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Junio C Hamano
11b17afc93 pulling signed tag: add howto document
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:17:27 -08:00
Jeff King
a6fc9fd3f4 docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
The credential API and helper format is already defined in
technical/api-credentials.txt.  This presents the end-user
view.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
14ba45a2e6 Sync with 1.7.7.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 16:38:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fcbebfdd33 docs: Update install-doc-quick
The preformatted documentation pages live in their own repositories
these days. Adjust the installation procedure to the updated layout.

Tested-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 13:37:10 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
07ea4df278 gitweb: Add gitweb(1) manpage for gitweb itself
Most of what is in gitweb.txt it has been pulled directly from the
README and INSTALL files of gitweb.

Current version is somewhat based on structure of SVN::Web manpage
(one of web interfaces for Subversion).

gitweb.conf(5) i.e. gitweb configuration manpage now refers to
appropriate sections in gitweb(1).  gitweb/README now refers to
gitweb/INSTALL and gitweb(1) manpage.  gitweb/INSTALL now refers to
gitweb.conf(5) and gitweb(1).

Inspired-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-16 11:09:34 -07:00
Drew Northup
6d3902b0d0 gitweb: Add gitweb.conf(5) manpage for gitweb configuration files
Much of what is in gitweb.conf.txt has been pulled directly from the
README file of gitweb.  The manpage was supplemented with description
of missing gitweb config variables, and with description of gitweb's
%features.

There remains a bit of redundancy, which should be reduced if
possible... but I think some of duplication of information is
inevitable.

[jn: Improved, extended, removed duplicate info from README]

Signed-off-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-16 11:09:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6ed547b53b Merge branch 'js/ref-namespaces'
* js/ref-namespaces:
  ref namespaces: tests
  ref namespaces: documentation
  ref namespaces: Support remote repositories via upload-pack and receive-pack
  ref namespaces: infrastructure
  Fix prefix handling in ref iteration functions
2011-08-17 17:35:38 -07:00
Emilio G. Cota
ae8044a2f5 Documentation/Makefile: add *.pdf to `clean' target
user-manual.pdf is not removed by `make clean'; fix it.

Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 09:30:14 -07:00
Josh Triplett
d49483f0ca ref namespaces: documentation
Document the namespace mechanism in a new gitnamespaces(7) page.
Reference it from receive-pack and upload-pack.

Document the new --namespace option and GIT_NAMESPACE environment
variable in git(1), and reference gitnamespaces(7).

Add a sample Apache configuration to http-backend(1) to support
namespaced repositories, and reference gitnamespaces(7).

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-11 09:35:46 -07:00
Jeff King
79c461d5b1 docs: default to more modern toolset
When the ASCIIDOC8 and ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF knobs were built,
many people were still on asciidoc 7 and using older
versions of docbook-xsl. These days, even the almost
2-year-old Debian stable needs these knobs turned.

So let's turn them by default. The new knobs ASCIIDOC7 and
ASCIIDOC_ROFF can be used to get the old behavior if people
are on older systems.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-24 15:13:58 -08:00
Jeff King
f2aff316d3 docs: fix Makefile dependency for user manual
We use our custom xsl file to build the user manual, so make
sure we depend on it. We don't use it anywhere else, so we
can stick it straight in the rule.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-21 21:53:16 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
1ed6f2c5b9 Documentation: gitrevisions
Create a new man page gitrevisions(7) which contains the revsions and
ranges documentation but not more. This uses (per include) the same bits
as the pertaining section of git-rev-parse(1).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 13:39:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
f9dae0d3e6 Documentation/Makefile: fix interrupted builds of user-manual.xml
Unlike gcc, asciidoc does not atomically write its output file or
delete it when interrupted.  If it is interrupted in the middle of
writing an XML file, the result will be truncated input for xsltproc.

	XSLTPROC user-manual.html
	user-manual.xml:998: parser error : Premature end of data in t

Take care of this case by writing to a temporary and renaming it when
finished.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-21 23:46:51 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
13fca9f36b Makefile: consolidate .FORCE-* targets
Providing multiple targets to force a rebuild is unnecessary
complication.

Avoid using a name that could conflict with future special
targets in GNU make (a leading period followed by uppercase
letters).

The corresponding change to the git-gui Makefile is left for
another patch.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-06 01:33:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3880c18336 Sync with 1.6.5.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-05 11:39:13 -08:00
Todd Zullinger
50d9bbba92 Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam
The --stringparam option is not available on older xmlto versions.
Instead, set man.base.url.for.relative.links via a .xsl file.  Older
docbook versions will ignore this without causing grief to users of
older xmlto versions.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-05 10:03:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1a56be134f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Prepare for 1.6.5.5
  Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam
  t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1
2009-12-03 14:07:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
59a0a0bd57 Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam
Newer DocBook stylesheets want man.base.url.for.relative.links
parameter set when formatting manpages with external references
to turn them into full URLs, and leave a helpful "you should
set this parameter" message in the output.  Earlier we added
the MAN_BASE_URL make variable to specify the value for it.

When MAN_BASE_URL is not given, it ought to be safe to set the
parameter to empty; it would result in an empty leading path for
older stylesheets that ignore the parameter, and newer ones
would produce the same "relative URL" without the message.

Unfortunately, older xmlto (at least version 0.0.18 released in
early 2004 that comes with RHEL/CentOS 5) does not understand
the --stringparam command line option, so we cannot add the
parameter definition unconditionally to the command line.  Work
it around by passing the parameter only when set.

If you do not have a suitable URL prefix, you can pass a quoted empty
string to it, like so:

    $ make MAN_BASE_URL='""'

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 11:23:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e21a857708 Merge in 1.6.5.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 00:37:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8dd35c7121 Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links
Even setting it to empty is better than leaving it unset as it
prevents the warning cruft from appearing in the output.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 00:06:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
61b8f407a7 Merge branch 'maint' 2009-12-03 02:45:26 +00:00
Junio C Hamano
a479a564dc Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>
2009-12-03 02:45:09 +00:00
Junio C Hamano
69abb194ee Merge branch 'tr/maint-roff-quote' into maint
* tr/maint-roff-quote:
  Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
2009-11-15 16:38:36 -08:00
Christian Couder
69a9cd31b1 Documentation: add "Fighting regressions with git bisect" article
This patch adds an asciidoc version of the "Fighting regressions with
git bisect" article that the author wrote for the Linux-Kongress
2009 (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009).

This paper might be interesting to people who want to learn as much as
possible about "git bisect" from a single document.

The slides of the related presentation are available at:

http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/fighting_regressions_with_git_bisect_christian_couder.pdf

But the Linux Kongress people will not publish this paper online because
they print the papers on their UpTimes magazine
(http://www.lob.de/isbn/978-3-86541-358-1). But they don't take away the
rights of the author (which is very nice), so I have the right to publish
it.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 18:29:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92246f6bcf Merge branch 'tr/maint-roff-quote'
* tr/maint-roff-quote:
  Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
2009-10-30 20:05:54 -07:00
Thomas Rast
204d363f5a Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'.  This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.

Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.

Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.

Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-22 12:59:50 -07:00
Thomas Rast
71c020c53e Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+ semantics for {plus} and friends
asciidoc 8.4.1 changed the semantics of inline backtick quoting so
that they disable parsing of inline constructs, i.e.,

  Input:	`{plus}`
  Pre 8.4.1:	+
  Post 8.4.1:	{plus}

Fix this by defining the asciidoc attribute 'no-inline-literal'
(which, per the 8.4.1 changelog, is the toggle to return to the old
behaviour) when under ASCIIDOC8.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-25 10:07:06 -07:00
Eric Blake
26e47f2540 doc: consistently use ASCIIDOC_EXTRA
For all uses of $(ASCIIDOC) in Documentation/Makefile, supply the same
options via $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-28 11:50:18 -07:00
Ben Walton
ee7ec2f9de documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting
Ensure that the Makefile that generates and installs the Documentation is
aware of any SHELL_PATH setting.  Use this value if found or the current
setting for SHELL if not.  This is an accommodation for systems where sh
is not POSIX enough.

Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-12 01:35:12 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
2346431e47 Documentation: use "spurious .sp" XSLT if DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP is set
With this change, the "spurious .sp" suppression XSLT code is
disabled by default. It can be enabled by defining
DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP.

The "spurious .sp" XSLT fragment was used to work around a bug
first released in docbook-xsl 1.69.1. Modern versions of
docbook-xsl are negatively affected by the code (some empty lines
are omitted from manpage output; see
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115302>).

The key revisions in the docbook SVN repo seem to be 5144 (before
docbook-xsl 1.69.1) and 6359 (before docbook-xsl 1.71.1).

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-01 11:02:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3278609310 Merge branch 'cj/doc-quiet' into cj/doc-format
* cj/doc-quiet:
  Documentation/Makefile: break up texi pipeline
  Documentation/Makefile: make most operations "quiet"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/Makefile
2009-03-27 00:36:47 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
5121a6d993 Documentation: option to render literal text as bold for manpages
This allows manpages viewed on a tty to render inline literal
text in a manner that is distinct from the surrounding text.

The initial implementation (pre-mailing-list) of this patch
included a conditional variant of the XSLT code in
manpage-base.xsl and use xmlto's --stringparam option to
optionally enable the functionality. It turns out that
--stringparam is broken in all versions of xmlto except for the
pre-release, SVN version. Since xmlto is a shell script the patch
to fix it is simple enough, but I instead opted to use xmlto's
"module" functionality.

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:33:20 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
8fa2b45f3a Documentation: rename docbook-xsl-172 attribute to git-asciidoc-no-roff
It seems that the ability to use raw roff codes in asciidoc.conf
was eliminated by docbook-xsl 1.72.0 _and later_. Unlike the
1.72.0-specific XSLT problem, this behavior was not reverted in
later releases.

This patch aims to make it clear that the affected asciidoc
attribute (flag) can be reasonably used with docbook-xsl versions
other than 1.72.0.

Also, document which make variables should be set for various
versions of asciidoc and docbook-xsl.

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:33:19 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
c30e948523 Documentation: move callouts.xsl to manpage-{base,normal}.xsl
Each of manpage-base.xsl and manpage-normal.xsl gets a copy of
the contents of callouts.xsl and the original is removed. The
Makefile is adjusted to refer to manpage-normal.xsl instead of
callouts.xsl. manpage-base.xsl will be later made into a common
base for -normal and -1.72.

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:33:19 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
c6a5ad21e5 Documentation/Makefile: break up texi pipeline
Most shells define the exit value of a pipeline as the exit value
of the last process. For each texi rule, run the DOCBOOK2X_TEXI
tool and the "fixup" script in their own non-pipeline commands so
that make will notice an error exit code.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:29:39 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
bb2300976b Documentation/Makefile: make most operations "quiet"
This adapts the "quiet make" implementation from the main
Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:28:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8f8b8873a9 Merge branch 'mv/um-pdf'
* mv/um-pdf:
  Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
2009-01-07 00:09:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
9c6c304d6a Fix the building of gitman.info document
"makeinfo" failed to generate gitman.info from gitman.texi input file
because the combined manual page file contains several nodes with the
same name (DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, SEE ALSO etc.). An Info document should
contain unique node names.

This patch creates a simple (read: ugly) work-around by suppressing the
validation of the final Info file. Jumping to nodes in the Info document
still works but they are not very useful. Common man-page headings like
DESCRIPTION and OPTIONS appear in the Info node list and they point to
the man page where they appear first (that is git-add currently).

Also, this patch adds directory-entry information for Info document to
make the document appear in the top-level Info directory.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
8b30ad01b4 Fix the building of user-manual.texi and gitman.texi documents
Previously "docbook2x-texi" failed to generate user-manual.texi and
gitman.texi files from .xml input files because "iconv" stopped at
"illegal input sequence" error. This was due to some UTF-8 octets in the
input .xml files. This patch adds option --encoding=UTF-8 for
"docbook2x-texi" to allow the building of .texi files complete.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:04 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
a325a1a70b Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
Use dblatex in order to create a pdf version of the git user manual.  No
existing Makefile targets (including "all") are touched, so you need to
explicitly say

make pdf
sudo make install-pdf

to get user-manual.pdf created and installed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-10 19:17:43 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg
b1a46b70b3 Makefile: add install-man rules (quick and normal)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02 20:46:52 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f948dd8992 Documentation: add manpage about workflows
This attempts to make a manpage about workflows that is both handy to
point people at it and as a beginner's introduction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 14:27:59 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
6fe570de05 allow installation of man and html doc from the man and html branches
This patch introduces a make target "quick-install-html" which installs
the html documentation from the branch origin/html, without the need for
asciidoc/xmlto. This is analogous to the existing "quick-install-doc"
target for the man pages.

We advertise these targets in the INSTALL file now.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-10 15:40:13 -07:00
Christian Couder
9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(1)
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Christian Couder
30eba7bf2c documentation: convert "diffcore" and "repository-layout" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

diffcore.txt          -> gitdiffcore.txt		(man section 7)
repository-layout.txt -> gitrepository-layout.txt	(man section 5)

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:14:52 -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
Jonas Fonseca
7a2078b4b0 man pages are littered with .ft C and others
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72?  There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version.  1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.

I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05 00:30:22 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
471a5ce5dd Add using merge subtree How-To
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14 18:04:51 -08:00