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Johannes Schindelin
28ed6e7b32 Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR.  While at it, avoid the rather
meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".

This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 18:49:28 -07:00
Brian Gernhardt
9869099bee Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebase
Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we
recently added it to am and rebase.  These facts should be reflected
in the documentation.

git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in
the very first example so no changes were needed there.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08 13:13:03 -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
467c0197fd Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changes
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a
clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and
the command you type, `git whatever <options>`.  So we use a dash
after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter.

I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some
spots.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:39 -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
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -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
SZEDER Gábor
702088afc6 update 'git rebase' documentation
Being in the project's top directory when starting or continuing a rebase
is not necessary since 533b703 (Allow whole-tree operations to be started
from a subdirectory, 2007-01-12).

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-10 17:38:03 -07:00
Mike Hommey
f32086becc Documentation/git-rebase.txt: Add --strategy to synopsys
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01 19:45:15 -08:00
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
Jeff King
ff9054627c git-rebase: document suppression of duplicate commits
git-rebase uses format-patch's --ignore-if-in-upstream
option, but we never document the user-visible behavior. The
example is placed near the top of the example list rather
than at the bottom because it is:
  a. a simple example
  b. a reasonably common scenario for many projects (mail
     some patches which get accepted upstream, then rebase)

[sp: Corrected direction of 'HEAD..<upstream>' set comparsion]

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-16 01:18:43 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
2af89f12c6 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-remote: exit with non-zero status after detecting errors.
  rebase -i: squash should retain the authorship of the _first_ commit
  git-add--interactive: Improve behavior on bogus input
  git-add--interactive: Allow Ctrl-D to exit
2007-09-29 23:32:36 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
81ab1cb43a rebase -i: squash should retain the authorship of the _first_ commit
It was determined on the mailing list, that it makes more sense for a
"squash" to keep the author of the first commit as the author for the
result of the squash.

Make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-29 23:16:08 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
059f446d57 git-rebase: support --whitespace=<option>
Pass --whitespace=<option> to git-apply.  Since git-apply and git-am
expect this, I'm always surprised when I try to give it to git-rebase
and it doesn't work.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-07 21:02:08 -07:00
Robin Rosenberg
a94eda65d3 Mention -m as an abbreviation for --merge
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-01 10:36:56 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
f0fd889d7f rebase -i: mention the option to split commits in the man page
The interactive mode of rebase can be used to split commits.  Tell the
interested parties about it, with a dedicated section in the man page.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-31 23:22:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
13cc4c81df Documentation/git-rebase: fix an example
The example miscounted the commit to rebase from.
Noticed by Cliff Brake.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-16 12:20:25 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
f09c9b8c5f Teach rebase -i about --preserve-merges
The option "-p" (or long "--preserve-merges") makes it possible to
rebase side branches including merges, without straightening the
history.

Example:

           X
            \
         A---M---B
        /
---o---O---P---Q

When the current HEAD is "B", "git rebase -i -p --onto Q O" will yield

               X
                 \
---o---O---P---Q---A'---M'---B'

Note that this will

- _not_ touch X [*1*], it does

- _not_ work without the --interactive flag [*2*], it does

- _not_ guess the type of the merge, but blindly uses recursive or
  whatever strategy you provided with "-s <strategy>" for all merges it
  has to redo, and it does

- _not_ make use of the original merge commit via git-rerere.

*1*: only commits which reach a merge base between <upstream> and HEAD
     are reapplied. The others are kept as-are.

*2*: git-rebase without --interactive is inherently patch based (at
     least at the moment), and therefore merges cannot be preserved.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-26 18:58:59 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
1b1dce4bae Teach rebase an interactive mode
Don't you just hate the fact sometimes, that git-rebase just applies
the patches, without any possibility to edit them, or rearrange them?
With "--interactive", git-rebase now lets you edit the list of patches,
so that you can reorder, edit and delete patches.

Such a list will typically look like this:

	pick deadbee The oneline of this commit
	pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
	...

By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can amend
that patch and/or its commit message, and by replacing it with "squash"
you can tell rebase to fold that patch into the patch before that.

It is derived from the script sent to the list in
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702252156190.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-24 17:45:02 -07:00
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
Matthias Kestenholz
e448ff877b Documentation: Added [verse] to SYNOPSIS where necessary
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-18 21:47:40 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
d7f078b8b9 Convert update-index references in docs to add.
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke
when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation
should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing
update-index.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17 10:20:27 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
5ca2db5376 Attempt to improve git-rebase lead-in description.
It was mentioned on #git this morning that the lead-in description
of git-rebase is very confusing.  Too many branch this and branch
that in a very short run of text.

This new description attempts to walk the user through the command
syntax, while also describing exactly what git-rebase is doing to
their repository.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17 10:08:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c5c3fc9851 Documentation: git-rebase -C<n>
Replace -CNUM in Synopsis section with -C<n> to make it consistent with
the description text.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-11 22:03:55 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
67dad687ad add -C[NUM] to git-am
Add -C[NUM] to git-am and git-rebase so that patches can be applied even
if context has changed a bit.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-08 15:23:52 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ea81fcc576 Show an example of deleting commits with git-rebase.
This particular use of git-rebase to remove a single commit or a
range of commits from the history of a branch recently came up on
the mailing list.  Documenting the example should help other users
arrive at the same solution on their own.

It also was not obvious to the newcomer that git-rebase is able to
accept any commit for --onto <newbase> and <upstream>.  We should
at least minimally document this, as much of the language in
git-rebase's manpage refers to 'branch' rather than 'committish'.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-05 13:48:59 -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
Junio C Hamano
bd45fec839 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Transplanting branch with git-rebase --onto
  merge-recursive implicitely depends on trust_executable_bit
  adjust_shared_perm: chmod() only when needed.
  Fix git-runstatus for repositories containing a file named HEAD
2006-11-06 22:56:07 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
e52775f438 Documentation: Transplanting branch with git-rebase --onto
Added example of transplantig feature branch from one development
branch (for example "next") into the other development branch (for
example "master").

[jc: talking Carl's advice this contains both examples sent to
 the list by Jakub in his original message.]

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-06 15:01:14 -08:00
Robert Shearman
b758789c20 git-rebase: Add a -v option to show a diffstat of the changes upstream at the start of a rebase.
Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rob@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-04 15:02:04 -07:00
Eric Wong
d5e673b60b rebase: allow --skip to work with --merge
Now that we control the merge base selection, we won't be forced
into rolling things in that we wanted to skip beforehand.

Also, add a test to ensure this all works as intended.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-25 00:38:34 -07:00
Eric Wong
58634dbff8 rebase: Allow merge strategies to be used when rebasing
This solves the problem of rebasing local commits against an
upstream that has renamed files.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-21 03:56:29 -07:00
Sean
cc120056a8 Make git rebase interactive help match documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-14 16:28:32 -07:00
sean
031321c654 Add --continue and --abort options to git-rebase.
git rebase [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>]
  git rebase --continue
  git rebase --abort

Add "--continue" to restart the rebase process after
manually resolving conflicts.  The user is warned if
there are still differences between the index and the
working files.

Add "--abort" to restore the original branch, and
remove the .dotest working files.

Some minor additions to the git-rebase documentation.

[jc: fix that applies to the maintenance track has been dealt
 with separately.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-26 17:10:33 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
8978d043c3 Document git-rebase behavior on conflicts. 2006-03-26 19:07:43 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
228382aee4 Clarify git-rebase example commands.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-17 20:42:33 -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
Carl Worth
69a60af5d0 git-rebase: Clarify usage statement and copy it into the actual documentation.
I found a paper thin man page for git-rebase, but was quite happy to
see something much more useful in the usage statement of the script
when I went there to find out how this thing worked. Here it is
cleaned up slightly and expanded a bit into the actual documentation.

Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-21 17:45:32 -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
215a7ad1ef Big tool rename.
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch.  The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:

  (1) git-*-script are no more.  The commands installed do not
      have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
      something is implemented as a shell script or not.

  (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
      'index' if that is what they mean.

There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support  is expected to be removed in the near
future.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07 17:45:20 -07:00