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Wes Lord
d85e9448dd new-command.txt: update reference to builtin docs
Commit ec14d4ecb5 (builtin.h: take over documentation from
api-builtin.txt, 2017-08-02) deleted api-builtin.txt and moved the
contents into builtin.h, but new-command.txt still references the old
file.

Signed-off-by: Wes Lord <weslord@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-06 14:07:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
032e8da541 Merge branch 'tb/howto-maintain-git-fixes'
A pair of bugfixes to the Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt guide.

* tb/howto-maintain-git-fixes:
  Documentation: build redo-seen.sh from jch..seen
  Documentation: build redo-jch.sh from master..jch
2022-11-23 11:22:24 +09:00
Taylor Blau
098b1d07bc Merge branch 'tb/howto-using-redo-script'
Doc update.

* tb/howto-using-redo-script:
  Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt: fix Meta/redo-jch.sh invocation
2022-11-08 17:14:45 -05:00
Taylor Blau
c805f06b01 Documentation: build redo-seen.sh from jch..seen
In a similar spirit as the previous commit, the 'seen' branch gets
rebuilt by reintegrating topics between 'jch' and the (old) tip of
'seen'.

Update the instructions on how to generate Meta/redo-seen.sh for the
first time to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-31 18:52:21 -04:00
Taylor Blau
7fa56b1a00 Documentation: build redo-jch.sh from master..jch
Rebuilding the 'jch' branch begins by reintegrating any topics between
'master' and 'jch', not 'master' and 'seen'.

In the maintainer guide, the documentation isn't quite right, since the
initial input to Meta/Reintegrate is "master..seen", not "master..jch".
This can lead to confusing results when generating the Meta/redo-jch.sh
script for the first time.

Additionally, rebuilding 'jch' takes place in two steps. First, running
the script up to the first "### match next" cut-line, and then comparing
the result with what's on 'next' (i.e. with "git diff jch next"). Then,
the remaining set of topics get merged down to 'jch' (which aren't on
'next') by running the entire "redo-jch.sh" script.

Clarify the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-31 18:52:16 -04:00
Taylor Blau
c7ccd4eae9 Merge branch 'jr/embargoed-releases-doc'
The role the security mailing list plays in an embargoed release
has been documented.

* jr/embargoed-releases-doc:
  embargoed releases: also describe the git-security list and the process
2022-10-30 21:04:43 -04:00
Taylor Blau
6c3b077c71 Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt: fix Meta/redo-jch.sh invocation
The Meta/redo-jch.sh script is generated a few lines earlier by running:

    $ Meta/Reintegrate master..seen >Meta/redo-jch.sh

But the resulting script is not necessarily executable. Later mentions
of this script invoke it with sh (instead of directly), but this one is
an odd one out.

Update the documentation to invoke the Meta/redo-jch.sh script with sh
in case the maintainer has not made the script executable.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-26 13:35:41 -07:00
Julia Ramer
a294443fa1 embargoed releases: also describe the git-security list and the process
With the recent turnover on the git-security list, questions came up how
things are usually run. Rather than answering questions individually,
extend Git's existing documentation about security vulnerabilities to
describe the git-security mailing list, how things are run on that list,
and what to expect throughout the process from the time a security bug
is reported all the way to the time when a fix is released.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Ramer <gitprplr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-24 16:03:59 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
977c47b46d docs: move pack format docs to man section 5
Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the various documentation pertaining to the *.pack format and related
files, and updating things that refer to it to link to the new
location.

By moving these we can properly link from the newly created
gitformat-commit-graph to a gitformat-chunk-format page.

Integrating "Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt" and
"Documentation/technical/cruft-packs.txt" might logically be part of
this change, but as those cover parts of the wider "pack
format" (including associated files) that's documented outside of
"Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt" let's leave those for now,
subsequent commit(s) will address those.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-04 14:12:24 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
09420b7648 Document how we do embargoed releases
Whenever we fix critical vulnerabilities, we follow some sort of
protocol (e.g. setting a coordinated release date, keeping the fix under
embargo until that time, coordinating with packagers and/or hosting
sites, etc).

Similar in spirit to `Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt`, let's
formalize the details in a document.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-27 15:13:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a78e4d615 Merge branch 'js/pu-to-seen'
The documentation and some tests have been adjusted for the recent
renaming of "pu" branch to "seen".

* js/pu-to-seen:
  tests: reference `seen` wherever `pu` was referenced
  docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename `pu` -> `seen`
  docs: adjust for the recent rename of `pu` to `seen`
2020-07-06 22:09:16 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
77dc6049c3 docs: adjust the technical overview for the rename pu -> seen
This patch tries to rewrite history a bit: the mail contents that have
been added to Git's source code are actually fixed, we cannot change
them in hindsight.

But as the `pu` branch _was_ renamed, and as the documents were added to
Git's source code not so much as historical record, but to describe the
status quo, let's pretend that we have a time machine and adjust the
provided information accordingly.

Where appropriate, quotes were added for readability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-25 09:18:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
564956f358 update how-to-maintain-git
Some parts of the workflow described in the document has got a bit
stale with the recent toolchain improvements.  Update the procedure
a bit, and also describe the convention used around SQUASH??? fixups.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-09 07:57:57 -07:00
Elijah Newren
031fd4b93b Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new
Reported-by: Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@fossies.org>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
Corentin BOMPARD
68ed71b53c doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
Applying CodingGuidelines about monospace on pathnames and URLs.

See Documentation/CodingGuidelines.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Corentin BOMPARD <corentin.bompard@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Nathan BERBEZIER <nathan.berbezier@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Pablo CHABANNE <pablo.chabanne@etu.univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-13 11:14:22 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
5d8b3e5d8b Merge branch 'uk/merge-subtree-doc-update'
Belated documentation update to adjust to a new world order that
happened a yew years ago.

* uk/merge-subtree-doc-update:
  howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
2018-10-30 15:43:49 +09:00
Uwe Kleine-König
5e495f8122 howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
Without passing --allow-unrelated-histories the command sequence
fails as intended since commit e379fdf34f ("merge: refuse to create
too cool a merge by default"). To setup a subtree merging unrelated
histories is normal, so add the option to the howto document.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-25 14:45:15 +09:00
Mihir Mehta
ca8ed443a5 doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence
I noticed that git-merge-base was unlikely to actually be a git command,
and tried it in my shell. Seeing that it doesn't work, I cleaned up two
places in the docs where it appears.

Signed-off-by: Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-11 09:39:15 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
dae2ff9bb6 t/helper: merge test-sha1 into test-tool
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-27 08:45:47 -07:00
Jeff King
e52a53df38 doc: use https links to avoid http redirect
Many sites these days unconditionally redirect http requests
to their https equivalents. Let's make our links https in
the first place to save the client a redirect.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-04-20 22:05:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4abeeb62a0 Merge branch 'po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration'
Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
tabs in it.  Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
work around them.

* po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration:
  doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
  doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing
2016-10-26 13:14:55 -07:00
Philip Oakley
6750f62699 doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing
The asciidoctor doc-tool stack does not always respect the 'tab = 8 spaces' rule
expectation, particularly for the Git-for-Windows generated html pages. This
follows on from the 'doc: fix merge-base ASCII art tab spacing' fix.

Use just spaces within the block of the ascii art.

All other *.txt ascii art containing three dashes has been checked.
Asciidoctor correctly formats the other art blocks that do contain tabs.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-24 18:09:46 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
82f6178af6 new-command.txt: correct the command description file
It has always been command-list.txt even at the time this
new-command.txt document is added.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-27 06:11:57 -07:00
Sébastien Guimmara
413f50b901 command-list.txt: add the common groups block
The ultimate goal is for "git help" to display common commands in
groups rather than alphabetically. As a first step, define the
groups in a new block, and then assign a group to each
common command.

Add a block at the beginning of command-list.txt:

    init         start a working area (see also: git help tutorial)
    worktree     work on the current change (see also:[...]
    info         examine the history and state (see also: git [...]
    history      grow, mark and tweak your history
    remote       collaborate (see also: git help workflows)

storing information about common commands group, then map each common
command to a group:

    git-add          mainporcelain        common worktree

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by:  Emma Jane Hogbin Westby <emma.westby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-21 13:03:37 -07:00
Jeff King
2b8bd44aab howto: document more tools for recovery corruption
Long ago, I documented a corruption recovery I did and gave
some C code that I used to help find a flipped bit.  I had
to fix a similar case recently, and I ended up writing a few
more tools.  I hope nobody ever has to use these, but it
does not hurt to share them, just in case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-01 22:44:03 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
f745acb028 Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:

 - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
 - Spell Linux as Capitalized;
 - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04 13:14:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
75866e6045 Merge branch 'ss/howto-manage-trunk'
* ss/howto-manage-trunk:
  How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
2014-06-06 11:39:12 -07:00
Stephen P. Smith
0678b649a1 How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how
the first parent could become reversed.

This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed
by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct.

Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-28 13:35:43 -07:00
Jason St. John
06ab60c066 Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21 13:57:10 -07:00
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
Junio C Hamano
c7b8cf4985 howto/maintain-git.txt: new version numbering scheme
We wanted to call the upcoming release "Git 1.9", with its
maintenance track being "Git 1.9.1", "Git 1.9.2", etc., but various
third-party tools are reported to assume that there are at least
three dewey-decimal components in our version number.

Adjust the plan so that vX.Y.0 are feature releases while vX.Y.Z
(Z > 0) are maintenance releases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-05 14:14:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
68d5fbe285 Merge branch 'sc/doc-howto-dumb-http'
* sc/doc-howto-dumb-http:
  doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
2013-11-04 14:57:57 -08:00
Sitaram Chamarty
6d52bc318b doc/howto: warn about (dumb)http server document being too old
Describe when it is still applicable, and tell people where to go
for most normal cases.

Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaram@atc.tcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-28 13:24:56 -07:00
Jeff King
41dfbb2dbe howto: add article on recovering a corrupted object
This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to
the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers
a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from
elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-25 14:55:30 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
865156a7cb Merge branch 'rj/doc-formatting-fix'
* rj/doc-formatting-fix:
  howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s
  howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
2013-10-14 11:07:50 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
78bef06589 howto/revert-a-faulty-merge: fix unescaped '^'s
Several uses of the '^' operator are being interpreted by asciidoc
as requests to show the following text as a superscript. In order
to fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected git command invocations.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 07:25:42 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
6430692135 howto/setup-git-server-over-http: fix unescaped '^'s
The text contains two 'grep' invocations which include the 'start
of line' regular expression character '^'. Asciidoc mis-interprets
this use of '^' as a superscript request. In order to fix this
formatting problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected 'grep' command invocations.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-14 07:23:40 -07:00
Richard Hansen
a8a5406ab3 use 'commit-ish' instead of 'committish'
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.

The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
  * variable, function, and macro names
  * "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
    gitglossary[7]

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-09-04 15:03:03 -07:00
Ondřej Bílka
98e023dea4 many small typofixes
Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Reviewed-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-29 12:32:25 -07:00
Ondřej Bílka
17b83d71d5 typofix: documentation
Signed-off-by: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-22 16:06:48 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
d5fa1f1a69 The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function.
When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 11:08:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e34c7e2b51 Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git".  The latter was the intended spelling.

Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.

* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
  Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
  Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
  Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
  Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
  Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
  Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
2013-02-05 16:13:32 -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
Junio C Hamano
bb9aa109fd Merge branch 'jc/doc-maintainer'
Describe tools for automation that were invented since this
document was originally written.

* jc/doc-maintainer:
  howto/maintain: document "### match next" convention in jch/pu branch
  howto/maintain: mark titles for asciidoc
  Documentation: update "howto maintain git"
2013-01-25 12:34:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e510f2d610 howto/maintain: document "### match next" convention in jch/pu branch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-25 12:34:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab05d7c736 howto/maintain: mark titles for asciidoc 2013-01-03 22:59:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cc1b258e2a Documentation: update "howto maintain git"
The flow described in the document is still correct, but over time I
have automated various parts of the workflow with tools and their
use was not explained at all.

Update it and outline the use of two key scripts from the 'todo'
branch, "Reintegrate" and "cook".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-03 14:43:56 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
81670e9bfc Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but
is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To"
section of the documentation suite.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-21 10:35:53 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
1797e5c50c Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
These were not originally meant for asciidoc, but they are already
so close.  Mark them up in asciidoc.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-18 10:51:34 -07:00