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Libor Pechacek
e0a4aae865 Documentation fixes in git-config
Variable names must start with an alphabetic character, regexp config key
matching has its limits, sentence grammar.

Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-01 08:22:24 -08:00
Jeff King
9b25a0b52e config: add include directive
It can be useful to split your ~/.gitconfig across multiple
files. For example, you might have a "main" file which is
used on many machines, but a small set of per-machine
tweaks. Or you may want to make some of your config public
(e.g., clever aliases) while keeping other data back (e.g.,
your name or other identifying information). Or you may want
to include a number of config options in some subset of your
repos without copying and pasting (e.g., you want to
reference them from the .git/config of participating repos).

This patch introduces an include directive for config files.
It looks like:

  [include]
    path = /path/to/file

This is syntactically backwards-compatible with existing git
config parsers (i.e., they will see it as another config
entry and ignore it unless you are looking up include.path).

The implementation provides a "git_config_include" callback
which wraps regular config callbacks. Callers can pass it to
git_config_from_file, and it will transparently follow any
include directives, passing all of the discovered options to
the real callback.

Include directives are turned on automatically for "regular"
git config parsing. This includes calls to git_config, as
well as calls to the "git config" program that do not
specify a single file (e.g., using "-f", "--global", etc).
They are not turned on in other cases, including:

  1. Parsing of other config-like files, like .gitmodules.
     There isn't a real need, and I'd rather be conservative
     and avoid unnecessary incompatibility or confusion.

  2. Reading single files via "git config". This is for two
     reasons:

       a. backwards compatibility with scripts looking at
          config-like files.

       b. inspection of a specific file probably means you
	  care about just what's in that file, not a general
          lookup for "do we have this value anywhere at
	  all". If that is not the case, the caller can
	  always specify "--includes".

  3. Writing files via "git config"; we want to treat
     include.* variables as literal items to be copied (or
     modified), and not expand them. So "git config
     --unset-all foo.bar" would operate _only_ on
     .git/config, not any of its included files (just as it
     also does not operate on ~/.gitconfig).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-17 07:59:55 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
7a39741999 config: define and document exit codes
The return codes of git_config_set() and friends are magic numbers right
in the source. #define them in cache.h where the functions are declared,
and use the constants in the source.

Also, mention the resulting exit codes of "git config" in its man page
(and complete the list).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-17 21:01:17 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Junio C Hamano
add0951ab0 Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
  Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
  Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
  Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
  Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-config.txt
	Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-20 20:28:49 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Matthieu Moy
1349484e34 builtin-config: add --path option doing ~ and ~user expansion.
395de250 (Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template)
introduced a C function git_config_pathname, doing ~/ and ~user/
expansion. This patch makes the feature available to scripts with 'git
config --get --path'.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-31 12:19:38 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
ac9f71cf76 git config: clarify --add and --get-color
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-09 00:19:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
17e46ea6fe Merge branch 'fc/parseopt-config'
* fc/parseopt-config:
  config: test for --replace-all with one argument and fix documentation.
  config: set help text for --bool-or-int
  git config: don't allow --get-color* and variable type
  git config: don't allow extra arguments for -e or -l.
  git config: don't allow multiple variable types
  git config: don't allow multiple config file locations
  git config: reorganize to use parseopt
  git config: reorganize get_color*
  git config: trivial rename in preparation for parseopt
  git_config(): not having a per-repo config file is not an error
2009-03-20 14:29:03 -07:00
Carlos Rica
bf71b4b3ee config: test for --replace-all with one argument and fix documentation.
Option --replace-all only allows at least two arguments, so
documentation was needing to be updated accordingly. A test showing
that the command fails with only one parameter is also provided.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 09:30:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
934f788981 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  builtin-revert.c: release index lock when cherry-picking an empty commit
  document config --bool-or-int
  t1300: use test_must_fail as appropriate
  cleanup: add isascii()
  Documentation: fix badly indented paragraphs in "--bisect-all" description
2009-03-07 22:34:13 -08:00
Jeff King
d57f07ebae document config --bool-or-int
The documentation is just a pointer to the --bool and --int
options, but it makes sense to at least mention that it
exists.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-07 11:33:51 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
3bec8ff99a config: Add new option to open an editor.
The idea was originated by discussion about usability of manually
editing the config file in 'special needs' systems such as Windows. Now
the user can forget a bit about where the config files actually are.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-08 13:02:34 -08:00
Jim Meyering
544ddb045a git-config.txt: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-12 20:39:41 -08:00
Anders Melchiorsen
6bb9e51b8e Documentation: fix diff.external example
The diff.external examples pass a flag to gnu-diff, but GNU diff
does not follow the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF interface.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27 14:14:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5e97f464df Merge branch 'db/no-git-config'
* db/no-git-config:
  Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs

Conflicts:

	Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.0.txt
2008-07-07 02:17:14 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.

Using

	doit () {
	  perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
	}
	for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
	        merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
	do
	  doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
	done
	git diff

.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
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
Daniel Barkalow
dc87183189 Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programs
For everything other than using "git config" to read or write a
git-style config file that isn't the current repo's config file,
GIT_CONFIG was actively detrimental. Rather than argue over which
programs are important enough to have work anyway, just fix all of
them at the root.

Also removes GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, which would only be useful for programs
that do want to use global git-specific config, but not the repo's own
git-specific config, and want to use some other, presumably
git-specific config. Despite being documented, I can't find any sign that
it was ever used.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 02:35:49 -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
Matthias Kestenholz
4d4f5ba3ea Use color.ui variable in scripts too
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-10 12:40:50 -07:00
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
0f6f5a4022 git config --get-colorbool
This adds an option to help scripts find out color settings from
the configuration file.

    git config --get-colorbool color.diff

inspects color.diff variable, and exits with status 0 (i.e. success) if
color is to be used.  It exits with status 1 otherwise.

If a script wants "true"/"false" answer to the standard output of the
command, it can pass an additional boolean parameter to its command
line, telling if its standard output is a terminal, like this:

    git config --get-colorbool color.diff true

When called like this, the command outputs "true" to its standard output
if color is to be used (i.e. "color.diff" says "always", "auto", or
"true"), and "false" otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-05 17:57:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9ce0352258 git-config --get-color: get configured color
This new option allows scripts to grab color setting from the user
configuration, translated to ANSI color escape sequence.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-28 17:33:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7c8b5eaf22 Documentation/git-config.txt: AsciiDoc tweak to avoid leading dot
Bram Schoenmakers noticed that git-config document was formatted
incorrectly.  Depending on the version of AsciiDoc and docbook
toolchain, it is sometimes taken as a numbered example by AsciiDoc,
some other times passed intact to roff format to confuse "man".

Since we refer to the repository metadata directory as $GIT_DIR
elsewhere, work it around by using that symbolic name.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-14 14:51:08 -07:00
Brian Hetro
027830755d Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-24 18:54:37 -07:00
David Symonds
29093c28a2 Fix documentation for core.gitproxy to reflect code
The current implementation of core.gitproxy only operates on
git:// URLs, so the ssh:// examples and custom protocol examples
have been removed or edited.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-02 17:26:07 -07:00
Alex Riesen
be52a41c4e Make verse of git-config manpage more readable
Also mention '--file' in FILES.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-31 22:56:15 -07:00
Alex Riesen
67d454fed6 Add an option to specify a file to config builtin
There are (really!) systems where using environment variables is very
cumbersome (yes, Windows, it has problems unsetting them). Besides this
form is shorter.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-31 22:56:15 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
db1696b8ab config: add support for --bool and --int while setting values
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-26 23:16:17 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
2275d50211 config: Add --null/-z option for null-delimted output
Use \n as delimiter between key and value and \0 as
delimiter after each key/value pair. This should be
easily parsable output.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-26 19:00:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
68fb465049 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  config: Change output of --get-regexp for valueless keys
  config: Complete documentation of --get-regexp
  cleanup merge-base test script
  Fix zero-object version-2 packs
  Ignore submodule commits when fetching over dumb protocols
2007-06-26 18:45:29 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
e373bb7388 config: Complete documentation of --get-regexp
The asciidoc documentation of the --get-regexp option was
incomplete. Add some missing pieces:
 - List the option in SYNOPSIS
 - Mention that key names are printed

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-26 18:19:20 -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
Frank Lichtenheld
1701409003 git-config: Improve documentation of git-config file handling
The description which files git-config uses and how the various
command line options and environment variables affect its
behaviour was incomplete, outdated and confusing.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-30 23:56:37 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
90a36e581d git-config: Various small fixes to asciidoc documentation
Add '' around the only mentioned commandline option that didn't
have it.

Make reference to section EXAMPLE a link and rename it to
EXAMPLES because it actually contains a lot of examples.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-30 23:44:59 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
0cb21911f4 git-config: Correct asciidoc documentation for --int/--bool
The asciidoc documentation seemed to indicate that type specifiers
are honoured on writing operations which they aren't. Make this
more clear.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-20 16:00:23 -07:00
Andrew Ruder
9bc20aa731 Update git-config documentation
Documentation/git-config.txt: Added documentation for --system
Documentation/builtin-config.c: Added --system to the short usage

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-18 22:08:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
803527f1d9 Merge GIT 1.5.0.4 2007-03-14 15:59:04 -07:00
Yann Dirson
9debca9aac Clarify doc for git-config --unset-all.
Previous formulation could make it appear as removing all lines
matching a regexp (at least, I was looking for such a flag, and
confused this flag for what I was looking for).

Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-14 14:38:38 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
118f8b2413 git-config: document --rename-section, provide --remove-section
This patch documents the previously undocumented option --rename-section
and adds a new option to zap an entire section.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-03 19:59:37 -08:00
Tom Prince
e0d10e1c63 [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config.
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 16:16:53 -08:00