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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
Junio C Hamano
5bcde3082d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-read-tree: document -v option.
  Remove exec bit from builtin-fast-export.c
2008-06-09 16:13:08 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
22e801f285 git-read-tree: document -v option.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-09 15:49:44 -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
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
Jakub Narebski
6da0878302 Document git read-tree --trivial
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 13:08:09 -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
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
Junio C Hamano
5e7f56ac33 git-read-tree --index-output=<file>
This corrects the interface mistake of the previous one, and
gives a command line parameter to the only plumbing command that
currently needs it: "git-read-tree".

We can add the calls to set_alternate_index_output() to other
plumbing commands that update the index if/when needed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-03 23:44:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
22f741dab7 read-tree: document --exclude-per-directory
This documents the new option to read-tree that is used for the
improved "branch switching" code.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-05 23:44:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
ab1b3af792 Merge branch 'master' into next
* master:
  Documentation: git aliases
  git-cvsserver asciidoc formatting tweaks
  config.txt grammar, typo, and asciidoc fixes
  Documentation: git-ls-tree (typofix)
  Document git-ls-tree --fullname
  Document git aliases support
  make clean: remove dist-doc targets.
  Misc doc improvements
  Documentation: add missing docs make check-docs found.
  Some doc typo fixes
  Off-by-one error in get_path_prefix(), found by Valgrind
  gitk: Re-read the descendent/ancestor tag & head info on update
2006-06-07 17:27:09 -07:00
Francis Daly
3742506578 Some doc typo fixes
All should be clear enough, except perhaps committish / commitish.
I just kept the more-used one within the current docs.

[jc: with rephrasing of check-ref-format description later discussed
 on the list]

Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-07 11:49:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f63237a18e Merge branch 'vb/sendemail' into next
* vb/sendemail:
  Cleanup git-send-email.perl:extract_valid_email
  read-tree --reset: update working tree file for conflicted paths.
  Documentation: Spelling fixes
  Builtin git-rev-parse.
  fetch: do not report "same" unless -verbose.
2006-06-04 00:01:52 -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
Junio C Hamano
f4c6f2d328 read-tree: --prefix=<path>/ option.
With "--prefix=<path>/" option, read-tree keeps the current
index contents, and reads the contents of named tree-ish under
directory at `<prefix>`.  The original index file cannot have
anything at the path `<prefix>` itself, and have nothing in
`<prefix>/` directory.  This can be used to graft an
independent tree into a subdirectory of the current index.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-01 22:29:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
afaa8d66ab Documentation: read-tree --aggressive
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-02 01:11:05 -08:00
Nikolai Weibull
8c667f4bb8 Documentation/git-read-tree.txt: Add --reset to SYNOPSIS.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 15:50:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bb6d7b893e Documentaiton (read-tree): update description of 3-way
The merge-one-file used to leave the working tree intact, but
it has long been changed to leave the merge result there since
2a68a8659f commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-05 23:26:10 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
61f693bd5a Added documentation for few missing options.
More $ shell prompts in examples.
Minor English grammar improvements.
Added a few "See Also"s.
Use back-ticks on more command examples.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-05 21:47:16 -08:00
No name
3f41f5a9fe documentation: clarify read-tree --reset
[jc: light edit applied on top of the original]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-02 12:20:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cd0a781c38 Documentation: do not blindly run 'cat' .git/HEAD, or echo into it.
Many places in the documentation we still talked about reading
what commit is recorded in .git/HEAD or writing the new head
information into it, both assuming .git/HEAD is a symlink.  That
is not necessarily so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-15 01:31:04 -08:00
Nikolai Weibull
2db0bfbc04 Document a couple of missing command-line options.
This patch adds documentation to quite a few command-line options.

Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-14 17:15:32 -08:00
Lukas_Sandström
5f3aa197ac Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docs
This patch makes the documentation refer to the index
as index instead of cache, but some references still
remain. (e.g. git-update-index.txt)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-11 15:12:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
98438bd0e8 Remove the version tags from the manpages
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 14:49:52 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
df8baa42fe [PATCH] Random documentation fixes
The fixes focuses on improving the HTML output. Most noteworthy:

 - Fix the Makefile to also make various *.html files depend on
   included files.

 - Consistently use 'NOTE: ...' instead of '[ ... ]' for additional
   info.

 - Fix ending '::' for description lists in OPTION section etc.

 - Fix paragraphs in description lists ending up as preformated text.

 - Always use listingblocks (preformatted text wrapped in lines with -----)
   for examples that span empty lines, so they are put in only one HTML
   block.

 - Use '1.' instead of '(1)' for numbered lists.

 - Fix linking to other GIT docs.

 - git-rev-list.txt: put option descriptions in an OPTION section.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-03 13:23:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f318dd229f Document -i flag to git-read-tree
Somehow I missed it when we updated read-tree to support the recursive
merge strategy.  Also -i should require -m as well, which the command
did not check.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov
a7154e916c [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macro
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:

	perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt
	perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
215a7ad1ef Big tool rename.
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch.  The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:

  (1) git-*-script are no more.  The commands installed do not
      have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
      something is implemented as a shell script or not.

  (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
      'index' if that is what they mean.

There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support  is expected to be removed in the near
future.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-07 17:45:20 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
2c6e477195 [PATCH] Assorted documentation patches
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our
use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections
not related to the terminology unification.  I really appreciate
it.]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-05 23:07:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ccef66b55a [PATCH] read-tree: update documentation for 3-way merge.
This explains the new merge world order that formally assigns
specific meaning to each of three tree-ish command line
arguments.  It also mentions -u option

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07 15:13:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c859600954 [PATCH] read-tree: save more user hassles during fast-forward.
This implements the "never lose the current cache information or
the work tree state, but favor a successful merge over merge
failure" principle in the fast-forward two-tree merge operation.

It comes with a set of tests to cover all the cases described in
the case matrix found in the new documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-07 11:41:51 -07:00
David Greaves
c1bdacf97e [PATCH 3/4] split core-git.txt and update
Update git environment variable docs
Update first section of command docs (Manipulation commands section)

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
2005-05-10 15:01:23 -07:00
David Greaves
2cf565c53c [PATCH 1/4] split core-git.txt and update
Split the core-git.txt file
Formatting fix to the diff-format.txt

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
2005-05-10 14:55:22 -07:00