Commit graph

115 commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Junio C Hamano
d1d3d46146 Merge branch 'ab/ref-filter-no-contains'
"git tag/branch/for-each-ref" family of commands long allowed to
filter the refs by "--contains X" (show only the refs that are
descendants of X), "--merged X" (show only the refs that are
ancestors of X), "--no-merged X" (show only the refs that are not
ancestors of X).  One curious omission, "--no-contains X" (show
only the refs that are not descendants of X) has been added to
them.

* ab/ref-filter-no-contains:
  tag: add tests for --with and --without
  ref-filter: reflow recently changed branch/tag/for-each-ref docs
  ref-filter: add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref
  tag: change --point-at to default to HEAD
  tag: implicitly supply --list given another list-like option
  tag: change misleading --list <pattern> documentation
  parse-options: add OPT_NONEG to the "contains" option
  tag: add more incompatibles mode tests
  for-each-ref: partly change <object> to <commit> in help
  tag tests: fix a typo in a test description
  tag: remove a TODO item from the test suite
  ref-filter: add test for --contains on a non-commit
  ref-filter: make combining --merged & --no-merged an error
  tag doc: reword --[no-]merged to talk about commits, not tips
  tag doc: split up the --[no-]merged documentation
  tag doc: move the description of --[no-]merged earlier
2017-04-11 00:21:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e779b0f070 Merge branch 'ab/branch-list-doc'
Doc update.

* ab/branch-list-doc:
  branch doc: update description for `--list`
  branch doc: change `git branch <pattern>` to use `<branchname>`
2017-03-28 14:05:59 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
783b829287 ref-filter: reflow recently changed branch/tag/for-each-ref docs
Reflow the recently changed branch/tag-for-each-ref
documentation. This change shows no changes under --word-diff, except
the innocuous change of moving git-tag.txt's "[--sort=<key>]" around
slightly.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-24 12:15:26 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ac3f5a3468 ref-filter: add --no-contains option to tag/branch/for-each-ref
Change the tag, branch & for-each-ref commands to have a --no-contains
option in addition to their longstanding --contains options.

This allows for finding the last-good rollout tag given a known-bad
<commit>. Given a hypothetically bad commit cf5c7253e0, the git
version to revert to can be found with this hacky two-liner:

    (git tag -l 'v[0-9]*'; git tag -l --contains cf5c7253e0 'v[0-9]*') |
        sort | uniq -c | grep -E '^ *1 ' | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 10

With this new --no-contains option the same can be achieved with:

    git tag -l --no-contains cf5c7253e0 'v[0-9]*' | sort | tail -n 10

As the filtering machinery is shared between the tag, branch &
for-each-ref commands, implement this for those commands too. A
practical use for this with "branch" is e.g. finding branches which
were branched off between v2.8.0 and v2.10.0:

    git branch --contains v2.8.0 --no-contains v2.10.0

The "describe" command also has a --contains option, but its semantics
are unrelated to what tag/branch/for-each-ref use --contains for. A
--no-contains option for "describe" wouldn't make any sense, other
than being exactly equivalent to not supplying --contains at all,
which would be confusing at best.

Add a --without option to "tag" as an alias for --no-contains, for
consistency with --with and --contains.  The --with option is
undocumented, and possibly the only user of it is
Junio (<xmqqefy71iej.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>). But it's
trivial to support, so let's do that.

The additions to the the test suite are inverse copies of the
corresponding --contains tests. With this change --no-contains for
tag, branch & for-each-ref is just as well tested as the existing
--contains option.

In addition to those tests, add a test for "tag" which asserts that
--no-contains won't find tree/blob tags, which is slightly
unintuitive, but consistent with how --contains works & is documented.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-24 12:15:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
75ec4a6cb0 branch doc: update description for --list
The paragraph begins with a sample command line `git branch <name>`
that has nothing to do with the option being described.  Remove it,
but use the space to instead show that multiple patterns can be
given.

Also mention the unfortunate `-l` that can be easily confused with
it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-24 10:15:49 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
b66f3b6bba branch doc: change git branch <pattern> to use <branchname>
Change an example for `git branch <pattern>` to say `git branch
<branchname>` to be consistent with the synopsis. This changes
documentation added in d8d33736b5 ("branch: allow pattern arguments",
2011-08-28).

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-23 21:22:25 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
17d6c744dc ref-filter: make combining --merged & --no-merged an error
Change the behavior of specifying --merged & --no-merged to be an
error, instead of silently picking the option that was provided last.

Subsequent changes of mine add a --no-contains option in addition to
the existing --contains. Providing both of those isn't an error, and
has actual meaning.

Making its cousins have different behavior in this regard would be
confusing to the user, especially since we'd be silently disregarding
some of their command-line input.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-21 11:19:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
93e8cd8b6e Merge branch 'kn/ref-filter-branch-list'
The code to list branches in "git branch" has been consolidated
with the more generic ref-filter API.

* kn/ref-filter-branch-list: (21 commits)
  ref-filter: resurrect "strip" as a synonym to "lstrip"
  branch: implement '--format' option
  branch: use ref-filter printing APIs
  branch, tag: use porcelain output
  ref-filter: allow porcelain to translate messages in the output
  ref-filter: add an 'rstrip=<N>' option to atoms which deal with refnames
  ref-filter: modify the 'lstrip=<N>' option to work with negative '<N>'
  ref-filter: Do not abruptly die when using the 'lstrip=<N>' option
  ref-filter: rename the 'strip' option to 'lstrip'
  ref-filter: make remote_ref_atom_parser() use refname_atom_parser_internal()
  ref-filter: introduce refname_atom_parser()
  ref-filter: introduce refname_atom_parser_internal()
  ref-filter: make "%(symref)" atom work with the ':short' modifier
  ref-filter: add support for %(upstream:track,nobracket)
  ref-filter: make %(upstream:track) prints "[gone]" for invalid upstreams
  ref-filter: introduce format_ref_array_item()
  ref-filter: move get_head_description() from branch.c
  ref-filter: modify "%(objectname:short)" to take length
  ref-filter: implement %(if:equals=<string>) and %(if:notequals=<string>)
  ref-filter: include reference to 'used_atom' within 'atom_value'
  ...
2017-02-27 13:57:13 -08:00
Cornelius Weig
67c70bd930 doc: add note about ignoring '--no-create-reflog'
The commands git-branch and git-tag accept the '--create-reflog'
option, and create reflog even when core.logallrefupdates
configuration is explicitly set not to.

On the other hand, the negated form '--no-create-reflog' is accepted
as a valid option but has no effect (other than overriding an
earlier '--create-reflog' on the command line). This silent noop may
puzzle users.  To communicate that this is a known limitation, add a
short note in the manuals for git-branch and git-tag.

Signed-off-by: Cornelius Weig <cornelius.weig@tngtech.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-01 15:53:40 -08:00
Karthik Nayak
3d9e4ce3eb branch: implement '--format' option
Implement the '--format' option provided by 'ref-filter'. This lets the
user list branches 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>
2017-01-31 12:43:04 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
3bb16a8bf2 tag, branch, for-each-ref: add --ignore-case for sorting and filtering
This options makes sorting ignore case, which is great when you have
branches named bug-12-do-something, Bug-12-do-some-more and
BUG-12-do-what and want to group them together. Sorting externally may
not be an option because we lose coloring and column layout from
git-branch and git-tag.

The same could be said for filtering, but it's probably less important
because you can always go with the ugly pattern [bB][uU][gG]-* if you're
desperate.

You can't have case-sensitive filtering and case-insensitive sorting (or
the other way around) with this though. For branch and tag, that should
be no problem. for-each-ref, as a plumbing, might want finer control.
But we can always add --{filter,sort}-ignore-case when there is a need
for it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-05 14:59:29 -08:00
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
7f11b48521 Merge branch 'kn/for-each-branch'
Update "git branch" that list existing branches, using the
ref-filter API that is shared with "git tag" and "git
for-each-ref".

* kn/for-each-branch:
  branch: add '--points-at' option
  branch.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs
  branch.c: use 'ref-filter' data structures
  branch: drop non-commit error reporting
  branch: move 'current' check down to the presentation layer
  branch: roll show_detached HEAD into regular ref_list
  branch: bump get_head_description() to the top
  branch: refactor width computation
2015-10-15 15:43:38 -07:00
Karthik Nayak
aa3bc55e40 branch: add '--points-at' option
Add the '--points-at' option provided by 'ref-filter'. The option lets
the user to list only branches which points at the given 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>
2015-09-25 08:54:54 -07:00
Karthik Nayak
aedcb7dc75 branch.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs
Make 'branch.c' use 'ref-filter' APIs for iterating through refs
sorting. This removes most of the code used in 'branch.c' replacing it
with calls to the 'ref-filter' library.

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

We provide a sorting option provided for 'branch.c' by using the
sorting options provided by 'ref-filter'. Also by default, we sort by
'refname'.  Since 'HEAD' is alphabatically before 'refs/...' we end up
with an array consisting of the 'HEAD' ref then the local branches and
finally the remote-tracking branches.

Also remove the 'ignore' variable from ref_array_item as it was
previously used for the '--merged' option and now that is handled by
ref-filter.

Modify some of the tests in t1430 to check the stderr for a warning
regarding the broken ref. This is done as ref-filter throws a warning
for broken refs rather than directly printing them.

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>
2015-09-25 08:54:54 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a2654356d4 Merge branch 'po/doc-branch-desc'
The branch descriptions that are set with "git branch --edit-description"
option were used in many places but they weren't clearly documented.

* po/doc-branch-desc:
  doc: show usage of branch description
2015-09-17 12:29:03 -07:00
Philip Oakley
561d2b7934 doc: show usage of branch description
The branch description will be included in 'git format-patch
--cover-letter' and in 'git pull-request' emails. It can also
be used in the automatic merge message. Tell the reader.

While here, clarify that the description may be a multi-line
explanation of the purpose of the branch's patch series.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-14 12:50:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a745a58ade Merge branch 'mm/branch-doc-updates'
* mm/branch-doc-updates:
  Documentation/branch: document -M and -D in terms of --force
  Documentation/branch: document -d --force and -m --force
2015-07-10 14:26:13 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
83fe16703e Documentation/branch: document -M and -D in terms of --force
Now that we have proper documentation for --force's interaction with -d
and -m, we can avoid duplication and consider -M and -D as convenience
aliases for -m --force and -d --force.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 10:36:54 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
8482d042a0 Documentation/branch: document -d --force and -m --force
The --force option was modified in 356e91f (branch: allow -f with -m and
-d, 2014-12-08), but the documentation was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-06 10:36:51 -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
Johan Herland
fef0e991aa Refer to branch.<name>.remote/merge when documenting --track
Make it easier for readers to find the actual config variables that
implement the "upstream" relationship.

Suggested-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-09 11:03:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f507784d2c Merge branch 'nd/branch-error-cases'
Fix various error messages and conditions in "git branch", e.g. we
advertised "branch -d/-D" to remove one or more branches but actually
implemented removal of zero or more branches---request to remove no
branches was not rejected.

* nd/branch-error-cases:
  branch: let branch filters imply --list
  docs: clarify git-branch --list behavior
  branch: mark more strings for translation
  branch: give a more helpful message on redundant arguments
  branch: reject -D/-d without branch name
2013-02-07 14:41:38 -08:00
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
Jeff King
d040350813 branch: let branch filters imply --list
Currently, a branch filter like `--contains`, `--merged`, or
`--no-merged` is ignored when we are not in listing mode.
For example:

  git branch --contains=foo bar

will create the branch "bar" from the current HEAD, ignoring
the `--contains` argument entirely. This is not very
helpful. There are two reasonable behaviors for git here:

  1. Flag an error; the arguments do not make sense.

  2. Implicitly go into `--list` mode

This patch chooses the latter, as it is more convenient, and
there should not be any ambiguity with attempting to create
a branch; using `--contains` and not wanting to list is
nonsensical.

That leaves the case where an explicit modification option
like `-d` is given.  We already catch the case where
`--list` is given alongside `-d` and flag an error. With
this patch, we will also catch the use of `--contains` and
other filter options alongside `-d`.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31 16:37:24 -08:00
Jeff King
de90ff81f3 docs: clarify git-branch --list behavior
It was not clear from the "description" section of git-branch(1)
that using a <pattern> meant that you _had_ to use the --list
option. Let's clarify that, and while we're at it, reword some
clunky and ambiguous sentences.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-31 16:37:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ff91dbbf7d Merge branch 'po/maint-docs'
Various documentation fixups.

* po/maint-docs:
  Doc branch: show -vv option and alternative
  Doc clean: add See Also link
  Doc add: link gitignore
  Doc: separate gitignore pattern sources
  Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
2012-09-25 10:39:52 -07:00
Philip Oakley
f0970faa96 Doc branch: show -vv option and alternative
Indicate that the -v option can be given twice in the short options.
Without it users pass over the option. Also indicate the alternate
'git remote show' method.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-19 10:22:49 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
b84869ef14 branch: add --unset-upstream option
We have ways of setting the upstream information, but if we want to
unset it, we need to resort to modifying the configuration manually.

Teach branch an --unset-upstream option that unsets this information.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-30 12:07:28 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
6183d826ba branch: introduce --set-upstream-to
The existing --set-uptream option can cause confusion, as it uses the
usual branch convention of assuming a starting point of HEAD if none
is specified, causing

    git branch --set-upstream origin/master

to create a new local branch 'origin/master' that tracks the current
branch. As --set-upstream already exists, we can't simply change its
behaviour. To work around this, introduce --set-upstream-to which
accepts a compulsory argument indicating what the new upstream branch
should be and one optinal argument indicating which branch to change,
defaulting to HEAD.

The new options allows us to type

    git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master

to set the current branch's upstream to be origin's master.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-23 14:18:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f4ed0af6e2 Merge branch 'nd/columns'
A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output.

By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1)
* nd/columns:
  tag: add --column
  column: support piping stdout to external git-column process
  status: add --column
  branch: add --column
  help: reuse print_columns() for help -a
  column: add dense layout support
  t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1
  column: add columnar layout
  Stop starting pager recursively
  Add column layout skeleton and git-column
2012-05-03 15:13:31 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
ebe31ef2ed branch: add --column
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-27 09:26:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b3ba46945d Merge branch 'jk/branch-quiet'
Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking.
Also "branch" learns "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message.

By Jeff King
* jk/branch-quiet:
  teach "git branch" a --quiet option
  checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
2012-04-16 12:42:22 -07:00
Jeff King
d65ddf1984 teach "git branch" a --quiet option
There's currently no way to suppress the informational
"deleted branch..." or "set up tracking..." messages.  This
patch provides a "-q" option to do so.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-26 21:32:43 -07:00
Vincent van Ravesteijn
f36ed6db69 Documentation/git-branch: add default for --contains
Indicate that the commit parameter of --contains defaults to HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-06 11:43:23 -08:00
Vincent van Ravesteijn
ebab989420 Documentation/git-branch: fix a typo
Fix a typo by replacing 'tag' with 'branch'.

Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-06 11:43:22 -08:00
Vincent van Ravesteijn
3ea2232d8d Documentation/git-branch: cleanups
Most of the exact option strings to be typed by end users are
already set in typewriter font by using `--option`, but a few places
used '--option' to call for italics or with no quoting.  Uniformly
use `--option`.

Also add a full-stop after a sentence that missed one.

Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-06 11:40:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a4043aeafe Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4'
* jc/request-pull-show-head-4:
  request-pull: use the annotated tag contents
  fmt-merge-msg.c: Fix an "dubious one-bit signed bitfield" sparse error
  environment.c: Fix an sparse "symbol not declared" warning
  builtin/log.c: Fix an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning
  fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description
  request-pull: use the branch description
  request-pull: state what commit to expect
  request-pull: modernize style
  branch: teach --edit-description option
  format-patch: use branch description in cover letter
  branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function

Conflicts:
	builtin/branch.c
2011-12-09 13:37:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b7200e8397 branch: teach --edit-description option
Using branch.$name.description as the configuration key, give users a
place to write about what the purpose of the branch is and things like
that, so that various subsystems, e.g. "push -s", "request-pull", and
"format-patch --cover-letter", can later be taught to use this
information.

The "-m" option similar to "commit/tag" is deliberately omitted, as the
whole point of branch description is about giving descriptive information
(the name of the branch itself is a better place for information that fits
on a single-line).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-05 14:51:26 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
7b787599e4 branch: -v does not automatically imply --list
"branch -v" without other options or parameters still works in the list
mode, but that is not because there is "-v" but because there is no
parameter nor option.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-08 14:11:35 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
d8d33736b5 branch: allow pattern arguments
Allow pattern arguments for the list mode just like for git tag -l.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-28 22:58:00 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
cddd127b9a branch: introduce --list option
Currently, there is no way to invoke the list mode explicitly, without
giving -v to force verbose output.

Introduce a --list option which invokes the list mode. This will be
beneficial for invoking list mode with pattern matching, which otherwise
would be interpreted as branch creation.

Along with --list, test also combinations of existing options.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-28 22:56:05 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
171edcbb49 git-branch: introduce missing long forms for the options
Long forms are better to memorize and more reliably uniform across
commands.

Names follow precedents, e.g. "git log --remotes".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-28 22:48:14 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
b792c06787 branch -v: honor core.abbrev
Use the value from 'core.abbrev' configuration variable unless user
specifies the length on command line when showing commit object name
in "branch -v" output.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-01 11:22:09 -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
Matthieu Moy
4eec6f988d git-branch.txt: mention --set-upstream as a way to change upstream configuration
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:48 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
29b9a66f28 Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"
"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while
"remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally.
The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather
fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do.

This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f3bd6ab7ea Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  t1010-mktree: Adjust expected result to code and documentation
  combined diff: correctly handle truncated file
  Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -d
2010-04-17 12:40:45 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
fff0d0abdd Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -d
v1.7.0-rc0~18^2 (branch -d: base the "already-merged" safety on the
branch it merges with, 2009-12-29) taught ‘git branch’ a new heuristic
for when it is safe to delete a branch without forcing the issue.  It
is safe to delete a branch "topic" without second thought if:

 - the branch "topic" is set up to pull from a (remote-tracking,
   usually) branch and is fully merged in that "upstream" branch, or

 - there is no branch.topic.merge configuration and branch "topic" is
   fully merged in the current HEAD.

Update the man page to acknowledge the new rules.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-15 00:53:40 -07:00