Now that the documentation is mostly consistant in the use of "remote
branch" Vs "remote-tracking branch", let's make this distinction explicit
early in the user-manual.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
(Just like we did for documentation already)
In the process, we change "non-remote branch" to "branch outside the
refs/remotes/ hierarchy" to avoid the ugly "non-remote-tracking branch".
The new formulation actually corresponds to how the code detects this
case (i.e. prefixcmp(refname, "refs/remotes")).
Also, we use 'remote-tracking branch' in generated merge messages (by
merge an fmt-merge-msg).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while
"remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally.
The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather
fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do.
This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To complement the straightforward perl application in previous patch,
this adds a few manual changes.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".
See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.
This patch is a straightforward application of
perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'
except in the RelNotes directory.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Older Gits talked about "updating" a file to add its content to the
index, but this terminology is confusing for new users. "to stage" is far
more intuitive and already used in e.g. the "git stage" command name.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ab/send-email-perl:
send-email: extract_valid_address use qr// regexes
send-email: is_rfc2047_quoted use qr// regexes
send-email: use Perl idioms in while loop
send-email: make_message_id use "require" instead of "use"
send-email: send_message die on $!, not $?
send-email: use (?:) instead of () if no match variables are needed
send-email: sanitize_address use qq["foo"], not "\"foo\""
send-email: sanitize_address use $foo, not "$foo"
send-email: use \E***\Q instead of \*\*\*
send-email: cleanup_compose_files doesn't need a prototype
send-email: unique_email_list doesn't need a prototype
send-email: file_declares_8bit_cte doesn't need a prototype
send-email: get_patch_subject doesn't need a prototype
send-email: use lexical filehandles during sending
send-email: use lexical filehandles for $compose
send-email: use lexical filehandle for opendir
Conflicts:
git-send-email.perl
* sb/send-email-use-to-from-input:
send-email: Don't leak To: headers between patches
send-email: Use To: headers in patch files
Conflicts:
git-send-email.perl
* dm/mergetool-vimdiff:
mergetool-lib: make the three-way diff the default for vim/gvim
mergetool-lib: add a three-way diff view for vim/gvim
mergetool-lib: combine vimdiff and gvimdiff run blocks
* en/tree-walk-optim:
diff_tree(): Skip skip_uninteresting() when all remaining paths interesting
tree_entry_interesting(): Make return value more specific
tree-walk: Correct bitrotted comment about tree_entry()
Document pre-condition for tree_entry_interesting
* sn/doc-opt-notation:
Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
Use angles for placeholders consistently
Since fb1bb96 (read-tree: deprecate syntax without tree-ish args,
2010-09-10) not passing --empty caused a spurious warning that was
shown to the user.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To'
Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation
git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching
documentation: git-config minor cleanups
Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors
Move the similarity and dissimilarity index header description closer to
where those extended headers are described.
Describe and/or clarify the format used for file modes, pathnames, and
the index header.
Document that all "old" files refer to the state before applying the
*entire* output, and all "new" files refer to the state thereafter.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-show-ref really does not do what one would expect under the name
pattern matching, so describe it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change push.default's description to add hyphens between values and
descriptions to make the manpage easier to read. The html version is
readable either way.
Change status.showUntrackedFiles to make item descriptions be
sentences and to use the same asciidoc format as push.default. The
only visual change is the additions of "."
Signed-off-by: Cliff Frey <cliff@meraki.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current script used by annotate-tests.sh (used by t8001 and t8002) fails
to emit a warning if any of the expected authors never show up in the output
or if authors that show up in the output were never specified as expected.
Update the script to fail in both of these scenarios.
Helped-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
Documentation: diff can compare blobs
Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info
Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at
> all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just
> pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do
> their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are
> unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.
Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual.
Fix the manual to give them better guidance.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally "--no-index" mode triggered for untracked files within the
tracked tree, but with v1.5.6-rc1~41 (Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index,
2008-05-26) the command was fixed to only implicitly trigger when paths
outside the tracked tree are mentioned.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Point in many directions in the hope of helping the reader find what
is needed more quickly.
This commit also removes the summary attached to the SEE ALSO entry
for difftool, to avoid making the SEE ALSO list too verbose. If the
reader wants a summary of the commands referred to, she can always
look to the top of the named pages or to the table of contents on the
main git(1) page.
Suggested-by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Meanwhile, there is no plumbing command to compare two blobs.
Strange.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.
In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v1.7.3-rc0~75^2 (Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id,
2010-06-30) has a shortcoming - it doesn't allow the root to be set.
Extend this behaviour by allowing the root to be referenced as the
empty path, "".
For a command (like filter-branch --subdirectory-filter) that wants
to commit a lot of trees that already exist in the object db, writing
undeltified objects as loose files only to repack them later can
involve a significant amount of overhead.
(23% slow-down observed on Linux 2.6.35, worse on Mac OS X 10.6)
Fortunately we have fast-import (which is one of the only git commands
that will write to a pack directly) but there is not an advertised way
to tell fast-import to commit a given tree without unpacking it.
This patch changes that, by allowing
M 040000 <tree id> ""
as a filemodify line in a commit to reset to a particular tree without
any need to parse it. For example,
M 040000 4b825dc642 ""
is a synonym for the deleteall command and the fast-import equivalent of
git read-tree 4b825dc642
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Commit-message-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Group entries related to parameter substitutions together and avoid
using the word "regexp" to refer to the ${parameter/pattern/string}
substitution (banned), as the pattern there is a shell glob and not
a regular expression.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Eli Barzilay noticed that
http://server/gitweb/project/<commit-sha1>
link goes to 'shortlog' view, while 'commit' view would be more
useful, but that 'shortlog' action is more apropriate for
http://server/gitweb/project/<commit-sha1>..<other-commit-sha1>
links.
Therefore for the case when we don't have either action, or filename,
or parent hash [base] in path_info-based URL, i.e. for
http://server/gitweb/project/<object-id>
link, instead of using 'shortlog' view we allow dispatch() subroutine
to detect type of object and use appropriate action (in most case it
would be either 'commit' action, or 'tag', or 'tree' for top
directory).
Requested-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There was bug in parsing "project/:/file" and "project/:/" path_info
URLs, with implicit HEAD as 'hash_base'.
For such URLs the refname is empty, and before this fix regexp for
parsing path_info fragment assumed that it is always non-empty.
Refname cannot contain ':', as per 'git check-ref-format'.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit 7ce896b (Enable highlight executable path as a
configuration option, 2010-09-21) forgot to update t9500 test.
While at it, describe highlight test better.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The explanatory comment before the definition of ALLOC_GROW carefully
lists arguments that will be used more than once and thus cannot have
side-effects; a lazy reader might conclude that the arguments not
listed are used only once and side effects safe.
Correct it to list all three arguments, avoiding this confusion.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `<file>' argument is optional in both cases (the man pages are
already correct).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it cosistent with other places (including the
git-pack-objects(1) manpage itself) and avoids possible confusion (I,
for one, mistook `<object-list' for a `<object-list>' typo at first when
preparing this series).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
