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Author SHA1 Message Date
Junio C Hamano
8f8b8873a9 Merge branch 'mv/um-pdf'
* mv/um-pdf:
  Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
2009-01-07 00:09:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
9c6c304d6a Fix the building of gitman.info document
"makeinfo" failed to generate gitman.info from gitman.texi input file
because the combined manual page file contains several nodes with the
same name (DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, SEE ALSO etc.). An Info document should
contain unique node names.

This patch creates a simple (read: ugly) work-around by suppressing the
validation of the final Info file. Jumping to nodes in the Info document
still works but they are not very useful. Common man-page headings like
DESCRIPTION and OPTIONS appear in the Info node list and they point to
the man page where they appear first (that is git-add currently).

Also, this patch adds directory-entry information for Info document to
make the document appear in the top-level Info directory.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
8b30ad01b4 Fix the building of user-manual.texi and gitman.texi documents
Previously "docbook2x-texi" failed to generate user-manual.texi and
gitman.texi files from .xml input files because "iconv" stopped at
"illegal input sequence" error. This was due to some UTF-8 octets in the
input .xml files. This patch adds option --encoding=UTF-8 for
"docbook2x-texi" to allow the building of .texi files complete.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:04 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
a325a1a70b Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
Use dblatex in order to create a pdf version of the git user manual.  No
existing Makefile targets (including "all") are touched, so you need to
explicitly say

make pdf
sudo make install-pdf

to get user-manual.pdf created and installed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-10 19:17:43 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg
b1a46b70b3 Makefile: add install-man rules (quick and normal)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02 20:46:52 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f948dd8992 Documentation: add manpage about workflows
This attempts to make a manpage about workflows that is both handy to
point people at it and as a beginner's introduction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 14:27:59 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
6fe570de05 allow installation of man and html doc from the man and html branches
This patch introduces a make target "quick-install-html" which installs
the html documentation from the branch origin/html, without the need for
asciidoc/xmlto. This is analogous to the existing "quick-install-doc"
target for the man pages.

We advertise these targets in the INSTALL file now.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-10 15:40:13 -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
Christian Couder
30eba7bf2c documentation: convert "diffcore" and "repository-layout" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

diffcore.txt          -> gitdiffcore.txt		(man section 7)
repository-layout.txt -> gitrepository-layout.txt	(man section 5)

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:14:52 -07:00
Christian Couder
497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00
Christian Couder
b27a23e35d Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:

cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.

[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-24 22:28:16 -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
Jonas Fonseca
7a2078b4b0 man pages are littered with .ft C and others
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72?  There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version.  1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.

I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05 00:30:22 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
471a5ce5dd Add using merge subtree How-To
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14 18:04:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c785e50de Documentation: remove gitman.info with "make clean"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Mark Levedahl
5682694a3c Documentation/Makefile - honor $DESTDIR for quick-install target
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
2f7ee089df parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page.
This page should hold every information about the git ways to parse command
lines, and best practices to be used for scripting.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
2007-12-22 10:26:08 -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
Junio C Hamano
50b3555c48 Documentation: rename git.texi to user-manual.texi
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-12 13:31:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5cefc33bff Documentation: add gitman.info target
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-10 01:36:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7be2b6e02b Merge branch 'master' into cc/help
This is to primarily pull in MANPATH tweak and help.txt formatting fix
from the master branch.
2007-12-10 01:22:42 -08:00
Christian Couder
5d6491c7c7 git-help: add -w|--web option to display html man page in a browser.
Now when using "git help -w cmd", we will try to show the HTML man
page "git-cmd.html" in your prefered web browser.

To do that "help.c" code will call a new shell script
"git-browse-help".

This currently works only if the HTML versions of the man page
have been installed in $(htmldir) (typically "/usr/share/doc/git-doc"),
so new target to do that is added to "Documentation/Makefile".

The browser to use can be configured using the "web.browser"
config variable.

We try to open a new tab in an existing web browser, if possible.

The code in "git-browse-help" is heavily stolen from "git-mergetool"
by Theodore Y. Ts'o. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09 01:19:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c680dd8341 Run the specified perl in Documentation/
Makefile uses $(PERL_PATH) but Documentation/Makefile uses "perl"; that
means the two Makefiles can use two different Perl installations.

Teach Documentation/Makefile to use PERL_PATH that is exported from the
toplevel Makefile, and give a sane fallback for people who run "make"
from Documentation directory.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 23:48:09 -08:00
Robert Schiele
41650765de install-sh from automake does not like -m without delimiting space
The install-sh script as shipped with automake requires a space between
the -m switch and its argument.  Since this is also the regular way of
doing it with other install implementations this change inserts the
missing space in all makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 22:11:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
79d30668ab Consolidate command list to one.
The categorized list of commands in git(7) and the list of common
commands in "git help" output were maintained separately, which was
insane.  This consolidates them to a single command-list.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-01 23:48:28 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
7f55cf451c Documentation: Fix man page breakage with DocBook XSL v1.72
From version 1.72 it will replace all dots in roff requests with U+2302
("house" character), and add escaping in output for all instances of dot
that are not in roff requests. This caused the ".ft" hack forcing
monospace font in listingblocks to end up as "\&.ft" and being visible
in the resulting man page.

The fix adds a DOCBOOK_XSL_172 build variable that will disable the
hack. To allow this variable to be defined in config.mak it also moves
build variable handling below the inclusion of config.mak.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 02:01:54 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
40dac517ee documentation: replace Discussion section by link to user-manual chapter
The "Discussion" section has a lot of useful information, but is a
little wordy, especially for an already-long man page, and is designed
for an audience more of potential git hackers than users, which probably
doesn't make as much sense as git matures.  Also, I (perhaps foolishly)
forked a version in the user manual, which has been significantly
rewritten in an attempt to address some of the above problems.

So, remove this section and replace it by a (very terse) summary of the
original material--my attempt at the World's Shortest Git Overview--and
a reference to the appropriate chapter of the user manual.  It's
unfortunate to remove something that's been in this place for a long
time, as some people may still depend on finding it there.  But I think
we'll want to do this some day anyway.

Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:24 -04:00
David Kastrup
f9286765b2 Documentation/Makefile: remove cmd-list.made before redirecting to it.
If cmd-list.made has been created by a previous run as root, output
redirection to it will fail.  So remove it before regeneration.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-10 23:50:00 -07:00
David Kastrup
4739809cd0 Add support for an info version of the user manual
These patches use docbook2x in order to create an info version of the
git user manual.  No existing Makefile targets (including "all") are
touched, so you need to explicitly say

make info
sudo make install-info

to get git.info created and installed.  If the info target directory
does not already contain a "dir" file, no directory entry is created.
This facilitates $(DESTDIR)-based installations.  The same could be
achieved with

sudo make INSTALL_INFO=: install-info

explicitly.

perl is used for patching up sub-par file and directory information in
the Texinfo file.  It would be cleaner to place the respective info
straight into user-manual.txt or the conversion configurations, but I
find myself unable to find out how to do this with Asciidoc/Texinfo.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
2007-08-10 23:16:18 -07:00
David Kastrup
50cff52f1a When generating manpages, delete outdated targets first.
This makes "make doc" work even if you made "sudo make doc" previously
by mistake.  Apparently an oversight: the other targets did this already.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-01 19:52:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1cffddd654 Mark user-manual as UTF-8
There have been several complaints against k.org's user-manual
page.  The document is generated in ISO-8859-1 by the xsltproc
toolchain (I suspect this is because released docbook.xsl we use
has xsl:output element that says the output is ISO-8859-1) but
server delivers it with "charset=UTF-8", and all h*ll breaks
loose.

This attempts to force UTF-8 on the generating end.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-24 00:47:05 -07:00
Emil Medve
4cb08df553 Use $(RM) in Makefiles instead of 'rm -f'
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-14 23:31:01 -07:00
Ismail Dönmez
45fd8bd32d Change default man page path to /usr/share/man
According to FHS,

    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES

default man page path is $prefix/share/man.

Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-20 16:22:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ad2a2f6f0b Merge branch 'lh/submodule'
* lh/submodule:
  gitmodules(5): remove leading period from synopsis
  Add gitmodules(5)
  git-submodule: give submodules proper names
  Rename sections from "module" to "submodule" in .gitmodules
  git-submodule: remember to checkout after clone
  t7400: barf if git-submodule removes or replaces a file
2007-06-16 01:22:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4c7100a9f4 Documentation: adjust to AsciiDoc 8
It turns out that the attribute definition we have had for a
long time to hide "^" character from AsciiDoc 7 was not honored
by AsciiDoc 8 even under "-a asciidoc7compatible" mode.  There is
a similar breakage with the "compatible" mode with + characters.

The double colon at the end of definition list term needs
to be attached to the term, without a whitespace.  After this
minimum fixups, AsciiDoc 8 (I used 8.2.1 on Debian) with
compatibility mode seems to produce reasonably good results.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 01:11:16 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
891dbc6e40 Add gitmodules(5)
This adds documentation for the .gitmodules file.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-12 01:06:21 -07:00
Josh Triplett
cedb8d5d33 Create a new manpage for the gitignore format, and reference it elsewhere
Only git-ls-files(1) describes the gitignore format in detail, and it does so
with reference to git-ls-files options.  Most users don't use the plumbing
command git-ls-files directly, and shouldn't have to look in its manpage for
information on the gitignore format.

Create a new manpage gitignore(5) (Documentation/gitignore.txt), and factor
out the gitignore documentation into that file, changing it to refer to
.gitignore and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude as used by porcelain commands.  Reference
gitignore(5) from other relevant manpages and documentation.  Remove
now-redundant information on exclude patterns from git-ls-files(1), leaving
only information on how git-ls-files options specify exclude patterns and what
precedence they have.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-06-02 11:59:19 -07:00
Jeff King
4159c57813 Documentation: robustify asciidoc GIT_VERSION replacement
Instead of using sed on the resulting file, we now have a
git_version asciidoc attribute. This means that we don't
pipe the output of asciidoc, which means we can detect build
failures.

Problem reported by Scott Lamb, solution suggested by Jonas Fonseca.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-06-02 11:28:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2d76548b6a Documentation/Makefile: fix section (5) installation
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-22 00:21:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
88e7fdf2cb Document gitattributes(5)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-19 22:38:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4392da4d5d Documentation: support manual section (5) - file formats.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-19 20:47:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ced38ea252 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: tighten dependency for git.{html,txt}
  Makefile: iconv() on Darwin has the old interface
  t5300-pack-object.sh: portability issue using /usr/bin/stat
  t3200-branch.sh: small language nit
  usermanual.txt: some capitalization nits
  Make builtin-branch.c handle the git config file
  rename_ref(): only print a warning when config-file update fails
  Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.
  Avoid composing too long "References" header.
  cvsimport: Improve formating consistency
  cvsimport: Reorder options in documentation for better understanding
  cvsimport: Improve usage error reporting
  cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination
  cvsimport: sync usage lines with existing options

Conflicts:

	Documentation/Makefile
2007-04-07 01:30:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d79073922f Documentation: tighten dependency for git.{html,txt}
Every time _any_ documentation page changed, cmds-*.txt files
were regenerated, which caused git.{html,txt} to be remade.  Try
not to update cmds-*.txt files if their new contents match the
old ones.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 21:29:16 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
7b8a74f39c Documentation: Replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in documentation
Include GIT-VERSION-FILE and replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in
the HTML and XML asciidoc output. The documentation
doesn't depend on GIT-VERSION-FILE so it will not be
automatically rebuild if nothing else changed.

[jc: fixing the case for interrupted build]

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-28 16:48:50 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
f562e6f316 glossary: stop generating automatically
The sort_glossary.pl script sorts the glossary, checks for duplicates,
and automatically adds cross-references.

But it's not so hard to do all that by hand, and sometimes the automatic
cross-references are a little wrong; so let's run the script one last
time and check in its output.

Note: to make the output fit better into the user manual I also deleted
the acknowledgements at the end, which was maybe a little rude; feel
free to object and I can find a different solution.

Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-18 23:06:00 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
0a3985dcfb user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option
The --nonet option prevents xsltproc from going to the network to find
anything.  But it always tries to find them locally first, so for a
user with the necessary docbook stylesheets installed the build will
work just fine without xsltproc attempting to use the network; all
--nonet does is make it fail rather than falling back on that.  That
doesn't seem particularly helpful.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-18 21:53:19 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
1c95c565c2 user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet
The generated user manual is rather hard to read thanks to the lack of
the css that's supposed to be included from docbook-xsl.css.

I'm totally ignorant of the toolchain; grubbing through xmlto and
related scripts, the easiest way I could find to ensure that the
generated html links to the stylesheet is by calling xsltproc directly.
Maybe there's some better way.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-04 16:47:32 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
4fa96e1557 Include config.mak in doc/Makefile
config.mak.autogen is already there.  Without this change it is not
possible to override mandir in config.mak.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28 13:48:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26cfcfbff4 Add release notes to the distribution.
This also adds a hook in the Makefile I can use to automatically
include pointers to documentation for older releases when updating
the pages at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13 15:15:05 -08:00
Dotan Barak
1187d7564d Make it easier to override path to asciidoc command
Allow setting the path of asciidoc in only one place when creating
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-11 12:44:09 -08:00