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Ilari Liusvaara
4da504608e Fix remote.<remote>.vcs
remote.<remote>.vcs causes remote->foreign_vcs to be set on entry to
transport_get(). Unfortunately, the code assumed that any such entry
is stale from previous round.

Fix this by making VCS set by URL to be volatile w.r.t. transport_get()
instead.

Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Acked-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-27 12:05:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6c647af306 t0101: use a fixed timestamp when searching in the reflog
That will give us a better reproducibility during tests.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-27 10:54:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a5e10acbb9 Update @{bogus.timestamp} fix not to die()
The caller will say "It is not a valid object name" if it wants to, and
some callers may even try to see if it names an object and otherwise try to
see if it is a path.

Pointed out by Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-27 10:53:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d539de9f25 Merge branch 'jl/diff-submodule-ignore'
* jl/diff-submodule-ignore:
  Teach diff --submodule that modified submodule directory is dirty
  git diff: Don't test submodule dirtiness with --ignore-submodules
  Make ce_uptodate() trustworthy again
2010-01-26 22:53:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3fa7c3da37 work around an obnoxious bash "safety feature" on OpenBSD
Bash (4.0.24) on OpenBSD 4.6 refuses to run this snippet:

    $ cat gomi.sh
    #!/bin/sh
    one="/var/tmp/1 1"
    rm -f /var/tmp/1 "/var/tmp/1 1"
    echo hello >$one
    $ sh gomi.sh; ls /var/tmp/1*
    /var/tmp/1 1
    $ bash gomi.sh; ls /var/tmp/1*
    gomi.sh: line 4: $one: ambiguous redirect
    ls: /var/tmp/1*: No such file or directory

Every competent shell programmer knows that a <$word in redirection is not
subject to field splitting (POSIX.1 "2.7 Redirection" explicitly lists the
kind of expansion performed: "... the word that follows the redirection
operator shall be subjected to ...", and "Field Splitting" is not among
them).

Some clueless folks apparently decided that users need to be protected in
the name of "security", however.

Output from "git grep -e '> *\$' -- '*.sh'" indicates that rebase-i
suffers from this bogus "safety".  Work it around by surrounding the
variable reference with a dq pair.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 19:16:02 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
60eb4f1bd0 git-gui: Update translation template
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2010-01-26 15:47:45 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
9524cf2993 fix portability issues with $ in double quotes
Using a dollar sign in double quotes isn't portable. Escape them with
a backslash or replace the double quotes with single quotes.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 15:16:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
93cfa7c7a8 approxidate_careful() reports errorneous date string
For a long time, the time based reflog syntax (e.g. master@{yesterday})
didn't complain when the "human readable" timestamp was misspelled, as
the underlying mechanism tried to be as lenient as possible.  The funny
thing was that parsing of "@{now}" even relied on the fact that anything
not recognized by the machinery returned the current timestamp.

Introduce approxidate_careful() that takes an optional pointer to an
integer, that gets assigned 1 when the input does not make sense as a
timestamp.

As I am too lazy to fix all the callers that use approxidate(), most of
the callers do not take advantage of the error checking, but convert the
code to parse reflog to use it as a demonstration.

Tests are mostly from Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 13:51:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
105e473397 Fix log -g this@{upstream}
It showed the correct objects but walked a wrong reflog.
Again, tests are from Jeff King.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 13:49:50 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
4ab07e4d10 Fix integer overflow in unpack_compressed_entry()
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 13:00:16 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
3aee68aa68 Fix integer overflow in unpack_sha1_rest()
[jc: later NUL termination by the caller becomes unnecessary]

Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 13:00:10 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
222083a158 Fix integer overflow in patch_delta()
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 12:57:59 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
5bf9219d01 Add xmallocz()
Add routine for allocating NUL-terminated memory block without risking
integer overflow in addition of +1 for NUL byte.

[jc: with suggestion from Bill Lear]

Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 12:57:53 -08:00
Gerrit Pape
f9acaeae88 git-cvsserver: allow regex metacharacters in CVSROOT
When run in a repository with a path name containing regex metacharacters
(e.g. +), git-cvsserver failed to split the client request into CVSROOT
and module.  Now metacharacters are disabled for the value of CVSROOT in
the perl regex so that directory names containing metacharacters are
handled properly.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 12:54:18 -08:00
Johan Herland
65807ee697 builtin-config: Fix crash when using "-f <relative path>" from non-root dir
When your current directory is not at the root of the working tree, and you
use the "-f" option with a relative path, the current code tries to read
from a wrong file, since argv[2] is now beyond the end of the rearranged
argument list.

This patch replaces the incorrect argv[2] with the variable holding the
given config file name.

The bug was introduced by d64ec16 (git config: reorganize to use parseopt).

[jc: added test]

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 11:20:06 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
9aa5053d9f Allow use of []-wrapped addresses in git://
Allow using "["<host>"]":<port> and "["<host>"]" notations in git://
host addresses. This is needed to be able to connect to addresses
that contain ':' (e.g. numeric IPv6 addresses). Also send the host
header []-wrapped so it can actually be parsed by remote end.

Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 10:52:52 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
e8dbd76d57 Support addresses with ':' in git-daemon
If host address could have ':' in it (e.g. numeric IPv6 address), then
host and port could not be uniquely parsed. Fix this by parsing the
"["<host>"]":<port> and "["<host>"]" notations. Currently the built-in
git:// client would send <host>:<port> or <host> for such thing, but
it doesn't matter as due to bugs, resolving address fails if <host>
contains ':'.

Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 10:52:52 -08:00
Benjamin Kramer
24072c0256 grep: use REG_STARTEND (if available) to speed up regexec
BSD and glibc have an extension to regexec which takes a buffer + length pair
instead of a NUL-terminated string. Since we already have the length computed
this can save us a strlen call inside regexec.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Kramer <benny.kra@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 10:44:10 -08:00
Fredrik Kuivinen
5b594f457a Threaded grep
Make git grep use threads when it is available.

The results below are best of five runs in the Linux repository (on a
box with two cores).

With the patch:

git grep qwerty
1.58user 0.55system 0:01.16elapsed 183%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+800outputs (0major+5774minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Without:

git grep qwerty
1.59user 0.43system 0:02.02elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+800outputs (0major+3716minor)pagefaults 0swaps

And with a pattern with quite a few matches:

With the patch:

$ /usr/bin/time git grep void
5.61user 0.56system 0:03.44elapsed 179%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+800outputs (0major+5587minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Without:

$ /usr/bin/time git grep void
5.36user 0.51system 0:05.87elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+800outputs (0major+3693minor)pagefaults 0swaps

In either case we gain about 40% by the threading.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-26 09:20:07 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
e3f67d30b2 am: fix patch format detection for Thunderbird "Save As" emails
The patch detection wants to inspect all the headers of a rfc2822 message
and ensure that they look like header fields. The headers are always
separated from the message body with a blank line. When Thunderbird saves
the message the blank line separating the headers from the body includes a
CR. The patch detection is failing because a CRLF doesn't match /^$/. Fix
this by allowing a CR to exist on the separating line.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 16:43:36 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
f4e6dcc36c t0022: replace non-portable literal CR
We shouldn't have literal CR's in tests as they aren't portable.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 16:43:28 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
c4f3f551a6 tests: consolidate CR removal/addition functions
append_cr(), remove_cr(), q_to_nul() and q_to_cr() are defined in multiple
tests. Consolidate them into test-lib.sh so we can stop redefining them.
The use of remove_cr() in t0020 to test for a CR is replaced with a new
function has_cr() to accurately reflect what is intended (the output of
remove_cr() was being thrown away).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 16:42:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c8610a2e7e grep: expose "status-only" feature via -q
Teach "git grep" a new "-q" option to report the presense of a match via
its exit status without showing any output, similar to how "grep -q"
works.  Internally "grep" engine already knew this "status-only" mode of
operation because it needed to grep inside log message to filter commits
when called from the "git log" machinery, and this patch only exposes it
to the command line tool.

A somewhat unfair benchmark in the Linux kernel directory shows a dramatic
improvement:

    (with patch)
    $ time ../git.git/git grep -q linux HEAD ; echo $?

    real    0m0.030s
    user    0m0.004s
    sys     0m0.004s
    0

    (without patch)
    $ time git grep linux HEAD >/dev/null; echo $?

    real    0m4.432s
    user    0m4.272s
    sys     0m0.076s
    0

This is "somewhat unfair" because I knew a file with such a string comes
very early in the tree traversal (namely, ".gitignore").

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 15:42:55 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
2d7f98bac7 commit-tree: remove unused #define
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 09:53:12 -08:00
Tay Ray Chuan
9567f082dd t5541-http-push: make grep expression check for one line only
Don't feed a multiple-line pattern to grep and expect the them to match
with lines in order.

Simplify the grep expressions in the non-fast-forward tests to check
only for the first line of the non-fast-forward warning - having that
line should be enough assurance that the full warning is printed.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 09:53:02 -08:00
Stephen Boyd
0aa958d4b4 rebase: replace antiquated sed invocation
Use the modern form of printing a commit subject instead of piping
the output of rev-list to sed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 09:43:45 -08:00
Alejandro Riveira Fernández
6fce51571c Add test-run-command to .gitignore
Add test-run-command to .gitignore so it does not pollute
git status output.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Riveira Fernández <ariveira@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 09:42:31 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
4cfb2a44bb git_connect: use use_shell instead of explicit "sh", "-c"
This is a followup to ac0ba18 (run-command: convert simple callsites to
use_shell, 2009-12-30), for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-25 09:37:18 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
73b3446b82 git-gui: Remove unused icon file_parttick
This icon hasn't been used in git gui.  I think it dates back to
the original set of icons I took from Paul Mackerras' prototype
that I turned into git gui.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2010-01-25 07:33:41 -08:00
Peter Oberndorfer
0602de48f7 git-gui: use different icon for new and modified files in the index
This allows to quickly differentiate between new and modified files
in the index without selecting the file and looking at the diff.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberndorfer <kumbayo84@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2010-01-25 07:31:38 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
721ceec1ad Teach diff --submodule that modified submodule directory is dirty
Since commit 8e08b4 git diff does append "-dirty" to the work tree side
if the working directory of a submodule contains new or modified files.
Lets do the same when the --submodule option is used.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 21:04:31 -08:00
Jens Lehmann
4d34477f4c git diff: Don't test submodule dirtiness with --ignore-submodules
The diff family suppresses the output of submodule changes when
requested but checks them nonetheless. But since recently submodules
get examined for their dirtiness, which is rather expensive. There is
no need to do that when the --ignore-submodules option is used, as
the gathered information is never used anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 21:03:23 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
b2c2e4c22c gitweb.js: Workaround for IE8 bug
In Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) the 'blame_incremental' view, which uses
JavaScript to generate blame info using AJAX, sometimes hang at the
beginning (at 0%) of blaming, e.g. for larger files with long history
like git's own gitweb/gitweb.perl.

The error shown by JavaScript console is "Unspecified error" at char:2
of the following line in gitweb/gitweb.js:

  if (xhr.readyState === 3 && xhr.status !== 200) {

Debugging it using IE8 JScript debuger shown that the error occurs
when trying to access xhr.status (xhr is XMLHttpRequest object).
Watch for xhr object shows 'Unspecified error.' as "value" of
xhr.status, and trying to access xhr.status from console throws error.

This bug is some intermittent bug, depending on XMLHttpRequest timing,
as it doesn't occur in all cases.  It is probably caused by the fact
that handleResponse is called from timer (pollTimer), to work around
the fact that some browsers call onreadystatechange handler only once
for each state change, and not like required for 'blame_incremental'
as soon as new data is available from server.  It looks like xhr
object is not properly initialized; still it is a bug to throw an
error when accessing xhr.status (and not use 'null' or 'undefined' as
value).

Work around this bug in IE8 by using try-catch block when accessing
xhr.status.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 17:48:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
026680f881 Merge branch 'jc/fix-tree-walk'
* jc/fix-tree-walk:
  read-tree --debug-unpack
  unpack-trees.c: look ahead in the index
  unpack-trees.c: prepare for looking ahead in the index
  Aggressive three-way merge: fix D/F case
  traverse_trees(): handle D/F conflict case sanely
  more D/F conflict tests
  tests: move convenience regexp to match object names to test-lib.sh

Conflicts:
	builtin-read-tree.c
	unpack-trees.c
	unpack-trees.h
2010-01-24 17:35:58 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
eca9388f39 Make test numbers unique
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 14:53:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
01ddb1ff41 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-gui: work from the .git dir
  git-gui: Fix applying a line when all following lines are deletions
  git-gui: Correct file_states when unstaging partly staged entry
  git-gui: Fix gitk for branch whose name matches local file
  git-gui: Keep repo_config(gui.recentrepos) and .gitconfig in sync
  git-gui: handle really long error messages in updateindex.
  git-gui: Add hotkeys for "Unstage from commit" and "Revert changes"
  git-gui: Makefile: consolidate .FORCE-* targets
2010-01-24 11:18:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b30ccd7573 Merge branch 'maint' of git://git.spearce.org/git-gui into maint
* 'maint' of git://git.spearce.org/git-gui:
  git-gui: work from the .git dir
  git-gui: Fix applying a line when all following lines are deletions
  git-gui: Correct file_states when unstaging partly staged entry
  git-gui: Fix gitk for branch whose name matches local file
  git-gui: Keep repo_config(gui.recentrepos) and .gitconfig in sync
  git-gui: handle really long error messages in updateindex.
  git-gui: Add hotkeys for "Unstage from commit" and "Revert changes"
  git-gui: Makefile: consolidate .FORCE-* targets
2010-01-24 11:16:26 -08:00
Michael Lukashov
767f8b31cb Windows: Remove dependency on pthreadGC2.dll
Commit 44626dc7 (MSVC: Windows-native implementation for subset
of threads API, 2010-01-15) introduces builtin replacement of
pthreadGC2.dll functionality, thus we can completely drop
dependency on this dll.

Signed-off-by: Michael Lukashov <michael.lukashov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 11:13:48 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0ed3a11163 Documentation: move away misplaced 'push --upstream' description
e9fcd1e (Add push --set-upstream, 2010-01-16) inadvertently patched
the description of --upstream in the middle of that of --repo.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 11:01:45 -08:00
Thomas Rast
88955ed247 Documentation: add missing :: in config.txt
bed575e (commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status,
2009-12-07) forgot to add the :: that sets off an item from the
paragraph that explains it, breaking the layout.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 11:01:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
77b3b7969d Merge branch 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast
* 'doc-style/for-next' of git://repo.or.cz/git/trast:
  Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch
  Documentation: simplify How Merge Works
  Documentation: merge: add a section about fast-forward
  Documentation: emphasize when git merge terminates early
  Documentation: merge: add an overview
  Documentation: merge: move merge strategy list to end
  Documentation: suggest `reset --merge` in How Merge Works section
  Documentation: merge: move configuration section to end
  Documentation: emphasise 'git shortlog' in its synopsis
  Documentation: show-files is now called git-ls-files
  Documentation: tiny git config manual tweaks
  Documentation: git gc packs refs by default now

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
2010-01-24 10:58:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7ecee3314f pull: re-fix command line generation
14e5d40 (pull: Fix parsing of -X<option>, 2010-01-17) forgot that
merge_name needs to stay as a single non-interpolated string.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-24 10:11:27 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
3588cf9481 Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch
commit 57bddb11 (Documentation/git-merge: reword references to
"remote" and "pull", 2010-01-07) fixed the manual to drop the
assumption that the other branch being merged is from a remote
repository.  Unfortunately, in a few places, to do so it
introduced the antecedentless phrase "their versions".  Worse, in
passages like the following, 'they' is playing two roles.

|   highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions.
|
| * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p <path>'

Using HEAD and MERGE_HEAD nicely assigns terminology to "our" and
"their" sides.  It also provides the reader with practice using
names that git will recognize on the command line.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:59 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
ebef7e5049 Documentation: simplify How Merge Works
The user most likely does not care about the exact order of
operations because he cannot see it happening anyway.  Instead,
try to explain what it means to merge two commits into a single
tree.

While at it:

 - Change the heading to TRUE MERGE.  The entire manual page is
   about how merges work.

 - Document MERGE_HEAD.  It is a useful feature, since it makes
   the parents of the intended merge commit easier to refer to.

 - Do not assume commits named on the 'git merge' command line come
   from another repository.  For simplicity, the discussion of
   conflicts still does assume that there is only one and it is a
   branch head.

 - Do not start list items with `code`.  Otherwise, a toolchain bug
   produces a line break in the generated nroff, resulting in odd
   extra space.

Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
29280311f0 Documentation: merge: add a section about fast-forward
Novices sometimes find the behavior of 'git merge' in the
fast-forward case surprising.  Describe it thoroughly.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
30f2bade84 Documentation: emphasize when git merge terminates early
A merge-based operation in git can fail in two ways: one that
stops before touching anything, or one that goes ahead and
results in conflicts.

As the 'git merge' manual explains:

| A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
| commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
| match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit)
| when it starts out.

Unfortunately, the placement of this sentence makes it easy to
skip over, and its formulation leaves the important point, that
any other attempted merge will be gracefully aborted, unspoken.

So give this point its own section and expand upon it.

Probably this could be simplified somewhat: after all, a change
registered in the index is just a special kind of local
uncommited change, so the second added paragraph is only a
special case of the first.  It seemed more helpful to be explicit
here.

Inspired by <http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html>.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
b40bb374a6 Documentation: merge: add an overview
The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost.  Try to help him with a diagram.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
a4081bacfc Documentation: merge: move merge strategy list to end
So the section layout changes as follows:

 NAME
 SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 OPTIONS
-MERGE STRATEGIES
 HOW MERGE WORKS
 HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED
 HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
 EXAMPLES
+MERGE STRATEGIES
 CONFIGURATION
 SEE ALSO
 AUTHOR
 DOCUMENTATION
 GIT
 NOTES

The first-time user will care more about conflicts than about
strategies other than 'recursive'.

One of the examples uses -s ours, but I do not think this hinders
readability.

Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
ed4a6baad0 Documentation: suggest reset --merge in How Merge Works section
The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list.  It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.

While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00
Jonathan Nieder
35e9d6303c Documentation: merge: move configuration section to end
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-24 13:57:42 +01:00