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Miklos Vajna
c16570c42a Revision walking documentation: document most important functions
Unfortunately the list is not complete, but includes the essential ones.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-31 14:32:56 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
7528f27dd6 log --graph --left-right: show left/right information in place of '*'
With the --graph option, the graph already outputs 'o' instead of '*'
for boundary commits.  Make it emit '<' or '>' when --left-right is
specified.

(This change also disables the '^' prefix for UNINTERESTING commits.
The graph code currently doesn't print anything special for these
commits, since it assumes no UNINTERESTING, non-BOUNDARY commits are
displayed.  This is potentially a bug if UNINTERESTING non-BOUNDARY
commits can actually be displayed via some code path.)

[jc: squashed the left-right change from Dscho and Adam's fixup into one]

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-25 12:06:52 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
7fefda5cc7 log and rev-list: add --graph option
This new option causes a text-based representation of the history to be
printed to the left of the normal output.

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05 18:46:35 -07:00
Adam Simpkins
c12172d2ea Add history graph API
This new API allows the commit history to be displayed as a text-based
graphical representation.

Signed-off-by: Adam Simpkins <adam@adamsimpkins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05 17:56:36 -07:00
Peter Eriksen
9de328fea9 Add description of OFS_DELTA to the pack format description
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-06 17:22:46 -07:00
Christian Couder
ce2cf27adc run-command: Redirect stderr to a pipe before redirecting stdout to stderr
With this patch, in the 'start_command' function after forking
we now take care of stderr in the child process before stdout.

This way if 'start_command' is called with a 'child_process'
argument like this:

	.err = -1;
	.stdout_to_stderr = 1;

then stderr will be redirected to a pipe before stdout is
redirected to stderr. So we can now get the process' stdout
from the pipe (as well as its stderr).

Earlier such a call would have redirected stdout to stderr
before stderr was itself redirected, and therefore stdout
would not have followed stderr, which would not have been
very useful anyway.

Update documentation in 'api-run-command.txt' accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-05 12:18:03 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
34cd62eb91 Fix doc typos.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02 16:08:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
25c4f61c51 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  templates/Makefile: don't depend on local umask setting
  Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation
  Start preparing for 1.5.4.4

Conflicts:

	RelNotes
2008-02-29 00:00:09 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
a6f13ccf24 Correct name of diff_flush() in API documentation
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-28 13:35:09 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
b9dfe51c96 Technical documentation of the run-command API.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:37:36 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
f019d08ea6 API documentation for remote.h
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 00:27:42 -08:00
Jim Meyering
a5d86f7406 fix doc typos
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-29 22:00:34 -08:00
Brandon Casey
d6cf61bfd4 close_lock_file(): new function in the lockfile API
The lockfile API is a handy way to obtain a file that is cleaned
up if you die().  But sometimes you would need this sequence to
work:

 1. hold_lock_file_for_update() to get a file descriptor for
    writing;

 2. write the contents out, without being able to decide if the
    results should be committed or rolled back;

 3. do something else that makes the decision --- and this
    "something else" needs the lockfile not to have an open file
    descriptor for writing (e.g. Windows do not want a open file
    to be renamed);

 4. call commit_lock_file() or rollback_lock_file() as
    appropriately.

This adds close_lock_file() you can call between step 2 and 3 in
the above sequence.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 15:35:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0c0478cac8 Document lockfile API
We have nice set of placeholders, but nobody stepped in to fill
the gap in the API documentation, so I am doing it myself.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16 12:42:37 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
f1cdcc70dc Documentation: typofix
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-07 14:02:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
530e741c72 Start preparing the API documents.
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML
documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are
there.

I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic
in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 22:29:38 -08:00
linux@horizon.com
71362bd552 Documentation: describe pack idx v2
Lifted from the log message of c553ca25bd
(pack-objects: learn about pack index version 2).

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 12:03:12 -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
aa576e6b47 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation/pack-format.txt: Clear up description of types.
  fix typo in git-am manpage
2007-03-22 03:05:25 -07:00
Peter Eriksen
979ea5856c Documentation/pack-format.txt: Clear up description of types.
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-22 03:05:19 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
1b89ef1731 Provide some technical documentation for shallow clones
There has not been any work on the shallow stuff lately, so it is hard
to find out what it does, and how. This document describes the ideas
as well as the current problems, and can serve as a starting point for
shallow people.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-19 22:19:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9d0524d42f Update send-pack pipeline documentation.
The pipeline was much more complex and needed documentation, but
now it is trivial and straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-01 14:35:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b5ffa5ceef Documentation: illustrate send-pack pipeline.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-29 12:14:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e1bb1d31ea racy-git: documentation updates.
We've removed the workaround for runtime penalty that did not
exist in practice some time ago, but the technical paper that
proposed that change still said "we probably should do so".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-18 14:18:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
520cd3eca5 Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-15 21:32:54 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
addf88e455 Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-09 02:42:41 -07:00
Horst H. von Brand
abda1ef590 Documentation: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03 23:54:55 -07:00
Shawn Pearce
1361fa3e49 Improved pack format documentation.
While trying to implement a pack reader in Java I was mislead by
some facts listed in this documentation as well as found a few
details to be missing about the pack header.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-30 23:09:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9760662f1a Add Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
... along with the previous one, pack-heuristics, by popular
demand.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-07 02:07:40 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
b116b297a8 Added Packing Heursitics IRC writeup.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-07 02:06:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
76cead391f Documentation: fix missing links to git(7)
Also move pack protocol description to technical/.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-12 23:55:09 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
7061f5c2c5 [PATCH] Finish documenting trivial merge rules
Fix missing symbol explanations, a few incorrect cases, and add
two-way merge rules.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-24 22:05:55 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
3d89cb4f3f [PATCH] Document the trivial merge rules for 3(+more ancestors)-way merges.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-10 18:27:41 -07:00