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Linus Torvalds 442cb08fa0 Fix missing 'does' in man-page for 'git checkout'
Reported-by: Rainer Standke <rainer.standke@krankikom.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-27 15:08:06 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder b9190e7913 Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses
The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by
rev-list and diff is actually three period characters.  If it
gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would
stop readers from copying and pasting it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 07cd900112 Merge branch 'tc/checkout-B'
* tc/checkout-B:
  builtin/checkout: handle -B from detached HEAD correctly
  builtin/checkout: learn -B
  builtin/checkout: reword hint for -b
  add tests for checkout -b
2010-08-18 11:42:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 609eb9f7ff Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Spelling fix in protocol-capabilities.txt
  checkout: accord documentation to what git does
  t0005: work around strange $? in ksh when program terminated by a signal
2010-07-11 23:47:29 -07:00
Nicolas Sebrecht 142183d096 checkout: accord documentation to what git does
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-09 16:28:21 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan 02ac98374e builtin/checkout: learn -B
Internally, --track and --orphan still use the 'safe' -b, not -B.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-25 10:39:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 12575b78fb Merge branch 'jn/checkout-doc' into maint
* jn/checkout-doc:
  Documentation/checkout: clarify description
  Documentation/checkout: clarify description
2010-06-22 09:31:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano f28f04923e Merge branch 'jn/checkout-doc'
* jn/checkout-doc:
  Documentation/checkout: clarify description
  Documentation/checkout: clarify description
2010-06-21 06:02:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 5bebcd4ecb Merge branch 'em/checkout-orphan'
* em/checkout-orphan:
  log_ref_setup: don't return stack-allocated array
  bash completion: add --orphan to 'git checkout'
  t3200: test -l with core.logAllRefUpdates options
  checkout --orphan: respect -l option always
  refs: split log_ref_write logic into log_ref_setup
  Documentation: alter checkout --orphan description
2010-06-21 06:02:41 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder b831deda17 Documentation/checkout: clarify description
git checkout can be used to switch branches and to retrieve files from
the index or an arbitrary tree.  Split the description into
subsections corresponding to each mode to make each use easier to
understand.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-11 08:47:48 -07:00
Erick Mattos feb98d1342 Documentation: alter checkout --orphan description
The present text is a try to enhance description accuracy.  It is a
merge of the rewritten text made by native english speaker Chris Johnsen
and further changes of Junio.  It came from the last thread messages of
--orphan patch.

Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-02 11:16:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano bdc4204119 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-compat-util.h: use apparently more common __sgi macro to detect SGI IRIX
  Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase
  Documentation/pretty-{formats,options}: better reference for "format:<string>"
2010-06-02 10:17:26 -07:00
Michael J Gruber 873c347205 Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase
Describe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were
introduced in these commits:

619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18)
61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20)
230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07)

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-02 10:03:53 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder c5b41519c7 Documentation/checkout: clarify description
To the first-time reader, it may not be obvious that ‘git checkout’
has two modes, nor that if no branch is specified it will read
from the index.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-31 17:50:03 -07:00
Erick Mattos 9db5ebf402 git checkout: create unparented branch by --orphan
Similar to -b, --orphan creates a new branch, but it starts without any
commit.  After running "git checkout --orphan newbranch", you are on a
new branch "newbranch", and the first commit you create from this state
will start a new history without any ancestry.

"git checkout --orphan" keeps the index and the working tree files
intact in order to make it convenient for creating a new history whose
trees resemble the ones from the original branch.

When creating a branch whose trees have no resemblance to the ones from
the original branch, it may be easier to start work on the new branch by
untracking and removing all working tree files that came from the
original branch, by running a 'git rm -rf .' immediately after running
"checkout --orphan".

Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-21 16:43:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 54f0bdc811 Merge branch 'tr/reset-checkout-patch'
* tr/reset-checkout-patch:
  stash: simplify defaulting to "save" and reject unknown options
  Make test case number unique
  tests: disable interactive hunk selection tests if perl is not available
  DWIM 'git stash save -p' for 'git stash -p'
  Implement 'git stash save --patch'
  Implement 'git checkout --patch'
  Implement 'git reset --patch'
  builtin-add: refactor the meat of interactive_add()
  Add a small patch-mode testing library
  git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
  Make 'git stash -k' a short form for 'git stash save --keep-index'
2009-09-07 15:24:38 -07:00
René Scharfe f7aec129fa UI consistency: allow --force for where -f means force
git branch, checkout, clean, mv and tag all have an option -f to override
certain checks.  This patch makes them accept the long option --force as
a synonym.

While we're at it, document that checkout support --quiet as synonym for
its short option -q.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-29 14:08:03 -07:00
Thomas Rast 4f353658b9 Implement 'git checkout --patch'
This introduces a --patch mode for git-checkout.  In the index usage

  git checkout --patch -- [files...]

it lets the user discard edits from the <files> at the granularity of
hunks (by selecting hunks from 'git diff' and then reverse applying
them to the worktree).

We also accept a revision argument.  In the case

  git checkout --patch HEAD -- [files...]

we offer hunks from the difference between HEAD and the worktree, and
reverse applies them to both index and worktree, allowing you to
discard staged changes completely.  In the non-HEAD usage

  git checkout --patch <revision> -- [files...]

it offers hunks from the difference between the worktree and
<revision>.  The chosen hunks are then applied to both index and
worktree.

The application to worktree and index is done "atomically" in the
sense that we first check if the patch applies to the index (it should
always apply to the worktree).  If it does not, we give the user a
choice to either abort or apply to the worktree anyway.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-15 15:18:05 -07:00
Jeff King 0808723b50 docs/checkout: clarify what "non-branch" means
In the code we literally stick "refs/heads/" on the front
and see if it resolves, so that is probably the best
explanation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-13 09:08:16 -07:00
Jeff King 76cfadfc17 doc/checkout: split checkout and branch creation in synopsis
These can really be thought of as two different modes, since
the "<branch>" parameter is treated differently in the two
(in one it is the branch to be checked out, but in the other
it is really a start-point for branch creation).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-13 09:06:34 -07:00
Jeff King 26d22dc64a doc/checkout: refer to git-branch(1) as appropriate
Most of description for the branch creation options is
simply cut and paste from git-branch. There are two reasons
to fix this:

  1. It can grow stale with respect to what's in "git
     branch" (which it is now is).

  2. It is not just an implementation detail, but rather the
     desired mental model for the command that we are using
     "git branch" here. Being explicit about that can help
     the user understand what is going on.

It also makes sense to strip the branch creation options
from the synopsis, as they are making it a long,
hard-to-read line. They are still easily discovered by
reading the options list, and --track is explicitly
referenced when branch creation is described.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-13 09:04:50 -07:00
Jeff King 167d744543 doc: refer to tracking configuration as "upstream"
The term "tracking" often creates confusion between remote
tracking branches and local branches which track a remote
branch. The term "upstream" captures more clearly the idea
of "branch A is based on branch B in some way", so it makes
sense to mention it.

At the same time, upstream branches are used for more
than just git-pull these days; let's mention that here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-13 09:02:18 -07:00
Jeff King 70e966477a doc: clarify --no-track option
It is not really about ignoring the config option; it is
about turning off tracking, _even if_ the config option is
set.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-13 09:01:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6da14ee14f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Change double quotes to single quotes in message
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-checkout.txt
2009-04-07 23:05:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 747f9d30ed Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maint
* maint-1.6.1:
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07 23:05:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano aa41cf8f43 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1
* maint-1.6.0:
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07 22:51:14 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 39470cf961 git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
Otherwise, the sentence "Defaults to HEAD." can be mis-read to mean
that "git checkout -- hello.c" checks-out from HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 21:57:12 -07:00
Matthieu Moy ce8936c342 git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
The command "git checkout" checks out from the index by default, not
HEAD (the introducing comment were correct, but the detailled
explanation added below were not).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 21:56:41 -07:00
Chris Johnsen dcb11263bc Documentation: remove extra quoting/emphasis around literal texts
If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from
normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need
extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments.

config.txt

  Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide
  emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough.

  Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present
  in the described config value, so drop them.

git-checkout.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line
  argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve
  curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to
  indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of
  certain shells (tcsh).

git-merge.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge
  conflict markers. The quotes should are not important.

git-rev-parse.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line
  arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary.

gitcli.txt

  Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line
  examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong
  inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it.

glossary-content.txt
user-manual.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:16:44 -07:00
Michael J Gruber c7cb12b86c Typo and language fixes for git-checkout.txt
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-10 22:54:53 -07:00
Thomas Rast 696acf45f9 checkout: implement "-" abbreviation, add docs and tests
Have '-' mean the same as '@{-1}', i.e., the last branch we were on.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 18:37:21 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg ec9f0ea3e6 Documentation: sync example output with git output
Don't confuse the user with old git messages.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 11:55:33 -08:00
Nanako Shiraishi ecc03c1c6d Clarify documentation of "git checkout <tree-ish> paths" syntax
The SYNOPSIS section of the manual writes:

    git checkout [options] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...

but the DESCRIPTION says that this form checks the paths out "from the
index, or from a named commit."  A later sentence refers to the same
argument as "<tree-ish> argument", but it is not clear that these two
sentences are talking about the same command line argument for first-time
readers.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17 22:00:54 -08:00
Fredrik Skolmli 971e83528d Documentation: Spelling fix
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik@frsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 13:08:14 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce 9ba929ed65 Merge branch 'jc/better-conflict-resolution'
* jc/better-conflict-resolution:
  Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentation
  git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented
  checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style
  checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index
  git-merge-recursive: learn to honor merge.conflictstyle
  merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3 -m" styles
  rerere: understand "diff3 -m" style conflicts with the original
  rerere.c: use symbolic constants to keep track of parsing states
  xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or less
  xmerge.c: minimum readability fixups
  xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style
  xdl_fill_merge_buffer(): separate out a too deeply nested function
  checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge
  checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-checkout.txt
	builtin-checkout.c
	builtin-merge-recursive.c
	t/t7201-co.sh
2008-09-29 10:15:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano eac5a40151 checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style
This new option does essentially the same thing as -m option when checking
unmerged paths out of the index, but it uses the specified style instead
of configured merge.conflictstyle.

Setting "merge.conflictstyle" to "diff3" is usually less useful than using
the default "merge" style, because the latter allows a conflict that
results by both sides changing the same region in a very similar way to
get simplified substancially by reducing the common lines.  However, when
one side removed a group of lines (perhaps a function was moved to some
other file) while the other side modified it, the default "merge" style
does not give any clue as to why the hunk is left conflicting.  You would
need the original to understand what is going on.

The recommended use would be not to set merge.conflictstyle variable so
that you would usually use the default "merge" style conflict, and when
the result in a path in a particular merge is too hard to understand, use
"git checkout --conflict=diff3 $path" to check it out with the original to
review what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31 20:09:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 0cf8581e33 checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index
This teaches git-checkout to recreate a merge out of unmerged
index entries while resolving conflicts.

With this patch, checking out an unmerged path from the index
now have the following possibilities:

 * Without any option, an attempt to checkout an unmerged path
   will atomically fail (i.e. no other cleanly-merged paths are
   checked out either);

 * With "-f", other cleanly-merged paths are checked out, and
   unmerged paths are ignored;

 * With "--ours" or "--theirs, the contents from the specified
   stage is checked out;

 * With "-m" (we should add "--merge" as synonym), the 3-way merge
   is recreated from the staged object names and checked out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:57:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 38901a4837 checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge
This lets you to check out 'our' (or 'their') version of an
unmerged path out of the index while resolving conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:28:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano db9410990e checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index
Earlier we made "git checkout $pathspec" to atomically refuse
the operation of $pathspec matched any path with unmerged
stages.  This patch allows:

    $ git checkout -f a b c

to ignore, instead of error out on, such unmerged paths.  The
fix to prevent checkout of an unmerged path from random stages
is still there.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 19:16:12 -07:00
Alex Riesen 9188ed8962 Extend "checkout --track" DWIM to support more cases
The code handles additionally "refs/remotes/<something>/name",
"remotes/<something>/name", and "refs/<namespace>/name".

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-22 17:18:26 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin bb0ceb6264 checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b' was omitted
What does the user most likely want with this command?

	$ git checkout --track origin/next

Exactly.  A branch called 'next', that tracks origin's branch 'next'.
Make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11 16:37:28 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor b302ddd2f8 checkout: mention '--' in the docs
'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>
2008-07-24 23:29:38 -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
Miklos Vajna 498a6e7eaa git checkout: add -t alias for --track
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-27 13:19:33 -07:00
Julian Phillips 76ce946294 Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilities
For a while now, git-checkout has been more powerful than the man-page
summary would suggest (the main text does describe the new features),
so update the summary to hopefully better reflect the current
functionality.  Also update the glossary description of the word checkout.

Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-25 00:00:07 -07:00
Jay Soffian 572fc81d21 doc: documentation update for the branch track changes
Documents the branch.autosetupmerge=always setting and usage of --track
when branching from a local branch.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:22:29 -08:00
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
Federico Mena Quintero ac150747d7 Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs.
The documentation used to say what the option does, but it
didn't mention a use case.

Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-02 17:26:40 -07:00
Dave Watson 2be7fcb476 Fix misspelling of 'suppress' in docs
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-19 23:26:03 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 6f084a56fc branch --track: code cleanup and saner handling of local branches
This patch cleans up some complicated code, and replaces it with a
cleaner version, using code from remote.[ch], which got extended a
little in the process.  This also enables us to fix two cases:

The earlier "fix" to setup tracking only when the original ref started
with "refs/remotes" is wrong.  You are absolutely allowed to use a
separate layout for your tracking branches.  The correct fix, of course,
is to set up tracking information only when there is a matching
remote.<nick>.fetch line containing a colon.

Another corner case was not handled properly.  If two remotes write to
the original ref, just warn the user and do not set up tracking.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-11 16:03:58 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 4017761fd8 branch.autosetupmerge: allow boolean values, or "all"
Junio noticed that switching on autosetupmerge unilaterally started
cluttering the config for local branches.  That is not the original
intention of branch.autosetupmerge, which was meant purely for
convenience when branching off of remote branches, but that semantics
got lost somewhere.

If you still want that "new" behavior, you can switch
branch.autosetupmerge to the value "all".  Otherwise, it is interpreted
as a boolean, which triggers setting up defaults _only_ when branching
off of a remote branch, i.e. the originally intended behavior.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-08 18:24:19 -07:00
Jeff King 792d2370f9 Documentation: minor cleanups to branch/checkout wording
Change "to made" to "made to", which is a typo. Use "reflog"
instead of "ref log", which is used elsewhere throughout the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 01:33:45 -07:00
Jeff King 967506bbbd Documentation: quote {non-attributes} for asciidoc
Asciidoc treats {foo} as an attribute to be substituted; if
'foo' doesn't exist as an attribute, then the entire line
gets dropped. When the literal {foo} is desired, \{foo} is
required.

The exceptions to this rule are:
  - inside literal blocks
  - if the 'foo' contains non-alphanumeric characters (e.g.,
    {foo|bar} is assumed not to be an attribute)

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 01:33:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Brian Gernhardt 81178fe48c Reverse the order of -b and --track in the man page.
Using "-b --track newbranch oldbranch" gives the error:

  git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
  branches/forcing

However, "--track -b ..." works just fine.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-23 16:58:10 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields b71083043c Documentation: clarify track/no-track option.
Fix the description of the --no-track option so it no longer says the
opposite of what was intended.  Also mention branch.autosetupmerge
explicitly.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16 01:10:28 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 40c8279f9b Documentation: clarify git-checkout -f, minor editing
"Force a re-read of everything" doesn't mean much to me.

Also some minor grammar fixes.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16 01:10:28 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini 0746d19a82 git-branch, git-checkout: autosetup for remote branch tracking
In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from
your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence:

  git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic
  git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin
  git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic

This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic'
branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two
configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the
right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch.

This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git
branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions
when creating your 'mytopic' branch.

If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you
do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in
this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option.
The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track
option to countermand it even if the variable is set.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-10 23:41:58 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce d7f078b8b9 Convert update-index references in docs to add.
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke
when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation
should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing
update-index.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17 10:20:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano cec8d146fc Documentation: Moving out of detached HEAD does not warn anymore.
The documentation still talked about the unnecessary 'safety'
in git-checkout.

Pointed out by Matthias Lederhofer.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13 10:12:37 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre 6124aee5d9 add a quiet option to git-checkout
Those new messages are certainly nice, but there might be cases where
they are simply unwelcome, like when git-commit is used within scripts.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:36:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 84a978f118 Documentation: "git-checkout <tree> <path>" takes any tree-ish
Especially, it is not limited to branch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-31 13:30:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5e1a2e8c61 Documentation: detached HEAD
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 10:43:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano dcaad49c92 Merge branch 'sp/reflog' into next
* sp/reflog:
  Enable ref log creation in git checkout -b.
  Create/delete branch ref logs.
  Include ref log detail in commit, reset, etc.
  Change order of -m option to update-ref.
  Correct force_write bug in refs.c
  Change 'master@noon' syntax to 'master@{noon}'.
  Log ref updates made by fetch.
  Force writing ref if it doesn't exist.
  Added logs/ directory to repository layout.
  General ref log reading improvements.
  Fix ref log parsing so it works properly.
  Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax
  Log ref updates to logs/refs/<ref>
  Convert update-ref to use ref_lock API.
  Improve abstraction of ref lock/write.
2006-05-23 15:07:47 -07:00
Shawn Pearce 2b1f4247ab Reference git-check-ref-format in git-branch.
Its nice to have git-check-ref-format actually get mentioned in
git-branch's documentation as the syntax of a ref name must conform
to what is described in git-check-ref-format.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-21 02:05:41 -07:00
Shawn Pearce 969d326d6b Enable ref log creation in git checkout -b.
Switch git checkout -b to use git-update-ref rather than echo and
a shell I/O redirection.  This is more in line with typical GIT
commands and allows -b to be logged according to the normal ref
logging rules.

Added -l option to allow users to create the ref log at the same
time as creating a branch.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-19 15:03:39 -07:00
Sean Estabrooks 48aeecdcc1 Fix up remaining man pages that use asciidoc "callouts".
Unfortunately docbook does not allow a callout to be
referenced from inside a callout list description.
Rewrite one paragraph in git-reset man page to work
around this limitation.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-04-28 14:31:36 -07:00
Jon Loeliger 71bb10336f Rewrite synopsis to clarify the two primary uses of git-checkout.
Fix a few typo/grammar problems.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17 20:42:38 -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
Junio C Hamano 1be0659efc checkout: merge local modifications while switching branches.
* Instead of going interactive, introduce a command line switch
   '-m' to allow merging changes when normal two-way merge by
   read-tree prevents branch switching.

 * Leave the unmerged stages intact if automerge fails, but
   reset index entries of cleanly merged paths to that of the
   new branch, so that "git diff" (not "git diff HEAD") would
   show the local modifications.

 * Swap the order of trees in read-tree three-way merge used in
   the fallback, so that `git diff` to show the conflicts become
   more natural.

 * Describe the new option and give more examples in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-13 16:52:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 1e2ccd3abc Documentation: more examples.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-12 23:24:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 4aaa702794 git-checkout: revert specific paths to either index or a given tree-ish.
When extra paths arguments are given, git-checkout reverts only those
paths to either the version recorded in the index or the version
recorded in the given tree-ish.

This has been on the TODO list for quite a while.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-18 01:29:27 -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 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
Renamed from Documentation/git-checkout-script.txt (Browse further)