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Jon Loeliger 323b9db839 Fix Documentation typos surrounding the word 'handful'.
Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use
the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-13 00:18:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano c297432d0d Documentation: clarify what is shown in "git-ls-files -s" output
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-28 23:02:11 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
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>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder 483bc4f045 Documentation formatting and cleanup
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>
2008-07-01 17:20:16 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder b1889c36d8 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
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>
2008-07-01 17:20:15 -07:00
Stephan Beyer 3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -07:00
Christian Couder 9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(1)
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>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -07:00
Dan McGee 5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
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>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 56c3eb1732 Documentation: ls-files -v is about "assume unchanged".
And refer the reader to update-index documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-21 13:50:58 -08:00
Jeff King 8e7b07c8a7 git-ls-files: add --exclude-standard
This provides a way for scripts to get at the new standard exclude
function.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-15 22:24:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano a7a0f3d3f8 Document ls-files --with-tree=<tree-ish>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-14 16:59:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
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>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Josh Triplett cedb8d5d33 Create a new manpage for the gitignore format, and reference it elsewhere
Only git-ls-files(1) describes the gitignore format in detail, and it does so
with reference to git-ls-files options.  Most users don't use the plumbing
command git-ls-files directly, and shouldn't have to look in its manpage for
information on the gitignore format.

Create a new manpage gitignore(5) (Documentation/gitignore.txt), and factor
out the gitignore documentation into that file, changing it to refer to
.gitignore and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude as used by porcelain commands.  Reference
gitignore(5) from other relevant manpages and documentation.  Remove
now-redundant information on exclude patterns from git-ls-files(1), leaving
only information on how git-ls-files options specify exclude patterns and what
precedence they have.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-06-02 11:59:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d1c7c27ea3 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.1' into maint
* maint-1.5.1:
  Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
  More echo "$user_message" fixes.
  Add tests for the last two fixes.
  git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
  Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
  Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
2007-05-26 01:30:40 -07:00
Jakub Narebski 5adf317b31 Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-25 20:54:23 -07:00
Michael Spang 0fc4baebf3 Fix minor documentation errors
- git-ls-files.txt: typo in description of --ignored
- git-clean.txt: s/forceRequire/requireForce/

Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-07 15:39:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano c3f0baacad Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:53:37 -08:00
Matthias Lederhofer ff4d78041e Documentation about exclude/ignore files
Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt,
instead of .git/ignore, and update the list of commands looking
at .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-13 21:52:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b86bec6c4f Documentation: add another example to git-ls-files
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-07 20:19:00 -07:00
sean e994004f93 Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.
A bare "--" doesn't show up in man or html pages correctly
as two individual dashes unless backslashed as \--
in the asciidoc source.  Note, no backslash is needed
inside a literal block.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05 14:21:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano d93067d9c7 Merge branch 'master' into next
* master:
  Optionally do not list empty directories in git-ls-files --others
  Document git-rebase behavior on conflicts.
  Fix error handling for nonexistent names
2006-03-26 23:44:14 -08:00
Petr Baudis b0a3de4231 Optionally do not list empty directories in git-ls-files --others
Without the --directory flag, git-ls-files wouldn't ever list directories,
producing no output for empty directories, which is good since they cannot
be added and they bear no content, even untracked one (if Git ever starts
tracking directories on their own, this should obviously change since the
content notion will change).

With the --directory flag however, git-ls-files would list even empty
directories. This may be good in some situations but sometimes you want to
prevent that. This patch adds a --no-empty-directory option which makes
git-ls-files omit empty directories.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
2006-03-26 19:08:24 -08:00
Eric Wong ad0cae4cb9 ls-files: add --abbrev[=<n>] option
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17 14:10:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano ee072260db Merge branch 'jc/nostat'
* jc/nostat:
  cache_name_compare() compares name and stage, nothing else.
  "assume unchanged" git: documentation.
  ls-files: split "show-valid-bit" into a different option.
  "Assume unchanged" git: --really-refresh fix.
  ls-files: debugging aid for CE_VALID changes.
  "Assume unchanged" git: do not set CE_VALID with --refresh
  "Assume unchanged" git
2006-02-21 22:33:21 -08:00
Carl Worth c8af25ca01 git-ls-files: Fix, document, and add test for --error-unmatch option.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-21 18:37:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 41ac06c7a3 Documentation: git-ls-files asciidocco.
Noticed by Jon Nelson.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-13 21:52:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano f9666adfea "assume unchanged" git: documentation.
This updates documentation to describe the "assume unchanged"
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 01:48:47 -08:00
Petr Baudis a325957062 Document git-ls-files --directory
Add the appropriate bit of documentation.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-21 19:12:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 89438677ab Documentation: spell.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-29 01:32:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano 9a84074d08 ls-files --full-name: usage string and documentation.
Somehow this option was not mentioned anywhere in the
documentation nor the usage string.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-23 15:51:33 -08:00
Lukas_Sandström 5f3aa197ac Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docs
This patch makes the documentation refer to the index
as index instead of cache, but some references still
remain. (e.g. git-update-index.txt)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-11 15:12:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano d88156e943 Update documentation for C-style quoting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-17 17:41:56 -07:00
Kai Ruemmler ab1824787d s/checkout-cache/checkout-index/g for Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
This updates last place where checkout-cache gets mentioned wrongly
for checkout-index.

Signed-off-by:  Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-07 14:05:03 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca df8baa42fe [PATCH] Random documentation fixes
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>
2005-10-03 13:23:47 -07:00
Fredrik Kuivinen 500b97e4bb [PATCH] Teach git-ls-files about '--' to denote end of options.
Useful if you have a file whose name starts with a dash.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-02 10:31:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano b0391890d2 Show modified files in git-ls-files
Add -m/--modified to show files that have been modified wrt. the index.

[jc: The original came from Brian Gerst on Sep 1st but it only checked
if the paths were cache dirty without actually checking the files were
modified.  I also added the usage string and a new test.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:53 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov a7154e916c [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macro
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>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso baeda3a749 [PATCH] Doc: replace read-cache with git-read-tree.
Replace references to "read-cache" with references to git-read-tree in the
documentation. I chose that because reference say "see read-cache about
stages", and stages are explained in git-read-tree.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-04 10:18:45 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin 2c6e477195 [PATCH] Assorted documentation patches
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our
use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections
not related to the terminology unification.  I really appreciate
it.]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-05 23:07:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 1df092d211 Documentation and tests: ls-files exclude pattern.
Update the tests and documentation to match the new "last one
determines its fate" semantics.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-07-29 17:21:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 30b0535f25 Documentation: describe git-ls-files --exclude patterns.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-07-25 17:03:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano 6ca4594312 [PATCH 3/3] Add git-ls-files -k.
When checkout-cache attempts to check out a non-directory where
a directory exists on the work tree, or to check out a file
under directory D when path D is a non-directory on the work
tree, the attempt fails.  Before running checkout-cache, the
user can run git-ls-files with the -k (killed) option to get a
list of such paths.  The tagged output format uses "K" to denote
them.  This is useful for Porcelain layer to be careful when
dealing with the recently corrected behaviour of checkout-cache.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
2005-05-13 07:34:59 +02:00
David Greaves c1bdacf97e [PATCH 3/4] split core-git.txt and update
Update git environment variable docs
Update first section of command docs (Manipulation commands section)

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
2005-05-10 15:01:23 -07:00
David Greaves 2cf565c53c [PATCH 1/4] split core-git.txt and update
Split the core-git.txt file
Formatting fix to the diff-format.txt

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
2005-05-10 14:55:22 -07:00