The new command "git restore" (together with "git switch") are added
to avoid the confusion of one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new
users. They are also helpful to avoid ambiguous context.
For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands.
One nice thing about git-restore is the ability to restore
"everything", so it can be used in "git status" advice instead of both
"git checkout" and "git reset". The three commands suggested by "git
status" are add, rm and restore.
"git checkout" is also removed from "git help" (i.e. it's no longer
considered a commonly used command)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the operation in progress is merge, stick to the 'git merge'
variant of aborting. 'git reset --hard' does not really tell you about
aborting the merge by just looking, longer to type, and even though I
know by heart what --hard do, I still dislike it when I need to consider
whether --hard, --mixed or --soft.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new command "git switch" is added to avoid the confusion of
one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new users. They are also helpful
to avoid ambiguation context.
For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands...
The "Checking out files" progress line in unpack-trees.c is also updated
to "Updating files" to be neutral to both git-checkout and git-switch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not want an ellipsis displayed following an (abbreviated) SHA-1
value.
The days when this was necessary to indicate the truncation to
lower-level Git commands and/or the user are bygone.
However, to ease the transition, the ellipsis will still be printed if
the user sets the environment variable GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS to "yes".
Correct documentation with respect to what describe_detached_head prints
when GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS is not set as indicated above.
Add tests for the old and new behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no need to use full 40-hex to identify the object names like
the examples hint at by omitting the tail part of an object name as if
that has to be spelled out but the example omits them only for brevity.
Give examples using abbreviated object names without ellipses just like
how people do in real life.
Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash push" is the newer interface for creating a stash. While we
are still keeping "git stash save" around for the time being, it's better
to point new users of "git stash" to the more modern (and more feature
rich) interface, instead of teaching them the older version that we
might want to phase out in the future.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Follow the Oxford style, which says to use "up-to-date" before the noun,
but "up to date" after it. Don't change plumbing (specifically
send-pack.c, but transport.c (git push) also has the same string).
This was produced by grepping for "up-to-date" and "up to date". It
turned out we only had to edit in one direction, removing the hyphens.
Fix a typo in Documentation/git-diff-index.txt while we're there.
Reported-by: Jeffrey Manian <jeffrey.manian@gmail.com>
Reported-by: STEVEN WHITE <stevencharleswhitevoices@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit f7673490 ("more terse push output", 2007-11-05), git push
has a completely different output format than the one shown in the user
manual for a non-fast-forward push.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `user-manual.txt` is designed as a `book` but the `Makefile` wants
to build it as an `article`. This seems to be a problem when building
the documentation with `asciidoctor`. Furthermore the parts *Git
Glossary* and *Appendix B* had no subsections which is not allowed when
building with `asciidoctor`. So lets add a *dummy* section.
Signed-off-by: 마누엘 <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them
suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other
one suggested to do.
* ss/user-manual:
user-manual: add addition gitweb information
user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones
glossary: define the term shallow clone
user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
Rework the section on gitweb to add information about the cgi script
and the instaweb command.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the section on "How to check out a different version of a
project" the "new" branch is used as a temporary branch. A detached
HEAD was not used since it was a new feature introduced just a
couple weeks prior.
The section could be changed to use and explain a detached HEAD,
except that would increase the learning curve early in the manual.
Detached HEADs are discussed a couple sections later under
"Examining an old version without creating a new branch".
Let's declare that it is a bad idea to rewrite the example that
uses a temporary branch to do the sightseeing on a detached HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc markup fixes.
* xf/user-manual-markup:
Documentation: match undefline with the text in old release notes
Documentation: match underline with the text
Documentation: fix header markup
The "Fast-forward merges" section of user-manual.txt incorrectly
says if the current branch is a descendant of the other, Git will
perform a fast-forward merge, but it should the other way around.
Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoctor is stricter than AsciiDoc when deciding if underlining
is a section title or the start of preformatted text. Make the
length of the underlining match the text to ensure that it renders
correctly in all implementations.
Signed-off-by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoctor is stricter than AsciiDoc when deciding if underlining
is a section title or the start of preformatted text. Make the
length of the underlining match the text to ensure that it renders
correctly in all implementations.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
[jc: squashed in git-bisect one noticed by Michael J Gruber]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.
- am.keepcr
- core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
- diff.dirstat .noprefix
- gitcvs.usecrlfattr
- gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
- pull.twohead
- receive.autogc
- sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Re-word the section on "Updating a repository with git fetch" in the
user manual.
Various other minor fixes in the manual and glossary.
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use asciidoc style 'article' instead of 'book' and change asciidoc
title level. This removes blank first page and superfluous "Part I"
page (there is no "Part II") in pdf output. Also pdf size is
decreased by this from 77 to 67 pages. In html output this removes
unnecessary sub-tocs and chapter numbering.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we converted many documents that were traditionally text-only
to be formatted to AsciiDoc, we did not update links that point at
them to refer to the formatted HTML files.
* ss/doclinks:
Documentation: make AsciiDoc links always point to HTML files
AsciiDoc's "link" is supposed to create hyperlinks for HTML output, so
prefer a "link" to point to an HTML file instead of a text file if an HTML
version of the file is being generated. For RelNotes, keep pointing to
text files as no equivalent HTML files are generated.
If appropriate, also update the link description to not contain the linked
file's extension.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git prune" is safe in case of concurrent accesses to a repository
but using it in such a case is not recommended.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sorry Jon, but this might not be of any help to new Git users ;)
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove unnecessary quoting.
Simplify description of three-way merge.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some missing punctuation.
Simplify description of "git branch -d/-D".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Combine the two cases for "git add" into one.
Add verb "use" to "git rm" case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull ." works, but "git merge" is the recommended
way for new users to do things. (The old description
also should have read "The former is actually *not* very
commonly used".)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name marc.theaimsgroup.com is no longer active, and has
migrated to marc.info.
Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update documentation to match more recent realities.
* wk/doc-in-linux-3.x-era:
Documentation: Update 'linux-2.6.git' -> 'linux.git'
Documentation: Update the NFS remote examples to use the staging repo
doc/clone: Pick more compelling paths for the --reference example
doc/clone: Remove the '--bare -l -s' example
git am was previously modified to provide --continue for consistency
with rebase, merge etc, and the documentation changed to showing
--continue as the primary form.
Complete the work by replacing remaining uses of --resolved by
--continue, most notably in suggested command reminders.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
