We attribute each documentation text file to a man section by finding a
line in the file that looks like "gitfoo(<digit>)". Commit cc75e556a9
("scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list", 2022-09-02) updated this
logic to look not only for "gitfoo" but also "scalarfoo". In doing so,
it forgot to account for the fact that after the updated regex has found
a match, the man section is no longer to be found in `$1` but now lives
in `$2`.
This makes our git(1) manpage look as follows:
Main porcelain commands
git-add(git)
Add file contents to the index.
[...]
gitk(git)
The Git repository browser.
scalar(scalar)
A tool for managing large Git repositories.
Restore the man sections by not capturing the (git|scalar) part of the
match into `$1`.
As noted by Ævar [1], we could even match any "foo" rather than just
"gitfoo" and "scalarfoo", but that's a larger change. For now, just fix
the regression in cc75e556a9.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/220923.86wn9u4joo.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/#t
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'scalar' as a 'mainporcelain' command in the Git command list. Update
the regex in 'cmd-list.perl' used to match the first line of command
documentation to find 'scalar(1)'.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Not all man5/man7 guides are mentioned in the 'git(1)' documentation,
which makes the missing ones somewhat hard to find.
Add a list of the guides to git(1) by leveraging the existing
`Documentation/cmd-list.perl` script to generate a file `cmds-guide.txt`
which gets included in git.txt.
Also, do not hard-code the manual section '1'. Instead, use a regex so
that the manual section is discovered from the first line of each
`git*.txt` file.
This addition was hinted at in 1b81d8cb19 (help: use command-list.txt
for the source of guides, 2018-05-20).
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of hard-coding the list of command categories in both
`Documentation/Makefile` and `Documentation/cmd-list.perl`, make the
Makefile the authoritative source and tweak `cmd-list.perl` so that it
receives the list of command categories as argument.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to classify common commands by
group. Toward this end, a subsequent patch will add a new "common
groups" section to command-list.txt preceding the actual command list.
As preparation, teach existing command-list.txt parsing machinery, which
doesn't care about grouping, to skip over this upcoming "common groups"
section.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
The categorized list of commands in git(7) and the list of common
commands in "git help" output were maintained separately, which was
insane. This consolidates them to a single command-list.txt file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Old commit walkers other than http/curl transport have been removed
for some time now. Remove their documents.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it possible to mark commands that are deprecated in the
command list of the primary manual page git(7), and uses it to
mark "git lost-found" and "git tar-tree" as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has been proposed for a few times without much reaction
from the list. Actually remove it to see who screams.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
convert-objects was needed to convert from an old-style repository,
which hashed the compressed contents and used a different date format.
Such repositories are presumably no longer common and, if such
conversions are necessary, should be done by writing a frontend for
git-fast-import.
Linus, the original author, is OK with moving it to contrib.
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The basic idea was proposed by Steve Hoelzer; in order to make
the list easier to search, we keep the command list in the
script that generates it with "sort -d".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the documentation in git-filter-branch.sh to its own
man page, with a few touch ups (incorporating comments by Frank
Lichtenheld).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This describes the git-stash command.
I borrowed a few paragraphs from Johannes's version, and added a few
examples.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jakub Narebski pointed out that the git-gui blame viewer is not a
widely known feature, but is incredibly useful. Part of the issue
is advertising. Up until now we haven't even referenced git-gui from
within the core Git manual pages, mostly because I just wasn't sure
how I wanted to supply git-gui documentation to end-users, or how
that documentation should integrate with the core Git documentation.
Based upon Jakub's comment that many users may not even know that
the gui is available in a stock Git distribution I'm offering up
two basic manual pages: git-citool and git-gui. These should offer
enough of a starting point for users to identify that the gui exists,
and how to start it. Future releases of git-gui may contain their
own documentation system available from within a running git-gui.
But not today.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This command can be used to initialize, update and inspect submodules. It
uses a .gitmodules file, readable by git-config, in the top level directory
of the 'superproject' to specify a mapping between submodule paths and
repository url.
Example .gitmodules layout:
[module "git"]
url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
With this entry in .gitmodules (and a commit reference in the index entry for
the path "git"), the command 'git submodule init' will clone the repository
at kernel.org into the directory "git".
Known issues
============
There is currently no way to override the url found in the .gitmodules file,
except by manually creating the subproject repository. The place to fix this
in the script has a rather long comment about a possible plan.
Funny paths will be quoted in the output from git-ls-files, but git-submodule
does not attempt to unquote (or even detect the presence of) such paths.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I believe noone uses git-applymbox, and noone definitely should, since it
is supposed to be completely superseded and everything by its younger
cousin git-am. The only known person in the universe to use it was Linus
and he declared some time ago that he will try to use git-am instead in his
famous dotest script.
The trouble is that git-applymbox existence creates confusing UI. I'm a bit
like a recycled newbie to the git porcelain and *I* was confused by
git-applymbox primitiveness until I've realized a while later that I'm of
course using the wrong command.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Every time _any_ documentation page changed, cmds-*.txt files
were regenerated, which caused git.{html,txt} to be remade. Try
not to update cmds-*.txt files if their new contents match the
old ones.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some workflows require use of repositories on machines that cannot be
connected, preventing use of git-fetch / git-push to transport objects and
references between the repositories.
git-bundle provides an alternate transport mechanism, effectively allowing
git-fetch and git-pull to operate using sneakernet transport. `git-bundle
create` allows the user to create a bundle containing one or more branches
or tags, but with specified basis assumed to exist on the target
repository. At the receiving end, git-bundle acts like git-fetch-pack,
allowing the user to invoke git-fetch or git-pull using the bundle file as
the URL. git-fetch and git-ls-remote determine they have a bundle URL by
checking that the URL points to a file, but are otherwise unchanged in
operation with bundles.
The original patch was done by Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>.
It was updated to make git-bundle a builtin, and get rid of the tar
format: now, the first line is supposed to say "# v2 git bundle", the next
lines either contain a prerequisite ("-" followed by the hash of the
needed commit), or a ref (the hash of a commit, followed by the name of
the ref), and finally the pack. As a result, the bundle argument can be
"-" now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Makefile: update check-docs target
cmd-list: add git-remote
Documentation: Drop full-stop from git-fast-import title.
Minor corrections to release notes
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page. The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.
Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This moves the source of the list of commands and categorization
to the end of Documentation/cmd-list.perl, so that re-categorization
and re-ordering would become easier to manage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
