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Jacob Keller
e14c92e841 notes: correct documentation of DWIMery for notes references
expand_notes_ref is used by --ref from git-notes(1) and --notes from the
git log to find the full refname of a notes reference. Previously the
documentation of these options was not clear about what sorts of
expansions would be performed. Fix the documentation to clearly and
accurately describe the behavior of the expansions.

Add a test for this expansion when using git notes get-ref in order to
prevent future patches from changing this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-22 15:24:01 -07:00
Jeff King
2aea7a51a1 rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notes
The rev-list command does not have the internal
infrastructure to display notes. Running:

  git rev-list --notes HEAD

will silently ignore the "--notes" option. Running:

  git rev-list --notes --grep=. HEAD

will crash on an assert. Running:

  git rev-list --format=%N HEAD

will place a literal "%N" in the output (it does not even
expand to an empty string).

Let's have rev-list tell the user that it cannot fill the
user's request, rather than silently producing wrong data.
Likewise, let's remove mention of the notes options from the
rev-list documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-24 10:33:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
bbddc51664 Merge branch 'jk/pretty-encoding-doc'
Doc update.

* jk/pretty-encoding-doc:
  docs: clarify that --encoding can produce invalid sequences
2015-07-10 14:17:54 -07:00
Jeff King
e479c5f8f3 docs: clarify that --encoding can produce invalid sequences
In the common case that the commit encoding matches the
output encoding, we do not touch the buffer at all, which
makes things much more efficient. But it might be unclear to
a consumer that we will pass through bogus sequences.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-17 13:46:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b4a56a3966 "log --pretty" documentation: do not forget "tformat:"
We forgot to list "tformat:<string>" when enumerating possible
values that "--pretty=<format>" can take.  It was not described
that "--pretty='string with %s placeholder'" that is not understood
is DWIMmed as "--pretty=tformat:<that string>".

Further, it was unclear what "When omitted, defaults to 'medium'"
was meant.  Is it "When --pretty=<something> was not given at all",
or is it "When --pretty is given without =<something>"?  Clarify
that it is the latter.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-15 17:38:58 -08:00
Justin Lebar
a58088abe2 Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-31 15:16:22 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
e6604c3537 log doc: the argument to --encoding is not optional
$ git log --encoding
 fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value
 $ git rev-list --encoding
 fatal: Option '--encoding' requires a value

The argument to --encoding has always been mandatory.  Unfortunately
manpages like git-rev-list(1), git-log(1), and git-show(1) have
described the option's syntax as "--encoding[=<encoding>]" since it
was first documented.  Clarify by removing the extra brackets.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-05 08:19:47 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
f2fef7b55a Documentation: Document signature showing options
The pretty formats for GPG signatures were introduced but never
documented. Use the documentation from the commit that introduced them.
Do the same for the --show-signature option added to git log and
friends.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-20 10:28:51 -07:00
Jay Soffian
0c47695a69 Add log.abbrevCommit config variable
Add log.abbrevCommit config variable as a convenience for users who
often use --abbrev-commit with git log and friends. Allow the option
to be overridden with --no-abbrev-commit. Per 635530a2fc and 4f62c2bc57,
the config variable is ignored when log is given "--pretty=raw".

(Also, a drive-by spelling correction in git log's short help.)

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-18 12:40:15 -07:00
Johan Herland
ab18b2c0df log/pretty-options: Document --[no-]notes and deprecate old notes options
Document the behavior or the new --notes, --notes=<ref> and --no-notes
options, and list --show-notes[=<ref>] and --[no-]standard-notes options
as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-30 11:36:51 -07:00
Štěpán Němec
efc39d6daf Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
Quotes (for emphasis) are used in option explanations, not the
headings.

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:31:07 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
2429e8da95 pretty-options.txt: match --format's documentation with implementation.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-05 09:49:49 -07:00
Nazri Ramliy
41e4d69fb8 Documentation/pretty-{formats,options}: better reference for "format:<string>"
In "git help log" (and friends) it's not easy to find the possible
placeholder for <string> for the "--pretty=format:<string>" option
to git log.

This patch makes the placeholder easier to find by adding a reference
to the "PRETTY FORMATS" section and repeating the "format:<string>"
phrase.

Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-02 10:03:53 -07:00
Thomas Rast
894a9d333e Support showing notes from more than one notes tree
With this patch, you can set notes.displayRef to a glob that points at
your favourite notes refs, e.g.,

[notes]
	displayRef = refs/notes/*

Then git-log and friends will show notes from all trees.

Thanks to Junio C Hamano for lots of feedback, which greatly
influenced the design of the entire series and this commit in
particular.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-12 21:55:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7dccadf363 Fix "log --oneline" not to show notes
This option should be treated pretty much the same as --format="%h %s".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-21 14:57:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
66b2ed09c2 Fix "log" family not to be too agressive about showing notes
Giving "Notes" information in the default output format of "log" and
"show" is a sensible progress (the user has asked for it by having the
notes), but for some commands (e.g. "format-patch") spewing notes into the
formatted commit log message without being asked is too aggressive.

Enable notes output only for "log", "show", "whatchanged" by default and
only when the user didn't ask any specific --pretty/--format from the
command line; users can explicitly override this default with --show-notes
and --no-notes option.

Parts of tests are taken from Jeff King's fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20 19:57:02 -08:00
Nanako Shiraishi
de84accc59 Add --oneline that is a synonym to "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"
These two are often used together but are too long to type.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-24 23:53:40 -08:00
Nanako Shiraishi
3a4c1a5e21 Add --format that is a synonym to --pretty
Some people prefer to call the pretty-print styles "format", and get
annoyed to see "git log --format=short" fail.  Introduce it as a synonym
to --pretty so that both can be used.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-24 23:53:36 -08:00
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
Denis Cheng
94c22a5e7b log/show/whatchanged: introduce format.pretty configuration
When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user may
want to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=<fmt>
option every time from the command line.  This teaches these three
commands to honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty.

The --pretty option given from the command line will override the
configured format.

The earlier patch fixed the in-tree callers that run these commands
for purposes other than showing the output directly to the end user
(the only other in-tree caller is "git bisect visualize", whose output
directly goes to the end user and should be affected by this patch).

Similar fixes will be needed for end-user scripts that parse the
output from these commands and expect them to be in the default pretty
format.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-05 12:06:09 -08:00
Jim Meyering
1c911dc86c pretty-options.txt: tiny doc fix
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-25 00:06:38 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
13120fdc5e Document git log --abbrev-commit, as a kind of pretty option
Documentation taken from paraphrased description of "--abbrev[=<n>]"
diff option, and from description of commit 5c51c985 introducing
this option.

Note that to change number of digits one must use "--abbrev=<n>",
which affects [also] diff output.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 13:10:49 -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
Jakub Narebski
331b51d240 Documentation: Split description of pretty formats of commit log
Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options
(--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt
and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS"
section in pretty-formats.txt

While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the
resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and
git-diff-tree(1).  Those manpages now include pretty options in the
same place as it was before, and description of formats just after
all options.

Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies:
Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 18:44:50 -07:00