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Markus Heidelberg 04c8ce9c1c Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 19:10:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 59eb68aa2b Update my e-mail address
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 12:14:42 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.

Using

	doit () {
	  perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
	}
	for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
	        merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
	do
	  doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
	done
	git diff

.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 483bc4f045 Documentation formatting and cleanup
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.

While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:16 -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
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
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
Junio C Hamano 632ac9fd12 show-branch -g: default to the current branch.
Now we have a separate reflog on HEAD, show-branch -g without an explicit
parameter defaults to the current branch, or HEAD when it is detached
from branches.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 23:34:22 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 084ae0a7bd reflog inspection: introduce shortcut "-g"
A short-hand "-g" for "git log --walk-reflogs" and "git
show-branch --reflog" makes it easier to access the reflog
info.

[jc: added -g to show-branch for symmetry]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 15:13:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 76a44c5c0b show-branch --reflog: show the reflog message at the top.
This changes the output so the list at the top shows the reflog
message, along with their relative timestamps.

You can use --reflog=<n> to show <n> most recent log entries, or
use --reflog=<n>,<b> to show <n> entries going back from the
entry <b>.  <b> can be either a number (so --reflog=4,20 shows 4
records starting from @{20}) or a timestamp (e.g. --reflog='4,1 day').

Here is a sample output (with --list option):

  $ git show-branch --reflog=10 --list jc/show-reflog
    [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
    [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
    [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
    [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
    [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
    [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
    [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
    [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow retrievi
    [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
    [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: use

This shows what I did more cleanly:

  $ git show-branch --reflog=10 jc/show-reflog
  ! [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
   ! [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
    ! [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
     ! [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
      ! [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_
       ! [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read
        ! [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend rea
         ! [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow
          ! [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
           ! [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --r
  ----------
  +          [jc/show-reflog@{0}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
    +        [jc/show-reflog@{2}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
   +++       [jc/show-reflog@{1}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
  +++++      [jc/show-reflog@{4}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
       +     [jc/show-reflog@{5}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
        +    [jc/show-reflog@{6}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
         +   [jc/show-reflog@{7}] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the r
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}] show-branch --reflog: use updated rea
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}^] read_ref_at(): allow reporting the c
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}~2] show-branch --reflog: show the refl
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}~3] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the
  ++++++++++ [jc/show-reflog@{8}] dwim_ref(): Separate name-to-ref DWIM

At @{9}, I had a commit to complete 5 patch series, but I wanted
to consolidate two commits that enhances read_ref_at() into one
(they were @{9}^ and @{9}~3), and another two that touch show-branch
into one (@{9} and @{9}~2).

I first saved them with "format-patch -4", and then did a reset
at @{8}.  At @{7}, I applied one of them with "am", and then
used "git-apply" on the other one, and amended the commit at
@{6} (so @{6} and @{7} has the same parent).  I did not like the
log message, so I amended again at @{5}.

Then I cherry-picked @{9}~2 to create @{3} (the log message
shows that it needs to learn to set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION -- it uses
"git-commit" and the log entry is attributed for it).  Another
cherry-pick built @{2} out of @{9}, but what I wanted to do was
to squash these two into one, so I did a "reset HEAD^" at @{1}
and then made the final commit by amending what was at the top.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:57:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano abc8ab19ae show-branch --reflog: add documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-26 00:11:50 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt f49006b0c7 Make git-show-branch options similar to git-branch.
Branch has "-r" for remote branches and "-a" for local and remote.
It seems logical to mirror that in show-branch.  Also removes the
dubiously useful "--tags" option (as part of changing the meaning
for "--all").

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-22 23:18:07 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt 38c594d330 Add documentation for show-branch --topics
Add a quick paragraph explaining the --topics option for show-branch.
The explanation is an abbreviated version of the commit message from
d320a5437f.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-18 16:03:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 8048e24b87 show-branch: match documentation and usage
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-06 19:29:00 -07:00
Jon Loeliger beb8e13437 Fix minor typo.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17 20:42:36 -08:00
Fredrik Kuivinen 7bd7f2804d Remove trailing dot after short description
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09 11:44:11 -08:00
Dmitry V. Levin bd494fc76b git/Documentation: fix SYNOPSIS style bugs
This trivial patch fixes SYNOPSIS style bugs.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-05 17:02:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 1aa68d6735 show-branch: --current includes the current branch.
With this, the command includes the current branch to the list
of revs to be shown when it is not given on the command line.
This is handy to use in the configuration file like this:

	[showbranch]
	default = --current
	default = heads/*	; primary branches, not topics under
				; subdirectories

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-15 00:04:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ebedc31952 show-branch: make the current branch and merge commits stand out.
This changes the character used to mark the commits that is on the
branch from '+' to '*' for the current branch, to make it stand out.
Also we show '-' for merge commits.

When you have a handful branches with relatively long diversion, it
is easier to see which one is the current branch this way.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-15 00:04:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 54f9734ec8 Documentation: show-branch.
Describe showbranch.default configuration item and give an example.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-15 00:04:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 89438677ab Documentation: spell.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-29 01:32:56 -08:00
Nikolai Weibull d4ce5f7e50 Add documentation for the --topo-order option to git-show-branch.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 15:50:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 287f860054 show-branch: allow glob pattern to name branches to show.
With this, you can say "git-show-branch topic/* master" to show
all the topic branches you have under .git/refs/heads/topic/ and
your master branch.  Another example is "git-show-branch --list
v1.0*" to show all the v1.0 tags.  You can disambiguate by
saying "heads/topic/*" to show only topic branches if you have
tags under .git/refs/tags/topic/ as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-04 16:06:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 013f276eb7 show-branch: optionally use unique prefix as name.
git-show-branch acquires two new options. --sha1-name to name
commits using the unique prefix of their object names, and
--no-name to not to show names at all.

This was outlined in <7vk6gpyuyr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-11 15:22:48 -07:00
Christian Meder cc1621e2a0 The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version
The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version of the git
commands. Adapt the remaining offenders.

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 16:01:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 98438bd0e8 Remove the version tags from the manpages
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 14:49:52 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov a7154e916c [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macro
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:

	perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt
	perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 1f8af483df show-branch: --list and --independent
The --list option is what 'git branch' without parameter should
have been; it shows the one-line commit message for each branch
name.  The --independent option is used to filter out commits
that can be reachable from other commits, to make detection of
fast forward condition in multi-head merge easier.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-09 16:35:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 2f0f8b71ee Show all merge-base candidates from show-branch --merge-base
This would make things easier to use for Octopus.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-08 12:15:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 215a7ad1ef Big tool rename.
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch.  The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:

  (1) git-*-script are no more.  The commands installed do not
      have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
      something is implemented as a shell script or not.

  (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
      'index' if that is what they mean.

There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support  is expected to be removed in the near
future.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07 17:45:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f85a419161 Accumulated documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-29 17:21:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f5e375c9a9 Clean-up output from "git show-branch" and document it.
When showing only one branch a lot of default output becomes redundant,
so clean it up a bit, and document what is shown.  Retire the earlier
implementation "git-show-branches-script".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-22 23:18:17 -07:00