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Denton Liu 56c2da57fe Document the --no-gui option in difftool
Prior to this, the `--no-gui` option was not documented in the manpage.
This commit introduces this into the manpage

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-08 13:30:28 -08:00
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
David Aguilar 2b52123fcf difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code
Teach difftool to exit when a diff tool returns a non-zero exit
code when either --trust-exit-code is specified or
difftool.trustExitCode is true.

Forward exit codes from invoked diff tools to the caller when
--trust-exit-code is used.

Suggested-by: Adri Farr <14farresa@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-28 10:36:57 -07:00
Felipe Contreras 0460ed2c93 documentation: trivial style cleanups
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>
2013-05-17 12:09:21 -07:00
John Keeping 02c56314aa difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree
Some users like to edit files in their diff tool when using "git
difftool --dir-diff --symlink" to compare against the working tree but
difftool currently only created symlinks when a file contains unstaged
changes.

Change this behaviour so that symlinks are created whenever the
right-hand side of the comparison has the same SHA1 as the file in the
working tree.

Note that textconv filters are handled in the same way as by git-diff
and if a clean filter is not the inverse of its smudge filter we already
get a null SHA1 from "diff --raw" and will symlink the file without
going through the new hash-object based check.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-14 14:33:06 -07:00
John Keeping 8aa10d4a5b git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-14 14:29:02 -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
David Aguilar 7a30747fba mergetool,difftool: Document --tool-help consistently
Add an entry for --tool-help to the mergetool documentation.

Move --tool-help in the difftool documentation so that it is
listed immediately after --tool so that it is easier to find.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-10 08:07:41 -07:00
David Aguilar 1f22934575 difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree
Teach difftool's --dir-diff mode to use symlinks to represent
files from the working copy, and make it the default behavior
for the non-Windows platforms.

Using symlinks is simpler and safer since we do not need to
worry about copying files back into the worktree.
The old behavior is still available as --no-symlinks.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 09:35:53 -07:00
Tim Henigan bf73fc212a difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help'
Since bc7a96a (mergetool--lib: Refactor tools into separate files,
2011-08-18), it is possible to add a new diff tool by creating a simple
script in the '$(git --exec-path)/mergetools' directory.  Updating the
difftool help text is still a manual process, and the documentation can
easily go out of sync.

This commit teaches difftool the '--tool-help' option, which:
  - Reads the list of valid tools from 'mergetools/*'
  - Determines which of them are actually installed
  - Determines which are capable of diffing (i.e. not just a merge tool)
  - Prints the resulting list for the user

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-23 12:00:42 -07:00
Tim Henigan 7e0abcec10 difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs
When 'difftool' is called to compare a range of commits that modify
more than one file, it opens a separate instance of the diff tool for
each file that changed.

The new '--dir-diff' option copies all the modified files to a temporary
location and runs a directory diff on them in a single instance of the
diff tool.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-23 11:59:34 -07:00
Tim Henigan 79e0fe6348 Documentation/difftool: add deltawalker to list of valid diff tools
deltawalker has been supported since 284a126c3e, but was not added
to the list of valid diff tools reported by 'git difftool --help'.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-15 13:53:39 -07:00
Thomas Hochstein 1e501a7c47 documentation fix: git difftool uses diff tools, not merge tools.
Let the documentation for -t list valid *diff* tools,
not valid *merge* tools.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-21 09:14:34 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk 7791a1d9b9 Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.

Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.

While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 9d59e6607a Merge branch 'ss/mergetool--lib'
* ss/mergetool--lib:
  mergetool--lib: Add Beyond Compare 3 as a tool
  mergetool--lib: Sort tools alphabetically for easier lookup
2011-03-19 23:24:27 -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
Sebastian Schuberth ffe6dc081a mergetool--lib: Add Beyond Compare 3 as a tool
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-28 12:42:38 -08:00
Sebastian Schuberth aa03f60463 mergetool--lib: Sort tools alphabetically for easier lookup
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-28 12:42:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 38a5932be8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  difftool: provide basename to external tools
  git-difftool.txt: correct the description of $BASE and describe $MERGED
2010-12-16 16:36:03 -08:00
Michael J Gruber 4a689afb03 difftool: provide basename to external tools
Currently, only configured diff helpers get the basename of the file
being compared. Tools specified with "git difftool -x" only get the
names of temporary files for the different versions.

Export BASE so that an external tool can read the name from the
environment. Rather than using a third argument, this avoids breaking
existing scripts which may somewhat carelessly be using "$@" rather than
"$1" "$2".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-16 13:01:36 -08:00
Michael J Gruber 51baceeec4 git-difftool.txt: correct the description of $BASE and describe $MERGED
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-16 13:01:31 -08:00
Jeff King 49bd56a5f7 docs: clarify git diff modes of operation
It is an oversimplification to say that we can take
"[<commit> [<commit>]]", as it really depends on what
options have been given. Instead, let's list the major modes
of operation separately, as we do in other manpages.

This patch also adjusts the text immediately after the
synopsis to match the lines given in the synopsis.

For git-difftool, which has the same issue, let's refer the
user to the git-diff manpage rather than spelling it all out
again.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-05 10:05:46 -07:00
Štěpán Němec 9edb8a0f7b diff,difftool: Don't use the {0,2} notation in usage strings
This was the only occurence of that usage, and square brackets are
sufficient and already well-established for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-05 10:05:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano add0951ab0 Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'
* 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
2010-01-20 20:28:49 -08:00
David Aguilar f47f1e2ce8 difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd'
This adds '-x' as a shorthand for the '--extcmd' option.
Arguments to '--extcmd' can be specified separately, which
was not originally possible.

This also fixes the brief help text so that it mentions
both '-x' and '--extcmd'.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-15 15:04:31 -08:00
Thomas Rast 0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
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
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
David Aguilar 1c6f5b52b7 difftool: Allow specifying unconfigured commands with --extcmd
git-difftool requires difftool.<tool>.cmd configuration even when
tools use the standard "$diffcmd $from $to" form.  This teaches
git-difftool to run these tools in lieu of configuration by
allowing the command to be specified on the command line.

Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133377
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-09 22:41:30 -08:00
David Aguilar 4cefa495ca git-difftool: Add '--gui' for selecting a GUI tool
Users might prefer to have git-difftool use a different
tool when run from a Git GUI.

This teaches git-difftool to honor 'diff.guitool' when
the '--gui' option is specified.  This allows users to
configure their preferred command-line diff tool in
'diff.tool' and a GUI diff tool in 'diff.guitool'.

Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133386
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-03 00:29:35 -08:00
Scott Chacon c8998b4823 mergetool--lib: add p4merge as a pre-configured mergetool option
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update
bash completion and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-28 16:48:20 -07:00
David Aguilar b6f0621a46 mergetool--lib: add support for araxis merge
Araxis merge is now a built-in diff/merge tool.
This adds araxis to git-completion and updates
the documentation to mention araxis.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-24 11:21:05 -07:00
David Aguilar a904392eae difftool: add support for a difftool.prompt config variable
difftool now supports difftool.prompt so that users do not have to
pass --no-prompt or hit enter each time a diff tool is launched.
The --prompt flag overrides the configuration variable.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 22:19:56 -07:00
David Aguilar afcbc8e7ec difftool: move 'git-difftool' out of contrib
This prepares 'git-difftool' and its documentation for
mainstream use.

'git-difftool-helper' became 'git-difftool--helper'
since users should not use it directly.

'git-difftool' was added to the list of commands as
an ancillaryinterrogator.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 22:19:56 -07:00
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