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Junio C Hamano
2071fb015b Merge branch 'jl/submodule-fetch-on-demand'
* jl/submodule-fetch-on-demand:
  fetch/pull: Describe --recurse-submodule restrictions in the BUGS section
  submodule update: Don't fetch when the submodule commit is already present
  fetch/pull: Don't recurse into a submodule when commits are already present
  Submodules: Add 'on-demand' value for the 'fetchRecurseSubmodule' option
  config: teach the fetch.recurseSubmodules option the 'on-demand' value
  fetch/pull: Add the 'on-demand' value to the --recurse-submodules option
  fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary

Conflicts:
	builtin/fetch.c
	submodule.c
2011-04-04 15:02:01 -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are out of date and incomplete.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wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and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
Jens Lehmann
bf42b38405 Submodules: Add 'on-demand' value for the 'fetchRecurseSubmodule' option
Now the behavior of fetch and pull can be configured to the recently added
'on-demand' mode separately for each submodule too.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09 13:10:35 -08:00
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
Jens Lehmann
c1a3c3640d Submodules: Add the "fetchRecurseSubmodules" config option
The new boolean "fetchRecurseSubmodules" config option controls the
behavior for "git fetch" and "git pull". It specifies if these commands
should recurse into submodules and fetch new commits there too and can be
set separately for each submodule.

In the .gitmodules file "submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules" entries
are read before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in
.git/config will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the
user to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting
upstream set reasonable defaults for those users who don't have special
needs.

This configuration can be overridden by the command line option
"--[no-]recurse-submodules" of "git fetch" and "git pull".

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-12 15:06:03 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
3776ea9d70 Typos in code comments, an error message, documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-22 13:26:13 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
302ad7a993 Submodules: Use "ignore" settings from .gitmodules too for diff and status
The .gitmodules file is parsed for "submodule.<name>.ignore" entries
before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in .git/config
will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the local developer
to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting upstream
set defaults for those users who don't have special needs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09 09:11:44 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
47dc5d5fda gitmodules.5: url can be a relative path
There is already excellent documentation for this facility in
git-submodule.1, but it is not so discoverable.

Relative paths in .gitmodules can be useful for serving the
same repository over multiple protocols, for example.
Thanks to Peter for pointing this out.

Cc: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-15 11:59:57 -07:00
Johan Herland
42b4917862 git-submodule: add support for --merge.
'git submodule update --merge' merges the commit referenced by the
superproject into your local branch, instead of checking it out on
a detached HEAD.

As evidenced by the addition of "git submodule update --rebase", it
is useful to provide alternatives to the default 'checkout' behaviour
of "git submodule update". One such alternative is, when updating a
submodule to a new commit, to merge that commit into the current
local branch in that submodule. This is useful in workflows where
you want to update your submodule from its upstream, but you cannot
use --rebase, because you have downstream people working on top of
your submodule branch, and you don't want to disrupt their work.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-03 00:09:16 -07:00
Johan Herland
329484256e Rename submodule.<name>.rebase to submodule.<name>.update
The addition of "submodule.<name>.rebase" demonstrates the usefulness of
alternatives to the default behaviour of "git submodule update". However,
by naming the config variable "submodule.<name>.rebase", and making it a
boolean choice, we are artificially constraining future git versions that
may want to add _more_ alternatives than just "rebase".

Therefore, while "submodule.<name>.rebase" is not yet in a stable git
release, future-proof it, by changing it from

  submodule.<name>.rebase = true/false

to

  submodule.<name>.update = rebase/checkout

where "checkout" specifies the default behaviour of "git submodule update"
(checking out the new commit to a detached HEAD), and "rebase" specifies
the --rebase behaviour (where the current local branch in the submodule is
rebase onto the new commit). Thus .update == checkout is equivalent to
.rebase == false, and .update == rebase is equivalent to .rebase == true.
Finally, leaving .update unset is equivalent to leaving .rebase unset.

In future git versions, other alternatives to "git submodule update"
behaviour can be included by adding them to the list of allowable values
for the submodule.<name>.update variable.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-03 00:04:52 -07:00
Peter Hutterer
ca2cedba70 git-submodule: add support for --rebase.
'git submodule update --rebase' rebases your local branch on top of what
would have been checked out to a detached HEAD otherwise.

In some cases, detaching the HEAD when updating a submodule complicates
the workflow to commit to this submodule (checkout master, rebase, then
commit).  For submodules that require frequent updates but infrequent
(if any) commits, a rebase can be executed directly by the git-submodule
command, ensuring that the submodules stay on their respective branches.

git-config key: submodule.$name.rebase (bool)

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-24 01:20:25 -07:00
Gustaf Hendeby
e5b5c1d2cf Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributes
The SYNOPSIS section of gitattibutes and gitmodule fail to clearly
specify the name of the in tree files used.  This patch brings in the
initial `.' and the fact that the `.gitmodules' file should reside at
the top-level of the working tree.

Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31 16:31:58 -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
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
Lars Hjemli
a88ca34277 gitmodules(5): remove leading period from synopsis
Asciidoc treats a line starting with a period followed by a title as a
blocktitle element. My introduction of gitmodules(5) unfortunatly broke
the documentation build process due to this processing, since it made
asciidoc generate an illegal (empty) synopsis element. Removing the leading
period fixes the problem and also makes gitmodules(5) use the same synopsis
notation as gitattributes(5).

Noticed-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-15 22:46:04 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
891dbc6e40 Add gitmodules(5)
This adds documentation for the .gitmodules file.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-12 01:06:21 -07:00