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Felipe Contreras
0460ed2c93 documentation: trivial style cleanups
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17 12:09:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b51ffa80f6 Merge branch 'tr/maint-mailinfo'
* tr/maint-mailinfo:
  mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case
2012-01-12 23:34:26 -08:00
Thomas Rast
82553cbb08 mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case
Since its very first description of -k, the documentation for
git-mailinfo claimed that (in the case without -k) after cleaning up
bracketed strings [blah], it would insert [PATCH].

It doesn't; on the contrary, one of the important jobs of mailinfo is
to remove those strings.

Since we're already there, rewrite the paragraph to give a complete
enumeration of all the transformations.  Specifically, it was missing
the whitespace normalization (run of isspace(c) -> ' ') and the
removal of leading ':'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-11 17:30:16 -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
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
Zhang Le
e0a9110176 git-mailinfo documentation: clarify -u/--encoding
Instead of talking about hardcoded UTF-8, describe i18n.commitencoding
and the --encoding option, and state that they default to UTF-8.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13 20:18:23 -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
d268cb940d Merge branch 'jc/mailinfo-remove-brackets'
Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
	builtin-mailinfo.c
2009-11-30 14:43:24 -08:00
Nicolas Sebrecht
434a6db7dc add documentation for mailinfo.scissors and '--no-scissors'
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-11 00:23:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
017678b4f4 am/mailinfo: Disable scissors processing by default
You can enable it by giving --scissors to "git am".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-26 22:22:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
17635fc900 mailinfo: -b option keeps [bracketed] strings that is not a [PATCH] marker
By default, we remove leading [bracketed] [strings] from the Subject:
header when coming up with the summary of the patch.  This is because
there are mailing lists etc that add their own headers to the subject, and
they know they can add things in brackets. The most obvious example is the
Linux kernel security list.  Their emails look like

 	Subject: [Security] [patch] random: make get_random_int() more random

and other people mangle Subject: themselves in a similar way, e.g.:

 	Subject: [PATCH -rc] [BUGFIX] x86: fix kernel_trap_sp()
 	Subject: [BUGFIX][PATCH] fix bad page removal from LRU (Was Re: [RFC][PATCH] ..

even though "fix" is more than enough cue to mark it as a [BUGFIX].

Some projects however want to keep these bracketed strings.  With this
option, we remove only [bracketed strings that contain word PATCH], so we
will turn things like these

	[PATCH] [mailinfo] -b ...
	[PATCH v2] [mailinfo] -b ...
	[PATCH (v2) 1/4] [mailinfo] -b ...

into

	[mailinfo] -b ...

This lacks tests and integration to the "git am" toolchain to be useful,
but it is a start.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-29 12:34:56 -07:00
Markus Heidelberg
04c8ce9c1c Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 19:10:46 -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
Junio C Hamano
447d0cca45 Merge branch 'maint' to sync with 1.5.6.3
* maint:
  GIT 1.5.6.3
  git-am: Do not exit silently if committer is unset
  t0004: fix timing bug
  git-mailinfo: document the -n option
  Fix backwards-incompatible handling of core.sharedRepository
2008-07-13 15:45:38 -07:00
Lukas Sandström
b4958181a9 git-mailinfo: document the -n option
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-11 21:10:13 -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
Jonathan Nieder
46e56e81b3 Documentation: prepare to be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
With the dashed forms of git commands not in $(bindir), we have
to change many instances of "git-command" to "git command". Also,
for consistency it is at times appropriate to make the opposite
change. In some cases, the change is not so simple as changing one
character.

This patch gets rid of some of those cases by rewrapping lines.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:09 -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
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
Junio C Hamano
59c8e2cb2a Remove git-applypatch
The previous one removed git-applymbox, which was the sole user
of this tool.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-24 21:36:53 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
7b1885d1e7 Documentation: format-patch has no --mbox option
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>
2007-05-14 17:23:52 -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
Junio C Hamano
5cb545fa22 Documentation: suggest corresponding Porcelain-level in plumbing docs.
Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level
documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement
what the user may want to do using them upfront.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 13:03:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bb1091a475 -u is now default for 'git-mailinfo'.
Originally from David Woodhouse, but also adjusts the callers of
mailinfo to the new default.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-09 21:32:49 -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
Junio C Hamano
9f63892b38 mailinfo: Do not use -u=<encoding>; say --encoding=<encoding>
Specifying the value for a single letter, single dash option
parameter with equal sign looked funny, and more importantly
calling the flag to override encoding from utf-8 to something
else "-u" (obviously abbreviated from "utf-8") did not make any
sense.  So spell it out.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-28 01:29:52 -08:00
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
Junio C Hamano
f85a419161 Accumulated documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-29 17:21:06 -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