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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Jeff King
a0d2ceb276 doc/rev-parse: clarify reflog vs --until for specifying revisions
The rev-parse manpage introduces the branch@{date} syntax,
and mentions the reflog specifically. However, new users may
not be familiar with the distinction between the reflog and
the commit date, so let's help them out with a "you may be
interested in --until" pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-29 23:47:26 -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
Junio C Hamano
2fe18392f0 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: fix graph in git-rev-parse.txt
  show-branch --current: do not barf on detached HEAD
2008-05-26 19:49:01 -07:00
Michele Ballabio
df2740b066 Documentation: fix graph in git-rev-parse.txt
Preformatted html and man pages show a mangled graph, caused by a
backslash.

Commit f1ec6b22a8 fixed this same issue,
but it seems that new versions of the Asciidoc toolchain changed their
behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@katamail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-26 19:10:03 -07:00
Christian Couder
824b5dc29c Documentation: rev-parse: add a few "--verify" and "--default" examples
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-21 12:57:18 -07:00
Christian Couder
a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Christian Couder
b1b359699a rev-parse: teach "--verify" to be quiet when using "-q" or "--quiet"
Currently "git rev-parse --verify <something>" is often used with
its error output redirected to /dev/null. This patch makes it
easier to do that.

The -q|--quiet option is designed to work the same way as it does
for "git symbolic-ref".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-26 23:22:17 -07:00
Pierre Habouzit
ff962a3f19 parse-opt: bring PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN and NONEG to git-rev-parse --parseopt
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02 14:07:47 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
da101b82b6 git rev-parse manpage: spelling fix
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-31 13:59:00 -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
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
Junio C Hamano
a6d97d49e2 git-rev-parse --symbolic-full-name
The plumbing level can understand that the user meant
"refs/heads/master" when the user says "master" or
"heads/master", but there is no easy way for the scripts to
figure it out without duplicating the dwim_ref() logic.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
21d4783538 Add a parseopt mode to git-rev-parse to bring parse-options to shell scripts.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-05 22:48:13 -08:00
Steven Grimm
257a84d9d0 Document what the stage numbers in the :$n:path syntax mean.
The git-rev-parse manpage talks about the :$n:path notation (buried deep in
a list of other syntax) but it just says $n is a "stage number" -- someone
who is not familiar with the internals of git's merge implementation is
never going to be able to figure out that "1", "2", and "3" means.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-19 22:56:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f1ec6b22a8 Fix an illustration in git-rev-parse.txt
This hides the backslash at the end of line from AsciiDoc
toolchain by introducing a trailing whitespace on one line in an
illustration in git-rev-parse.txt.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-10 01:03:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0305b63654 Merge branch 'ei/worktree+filter'
* ei/worktree+filter:
  filter-branch: always export GIT_DIR if it is set
  setup_git_directory: fix segfault if repository is found in cwd
  test GIT_WORK_TREE
  extend rev-parse test for --is-inside-work-tree
  Use new semantics of is_bare/inside_git_dir/inside_work_tree
  introduce GIT_WORK_TREE to specify the work tree
  test git rev-parse
  rev-parse: introduce --is-bare-repository
  rev-parse: document --is-inside-git-dir
2007-07-01 13:10:42 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
c9bf7be238 Document git rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 13:08:11 -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 Lederhofer
892c41b98a introduce GIT_WORK_TREE to specify the work tree
setup_gdg is used as abbreviation for setup_git_directory_gently.

The work tree can be specified using the environment variable
GIT_WORK_TREE and the config option core.worktree (the environment
variable has precendence over the config option).  Additionally
there is a command line option --work-tree which sets the
environment variable.

setup_gdg does the following now:

GIT_DIR unspecified
repository in .git directory
    parent directory of the .git directory is used as work tree,
    GIT_WORK_TREE is ignored

GIT_DIR unspecified
repository in cwd
    GIT_DIR is set to cwd
    see the cases with GIT_DIR specified what happens next and
    also see the note below

GIT_DIR specified
GIT_WORK_TREE/core.worktree unspecified
    cwd is used as work tree

GIT_DIR specified
GIT_WORK_TREE/core.worktree specified
    the specified work tree is used

Note on the case where GIT_DIR is unspecified and repository is in cwd:
    GIT_WORK_TREE is used but is_inside_git_dir is always true.
    I did it this way because setup_gdg might be called multiple
    times (e.g. when doing alias expansion) and in successive calls
    setup_gdg should do the same thing every time.

Meaning of is_bare/is_inside_work_tree/is_inside_git_dir:

(1) is_bare_repository
    A repository is bare if core.bare is true or core.bare is
    unspecified and the name suggests it is bare (directory not
    named .git).  The bare option disables a few protective
    checks which are useful with a working tree.  Currently
    this changes if a repository is bare:
        updates of HEAD are allowed
        git gc packs the refs
        the reflog is disabled by default

(2) is_inside_work_tree
    True if the cwd is inside the associated working tree (if there
    is one), false otherwise.

(3) is_inside_git_dir
    True if the cwd is inside the git directory, false otherwise.
    Before this patch is_inside_git_dir was always true for bare
    repositories.

When setup_gdg finds a repository git_config(git_default_config) is
always called.  This ensure that is_bare_repository makes use of
core.bare and does not guess even though core.bare is specified.

inside_work_tree and inside_git_dir are set if setup_gdg finds a
repository.  The is_inside_work_tree and is_inside_git_dir functions
will die if they are called before a successful call to setup_gdg.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06 16:07:53 -07:00
Matthias Lederhofer
493c774e58 rev-parse: introduce --is-bare-repository
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06 16:07:53 -07:00
Matthias Lederhofer
4faac2468d rev-parse: document --is-inside-git-dir
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06 16:07:53 -07:00
Jari Aalto
e18ee576b1 SPECIFYING RANGES typo fix: it it => it is
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10 13:26:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e881192934 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-upload-pack: make sure we close unused pipe ends
  Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: fix example in SPECIFYING RANGES.
  Documentation/git-svnimport.txt: fix typo.
2007-03-29 23:44:30 -07:00
Gerrit Pape
c2c6d9302a Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: fix example in SPECIFYING RANGES.
Please see http://bugs.debian.org/404795:

 In git-rev-parse(1), there is an example commit tree, which is used twice.
 The explanation for this tree is very clear: B and C are commit *parents* to
 A.

 However, when the tree is reused as an example in the SPECIFYING RANGES, the
 manpage author screws up and uses A as a commit *parent* to B and C!  I.e.,
 he inverts the tree.

 And the fact that for this example you need to read the tree backwards is
 not explained anywhere (and it would be confusing even if it was).

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-29 01:38:28 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
28a4d94044 object name: introduce ':/<oneline prefix>' notation
To name a commit, you can now say

	$ git rev-parse ':/Initial revision of "git"'

and it will return the hash of the youngest commit whose
commit message (the oneline) begins with the given prefix.

For future extension, a leading exclamation mark is treated
specially: if you want to match a commit message starting with
a '!', just repeat the exclamation mark. So, to match a commit
which starts with '!Hello World', use

	$ git show ':/!!Hello World'

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-24 02:06:18 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
1e5db3075a Update the documentation for the new '@{...}' syntax
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 21:50:46 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ee53aff486 Document the master@{n} reflog query syntax.
In ab2a1a32 Junio improved the reflog query logic to support
obtaining the n-th prior value of a ref, but this was never
documented in git-rev-parse.  Now it is.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 20:45:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
24ad8e0ce2 Merge branch 'jc/pickaxe' 2006-11-07 16:33:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
62476c8e33 Introduce a new revision set operator <rev>^!
This is a shorthand for "<rev> --not <rev>^@", i.e. "include
this commit but exclude any of its parents".

When a new file $F is introduced by revision $R, this notation
can be used to find a copy-and-paste from existing file in the
parents of that revision without annotating the ancestry of the
lines that were copied from:

	git pickaxe -f -C $R^! -- $F

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-31 14:22:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0ac3056850 Documentation: clarify refname disambiguation rules.
Nobody should create ambiguous refs (i.e. have tag "foobar" and branch
"foobar" at the same time) that need to be disambiguated with these
rules to keep sanity, but the rules are there so document them.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-26 01:15:42 -07:00
pclouds@gmail.com
6b09c7883f Add revspec documentation for ':path', ':[0-3]:path' and git-describe
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-18 21:43:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
54bd25580e escape tilde in Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
Fixes a failure to build the git-rev-parse manpage, seen with
asciidoc 8.0.0

We would love to use nicer quoting $$~$$ but alas asciidoc 7
does not know about it.  So use asciidoc.conf and define {tilde}
to be &#126;.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2006-10-03 01:04:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
be4c7014f2 rev-parse documentation: talk about range notation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-06 22:37:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f0679f474a Merge branch 'sp/reflog'
* sp/reflog:
  fetch.c: do not pass uninitialized lock to unlock_ref().
  Test that git-branch -l works.
  Verify git-commit provides a reflog message.
  Enable ref log creation in git checkout -b.
  Create/delete branch ref logs.
  Include ref log detail in commit, reset, etc.
  Change order of -m option to update-ref.
  Correct force_write bug in refs.c
  Change 'master@noon' syntax to 'master@{noon}'.
  Log ref updates made by fetch.
  Force writing ref if it doesn't exist.
  Added logs/ directory to repository layout.
  General ref log reading improvements.
  Fix ref log parsing so it works properly.
  Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax
  Log ref updates to logs/refs/<ref>
  Convert update-ref to use ref_lock API.
  Improve abstraction of ref lock/write.
2006-06-03 23:59:03 -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
cce91a2cae Change 'master@noon' syntax to 'master@{noon}'.
Its ambiguous to parse "master@2006-05-17 18:30:foo" when foo is
meant as a file name and ":30" is meant as 30 minutes past 6 pm.
Therefore all date specifications in a sha1 expression must now
appear within brackets and the ':' splitter used for the path name
in a sha1 expression ignores ':' appearing within brackets.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-19 15:02:55 -07:00
Shawn Pearce
d556fae2c0 Support 'master@2 hours ago' syntax
Extended sha1 expressions may now include date specifications
which indicate a point in time within the local repository's
history.  If the ref indicated to the left of '@' has a log in
$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref> then the value of the ref at the time indicated
by the specification is obtained from the ref's log.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-17 17:36:36 -07:00
Sean
a62be77f5e Add "--branches", "--tags" and "--remotes" options to git-rev-parse.
"git branch" uses "rev-parse --all" and becomes much too slow when
there are many tags (it scans all refs).  Use the new "--branches"
option of rev-parse to speed things up.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-14 16:21:02 -07:00
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
Junio C Hamano
5102349cc0 Documentation: fix typo in rev-parse --short option description.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-19 10:23:17 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
735d80b3bf Document --short and --git-dir in git-rev-parse(1)
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
2006-02-17 17:33:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5f94c730f3 rev-parse: --show-cdup
When --show-prefix is useful, sometimes it is easier to cd up to
the toplevel of the tree.  This is equivalent to:

    git rev-parse --show-prefix | sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*|..|g'

but we do not have to invoke sed for that.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-22 22:35:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2be8fd085e Illustration: "Commit DAG Revision Naming"
Jon Loeliger's ASCII art in the git-rev-parse(1) manual.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-03 14:55:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a3114b3428 Document --since and --until options to rev-parse.
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>
2005-11-02 23:41:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
622ef9df19 ref-format documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-16 22:41:59 -07:00
Christian Meder
72e9340cfd Convert usage of GIT and Git into git
Convert usage of GIT and Git into git.

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 16:01:31 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
babfaba23d Fix usage of carets in git-rev-parse(1)
... but using a {caret} attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-05 16:56:31 -07:00