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Andrei Rybak
f0b922473e Documentation: render special characters correctly
Three hyphens are rendered verbatim, so "--" has to be used to produce a
dash.  There is no double arrow ("<->" is rendered as "<→"), so a left
and right arrow "<-->" have to be combined for that.

So fix asciidoc output for special characters.  This is similar to fixes
in commit de82095a95 (doc hash-function-transition: fix asciidoc output,
2021-02-05).

Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-30 09:08:12 -07:00
Jonathan Tan
2b713c272c fetch: allow refspecs specified through stdin
In a subsequent patch, partial clones will be taught to fetch missing
objects using a "git fetch" subprocess. Because the number of objects
fetched may be too numerous to fit on the command line, teach "fetch" to
accept refspecs passed through stdin.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-18 13:25:05 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
828197de8f docs: adjust for the recent rename of pu to seen
As of "What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2020, #04; Mon, 22)", there is no
longer any `pu` branch, but a `seen` branch.

While we technically do not even need to update the manual pages, it
makes sense to update them because they clearly talk about branches in
git.git.

Please note that in two instances, this patch not only updates the
branch name, but also the description "(proposed updates)".

Where appropriate, quotes have been added for readability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-25 09:18:53 -07:00
Mark Rushakoff
6d16922798 doc: typo: s/can not/cannot/ and s/is does/does/
"Can not" suggests one has the option to not do something, whereas
"cannot" more strongly suggests something is disallowed or impossible.

Noticed "can not", mistakenly used instead of "cannot" in git help
glossary, then ran git grep 'can not' and found many other instances.
Only files in the Documentation folder were modified.

'Can not' also occurs in some source code comments and some test
assertion messages, and there is an error message and translation "can
not move directory into itself" which I may fix and submit separately
from the documentation change.

Also noticed and fixed "is does" in git help fetch, but there are no
other occurrences of that typo according to git grep.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rushakoff <mark.rushakoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-08-05 10:05:24 -07:00
Jean-Noël Avila
ba170517be doc: tidy asciidoc style
This mainly refers to enforcing indentation on additional lines of
items of lists.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-23 11:37:29 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
6317972cff fetch: make the --prune-tags work with <url>
Make the new --prune-tags option work properly when git-fetch is
invoked with a <url> parameter instead of a <remote name>
parameter.

This change is split off from the introduction of --prune-tags due to
the relative complexity of munging the incoming argv, which is easier
to review as a separate change.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09 13:10:13 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
97716d217c fetch: add a --prune-tags option and fetch.pruneTags config
Add a --prune-tags option to git-fetch, along with fetch.pruneTags
config option and a -P shorthand (-p is --prune). This allows for
doing any of:

    git fetch -p -P
    git fetch --prune --prune-tags
    git fetch -p -P origin
    git fetch --prune --prune-tags origin

Or simply:

    git config fetch.prune true &&
    git config fetch.pruneTags true &&
    git fetch

Instead of the much more verbose:

    git fetch --prune origin 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'

Before this feature it was painful to support the use-case of pulling
from a repo which is having both its branches *and* tags deleted
regularly, and have our local references to reflect upstream.

At work we create deployment tags in the repo for each rollout, and
there's *lots* of those, so they're archived within weeks for
performance reasons.

Without this change it's hard to centrally configure such repos in
/etc/gitconfig (on servers that are only used for working with
them). You need to set fetch.prune=true globally, and then for each
repo:

    git -C {} config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" "^\+*refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*$"

Now I can simply set fetch.pruneTags=true in /etc/gitconfig as well,
and users running "git pull" will automatically get the pruning
semantics I want.

Even though "git remote" has corresponding "prune" and "update
--prune" subcommands I'm intentionally not adding a corresponding
prune-tags or "update --prune --prune-tags" mode to that command.

It's advertised (as noted in my recent "git remote doc: correct
dangerous lies about what prune does") as only modifying remote
tracking references, whereas any --prune-tags option is always going
to modify what from the user's perspective is a local copy of the tag,
since there's no such thing as a remote tracking tag.

Ideally add_prune_tags_to_fetch_refspec() would be something that
would use ALLOC_GROW() to grow the 'fetch` member of the 'remote'
struct. Instead I'm realloc-ing remote->fetch and adding the
tag_refspec to the end.

The reason is that parse_{fetch,push}_refspec which allocate the
refspec (ultimately remote->fetch) struct are called many places that
don't have access to a 'remote' struct. It would be hard to change all
their callsites to be amenable to carry around the bookkeeping
variables required for dynamic allocation.

All the other callers of the API first incrementally construct the
string version of the refspec in remote->fetch_refspec via
add_fetch_refspec(), before finally calling parse_fetch_refspec() via
some variation of remote_get().

It's less of a pain to deal with the one special case that needs to
modify already constructed refspecs than to chase down and change all
the other callsites. The API I'm adding is intentionally not
generalized because if we add more of these we'd probably want to
re-visit how this is done.

See my "Re: [BUG] git remote prune removes local tags, depending on
fetch config" (87po6ahx87.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com;
https://public-inbox.org/git/87po6ahx87.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/) for
more background info.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09 13:10:13 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2c72ed740f git fetch doc: add a new section to explain the ins & outs of pruning
Add a new section to canonically explain how remote reference pruning
works, and how users should be careful about using it in conjunction
with tag refspecs in particular.

A subsequent commit will update the git-remote documentation to refer
to this section, and details the motivation for writing this in the
first place.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-09 13:10:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f52e70879 Merge branch 'mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc'
Doc update on fetching and pushing.

* mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc:
  doc: mention transfer data leaks in more places
2017-01-10 15:24:24 -08:00
Matt McCutchen
235ec24352 doc: mention transfer data leaks in more places
The "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page described two
ways for a client to steal data from a server that wasn't intended to be
shared. Similar attacks can be performed by a server on a client, so
adapt the section to cover both directions and add it to the
git-fetch(1), git-pull(1), and git-push(1) man pages. Also add
references to this section from the documentation of server
configuration options that attempt to control data leakage but may not
be fully effective.

Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-11-14 11:23:07 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
bc437d1020 fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder
In the "remote -> local" line, if either ref is a substring of the
other, the common part in the other string is replaced with "*". For
example

    abc                -> origin/abc
    refs/pull/123/head -> pull/123

become

    abc         -> origin/*
    refs/*/head -> pull/123

Activated with fetch.output=compact.

For the record, this output is not perfect. A single giant ref can
push all refs very far to the right and likely be wrapped around. We
may have a few options:

 - exclude these long lines smarter

 - break the line after "->", exclude it from column width calculation

 - implement a new format, { -> origin/}foo, which makes the problem
   go away at the cost of a bit harder to read

 - reverse all the arrows so we have "* <- looong-ref", again still
   hard to read.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-06 11:48:25 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2cb040baa6 fetch: change flag code for displaying tag update and deleted ref
This makes the fetch flag code consistent with push, where '-' means
deleted ref.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-27 10:58:02 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
a52397cce6 git-fetch.txt: document fetch output
This documents the ref update status of fetch. The structure of this
output is defined in [1]. The ouput content is refined a bit in [2]
[3] [4].

This patch is a copy from git-push.txt, modified a bit because the
flag '-' means different things in push (delete) and fetch (tag
update).

PS. For code archaeologists, the discussion mentioned in [1] is
probably [5].

[1] 165f390 (git-fetch: more terse fetch output - 2007-11-03)
[2] 6315472 (fetch: report local storage errors ... - 2008-06-26)
[3] f360d84 (builtin-fetch: add --prune option - 2009-11-10)
[4] 0997ada (fetch: describe new refs based on where... - 2012-04-16)
[5] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61657

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-27 10:58:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
73167677c0 Merge branch 'jc/em-dash-in-doc'
AsciiDoc markup fixes.

* jc/em-dash-in-doc:
  Documentation: AsciiDoc spells em-dash as double-dashes, not triple
2015-10-29 13:59:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3b19dba703 Documentation: AsciiDoc spells em-dash as double-dashes, not triple
Again, we do not usually process release notes with AsciiDoc, but it
is better to be consistent.

This incidentally reveals breakages left by an ancient 5e00439f
(Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto,
2012-10-23).  The index-format documentation was originally written
to be read as straight text without formatting and when the commit
forced everything in Documentation/ to go through AsciiDoc, it did
not do any adjustment--hence the double-dashes will be seen in the
resulting text that is rendered as preformatted fixed-width without
converted into em-dashes.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-22 13:02:33 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
da0005b885 *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.

 - am.keepcr
 - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
 - diff.dirstat .noprefix
 - gitcvs.usecrlfattr
 - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
 - pull.twohead
 - receive.autogc
 - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13 22:13:46 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
db4e4113ea docs: Explain the purpose of fetch's and pull's <refspec> parameter.
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-12 09:59:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c5558f80c3 fetch: allow explicit --refmap to override configuration
Since the introduction of opportunisitic updates of remote-tracking
branches, started at around f2690487 (fetch: opportunistically
update tracking refs, 2013-05-11) with a few updates in v1.8.4 era,
the remote.*.fetch configuration always kicks in even when a refspec
to specify what to fetch is given on the command line, and there is
no way to disable or override it per-invocation.

Teach the command to pay attention to the --refmap=<lhs>:<rhs>
command-line options that can be used to override the use of
configured remote.*.fetch as the refmap.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
2014-06-05 15:13:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fcb14b0c8d fetch doc: add a section on configured remote-tracking branches
To resurrect a misleading mention removed in the previous step,
add a section to explain how the remote-tracking configuration
interacts with the refspecs given as the command-line arguments.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-05 14:59:07 -07:00
Marc Branchaud
366a0184e5 fetch doc: move FETCH_HEAD material lower and add an example
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-06-02 11:21:12 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
532845604d fetch doc: update introductory part for clarity
- "Branches" is a more common way to say "heads" in these days.

 - Remote-tracking branches are used a lot more these days and it is
   worth mentioning that it is one of the primary side effects of
   the command to update them.

 - Avoid "X. That means Y."  If Y is easier to understand to
   readers, just say that upfront.

 - Use of explicit refspec to fetch tags does not have much to do
   with turning "auto following" on or off.  It is a way to fetch
   tags that otherwise would not be fetched by auto-following.

Helped-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-30 11:04:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4d1826d1d9 Merge branch 'fc/trivial'
* fc/trivial:
  remote: fix status with branch...rebase=preserve
  fetch: add missing documentation
  t: trivial whitespace cleanups
  abspath: trivial style fix
2013-12-17 11:46:32 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
379484b551 fetch: add missing documentation
There's no mention of the 'origin' default, or the fact that the
upstream tracking branch remote is used.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-12-09 13:24:33 -08:00
Michael Haggerty
37f0dcbdc1 git-fetch.txt: improve description of tag auto-following
Make it clearer that tags are fetched independent of which branches
were fetched from the remote in any particular fetch.  (Tags are even
fetched if they point at objects that are in the current repository
but not reachable, which is probably a bug.)

Put less emphasis on the mechanism and more on the effect of tag
auto-following.  Also mention the options and configuration settings
that can change the tag-fetching behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-30 14:16:41 -07:00
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
Martin von Zweigbergk
7791a1d9b9 Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.

Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.

While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Jim Meyering
0353a0c4ec remove doubled words, e.g., s/to to/to/, and fix related typos
I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from which
I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile rule in
gnulib to help prevent recurrence.

Running the command below spotted a few in git, too:

  git ls-files | xargs perl -0777 -n \
    -e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt])\s+\1\b/gims)' \
    -e '{$n=($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1); ($v=$&)=~s/\n/\\n/g;' \
    -e 'print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n"}'

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-13 11:59:11 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2071fb015b Merge branch 'jl/submodule-fetch-on-demand'
* jl/submodule-fetch-on-demand:
  fetch/pull: Describe --recurse-submodule restrictions in the BUGS section
  submodule update: Don't fetch when the submodule commit is already present
  fetch/pull: Don't recurse into a submodule when commits are already present
  Submodules: Add 'on-demand' value for the 'fetchRecurseSubmodule' option
  config: teach the fetch.recurseSubmodules option the 'on-demand' value
  fetch/pull: Add the 'on-demand' value to the --recurse-submodules option
  fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary

Conflicts:
	builtin/fetch.c
	submodule.c
2011-04-04 15:02:01 -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
Jens Lehmann
794a3592ad fetch/pull: Describe --recurse-submodule restrictions in the BUGS section
Using the --recurse-submodules option with fetch and pull might not always
fetch all the submodule commits the user expects, as this will only work
when the submodule is already checked out. Document that and warn that
this is expected to change in the future.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09 13:10:36 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
8b3f3f84b2 Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:41 -07:00
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
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
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
Junio C Hamano
65c042d44d Merge branch 'bg/fetch-multi'
* bg/fetch-multi:
  Re-implement 'git remote update' using 'git fetch'
  builtin-fetch: add --dry-run option
  builtin-fetch: add --prune option
  teach warn_dangling_symref to take a FILE argument
  remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads()
  Add missing test for 'git remote update --prune'
  Add the configuration option skipFetchAll
  Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'
  Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
2009-11-23 00:03:15 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
16679e373f Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'
Add the --multiple option to specify that all arguments are either
groups or remotes. The primary reason for adding this option is
to allow us to re-implement 'git remote update' using fetch.

It would have been nice if this option was not needed, but since
the colon in a refspec is optional, it is in general not possible
to know whether a single, colon-less argument is a remote or a
refspec.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-10 01:01:07 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
9c4a036b34 Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
'git remote' is meant for managing remotes and 'git fetch' is meant
for actually fetching data from remote repositories. Therefore, it is
not logical that you must use 'git remote update' to fetch from
more than one repository at once.

Add the --all option to 'git fetch', to tell it to attempt to fetch
from all remotes. Also, if --all is not given, the <repository>
argument is allowed to be the name of a group, to allow fetching
from all repositories in the group.

Other options except -v and -q are silently ignored.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-10 01:01:06 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
d504f6975d modernize fetch/merge/pull examples
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated
style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and
move the examples to the corresponding manpages.

Furthermore,

 - show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a
   frequently asked question,

 - explain the default fetch refspec.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21 14:20:50 -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
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
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
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
02f571c73b git-fetch: document automatic tag following.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-09 15:41:35 -08:00
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
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
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
Junio C Hamano
9688a882e1 Documentation: recursive is the default strategy these days.
We still said resolve was the default in handful places.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 14:04:33 -08:00