Josef Weidendorfer points out that git-clone documentation does not
mention the initial copying of remote branch heads into corresponding
local branches. Also clarify the purpose of the ref mappings description
in the "remotes" file and recommended workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line
right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the
broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such
lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion.
Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an
explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines.
Add a couple of cross references.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarified and added notes for pull/push refspecs.
Converted to back-ticks for literal text examples.
[jc: Also fixed git-pull description that still talked about its
calling git-resolve or git-octopus (we do not anymore; instead
we just call git-merge). BTW, I am reasonably impressed by how
well "git-am -3" applied this patch, which had some conflicts
because I've updated the documentation somewhat.]
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Pasky and I did overlapping documentation independently; this is to
pick up better wordings from what he sent me.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Its use of git-ls-files --others is very nice, but sometimes gives
surprising results, so we'd better talk about it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The usability magic were hidden in the source code without being
documented, and even the maintainer did not know about them ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a companion patch for 211dcac643
commit, to add the newly introduced -P option to the list of options.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
-P:: <cvsps-output-file>
Instead of calling cvsps, read the provided cvsps output file. Useful
for debugging or when cvsps is being handled outside cvsimport.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
That notice was added by me for the emergency documentation, but Junio
already expanded it to a full-fledged manual page. This patch removes
the notice.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Simple description. It appears to be mostly internal command, but hey, it
is (it seems) the only undocumented one, so let's fix it up...
Also add a note about it to git-merge documentation.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For a 1.0 release, there is no need to maintain the
historical "Previously this command was known as..."
information on the doc splash page. It is noise;
command names should stand on their own now.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The repository to pull from can be a local repository, and as a
special case the current directory can be specified to perform
merges across local branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I don't think people really follow the links or think very abstractly at
all in the first place.
So I was thinking more of some explicit examples. I actually think every
command should have an example in the man-page, and hey, here's a patch to
start things off.
Of course, I'm not exactly "Mr Documentation", and I don't know that this
is the prettiest way to do this, but I checked that the resulting html and
man-page seems at least reasonable.
And hey, if the examples look like each other, that's just because I'm
also not "Mr Imagination".
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new option, --numstat, shows number of inserted and deleted
lines for each path. It is similar to --stat output but is
meant to be more machine friendly by giving number of added and
deleted lines and unabbreviated paths.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update docs and usages regarding '-r' recursive option for git-diff-tree.
Remove '-r' from common diff options, mention it only for git-diff-tree.
Remove one extraneous use of '-r' with git-diff-files in get-merge.sh.
Sync the synopsis and usage string for git-diff-tree.
Signed-off-by: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Pavel Roskin wondered what the SHA1 output at the beginning of
git-diff-tree was about. The only consumer of that information
so far is this git-patch-id command, which was inadequately
documented.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
According to my checks, these were the only commands not yet linked.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-name-rev tries to find nice symbolic names for commits. It does so by
walking the commits from the refs. When the symbolic name is ambiguous, the
following heuristic is applied: Try to avoid too many ~'s, and if two ambiguous
names have the same count of ~'s, take the one whose last number is smaller.
With "--tags", the names are derived only from tags.
With "--stdin", the stdin is parsed, and after every sha1 for which a name
could be found, the name is appended. (Try "git log | git name-rev --stdin".)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of having the user to edit the mail message, let the hand merge
result stored in .dotest/patch and continue, which is easier to manage.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It supersedes git-rename by adding functionality to move multiple
files, directories or symlinks into another directory. It also
provides according documentation.
The implementation renames multiple files, using the arguments from
the command line to produce an array of sources and destinations. In
a first pass, all requested renames are checked for errors, and
overwriting of existing files is only allowed with '-f'. The actual
renaming is done in a second pass. This ensures that any error
condition is checked before anything is changed.
Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
New options --timeout, --init-timeout, --export-all and whitelist support
were added to git-daemon, but noone bothered to also add the proper
documentation. This patch aims to fix that.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-am script is nowhere called and nowhere (including itself)
explained, and the name isn't helpful either. For those like me who will
wonder what is it about, add some documentation stub for it to the
documentation.
I probably got something wrong and I don't feel like investigating all the
options - this is just kind of "emergency" docs.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation was lazily sharing the argument description across these
commands.
Lazy may be a way of life, but that does not justify confusing others ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When extra paths arguments are given, git-checkout reverts only those
paths to either the version recorded in the index or the version
recorded in the given tree-ish.
This has been on the TODO list for quite a while.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Linus says he does not use it (and the thinking behind its initial
introduction), and neither Cogito nor StGIT uses it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation for git-whatchanged is meant to describe only
the most frequently used options from git-diff-tree. Because "why
doesn't it show merges" was asked more than once, we'd better
describe '-m' option there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
