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Junio C Hamano
5c61d10b16 Merge branch 'mk/pb-pretty-email-without-domain-part-fix'
Docfix.

* mk/pb-pretty-email-without-domain-part-fix:
  doc: fix author vs. committer copy/paste error
2020-07-06 22:09:15 -07:00
Miroslav Koškár
087bf5409c doc: fix author vs. committer copy/paste error
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Koškár <mk@mkoskar.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-23 17:00:41 -07:00
Emma Brooks
88eaf361e0 Documentation: explain "mboxrd" pretty format
The "mboxrd" pretty format was introduced in 9f23e04061 (pretty: support
"mboxrd" output format, 2016-06-05) but wasn't mentioned in the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-15 22:08:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11ad30b887 Merge branch 'hi/gpg-mintrustlevel'
gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
trust level.

* hi/gpg-mintrustlevel:
  gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option
2020-01-30 14:17:08 -08:00
Hans Jerry Illikainen
54887b4689 gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option
Previously, signature verification for merge and pull operations checked
if the key had a trust-level of either TRUST_NEVER or TRUST_UNDEFINED in
verify_merge_signature().  If that was the case, the process die()d.

The other code paths that did signature verification relied entirely on
the return code from check_commit_signature().  And signatures made with
a good key, irregardless of its trust level, was considered valid by
check_commit_signature().

This difference in behavior might induce users to erroneously assume
that the trust level of a key in their keyring is always considered by
Git, even for operations where it is not (e.g. during a verify-commit or
verify-tag).

The way it worked was by gpg-interface.c storing the result from the
key/signature status *and* the lowest-two trust levels in the `result`
member of the signature_check structure (the last of these status lines
that were encountered got written to `result`).  These are documented in
GPG under the subsection `General status codes` and `Key related`,
respectively [1].

The GPG documentation says the following on the TRUST_ status codes [1]:

    """
    These are several similar status codes:

    - TRUST_UNDEFINED <error_token>
    - TRUST_NEVER     <error_token>
    - TRUST_MARGINAL  [0  [<validation_model>]]
    - TRUST_FULLY     [0  [<validation_model>]]
    - TRUST_ULTIMATE  [0  [<validation_model>]]

    For good signatures one of these status lines are emitted to
    indicate the validity of the key used to create the signature.
    The error token values are currently only emitted by gpgsm.
    """

My interpretation is that the trust level is conceptionally different
from the validity of the key and/or signature.  That seems to also have
been the assumption of the old code in check_signature() where a result
of 'G' (as in GOODSIG) and 'U' (as in TRUST_NEVER or TRUST_UNDEFINED)
were both considered a success.

The two cases where a result of 'U' had special meaning were in
verify_merge_signature() (where this caused git to die()) and in
format_commit_one() (where it affected the output of the %G? format
specifier).

I think it makes sense to refactor the processing of TRUST_ status lines
such that users can configure a minimum trust level that is enforced
globally, rather than have individual parts of git (e.g. merge) do it
themselves (except for a grace period with backward compatibility).

I also think it makes sense to not store the trust level in the same
struct member as the key/signature status.  While the presence of a
TRUST_ status code does imply that the signature is good (see the first
paragraph in the included snippet above), as far as I can tell, the
order of the status lines from GPG isn't well-defined; thus it would
seem plausible that the trust level could be overwritten with the
key/signature status if they were stored in the same member of the
signature_check structure.

This patch introduces a new configuration option: gpg.minTrustLevel.  It
consolidates trust-level verification to gpg-interface.c and adds a new
`trust_level` member to the signature_check structure.

Backward-compatibility is maintained by introducing a special case in
verify_merge_signature() such that if no user-configurable
gpg.minTrustLevel is set, then the old behavior of rejecting
TRUST_UNDEFINED and TRUST_NEVER is enforced.  If, on the other hand,
gpg.minTrustLevel is set, then that value overrides the old behavior.

Similarly, the %G? format specifier will continue show 'U' for
signatures made with a key that has a trust level of TRUST_UNDEFINED or
TRUST_NEVER, even though the 'U' character no longer exist in the
`result` member of the signature_check structure.  A new format
specifier, %GT, is also introduced for users that want to show all
possible trust levels for a signature.

Another approach would have been to simply drop the trust-level
requirement in verify_merge_signature().  This would also have made the
behavior consistent with other parts of git that perform signature
verification.  However, requiring a minimum trust level for signing keys
does seem to have a real-world use-case.  For example, the build system
used by the Qubes OS project currently parses the raw output from
verify-tag in order to assert a minimum trust level for keys used to
sign git tags [2].

[1] https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=doc/doc/DETAILS;h=bd00006e933ac56719b1edd2478ecd79273eae72;hb=refs/heads/master
[2] 9674c1991d/scripts/verify-git-tag (L43)

Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-15 14:06:06 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d37cfe3b5c Merge branch 'dl/pretty-reference'
"git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name
of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log
messages.

* dl/pretty-reference:
  SubmittingPatches: use `--pretty=reference`
  pretty: implement 'reference' format
  pretty: add struct cmt_fmt_map::default_date_mode_type
  pretty: provide short date format
  t4205: cover `git log --reflog -z` blindspot
  pretty.c: inline initalize format_context
  revision: make get_revision_mark() return const pointer
  completion: complete `tformat:` pretty format
  SubmittingPatches: remove dq from commit reference
  pretty-formats.txt: use generic terms for hash
  SubmittingPatches: use generic terms for hash
2019-12-10 13:11:43 -08:00
Denton Liu
1f0fc1db85 pretty: implement 'reference' format
The standard format for referencing other commits within some projects
(such as git.git) is the reference format. This is described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches as

	If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable
	branch, use the format "abbreviated hash (subject, date)", like this:

	....
		Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30)
		noticed that ...
	....

Since this format is so commonly used, standardize it as a pretty
format.

The tests that are implemented essentially show that the format-string
does not change in response to various log options. This is useful
because, for future developers, it shows that we've considered the
limitations of the "canned format-string" approach and we are fine with
them.

Based-on-a-patch-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-20 13:33:37 +09:00
René Scharfe
0df621172d pretty: provide short date format
Add the placeholders %as and %cs to format author date and committer
date, respectively, without the time part, like --date=short does, i.e.
like YYYY-MM-DD.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-20 13:33:36 +09:00
Denton Liu
bae74c9dfb pretty-formats.txt: use generic terms for hash
Since Git is planning on upgrading from SHA-1 to be more hash-agnostic,
replace specific references to SHA-1 with more generic terminology.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-11-20 13:33:36 +09:00
Prarit Bhargava
d8b8217c8a pretty: add "%aL" etc. to show local-part of email addresses
In many projects the number of contributors is low enough that users know
each other and the full email address doesn't need to be displayed.
Displaying only the author's username saves a lot of columns on the screen.

Existing 'e/E' (as in "%ae" and "%aE") placeholders would show the
author's address as "prarit@redhat.com", which would waste columns to show
the same domain-part for all contributors when used in a project internal
to redhat.  Introduce 'l/L' placeholders that strip '@' and domain part from
the e-mail address.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-30 11:49:41 +09:00
Cameron Steffen
4fd39c76e6 doc: minor formatting fix
Move a closing backtick that was placed one character too soon.

Signed-off-by: Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-09-12 11:06:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
42977bf5c7 Merge branch 'aw/pretty-trailers'
The %(trailers) formatter in "git log --format=..."  now allows to
optionally pick trailers selectively by keyword, show only values,
etc.

* aw/pretty-trailers:
  pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers)
  strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals
  pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers)
  pretty: allow showing specific trailers
  pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling
  pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value
  doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions
2019-03-07 09:59:52 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
ca9103d15d Merge branch 'kl/pretty-doc-markup-fix'
Doc update.

* kl/pretty-doc-markup-fix:
  doc: prevent overflowing <code> tag in rendered HTML
2019-02-08 20:44:53 -08:00
Katrin Leinweber
5427de960b doc: prevent overflowing <code> tag in rendered HTML
Add an apparently missing back-tick to fix a multi-line <code> section
on https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log which seems to have been caused by
commit 18fb7ffc ("pretty: respect color settings [...]", 2017-07-13).

Signed-off-by: Katrin Leinweber <katrin.leinweber@uni-konstanz.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-02-07 12:35:04 -08:00
Anders Waldenborg
0b691d8685 pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers)
By default trailer lines are terminated by linebreaks ('\n'). By
specifying the new 'separator' option they will instead be separated by
user provided string and have separator semantics rather than terminator
semantics. The separator string can contain the literal formatting codes
%n and %xNN allowing it to be things that are otherwise hard to type
such as %x00, or comma and end-parenthesis which would break parsing.

E.g:
 $ git log --pretty='%(trailers:key=Reviewed-by,valueonly,separator=%x00)'

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29 10:03:32 -08:00
Anders Waldenborg
d9b936db52 pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers)
With the new "key=" option to %(trailers) it often makes little sense to
show the key, as it by definition already is knows which trailer is
printed there. This new "valueonly" option makes it omit the key when
printing trailers.

E.g.:
 $ git show -s --pretty='%s%n%(trailers:key=Signed-off-by,valueonly)' aaaa88182
will show:
 > upload-pack: fix broken if/else chain in config callback
 > Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
 > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29 10:03:32 -08:00
Anders Waldenborg
250bea0c16 pretty: allow showing specific trailers
Adds a new "key=X" option to "%(trailers)" which will cause it to only
print trailer lines which match any of the specified keys.

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29 10:03:32 -08:00
Anders Waldenborg
4f732e0fd7 pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value
In addition to old %(trailers:only) it is now allowed to write
%(trailers:only=yes)

By itself this only gives (the not quite so useful) possibility to have
users change their mind in the middle of a formatting
string (%(trailers:only=true,only=false)). However, it gives users the
opportunity to override defaults from future options.

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-29 10:03:09 -08:00
Issac Trotts
ad6f028f06 log: add %S option (like --source) to log --format
Make it possible to write for example

        git log --format="%H,%S"

where the %S at the end is a new placeholder that prints out the ref
(tag/branch) for each commit.

Using %d might seem like an alternative but it only shows the ref for the last
commit in the branch.

Signed-off-by: Issac Trotts <issactrotts@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-11 10:28:11 -08:00
Anders Waldenborg
42617752d4 doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions
The placeholders can be grouped into three kinds:
 * literals
 * affecting formatting of later placeholders
 * expanding to information in commit

Also change the list to a definition list (using '::')

Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-12-09 11:13:55 +09:00
Michał Górny
4de9394dcb gpg-interface.c: obtain primary key fingerprint as well
Obtain the primary key fingerprint off VALIDSIG status message,
and expose it via %GP format.

Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23 08:00:43 +09:00
Michał Górny
3daaaabe7e gpg-interface.c: support getting key fingerprint via %GF format
Support processing VALIDSIG status that provides additional information
for valid signatures.  Use this information to propagate signing key
fingerprint and expose it via %GF pretty format.  This format can be
used to build safer key verification systems that verify the key via
complete fingerprint rather than short/long identifier provided by %GK.

Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-23 08:00:09 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
cd3d56a962 Merge branch 'mk/doc-pretty-fill'
Docfix.

* mk/doc-pretty-fill:
  docs/pretty-formats: fix typo '% <(<N>)' -> '%<|(<N>)'
2018-03-08 12:36:29 -08:00
Mårten Kongstad
768b9d6db7 docs/pretty-formats: fix typo '% <(<N>)' -> '%<|(<N>)'
Remove erroneous space between % and < in '% <(<N>)'.

Signed-off-by: Mårten Kongstad <marten.kongstad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-27 14:13:55 -08:00
Jeff King
5a03360e73 docs/pretty-formats: mention commas in %(trailers) syntax
Commit 84ff053d47 (pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments
with ",", 2017-10-01) switched the syntax of the trailers
placeholder, but forgot to update the documentation in
pretty-formats.txt.

There's no need to mention the old syntax; it was never in a
released version of Git.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-12-08 09:00:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
06cf4f2d87 Merge branch 'jk/trailers-parse'
"git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few
other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
trailer lines from a commit log message.

* jk/trailers-parse:
  doc/interpret-trailers: fix "the this" typo
  pretty: support normalization options for %(trailers)
  t4205: refactor %(trailers) tests
  pretty: move trailer formatting to trailer.c
  interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option
  interpret-trailers: add an option to unfold values
  interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers
  interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers
  trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct
2017-08-26 22:55:04 -07:00
Jeff King
58311c66fd pretty: support normalization options for %(trailers)
The interpret-trailers command recently learned some options
to make its output easier to parse (for a caller whose only
interested in picking out the trailer values). But it's not
very efficient for asking for the trailers of many commits
in a single invocation.

We already have "%(trailers)" to do that, but it doesn't
know about unfolding or omitting non-trailers. Let's plumb
those options through, so you can have the best of both.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-15 11:13:58 -07:00
Jeff King
18fb7ffc3d pretty: respect color settings for %C placeholders
The color placeholders have traditionally been
unconditional, showing colors even when git is not otherwise
configured to do so. This was not so bad for their original
use, which was on the command-line (and the user could
decide at that moment whether to add colors or not). But
these days we have configured formats via pretty.*, and
those should operate correctly in multiple contexts.

In 3082517 (log --format: teach %C(auto,black) to respect
color config, 2012-12-17), we gave an extended placeholder
that could be used to accomplish this. But it's rather
clunky to use, because you have to specify it individually
for each color (and their matching resets) in the format.
We shied away from just switching the default to auto,
because it is technically breaking backwards compatibility.

However, there's not really a use case for unconditional
colors. The most plausible reason you would want them is to
redirect "git log" output to a file. But there, the right
answer is --color=always, as it does the right thing both
with custom user-format colors and git-generated colors.

So let's switch to the more useful default. In the
off-chance that somebody really does find a use for
unconditional colors without wanting to enable the rest of
git's colors, we provide a new %C(always,...) to enable the
old behavior. And we can remind them of --color=always in
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-13 12:42:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
76de71b487 Merge branch 'ah/doc-pretty-color-auto-prefix' into maint
Doc update.

* ah/doc-pretty-color-auto-prefix:
  doc: clarify syntax for %C(auto,...) in pretty formats
2017-07-10 13:59:05 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9bab852f65 Merge branch 'ah/doc-pretty-color-auto-prefix'
Doc update.

* ah/doc-pretty-color-auto-prefix:
  doc: clarify syntax for %C(auto,...) in pretty formats
2017-06-30 13:45:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
74567ac001 Merge branch 'sg/doc-pretty-formats' into maint
Doc update.

* sg/doc-pretty-formats:
  docs/pretty-formats: stress that %- removes all preceding line-feeds
2017-06-24 15:29:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f3c9c8501d Merge branch 'sg/doc-pretty-formats'
Doc update.

* sg/doc-pretty-formats:
  docs/pretty-formats: stress that %- removes all preceding line-feeds
2017-06-24 14:28:39 -07:00
Andreas Heiduk
8592c95cdf doc: clarify syntax for %C(auto,...) in pretty formats
The manual correctly describes the syntax with `auto,` but the
trailing `,` is hard to spot in a terminal.  The HTML format does not
have this problem.  Adding an example helps both worlds.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-24 11:23:55 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
8abc09c0e3 docs/pretty-formats: stress that %- removes all preceding line-feeds
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-15 14:45:28 -07:00
Andreas Heiduk
fc7a5edb55 Documentation: fix formatting typo in pretty-formats.txt
A missing space messed up formatting of the `%(trailers)` format.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-23 14:46:26 +09:00
Jacob Keller
d9f31fbfe9 pretty: add %(trailers) format for displaying trailers of a commit message
Recent patches have expanded on the trailers.c code and we have the
builtin commant git-interpret-trailers which can be used to add or
modify trailer lines. However, there is no easy way to simply display
the trailers of a commit message.

Add support for %(trailers) format modifier which will use the
trailer_info_get() calls to read trailers in an identical way as git
interpret-trailers does. Use a long format option instead of a short
name so that future work can more easily unify ref-filter and pretty
formats.

Add documentation and tests for the same.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-11 13:58:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4efd8e64d3 Merge branch 'rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix' into maint
Small doc update.

* rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix:
  pretty: fix document link for color specification
2016-10-28 09:01:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
56d268baff Merge branch 'mg/gpg-richer-status'
The GPG verification status shown in "%G?" pretty format specifier
was not rich enough to differentiate a signature made by an expired
key, a signature made by a revoked key, etc.  New output letters
have been assigned to express them.

* mg/gpg-richer-status:
  gpg-interface: use more status letters
2016-10-26 13:14:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4e0d011f9 Merge branch 'rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix'
* rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix:
  pretty: fix document link for color specification
2016-10-17 13:25:23 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
661a180681 gpg-interface: use more status letters
According to gpg2's doc/DETAILS:

    For each signature only one of the codes GOODSIG, BADSIG,
    EXPSIG, EXPKEYSIG, REVKEYSIG or ERRSIG will be emitted.

gpg1 ("classic") behaves the same (although doc/DETAILS differs).

Currently, we parse gpg's status output for GOODSIG, BADSIG and
trust information and translate that into status codes G, B, U, N
for the %G?  format specifier.

git-verify-* returns success in the GOODSIG case only. This is
somewhat in disagreement with gpg, which considers the first 5 of
the 6 above as VALIDSIG, but we err on the very safe side.

Introduce additional status codes E, X, Y, R for ERRSIG, EXPSIG,
EXPKEYSIG, and REVKEYSIG so that a user of %G? gets more information
about the absence of a 'G' on first glance.

Requested-by: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-12 10:41:59 -07:00
René Scharfe
30cfe72d37 pretty: fix document link for color specification
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-11 10:07:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f0b2db228b Merge branch 'po/range-doc' into maint
Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
documentation.

* po/range-doc:
  doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged
  doc: revisions: show revision expansion in examples
  doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples
  doc: revisions - define `reachable`
  doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk
  doc: gitrevisions - use 'reachable' in page description
  doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison
  doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects
  doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations
  doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks
  doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
  doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently
2016-09-19 13:51:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d0b61dc65f Merge branch 'po/range-doc'
Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
documentation.

* po/range-doc:
  doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged
  doc: revisions: show revision expansion in examples
  doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples
  doc: revisions - define `reachable`
  doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk
  doc: gitrevisions - use 'reachable' in page description
  doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison
  doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects
  doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations
  doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks
  doc: revisions - name the left and right sides
  doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently
2016-09-08 21:49:49 -07:00
Jeff King
d38c7b2c2c doc/pretty-formats: explain shortening of %gd
The actual shortening rules aren't that interesting and
probably not worth getting into (I gloss over them here as
"shortened for human readability"). But the fact that %gD
shows whatever you gave on the command line is subtle and
worth mentioning. Since most people will feed a shortened
refname in the first place, it otherwise makes it hard to
understand the difference between the two.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-22 13:47:33 -07:00
Jeff King
522259dc3a doc/pretty-formats: describe index/time formats for %gd
The "reflog selector" format changes based on a series of
heuristics, and that applies equally to both stock "log -g"
output, as well as "--format=%gd". The documentation for
"%gd" doesn't cover this. Let's mention the multiple formats
and refer the user back to the "-g" section for the complete
rules.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-22 13:47:33 -07:00
Philip Oakley
c6eff44d0d doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-20 15:15:16 -07:00
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
Jeff King
2aea7a51a1 rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notes
The rev-list command does not have the internal
infrastructure to display notes. Running:

  git rev-list --notes HEAD

will silently ignore the "--notes" option. Running:

  git rev-list --notes --grep=. HEAD

will crash on an assert. Running:

  git rev-list --format=%N HEAD

will place a literal "%N" in the output (it does not even
expand to an empty string).

Let's have rev-list tell the user that it cannot fill the
user's request, rather than silently producing wrong data.
Likewise, let's remove mention of the notes options from the
rev-list documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-24 10:33:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
abcbafedbf Merge branch 'mm/log-format-raw-doc'
Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
concepts.

* mm/log-format-raw-doc:
  Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
  Documentation/log: clarify what --raw means
2015-06-01 12:45:18 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
92de92172d Documentation/log: clarify sha1 non-abbreviation in log --raw
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-05-20 15:28:51 -07:00