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Christian Couder b3d9888792 Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning
Talking about "git help" is useful because it has a few more
features (like when using it without arguments or with "-a") and
it may work on non unix like platforms.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-17 08:21:31 -08:00
Johannes Sixt 20244ea2d0 git-remote: list branches in vertical lists
Previously, branches were listed on a single line in each section. But
if there are many branches, then horizontal, line-wrapped lists are very
inconvenient to scan for a human. This makes the lists vertical, i.e one
branch per line is printed.

Since "git remote" is porcelain, we can easily make this
backwards-incompatible change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-22 18:05:38 -07:00
Petr Baudis 7dce9918c7 Adjust for the new way of enabling the default post-update hook
The post-update hook, which is required to be enabled in order for
the repository to be accessible over HTTP, is not enabled by
chmod a+x anymore, but instead by dropping the .sample suffix.

This patch emphasizes this change in the release notes (since
I believe this is rather noticeable backwards-incompatible change).
It also adjusts the documentation which still described the old way
and fixes t/t5540-http-push.sh, which was broken for 1.5 month
but apparently noone ever runs this test.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11 17:07:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 10d9d887ec Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual
  Fix deleting reflog entries from HEAD reflog
  reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete'
  Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting

Conflicts:
	Documentation/user-manual.txt
2008-08-11 00:53:31 -07:00
Ivan Stankovic 4f80b27d48 Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual
Signed-off-by: Ivan Stankovic <pokemon@fly.srk.fer.hr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-10 23:56:22 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 7be73ae94e Documentation: user-manual: "git commit -a" doesn't motivate .gitignore
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked
files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore.  So
don't use it to motivate gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08 13:17:08 -07:00
Christian Couder 0e25790f1d documentation: user-manual: update "using-bisect" section
Since version 1.5.6 "git bisect" doesn't use a "bisect" branch any
more, but the user manual had not been updated to reflect this.

So this patch does that and while at it also adds a few words about
"git bisect skip" and points user to the "git bisect" man page for
more information.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30 21:42:20 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen a56bf5850a git submodule add now requires a <path>
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-29 23:18:04 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 51ef1daa4a Rename .git/rebase to .git/rebase-apply
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/",
but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name
for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good
compromise.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 18:51:47 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 28ed6e7b32 Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR.  While at it, avoid the rather
meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".

This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 18:49:28 -07:00
Eric Hanchrow 843c81dcf4 user-manual: typo and grammar fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08 13:00:47 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 467c0197fd Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changes
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a
clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and
the command you type, `git whatever <options>`.  So we use a dash
after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter.

I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some
spots.

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 7a7d4ef69c Documentation: rewrap to prepare for "git-" vs "git " change
Rewrap lines in preparation for added dashes.

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 0cafe944e9 Documentation: fix gitlinks
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 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
Jonathan Nieder 3861cd5582 Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"
The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named
git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands.
Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear
that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the
command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn
dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:09 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 6998e4db52 Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pages
With the conversion of HTML documentation to man pages

tutorial.html -> gittutorial (7)
tutorial-2.html -> gittutorial-2 (7)
cvs-migration.html -> gitcvs-migration (7)
diffcore.html -> gitdiffcore (7)
repository-layout.html -> gitrepository-layout (5)
hooks.html -> githooks (5)
glossary.html -> gitglossary (7)
core-tutorial.html -> gitcore-tutorial (7)

and the automatic update of references to these pages,
a little debris was left behind. We clear it away.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 4209752da5 user-manual: describe how higher stages are set during a merge
Higher stages store the blobs involved from their side verbatim.  Removal
of uninteresting hunks are done by "diff --cc" upon demand and not stored
in the index.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-12 14:30:51 -07:00
Christian Couder 497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00
Christian Couder b27a23e35d Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:

cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.

[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-24 22:28:16 -07:00
Christian Couder a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Dmitry Potapov 208641cf85 git-gc --prune is deprecated
25ee9731c1 made the '--prune' option
deprecated and removed its description from the git-gc man page. This
patch removes all references to this option from the rest of the Git
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-22 21:53:37 -07:00
Guanqun Lu 0c829391cf Fix the wrong output of git-show v1.3.0~155^2~4 in documentation.
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.

Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-23 12:02:11 -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 c477553b2f Merge branch 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
  Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo
  Documentation: fix remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate description
2007-12-31 09:23:55 -08:00
Gustaf Hendeby 57283291b5 Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-12-31 11:27:15 -05:00
Shawn Bohrer 9e5d87d490 Fix spelling mistakes in user manual
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13 09:46:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 65c6a4696a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere
  cvsimport: fix usage of cvsimport.module
  t7003-filter-branch: Fix test of a failing --msg-filter.
  cvsimport: miscellaneous packed-ref fixes
  cvsimport: use rev-parse to support packed refs
  Add basic cvsimport tests
2007-11-30 16:21:33 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin 10455d2a95 Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-30 15:09:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 1ab58e8d6f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  user-manual: recovering from corruption
  user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
  user-manual: failed push to public repository
  user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
  git-checkout: describe detached head correctly
2007-11-25 19:10:01 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields 1cdade2c4c user-manual: recovering from corruption
Some instructions on dealing with corruption of the object database.

Most of this text is from an example by Linus, identified by Nicolas
Pitre <nico@cam.org> with a little further editing by me.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 21:13:10 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields 7cb192eab0 user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
It's important to remember that git doesn't really allowing "editing" or
"modifying" commits, only replacing them by new commits.  Redo some of
the language to make this clearer.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 19:01:57 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields 81eb417ad4 user-manual: failed push to public repository
More details on the case of a failed push to a public (non-shared)
repository.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 18:14:28 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields 0c4a33b54f user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
Some explanation here might help.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 14:06:12 -05:00
Junio C Hamano 5d1d1c1479 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
  user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
  user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
  git-remote.txt: fix example url
2007-11-19 00:19:15 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields 5b98d9bca1 user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here.  The
note about the difference between diff and the combined output of
git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it.  Add a
reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18 19:22:26 -05:00
Steffen Prohaska 3fb0028253 user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
This commit adds a discussion of the challenge of bisecting
merge commits to the user manual.  The original author is
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, who posted the text to
the mailing list <http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119403257315527&w=2>.
His email was adapted for the manual.

The discussion is added to "Rewriting history and maintainig
patch series".  The text added requires good understanding of
merging and rebasing.  Therefore it should not be placed too
early in the manual.  Right after the section on "Problems with
rewriting history", the discussion of bisect gives another reason
for linearizing as much of the history as possible.

The text includes suggestions and fixes by
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> and
Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18 18:15:47 -05:00
Sergei Organov e502c2c31f user-manual.txt: minor clarification.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-17 00:57:05 -08:00
Sergei Organov 93cbbd7121 user-manual: minor rewording for clarity.
Junio screwed up when applying the previous round of the patch;
rewording from "previous" to "old" does make the description
clearer.

Also revert the rewording from head to branch.  The description
is talking about the branch's tip commit and using the word head
is clearer.

Based on input from Sergei and Bruce.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 12:08:15 -08:00
Sergei Organov 2f29dac5a9 user-manual.txt: fix a few mistakes
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 02:04:46 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues c90161586c manual: use 'URL' instead of 'url'.
Just for consistency, use the spelling URL everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:03 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues b6cbca3828 manual: add some markup.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:03 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues 477ff5b71a manual: Fix example finding commits referencing given content.
If I'm handed a file, then it typically lives outside the
working directory.  git-log only operates on in-tree files,
so the first 'filename' should be an in-tree one, or it should
look at all files.  This patch does the latter, so it would
also find renamed files.  However, it is also slower.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:02 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues 06ada1529c Fix some typos, punctuation, missing words, minor markup.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:02 -04:00
Ralf Wildenhues 2ef8ac1b2a manual: Fix or remove em dashes.
em dashes were used inconsistently in the manual.
This changes them to the way they are used in US English.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:11:01 -04:00
Michael Smith 6dd14366d9 user-manual: Explain what submodules are good for.
Rework the introduction to the Submodules section to explain why
someone would use them, and fix up submodule references from the
tree-object and todo sections.

Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-25 17:30:12 -07:00
Miklos Vajna 38a457baae User Manual: add a chapter for submodules
Signed-off-by: Michael Smith <msmith@cbnco.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-23 12:59:14 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields fc74ecc12c user-manual: don't assume refs are stored under .git/refs
The scripts taken from Tony Luck's howto assume all refs can be found
under .git/refs, but this is not necessarily true, especially since
git-gc runs git-pack-refs.

Also add a note warning of this in the chapter that introduces refs, and
fix the same incorrect assumption in one other spot.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-23 12:57:54 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields ecd95b536e user-manual: todo updates and cleanup
Format a couple lists.  Reminder that we may want to add submodule
documentation some day.
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields 9644ffdd65 user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we
need a different introduction here.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:23 -04:00