We did not document that many commands take unique prefix
abbreviations of long options (e.g. "--option" may be the only flag
that the command accepts that begin with "--opt", in which case you
can give "--opt") anywhere easy to find for new people.
* jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli:
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the
documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but
also about "don't mix lineages".
* jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc:
rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
* hv/coding-guidelines:
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
Simplify "make check-docs" implementation and update its coverage.
* jk/check-docs-update:
check-docs: get documented command list from Makefile
check-docs: drop git-help special-case
check-docs: list git-gui as a command
check-docs: factor out command-list
command-list: mention git-credential-* helpers
command-list: add git-sh-i18n
check-docs: update non-command documentation list
check-docs: mention gitweb specially
Our documentation used to assume having files in .git/refs/*
directories was the only to have branches and tags, but that is not
true for quite some time.
* jc/tag-doc:
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
The one at kernel.org has not been updated for quite a while and
can no longer be called "the latest".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the
documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but
also about "don't mix lineages".
Reword the description for both "--date-order" and "--topo-order",
and add an illustration to it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
Spell some of the guidelines out.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current code tries to get a list of documented commands
by doing "ls Documentation/git*txt" and culling a bunch of
special cases from the result. Looking for "git-*.txt" would
be more accurate, but would miss a few commands like
"gitweb" and "gitk".
Fortunately, Documentation/Makefile already knows what this
list is, so we can just ask it. Annoyingly, we still have to
post-process its output a little, since make will print
extra cruft like "GIT-VERSION-FILE is up to date" to stdout.
Now that our list is accurate, we can remove all of the ugly
special-cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These commands were never added to the command-list. Adding
them makes "make check-docs" run without complaint.
While we're at it, let's capitalize the first letter of
their one-line summaries to match the rest of the git
manpages.
The credential-cache--daemon command is somewhat special. It
is already ignored by check-docs because it contains a "--",
marking it as a non-interesting implementation detail. It
is, in fact, documented, but since the documentation
basically just redirects you to a more appropriate command
anyway, let's explicitly omit it so it is not mentioned in
git(1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e30b2feb1b (Jun 24 2012, add 'git credential' plumbing command)
forgot to add git-credential to command-list.txt, hence the command was
not appearing in the documentation, making it hard for users to discover
it.
While we're there, capitalize the description line for git-crendential
for consistency with other commands.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
linkification in frontends that support it; remove them
- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
the other way around
- trivial typo and wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an implementation detail that a new tag is created by adding a
file in the .git/refs/tags directory. The only thing the user needs
to know is that a "git tag" creates a ref in the refs/tags namespace,
and without "-f", it does not overwrite an existing tag.
Inspired by a report from 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>; I think I
caught all the existing mention in Documentation/ directory in the
tip of 1.7.9.X maintenance track, but we may have added new ones
since then.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
message user edits was not documented.
* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg:
commit: document the temporary commit message file
"git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
* kk/maint-commit-tree:
Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"
commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
It was a bit hard to learn how <rev>^@, <rev>^! and various other
forms of range specifiers are used, because they were discussed
mostly in the prose part of the documentation, unlike various forms
of extended SHA-1 expressions that are listed in an enumerated list.
Also add a few more examples showing use of <rev>, <rev>..<rev> and
<rev>^! forms, stolen from a patch by Max Horn.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
* jc/mergetool-tool-help:
mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want
to know about it for two reasons:
1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself
for formatting a commit message.
2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want
to recover the commit message they typed.
Let's put a note in git-commit(1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync
between the implementation and the documentation.
In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools
with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in
the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid
tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things
the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help
for a complete list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
