And then if we and our users survived the previous "start warning if
the old syntax is used" patch for a few years, we could apply this
to actually drop the support for the ancient syntax.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The collect_parents() function now is responsible for
1. parsing the commits given on the command line into a list of
commits to be merged;
2. filtering these parents into independent ones; and
3. optionally calling fmt_merge_msg() via prepare_merge_message()
to prepare an auto-generated merge log message, using fake
contents that FETCH_HEAD would have had if these commits were
fetched from the current repository with "git pull . $args..."
Make "git merge FETCH_HEAD" to be the same as the traditional
git merge "$(git fmt-merge-msg <.git/FETCH_HEAD)" $commits
invocation of the command in "git pull", where $commits are the ones
that appear in FETCH_HEAD that are not marked as not-for-merge, by
making it do a bit more, specifically:
- noticing "FETCH_HEAD" is the only "commit" on the command line
and picking the commits that are not marked as not-for-merge as
the list of commits to be merged (substitute for step #1 above);
- letting the resulting list fed to step #2 above;
- doing the step #3 above, using the contents of the FETCH_HEAD
instead of fake contents crafted from the list of commits parsed
in the step #1 above.
Note that this changes the semantics. "git merge FETCH_HEAD" has
always behaved as if the first commit in the FETCH_HEAD file were
directly specified on the command line, creating a two-way merge
whose auto-generated merge log said "merge commit xyz". With this
change, if the previous fetch was to grab multiple branches (e.g.
"git fetch $there topic-a topic-b"), the new world order is to
create an octopus, behaving as if "git pull $there topic-a topic-b"
were run. This is a deliberate change to make that happen, and
can be seen in the changes to t3033 tests.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
There's no point in this:
% git merge
fatal: No commit specified and merge.defaultToUpstream not set.
We know the most likely scenario is that the user wants to merge the
upstream, and if not, he can set merge.defaultToUpstream to false.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that
you must not use a space. Because it is more common for the command
line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to
use spaces in these places. Rephrase the documentation to avoid
this strangeness.
Fix a few existing multi-word argument help strings, i.e.
- GPG key-ids given to -S/--gpg-sign are "key-id";
- Refs used for storing notes are "notes-ref"; and
- Expiry timestamps given to --expire are "expiry-date".
and update the corresponding documentation pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option to gpg sign a merge commit is available but was not
documented. Use wording from the git-commit(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You need at least four dashes in a line to have it recognized as listing
block delimiter by asciidoc.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 35d2fffd introduced 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset
--merge', and added some failing tests in t7611-merge-abort.sh (search
'###' in this file) showing that 'git merge --abort' could not always
recover the pre-merge state.
Still, in many cases, 'git merge --abort' just works, and it is usually
considered that the ability to start a merge with uncommited changes is
an important property of Git.
Weaken the warning by discouraging only merge with /non-trivial/
uncommited changes.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the 1.7.9 feature to merge a signed tag and keep that in
the mergetag header in the resulting commit better.
* yd/doc-merge-annotated-tag:
Documentation: merging a tag is a special case
When asking Git to merge a tag (such as a signed tag or annotated tag),
it will always create a merge commit even if fast-forward was possible.
It's like having --no-ff present on the command line.
It's a difference from the default behavior described in git-merge.txt.
It should be documented as an exception of "FAST-FORWARD MERGE" section
and "--ff" option description.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change was already done by 0e615b252f (Matthieu Moy, Tue Nov 2
2010, Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"), but new
instances of remote tracking (without dash) were introduced in the
meantime.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
linkification in frontends that support it; remove them
- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
the other way around
- trivial typo and wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Traditionally, a cleanly resolved merge was committed by "git merge" using
the auto-generated merge commit log message without invoking the editor.
After 5 years of use in the field, it turns out that people perform too
many unjustified merges of the upstream history into their topic branches.
These merges are not just useless, but they are often not explained well,
and making the end result unreadable when it gets time for merging their
history back to their upstream.
Earlier we added the "--edit" option to the command, so that people can
edit the log message to explain and justify their merge commits. Let's
take it one step further and spawn the editor by default when we are in an
interactive session (i.e. the standard input and the standard output are
pointing at the same tty device).
There may be existing scripts that leave the standard input and the
standard output of the "git merge" connected to whatever environment the
scripts were started, and such invocation might trigger the above
"interactive session" heuristics. GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
can be set to "no" at the beginning of such scripts to use the historical
behaviour while the script runs.
Note that this backward compatibility is meant only for scripts, and we
deliberately do *not* support "merge.edit = yes/no/auto" configuration
option to allow people to keep the historical behaviour.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/merge-sans-branch:
merge: merge with the default upstream branch without argument
merge: match the help text with the documentation
Conflicts:
builtin/merge.c
"git merge" without specifying any commit is a no-op by default.
A new option merge.defaultupstream can be set to true to cause such an
invocation of the command to merge the upstream branches configured for
the current branch by using their last observed values stored in their
remote tracking branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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.
* jh/notes-merge: (23 commits)
Provide 'git merge --abort' as a synonym to 'git reset --merge'
cmd_merge(): Parse options before checking MERGE_HEAD
Provide 'git notes get-ref' to easily retrieve current notes ref
git notes merge: Add testcases for merging notes trees at different fanouts
git notes merge: Add another auto-resolving strategy: "cat_sort_uniq"
git notes merge: --commit should fail if underlying notes ref has moved
git notes merge: List conflicting notes in notes merge commit message
git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 2/2
git notes merge: Manual conflict resolution, part 1/2
Documentation: Preliminary docs on 'git notes merge'
git notes merge: Add automatic conflict resolvers (ours, theirs, union)
git notes merge: Handle real, non-conflicting notes merges
builtin/notes.c: Refactor creation of notes commits.
git notes merge: Initial implementation handling trivial merges only
builtin/notes.c: Split notes ref DWIMmery into a separate function
notes.c: Use two newlines (instead of one) when concatenating notes
(trivial) t3303: Indent with tabs instead of spaces for consistency
notes.h/c: Propagate combine_notes_fn return value to add_note() and beyond
notes.h/c: Allow combine_notes functions to remove notes
notes.c: Reorder functions in preparation for next commit
...
Conflicts:
builtin.h
Teach 'git merge' the --abort option, which verifies the existence of
MERGE_HEAD and then invokes 'git reset --merge' to abort the current
in-progress merge and attempt to reconstruct the pre-merge state.
The reason for adding this option is to provide a user interface for
aborting an in-progress merge that is consistent with the interface
for aborting a rebase ('git rebase --abort'), aborting the application
of a patch series ('git am --abort'), and aborting an in-progress notes
merge ('git notes merge --abort').
The patch includes documentation and testcases that explain and verify
the various scenarios in which 'git merge --abort' can run. The
testcases also document the cases in which 'git merge --abort' is
unable to correctly restore the pre-merge state (look for the '###'
comments towards the bottom of t/t7609-merge-abort.sh).
This patch has been improved by the following contributions:
- Jonathan Nieder: Move test documentation into test_description
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inside an element of an enumerated list, the second and subsequent
paragraphs need to lose their indent and have to be strung together with a
line with a single '+' on it instead. Otherwise the lines below are shown
in typewriter face, which just looks wrong.
Signed-off-by: Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user specifies a message, use fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() to
append the shortlog.
Previously, when a message was specified, we ignored the merge title
("Merge <foo> into <bar>") and shortlog from fmt_merge_msg().
Update the documentation for -m to reflect this too.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also move -X's description next to -s's in merge-options.txt.
This makes it easier to learn how to specify merge strategy options.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast:
Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch
Documentation: simplify How Merge Works
Documentation: merge: add a section about fast-forward
Documentation: emphasize when git merge terminates early
Documentation: merge: add an overview
Documentation: merge: move merge strategy list to end
Documentation: suggest `reset --merge` in How Merge Works section
Documentation: merge: move configuration section to end
Documentation: emphasise 'git shortlog' in its synopsis
Documentation: show-files is now called git-ls-files
Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
commit 57bddb11 (Documentation/git-merge: reword references to
"remote" and "pull", 2010-01-07) fixed the manual to drop the
assumption that the other branch being merged is from a remote
repository. Unfortunately, in a few places, to do so it
introduced the antecedentless phrase "their versions". Worse, in
passages like the following, 'they' is playing two roles.
| highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions.
|
| * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p <path>'
Using HEAD and MERGE_HEAD nicely assigns terminology to "our" and
"their" sides. It also provides the reader with practice using
names that git will recognize on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The user most likely does not care about the exact order of
operations because he cannot see it happening anyway. Instead,
try to explain what it means to merge two commits into a single
tree.
While at it:
- Change the heading to TRUE MERGE. The entire manual page is
about how merges work.
- Document MERGE_HEAD. It is a useful feature, since it makes
the parents of the intended merge commit easier to refer to.
- Do not assume commits named on the 'git merge' command line come
from another repository. For simplicity, the discussion of
conflicts still does assume that there is only one and it is a
branch head.
- Do not start list items with `code`. Otherwise, a toolchain bug
produces a line break in the generated nroff, resulting in odd
extra space.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Novices sometimes find the behavior of 'git merge' in the
fast-forward case surprising. Describe it thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
A merge-based operation in git can fail in two ways: one that
stops before touching anything, or one that goes ahead and
results in conflicts.
As the 'git merge' manual explains:
| A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
| commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
| match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit)
| when it starts out.
Unfortunately, the placement of this sentence makes it easy to
skip over, and its formulation leaves the important point, that
any other attempted merge will be gracefully aborted, unspoken.
So give this point its own section and expand upon it.
Probably this could be simplified somewhat: after all, a change
registered in the index is just a special kind of local
uncommited change, so the second added paragraph is only a
special case of the first. It seemed more helpful to be explicit
here.
Inspired by <http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html>.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost. Try to help him with a diagram.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
So the section layout changes as follows:
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-MERGE STRATEGIES
HOW MERGE WORKS
HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED
HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
EXAMPLES
+MERGE STRATEGIES
CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
DOCUMENTATION
GIT
NOTES
The first-time user will care more about conflicts than about
strategies other than 'recursive'.
One of the examples uses -s ours, but I do not think this hinders
readability.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list. It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.
While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-config.txt
Documentation/git-merge.txt
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.
Use `code snippet` style instead of 'emphasis' for `git cmd ...`
according to the following rules:
* The SYNOPSIS sections are left untouched.
* If the intent is that the user type the command exactly as given, it
is `code`.
If the user is only loosely referred to a command and/or option, it
remains 'emphasised'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert
(over)users of git-pull to the issue.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The git-merge manpage was written in terms of merging a "remote",
which is no longer the case: you merge local or remote-tracking
branches; pull is for actual remotes.
Adjust the manpage accordingly. We refer to the arguments as
"commits", and change instances of "remote" to "other" (where branches
are concerned) or "theirs" (where conflict sides are concerned).
Remove the single reference to "pulling".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Introduce a command line option to override rerere.autoupdate configuration
variable to make it more useful.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated
style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and
move the examples to the corresponding manpages.
Furthermore,
- show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a
frequently asked question,
- explain the default fetch refspec.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and
supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same"
instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey
the meaning better here.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fmt-merge-message builtin can be invoked as "git fmt-merge-msg" rather
than through the hard link in GIT_EXEC_PATH. Although this is unlikely to
confuse most script writers, it should not hurt to make the documentation
a little clearer anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
merge only requires one <remote>, so "<remote>..." should be used in the
synopsis (and not "<remote> <remote>...").
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Improve some minor language and format issues like hyphenation,
phrases, spacing, word order, comma, attributes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 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
In the section on conflict markers, the "<<<<<<<" sequence is compiled by
AsciiDoc into invalid XML. A way to resolve this is by inserting something
between the last two characters in that sequence (i.e. between '<' and '"').
This patch encloses the conflict markers in backticks, which renders them
in a monospace font (in the HTML version; the manual page is unaffected),
and with the pleasant side-effect that it also fixes the AsciiDoc compile
problem.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We took it granted that everybody knows how to read the RCS merge style
conflicts, and did not give illustrations in the documentation. Now we
are introducing an alternative output style, it is time to document this.
The lack of illustration has been bugging me for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-merge documentation's "HOW MERGE WORKS" section is confusingly
composed and actually omits the most interesting part, the merging of
the arguments into HEAD itself, surprisingly not actually mentioning
the fast-forward merge anywhere.
This patch replaces the "[NOTE]" screenful of highly technical details
by a single sentence summing up the interesting information, and instead
explains how are the arguments compared with HEAD and the three possible
inclusion states that are named "Already up-to-date", "Fast-forward"
and "True merge". It also makes it clear that the rest of the section
talks only about the true merge situation, and slightly expands the
talk on solving conflicts.
Junio initiated the removal of the Note screenful altogether and
offered many stylistical fixes.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we
recently added it to am and rebase. These facts should be reflected
in the documentation.
git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in
the very first example so no changes were needed there.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.
Using
doit () {
perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
}
for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
do
doit <"$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>
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>
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>
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>
This option has the same effect as '--(no-)summary' (i.e. whether to
show a diffsat at the end of the merge or not), and it is consistent
with the '--stat' option of other git commands.
Documentation, tests, and bash completion are updaed accordingly, and the
old --summary option is marked as being deprected.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the new file from config.txt and git-merge.txt.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A merge is not necessarily with a remote branch, it can be with any
commit.
Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi for pointing out the problem, and to
Nicolas Pitre for pointing out the fact that a merge is not
necessarily with a branch head.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
* maint:
Update GIT 1.5.3.5 Release Notes
git-rebase--interactive.sh: Make 3-way merge strategies work for -p.
git-rebase--interactive.sh: Don't pass a strategy to git-cherry-pick.
Fix --strategy parsing in git-rebase--interactive.sh
Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit
cherry-pick/revert: more compact user direction message
core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge.
git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntax
Prevent send-pack from segfaulting (backport from 'master')
Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt: s/mgs/msg/ in example
Conflicts:
git-rebase--interactive.sh
Historically "git merge" took its command line arguments in a
rather strange order. Document the historical syntax, and also
document clearly that it is not encouraged in new scripts.
There is no reason to deprecate the historical syntax, as the
current code can sanely tell which syntax the caller is using,
and existing scripts by people do use the historical syntax.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* lh/merge:
git-merge: add --ff and --no-ff options
git-merge: add support for --commit and --no-squash
git-merge: add support for branch.<name>.mergeoptions
git-merge: refactor option parsing
git-merge: fix faulty SQUASH_MSG
Add test-script for git-merge porcelain
This enables per branch configuration of merge options. Currently, the most
useful options to specify per branch are --squash, --summary/--no-summary
and possibly --strategy, but all options are supported.
Note: Options containing whitespace will _not_ be handled correctly. Luckily,
the only option which can include whitespace is --message and it doesn't
make much sense to give that option a default value.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add "Configuration" section to describe merge.summary
configuration variable (which is mentioned in git-fmt-merge-msg(1)
man page, but it is a plumbing command), and merge.verbosity
configuration variable (so there is a place to make reference
from "Environment Variables" section of git(7) man page) to the
git-merge(1) man page. Also describe GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
environment.
The configuration variable merge.verbosity and environment variable
GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY were introduced in commit 8c3275ab, which also
documented configuration variable but not environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
The diffstat can be controlled either with command-line options
(--summary|--no-summary) or with merge.diffstat. The default is
left as it was: diffstat is active by default.
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
Junio rightly pointed out that the --reflog-action parameter
was starting to get out of control, as most porcelain code
needed to hand it to other porcelain and plumbing alike to
ensure the reflog contained the top-level user action and
not the lower-level actions it invoked.
At Junio's suggestion we are introducing the new set_reflog_action
function to all shell scripts, allowing them to declare early on
what their default reflog name should be, but this setting only
takes effect if the caller has not already set the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This teaches the oft-requested syntax
git merge $commit
to implement merging the named commit to the current branch.
This hopefully would make "git merge" usable as the first class
UI instead of being a mere backend for "git pull".
Most notably, $commit above can be any committish, so you can
say for example:
git merge js/shortlog~2
to merge early part of a topic branch without merging the rest
of it.
A custom merge message can be given with the new --message=<msg>
parameter. The message is prepended in front of the usual
"Merge ..." message autogenerated with fmt-merge-message.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about
recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers
from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place
would be very helpful.
Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This hopefully concludes the latest updates that changes the
behaviour of the merge on an unsuccessful automerge. Instead of
collapsing the conflicted path in the index to show HEAD, we
leave it unmerged, now that diff-files can compare working tree
files with higher stages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In git-merge documentation, add a section to describe what happens to
the index and working tree during merge, and what their cleanliness
requirements are before the merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Refactored fetch options into separate fetch-options.txt.
Made git-merge use merge-options.
Made git-fetch use fetch-options.
Made git-pull use merge-options and fetch-options.
Added --help option to git-pull and git-format-patch scripts.
Rewrote Documentation/Makefile to dynamically determine
include dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line
right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the
broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such
lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion.
Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an
explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines.
Add a couple of cross references.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Simple description. It appears to be mostly internal command, but hey, it
is (it seems) the only undocumented one, so let's fix it up...
Also add a note about it to git-merge documentation.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
