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Junio C Hamano
43f25ae7b8 Merge branch 'ft/doc-git-transport'
* ft/doc-git-transport:
  documentation: add git:// transport security notice
2013-07-01 12:41:43 -07:00
Fraser Tweedale
20618016df documentation: add git:// transport security notice
The fact that the git:// transport does no authentication is easily
overlooked.  For example, DNS poisoning may result in fetching from
somewhere that was not intended.

Add a brief security notice to the "GIT URLS" section
of the documentation stating that the git transport should be used
with caution on unsecured networks.

Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26 13:55:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
57a00bf604 Merge branch 'nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix'
* nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix:
  urls.txt: avoid auto converting to hyperlink
2013-06-05 14:56:51 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
4c32e361f6 urls.txt: avoid auto converting to hyperlink
file:///path/to/repo.git/ is converted to a hyperlink while others are
not. Put a backslash to avoid the conversion. Tested with asciidoc
8.6.5.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-24 10:55:37 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
60003340cd clone: allow cloning local paths with colons in them
Usually "foo:bar" is interpreted as an ssh url. This patch allows to
clone from such paths by putting at least one slash before the colon
(i.e. /path/to/foo:bar or just ./foo:bar).

file://foo:bar should also work, but local optimizations are off in
that case, which may be unwanted. While at there, warn the users about
--local being ignored in this case.

Reported-by: William Giokas <1007380@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-07 08:32:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8e12ab2f33 Merge branch 'jk/remote-helpers-doc'
"git help remote-helpers" did not work; 'remote-helpers' is not
a subcommand name but a concept, so its documentation should have
been in gitremote-helpers, not git-remote-helpers.

* jk/remote-helpers-doc:
  Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
2013-02-07 14:41:45 -08:00
John Keeping
bd4a3d6168 Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
When looking up a topic via "git help <topic>", git-help prepends "git-"
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and "git" (no hyphen) to any other topic name.

"git-remote-helpers" is not the name of a command, so "git help
remote-helpers" looks for "gitremote-helpers" and does not find it.

Fix this by renaming "git-remote-helpers.txt" to
"gitremote-helpers.txt".

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 14:12:34 -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
Ramkumar Ramachandra
6347e71619 Git url doc: mark ftp/ftps as read-only and deprecate them
It is not even worth mentioning their removal; just discourage
people from using them.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-08 14:18:19 -07:00
Ville Skyttä
6b677a28ff Documentation: spelling fixes
[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-20 16:59:17 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
5ce4f4e3bf Documentation/urls: Rewrite to accomodate <transport>::<address>
Rewrite the first part of the document to explicitly show differences
between the URLs that can be used with different transport
protocols. Mention <transport>::<address> format to explicitly invoke
a remote helper.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-18 13:56:05 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
a3cfb7f83f Documentation/urls: Remove spurious example markers
In urls.txt (which is included from git-{clone,fetch,push}.txt)
several item lists are surrounded by example block markers. This is
problematic for two reasons:

- None of these lists are example lists, so they should not be marked as
  such semantically.
- The html output looks weird (bulleted list with left sidebar).

Therefore, remove the example block markers. Output by the man backend
is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-21 14:42:24 -07:00
Josh Triplett
1c2eafb89b Add url.<base>.pushInsteadOf: URL rewriting for push only
This configuration option allows systematically rewriting fetch-only URLs
to push-capable URLs when used with push.  For instance:

[url "ssh://example.org/"]
    pushInsteadOf = "git://example.org/"

This will allow clones of "git://example.org/path/to/repo" to subsequently
push to "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo", without manually configuring
pushurl for that remote.

Includes documentation for the new option, bash completion updates, and
test cases (both that pushInsteadOf applies to push, that it does not
apply to fetch, and that it is ignored when pushURL is already defined).

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-08 01:18:46 -07:00
Stefan Naewe
f26b5dc9ef urls.txt: document optional port specification in git URLS
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe+git@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-04 13:06:06 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
55029ae4da Add support for url aliases in config files
This allows users with different preferences for access methods to the
same remote repositories to rewrite each other's URLs by pattern
matching across a large set of similiarly set up repositories to each
get the desired access.

For example, if you don't have a kernel.org account, you might want
settings like:

[url "git://git.kernel.org/pub/"]
      insteadOf = master.kernel.org:/pub

Then, if you give git a URL like:

  master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git

it will act like you gave it:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git

and you can cut-and-paste pull requests in email without fixing them
by hand, for example.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-24 20:05:29 -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
Sergei Organov
347989f4ea Documentation: fix git-clone manpage not to refer to itself
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-17 00:57:05 -08:00
Luben Tuikov
2e7766655a URL: allow port specification in ssh:// URLs
Allow port specification in ssh:// URLs in the
usual notation:

	ssh://[user@]host.domain[:<port>]/<path>

This allows git to be used over ssh-tunneling
networks.

Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-01 03:35:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3d5c418ff5 git-clone: aggressively optimize local clone behaviour.
This changes the behaviour of cloning from a repository on the
local machine, by defaulting to "-l" (use hardlinks to share
files under .git/objects) and making "-l" a no-op.  A new
option, --no-hardlinks, is also added to cause file-level copy
of files under .git/objects while still avoiding the normal
"pack to pipe, then receive and index pack" network transfer
overhead.  The old behaviour of local cloning without -l nor -s
is availble by specifying the source repository with the newly
introduced file:///path/to/repo.git/ syntax (i.e. "same as
network" cloning).

 * With --no-hardlinks (i.e. have all .git/objects/ copied via
   cpio) would not catch the source repository corruption, and
   also risks corrupted recipient repository if an
   alpha-particle hits memory cell while indexing and resolving
   deltas.  As long as the recipient is created uncorrupted, you
   have a good back-up.

 * same-as-network is expensive, but it would catch the breakage
   of the source repository.  It still risks corrupted recipient
   repository due to hardware failure.  As long as the recipient
   is created uncorrupted, you have a good back-up.

 * The new default on the same filesystem, as long as the source
   repository is healthy, it is very likely that the recipient
   would be, too.  Also it is very cheap.  You do not get any
   back-up benefit, though.

None of the method is resilient against the source repository
corruption, so let's discount that from the comparison.  Then
the difference with and without --no-hardlinks matters primarily
if you value the back-up benefit or not.  If you want to use the
cloned repository as a back-up, then it is cheaper to do a clone
with --no-hardlinks and two git-fsck (source before clone,
recipient after clone) than same-as-network clone, especially as
you are likely to do a git-fsck on the recipient if you are so
paranoid anyway.

Which leads me to believe that being able to use file:/// is
probably a good idea, if only for testability, but probably of
little practical value.  We default to hardlinked clone for
everyday use, and paranoids can use --no-hardlinks as a way to
make a back-up.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-01 23:42:36 -07:00
Andrew Ruder
37ba05619c Add urls.txt to git-clone man page
Since git-clone is one of the many commands taking
URLs to remote repositories as an argument, it should include
the URL-types list from urls.txt.

Split up urls.txt into urls.txt and urls-remotes.txt.  The latter
should be used by anything besides git-clone where a discussion of
using .git/config and .git/remotes/ to name URLs just doesn't make
as much sense.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-05 21:43:48 -07:00
Theodore Tso
63c97ce228 Fix formatting for urls section of fetch, pull, and push manpages
Updated to make the nroff'ed man pages look nicer.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-31 18:40:17 -08:00
Theodore Ts'o
400e74df98 Fix formatting for urls section of fetch, pull, and push manpages
The line:

[remote "<remote>"]

was getting swallowed up by asciidoc, causing a critical line in the
explanation for how to store the .git/remotes information in .git/config
to go missing from the git-fetch, git-pull, and git-push manpages.

Put all of the examples into delimited blocks to fix this problem and to
make them look nicer.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 18:19:19 -08:00
Santi Béjar
0cc6d3464a Documentation for the [remote] config
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-23 13:19:49 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
a3e65d74ee Documentation/urls.txt: Use substitution to escape square brackets
This changes "[user@]" to use {startsb} and {endsb} to insert [ and ],
similar to how {caret} is used in git-rev-parse.txt.

[jc: Removed a well-intentioned comment that broke the final
 formatting from the original patch.  While we are at it,
 updated the paragraph that claims to be equivalent to the
 section that was updated earlier without making matching
 changes.]

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-14 16:36:00 -07:00
Alp Toker
dd4c59121f documentation (urls.txt) typofix 2006-07-14 11:31:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d5e26848d Documentation: Fix ssh://[user@]host.xz URL
Earlier commit c3f17061 broke asciidoc markup.

Noticed by Alp Toker with a fix, but fixed up in a way with smaller
formatting impact.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-13 21:48:45 -07:00
Yakov Lerner
c3f17061be Mention the [user@] part in documentation of ssh:// urls.
Signed-off-by: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-11 12:39:09 -07:00
Alp Toker
3e564f3a6c Fix some doubled word typos
Signed-off-by: Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-09 03:29:35 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
85a97d4e10 Docs: move git url and remotes text to separate sections
The sections on git urls and remotes files in the git-fetch,
git-pull, and git-push manpages seem long enough to be worth a
manpage section of their own.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-06 21:14:56 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
3598a30808 Docs: split up pull-fetch-param.txt
The push and pull man pages include a bunch of shared text from
pull-fetch-param.txt.  This simplifies maintenance somewhat, but
there's actually quite a bit of text that applies only to one or the
other.

So, separate out the push- and pull/fetch-specific text into
pull-fetch-param.txt and git-push.txt, then include the largest chunk
of common stuff (the description of protocols and url's) from
urls.txt.  That cuts some irrelevant stuff from the man pages without
making us duplicate too much.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-06 21:14:55 -08:00