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Jonathan Nieder
e28dcdce13 shell doc: remove stray "+" in example
The git-shell(1) manpage says

	EXAMPLE
	       To disable interactive logins, displaying a greeting
		instead:

		+

		   $ chsh -s /usr/bin/git-shell
		   $ mkdir $HOME/git-shell-commands
[...]

The stray "+" has been there ever since the example was added in
v1.8.3-rc0~210^2 (shell: new no-interactive-login command to print a
custom message, 2013-03-09).  The "+" sign between paragraphs is
needed in asciidoc to attach extra paragraphs to a list item but here
it is not needed and ends up rendered as a literal "+".  Remove it.

A quick search with "grep -e '<p>+' /usr/share/doc/git/html/*.html"
doesn't find any other instances of this problem.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-08 10:26:26 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
35297089e5 shell: new no-interactive-login command to print a custom message
If I disable git-shell's interactive mode by removing the
~/git-shell-commands directory, attempts to ssh in to the service
produce a message intended for the administrator:

	$ ssh git@myserver
	fatal: Interactive git shell is not enabled.
	hint: ~/git-shell-commands should exist and have read and execute access.
	$

That is helpful for the new admin who is wondering "What? Why isn't
the git-shell I just set up working?", but once the site setup is
complete, it would be better to give the user a friendly hint that she
is on the right track, like GitHub does.

	Hi <username>! You've successfully authenticated, but
	GitHub does not provide shell access.

An appropriate greeting might even include more complex dynamic
information, like gitolite's list of repositories the user has access
to.  Add support for a ~/git-shell-commands/no-interactive-login
command that generates an arbitrary greeting.  When the user tries to
log in:

 * If the file ~/git-shell-commands/no-interactive-login exists,
   run no-interactive-login to let the server say what it likes,
   then hang up.

 * Otherwise, if ~/git-shell-commands/ is present, start an
   interactive read-eval-print loop.

 * Otherwise, print the usual configuration hint and hang up.

Reported-by: Ethan Reesor <firelizzard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-09 23:21:35 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
cdd9b3c96c shell doc: emphasize purpose and security model
The original git-shell(1) manpage emphasized that the shell supports
only git transport commands.  As the shell gained features, that
emphasis and focus in the manual has been lost.  Bring it back by
splitting the manpage into a few short sections and fleshing out each:

 - SYNOPSIS, describing how the shell gets used in practice
 - DESCRIPTION, which gives an overview of the purpose and guarantees
   provided by this restricted shell
 - COMMANDS, listing supported commands and restrictions on the
   arguments they accept
 - INTERACTIVE USE, describing the interactive mode

Also add a "see also" section with related reading.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-09 20:59:27 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
7791a1d9b9 Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already
use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span
several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse]
does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section
indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that
use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections
for consistency.

Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to
align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which
already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to
the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting
within the document more consistent.

While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with
other commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06 14:26:26 -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
Ramkumar Ramachandra
70256a3a67 shell: Rewrite documentation and improve error message
Update the documentation of 'git shell' to mention the interactive
mode and COMMAND_DIR. Also provide a hint when interactive mode is not
available in the shell.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Brockman <gdb@MIT.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-24 10:47:21 -07:00
Erik Broes
79f72b9763 git-shell: Add 'git-upload-archive' to allowed commands.
This allows for example gitosis to allow use of 'git archive --remote' in a
controlled environment.

Signed-off-by: Erik Broes <erikbroes@ripe.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-11 11:01:15 -07:00
Lars Noschinski
674a1d2628 shell: Document that 'cvs server' is a valid command
git-shell's man page explicitly lists all allowed commands, but 'cvs
server' was missing. Add it.

Signed-off-by: Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-19 17:07:23 -08:00
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
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
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
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
Junio C Hamano
c3f0baacad Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:53:37 -08:00
Dmitry V. Levin
bd494fc76b git/Documentation: fix SYNOPSIS style bugs
This trivial patch fixes SYNOPSIS style bugs.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-05 17:02:02 -08:00
Petr Baudis
d43367af55 Documentation for git-shell
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-25 22:51:13 -07:00