The todo list at the end of the user manual says that something must be
said about .gitignore. Also, there seems to be a lack of documentation
on how to choose between the various types of ignore files (.gitignore
vs. .git/info/exclude, etc.).
This patch adds a section on ignoring files which try to introduce how
to tell git about ignored files, and how the different strategies
complement eachother.
The syntax of exclude patterns is explained in a simplified manner, with
a reference to git-ls-files(1) which already contains a more thorough
explanation.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Another amusing git exploration example brought up in irc. (Credit to
aeruder for the complete solution.)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I don't really want to look like we're encouraging the shared repository
thing. Take down some of the argument for using purely
single-developer-owned repositories and collaborating using patches and
pulls instead.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The embarassing history of this tutorial is that I started it without
really understanding the index well, so I avoided mentioning it.
And we all got the idea that "index" was a word to avoid using around
newbies, but it was reluctantly mentioned that *something* had to be
said. The result is a little awkward: the discussion of the index never
actually uses that word, and isn't well-integrated into the surrounding
material.
Let's just go ahead and use the word "index" from the very start, and
try to demonstrate its use with a minimum of lecturing.
Also, remove discussion of using git-commit with explicit filenames.
We're already a bit slow here to get people to their first commit, and
I'm not convinced this is really so important.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Mention the user manual, especially as an alternative introduction for
user's mainly interested in read-only operations.
And fix a typo while we're there.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
user-manual: reorganize public git repo discussion
user-manual: listing commits reachable from some refs not others
user-manual: introduce git
user-manual: add a "counting commits" example
user-manual: move howto/using-topic-branches into manual
user-manual: move howto/make-dist.txt into user manual
Documentation: remove howto's now incorporated into manual
user-manual: move quick-start to an appendix
glossary: expand and clarify some definitions, prune cross-references
user-manual: revise birdseye-view chapter
Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual
git-rev-list(1) talks about patterns as values for the
--grep, --committed etc. parameters, without going into detail.
This patch mentions that these patterns are actually regexps.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Helping a couple people set up public repos recently, I wanted to point
them at this piece of the user manual, but found it wasn't as helpful as
it could be:
- It starts with a big explanation of why you'd want a public
repository, not necessary in their case since they already knew
why they wanted that. So, separate that out.
- It skimps on some of the git-daemon details, and puts the http
export information first. Fix that.
Also group all the public repo subsections into a single section, and do
some miscellaneous related editing.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Move howto/using-topic-branches into the user manual as an example for
the "sharing development" chapter. While we're at it, remove some
discussion that's covered in earlier chapters, modernize somewhat (use
separate-heads setup, remotes, replace "whatchanged" by "log", etc.),
and replace syntax we'd need to explain by syntax we've already covered
(e.g. old..new instead of new ^old).
The result may not really describe what Tony Luck does any more.... Hope
that's not annoying.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
There seems to be a perception that the howto's are bit-rotting a
little. The manual might be a more visible location for some of them,
and make-dist.txt seems like a good candidate to include as an example
in the manual.
For now, incorporate much of it verbatim. Later we may want to update
the example a bit.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
These two howto's have both been copied into the manual. I'd rather not
maintain both versions if possible, and I think the user-manual will be
more visible than the howto directory. (Though I wouldn't mind some
duplication if people really like having them here.)
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The quick start interrupts the flow of the manual a bit. Move it to
"appendix A" but add a reference to it in the preface. Also rename the
todo chapter to "appendix B", and revise the preface a little.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Revise and expand some of the definitions in the glossary, based in part
on a recent thread started by a user looking for help with some of the
jargon. I've borrowed some of the language from Linus's email on that
thread. (I'm assuming standing permission to plagiarize Linus's
email....)
Also start making a few changes to mitigate the appearance of
"circularity" mentioned in that thread:
- feel free to use somewhat longer definitions and to explain
some things more than once instead of relying purely on
cross-references
- don't use cross-references when they're redundant: eliminate
self-references and repeated references to the same entry.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Some revisions suggested by Junio along with some minor style fixes and
one compile fix (asterisks need escaping).
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
During the discussion of core.excludesfile in the user-manual, I realized
that the configuration wasn't mentioned in the man pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/42479,
a birdview on the source code was requested.
J. Bruce Fields suggested that my reply should be included in the
user manual, and there was nothing of an outcry, so here it is,
not 2 months later.
It includes modifications as suggested by J. Bruce Fields, Karl
Hasselström and Daniel Barkalow.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
* maint:
format-patch: add MIME-Version header when we add content-type.
Fixed link in user-manual
import-tars: Use the "Link indicator" to identify directories
git name-rev writes beyond the end of malloc() with large generations
Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D example
$Id$ is present already in SVN and CVS; it would mean that people
converting their existing repositories won't have to make any changes to
the source files should they want to make use of the ident attribute.
Given that it's a feature that's meant to calm those very people, it
seems obtuse to make them edit every file just to make use of it.
I think that bzr uses $Id$; Mercurial has examples hooks for $Id$;
monotone has $Id$ on its wishlist. I can't think of a good reason not
to stick with the de-facto standard and call ours $Id$ instead of
$ident$.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Prepare for 1.5.1.5 Release Notes
gitweb: Add a few comments about %feature hash
git-am: Clean up the asciidoc documentation
Documentation: format-patch has no --mbox option
builtin-log.c: Fix typo in comment
Fix git-clone buglet for remote case.
Hopefully we will have 1.5.2 soonish, to contain all of these,
but we should summarize what we have done regardless.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add --keep to synopsis.
The synopsys used a mix of tabs and spaces, unify to use only
spaces.
Shuffle options around in synopsys and description for grouping
them logically.
Add more gitlink references to other commands.
Various grammatical fixes and improvements.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-applymbox and git-mailinfo refer to a --mbox option of
git-format-patch when talking about their -k options. But there
is no such option. What -k does to the former two commands is
to keep the Subject: lines unmunged, meant to be used on output
generated with format-patch -k.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options
(--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt
and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS"
section in pretty-formats.txt
While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the
resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and
git-diff-tree(1). Those manpages now include pretty options in the
same place as it was before, and description of formats just after
all options.
Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies:
Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Currently
$ git grep '\([^t]\|^\)'link: user-manual.txt
gives four hits that refer to .txt version of the documentation
set, but at least "hooks" and "cvs-migration" have HTML variants
installed, so refer to them instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Small additional changes to the cbb84e5d17
commit, which introduced documentation to pre-receive and post-receive:
- Mention that stdout and stderr are equivalent.
- Add one cross-section link and fix one other.
- Fix information on advantages of post-receive over post-update.
Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
checkout: allow detaching to HEAD even when switching to the tip of a branch
Updated documentation of hooks in git-receive-pack.
Allow fetching references from any namespace
tiny fix in documentation of git-clone
Fix an unmatched comment end in arm/sha1_arm.S
Added documentation of pre-receive and post-receive hooks and updated
documentation of update and post-update hooks.
[jc: with minor copy-editing]
Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
.mailmap: add some aliases
SPECIFYING RANGES typo fix: it it => it is
git-clone: don't get fooled by $PWD
Fix documentation of tag in git-fast-import.txt
More typo fixes from Santi Béjar, plus a couple other mistakes I noticed
along the way.
Cc: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- git-ls-files.txt: typo in description of --ignored
- git-clean.txt: s/forceRequire/requireForce/
Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Documentation: don't reference non-existent 'git-cvsapplycommit'
user-manual: stop deprecating the manual
user-manual: miscellaneous editing
user-manual: fix .gitconfig editing examples
user-manual: clean up fast-forward and dangling-objects sections
user-manual: add section ID's
user-manual: more discussion of detached heads, fix typos
git-gui: Allow spaces in path to 'wish'
gitk: Allow user to choose whether to see the diff, old file, or new file
This command was implemented, but not documented in
dfdac5d9b8.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It's just as much a work-in-progress, but at least now it's gotten
enough technical review to shake out most of the really bad lies, so
hopefully it doesn't do any actual damage. And if we encourage people
to read it, they'll be more likely to whine about it, which will help
get it fixed faster.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
I cherry-picked some additional miscellaneous fixes from those suggested
by Santi Béjar, including fixes to:
- correct discussion of repository/HEAD->repository shortcut
- add mention of git-mergetool
- add mention of --track
- mention "-f" as well as "+" for fetch
Cc: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Santi Béjar points out that when telling people how to "introduce
themselves" to git we're advising them to replace their entire
.gitconfig file. Fix that.
Cc: "Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The previous commit calls attention to the fact that we have two
sections each devoted to fast-forwards and to dangling objects. Revise
and attempt to differentiate them a bit. Some more reorganization may
be required later....
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
Any section lacking an id gets an annoying warning when you build
the manual. More seriously, the table of contents then generates
volatile id's which change with every build, with the effect that
we get URL's that change all the time.
The ID's are manually generated and sometimes inconsistent, but
that's OK.
XXX: what to do about the preface?
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Nicolas Pitre pointed out a couple typos and some room for improvement
in the discussion of detached heads.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
* maint:
Small correction in reading of commit headers
Documentation: fix typo in git-remote.txt
Add test for blame corner cases.
blame: -C -C -C
blame: Notice a wholesale incorporation of an existing file.
Fix --boundary output
diff format documentation: describe raw combined diff format
Mention version 1.5.1 in tutorial and user-manual
Add --no-rebase option to git-svn dcommit
Fix markup in git-svn man page
Add description of raw combined diff format to diff-formats.txt,
as "diff format for merges" section, before "Generating patches..."
section.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Most other documentation will frequently be read from an installation
of git so will naturally be associated with the installed version.
But these two documents in particular are often read from web pages
while users are still exploring git. It's important to mention
version 1.5.1 since these documents provide example commands that
won't work with previous versions of git.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-svn dcommit exports commits to Subversion, then imports them back
to git again, and last but not least rebases or resets HEAD to the
last of the new commits. I guess this rebasing is convenient when
using just git, but when the commits to be exported are managed by
StGIT, it's really annoying. So add an option to disable this
behavior. And document it, too!
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some of the existing markup was just plain broken, and some subcommand
options weren't indented properly.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When the -v is passed, git-tag will exit after it is processed like it
does with the -d and -l options. Additionally, missing code block caused
wrong rendering of an option example.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
gitweb: use decode_utf8 directly
posix compatibility for t4200
Document 'opendiff' value in config.txt and git-mergetool.txt
Allow PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/env perl"
Make xstrndup common
diff.c: fix "size cache" handling.
http-fetch: Disable use of curl multi support for libcurl < 7.16.
It can be either hostname/address, or a full path to a
local executable.
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Separate things to be checked when making commits, and things
to be checked when sending patches.
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch adds a new 'find-rev' command to git-svn that lets you easily
translate between SVN revision numbers and git tree-ish.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this "git blame -b -s HEAD~n..HEAD" becomes a nicer way to
review the result of recent changes in context.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some other programs get the user's email address from $EMAIL, so fall back to
that if we don't have a Git-specific email address.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
http.c: Fix problem with repeated calls of http_init
Add missing reference to GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in git-commit-tree documentation
Fix import-tars fix.
Update .mailmap with "Michael"
Do not barf on too long action description
Catch empty pathnames in trees during fsck
Don't allow empty pathnames in fast-import
import-tars: be nice to wrong directory modes
git-svn: Added 'find-rev' command
git shortlog documentation: add long options and fix a typo
This patch adds a new 'find-rev' command to git-svn that lets you easily
translate between SVN revision numbers and git tree-ish.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt: --recover to resume a failed fetch
operation.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt: -s to use
symbolic links instead of file-to-file copy, -l
to use hardlinks, -n to never use file-to-file
copies, --recover to resume a failed fetch.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-http-push.txt: Changing --complete to --all. Added
documentation for -d and -D to remote remote refs.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documenting alternate ways to use -L:
-L /regex/,end
-L start,+offset
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-grep.txt: Document -F/--fixed-strings to
search for non-regexp patterns. Document -I to not search
binary files. Document -<num> as a shortcut for -C<num>.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt:
--summary to list commit summaries on merge
--no-summary
--file to take merged objects from a file.
Configuration option merge.summary
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Document --quiet/-q and --verbose/-v
Add -n as an alternate for --no-tags
Fix some whitespace issues
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
-n is not a short form of --no-index as the documentation
suggests. Removing it from the documentation and command
usage string.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint:
Start preparing for 1.5.1.3
Sanitize @to recipients.
git-svn: Ignore usernames in URLs in find_by_url
Document --dry-run and envelope-sender for git-send-email.
Allow users to optionally specify their envelope sender.
Ensure clean addresses are always used with Net::SMTP
Validate @recipients before using it for sendmail and Net::SMTP.
Perform correct quoting of recipient names.
Change the scope of the $cc variable as it is not needed outside of send_message.
Debugging cleanup improvements
Prefix Dry- to the message status to denote dry-runs.
Document --dry-run parameter to send-email.
git-svn: Don't rely on $_ after making a function call
Fix handle leak in write_tree
Actually handle some-low memory conditions
Conflicts:
RelNotes
git-send-email.perl
