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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
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
Junio C Hamano
56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -07:00
Jeff King
3ffb58be0a doc/git-gc: add a note about what is collected
It seems to be a FAQ that people try running git-gc, and
then get puzzled about why the size of their .git directory
didn't change. This note mentions the reasons why things
might unexpectedly get kept.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-24 21:50:19 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
05f3045261 make it easier for people who just want to get rid of 'git gc --auto'
Give a direct hint to those who feel highly annoyed by the auto gc
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-19 17:30:53 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
25ee9731c1 gc: call "prune --expire 2.weeks.ago" by default
The only reason we did not call "prune" in git-gc was that it is an
inherently dangerous operation: if there is a commit going on, you will
prune loose objects that were just created, and are, in fact, needed by the
commit object just about to be created.

Since it is dangerous, we told users so.  That led to many users not even
daring to run it when it was actually safe. Besides, they are users, and
should not have to remember such details as when to call git-gc with
--prune, or to call git-prune directly.

Of course, the consequence was that "git gc --auto" gets triggered much
more often than we would like, since unreferenced loose objects (such as
left-overs from a rebase or a reset --hard) were never pruned.

Alas, git-prune recently learnt the option --expire <minimum-age>, which
makes it a much safer operation.  This allows us to call prune from git-gc,
with a grace period of 2 weeks for the unreferenced loose objects (this
value was determined in a discussion on the git list as a safe one).

If you want to override this grace period, just set the config variable
gc.pruneExpire to a different value; an example would be

	[gc]
		pruneExpire = 6.months.ago

or even "never", if you feel really paranoid.

Note that this new behaviour makes "--prune" be a no-op.

While adding a test to t5304-prune.sh (since it really tests the implicit
call to "prune"), also the original test for "prune --expire" was moved
there from t1410-reflog.sh, where it did not belong.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2008-03-12 23:47:01 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
a0c14cbb2e gc: Add --quiet option
Pass -q option to git-repack.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01 01:09:06 -08:00
Florian La Roche
fe2128a826 Change git-gc documentation to reflect gc.packrefs implementation.
56752391a8 (Make "git gc" pack all
refs by default) changed the default of gc.packrefs to true, to
pack all refs by default in any repository.  IOW, the users need
to disable it explicitly if they want to by setting the config
variable, since 1.5.3.

However, we forgot to update the documentation.  This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Florian La Roche <laroche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-09 12:25:24 -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
d7e56dbc4f Documentation/git-gc: improve description of --auto
This patch tries to make the description of --auto a little
more clear for new users, especially those referred by the
"git-gc --auto" notification message.

It also cleans up some grammatical errors and typos in the
original description, as well as rewording for clarity.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-18 22:29:25 -04:00
Jeff King
08fbb136f7 Documentation/git-gc: explain --auto in description
Now that git-gc --auto tells the user to look at the man
page, it makes sense to mention the auto behavior near the
top (since this is likely to be most users' first exposure
to git-gc).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-18 22:29:25 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
17815501a8 git-gc --auto: run "repack -A -d -l" as necessary.
This teaches "git-gc --auto" to consolidate many packs into one
without losing unreachable objects in them by using "repack -A"
when there are too many packfiles that are not marked with *.keep
in the repository.  gc.autopacklimit configuration can be used
to set the maximum number of packs a repository is allowed to
have before this mechanism kicks in.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-17 23:12:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e9831e83e0 git-gc --auto: add documentation.
This documents the auto-packing of loose objects performed by
git-gc --auto.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-17 23:12:15 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
5049012f4f Fix minor grammatical typos in the git-gc man page
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-31 16:22:28 -07:00
Theodore Tso
0d7566a5ba Add --aggressive option to 'git gc'
This option causes 'git gc' to more aggressively optimize the
repository at the cost of taking much more wall clock and CPU time.

Today this option causes git-pack-objects to use --no-use-delta
option, and it allows the --window parameter to be set via the
gc.aggressiveWindow configuration parameter.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10 15:24:40 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
c2120e5e4b git-gc: run pack-refs by default unless the repo is bare
The config variable gc.packrefs is tristate now: "true", "false"
and "notbare", where "notbare" is the default.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13 09:19:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e3ff4b2447 git-gc: do not run git-prune by default.
git-prune is not safe when run uncontrolled in parallel while
other git operations are creating new objects.  To avoid
mistakes, do not run git-prune by default from git-gc.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-21 23:28:28 -08:00
René Scharfe
23bfbb815d Documentation: a few spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 08:44:32 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
30f610b7b0 Create 'git gc' to perform common maintenance operations.
Junio asked for a 'git gc' utility which users can execute on a
regular basis to perform basic repository actions such as:

 * pack-refs --prune
 * reflog expire
 * repack -a -d
 * prune
 * rerere gc

So here is a command which does exactly that.  The parameters fed
to reflog's expire subcommand can be chosen by the user by setting
configuration options in .git/config (or ~/.gitconfig), as users may
want different expiration windows for each repository but shouldn't
be bothered to remember what they are all of the time.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-27 01:53:03 -08:00