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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
A command line
$ git archive -o my-v2.0.zip v2.0
almost certainly wants the output in zip format, even though it does not
specify any --format option.
When --format is not given, but output filename is, try to infer what
format is requested from the filename extension. Currently this code only
knows about '.zip'. When the format is unspecified and the filename does
not tell us, the output will be in 'tar' format as before.
Of course, an explicit --format will not trigger this guesswork.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '-o' option is commonly used in many tools to specify the output file.
Typing '--output' every time is a bit too long to be a practical alternative
to redirecting output. But specifying the output name has the advantage of
making possible to guess the desired output format by filename extension.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-push is not currently using -n for anything else, and it seems
unlikely we will want to use it to mean anything else in the future,
so add it as an alias for convenience.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
60c2993 (Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run, 2009-08-15)
wanted to update the documentation to say that "git status" is not the
same as "git commit --dry-run" anymore, but it screwed up and also added
the description of --dry-run that was already present.
Noticed by Johannes Gilger.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* db/vcs-helper:
Makefile: remove remnant of separate http/https/ftp helpers
Use a clearer style to issue commands to remote helpers
Make the "traditionally-supported" URLs a special case
Makefile: install hardlinks for git-remote-<scheme> supported by libcurl if possible
Makefile: do not link three copies of git-remote-* programs
Makefile: git-http-fetch does not need expat
http-fetch: Fix Makefile dependancies
Add transport native helper executables to .gitignore
git-http-fetch: not a builtin
Use an external program to implement fetching with curl
Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
These messages are nice for new users, but experienced git
users know how to manipulate the index, and these messages
waste a lot of screen real estate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This message is designed to help new users understand what
has happened when refs fail to push. However, it does not
help experienced users at all, and significantly clutters
the output, frequently dwarfing the regular status table and
making it harder to see.
This patch introduces a general configuration mechanism for
optional messages, with this push message as the first
example.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This configuration option allows systematically rewriting fetch-only URLs
to push-capable URLs when used with push. For instance:
[url "ssh://example.org/"]
pushInsteadOf = "git://example.org/"
This will allow clones of "git://example.org/path/to/repo" to subsequently
push to "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo", without manually configuring
pushurl for that remote.
Includes documentation for the new option, bash completion updates, and
test cases (both that pushInsteadOf applies to push, that it does not
apply to fetch, and that it is ignored when pushURL is already defined).
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-pull.txt includes fetch-options.txt and merge-options.txt, both of
which document the --quiet and --verbose.
Supress the ones from fetch-options.txt.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Trillaud <etrillaud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All hooks are currently in its own section. Which may confuse users,
because the section name serves as the hook file name and sections are
all caps for man pages. Putting them into a new HOOKS section and each
hook into a subsection keeps the case to lower case.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/mailinfo-scissors:
mailinfo.scissors: new configuration
am/mailinfo: Disable scissors processing by default
Documentation: describe the scissors mark support of "git am"
Teach mailinfo to ignore everything before -- >8 -- mark
builtin-mailinfo.c: fix confusing internal API to mailinfo()
* tr/reset-checkout-patch:
stash: simplify defaulting to "save" and reject unknown options
Make test case number unique
tests: disable interactive hunk selection tests if perl is not available
DWIM 'git stash save -p' for 'git stash -p'
Implement 'git stash save --patch'
Implement 'git checkout --patch'
Implement 'git reset --patch'
builtin-add: refactor the meat of interactive_add()
Add a small patch-mode testing library
git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
Make 'git stash -k' a short form for 'git stash save --keep-index'
* maint-1.6.3:
git-clone: add missing comma in --reference documentation
git-cvsserver: no longer use deprecated 'git-subcommand' commands
clone: disconnect transport after fetching
With the earlier DWIM patches, certain combination of options defaulted
to the "save" command correctly while certain equally valid combination
did not. For example, "git stash -k" were Ok but "git stash -q -k" did
not work.
This makes the logic of defaulting to "save" much simpler. If there are no
non-flag arguments, it is clear that there is no command word, and we
default to "save" subcommand. This rule prevents "git stash -q apply"
from quietly creating a stash with "apply" as the message.
This also teaches "git stash save" to reject an unknown option. This is
to keep a mistyped "git stash save --quite" from creating a stash with a
message "--quite", and this safety is more important with the new logic
to default to "save" with any option-looking argument without an explicit
comand word.
[jc: this is based on Matthieu's 3-patch series, and a follow-up
discussion, and he and Peff take all the credit; if I have introduced bugs
while reworking, they are mine.]
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
