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Junio C Hamano ce18123cec Merge branch 'mm/doc-tt'
More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.

* mm/doc-tt:
  doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
  CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation
  doc: typeset long options with argument as literal
  doc: typeset '--' as literal
  doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
  doc: typeset short command-line options as literal
  Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
2016-07-13 11:24:14 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 661c3e9bc0 doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and
variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Matthieu Moy bcf9626a71 doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3a76459922 Merge branch 'dn/gpg-doc'
The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.

* dn/gpg-doc:
  Documentation: GPG capitalization
2016-06-27 09:56:45 -07:00
Dave Nicolson bc91316781 Documentation: GPG capitalization
When "GPG" is used in a sentence it is now consistently capitalized.
When referring to the binary it is left as "gpg".

Signed-off-by: David Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-16 17:32:28 -07:00
Tom Russello ae9f6311e9 doc: change configuration variables format
This change configuration variables that where in italic style
to monospace font according to the guideline. It was obtained with

	grep '[[:alpha:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]*::$' config.txt | \
	sed -e 's/::$//' -e 's/\./\\\\./' | \
	xargs -iP perl -pi -e "s/\'P\'/\`P\`/g" ./*.txt

Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08 12:04:55 -07:00
Jeff King 0571979bd6 tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"
Since b7cc53e9 (tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs, 2015-07-11),
git-tag has started showing tags with ambiguous names (i.e.,
when both "heads/foo" and "tags/foo" exists) as "tags/foo"
instead of just "foo". This is both:

  - pointless; the output of "git tag" includes only
    refs/tags, so we know that "foo" means the one in
    "refs/tags".

and

  - ambiguous; in the original output, we know that the line
    "foo" means that "refs/tags/foo" exists. In the new
    output, it is unclear whether we mean "refs/tags/foo" or
    "refs/tags/tags/foo".

The reason this happens is that commit b7cc53e9 switched
git-tag to use ref-filter's "%(refname:short)" output
formatting, which was adapted from for-each-ref. This more
general code does not know that we care only about tags, and
uses shorten_unambiguous_ref to get the short-name. We need
to tell it that we care only about "refs/tags/", and it
should shorten with respect to that value.

In theory, the ref-filter code could figure this out by us
passing FILTER_REFS_TAGS. But there are two complications
there:

  1. The handling of refname:short is deep in formatting
     code that does not even have our ref_filter struct, let
     alone the arguments to the filter_ref struct.

  2. In git v2.7.0, we expose the formatting language to the
     user. If we follow this path, it will mean that
     "%(refname:short)" behaves differently for "tag" versus
     "for-each-ref" (including "for-each-ref refs/tags/"),
     which can lead to confusion.

Instead, let's add a new modifier to the formatting
language, "strip", to remove a specific set of prefix
components. This fixes "git tag", and lets users invoke the
same behavior from their own custom formats (for "tag" or
"for-each-ref") while leaving ":short" with its same
consistent meaning in all places.

We introduce a test in t7004 for "git tag", which fails
without this patch. We also add a similar test in t3203 for
"git branch", which does not actually fail. But since it is
likely that "branch" will eventually use the same formatting
code, the test helps defend against future regressions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-26 13:34:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano e13d854322 Merge branch 'mm/keyid-docs'
Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional
(which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end
of the command line).  Add notice to documentation of each and
every one of them.

* mm/keyid-docs:
  Documentation: explain optional arguments better
  Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O
  Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
2015-10-05 12:30:26 -07:00
Matthieu Moy 340f2c5e63 Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-21 10:48:17 -07:00
Karthik Nayak 5242860f54 tag.c: implement '--merged' and '--no-merged' options
Use 'ref-filter' APIs to implement the '--merged' and '--no-merged'
options into 'tag.c'. The '--merged' option lets the user to only list
tags merged into the named commit. The '--no-merged' option lets the
user to only list tags not merged into the named commit.  If no object
is provided it assumes HEAD as the object.

Add documentation and tests for the same.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-17 10:02:50 -07:00
Karthik Nayak df0947417a tag.c: implement '--format' option
Implement the '--format' option provided by 'ref-filter'.
This lets the user list tags as per desired format similar
to the implementation in 'git for-each-ref'.

Add tests and documentation for the same.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-17 10:02:49 -07:00
Karthik Nayak b7cc53e92c tag.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs
Make 'tag.c' use 'ref-filter' APIs for iterating through refs, sorting
and printing of refs. This removes most of the code used in 'tag.c'
replacing it with calls to the 'ref-filter' library.

Make 'tag.c' use the 'filter_refs()' function provided by 'ref-filter'
to filter out tags based on the options set.

For printing tags we use 'show_ref_array_item()' function provided by
'ref-filter'.

We improve the sorting option provided by 'tag.c' by using the sorting
options provided by 'ref-filter'. This causes the test 'invalid sort
parameter on command line' in t7004 to fail, as 'ref-filter' throws an
error for all sorting fields which are incorrect. The test is changed
to reflect the same.

Modify documentation for the same.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-17 10:02:49 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 24493ff5d8 Merge branch 'kn/tag-doc-fix' into maint
* kn/tag-doc-fix:
  Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>"
2015-08-19 14:41:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b6d323f164 Merge branch 'dt/refs-backend-preamble'
In preparation for allowing different "backends" to store the refs
in a way different from the traditional "one ref per file in $GIT_DIR
or in a $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file" filesystem storage, reduce
direct filesystem access to ref-like things like CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
from scripts and programs.

* dt/refs-backend-preamble:
  git-stash: use update-ref --create-reflog instead of creating files
  update-ref and tag: add --create-reflog arg
  refs: add REF_FORCE_CREATE_REFLOG flag
  git-reflog: add exists command
  refs: new public ref function: safe_create_reflog
  refs: break out check for reflog autocreation
  refs.c: add err arguments to reflog functions
2015-08-03 11:01:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 85df7cd487 Merge branch 'kn/tag-doc-fix'
* kn/tag-doc-fix:
  Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>"
2015-08-03 11:01:24 -07:00
David Turner 144c76fa39 update-ref and tag: add --create-reflog arg
Allow the creation of a ref (e.g. stash) with a reflog already in
place. For most refs (e.g. those under refs/heads), this happens
automatically, but for others, we need this option.

Currently, git does this by pre-creating the reflog, but alternate ref
backends might store reflogs somewhere other than .git/logs.  Code
that now directly manipulates .git/logs should instead use git
plumbing commands.

I also added --create-reflog to git tag, just for completeness.

In a moment, we will use this argument to make git stash work with
alternate ref backends.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-21 14:08:35 -07:00
Karthik Nayak 35813042ef Documentation/tag: remove double occurance of "<pattern>"
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-10 09:44:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 96b7f93ac8 Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix' into maint
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
  doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
  doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
  doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
  doc: convert \--option to --option
  doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
  doc: fix length of underlined section-title
  doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
  doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
  doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-06-05 12:00:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d1caa58954 Merge branch 'jk/asciidoc-markup-fix'
Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.

* jk/asciidoc-markup-fix:
  doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
  doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
  doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
  doc: convert \--option to --option
  doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
  doc: fix length of underlined section-title
  doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
  doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
  doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
2015-05-22 12:41:50 -07:00
Jeff King d595bdc17f doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
This makes sure that AsciiDoc does not turn them into links.
Regular AsciiDoc does not catch these cases, but AsciiDoctor
does treat them as links.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-12 22:14:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b7990520bc Merge branch 'nd/versioncmp-prereleases'
* nd/versioncmp-prereleases:
  git tag: mention versionsort.prereleaseSuffix in manpage
2015-04-28 13:00:19 -07:00
Michael Haggerty 64f7a26494 git tag: mention versionsort.prereleaseSuffix in manpage
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-23 11:28:24 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy da0005b885 *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.

 - am.keepcr
 - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
 - diff.dirstat .noprefix
 - gitcvs.usecrlfattr
 - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
 - pull.twohead
 - receive.autogc
 - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13 22:13:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 3c2dc76f01 Merge branch 'maint-2.0' into maint
* maint-2.0:
  git-tag.txt: Add a missing hyphen to `-s`
2014-10-07 13:40:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 76f8611a5f Merge branch 'maint-1.9' into maint-2.0
* maint-1.9:
  git-tag.txt: Add a missing hyphen to `-s`
2014-10-07 13:40:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9181365b85 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.5' into maint-1.9
* maint-1.8.5:
  git-tag.txt: Add a missing hyphen to `-s`
2014-10-07 13:40:19 -07:00
Wieland Hoffmann eeff891ac7 git-tag.txt: Add a missing hyphen to -s
Signed-off-by: Wieland Hoffmann <themineo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-07 11:08:06 -07:00
Jacob Keller b150794daf tag: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig
Add support for configuring default sort ordering for git tags. Command
line option will override this configured value, using the exact same
syntax.

Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-07-17 09:22:20 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 9ef176b55c tag: support --sort=<spec>
--sort=version:refname (or --sort=v:refname for short) sorts tags as
if they are versions. --sort=-refname reverses the order (with or
without ":version").

versioncmp() is copied from string/strverscmp.c in glibc commit
ee9247c38a8def24a59eb5cfb7196a98bef8cfdc, reformatted to Git coding
style. The implementation is under LGPL-2.1 and according to [1] I can
relicense it to GPLv2.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-27 14:04:05 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 81966ab2ec git-tag.txt: <commit> for --contains is optional
This goes far back to e84fb2f (branch --contains: default to HEAD -
2008-07-08) where the same parsing code is shared with
builtin/tag.c. git-branch.txt correctly states that <commit> for
--contains is optional while git-tag.txt does not. Correct it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-04 10:35:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 652d2bfa83 Merge branch 'ds/doc-two-kinds-of-tags'
* ds/doc-two-kinds-of-tags:
  docs/git-tag: explain lightweight versus annotated tags
2013-07-31 12:38:21 -07:00
Daniele Segato 29d55538b7 docs/git-tag: explain lightweight versus annotated tags
Stress the difference between the two with a suggestion on
when the user should use one in place of the other.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-29 08:03:33 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann d5fa1f1a69 The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 11:08:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 92e0d91632 Sync with 1.8.1 maintenance track
* maint-1.8.1:
  Start preparing for 1.8.1.6
  git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
  Fix revision walk for commits with the same dates
  t2003: work around path mangling issue on Windows
  pack-refs: add fully-peeled trait
  pack-refs: write peeled entry for non-tags
  use parse_object_or_die instead of die("bad object")
  avoid segfaults on parse_object failure
  entry: fix filter lookup
  t2003: modernize style
  name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true
2013-04-03 09:18:01 -07:00
Thomas Rast dd686cd4b1 git-tag(1): we tag HEAD by default
The <commit>|<object> argument is actually not explained anywhere
(except implicitly in the description of an unannotated tag).  Write a
little explanation, in particular to cover the default.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-03 08:33:56 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann 2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
John Keeping f430ed8b99 Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses
Email addresses in documentation are converted into mailto: hyperlinks
in the HTML output and footnotes in man pages.  This isn't desirable for
cases where the address is used as an example and is not valid.

Particularly annoying is the example "jane@laptop.(none)" which appears
in git-shortlog(1) as "jane@laptop[1].(none)", with note 1 saying:

	1. jane@laptop
	   mailto:jane@laptop

Fix this by escaping these email addresses with a leading backslash, to
prevent Asciidoc expanding them as inline macros.

In the case of mailmap.txt, render the address monospaced so that it
matches the block examples surrounding that paragraph.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-16 17:59:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 7e0c2036b4 Merge branch 'jc/tag-doc'
Our documentation used to assume having files in .git/refs/*
directories was the only to have branches and tags, but that is not
true for quite some time.

* jc/tag-doc:
  Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
2012-08-22 11:52:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 831e61f80f Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
It is an implementation detail that a new tag is created by adding a
file in the .git/refs/tags directory.  The only thing the user needs
to know is that a "git tag" creates a ref in the refs/tags namespace,
and without "-f", it does not overwrite an existing tag.

Inspired by a report from 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>; I think I
caught all the existing mention in Documentation/ directory in the
tip of 1.7.9.X maintenance track, but we may have added new ones
since then.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-06 14:04:16 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy d96e3c150f tag: add --column
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27 09:26:39 -07:00
Tom Grennan ae7706b9ac tag: add --points-at list option
This filters the list for tags of the given object.
Example,

   john$ git tag v1.0-john v1.0
   john$ git tag -l --points-at v1.0
   v1.0-john
   v1.0

Signed-off-by: Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-08 19:59:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 5de89d3abf Merge branch 'jc/show-sig'
* jc/show-sig:
  log --show-signature: reword the common two-head merge case
  log-tree: show mergetag in log --show-signature output
  log-tree.c: small refactor in show_signature()
  commit --amend -S: strip existing gpgsig headers
  verify_signed_buffer: fix stale comment
  gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
  pretty: %G[?GS] placeholders
  test "commit -S" and "log --show-signature"
  log: --show-signature
  commit: teach --gpg-sign option

Conflicts:
	builtin/commit-tree.c
	builtin/commit.c
	builtin/merge.c
	notes-cache.c
	pretty.c
2012-01-06 12:44:07 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov d3e0598330 git-tag: introduce --cleanup option
Normally git tag strips tag message lines starting with '#', trailing
spaces from every line and empty lines from the beginning and end.

--cleanup allows to select different cleanup modes for tag message.
It provides the same interface as --cleanup option in git-commit.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-09 09:39:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 0c5e70f041 gpg-interface: allow use of a custom GPG binary
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-29 12:30:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 1077bf1ff6 Merge branch 'mg/branch-list'
* mg/branch-list:
  t3200: clean up checks for file existence
  branch: -v does not automatically imply --list
  branch: allow pattern arguments
  branch: introduce --list option
  git-branch: introduce missing long forms for the options
  git-tag: introduce long forms for the options
  t6040: test branch -vv

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-tag.txt
	t/t3200-branch.sh
2011-10-05 12:36:23 -07:00
Michael J Gruber c97eff5a95 git-tag: introduce long forms for the options
Long forms are better to memorize and more reliably uniform across
commands.

Design notes:

-u,--local-user is named following the analogous gnupg option.

-l,--list is not an argument taking option but a mode switch.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-28 22:47:41 -07:00
Jeff King 588d0e834b tag: accept multiple patterns for --list
Until now, "git tag -l foo* bar*" would silently ignore the
second argument, showing only refs starting with "foo". It's
not just unfriendly not to take a second pattern; we
actually generated subtly wrong results (from the user's
perspective) because some of the requested tags were
omitted.

This patch allows an arbitrary number of patterns on the
command line; if any of them matches, the ref is shown.

While we're tweaking the documentation, let's also make it
clear that the pattern is fnmatch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-20 13:00:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 61e8aaf621 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git tag documentation grammar fixes and readability updates
  grep: Add the option '--line-number'
2011-03-28 14:17:17 -07:00
Michael Witten f1723ee6b3 git tag documentation grammar fixes and readability updates
... with help from Eric Raible.

In addition, describe the use of GIT_COMMITTER_DATE more comprehensively
by including "date-formats.txt"

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-28 14:14:45 -07:00
Jeff King 48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00