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Junio C Hamano
cfe1348da6 Documentation/git-push: clarify the description of defaults
We describe what gets pushed by default when the command line does
not give any <refspec> under the bullet point of <refspec>.

It is a bit unfriendly to expect users to read on <refspec> when
they are not giving any in the first place.  "What gets pushed" is
determined by taking many factors (<refspec> argument being only one
of them) into account, and is a property of the entire command, not
an individual argument.  Also we do not describe "Where the push
goes" when the command line does not say.

Give the description on "what gets pushed to where" upfront before
explaining individual arguments and options.

Also update the description of <refspec> to say what it is, what it
is used for, before explaining what shape it takes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-08 09:55:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2aba155da push: --follow-tags
The new option "--follow-tags" tells "git push" to push annotated
tags that are missing from the other side and that can be reached by
the history that is otherwise pushed out.

For example, if you are using the "simple", "current", or "upstream"
push, you would ordinarily push the history leading to the commit at
your current HEAD and nothing else.  With this option, you would
also push all annotated tags that can be reached from that commit to
the other side.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-05 13:39:46 -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
Junio C Hamano
9a2c83d24c Merge branch 'cr/push-force-tag-update'
Require "-f" for push to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward.

* cr/push-force-tag-update:
  push: allow already-exists advice to be disabled
  push: rename config variable for more general use
  push: cleanup push rules comment
  push: clarify rejection of update to non-commit-ish
  push: require force for annotated tags
  push: require force for refs under refs/tags/
  push: flag updates that require force
  push: keep track of "update" state separately
  push: add advice for rejected tag reference
  push: return reject reasons as a bitset
2013-01-05 23:41:34 -08:00
Chris Rorvick
40eff17999 push: require force for annotated tags
Do not allow fast-forwarding of references that point to a tag object.
Updating from a tag is potentially destructive since it would likely
leave the tag dangling.  Disallowing updates to a tag also makes sense
semantically and is consistent with the behavior of lightweight tags.

Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-02 01:44:49 -08:00
Chris Rorvick
dbfeddb12e push: require force for refs under refs/tags/
References are allowed to update from one commit-ish to another if the
former is an ancestor of the latter.  This behavior is oriented to
branches which are expected to move with commits.  Tag references are
expected to be static in a repository, though, thus an update to
something under refs/tags/ should be rejected unless the update is
forced.

Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-02 01:44:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b48990e738 Documentation/git-push.txt: clarify the "push from satellite" workflow
The context of the example to push into refs/remotes/satellite/
hierarchy of the other repository needs to be spelled out explicitly
for the value of this example to be fully appreciated.  Make it so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-27 22:39:08 -08:00
Mark Szepieniec
6b6e063c44 Documentation: improve phrasing in git-push.txt
The current version contains the sentence:

Further suppose that the other person already pushed changes leading to
A back to the original repository you two obtained the original commit
X.

which doesn't parse for me; I've changed it to

Further suppose that the other person already pushed changes leading to
A back to the original repository from which you two obtained the
original commit X.

Signed-off-by: Mark Szepieniec <mszepien@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-11-27 09:12:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
78ba7e267c Merge branch 'mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking' into maint
Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to
"remote-tracking branch".

* mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking:
  Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch
2012-11-18 19:33:20 -08:00
Jeff King
6d3f2906a0 Merge branch 'mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking'
We long ago hyphenated "remote-tracking branch"; this
catches some new instances added since then.

* mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking:
  Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch
2012-11-04 07:59:57 -05:00
Matthieu Moy
a6d3bde5af Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch
This change was already done by 0e615b252f (Matthieu Moy, Tue Nov 2
2010, Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"), but new
instances of remote tracking (without dash) were introduced in the
meantime.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-25 06:55:46 -04:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
1ec6f488de Documentation: mention push.default in git-push.txt
It already is listed in the "git config" documentation, but people
interested in pushing would first look at "git push" documentation.

Noticed-by: David Glasser
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Fixed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-02 12:07:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d274fc093c Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc,
making the source not very readable.

By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
  docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-02 13:51:45 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
419f2ecf78 Merge branch 'hv/submodule-recurse-push'
"git push --recurse-submodules" learns to optionally look into the
histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them out.

By Heiko Voigt
* hv/submodule-recurse-push:
  push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option
  Refactor submodule push check to use string list instead of integer
  Teach revision walking machinery to walk multiple times sequencially
2012-04-24 14:40:20 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
eb21c732d6 push: teach --recurse-submodules the on-demand option
When using this option git will search for all submodules that
have changed in the revisions to be send. It will then try to
push the currently checked out branch of each submodule.

This helps when a user has finished working on a change which
involves submodules and just wants to push everything in one go.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-30 09:02:55 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
6ddba5e241 push: add '--prune' option
When pushing groups of refs to a remote, there is no simple way to remove
old refs that still exist at the remote that is no longer updated from us.
This will allow us to remove such refs from the remote.

With this change, running this command

 $ git push --prune remote refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/laptop/*

removes refs/remotes/laptop/foo from the remote if we do not have branch
"foo" locally anymore.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-22 18:17:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c63750abc3 Merge branch 'fg/submodule-ff-check-before-push'
* fg/submodule-ff-check-before-push:
  push: Don't push a repository with unpushed submodules
2011-09-02 13:07:58 -07:00
Fredrik Gustafsson
d2b17b3220 push: Don't push a repository with unpushed submodules
When working with submodules it is easy to forget to push a
submodule to the server but pushing a super-project that
contains a commit for that submodule. The result is that the
superproject points at a submodule commit that is not available
on the server.

This adds the option --recurse-submodules=check to push. When
using this option git will check that all submodule commits that
are about to be pushed are present on a remote of the submodule.

To be able to use a combined diff, disabling a diff callback has
been removed from combined-diff.c.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-20 23:03:52 -07:00
Jeff King
5d2fc9135a docs: put listed example commands in backticks
Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing
blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of
special characters.  Some manpages make a list of examples, like:

  git foo::
    Run git foo.

  git foo -q::
    Use the "-q" option.

to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to
read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for
example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be
difficult).

This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the
equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without
character interpretation).

As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which
"git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list,
and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:49:13 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Jonathan Nieder
9d83e3827f Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.

In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13 19:10:55 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b9190e7913 Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses
The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by
rev-list and diff is actually three period characters.  If it
gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would
stop readers from copying and pasting it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:51 -07:00
Thomas Rast
9a9fb5d3c4 Documentation/git-push: Explain status output in more detail
Mention the effects of the receive.deny* family of options for the
"remote rejected" case.  While there, also split up the explanation
into an easier-to-parse list format.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-25 23:14:19 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
f028cdae66 Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.

Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 13:39:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3b0c19663e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Let check_preimage() use memset() to initialize "struct checkout"
  fetch/push: fix usage strings
2010-04-09 22:43:18 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
e3163c7515 fetch/push: fix usage strings
- use "<options>" instead of just "options".
 - use "[<repository> [<refspec>...]]" to indicate that <repository> and
   <refspec> are optional, and that <refspec> cannot be specified
   without specifying <repository>.

Note that when called without specifying <repository> (eg. "git fetch
-f"), it is accurate to say that the "git fetch [<options>]
[<repository> ...]" case takes precedence over "git fetch [<options>]
<group>".

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-09 21:23:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
53997a30f8 Merge branch 'tc/transport-verbosity'
* tc/transport-verbosity:
  transport: update flags to be in running order
  fetch and pull: learn --progress
  push: learn --progress
  transport->progress: use flag authoritatively
  clone: support multiple levels of verbosity
  push: support multiple levels of verbosity
  fetch: refactor verbosity option handling into transport.[ch]
  Documentation/git-push: put --quiet before --verbose
  Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch ones
  Documentation/git-clone: mention progress in -v

Conflicts:
	transport.h
2010-03-15 00:58:42 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
7838106925 push: learn --progress
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24 08:35:44 -08:00
Tay Ray Chuan
84f88512aa Documentation/git-push: put --quiet before --verbose
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
Stephen Boyd
738820a913 Documentation: describe --thin more accurately
The description for --thin was misleading and downright wrong. Correct
it with some inspiration from the description of index-pack's --fix-thin
and some background information from Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-18 17:13:18 -08:00
Jeff King
cc1b8d8bc6 docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhere
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.

This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:

  - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
    that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
    indicate that it was a hierarchy.  I didn't do the same for longer
    paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
    "refs/heads/").

  - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
    unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).

  - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
    refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17 21:40:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
105a6339d8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  blame: prevent a segv when -L given start > EOF
  git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
  Fix parsing of imap.preformattedHTML and imap.sslverify
  git-add documentation: Fix shell quoting example
2010-02-08 21:54:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a598331f95 Merge branch 'jc/maint-push-doc-status' into maint
* jc/maint-push-doc-status:
  git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
2010-02-08 16:49:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b7047abc12 git-push: document all the status flags used in the output
We didn't talk about '-' (deletion), '*' (addition), nor '+' (forced).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-08 16:49:00 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0ed3a11163 Documentation: move away misplaced 'push --upstream' description
e9fcd1e (Add push --set-upstream, 2010-01-16) inadvertently patched
the description of --upstream in the middle of that of --repo.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 11:01:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
add0951ab0 Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
  Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
  Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
  Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
  Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-config.txt
	Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-20 20:28:49 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
e9fcd1e212 Add push --set-upstream
Frequent complaint is lack of easy way to set up upstream (tracking)
references for git pull to work as part of push command. So add switch
--set-upstream (-u) to do just that.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-16 16:39:58 -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
Jan Krüger
f517f1f2e9 builtin-push: add --delete as syntactic sugar for :foo
Refspecs without a source side have been reported as confusing by many.
As an alternative, this adds support for commands like:

    git push origin --delete somebranch
    git push origin --delete tag sometag

Specifically, --delete will prepend a colon to all colon-less refspecs
given on the command line, and will refuse to accept refspecs with
colons to prevent undue confusion.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-30 14:01:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d8c325888 Merge branch 'fc/doc-fast-forward'
* fc/doc-fast-forward:
  Use 'fast-forward' all over the place

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge.c
2009-11-15 16:41:02 -08:00
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
Jeff King
989119d96e document push's new quiet option
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-18 22:44:22 -07:00
Nelson Elhage
9f67fee2f0 git-push: Accept -n as a synonym for --dry-run.
git-push is not currently using -n for anything else, and it seems
unlikely we will want to use it to mean anything else in the future,
so add it as an alias for convenience.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-13 11:29:18 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
07436e43da push: point to 'git pull' and 'git push --force' in case of non-fast forward
'git push' failing because of non-fast forward is a very common situation,
and a beginner does not necessarily understand "fast forward" immediately.

Add a new section to the git-push documentation and refer them to it.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 16:15:47 -07:00
Larry D'Anna
1965ff744a add --porcelain option to git-push
If --porcelain is used git-push will produce machine-readable output.  The
output status line for each ref will be tab-separated and sent to stdout instead
of stderr.  The full symbolic names of the refs will be given.  For example

$ git push --dry-run --porcelain master :foobar 2>/dev/null \
  | perl -pe 's/\t/ TAB /g'

= TAB refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master TAB [up to date]
- TAB :refs/heads/foobar TAB [deleted]

Signed-off-by: Larry D'Anna <larry@elder-gods.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-06-27 22:26:58 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
d6aba61f88 git-push.txt: describe how to default to pushing only current branch
Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:15:04 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
149f6ddfb3 Docs: Expand explanation of the use of + in git push refspecs.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-25 00:49:53 -08:00
Gerrit Pape
bed5122f23 Documentation/git-push: --all, --mirror, --tags can not be combined
While b259f09 made git-push output a better error message for 'git-push
--all --tags', this commit fixes the synopsis in the documentation.

Inconsistency spotted and fix suggested by Jari Aalto through
 http://bugs.debian.org/502567

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-18 10:42:33 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
803918462e Documentation: rework src/dst description in git push
This tries to make the description of ref matching in git push easier
to read. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25 22:26:43 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
17507832ca Documentation: more git push examples
Include examples of using HEAD. The order of examples
introduces new concepts one by one. This pushes the
example of deleting a ref to the end of the list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25 22:25:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7a0d911f11 Documentation: simplify refspec format description
The refspec format description was a mix of regexp and BNF, making it
very difficult to read. The format was also wrong: it did not show
that each part of a refspec is optional in different situations.

Rather than having a confusing grammar, just present the format in
informal prose.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-25 22:25:20 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
69274b6e87 Documentation: avoid using undefined parameters
The <ref> parameter has not been introduced, so rewrite to
avoid it.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18 14:29:37 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
89edd5a901 Documentation: mention branches rather than heads
The "matching refs" semantics works only on matching branches these days.
Instead of using "heads" which traditionally has been used more or less
interchangeably with "refs", say "branch" explicitly here.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18 14:27:52 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
391d186bab Documentation: remove a redundant elaboration
The comment in parentheses is wrong, as one has to leave out both the
colon and <dst>. This situation is covered by the section a few lines
down:

  A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source
  repository to the destination repository under the same name.

So, just remove the parentheses.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18 14:27:03 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
98347fee9b Documentation: git push repository can also be a remote
This is copied from pull-fetch-param.txt and helps the reader
to not get stuck in the URL section.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-18 14:27:02 -08:00
jidanni@jidanni.org
4fc988efe6 Documentation/git-push.txt: minor: compress one option
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-11 21:47:26 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
bf07cc58ae git-push.txt: Describe --repo option in more detail
The --repo option was described in a way that the reader would have to
assume that it is the same as the <repository> parameter. But it actually
servers a purpose, which is now written down.

Furthermore, the --mirror option was missing from the synopsis.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-08 07:15:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0bb3a0ba9e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  asciidoc markup fixes
  Fail properly when cloning from invalid HTTP URL

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-push.txt
2008-08-09 01:40:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0f4f4d1597 asciidoc markup fixes
I see quite a few pages on k.org site, e.g.

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rerere.html
    (scroll down to find "After this test merge")

are misformatted to lose teletype text '+' that is followed by a comma,
and turns the following paragraph all typeset in teletype.

This patch seems to fix the issue at the site (meaning, with the
particular vintage of asciidoc and docbook toolchain), without breaking
things with the version I have at my primary development machine, but
wider testing is very much appreciated.

After this patch,

    git grep '`+`,' -- Documentation

should report noting.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-07 22:41:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1ceb95c804 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>
2008-08-01 23:21:44 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
2c9693bda5 Make it clear that push can take multiple refspecs
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-29 23:18:04 -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
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
Shawn O. Pearce
73f03627f4 Correct documentation for git-push --mirror
This option behaves more like:

  git push $url +refs/*:refs/*

than it does like:

  git push $url +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

so we should document it to be more clear about that.

Suggested-by: Marek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-21 00:02:45 -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
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
Junio C Hamano
182fb4df91 Merge branch 'pb/push'
* pb/push:
  add special "matching refs" refspec
2008-05-23 16:06:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dc484f2213 Merge branch 'pb/remote-mirror-config'
* pb/remote-mirror-config:
  Add a remote.*.mirror configuration option
2008-05-05 19:15:39 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
a83619d692 add special "matching refs" refspec
This patch provides a way to specify "push matching heads" using a
special refspec ":".  This is useful because it allows "push = +:"
as a way to specify that matching refs will be pushed but, in addition,
forced updates will be allowed, which was not possible before.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:39 -07:00
Sam Vilain
491b1b1121 Amend git-push refspec documentation
These paragraphs are a little confusing.  Also, make it clearer when
you have to specify the full name for <dst>

Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-22 23:01:48 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
84bb2dfd9f Add a remote.*.mirror configuration option
This patch adds a remote.*.mirror configuration option that,
when set, automatically puts git-push in --mirror mode for that
remote.

Furthermore, the option is set automatically by `git remote
add --mirror'.

The code in remote.c to parse remote.*.skipdefaultupdate
had a subtle problem: a comment in the code indicated that
special care was needed for boolean options, but this care was
not used in parsing the option.  Since I was touching related
code, I did this fix too.

[jc: and I further fixed up the "ignore boolean" code.]

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-20 18:49:22 -07:00
Jeff King
066a5268db push: document the status output
The output was meant to be a balance of self-explanatory and
terse. In case we have erred too far on the terse side, it
doesn't hurt to explain in more detail what each line means.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 20:46:15 -08:00
Jeff King
68d06c5200 Documentation/push: clarify matching refspec behavior
The previous text was correct, but it was easy to miss the
fact that we are talking about "matching" refs. That is, the
text can be parsed as "we push the union of the sets
of remote and local heads" and not "we push the intersection
of the sets of remote and local heads". (The former actually
doesn't make sense if you think about it, since we don't
even _have_ some of those heads). A careful reading would
reveal the correct meaning, but it makes sense to be as
explicit as possible in documentation.

We also explicitly use and introduce the term "matching";
this is a term discussed on the list, and it seems useful
to for users to be able to refer to this behavior by name.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 20:46:10 -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
bcd2e266a6 Merge branch 'aw/mirror-push' into jk/send-pack
* aw/mirror-push:
  git-push: add documentation for the newly added --mirror mode
  Add tests for git push'es mirror mode
  git-push: plumb in --mirror mode
  Teach send-pack a mirror mode
  send-pack: segfault fix on forced push
  send-pack: require --verbose to show update of tracking refs
  receive-pack: don't mention successful updates
  more terse push output

Conflicts:

	transport.c
	transport.h
2007-11-14 03:13:30 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
ff20674815 git-push: add documentation for the newly added --mirror mode
Add some basic documentation on the --mirror mode for git-push.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-12 18:22:14 -08:00
Steffen Prohaska
05ee917a6e push: mention --verbose option in documentation
Before this commit, only '-v' was documented.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-11 14:37:03 -08:00
Brian Ewins
11f2441f05 Add a --dry-run option to git-push.
The default behaviour of git-push is potentially confusing
for new users, since it will push changes that are not on
the current branch. Publishing patches that were still
cooking on a development branch is hard to undo.

It would also be nice to be able to verify the expansion
of refspecs if you've edited them, so that you know
what branches matched on the server.

Adding a --dry-run flag allows the user to experiment
safely and learn how to use git-push properly. Originally
suggested by Steffen Prohaska.

Signed-off-by: Brian Ewins <brian.ewins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-15 22:02:52 -04:00
Jeff King
5c633a4cbe git-push: documentation and tests for pushing only branches
Commit 098e711e caused git-push to match only branches when
considering which refs to push. This patch updates the
documentation accordingly and adds a test for this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18 14:00:20 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
4e560158c6 Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch
Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
the branch foo.

This new example highlights the trick of including refs/heads/
in front of the desired branch name to create a branch.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-05 23:25:09 -07:00
Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya
64a476e691 Fixed git-push manpage
In git-push it is the remote repository and not the
local repository which is fast forwarded. The description
of the -f option in the git-push manpage gets it the other
way round.

Signed-off-by: Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya <jyotirmoy@jyotirmoy.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-04 22:35:13 -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
Junio C Hamano
bb9fca80ce git-push: Update description of refspecs and add examples
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-09 11:53:01 -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
Matthias Kestenholz
97925fde00 Documentation: Reformatted SYNOPSIS for several commands
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-18 21:47:45 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
d23842fd53 rename --exec to --receive-pack for push and send-pack
For now it's just to get a more descriptive name.  Later we might update the
push protocol to run more than one program on the other end.  Moreover this
matches better the corresponding config option remote.<name>. receivepack.

--exec continues to work

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:33 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
18bd8821ca Update documentation of fetch-pack, push and send-pack
add all supported options to Documentation/git-....txt and the usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dc36f26525 git-push documentation: remaining bits
Mention --thin, --no-thin, --repo and -v.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 11:46:03 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig
5214f77044 document --exec for git-push
The text is just copied from git-send-pack.txt.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 11:33:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
25fb629058 git-push: document removal of remote ref with :<dst> pathspec
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-13 01:11:05 -08:00
Jeff King
8f615493e6 git-push: allow -f as an alias for --force
This was already documented in the options section of the manpage. This
patch implements it, adds it to the usage message, and mentions it at the
top of the manpage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-02 11:30:42 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
addf88e455 Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-09 02:42:41 -07:00
Fredrik Kuivinen
7bd7f2804d Remove trailing dot after short description
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09 11:44:11 -08:00
Carl Worth
aa064743fa git-push: Update documentation to describe the no-refspec behavior.
It turns out that the git-push documentation didn't describe what it
would do when not given a refspec, (not on the command line, nor in a
remotes file). This is fairly important for the user who is trying to
understand operations such as:

	git clone git://something/some/where
	# hack, hack, hack
	git push origin

I tracked the mystery behavior down to git-send-pack and lifted the
relevant portion of its documentation up to git-push, (namely that all
refs existing both locally and remotely are updated).

Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-21 22:11:50 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
cc55aaec38 Docs: minor git-push copyediting
Minor git-push copyediting

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-06 21:14:57 -08:00
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