* maint-1.7.7:
docs: describe behavior of relative submodule URLs
Documentation: read-tree --prefix works with existing subtrees
Add MYMETA.json to perl/.gitignore
Since the relative submodule URLs have been introduced in f31a522a2d, they
do not conform to the rules for resolving relative URIs but rather to
those of relative directories.
Document that behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 34110cd4 (Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and
destination index) it is no longer true that a subdirectory with
the same prefix must not exist.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Contains accumulated fixes since 1.7.8 that have been merged to the
'master' branch in preparation for the 1.7.9 release.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/maint-mv:
mv: be quiet about overwriting
mv: improve overwrite warning
mv: make non-directory destination error more clear
mv: honor --verbose flag
docs: mention "-k" for both forms of "git mv"
92c62a3 (Porcelain scripts: Rewrite cryptic "needs update" error
message, 2010-10-19) refactored git's own checking to a function in
git-sh-setup. This is a very useful thing for script writers, so
document it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By definition, the default value of "advice.*" variables must be true and
they all control various additional help messages that are designed to aid
new users. Setting one to false is to tell Git that the user understands
the nature of the error and does not need the additional verbose help
message.
Also fix the asciidoc markup for linkgit:git-checkout[1] in the
description of the detachedHead advice by removing an excess colon.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After the description and options, the fsck manpage contains
some discussion about what it does. Over time, this
discussion has become somewhat obsolete, both in content and
formatting. In particular:
1. There are many options now, so starting the discussion
with "It tests..." makes it unclear whether we are
talking about the last option, or about the tool in
general. Let's start a new "discussion" section and
make our antecedent more clear.
2. It gave an example for --unreachable using for-each-ref
to mention all of the heads, saying that it will do "a
_lot_ of verification". This is hopelessly out-of-date,
as giving no arguments will check much more (reflogs,
the index, non-head refs).
3. It goes on to mention tests "to be added" (like tree
object sorting). We now have these tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.7.7:
Git 1.7.7.5
Git 1.7.6.5
blame: don't overflow time buffer
fetch: create status table using strbuf
checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude
cast variable in call to free() in builtin/diff.c and submodule.c
apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type
Conflicts:
Documentation/git.txt
GIT-VERSION-GEN
RelNotes
builtin/fetch.c
Tell the user what this command is intended for, and expand the
description of what it does.
Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code for a verbose flag has been here since "git mv" was
converted to C many years ago, but actually getting the "-v"
flag from the command line was accidentally lost in the
transition.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "git mv" synopsis shows two forms: renaming a file, and
moving files into a directory. They can both make use of the
"-k" flag to ignore errors, so mention it in both places.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old "git symbolic-ref" manpage seemed to imply in one place that
symlinks are still the default way to represent symbolic references
and in another that symlinks are deprecated. Fix the text and shorten
the justification for the change of implementation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The first paragraph inside of a list item does not need a preceding line
consisting of a single '+', and in fact this causes the text to be
misrendered. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second mode of 'git reset' is defined by the --patch
option, while the third mode is defined by the <mode> option.
Hence, these options are mandatory in the description of the
individual modes.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After running some ill-advised command like "git cherry-pick
HEAD..linux-next", the bewildered novice may want to return to more
familiar territory. Introduce a "git cherry-pick --abort" command
that rolls back the entire cherry-pick sequence and places the
repository back on solid ground.
Just like "git merge --abort", this internally uses "git reset
--merge", so local changes not involved in the conflict resolution are
preserved.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option to "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" to discard the
sequencer state introduced by v1.7.8-rc0~141^2~6 (revert: Introduce
--reset to remove sequencer state, 2011-08-04) has a confusing name.
Change it now, while we still have the time.
The new name for "cherry-pick, please get out of my way, since I've
long forgotten about the sequence of commits I was cherry-picking when
you wrote that old .git/sequencer directory" is --quit. Mnemonic:
this is analagous to quiting a program the user is no longer using ---
we just want to get out of the multiple-command cherry-pick procedure
and not to reset HEAD or rewind any other old state.
The "--reset" option is kept as a synonym to minimize the impact. We
might consider dropping it for simplicity in a separate patch, though.
Adjust documentation and tests to use the newly preferred name (--quit)
instead of --reset. While at it, let's clarify the short descriptions
of these operations in "-h" output.
Before:
--reset forget the current operation
--continue continue the current operation
After:
--quit end revert or cherry-pick sequence
--continue resume revert or cherry-pick sequence
Noticed-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Let the documentation for -t list valid *diff* tools,
not valid *merge* tools.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The preformatted documentation pages live in their own repositories
these days. Adjust the installation procedure to the updated layout.
Tested-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are diff-options, but they don't actually make sense
in the context of log.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
