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Keller Fuchs
05a5869a01 Documentation: clarify signature verification
Clarify that "merge --verify-signatures" checks the signature on the
tip commit of the history being merged.

Uniformise the vocabulary used wrt. key/signature validity with OpenPGP:
- a signature is valid if made by a key with a valid uid;
- in the default trust-model, a uid is valid if signed by a trusted key;
- a key is trusted if the (local) user set a trust level for it.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Keller Fuchs   <KellerFuchs@hashbang.sh>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-13 12:37:44 -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
6d73dba8f6 Merge branch 'jc/maint-pull-docfix'
* jc/maint-pull-docfix:
  Documentation: "git pull" does not have the "-m" option
  Documentation: exclude irrelevant options from "git pull"
2014-01-27 10:44:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
08f19cfe9b Documentation: "git pull" does not have the "-m" option
Even though "--[no-]edit" can be used with "git pull", the
explanation of the interaction between this option and the "-m"
option does not make sense within the context of "git pull".  Use
the conditional inclusion mechanism to remove this part from "git
pull" documentation, while keeping it for "git merge".

Reported-by: Ivan Zakharyaschev
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-14 10:47:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
499eaceb21 Merge branch 'rh/merge-options-doc-fix'
* rh/merge-options-doc-fix:
  Documentation/merge-options.txt: restore `-e` option
2013-06-02 15:48:22 -07:00
Richard Hansen
66fa1b2c35 Documentation/merge-options.txt: restore -e option
It looks like commit f8246281af
unintentionally removed the documentation for the `-e` option.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-16 16:40:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d5fec92a7a Merge branch 'sg/gpg-sig'
Teach "merge/pull" to optionally verify and reject commits that are
not signed properly.

* sg/gpg-sig:
  pretty printing: extend %G? to include 'N' and 'U'
  merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures
  merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
  commit.c/GPG signature verification: Also look at the first GPG status line
  Move commit GPG signature verification to commit.c
2013-04-05 14:15:16 -07:00
Sebastian Götte
eb307ae7bb merge/pull Check for untrusted good GPG signatures
When --verify-signatures is specified, abort the merge in case a good
GPG signature from an untrusted key is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-31 22:38:49 -07:00
Sebastian Götte
efed002249 merge/pull: verify GPG signatures of commits being merged
When --verify-signatures is specified on the command-line of git-merge
or git-pull, check whether the commits being merged have good gpg
signatures and abort the merge in case they do not. This allows e.g.
auto-deployment from untrusted repo hosts.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Götte <jaseg@physik-pool.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-31 19:23:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
77c72780ed Documentation: merging a tag is a special case
When asking Git to merge a tag (such as a signed tag or annotated tag),
it will always create a merge commit even if fast-forward was possible.
It's like having --no-ff present on the command line.

It's a difference from the default behavior described in git-merge.txt.
It should be documented as an exception of "FAST-FORWARD MERGE" section
and "--ff" option description.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-21 15:47:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5419127d04 Merge branch 'jc/doc-merge-options'
* jc/doc-merge-options:
  Documentation/merge-options.txt: group "ff" related options together
2012-02-26 23:05:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
690b297582 Documentation/merge-options.txt: group "ff" related options together
The --ff-only option was not described next to --ff and --no-ff options in
"git merge" documentation, even though these three are logically together,
describing how to choose one of three possibilities.

Also the description for '--ff' and '--no-ff' discussed what '--ff' means,
and mentioned '--no-ff' as if it were a side-note to '--ff'.

Make them into three top-level entries and list them together. This way,
it would be more clear that the user can choose one from these three.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-22 15:56:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f8246281af merge: use editor by default in interactive sessions
Traditionally, a cleanly resolved merge was committed by "git merge" using
the auto-generated merge commit log message without invoking the editor.

After 5 years of use in the field, it turns out that people perform too
many unjustified merges of the upstream history into their topic branches.
These merges are not just useless, but they are often not explained well,
and making the end result unreadable when it gets time for merging their
history back to their upstream.

Earlier we added the "--edit" option to the command, so that people can
edit the log message to explain and justify their merge commits. Let's
take it one step further and spawn the editor by default when we are in an
interactive session (i.e. the standard input and the standard output are
pointing at the same tty device).

There may be existing scripts that leave the standard input and the
standard output of the "git merge" connected to whatever environment the
scripts were started, and such invocation might trigger the above
"interactive session" heuristics.  GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT environment variable
can be set to "no" at the beginning of such scripts to use the historical
behaviour while the script runs.

Note that this backward compatibility is meant only for scripts, and we
deliberately do *not* support "merge.edit = yes/no/auto" configuration
option to allow people to keep the historical behaviour.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-23 14:34:55 -08:00
Jack Nagel
aad2a07cfc Documentation: fix formatting error in merge-options.txt
The first paragraph inside of a list item does not need a preceding line
consisting of a single '+', and in fact this causes the text to be
misrendered. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-05 11:15:45 -08:00
Jay Soffian
66f4b98ad9 Teach merge the '[-e|--edit]' option
Implemented internally instead of as "git merge --no-commit && git commit"
so that "merge --edit" is otherwise consistent (hooks, etc) with "merge".

Note: the edit message does not include the status information that one
gets with "commit --status" and it is cleaned up after editing like one
gets with "commit --cleanup=default". A later patch could add the status
information if desired.

Note: previously we were not calling stripspace() after running the
prepare-commit-msg hook. Now we are, stripping comments and
leading/trailing whitespace lines if --edit is given, otherwise only
stripping leading/trailing whitespace lines if not given --edit.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-12 13:17:18 -07:00
Jeff King
99bfc6691d merge: enable progress reporting for rename detection
The user can enable or disable it explicitly with the new
--progress, but it defaults to checking isatty(2).

This works only with merge-recursive and subtree. In theory
we could pass a progress flag to other strategies, but none
of them support progress at this point, so let's wait until
they grow such a feature before worrying about propagating
it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 10:24:08 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
96e9420cd3 merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog entries
Change the command-line '--log' option from a boolean option to an
integer option, and parse the optional integer provided on the
command-line into the 'shortlog_len' variable. Also update the
documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks-to: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-09 11:39:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6018bbdca Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation/config.txt: default gc.aggressiveWindow is 250, not 10
  Docs: Add -X option to git-merge's synopsis.

Conflicts:
	Documentation/merge-options.txt
2010-04-13 18:21:29 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
adda3c3beb Docs: Add -X option to git-merge's synopsis.
Also move -X's description next to -s's in merge-options.txt.

This makes it easier to learn how to specify merge strategy options.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-12 09:50:09 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
409b8d82df Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch ones
After 3f7a9b5 (Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included
option files, Thu Oct 22 2009), the -q/-v options were mentioned only
for the merge options section, giving the impression that git-fetch did
not take those arguments.

Follow 90e4311 (git-pull: do not mention --quiet and --verbose twice,
Mon Sep 7 2009) and hide -q/-v for merge options, while mentioning -q/-v
before the merge- and fetch-specific options.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24 08:35:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fcb2a7e4a3 Merge branch 'ap/merge-backend-opts'
* ap/merge-backend-opts:
  Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
  Extend merge-subtree tests to test -Xsubtree=dir.
  Make "subtree" part more orthogonal to the rest of merge-recursive.
  pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>
  Teach git-pull to pass -X<option> to git-merge
  git merge -X<option>
  git-merge-file --ours, --theirs

Conflicts:
	git-compat-util.h
2010-01-20 20:28:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
566c511195 Document that merge strategies can now take their own options
Also document the recently added -Xtheirs, -Xours and -Xsubtree[=path]
options to the merge-recursive strategy.

Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-17 22:46:28 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
3cc335181f Merge branch 'bg/merge-ff-only'
* bg/merge-ff-only:
  Teach 'git merge' and 'git pull' the option --ff-only
2009-11-10 12:32:59 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
134748353b Teach 'git merge' and 'git pull' the option --ff-only
For convenience in scripts and aliases, add the option
--ff-only to only allow fast-forwards (and up-to-date,
despite the name).

Disallow combining --ff-only and --no-ff, since they
flatly contradict each other.

Allow all other options to be combined with --ff-only
(i.e. do not add any code to handle them specially),
including the following options:

* --strategy (one or more): As long as the chosen merge
  strategy results in up-to-date or fast-forward, the
  command will succeed.

* --squash: I cannot imagine why anyone would want to
  squash commits only if fast-forward is possible, but I
  also see no reason why it should not be allowed.

* --message: The message will always be ignored, but I see
  no need to explicitly disallow providing a redundant message.

Acknowledgements: I did look at Yuval Kogman's earlier
patch (107768 in gmane), mainly as shortcut to find my
way in the code, but I did not copy anything directly.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-30 16:02:26 -07:00
Jari Aalto
7c85d27429 Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-22 12:39:18 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
f5d4c4d0f1 merge-options.txt: Clarify merge --squash
With the --squash option, merge sets up the index just like for a real
merge, but without the merge info (stages). Say so.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-25 11:23:18 -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
Tuncer Ayaz
7f87aff22c Teach/Fix pull/fetch -q/-v options
Implement git-pull --quiet and git-pull --verbose by
adding the options to git-pull and fixing verbosity
handling in git-fetch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14 17:18:32 -08:00
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
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
efb779f887 merge, pull: add '--(no-)log' command line option
These are the command line option equivalents of the 'merge.log' config
variable.

The patch also updates documentation and bash completion accordingly, and
adds a test.

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
3e6c0a3fe3 add 'merge.stat' config variable
This variable has the same effect, as 'merge.diffstat'.
Also mention it in the documentation.

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
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
Lars Hjemli
d66424c4ac git-merge: add --ff and --no-ff options
These new options can be used to control the policy for fast-forward
merges: --ff allows it (this is the default) while --no-ff will create
a merge commit.

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
Lars Hjemli
d08af0ad74 git-merge: add support for --commit and --no-squash
These options can be used to override --no-commit and --squash, which is
needed since --no-commit and --squash now can be specified as default merge
options in $GIT_DIR/config.

The change also introduces slightly different behavior for --no-commit:
when specified, it explicitly overrides --squash. Earlier,
'git merge --squash --no-commit' would result in a squashed merge (i.e. no
$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD was created) but with this patch the command will
behave as if --squash hadn't been specified.

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
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
Junio C Hamano
7d0c68871a git-merge --squash
Some people tend to do many little commits on a topic branch,
recording all the trials and errors, and when the topic is
reasonably cooked well, would want to record the net effect of
the series as one commit on top of the mainline, removing the
cruft from the history.  The topic is then abandoned or forked
off again from that point at the mainline.

The barebone porcelainish that comes with core git tools does
not officially support such operation, but you can fake it by
using "git pull --no-merge" when such a topic branch is not a
strict superset of the mainline, like this:

	git checkout mainline
	git pull --no-commit . that-topic-branch
	: fix conflicts if any
	rm -f .git/MERGE_HEAD
        git commit -a -m 'consolidated commit log message'
	git branch -f that-topic-branch ;# now fully merged

This however does not work when the topic branch is a fast
forward of the mainline, because normal "git pull" will never
create a merge commit in such a case, and there is nothing
special --no-commit could do to begin with.

This patch introduces a new option, --squash, to support such a
workflow officially in both fast-forward case and true merge
case.  The user-level operation would be the same in both cases:

	git checkout mainline
        git pull --squash . that-topic-branch
        : fix conflicts if any -- naturally, there would be
        : no conflict if fast forward.
	git commit -a -m  'consolidated commit log message'
	git branch -f that-topic-branch ;# now fully merged

When the current branch is already up-to-date with respect to
the other branch, there truly is nothing to do, so the new
option does not have any effect.

This was brought up in #git IRC channel recently.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-24 01:11:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9688a882e1 Documentation: recursive is the default strategy these days.
We still said resolve was the default in handful places.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 14:04:33 -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