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Jean-Noël Avila
7706294ec9 doc: uniformize <URL> placeholders' case
URL being an acronym, it deserves to be kept uppercase.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-09 09:39:11 -08:00
Martin Ågren
ca8bb509d2 gitworkflows.txt: fix broken subsection underline
AsciiDoctor renders the "~~~~~~~~~" literally. That's not our intention:
it is supposed to indicate a level 2 subsection. In 828197de8f ("docs:
adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen`", 2020-06-25), the length
of this section header grew by two characters but we didn't adjust the
number of ~ characters accordingly. AsciiDoc handles this discrepancy ok
and still picks this up as a subsection title, but Asciidoctor is not as
forgiving.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-18 13:43:34 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
828197de8f docs: adjust for the recent rename of pu to seen
As of "What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2020, #04; Mon, 22)", there is no
longer any `pu` branch, but a `seen` branch.

While we technically do not even need to update the manual pages, it
makes sense to update them because they clearly talk about branches in
git.git.

Please note that in two instances, this patch not only updates the
branch name, but also the description "(proposed updates)".

Where appropriate, quotes have been added for readability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-25 09:18:53 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
328c6cb853 doc: promote "git switch"
The new command "git switch" is added to avoid the confusion of
one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new users. They are also helpful
to avoid ambiguation context.

For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands...

The "Checking out files" progress line in unpack-trees.c is also updated
to "Updating files" to be neutral to both git-checkout and git-switch.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:57:00 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
a626082629 Merge branch 'km/doc-workflows-typofix'
Typofix.

* km/doc-workflows-typofix:
  gitworkflows: fix grammar in 'Merge upwards' rule
2018-06-18 10:18:42 -07:00
Kyle Meyer
58ebd936cc gitworkflows: fix grammar in 'Merge upwards' rule
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-12 10:19:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f7bbca1cae Merge branch 'db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer'
Docfix.

* db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer:
  doc: reword gitworkflows.txt for neutrality
2017-12-27 11:16:25 -08:00
Daniel Bensoussan
6b0eb884f9 doc: reword gitworkflows.txt for neutrality
Change 'he' to 'them' to be more neutral in "gitworkflows.txt".

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Timothee Albertin <timothee.albertin@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Payre <nathan.payre@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bensoussan <daniel.bensoussan--bohm@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-08 09:22:23 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer
db37745eef stash: replace "git stash save" with "git stash push" in the documentation
"git stash push" is the newer interface for creating a stash.  While we
are still keeping "git stash save" around for the time being, it's better
to point new users of "git stash" to the more modern (and more feature
rich) interface, instead of teaching them the older version that we
might want to phase out in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-27 09:58:38 +09:00
Stefan Beller
941b9c5270 Documentation: unify bottom "part of git suite" lines
We currently have 168 man pages that mention they are part of Git, you
can check yourself easily via:
  $ git grep "Part of the linkgit:git\[1\] suite" |wc -l
  168
However some have a trailing period, i.e.
  $ git grep "Part of the linkgit:git\[1\] suite." |wc -l
  8

Unify the bottom line in all man pages to not end with a period.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-09 15:14:01 -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
Thomas Ackermann
48a8c26c62 Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT,
to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small
caps.  Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days.

Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation.  The name to refer
to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the
command end-users type is "git".  And document this in the coding
guideline.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:25 -08:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
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
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
Björn Gustavsson
c8e1c3d3e8 gitworkflows: Consistently back-quote git commands
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-26 18:33:34 -08:00
Raman Gupta
382e543122 Add branch management for releases to gitworkflows
The current man page does a reasonable job at describing branch management
during the development process, but it does not contain any guidance as to
how the branches are affected by releases.

Add a basic introduction to the branch management undertaken during a
git.git release, so that a reader may gain some insight into how the
integration, maintenance, and topic branches are affected during the
release transition, and is thus able to better design the process for their
own project.

Other release activities such as reviews, testing, and creating
distributions are currently out of scope.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-20 23:39:58 -08:00
Lee Marlow
f3f0c51882 workflows documentation: fix link to git-request-pull[1]
Signed-off-by: Lee Marlow <lee.marlow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-20 23:39:37 -07:00
Thomas Rast
f948dd8992 Documentation: add manpage about workflows
This attempts to make a manpage about workflows that is both handy to
point people at it and as a beginner's introduction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 14:27:59 -07:00