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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
Jim Meyering
a7793a7491 correct spelling: an URL -> a URL
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-28 08:47:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2ad9ba0382 request-pull: explicitly ask tags/$name to be pulled
When asking for a tag to be pulled, disambiguate by leaving tags/ prefix
in front of the name of the tag. E.g.

    ... in the git repository at:

      git://example.com/git/git.git/ tags/v1.2.3

    for you to fetch changes up to 123456...

This way, older versions of "git pull" can be used to respond to such a
request more easily, as "git pull $URL v1.2.3" did not DWIM to fetch
v1.2.3 tag in older versions. Also this makes it clearer for humans that
the pull request is made for a tag and he should anticipate a signed one.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-31 21:27:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
11b17afc93 pulling signed tag: add howto document
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:17:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d4e58965ff Minor update to how-to maintain git
A few more parts of this document is stale that needs updating
to reflect the reality, but I do not regularly rebase topics that
are only in "pu" anymore, which may be noteworthy for a commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-07 11:18:18 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
59ab4eb36e Documentation/merge subtree How-To: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 14:03:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ae76cb90cb Merge branch 'jn/cherry-revert-message-clean-up'
* jn/cherry-revert-message-clean-up:
  tests: fix syntax error in "Use advise() for hints" test
  cherry-pick/revert: Use advise() for hints
  cherry-pick/revert: Use error() for failure message
  Introduce advise() to print hints
  Eliminate “Finished cherry-pick/revert” message
  t3508: add check_head_differs_from() helper function and use it
  revert: improve success message by adding abbreviated commit sha1
  revert: don't print "Finished one cherry-pick." if commit failed
  revert: refactor commit code into a new run_git_commit() function
  revert: report success when using option --strategy
2010-08-31 16:25:11 -07:00
Ralf Wildenhues
22e5e58a3c Typos in code comments, an error message, documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-22 13:25:08 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
130ab8ab9c Eliminate “Finished cherry-pick/revert” message
When cherry-pick was written (v0.99.6~63, 2005-08-27), “git commit”
was quiet, and the output from cherry-pick provided useful information
about the progress of a rebase.

Now next to the output from “git commit”, the cherry-pick notification
is so much noise (except for the name of the picked commit).

 $ git cherry-pick ..topic
 Finished cherry-pick of 499088b.
 [detached HEAD 17e1ff2] Move glob module to libdpkg
  Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
  8 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
  rename {src => lib/dpkg}/glob.c (98%)
  rename {src => lib/dpkg}/glob.h (93%)
 Finished cherry-pick of ae947e1.
 [detached HEAD 058caa3] libdpkg: Add missing symbols to Versions script
  Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 $

The noise is especially troublesome when sifting through the output of
a rebase or multiple cherry-pick that eventually failed.

With the commit subject, it is already not hard to figure out where
the commit came from.  So drop the “Finished” message.

Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-15 19:12:00 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
b499549401 Teach rebase the --no-ff option.
For git-rebase.sh, --no-ff is a synonym for --force-rebase.

For git-rebase--interactive.sh, --no-ff cherry-picks all the commits in
the rebased branch, instead of fast-forwarding over any unchanged commits.

--no-ff offers an alternative way to deal with reverted merges.  Instead of
"reverting the revert" you can use "rebase --no-ff" to recreate the branch
with entirely new commits (they're new because at the very least the
committer time is different).  This obviates the need to revert the
reversion, as you can re-merge the new topic branch directly.  Added an
addendum to revert-a-faulty-merge.txt describing the situation and how to
use --no-ff to handle it.

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-24 14:42:57 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
a75d7b5409 Use 'fast-forward' all over the place
It's a compound word.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24 23:50:28 -07:00
Mike Ralphson
a1070d4cbb Documentation: Typo / spelling / formatting fixes
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-03 21:43:19 -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
Nanako Shiraishi
a128a2cdc3 Add a documentat on how to revert a faulty merge
Linus and Junio explained issues that are involved in reverting a merge
and how to continue working with a branch that was updated since such a
revert on the mailing list.  This is to help new people who did not see
these messages.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-21 01:48:07 -08:00
Thomas Rast
616ab43737 Documentation: remove stale howto/rebase-and-edit.txt
The "rebase and edit" howto predates the much easier solution 'git
rebase -i' by two years.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-12 11:31:55 -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
Dmitry Potapov
f9a08f618f update-hook-example: optionally allow non-fast-forward
Sometimes it is desirable to have non-fast-forward branches in a
shared repository. A typical example of that is the 'pu' branch.
This patch extends the format of allowed-users and allow-groups
files by using the '+' sign at the beginning as the mark that
non-fast-forward pushes are permitted to the branch.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25 22:41:10 -07:00
Dmitry Potapov
df79b9fdb8 fix update-hook-example to work with packed tag references
The update-hook-example used 'test -f' to check the tag present, which
does not work if the checked reference is packed. This check has been
changed to use 'git rev-parse $tag' instead.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25 12:44:32 -07:00
Johan Herland
8da1e21231 Consistency: Use "libcurl" instead of "cURL library" and "curl"
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-15 13:35:10 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
f01f81505a Document that WebDAV doesn't need git on the server, and works over SSL
I managed to set up a Git repository on a preconfigured WebDAV server,
and using HTTPS, without installing Git on it or changing the server
configuration. This works through a proxy too. This patch reflects
this (it previously stated that Git was _necessary_ on the server,
which isn't true). Also give a few hints to troubleshoting.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-18 22:09:24 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
471a5ce5dd Add using merge subtree How-To
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14 18:04:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
31e7bded60 Addendum to "MaintNotes"
Add "how to maintain git" document. Foreward by Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-22 17:41:45 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
2729cadca2 add a howto document about corrupted blob recovery
Extracted from a post by Linus on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-09 21:16:54 -08:00
Väinö Järvelä
8ae674952c Fixed update-hook example allow-users format.
The example provided with the update-hook-example does not work on
either bash 2.05b.0(1)-release nor 3.1.17(1)-release. The matcher did
not match the lines that it advertised to match, such as:

refs/heads/bw/        linus
refs/heads/tmp/*      *

In POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions, the star (*), is not an wildcard
meaning "match everything", it matches 0 or more matches of the atom
preceding it.

So to match "refs/heads/bw/topic-branch", the matcher should be written
as "refs/heads/bw/.*" to match "refs/heads/bw/" and everything after it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18 17:38:52 -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
J. Bruce Fields
9e2163ea45 user-manual: move howto/using-topic-branches into manual
Move howto/using-topic-branches into the user manual as an example for
the "sharing development" chapter.  While we're at it, remove some
discussion that's covered in earlier chapters, modernize somewhat (use
separate-heads setup, remotes, replace "whatchanged" by "log", etc.),
and replace syntax we'd need to explain by syntax we've already covered
(e.g. old..new instead of new ^old).

The result may not really describe what Tony Luck does any more.... Hope
that's not annoying.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-05-17 21:20:10 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
82c8bf28f8 user-manual: move howto/make-dist.txt into user manual
There seems to be a perception that the howto's are bit-rotting a
little.  The manual might be a more visible location for some of them,
and make-dist.txt seems like a good candidate to include as an example
in the manual.

For now, incorporate much of it verbatim.  Later we may want to update
the example a bit.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-05-17 21:08:02 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
4db75b70d1 Documentation: remove howto's now incorporated into manual
These two howto's have both been copied into the manual.  I'd rather not
maintain both versions if possible, and I think the user-manual will be
more visible than the howto directory.  (Though I wouldn't mind some
duplication if people really like having them here.)

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-05-17 21:05:46 -04:00
Johannes Schindelin
e29b96d5aa Add a HOWTO for setting up a standalone git daemon
Setting up a git-daemon came up the other day on IRC, and it is slightly
non trivial for the uninitiated.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-19 22:17:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
207dfa0791 Remove git-resolve.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-12 19:33:03 -08:00
Tom Prince
e0d10e1c63 [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config.
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 16:16:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a9eefb3bfc Add dangling objects tips.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-25 22:03:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
917a8f891f git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 23:48:20 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
5c94f87e6b use 'init' instead of 'init-db' for shipped docs and tools
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12 13:36:16 -08:00
Rutger Nijlunsing
65cdb5f165 Add Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
A small howto on how to setup GIT over HTTP transport protocol by
setting up WebDAV access on apache2.

[jc: minimum ispell fixes applied]

Signed-off-by: Rutger Nijlunsing <git@tux.tmfweb.nl>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-10 15:07:11 -07:00