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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are out of date and incomplete.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wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and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
Štěpán Němec
0adda9362a Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:31:07 -07:00
Stefan-W. Hahn
abeb09b646 documentation: 'git-mailsplit --keep-cr' is not hidden anymore
So far this was an internal mechanism for rebase, but we will be exposing
it to the end users.

Signed-off-by: Stefan-W. Hahn <stefan.hahn@s-hahn.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-28 11:04:19 -08:00
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
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
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
Dirk Suesserott
9e3fd41124 Documentation/git-mailsplit: Enhanced description of -o option
Added '-o' in the description of '-o<directory>' for consistency reasons.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Suesserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
2008-06-04 14:51:34 -07:00
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
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
Fernando J. Pereda
d63bd9a217 Teach mailsplit about Maildir's
Signed-off-by: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-24 19:01:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c3f0baacad Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:53:37 -08:00
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
H. Peter Anvin
b3f041fb0f git-am support for naked email messages (take 2)
This allows git-am to accept single-message files as well as mboxes.
Unlike the previous version, this one doesn't need to be explicitly told
which one it is; rather, it looks to see if the first line is a From
line and uses it to select mbox mode or not.

I moved the logic to do all this into git-mailsplit, which got a new
user interface as result, although the old interface is still available
for backwards compatibility.

[jc: applied with two obvious fixes.]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-14 02:04:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8b73edf498 mailsplit: allow feeding mbox from standard input.
When mbox argument is missing, read the mailbox from the standard
input.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-06 15:55:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
54ba6013b4 Describe new options to git-format-patch and git-mailsplit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-06 14:25:52 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov
a7154e916c [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macro
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:

	perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt
	perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
A Large Angry SCM
f58b7432d2 [PATCH] Add some documentation.
Add some documentation.

Text taken from the the commit messages and the command sources.

Signed-off-by:  <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-28 14:32:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7fc9d69fca Add placeholders for missing documents.
The text does not say anything interesting, but at least the
author list should reflect something close to reality.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-23 01:49:47 -07:00