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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
Christian Couder
a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eed81838f0 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint
* maint-1.5.4:
  bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
  revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
  Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
  Document option --only of git commit
  Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
2008-04-11 23:55:55 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
d4ba07cac5 Document option --only of git commit
Its documentation was removed by 6c96753 (Documentation/git-commit: rewrite
to make it more end-user friendly, 2006-12-08), even though it is referenced
from a few places, including builtin-commit.c (as part of the commentary in
the commit message template).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-11 12:54:15 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
8089c85bcb git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message
is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is).
Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place.

It takes one to three parameters.  The first is the name of the file that
the commit log message.  The second is the source of the commit message,
and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a
-t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set);
"merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists);
"squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by
a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option
was given).

If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort.  The hook is
not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used
as a replacement for the pre-commit hook.

The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of
a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including
adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage,
that the user can then edit or discard altogether.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06 02:26:55 -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
Alex Riesen
5f06573743 Allow selection of different cleanup modes for commit messages
Although we traditionally stripped away excess blank lines, trailing
whitespaces and lines that begin with "#" from the commit log message,
sometimes the message just has to be the way user wants it.

For instance, a commit message template can contain lines that begin with
"#", the message must be kept as close to its original source as possible
if you are converting from a foreign SCM, or maybe the message has a shell
script including its comments for future reference.

The cleanup modes are default, verbatim, whitespace and strip. The
default mode depends on if the message is being edited and will either
strip whitespace and comments (if editor active) or just strip the
whitespace (for where the message is given explicitely).

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-22 19:55:07 -08:00
Wincent Colaiuta
aa6da6cddb Documentation: fix --no-verify documentation for "git commit"
The documentation for the --no-verify switch should mention the
commit-msg hook, not just the pre-commit hook.

Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09 00:55:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
17ef10d055 git-commit documentation: fix unfinished sentence.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 13:35:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
36863af16e git-commit --allow-empty
It does not usually make sense to record a commit that has the exact
same tree as its sole parent commit and that is why git-commit prevents
you from making such a mistake, but when data from foreign scm is
involved, it is a different story.  We are equipped to represent such an
(perhaps insane, perhaps by mistake, or perhaps done on purpose) empty
change, and it is better to represent it bypassing the safety valve for
native use.

This is primarily for use by foreign scm interface scripts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 00:36:49 -08:00
Jing Xue
97e9a2216f replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc
The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached'
to unstage is just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'.

Suggested by Jan Hudec.

Signed-off-by: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 01:58:03 -08:00
David Kastrup
f9935bf931 Documentation/git-commit.txt: correct bad list formatting.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-06 23:25:10 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
a76c2acb28 documentation: use the word "index" in the git-commit man page
As with git-add, I think previous updates to the git-commit man page did
indeed help make it more user-friendly.  But I think the banishment of
the word "index" from the description goes too far; reinstate its use,
to simplify some of the language slightly and smooth the transition to
other documentation.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-05 22:08:54 -07:00
Brian Gernhardt
383e45cec4 Document commit.template configuration variable.
Add it to the list in config.txt and explicitly say that the
--template option to git-commit overrides the configuration variable.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-26 16:57:24 -07:00
Steven Grimm
d1cc130a5e Teach git-commit about commit message templates.
These are useful in organizations that enforce particular formats
for commit messages, e.g., to specify bug IDs or test plans.
Use of the template is not enforced; it is simply used as the
initial content when the editor is invoked.

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-24 20:46:54 -07:00
Adam Roben
ef0c2abf3e Add GIT_EDITOR environment and core.editor configuration variables
These variables let you specify an editor that will be launched in
preference to the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables. The order
of preference is GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, EDITOR, VISUAL.

[jc: added a test and config variable documentation]

Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-20 00:46:34 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
af83bed690 Document git commit --untracked-files and --verbose
Documentation based on description of commit 443f8338 which added
'-u'|'--untracked-files' option to git-status, and on git-runstatus(1)
man page.

Note that those options apply also to git-status.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 20:22:07 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
fd0368f985 Document long options '--message=<msg>' and '--no-commit'
Document that '--message=<msg>' is long version of '-m <msg>' in
git-commit, and that '--no-checkout' is long version of '-n' in
git-clone.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 20:22:06 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
6cbf07efc5 git-commit: add a --interactive option
The --interactive option behaves like "git commit", except that
"git add --interactive" is executed before committing.  It is
incompatible with -a and -i.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-09 00:05:23 -08:00
Peter Eriksen
497171e765 Documentation: --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F.
We used to get the following confusing error message:

    $ git commit --amend -a -m foo
    Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F

This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes
sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways.
So update the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 15:32:52 -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
René Scharfe
23bfbb815d Documentation: a few spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 08:44:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
936f32d3de git-commit: document log message formatting convention
Take it from the tutorial, since not everybody necessarily reads it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 22:53:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7905ba626e git-commit documentation: remove comment on unfixed git-rm
... which was fixed since then.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 16:36:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
696b1b507f git-commit documentation: -a adds and also removes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-13 12:26:13 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
fc41be3b2e fix documentation for git-commit --no-verify
Despite what the documentation claims, git-commit does not check commit
for suspicious lines: all hooks are disabled by default,
and the pre-comit hook could be changed to do something else.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12 00:09:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5dc7bcc245 Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 02:36:08 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
ebd124c678 make commit message a little more consistent and conforting
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time,
not only the first time.  Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than
the tree sha1 in this case.

This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well
as the summary of created/deleted files.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-15 22:29:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6c96753df9 Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-09 16:56:34 -08:00
Robin Rosenberg
c64ea8521b Minor documentation fixup.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-01 17:09:01 -07:00
Horst H. von Brand
abda1ef590 Documentation: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03 23:54:55 -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
Francis Daly
6cbd5d7d79 Tweaks to make asciidoc play nice.
Once the content has been generated, the formatting elves can reorder
it to be pretty...

Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-05 15:46:54 -07:00
Marco Roeland
ae5d8470f6 git-commit: document --amend
The "--amend" option is used to amend the tip of the current branch. This
documentation text was copied straight from the commit that implemented it.

Some minor format tweaks for asciidoc were taken from work by Francis Daly
in commit b0d08a5.. It looks good now also in the html page.

[jc: amended further to follow the recommendation by Francis in
commit 3070b60].

Signed-off-by: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-05 14:07:21 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
5bfc4f23bc Reference git-commit-tree for env vars.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17 20:42:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4170a19587 git-commit: Now --only semantics is the default.
This changes the "git commit paths..." to default to --only
semantics from traditional --include semantics, as agreed on the
list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-12 23:55:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
130fcca63f git-commit: revamp the git-commit semantics.
- "git commit" without _any_ parameter keeps the traditional
   behaviour.  It commits the current index.

   We commit the whole index even when this form is run from a
   subdirectory.

 - "git commit --include paths..." (or "git commit -i paths...")
   is equivalent to:

   	git update-index --remove paths...
        git commit

 - "git commit paths..." acquires a new semantics.  This is an
   incompatible change that needs user training, which I am
   still a bit reluctant to swallow, but enough people seem to
   have complained that it is confusing to them.  It

   1. refuses to run if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD exists, and reminds
      trained git users that the traditional semantics now needs
      -i flag.

   2. refuses to run if named paths... are different in HEAD and
      the index (ditto about reminding).  Added paths are OK.

   3. reads HEAD commit into a temporary index file.

   4. updates named paths... from the working tree in this
      temporary index.

   5. does the same updates of the paths... from the working
      tree to the real index.

   6. makes a commit using the temporary index that has the
      current HEAD as the parent, and updates the HEAD with this
      new commit.

 - "git commit --all" can run from a subdirectory, but it updates
   the index with all the modified files and does a whole tree
   commit.

 - In all cases, when the command decides not to create a new
   commit, the index is left as it was before the command is
   run.  This means that the two "git diff" in the following
   sequence:

       $ git diff
       $ git commit -a
       $ git diff

   would show the same diff if you abort the commit process by
   making the commit log message empty.

This commit also introduces much requested --author option.

	$ git commit --author 'A U Thor <author@example.com>'

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-06 23:20:32 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
8278ac2f4a Minor git-reset and git-commit documentation fixes
Minor copyediting of recent additions to git-commit and git-reset
documentation.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-21 19:11:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cb95bf488b Documentation: git-commit -a
A bit more elaboration on what "update all paths" means.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-13 12:59:21 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
353ce81597 Wrap synopsis lines and use [verse] to keep formatting
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-05 18:44:28 -08:00
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
Nikolai Weibull
eaa54efc61 Documentation/git-commit.txt: Add long options and -- to documentation.
Added the following long options to documentation:

* --all
* --signoff
* --verify
* --no-verify
* --edit

Also added documentation for the -- option for terminating option parsing.

Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 15:50:14 -08:00
Christian Meder
cc1621e2a0 The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version
The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version of the git
commands. Adapt the remaining offenders.

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 16:01:32 -07:00
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
215a7ad1ef Big tool rename.
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch.  The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:

  (1) git-*-script are no more.  The commands installed do not
      have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
      something is implemented as a shell script or not.

  (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
      'index' if that is what they mean.

There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support  is expected to be removed in the near
future.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07 17:45:20 -07:00