The only part of the hunk header that we can change is the "TEXT"
portion. Additionally, a few grammatical errors have been corrected.
Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic to checkout a different commit implements the safety to never
lose user's local changes. For example, switching from a commit to
another commit, when you have changed a path that is different between
them, need to merge your changes to the version from the switched-to
commit, which you may not necessarily be able to resolve easily. By
default, "git checkout" refused to switch branches, to give you a chance
to stash your local changes (or use "-m" to merge, accepting the risks of
getting conflicts).
This safety, however, had one deliberate hole since early June 2005. When
your local change was to remove a path (and optionally to stage that
removal), the command checked out the path from the switched-to commit
nevertheless.
This was to allow an initial checkout to happen smoothly (e.g. an initial
checkout is done by starting with an empty index and switching from the
commit at the HEAD to the same commit). We can tighten the rule slightly
to allow this special case to pass, without losing sight of removal
explicitly done by the user, by noticing if the index is truly empty when
the operation begins.
For historical background, see:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/4641/focus=4646
This case is marked as *0* in the message, which both Linus and I said "it
feels somewhat wrong but otherwise we cannot start from an empty index".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When somebody is reading git-blame.txt (or git-annotate.txt) for the first
time, the message we would like to send is:
(1) Here is why you would want to use this command, what it can do
(perhaps more than what you would have expected from "$scm blame"),
and how you tell it to do what it does.
This is obvious.
(2) You might have heard of the command with the other name. There is no
difference between the two, except they differ in their default
output formats.
This is essential to answer: "git has both? how are they different?"
(3) We tend to encourage blame over annotate for new scripts and new
people, but there is no reason to choose one over the other.
This is not as important as (2), but would be useful to avoid
repeated questions about "when will we start deprecating this?"
As long as we describe (2) on git-annotate page clearly enough, people who
read git-blame page first and get curious can refer to git-annotate page.
While at it, subtly hint (3) without being overly explicit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no need to explicitly pass the file to be committed to 'git
commit', because it's contents is already in the index.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc removes lines starting with a dot when creating manpages.
Since those lines were comments in use case examples showing shell
commands, preceed those lines with a hash sign.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
gitcvs.usecrlfattr --> gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
This fixes an asciidoc markup issue.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of crlf attribute incorrectly said that "-crlf" means
binary. It is true that for binary files you would want "-crlf", but
that is not the same thing.
We also have supported attribute macros and via that mechanism a handy
"binary" to specify "-crlf -diff" at the same time. It was not documented
anywhere as far as I can tell, even though the support was there from
the very beginning.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 59d3f54 (name-rev: avoid "^0" when unneeded, 2007-02-20), name-rev
stopped showing an unnecessary "^0" to dereference a tag down to a commit.
The patch should have made a matching update to the documentation, but we
forgot.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update to gitutorial as discussedin the git mailing list:
http://marc.info/?t=121969390900002&r=1&w=2
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When running a command like:
git log --pretty=format:%ad --date=short
the date option was ignored. This patch causes it to use whatever
format was specified by --date (or by --relative-date, etc), just
as the non-user formats would do.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was part of my original patch, but appears to have been lost.
Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The unwary user may not know how to disable the -FRSX options.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was not obvious from the text that pager.<cmd> is a boolean
setting.
While we're changing the description, make some other
improvements: lest we forget and fret, clarify that -p and
pager.<cmd> do not kick in when stdout is not a tty; point to
related core.pager and GIT_PAGER settings; use renamed --paginate
option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Based on its name, people may read the 'git revert' documentation when
they want to undo local changes, especially people who have used other
SCM's. 'git revert' may not be what they had in mind, but git
provides several other ways to undo changes to files. We can help
them by pointing them towards the git commands that do what they might
want to do.
Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was already documented in RelNotes-1.6.0, but not in the git-config
manual page.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash -h" showed some incomplete and ugly usage information.
For example, the useful "--keep-index" option for "save" or the "--index"
option for "apply" were not shown. Also in the documentation synopsis they
were not shown, so that there is no incentive to scroll down and even see
that such options exist.
This patch improves the git-stash synopsis in the documentation by
mentioning that further options to the stash commands and then copies
this synopsis to the usage information string of git-stash.sh.
For the latter, the dashless git command string has to be inserted on the
second and the following usage lines. The code of this is taken from
git-sh-setup so that all lines will show the command string.
Note that the "create" command is not advertised at all now, because
it was not mentioned in git-stash.txt.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-apply documentation says that --binary is a historical option.
This patch lets git-am ignore --binary and removes advertisements of this
option.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 8c02eee (git-rev-list(1): group options; reformat; document more
options, 2006-09-01), git-rev-list documentation talks as if it supports
any kind of diff output. It doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This completely rewrites the documentation of --full-history with lots
of examples.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All BibTeX entries starts with an @ followed by an entry type. Since
there are many entry types and own can be defined, the pattern matches
legal entry type names instead of just the default types (which would
be a long list). The pattern also matches strings and comments since
they will also be useful to position oneself in a bib-file.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the hunk header pattern text was written patterns for Ruby and
Pascal/Delphi have been added. For users to be able to find them they
should be documented not only in code.
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The post-update hook, which is required to be enabled in order for
the repository to be accessible over HTTP, is not enabled by
chmod a+x anymore, but instead by dropping the .sample suffix.
This patch emphasizes this change in the release notes (since
I believe this is rather noticeable backwards-incompatible change).
It also adjusts the documentation which still described the old way
and fixes t/t5540-http-push.sh, which was broken for 1.5 month
but apparently noone ever runs this test.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
18a2197 (Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting,
2008-08-10) introduced the third paragraph that is continued, but it seems
to confuse docbook toolchain on FC9 machines.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual
Fix deleting reflog entries from HEAD reflog
reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete'
Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting
Conflicts:
Documentation/user-manual.txt
- Add an escape to @{now}. Without the escape, the brace does
something magic and eats half the sentence up to the closing brace
at 'timestamp}'.
- Join the last paragraph with a '+'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds a --force flag to git-rm, making it somewhat easier for
subversion people to switch.
Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the '--' option that can be used to pass rev-list options
(not just arguments), and give an example usage of '-- --all'. Remove
reference to "the new branch name"; filter-branch takes arbitrary
arguments to rev-list since dfd05e3.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked
files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore. So
don't use it to motivate gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows one to use public svn:// URLs for fetch and
svn+ssh:// URLs for committing (without using the complicated
rewriteRoot option, reimporting or git-filter-branch).
Using this can also help avoid unnecessary server
authentication/encryption overhead on busy SVN servers.
Along with the new --revision option, this can also be allowed
to override the branch detection in dcommit, too. This is
potentially dangerous and not recommended! (And also purposely
undocumented, but the loaded gun is there in case somebody
wants to make it safe).
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ef98c5ca lifted the 16 parents restriction in builtin-commit-tree.c,
but forgot to update the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I see quite a few pages on k.org site, e.g.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rerere.html
(scroll down to find "After this test merge")
are misformatted to lose teletype text '+' that is followed by a comma,
and turns the following paragraph all typeset in teletype.
This patch seems to fix the issue at the site (meaning, with the
particular vintage of asciidoc and docbook toolchain), without breaking
things with the version I have at my primary development machine, but
wider testing is very much appreciated.
After this patch,
git grep '`+`,' -- Documentation
should report noting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lt/config-fsync:
Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
Long time ago, the feature of "diff-tree --stdin" to take a commit and its
parents on one line was broken, and did not support the common:
git rev-list --parents $commits... -- $paths... |
git diff-tree --stdin -v -p
usage pattern by Porcelains properly. For diff-tree to talk sensibly
about commits, it needs to see commits, not just trees; the code was fixed
to take list of commits on the standard input in 1.2.0.
However we left the documentation stale for a long time, until Karl
Hasselström finally noticed it very recently.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command line
$ git clone --mirror $URL
is now a short-hand for
$ git clone --bare $URL
$ (cd $(basename $URL) && git remote add --mirror origin $URL)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-name-rev: allow --name-only in combination with --stdin
builtin-name-rev.c: split deeply nested part from the main function
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
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>
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since version 1.5.6 "git bisect" doesn't use a "bisect" branch any
more, but the user manual had not been updated to reflect this.
So this patch does that and while at it also adds a few words about
"git bisect skip" and points user to the "git bisect" man page for
more information.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Although it does not matter for Git itself, tools that
export to systems that explicitly track copies and
renames can benefit from such information.
This patch makes fast-export output correct action
logs when -M or -C are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-svnimport is no longer supported, so don't mention it in the
documentation. This also updates the description, removing the
historical discussion, since it mostly dealt with how it differed from
svnimport. The new description gives some starting points into the
rest of the documentation.
Noticed by Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@docte.hr>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to
allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths
in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where
it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers
keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned
files.
The default is to notice ctime changes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When run in a working copy subdirectory, git-ls-tree will automagically
add the prefix to the pathspec, which can result in an unexpected behavior
when the tree object accessed is not the root tree object.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git clone" no longer calls "git-fetch-pack", so the documentation is a bit
stale. Instead, state that the -u option is to be used when accessing a
repository over ssh.
Signed-off-by: Steve Haslam <shaslam@lastminute.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After looking the git-tag manpage, someone on #git wondered how
to tag a commit that is not a branch head. This patch changes
the synopsis to say "<commit> | <object>" instead of "<head>" to
address his question.
Samuel Bronson had the idea of putting "<commit> | <object>"
for "<object>" because most tags point to commits (and for the
rest of the manpage, all tags point to commits).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git checkout' uses '--' to separate options from paths, but it was not
mentioned in the documentation
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The example to remove paths using index-filter was done with
"git update-index --remove"; "git rm --cached" would be more familiar to
new people and is sufficient for this particular case.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-rerere documentation talks about commands that invoke
"git rerere clear" automatically. git am --abort is added and
a typo is fixed additionally.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the documentation, where you cannot get compile errors for using the
wrong member name, there were two mentions of 'path' left.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name path_list was correct for the first usage of that data structure,
but it really is a general-purpose string list.
$ perl -i -pe 's/path-list/string-list/g' $(git grep -l path-list)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path_list/string_list/g' $(git grep -l path_list)
$ git mv path-list.h string-list.h
$ git mv path-list.c string-list.c
$ perl -i -pe 's/has_path/has_string/g' $(git grep -l has_path)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path/string/g' string-list.[ch]
$ git mv Documentation/technical/api-path-list.txt \
Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
$ perl -i -pe 's/strdup_paths/strdup_strings/g' $(git grep -l strdup_paths)
... and then fix all users of string-list to access the member "string"
instead of "path".
Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt needed some rewrapping, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
