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Junio C Hamano
0c529e44d3 Merge branch 'vh/config-interactive-singlekey-doc'
* vh/config-interactive-singlekey-doc:
  git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch'
  git-checkout.txt: better docs for '--patch'
  git-stash.txt: better docs for '--patch'
  git-add.txt: document 'interactive.singlekey'
  config.txt: 'interactive.singlekey; is used by...
2011-05-11 11:38:06 -07:00
Valentin Haenel
c105356ed4 git-add.txt: document 'interactive.singlekey'
This is documented in the section about the 'Interactive Mode', rather than for
the option '--patch', since this is the section is where people go to learn
about '--patch'.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-05 12:43:11 -07:00
Valentin Haenel
d022443604 git-add.txt: document 'add.ignoreErrors'
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-04 14:52:30 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Ralf Wildenhues
469bfc962d Fix typos in the documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-04 11:23:42 -08:00
Jeff King
0fe802d480 docs: give more hints about how "add -e" works
The previous text was not exactly accurate; it is OK to
change space and minus lines, but only in certain ways.

This patch takes a whole new approach, which is to describe
the sorts of conceptual operations you might want to
perform. It also includes a healthy dose of warnings about
how things can go wrong.

Since the size of the text is getting quite long, it also
splits this out into an "editing patches" section. This
makes more sense with the current structure, anyway, which
already splits out the interactive mode description.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-09 16:37:40 -08:00
Jeff King
5df4d67d41 docs: give more hints about how "add -e" works
The previous text was not exactly accurate; it is OK to
change space and minus lines, but only in certain ways. This
patch attempts to cover explicitly what can be done at the
individual line level, and cautions the user that
conceptually larger changes (like modifying a line) require
some understanding of the patch format.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-21 15:21:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7bdaf0bd1c Merge branch 'jc/maint-doc-em-dash'
* jc/maint-doc-em-dash:
  Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc
2010-09-03 09:43:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2839478774 Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc
Older versions of AsciiDoc used to literally pass double dashes when we
used them in our linkgit macros and manpage titles, but newer ones (the
issue was first reported with AsciiDoc 8.5.2) turn them into em dashes.

Define litdd (literal double-dash) custom attribute in asciidoc.conf to
work this around.  While we are at it, fix a few double-dashes (e.g. the
description of "project--devo--version" convention used by tla, among
other things) that used to be incorrectly written as em dashes in the body
text to also use this attribute.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-24 09:48:20 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
1b6c6cf006 Documentation: clarify quoting in "git add" example
The intended text looks like this:

	· Adds content from all *.txt files under Documentation
	  directory and its subdirectories:

		$ git add Documentation/\*.txt

	  Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this
	  example; this lets the command include the files from
	  subdirectories of Documentation/ directory.

The current asciidoc 8.5.2 output has a backslash before _every_
asterisk, which is more confusing than it needs to be.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:21 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
f0e5a4b7f3 git add: Add --ignore-missing to SYNOPSIS
All the git add options were listed in the synopsis until the
--ignore-missing option was added. Change that so that the git add
documentation now has the complete listing.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-19 11:11:46 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
108da0db12 git add: Add the "--ignore-missing" option for the dry run
Sometimes it is useful to know if a file or directory will be ignored
before it is added to the work tree. An example is "git submodule add",
where it would be really nice to be able to fail with an appropriate
error message before the submodule is cloned and checked out.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-12 15:13:54 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
74e42ce122 add-interactive: Clarify “remaining hunks in the file”
The "a" and "d" commands to ‘add --patch’ (accept/reject rest of file)
interact with "j", "g", and "/" (skip some hunks) in a perhaps
confusing way: after accepting or rejecting all _later_ hunks in the
file, they return to the earlier, skipped hunks and prompt the user
about them again.

This behavior can be very useful in practice.  One can still accept or
reject _all_ undecided hunks in a file by using the "g" command to
move to hunk #1 first.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13 10:05:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
105a6339d8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF
  git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
  Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify
  git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
2010-02-08 21:54:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
35da43e9bb Merge branch 'jc/maint-doc-git-add-example' into maint
* jc/maint-doc-git-add-example:
  git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
2010-02-08 12:13:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bf7cbb2f04 git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
When 921177f (Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch"
examples, 2008-05-07) converted this from enumeration header to displayed
text, it failed to adjust for the AsciiDoc's rule to quote backslashes.
In displayed text, backslash is shown verbatim, while in enumeration
header, we need to double it.

We have a similar construct in git-rm.txt documentation, and need to be
careful when somebody wants to update it to match the style of the "git
add" example.

Noticed by: Greg Bacon <gbacon@dbresearch.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-08 12:12:41 -08:00
Thomas Rast
ca768288b6 Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Use `code snippet` style instead of 'emphasis' for `git cmd ...`
according to the following rules:

* The SYNOPSIS sections are left untouched.

* If the intent is that the user type the command exactly as given, it
  is `code`.
  If the user is only loosely referred to a command and/or option, it
  remains 'emphasised'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-10 13:01:25 +01:00
Björn Gustavsson
441947f6d7 git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Consistently back-quote commands, options and file names.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-07 13:02:35 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
968d70723a Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
The current documentation fails to mention that 'git add -A/--all' can
remove files as well as add them, and it also does not say anything about
filepatterns (whether they are allowed, mandatory, or optional). It is
also not clear what the similarities and differences to the -u option are.

Update the intro paragraph (as suggested by Junio, with some minor edits)
to make it clear that 'git add' is able to delete and to also cover the -p
option.

Reword the description of -u to make it clearer (based on Björn
Steinbrink's suggestion).

Simplify the description of -A by saying "Like -u" and then describe the
differences (based on the suggestions by Björn Steinbrink and Junio).

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-07 00:27:57 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
46ada61ef1 git-add.txt: fix formatting of --patch section
Extra paragraphs should be prefixed with a plus sign.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-14 00:26:37 -08:00
Jari Aalto
5f2b1e67ca Improve --patch option documentation in git-add
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-13 01:36:13 -07:00
Paul Bolle
e89df7dcda Documentation: add: <filepattern>... is optional
<filepattern>... is optional (e.g. when the --all or --update
options are used) so use square brackets in the synopsis.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 16:15:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
362724af6c Merge branch 'js/add-edit'
* js/add-edit:
  t3702: fix reliance on SHELL_PATH being '/bin/sh'
  git-add: introduce --edit (to edit the diff vs. the index)
2009-05-18 09:00:06 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
595f694823 Update git-add.txt according to the new possibilities of 'git add -p'.
The text is merely cut-and-pasted from git-add--interactive.perl. The
cut-and-paste also fixes a typo.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-16 09:55:15 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
9a7a1e03d5 git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt.
There's already 'd' to stop staging hunks in a file, but no explicit
command to stop the interactive staging (for the current files and the
remaining ones).  Of course you can do 'd' and then ^C, but it would be
more intuitive to allow 'quit' action.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-15 19:41:35 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
c59cb03a8b git-add: introduce --edit (to edit the diff vs. the index)
With "git add -e [<files>]", Git will fire up an editor with the current
diff relative to the index (i.e. what you would get with "git diff
[<files>]").

Now you can edit the patch as much as you like, including adding/removing
lines, editing the text, whatever.  Make sure, though, that the first
character of the hunk lines is still a space, a plus or a minus.

After you closed the editor, Git will adjust the line counts of the hunks
if necessary, thanks to the --recount option of apply, and commit the
patch.  Except if you deleted everything, in which case nothing happens
(for obvious reasons).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-12 11:56:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db2255725d Merge branch 'jc/add-p-unquote'
* jc/add-p-unquote:
  git-add -i/-p: learn to unwrap C-quoted paths
2009-03-05 15:41:41 -08:00
David J. Mellor
dcc901bc29 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-28 14:39:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8851f4800c git-add -i/-p: learn to unwrap C-quoted paths
The underlying plumbing commands are not run with -z option, so the paths
returned from them need to be unquoted as needed.

Remove the now stale BUGS section from git-add documentaiton as suggested
by Teemu Likonen.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-18 10:53:49 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
76bac89036 Fix typos in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-27 01:17:23 -08:00
Jeff King
8776f5d3bb document "intent to add" option to git-add
This was added by 3942581 but never documented.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-20 19:34:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
da98053aa6 git-add --all: documentation
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-19 23:08:58 -07:00
Ciaran McCreesh
1e5aaa6db3 Make git-add -i accept ranges like 7-
git-add -i ranges expect number-number. But for the supremely lazy, typing in
that second number when selecting "from patch 7 to the end" is wasted effort.
So treat an empty second number in a range as "until the last item".

Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 07:37:00 -07:00
Thomas Rast
ac083c47ea git-add--interactive: manual hunk editing mode
Adds a new option 'e' to the 'add -p' command loop that lets you edit
the current hunk in your favourite editor.

If the resulting patch applies cleanly, the edited hunk will
immediately be marked for staging. If it does not apply cleanly, you
will be given an opportunity to edit again. If all lines of the hunk
are removed, then the edit is aborted and the hunk is left unchanged.

Applying the changed hunk(s) relies on Johannes Schindelin's new
--recount option for git-apply.

Note that the "real patch" test intentionally uses
  (echo e; echo n; echo d) | git add -p
even though the 'n' and 'd' are superfluous at first sight.  They
serve to get out of the interaction loop if git add -p wrongly
concludes the patch does not apply.

Many thanks to Jeff King <peff@peff.net> for lots of help and
suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02 15:31:49 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b1889c36d8 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)

This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.

The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:15 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
6998e4db52 Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pages
With the conversion of HTML documentation to man pages

tutorial.html -> gittutorial (7)
tutorial-2.html -> gittutorial-2 (7)
cvs-migration.html -> gitcvs-migration (7)
diffcore.html -> gitdiffcore (7)
repository-layout.html -> gitrepository-layout (5)
hooks.html -> githooks (5)
glossary.html -> gitglossary (7)
core-tutorial.html -> gitcore-tutorial (7)

and the automatic update of references to these pages,
a little debris was left behind. We clear it away.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:09 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
69c61c4fa9 git add: add long equivalents of '-u' and '-f' options
The option -u stands for --update and it is a good idea to make it clear
especially because this is the only mode of operation of "git add" that
does something different from "adding".  Give longer --force synonym to -f
while we are at it as well.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-14 12:47:31 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -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
Junio C Hamano
56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -07:00
Alex Riesen
984b83ef23 Add --ignore-errors to git-add to allow it to skip files with read errors
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-12 20:54:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1f8115b113 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation/config.txt: Mention branch.<name>.rebase applies to "git pull"
  doc: clarify definition of "update" for git-add -u
2008-05-08 20:50:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
32a27b5666 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint
* maint-1.5.4:
  Documentation/config.txt: Mention branch.<name>.rebase applies to "git pull"
  doc: clarify definition of "update" for git-add -u
2008-05-08 20:12:44 -07:00
Jeff King
afd899e1b7 doc: clarify definition of "update" for git-add -u
The "-u" option is described only in terms of "updating"
files, which in turn is described only as "similar to what
git commit -a does". Let's be a little more specific about
what updating entails.

Suggested by Geoffrey Irving.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-08 12:09:42 -07:00
Christian Couder
921177f50f Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples
Before this patch in "git-add.txt" and "git-format-patch.txt", the
commands used in the examples were "git-CMD" instead of "git CMD".
This patch fixes that.

In "git-pull.txt" only the last example had the code sample in an
asciidoc "Listing Block", and in the other two files, none.
This patch fixes that by putting all code samples in listing
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-06 21:46:42 -07:00
Teemu Likonen
cfc4ba33e3 Describe the bug in handling filenames with funny characters in 'git add -i'
The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
characters that need C-quoting.  `core.quotepath` configuration can be
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-02 10:36:31 -07:00
Vineet Kumar
bb12ac5120 Minor wording changes in the keyboard descriptions in git-add --interactive.
The wording of the interactive help text from git-add--interactive.perl is
clearer.  Just duplicate that text here.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Kumar <vineet@doorstop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-13 22:46:56 -07:00
Pekka Kaitaniemi
0ca15e7217 Clarified the meaning of git-add -u in the documentation
The git-add documentation did not state clearly that the -u switch
updates only the tracked files that are in the current directory and
its subdirectories.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Kaitaniemi <kaitanie@cc.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20 16:08:48 -08:00
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