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Paul Bolle
22f1fb66be Documentation: merge: one <remote> is required
merge only requires one <remote>, so "<remote>..." should be used in the
synopsis (and not "<remote> <remote>...").

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 16:14:32 -07:00
Wincent Colaiuta
9fe00538c6 Grammar fix for "git merge" man page
As spotted by the eagle eyes of Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-26 09:38:58 -07:00
Wincent Colaiuta
4fa535a179 Grammar fixes to "merge" and "patch-id" docs
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-25 17:28:33 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
dcb11263bc Documentation: remove extra quoting/emphasis around literal texts
If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from
normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need
extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments.

config.txt

  Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide
  emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough.

  Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present
  in the described config value, so drop them.

git-checkout.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line
  argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve
  curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to
  indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of
  certain shells (tcsh).

git-merge.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge
  conflict markers. The quotes should are not important.

git-rev-parse.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line
  arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary.

gitcli.txt

  Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line
  examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong
  inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it.

glossary-content.txt
user-manual.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:16:44 -07:00
Ralf Wildenhues
29b802aae6 Improve language in git-merge.txt and related docs
Improve some minor language and format issues like hyphenation,
phrases, spacing, word order, comma, attributes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09 20:57:52 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
9ba929ed65 Merge branch 'jc/better-conflict-resolution'
* jc/better-conflict-resolution:
  Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentation
  git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented
  checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style
  checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index
  git-merge-recursive: learn to honor merge.conflictstyle
  merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3 -m" styles
  rerere: understand "diff3 -m" style conflicts with the original
  rerere.c: use symbolic constants to keep track of parsing states
  xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or less
  xmerge.c: minimum readability fixups
  xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style
  xdl_fill_merge_buffer(): separate out a too deeply nested function
  checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge
  checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-checkout.txt
	builtin-checkout.c
	builtin-merge-recursive.c
	t/t7201-co.sh
2008-09-29 10:15:07 -07:00
Johan Herland
3407a7a9e6 Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentation
In the section on conflict markers, the "<<<<<<<" sequence is compiled by
AsciiDoc into invalid XML. A way to resolve this is by inserting something
between the last two characters in that sequence (i.e. between '<' and '"').

This patch encloses the conflict markers in backticks, which renders them
in a monospace font (in the HTML version; the manual page is unaffected),
and with the pleasant side-effect that it also fixes the AsciiDoc compile
problem.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-04 15:14:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
70a3f89733 git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented
We took it granted that everybody knows how to read the RCS merge style
conflicts, and did not give illustrations in the documentation.  Now we
are introducing an alternative output style, it is time to document this.

The lack of illustration has been bugging me for a long time.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31 20:36:32 -07:00
Dan Hensgen
34ad1afa71 git-merge documentation: more details about resolving conflicts
Signed-off-by: Dan Hensgen <dan@methodhead.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-22 17:32:54 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
f448e24e2f Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30 21:42:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
59eb68aa2b Update my e-mail address
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 12:14:42 -07:00
Petr Baudis
c0be8aa06b Documentation/git-merge.txt: Partial rewrite of How Merge Works
The git-merge documentation's "HOW MERGE WORKS" section is confusingly
composed and actually omits the most interesting part, the merging of
the arguments into HEAD itself, surprisingly not actually mentioning
the fast-forward merge anywhere.

This patch replaces the "[NOTE]" screenful of highly technical details
by a single sentence summing up the interesting information, and instead
explains how are the arguments compared with HEAD and the three possible
inclusion states that are named "Already up-to-date", "Fast-forward"
and "True merge". It also makes it clear that the rest of the section
talks only about the true merge situation, and slightly expands the
talk on solving conflicts.

Junio initiated the removal of the Note screenful altogether and
offered many stylistical fixes.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-19 11:25:27 -07:00
Brian Gernhardt
9869099bee Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebase
Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we
recently added it to am and rebase.  These facts should be reflected
in the documentation.

git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in
the very first example so no changes were needed there.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08 13:13:03 -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
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
SZEDER Gábor
d8abe148be merge, pull: introduce '--(no-)stat' option
This option has the same effect as '--(no-)summary' (i.e. whether to
show a diffsat at the end of the merge or not), and it is consistent
with the '--stat' option of other git commands.

Documentation, tests, and bash completion are updaed accordingly, and the
old --summary option is marked as being deprected.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-12 19:28:18 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
f5a84c372f doc: moved merge.* config variables into separate merge-config.txt
Include the new file from config.txt and git-merge.txt.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-12 19:28:18 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
81646ad247 Fix incorrect wording in git-merge.txt.
A merge is not necessarily with a remote branch, it can be with any
commit.

Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi for pointing out the problem, and to
Nicolas Pitre for pointing out the fact that a merge is not
necessarily with a branch head.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-03 13:40:15 -08:00
Dave Peticolas
b98525e4bf Documentation: fix and clarify grammar in git-merge docs.
Signed-off-by: Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 11:37:57 -08:00
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
0e545f7516 Documentation: describe 'union' low-level merge driver
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-22 23:14:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9c51414f8e Merge branch 'maint' into HEAD
* maint:
  Update GIT 1.5.3.5 Release Notes
  git-rebase--interactive.sh: Make 3-way merge strategies work for -p.
  git-rebase--interactive.sh: Don't pass a strategy to git-cherry-pick.
  Fix --strategy parsing in git-rebase--interactive.sh
  Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit
  cherry-pick/revert: more compact user direction message
  core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge.
  git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntax
  Prevent send-pack from segfaulting (backport from 'master')
  Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt: s/mgs/msg/ in example

Conflicts:

	git-rebase--interactive.sh
2007-10-30 21:44:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dee48c3c7e git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntax
Historically "git merge" took its command line arguments in a
rather strange order.  Document the historical syntax, and also
document clearly that it is not encouraged in new scripts.

There is no reason to deprecate the historical syntax, as the
current code can sanely tell which syntax the caller is using,
and existing scripts by people do use the historical syntax.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-30 16:33:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e66273a6ab Merge branch 'lh/merge'
* lh/merge:
  git-merge: add --ff and --no-ff options
  git-merge: add support for --commit and --no-squash
  git-merge: add support for branch.<name>.mergeoptions
  git-merge: refactor option parsing
  git-merge: fix faulty SQUASH_MSG
  Add test-script for git-merge porcelain
2007-10-03 03:05:58 -07:00
Shawn Bohrer
b06743925c Fix spelling of overridden in documentation
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-25 23:38:42 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
aec7b362ad git-merge: add support for branch.<name>.mergeoptions
This enables per branch configuration of merge options. Currently, the most
useful options to specify per branch are --squash, --summary/--no-summary
and possibly --strategy, but all options are supported.

Note: Options containing whitespace will _not_ be handled correctly. Luckily,
the only option which can include whitespace is --message and it doesn't
make much sense to give that option a default value.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-23 17:14:03 -07:00
Steve Hoelzer
434e6ef89d Try to be consistent with capitalization in the documentation
Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-01 18:15:43 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
dbddb714b0 Update git-merge documentation.
Add "Configuration" section to describe merge.summary
configuration variable (which is mentioned in git-fmt-merge-msg(1)
man page, but it is a plumbing command), and merge.verbosity
configuration variable (so there is a place to make reference
from "Environment Variables" section of git(7) man page) to the
git-merge(1) man page.  Also describe GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
environment.

The configuration variable merge.verbosity and environment variable
GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY were introduced in commit 8c3275ab, which also
documented configuration variable but not environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 20:20:49 -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
Alex Riesen
51e7ecf4ec Add a configuration option to control diffstat after merge
The diffstat can be controlled either with command-line options
(--summary|--no-summary) or with merge.diffstat. The default is
left as it was: diffstat is active by default.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-24 21:37:08 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
d7f078b8b9 Convert update-index references in docs to add.
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke
when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation
should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing
update-index.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17 10:20:27 -08:00
Matthias Lederhofer
1e8b0d486e git merge documentation: -m is optional
Changed -m=<msg> to -m <msg> too.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-12 19:19:45 -08:00
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
Shawn O. Pearce
f94741324e Use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable instead.
Junio rightly pointed out that the --reflog-action parameter
was starting to get out of control, as most porcelain code
needed to hand it to other porcelain and plumbing alike to
ensure the reflog contained the top-level user action and
not the lower-level actions it invoked.

At Junio's suggestion we are introducing the new set_reflog_action
function to all shell scripts, allowing them to declare early on
what their default reflog name should be, but this setting only
takes effect if the caller has not already set the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION
environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-28 01:05:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
17bcdad3b7 git-merge: make it usable as the first class UI
This teaches the oft-requested syntax

	git merge $commit

to implement merging the named commit to the current branch.
This hopefully would make "git merge" usable as the first class
UI instead of being a mere backend for "git pull".

Most notably, $commit above can be any committish, so you can
say for example:

	git merge js/shortlog~2

to merge early part of a topic branch without merging the rest
of it.

A custom merge message can be given with the new --message=<msg>
parameter.  The message is prepended in front of the usual
"Merge ..." message autogenerated with fmt-merge-message.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-21 20:55:40 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
addf88e455 Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-09 02:42:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3ae854c356 Examples of resetting.
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about
recovering from botched commit/pulls.  I agree that pointers
from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place
would be very helpful.

Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-16 18:23:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3ace1fe34b git-merge documentation: conflicting merge leaves higher stages in index
This hopefully concludes the latest updates that changes the
behaviour of the merge on an unsuccessful automerge.  Instead of
collapsing the conflicted path in the index to show HEAD, we
leave it unmerged, now that diff-files can compare working tree
files with higher stages.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-02 01:08:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ffb1a4bed5 Documentation: Describe merge operation a bit better.
In git-merge documentation, add a section to describe what happens to
the index and working tree during merge, and what their cleanliness
requirements are before the merge.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-28 22:54:30 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
93d69d8691 Refactored merge options into separate merge-options.txt.
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>
2005-11-06 23:32:04 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
bb73d73c08 Refactor merge strategies into separate includable file.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-06 10:31:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fdd089793c Documentation: git-fetch/pull updates.
We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line
right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the
broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such
lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion.

Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an
explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines.

Add a couple of cross references.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-05 01:39:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3746501664 Documentation: -merge and -pull: describe merge strategies.
... and give a couple of examples of running 'git pull' against
local repository.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-04 00:18:29 -08:00
Petr Baudis
3c64314c4b Documentation for git-fmt-merge-msg
Simple description. It appears to be mostly internal command, but hey, it
is (it seems) the only undocumented one, so let's fix it up...

Also add a note about it to git-merge documentation.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-01 14:45:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
98438bd0e8 Remove the version tags from the manpages
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 14:49:52 -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
Junio C Hamano
0f69be5376 'git-merge': Documentation.
... and add link from git.txt, as usual.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-10 18:30:42 -07:00