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Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Alexander Gavrilov
a2df1fb2e5 Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line options.
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options,
configuration variables, and the encoding attribute.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14 21:38:11 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
db5d6666af manpages: use teletype font for sample command lines
I think that some of these uses of italics were meant to be
rendered in quotation marks, anyway.

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
42d36bb841 manpages: italicize gitk's name (where it was in teletype font)
The name `gitk` is sometimes meant to be entered at the command
prompt, but most uses are just referring to the program with that
name (not the incantation to start it).

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
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
7f9d77f279 manpages: fix bogus whitespace
It's distracting.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:39 -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
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
Junio C Hamano
56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -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
Brian Hetro
027830755d Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-24 18:54:37 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
37cd4f7e82 Document git-gui, git-citool as mainporcelain manual pages
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>
2007-06-22 22:32:32 -07:00