git-cvsserver is highly functional. However, not all methods are implemented,
and for those methods that are implemented, not all switches are implemented.
All the common read operations are implemented, and add/remove/commit are
supported.
Testing has been done using both the CLI CVS client, and the Eclipse CVS
plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of these clients.
Currently git-cvsserver only works over SSH connections, see the
Documentation for more details on how to configure your client. It
does not support pserver for anonymous access but it should not be
hard to implement. Anonymous access will need tighter input validation.
In our very informal tests, it seems to be significantly faster than a real
CVS server.
This utility depends on a version of git-cvsannotate that supports -S and on
DBD::SQLite.
Licensed under GPLv2. Copyright The Open University UK.
Authors: Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>
Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* fix:
git-push: Update documentation to describe the no-refspec behavior.
format-patch: pretty-print timestamp correctly.
git-add: Add support for --, documentation, and test.
* jc/pack-reuse:
pack-objects: avoid delta chains that are too long.
git-repack: allow passing a couple of flags to pack-objects.
pack-objects: finishing touches.
pack-objects: reuse data from existing packs.
* jc/nostat:
cache_name_compare() compares name and stage, nothing else.
"assume unchanged" git: documentation.
ls-files: split "show-valid-bit" into a different option.
"Assume unchanged" git: --really-refresh fix.
ls-files: debugging aid for CE_VALID changes.
"Assume unchanged" git: do not set CE_VALID with --refresh
"Assume unchanged" git
It turns out that the git-push documentation didn't describe what it
would do when not given a refspec, (not on the command line, nor in a
remotes file). This is fairly important for the user who is trying to
understand operations such as:
git clone git://something/some/where
# hack, hack, hack
git push origin
I tracked the mystery behavior down to git-send-pack and lifted the
relevant portion of its documentation up to git-push, (namely that all
refs existing both locally and remotely are updated).
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I found a paper thin man page for git-rebase, but was quite happy to
see something much more useful in the usage statement of the script
when I went there to find out how this thing worked. Here it is
cleaned up slightly and expanded a bit into the actual documentation.
Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds support to git-add to allow the common -- to separate
command-line options and file names. It adds documentation and a new
git-add test case as well.
[jc: this should apply to 1.2.X maintenance series, so I reworked
git-ls-files --error-unmatch test. ]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A new flag -q makes underlying pack-objects less chatty.
A new flag -f forces delta to be recomputed from scratch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces --no-reuse-delta option to disable reusing of
existing delta, which is a large part of the optimization
introduced by this series. This may become necessary if
repeated repacking makes delta chain too long. With this, the
output of the command becomes identical to that of the older
implementation. But the performance suffers greatly.
It still allows reusing non-deltified representations; there is
no point uncompressing and recompressing the whole text.
It also adds a couple more statistics output, while squelching
it under -q flag, which the last round forgot to do.
$ time old-git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <RL
Generating pack...
Done counting 184141 objects.
Packing 184141 objects....................
real 12m8.530s user 11m1.450s sys 0m57.920s
$ time git-pack-objects --stdout >/dev/null <RL
Generating pack...
Done counting 184141 objects.
Packing 184141 objects.....................
Total 184141, written 184141 (delta 138297), reused 178833 (delta 134081)
real 0m59.549s user 0m56.670s sys 0m2.400s
$ time git-pack-objects --stdout --no-reuse-delta >/dev/null <RL
Generating pack...
Done counting 184141 objects.
Packing 184141 objects.....................
Total 184141, written 184141 (delta 134833), reused 47904 (delta 0)
real 11m13.830s user 9m45.240s sys 0m44.330s
There is one remaining issue when --no-reuse-delta option is not
used. It can create delta chains that are deeper than specified.
A<--B<--C<--D E F G
Suppose we have a delta chain A to D (A is stored in full either
in a pack or as a loose object. B is depth1 delta relative to A,
C is depth2 delta relative to B...) with loose objects E, F, G.
And we are going to pack all of them.
B, C and D are left as delta against A, B and C respectively.
So A, E, F, and G are examined for deltification, and let's say
we decided to keep E expanded, and store the rest as deltas like
this:
E<--F<--G<--A
Oops. We ended up making D a bit too deep, didn't we? B, C and
D form a chain on top of A!
This is because we did not know what the final depth of A would
be, when we checked objects and decided to keep the existing
delta. Unfortunately, deferring the decision until just before
the deltification is not an option. To be able to make B, C,
and D candidates for deltification with the rest, we need to
know the type and final unexpanded size of them, but the major
part of the optimization comes from the fact that we do not read
the delta data to do so -- getting the final size is quite an
expensive operation.
To prevent this from happening, we should keep A from being
deltified. But how would we tell that, cheaply?
To do this most precisely, after check_object() runs, each
object that is used as the base object of some existing delta
needs to be marked with the maximum depth of the objects we
decided to keep deltified (in this case, D is depth 3 relative
to A, so if no other delta chain that is longer than 3 based on
A exists, mark A with 3). Then when attempting to deltify A, we
would take that number into account to see if the final delta
chain that leads to D becomes too deep.
However, this is a bit cumbersome to compute, so we would cheat
and reduce the maximum depth for A arbitrarily to depth/4 in
this implementation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
New -r flag for prepending the corresponding Subversion revision
number to each commit message.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Since Junio used this in an example, and I've personally tried to use it, I
suppose the option should actually exist.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
The documentation was mistakenly describing the --only semantics to
be default. The 1.2.0 release and its maintenance series 1.2.X will
keep the traditional --include semantics as the default. Clarify the
situation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the "git commit paths..." to default to --only
semantics from traditional --include semantics, as agreed on the
list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This howto consists of a footnote from an email by JC to the git
mailing list (<7vfyms0x4p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>).
Signed-off-by: Kent Engstrom <kent@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Currently, git-repo-config will just return the raw value of option
as specified in the config file; this makes things difficult for scripts
calling it, especially if the value is supposed to be boolean.
This patch makes it possible to ask git-repo-config to check if the option
is of the given type (int or bool) and write out the value in its
canonical form. If you do not pass --int or --bool, the behaviour stays
unchanged and the raw value is emitted.
This also incidentally fixes the segfault when option with no value is
encountered.
[jc: tweaked the option parsing a bit to make it easier to see
that the patch does not change anything but the type stuff in
the diff output. Also changed to avoid "foo ? : bar" construct. ]
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Don't mention it in docs or --help output.
Remove mbox, date and author variables from git-format-patch.sh.
Use DESCRIPTION text from man-page to update LONG_USAGE output. It's
a bit silly to have two texts saying the same thing in different words,
and I'm too lazy to update both.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- "git commit" without _any_ parameter keeps the traditional
behaviour. It commits the current index.
We commit the whole index even when this form is run from a
subdirectory.
- "git commit --include paths..." (or "git commit -i paths...")
is equivalent to:
git update-index --remove paths...
git commit
- "git commit paths..." acquires a new semantics. This is an
incompatible change that needs user training, which I am
still a bit reluctant to swallow, but enough people seem to
have complained that it is confusing to them. It
1. refuses to run if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD exists, and reminds
trained git users that the traditional semantics now needs
-i flag.
2. refuses to run if named paths... are different in HEAD and
the index (ditto about reminding). Added paths are OK.
3. reads HEAD commit into a temporary index file.
4. updates named paths... from the working tree in this
temporary index.
5. does the same updates of the paths... from the working
tree to the real index.
6. makes a commit using the temporary index that has the
current HEAD as the parent, and updates the HEAD with this
new commit.
- "git commit --all" can run from a subdirectory, but it updates
the index with all the modified files and does a whole tree
commit.
- In all cases, when the command decides not to create a new
commit, the index is left as it was before the command is
run. This means that the two "git diff" in the following
sequence:
$ git diff
$ git commit -a
$ git diff
would show the same diff if you abort the commit process by
making the commit log message empty.
This commit also introduces much requested --author option.
$ git commit --author 'A U Thor <author@example.com>'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In a workflow that employs relatively long lived topic branches,
the developer sometimes needs to resolve the same conflict over
and over again until the topic branches are done (either merged
to the "release" branch, or sent out and accepted upstream).
This commit introduces a new command, "git rerere", to help this
process by recording the conflicted automerge results and
corresponding hand-resolve results on the initial manual merge,
and later by noticing the same conflicted automerge and applying
the previously recorded hand resolution using three-way merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The sections on git urls and remotes files in the git-fetch,
git-pull, and git-push manpages seem long enough to be worth a
manpage section of their own.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The push and pull man pages include a bunch of shared text from
pull-fetch-param.txt. This simplifies maintenance somewhat, but
there's actually quite a bit of text that applies only to one or the
other.
So, separate out the push- and pull/fetch-specific text into
pull-fetch-param.txt and git-push.txt, then include the largest chunk
of common stuff (the description of protocols and url's) from
urls.txt. That cuts some irrelevant stuff from the man pages without
making us duplicate too much.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We still talked about HEAD symlinks but these days we use
symrefs by default.
Also 'failed/prevented' message is now gone from the merge
output.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* jc/daemon:
daemon: extend user-relative path notation.
daemon: Set SO_REUSEADDR on listening sockets.
daemon: do not forbid user relative paths unconditionally under --base-path
* mw/http:
http-fetch: Tidy control flow in process_alternate_response
http: Turn on verbose Curl messages if GIT_CURL_VERBOSE set in environment
http-fetch: Fix message reporting rename of object file.
http-fetch: Fix object list corruption in fill_active_slots().
Also reorganizes the man page to list options alphabetically.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Earlier, we made --base-path to automatically forbid
user-relative paths, which was probably a mistake. This
introduces --user-path (or --user-path=path) option to control
the use of user-relative paths independently. The latter form
of the option can be used to restrict accesses to a part of each
user's home directory, similar to "public_html" some webservers
supports.
If we're invoked with --user-path=FOO option, then a URL of the
form git://~USER/PATH/... resolves to the path HOME/FOO/PATH/...,
where HOME is USER's home directory.
[jc: This is much reworked by me so bugs are mine, but the
original patch was done by Mark Wooding.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A misguided attempt to show logs at all time was inserted only to
the documentation of this flag. Worse yet, it was not even implemented,
causing more confusion. Drop it.
We might want to have an option to show --pretty even when there is no
diff output, but that is applicable to all forms of diff, not just --cc.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This only applies to traditional diffs, not to git diffs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Here's some changes to the cvs-migration.txt. As usual, in my attempt
to make things clearer someone may have found I've made them less so, or
I may have just gotten something wrong; so any review is welcomed.
I can break up this sort of thing into smaller steps if preferred, the
monolothic patch is just a bit simpler for me for this sort of
thing.
I moved the material describing shared repository management from
core-tutorial.txt to cvs-migration.txt, where it seems more appropriate,
and combined two sections to eliminate some redundancy.
I also revised the earlier sections of cvs-migration.txt, mainly trying
to make it more concise.
I've left the last section of cvs-migration.txt (on CVS annotate
alternatives) alone for now.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Johannes noticed the recent addition of this new flag
inadvertently took over existing --update-head-ok (-u). Require
longer abbreviation to this new option which would be needed in
a rare setup.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Without this, there is no way to specify a remote executable when
invoking git-pull/git-fetch as there is for git-clone.
[jc: I have a mild suspicion that this is a broken environment (aka
sysadmin disservice). It may be legal to configure your sshd to
spawn named program without involving shell at all, and if your
sysadmin does so and you have your git programs under your home
directory, you would need something like this, but then I suspect
you would need such workaround everywhere, not just git. But we
have these options we can use to work around the issue, so there
is no strong reason not to reject this patch, either. ]
Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
asciidoc 7.0.4 and newer considers such includes from parent directory
unsafe.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We forgot to update the primary link from git.html leading to
the tutorial, and also forgot to build and install the renamed
core-tutorial document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is a common mistake to leave an unsed `origin` branch behind
if a shared public repository was created by first cloning from
somewhere else. Subsequent `git push` into it with the default
"push all the matching ref" would push the `origin` branch from
the developer repository uselessly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The current Documentation/tutorial.txt concentrates on the lower-level
git interfaces. So it's useful to people developing alternative
porcelains, to advanced users, etc., but not so much to beginning users.
I think it makes sense for the main tutorial to address those
beginnning users, so with this patch I'm proposing that we move
Documentation/tutorial.txt to Documentation/core-tutorial.txt and
replace it by a new tutorial.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We forgot to make sure that there is no more than one pattern
parameter. Also when looking for files in a directory called
'--others', it passed that path limiter without preceding the
end-of-options marker '--' to underlying git-ls-files, which
misunderstood it as one of its options instead.
$ git grep --others -e Meta/Make Meta
$ git grep -o -e Meta/Make Meta
$ git grep -o Meta/Make Meta
look for a string "Meta/Make" from untracked files in Meta/
directory.
$ git grep Meta/Make --others
looks for the same string from tracked files in ./--others
directory.
On the other hand,
$ git grep -e Meta/Make --others
does not have a freestanding pattern, so everybody is parameter
and there is no path specifier. It looks for the string in all
the untracked files without any path limiter.
[jc: updated with usability enhancements and documentation
cleanups from Sean.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Minor copyediting of recent additions to git-commit and git-reset
documentation.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Change "SVN:: Perl" to "SVN::Perl", wrap a long line, and clean up the
description of positional arguments.
Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update documentation to warn users not to create noise in then Linux
history by creating pointless "Auto-update from upstream" merge
commits.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Previously 'git-push --tags dst', used information from
remotes/dst to determine which refs to push; this patch corrects
it, and also documents the --tags option.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch adds the option to specify an author name/email conversion
file in the format
exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org>
which will translate the ugly cvs authornames to the more informative
git style.
The info is saved in $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors, so that subsequent
incremental imports will use the same author-info even if no -A
option is specified. If an -A option *is* specified, the info in
$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors is appended/updated appropriately.
Docs updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this, the command includes the current branch to the list
of revs to be shown when it is not given on the command line.
This is handy to use in the configuration file like this:
[showbranch]
default = --current
default = heads/* ; primary branches, not topics under
; subdirectories
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the character used to mark the commits that is on the
branch from '+' to '*' for the current branch, to make it stand out.
Also we show '-' for merge commits.
When you have a handful branches with relatively long diversion, it
is easier to see which one is the current branch this way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new option --naked is to help creating a naked repository
for public consumption.
$ git clone -l -s --naked \
/pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git subproj-2.6.git
is equivalent to this sequence:
$ git clone -l -s -n /pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6.git temp
$ mv temp/.git subproj-2.6.git
$ rmdir temp
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Instead of going interactive, introduce a command line switch
'-m' to allow merging changes when normal two-way merge by
read-tree prevents branch switching.
* Leave the unmerged stages intact if automerge fails, but
reset index entries of cleanly merged paths to that of the
new branch, so that "git diff" (not "git diff HEAD") would
show the local modifications.
* Swap the order of trees in read-tree three-way merge used in
the fallback, so that `git diff` to show the conflicts become
more natural.
* Describe the new option and give more examples in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
If you are a long time git user/developer, you forget that to a new git
user, these words have not the same meaning as to you.
[jc: with updates from J. Bruce Fields.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Tommi Virtanen expressed a wish on #git to be able to use short and elegant
git URLs by making git-daemon 'root' in a given directory. This patch
implements this, causing git-daemon to interpret all paths relative to
the given base path if any is given.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I added things to ls-remote so that Cogito can auto-follow tags
easily and correctly a while ago, but git-fetch did not use the
facility. Recently added git-describe command relies on
repository keeping up-to-date set of tags, which made it much
more attractive to automatically follow tags, so we do that as
well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The -T and -t switches are swapped in the documentation and actual
code. I've made the documentation match the code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
Earlier, git-clone stored upstream's master in the branch named 'origin',
possibly overwriting an existing such branch.
Now you can change it by calling git-clone with '-o <other_name>'.
[jc: added ref format check, subdirectory safety, documentation
and usage string.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When I show transcripts to explain how something works, I often
find myself hand-editing the diff-raw output to shorten various
object names in the output.
This adds --abbrev option to the diff family, which shortens
diff-raw output and diff-tree commit id headers.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We still advertise "git resolve" as a standalone command, but never
"git octopus", so nobody should be using it and it is safe to
retire it. The functionality is still available as a strategy
backend.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also, ensure usage help switches are in the same order.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Split out the functions that deal with the socketpair after
finishing git protocol handshake to receive the packed data into
a separate file, and use it in fetch-pack to keep/explode the
received pack data. We earlier had something like that on
clone-pack side once, but the list discussion resulted in the
decision that it makes sense to always keep the pack for
clone-pack, so unpacking option is not enabled on the clone-pack
side, but we later still could do so easily if we wanted to with
this change.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about
recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers
from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place
would be very helpful.
Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
clone-pack had some logic to accept subset of remote refs from
the command line and clone from there. However, it was never
used in practice and its problems were not found out so far.
This commit changes the command to output the object names of
refs to the standard output instead of making a clone of the
remote repository when explicit <head> parameters are given; the
output format is the same as fetch-pack.
The traditional behaviour of cloning the whole repository by
giving no explicit <head> parameters stays the same.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Recommend git over ssh direct to master.kernel.org, instead of
going over rsync to public machines, since this is meant to be a
procedure for kernel subsystem maintainers.
Also fix an obvious typo.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows git-am to accept single-message files as well as mboxes.
Unlike the previous version, this one doesn't need to be explicitly told
which one it is; rather, it looks to see if the first line is a From
line and uses it to select mbox mode or not.
I moved the logic to do all this into git-mailsplit, which got a new
user interface as result, although the old interface is still available
for backwards compatibility.
[jc: applied with two obvious fixes.]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Talk about the following as well:
* git fetch --tags
* Use of "git push" as a one-man distributed development vehicle.
* Show example of remotes file for pulling and pushing.
* Annotate git-shell setup.
* Using Carl's update hook in a CVS-style shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The initial section of tutorial was too heavy on internal
workings for the first-time readers, so rewrite the introductory
section of git(7) to start with "not learning core git commands"
section and refer them to README to grasp the basic concepts,
then Everyday to give overview with task/role oriented examples
for minimum set of commands, and finally the tutorial.
Also add to existing note in the tutorial that many too
technical descriptions can be skipped by a casual reader.
I initially started to review the tutorial, with the objective
of ripping out the detailed technical information altogether,
but I found that the level of details in the initial couple of
sections that talk about refs and the object database in a
hands-on fashion was about rigth, and left all of them there. I
feel that reading about fsck-index and repack is too abstract
without being aware of these directories and files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In order to support getting data into git with scripts, this adds a
--stdin option to git-hash-object, which will make it read from stdin.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Explicit <head> arguments to git-prune replaces, instead of
extends, the list of heads used for reachability analysis by
fsck-objects. By giving a subset of heads by mistake, objects
reachable only from other heads can be removed, resulting in a
corrupted repository.
This commit stops replacing the list of heads, and makes the
command line arguments to add to them instead for safety.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Not replacing but always including our own refs may be more
desirable (and unarguably much safer), but at the same time I
have a suspicion that that might be forbidding a useful usage I
haven't thought of, so...
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds documentation for the -l and -n options to git-repack.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
-h and -t are aliases for --heads and --tags to git-ls-remote.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The documentation was lacking descriptions for the --signoff and --check
options to git-format-patch. It was also missing the following long
option-names: --output-directory (-o), --numbered (-n), --keep-subject
(-k), --author (-a), --date (-d), and --mbox (-m).
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Added the -e option to the documentation of git-cherry-pick.
* Added the -e and --no-commit option to git-revert.
* Removed redundant case expression for -n as --no-edit (already taken by
--no-commit).
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The -- option has been added to the documentation of git-verify-pack.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Added the following long options to documentation:
* --all
* --signoff
* --verify
* --no-verify
* --edit
Also added documentation for the -- option for terminating option parsing.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
All descriptions of the '--' option were the same except for that in
Documentation/git-merge-index.txt.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-am script actually transform --utf8 and --keep to -u and -k when
sent to git-mailinfo.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This provides (minimal) documentation for the --non-empty command-line
option to the pack-objects command.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Finish each sentence with a full stop.
Instead of saying 'directory index' 'directory cache' etc,
consistently say 'index'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new merge world order tells the merge strategies to leave
the cache unmerged and store the automerge result in the working
tree if automerge is not clean. This was done for the resolve
strategy and recursive strategy when no rename is involved, but
recording a conflicting merge in the rename case could not
easily be done by the recursive strategy.
This commit adds a new input format, in addition to the exsting
two, to "update-index --index-info".
(1) mode SP sha1 TAB path
The first format is what "git-apply --index-info"
reports, and used to reconstruct a partial tree
that is used for phony merge base tree when falling
back on 3-way merge.
(2) mode SP type SP sha1 TAB path
The second format is to stuff git-ls-tree output
into the index file.
(3) mode SP sha1 SP stage TAB path
This format is to put higher order stages into the
index file and matches git-ls-files --stage output.
To place a higher stage entry to the index, the path should
first be removed by feeding a mode=0 entry for the path, and
then feeding necessary input lines in the (3) format.
For example, starting with this index:
$ git ls-files -s
100644 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 0 frotz
$ git update-index --index-info ;# interactive session -- input follows...
0 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 frotz
100644 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 1 frotz
100755 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 2 frotz
The first line of the input feeds 0 as the mode to remove the
path; the SHA1 does not matter as long as it is well formatted.
Then the second and third line feeds stage 1 and stage 2 entries
for that path. After the above, we would end up with this:
$ git ls-files -s
100644 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 1 frotz
100755 8a1218a1024a212bb3db30becd860315f9f3ac52 2 frotz
This completes the groundwork for the new merge world order.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The new option, --stage=<n>, lets you copy out from an unmerged,
higher stage. This is to help the new merge world order during
a nontrivial merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
The file parameter is better spelled just "file", not "any file
on the filesystem". We stress that in the description text
later anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
The branch policy script I outlined was improved and polished by
Carl and posted on the list twice since then. It is a shame not
to pick it up, so replace the original outline in
howto/update-hook-example.txt with the latest from Carl.
Also talk about setting up git-shell to allow git-push/git-fetch
only SSH access to a shared repository host in the tutorial.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mention documentation pages that talk about update and
post-update hooks from git-push, because a frequently asked
question is "I want X to happen when I push" and people would
not know to look at git-receive-pack documentation until they
understand that is what runs on the other end.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The table facility was nice in rendering HTML but was disastrous
for man page. Reword the text and do not use table for now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Work-around asciidoc manpage trouble that does not seem to allow
more than one line in the SYNOPSIS section.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also work-around asciidoc manpage trouble that does not seem to
allow more than one line in the SYNOPSIS section.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This switch was not documented properly. I decided not to mention
the --no-edit switch in the git-cherry-pick documentation since
we always default to no editing.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this, you can say "git-show-branch topic/* master" to show
all the topic branches you have under .git/refs/heads/topic/ and
your master branch. Another example is "git-show-branch --list
v1.0*" to show all the v1.0 tags. You can disambiguate by
saying "heads/topic/*" to show only topic branches if you have
tags under .git/refs/tags/topic/ as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch aims to freshen up a bit the git-ls-tree documentation. It hints
that the list of paths are in fact patterns to be matched, explains the new
-t, --name-only and --name-status options, corrects the original autorship
information to refer to yours sincerely, corrects several grammar mistakes,
etc.
Since the documentation still deserves some significant work (at least
proper description of the pattern matching), I also added the stub notice.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds '-e' option to git-cat-file, to test for the existence
of the object.
This also cleans up the option-parsing in git-cat-file slightly.
[jc: HPA version had -n option which did rev-parse --verify; the
real value of this patch is the option parsing cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Use the same trick Josef used to introduce line breaks for
git-mv documentation for now, to help HTML rendering. This
breaks manpages and we need to come up with a better solution.
Noticed by linux@horizon.com (No Name).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This hopefully concludes the latest updates that changes the
behaviour of the merge on an unsuccessful automerge. Instead of
collapsing the conflicted path in the index to show HEAD, we
leave it unmerged, now that diff-files can compare working tree
files with higher stages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The option description header was there without body text, confusingly
getting rendered as if the description for --tags applied to the option.
Noticed by Carl Baldwin.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Current default, merge-recursive, gives slightly different
message while working from merge-resolve which was used to
prepare the illustration in the tutorial.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
After thinking about it more, I realized that much of the change
I did on top of Linus' version does not make much sense. This
commit reverts it so that it by default shows diffs with stage0
paths or stage2 paths with working tree; the unmerged stage to
use can be overridden with -1/-2/-3 option (-2 is the default so
essentially is a no-op).
When the index file is unmerged, we are by definition in the
middle of a conflicting merge, and we should show the diff with
stage 2 by default. More importantly, paths without conflicts
are updated in the working tree and collapsed to stage0 in the
index, so showing diff with stage0 at the same time does not
hurt. In normal cases, stage0 entries should be in sync with
the working tree files and does not clutter the output. It even
helps the user to realize that the working tree has local
changes unrelated to the merge and remember to be careful not to
do a "git-commit -a" after resolving the conflicts.
When there is no unmerged entries, giving diff_unmerged_stage a
default value of 2 does not cause any harm, because it would not
be used anyway. So in all, always showing diff between stage0
paths and unmerged entries from a stage (defaulting to 2) is the
right thing to do, as Linus originally did.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While resolving conflicted merge, it was not easy to compare the
working tree file with unmerged index entries. This commit
introduces new options -1/-2/-3 (with synonyms --base, --ours,
and --theirs) to compare working tree files with specified
stages.
When none of these options are given, the command defaults to -2
if the index file is unmerged, otherwise it acts as before.
[jc: majorly butchered from the version Linus originally posted.]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
One "svn log" (or its equivalent) per revision adds delay and server load.
Instead, open two SVN connections -- one for the log, and one for the files.
Positive side effect: Only those log entries which actually contain data
are committed => no more empty commits.
Also, change the "-l" option to set the maximum revision to be pulled,
not the number of revisions.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In git-merge documentation, add a section to describe what happens to
the index and working tree during merge, and what their cleanliness
requirements are before the merge.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Specifying the value for a single letter, single dash option
parameter with equal sign looked funny, and more importantly
calling the flag to override encoding from utf-8 to something
else "-u" (obviously abbreviated from "utf-8") did not make any
sense. So spell it out.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The two synopsis lines have to be prefixed with a space
so that asciidoc inserts a line break inbetween for the
manual page.
Signed-off-by: Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Dropped a fair amount of reundant code in favour of the library code
in path.c
Added option --strict-paths with documentation, with backwards
compatibility for whitelist entries with symlinks.
Everything that worked earlier still works insofar as I have
remembered testing it.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The "copying over packs" step is to prevent the objects
available in upstream repository to get expanted in the
subsystem maintainer tree, and is still valid if the upstream
repository do not live on the same machine. But if they are on
the same machine using objects/info/alternates is cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This basically translates the man-page from 'git-developerish' to plain
english, adding some almost-sample output from git-status so users can
recognize what will happen.
Also mention explicitly that --mixed updates the index, while --soft
doesn't. I understood the old text to mean "--mixed is exactly like
--soft, but verbose".
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Extend the regex syntax of value_regex so that prepending an exclamation
mark means non-match:
[core]
quetzal = "Dodo" for Brainf*ck
quetzal = "T. Rex" for Malbolge
quetzal = "cat"
You can match the third line with
git-config-set --get quetzal '! for '
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... namely
--replace-all, to replace any amount of matching lines, not just 0 or 1,
--get, to get the value of one key,
--get-all, the multivar version of --get, and
--unset-all, which deletes all matching lines from .git/config
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When fetching/pulling from a remote repository the "--tags" option
can be used to pull tags too. Document that it will limit the pull
to only commits reachable from the tags.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now git-apply can grok binary replacement patches, give --binary
flag to git-am. As a safety measure, this is not by default
enabled, so that you do not let malicious e-mailed patch to
replace an arbitrary path with just a couple of lines (diff
index lines, the filename and string "Binary files "...) by
accident.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A new option, --full-index, is introduced to diff family. This
causes the full object name of pre- and post-images to appear on
the index line of patch formatted output, to be used in
conjunction with --allow-binary-replacement option of git-apply.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A new option, --allow-binary-replacement, is introduced.
When you feed a diff that records full SHA1 name of pre- and
post-image blob on its index line to git-apply with this option,
the post-image blob replaces the path if what you have in the
working tree matches the pre-image _and_ post-image blob is
already available in the object directory.
Later we _might_ want to enhance the diff output to also include
the full binary data of the post-image, to make this more
useful, but this is good enough for local rebasing application.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It's by design a bit stupid (matching ^git rather than ^git-), so as
to work with 'gitk' and 'git' as well.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The program 'git' now has --exec-path which needs explaining.
Renamed old "DESCRIPTION" to "CORE GIT COMMANDS" to make room for
"OPTIONS" while following follow some sort of convention.
Also updated AUTHORS section to pat my own back a bit.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
This patch fixes some small problems with the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
This patch documents the -n command-line option to git-unpack-objects,
as it was previously undocumented.
Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Because we use "lost-found" as the directory name to hold
dangling object names, it is confusing to call the command
git-lost+found, although it makes sense and is even cute ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-pack-redundant documentation was encoded in latin1, which caused
asciidoc to barf, which expected to see utf-8. Run tcs to re-encode
it in utf-8.
Also just for fun try my name in Japanese in git-lost+found
documentation ;-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Just to avoid confusion that scripts poorly written by somebody
else ;-) might mistake this as a mount point, or backup tools
ignoring the directory. The latter is probably not a big loss,
however, considering that this directory's contents are to be
used while fresh anyway.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch changes git-pack-redundant so that packfiles
in alternate object directories also are considered when
deciding which objects are redundant.
This functionality is controlled by the flag '--alt-odb'.
Also convert the other flags to the long form, and update
docs and git-repack accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch renames git-pack-intersect to git-pack-redundant
as suggested by Petr Baudis. The new name reflects what the
program does, rather than how it does it.
Also fix a small argument parsing bug.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a specialized hack to help no-base merges, but other
people might find it useful, so let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
With this patch the following commands all clone into the local directory
"repo". If repo exists, it will still barf.
git-clone git://host.xz/repo.git
git-clone /path/to/repo/.git
git-clone host.xz:repo.git
I ended up doing the same source-to-target sed'ing for all our company
projects, so it was easier to add it directly to git-clone.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch introduces -no-commit-id option for git-diff-tree, which
suppresses commit ID output.
[jc: dropped gitk part for now.]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
You could also spell it ssh://host:/path/to/repo (or git+ssh,
ssh+git), but without method:// is shorter to type, so mention
only that one in the short and sweet list.
Noticed by Pasky.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"git resolve" is being deprecated in favour of "git merge".
Update the documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds option '-d' to git-tag.sh and documents it.
Signed-off-by: Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As Pasky pointed out, building in templates directory showed
list of built template files which was unneeded. This commit
also fixes another build annoyance I recently left in by
accident.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documentation/Makefile spent a lot of time to generate include
dependencies, which was quite noticeable especially during "make clean".
Rewrite it to generate just a single dependency file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Annoyingly enough, asciidoc wants the same number of '=' on the second
line as there are characters on the first line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A script that can replay commits git into a CVS checkout. Tries to ensure the
sanity of the operation and supports mainly manual usage.
If you are reckless enough, you can ask it to autocommit when everything has
applied cleanly. Combined with a couple more scripts could become part of
a git2cvs gateway.
Should support adds/removes and binary files.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This updates documentation to use git branch -d foo in favour of
rm .git/refs/heads/foo
Signed-off-by: Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While discussing Jon's ASCII art on merge operations with him, I
realized that the tutorial stops talking about the plumbing
details halfway. So fill in the gory details, and update the
examples to use 'git-merge', not 'git-resolve'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Refactored fetch options into separate fetch-options.txt.
Made git-merge use merge-options.
Made git-fetch use fetch-options.
Made git-pull use merge-options and fetch-options.
Added --help option to git-pull and git-format-patch scripts.
Rewrote Documentation/Makefile to dynamically determine
include dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This implements the idea Daniel Barkalow came up with, to match
the remotes/origin created by clone by default to the workflow I
use myself in my guinea pig repository, to have me eat my own
dog food.
We probably would want to use either .git/refs/local/heads/*
(idea by Linus) or .git/refs/heads/origin/* instead to reduce
the local ref namespace pollution.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add support for pushing to a remote repository using HTTP/DAV
Signed-off-by: Nick Hengeveld <nickh@reactrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Josef Weidendorfer points out that git-clone documentation does not
mention the initial copying of remote branch heads into corresponding
local branches. Also clarify the purpose of the ref mappings description
in the "remotes" file and recommended workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line
right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the
broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such
lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion.
Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an
explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines.
Add a couple of cross references.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarified and added notes for pull/push refspecs.
Converted to back-ticks for literal text examples.
[jc: Also fixed git-pull description that still talked about its
calling git-resolve or git-octopus (we do not anymore; instead
we just call git-merge). BTW, I am reasonably impressed by how
well "git-am -3" applied this patch, which had some conflicts
because I've updated the documentation somewhat.]
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Pasky and I did overlapping documentation independently; this is to
pick up better wordings from what he sent me.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Its use of git-ls-files --others is very nice, but sometimes gives
surprising results, so we'd better talk about it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
This is a companion patch for 211dcac643
commit, to add the newly introduced -P option to the list of options.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
-P:: <cvsps-output-file>
Instead of calling cvsps, read the provided cvsps output file. Useful
for debugging or when cvsps is being handled outside cvsimport.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
That notice was added by me for the emergency documentation, but Junio
already expanded it to a full-fledged manual page. This patch removes
the notice.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Simple description. It appears to be mostly internal command, but hey, it
is (it seems) the only undocumented one, so let's fix it up...
Also add a note about it to git-merge documentation.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For a 1.0 release, there is no need to maintain the
historical "Previously this command was known as..."
information on the doc splash page. It is noise;
command names should stand on their own now.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The repository to pull from can be a local repository, and as a
special case the current directory can be specified to perform
merges across local branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I don't think people really follow the links or think very abstractly at
all in the first place.
So I was thinking more of some explicit examples. I actually think every
command should have an example in the man-page, and hey, here's a patch to
start things off.
Of course, I'm not exactly "Mr Documentation", and I don't know that this
is the prettiest way to do this, but I checked that the resulting html and
man-page seems at least reasonable.
And hey, if the examples look like each other, that's just because I'm
also not "Mr Imagination".
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
