Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.
The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The goals are:
- Readable from beginning to end in order without having read
any other git documentation beforehand.
- Helpful section names and cross-references, so it's not too
hard to skip around some if you need to.
- Organized to allow it to grow much larger (unlike the
tutorials)
It's more liesurely than tutorial.txt, but tries to stay focused on
practical how-to stuff. It adds a discussion of how to resolve merge
conflicts, and partial instructions on setting up and dealing with a
public repository.
I've lifted a little bit from "branching and merging" (e.g., some of the
discussion of history diagrams), and could probably steal more if that's
OK. (Similarly anyone should of course feel free to reuse bits of this
if any parts seem more useful than the whole.)
There's a lot of detail on managing branches and using git-fetch, just
because those are essential even to people needing read-only access
(e.g., kernel testers). I think those sections will be much shorter
once the new "git remote" command and the disconnected checkouts are
taken into account.
I do feel bad about adding yet another piece of documentation, but I we
need something that goes through all the basics in a logical order, and
I wasn't seeing how to grow the tutorials into that.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
This adds and uses the install-doc-quick.sh file to
Documentation/, which is usable for people who track either the
'html' or 'man' heads in Junio's repository (prefixed with
'origin/' if cloned locally). You may override this by
specifying DOC_REF in the make environment or in config.mak.
GZ may also be set in the environment (or config.mak) if you
wish to gzip the documentation after installing it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
No need to install manpages as executable. Noticed by Ville Skytt,Ad(B.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The rule for howto/*.html used "$?", which expands to the list of all
newer prerequisites, including asciidoc.conf added by another rule.
"$<" should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... to install documentation relative to the path set with configure's
--prefix option.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch renames man1 and man7 variables to man1dir and man7dir,
according to "Makefile Conventions: Variables for Installation
Directories" in make.info of GNU Make.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Makefiles in subdirectories now use existing value of INSTALL, bindir,
mandir if it is set, allowing those to be set in main Makefile or in
included config.mak. Main Makefile exports variables which it sets.
Accidentally it renames bin to bindir in Documentation/Makefile
(should be bindir from start, but is unused, perhaps to be removed).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As both DESTDIR and the prefix are supposed to be absolute pathnames
they can simply be concatenated without an extra / (like in the main Makefile).
The extra slash may even break installation on Windows.
[jc: adjusted an earlier workaround for this problem in the dist-doc
target in the main Makefile as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add a sequel to tutorial.txt which discusses the index file and
the object database.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Adds an xsl fragment to render docbook callouts when
converting to man page format. Update the Makefile
to have "xmlto" use it when generating man pages.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
In particular, git-tools.txt isn't a manpage, and my Asciidoc gets upset
by it. The simplest fix is to Remove articles from the list of manpages
the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
asciidoc 7.0.4 and newer considers such includes from parent directory
unsafe.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We forgot to update the primary link from git.html leading to
the tutorial, and also forgot to build and install the renamed
core-tutorial document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/Makefile spent a lot of time to generate include
dependencies, which was quite noticeable especially during "make clean".
Rewrite it to generate just a single dependency file.
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>
exports $prefix and makes Documentation/Makefile following it also.
Signed-off-by: Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The fixes focuses on improving the HTML output. Most noteworthy:
- Fix the Makefile to also make various *.html files depend on
included files.
- Consistently use 'NOTE: ...' instead of '[ ... ]' for additional
info.
- Fix ending '::' for description lists in OPTION section etc.
- Fix paragraphs in description lists ending up as preformated text.
- Always use listingblocks (preformatted text wrapped in lines with -----)
for examples that span empty lines, so they are put in only one HTML
block.
- Use '1.' instead of '(1)' for numbered lists.
- Fix linking to other GIT docs.
- git-rev-list.txt: put option descriptions in an OPTION section.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Randal L. Schwartz noticed that 'make install' does not rebuild what
is installed. Make the 'install' rule depend on 'man'.
I noticed also 'touch' of the source files were used to express include
dependencies, which is a no-no. Rewrite it to do dependencies properly,
and add missing include dependencies while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Introduce an asciidoc.conf file with the purpose of adding a gitlink:
macro which will improve the manpage output.
Original cogito patch by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>;
asciidoc.conf from that patch was further enhanced to use the proper
DocBook tag <citerefentry> for references to man pages.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... in order to please Solaris 'install'. GNU install is not harmed
with this.
[jc: Documentation/Makefile also fixed.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mostly making the formatted html prettier.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 7adf1f15ebe074d4767df941817a6cf86d8e2533 commit)
Generate docs for gitk. Install them in the right deb package.
Signed-off-by: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Use "working tree", "object name", "repository" as the canonical
term consistenly.
- Start formatting tutorial with asciidoc.
- Mention shared repository style of cooperation.
- Update with some usability enhancements recently made, such as
the "-m" flag to the "git commit" command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This also includes a script which does the sorting, and introduces
hyperlinks for every described term.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Linus brought up that documentation for many commands have
incorrect attribution. I started counting lines again, but
ended up adding a handful of missing manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
$DESTDIR is more usual during the build than $dest and is what
is usually used in the makefiles, so let's use it too.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This makes it straightforward for people wanting to build and install
the git man pages and the rest of the documentation to do so.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I got tired of maintaining almost duplicated descriptions in
diff-* brothers, both in usage string and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A Makefile that works just fine when the 6 character patch is applied
to asciidoc
Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This moves the git manpage to man7, since "git" isn't a direct command
per se. It also does two other things:
* Sort of works around the asciidoc 6.0.3 bug where the manpages all
get called "git.1". It just renames them to what they should have
been called.
* Fixes a cut-n-paste bug in git-diff-helper.txt that was making
asciidoc choke.
It makes the includers (diff commands documentation) depend on the includee
(diff format description).
Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
