502c2c31f user-manual.txt: minor clarification.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-17 00:57:05 -08:00
Sergei Organov 93cbbd7121 user-manual: minor rewording for clarity.
Junio screwed up when applying the previous round of the patch;
rewording from "previous" to "old" does make the description
clearer.

Also revert the rewording from head to branch.  The description
is talking about the branch's tip commit and using the word head
is clearer.

Based on input from Sergei and Bruce.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 12:08:15 -08:00
Sergei Organov 2f29dac5a9 user-manual.txt: fix a few mistakes
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 02:04:46 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues c90161586c manual: use 'URL' instead of 'url'.
Just for consistency, use the spelling URL everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:03 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues b6cbca3828 manual: add some markup.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:03 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues 477ff5b71a manual: Fix example finding commits referencing given content.
If I'm handed a file, then it typically lives outside the
working directory.  git-log only operates on in-tree files,
so the first 'filename' should be an in-tree one, or it should
look at all files.  This patch does the latter, so it would
also find renamed files.  However, it is also slower.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:02 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues 06ada1529c Fix some typos, punctuation, missing words, minor markup.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:02 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues 2ef8ac1b2a manual: Fix or remove em dashes.
em dashes were used inconsistently in the manual.
This changes them to the way they are used in US English.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:01 -04:00
Michael Smith 6dd14366d9 user-manual: Explain what submodules are good for.
Rework the introduction to the Submodules section to explain why
someone would use them, and fix up submodule references from the
tree-object and todo sections.

Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-25 17:30:12 -07:00
Miklos Vajna 38a457baae User Manual: add a chapter for submodules
Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-23 12:59:14 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields fc74ecc12c user-manual: don't assume refs are stored under .git/refs
The scripts taken from Tony Luck's howto assume all refs can be found
under .git/refs, but this is not necessarily true, especially since
git-gc runs git-pack-refs.

Also add a note warning of this in the chapter that introduces refs, and
fix the same incorrect assumption in one other spot.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-23 12:57:54 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields ecd95b536e user-manual: todo updates and cleanup
Format a couple lists.  Reminder that we may want to add submodule
documentation some day.
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 9644ffdd65 user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we
need a different introduction here.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 09eff7b0f7 user-manual: move packfile and dangling object discussion
The discussions of packfiles and dangling objects both belong in the
object database section.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 1bbf1c7900 user-manual: rewrite object database discussion
Rewrite the introduction.  Rewrite each section completely to make them
work in the new order, to add some examples, and to move plumbing
commands (like git-commit-tree) to the following chapter.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 513d419c59 user-manual: reorder commit, blob, tree discussion
The bottom-up blog, tree, commit order makes sense unless you want to
give explicit examples--it's easier to discover objects to examine if
you go in the other order....,

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 1c097891e4 user-manual: rewrite index discussion
Add an example using git-ls-files, standardize on the new "index"
terminology (as opposed to "cache"), attempt to clarify discussion and
make it a little shorter, avoid some unnecessary jargon ("write-back
cache").

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 1c6045fffa user-manual: create new "low-level git operations" chapter
The low-level index operations aren't as important to regular users as
the rest of this "git concepts" chapter; so move it into a separate
chapter, and do some minor cleanup.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:05 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 036f81997c user-manual: rename "git internals" to "git concepts"
"git internals" sounds like something only git developers must know
about, but this stuff should be of wider interest.  Rename the chapter
and give it a slightly friendlier introduction.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:13:31 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields f2327c6c52 user-manual: move object format details to hacking-git chapter
Most of this is probably only of interest to git developers.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:13:31 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 971aa71fc6 user-manual: adjust section levels in "git internals"
The descriptions of the various object types should all be a subsection
of the "Object Database" section.

I cribbed most of this chapter from the README (now core-intro.txt and
git(7)), because there's stuff in there people need to know and I was
too lazy to rewrite it.  The audience isn't quite right, though--the
chapter is a mixture of user- and developer- level documentation that
isn't as appropriate now as it was originally.

So, reserve this chapter for stuff users need to know, and move the
source code introduction into a new "git hacking" chapter where we'll
also move any hacker-only technical details.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:13:31 -04:00
Junio C Hamano 170c04383b Porcelain level "log" family should recurse when diffing.
Most notably, "git log --name-status" stopped at top level
directory changes without "-r" option.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 00:10:21 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 5071877d2c Merge branch 'maint'
Conflicts:

	Documentation/user-manual.txt
2007-08-26 10:36:38 -04:00
David Kastrup a115daff12 Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix a few omissions of gitlink commands.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
2007-08-26 10:35:17 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields d5821de2e2 user-manual: fix incorrect header level
This section is a subsection of the "Examples" section.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26 10:35:17 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields e2618ff427 user-manual: use pithier example commit
Actually, we should have a competition for the favorite example commit.
Criteria:

	- length: one-line changes with one-line comments preferred,
	  and no long lines
	- significance/memorability
	- comic value

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26 10:35:17 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields a2ef9d633f user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlier
Use the word "commit" as a synonym for "version" from the start.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26 10:35:16 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields a5f90f3130 user-manual: minor editing for conciseness
Just cutting out a few unnecessary words.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-08-26 10:35:16 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 464a8a7a15 user-manual: edit "ignoring files" for conciseness
The immediate motivation for writing this section was to explain the
various places ignore patterns could be used.  However, I still think
.gitignore is the case most people will want to learn about first.  It
also makes it a bit more concrete to introduce ignore patterns in the
context of .gitignore first.  And the existance of gitignore(5) relieves
the pressure to explain it all here.

So, stick to the .gitignore example, with only a brief mention of the
others, explain the syntax only by example, and leave the rest to
gitignore(5).

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
2007-08-26 10:35:16 -04:00
David Kastrup 6e30fb0c32 Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix a few omissions of gitlink commands.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
2007-08-26 10:31:30 -04:00