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Author SHA1 Message Date
Teemu Likonen
9c6c304d6a Fix the building of gitman.info document
"makeinfo" failed to generate gitman.info from gitman.texi input file
because the combined manual page file contains several nodes with the
same name (DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, SEE ALSO etc.). An Info document should
contain unique node names.

This patch creates a simple (read: ugly) work-around by suppressing the
validation of the final Info file. Jumping to nodes in the Info document
still works but they are not very useful. Common man-page headings like
DESCRIPTION and OPTIONS appear in the Info node list and they point to
the man page where they appear first (that is git-add currently).

Also, this patch adds directory-entry information for Info document to
make the document appear in the top-level Info directory.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
8b30ad01b4 Fix the building of user-manual.texi and gitman.texi documents
Previously "docbook2x-texi" failed to generate user-manual.texi and
gitman.texi files from .xml input files because "iconv" stopped at
"illegal input sequence" error. This was due to some UTF-8 octets in the
input .xml files. This patch adds option --encoding=UTF-8 for
"docbook2x-texi" to allow the building of .texi files complete.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:04 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
a325a1a70b Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
Use dblatex in order to create a pdf version of the git user manual.  No
existing Makefile targets (including "all") are touched, so you need to
explicitly say

make pdf
sudo make install-pdf

to get user-manual.pdf created and installed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-10 19:17:43 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg
b1a46b70b3 Makefile: add install-man rules (quick and normal)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02 20:46:52 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f948dd8992 Documentation: add manpage about workflows
This attempts to make a manpage about workflows that is both handy to
point people at it and as a beginner's introduction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 14:27:59 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
6fe570de05 allow installation of man and html doc from the man and html branches
This patch introduces a make target "quick-install-html" which installs
the html documentation from the branch origin/html, without the need for
asciidoc/xmlto. This is analogous to the existing "quick-install-doc"
target for the man pages.

We advertise these targets in the INSTALL file now.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-10 15:40:13 -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
Christian Couder
30eba7bf2c documentation: convert "diffcore" and "repository-layout" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

diffcore.txt          -> gitdiffcore.txt		(man section 7)
repository-layout.txt -> gitrepository-layout.txt	(man section 5)

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:14:52 -07:00
Christian Couder
497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00
Christian Couder
b27a23e35d Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:

cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.

[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-24 22:28:16 -07:00
Christian Couder
a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
7a2078b4b0 man pages are littered with .ft C and others
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72?  There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version.  1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.

I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05 00:30:22 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
471a5ce5dd Add using merge subtree How-To
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14 18:04:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c785e50de Documentation: remove gitman.info with "make clean"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Mark Levedahl
5682694a3c Documentation/Makefile - honor $DESTDIR for quick-install target
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
2f7ee089df parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page.
This page should hold every information about the git ways to parse command
lines, and best practices to be used for scripting.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
2007-12-22 10:26:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
530e741c72 Start preparing the API documents.
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML
documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are
there.

I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic
in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 22:29:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
50b3555c48 Documentation: rename git.texi to user-manual.texi
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-12 13:31:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5cefc33bff Documentation: add gitman.info target
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-10 01:36:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7be2b6e02b Merge branch 'master' into cc/help
This is to primarily pull in MANPATH tweak and help.txt formatting fix
from the master branch.
2007-12-10 01:22:42 -08:00
Christian Couder
5d6491c7c7 git-help: add -w|--web option to display html man page in a browser.
Now when using "git help -w cmd", we will try to show the HTML man
page "git-cmd.html" in your prefered web browser.

To do that "help.c" code will call a new shell script
"git-browse-help".

This currently works only if the HTML versions of the man page
have been installed in $(htmldir) (typically "/usr/share/doc/git-doc"),
so new target to do that is added to "Documentation/Makefile".

The browser to use can be configured using the "web.browser"
config variable.

We try to open a new tab in an existing web browser, if possible.

The code in "git-browse-help" is heavily stolen from "git-mergetool"
by Theodore Y. Ts'o. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09 01:19:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c680dd8341 Run the specified perl in Documentation/
Makefile uses $(PERL_PATH) but Documentation/Makefile uses "perl"; that
means the two Makefiles can use two different Perl installations.

Teach Documentation/Makefile to use PERL_PATH that is exported from the
toplevel Makefile, and give a sane fallback for people who run "make"
from Documentation directory.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 23:48:09 -08:00
Robert Schiele
41650765de install-sh from automake does not like -m without delimiting space
The install-sh script as shipped with automake requires a space between
the -m switch and its argument.  Since this is also the regular way of
doing it with other install implementations this change inserts the
missing space in all makefiles.

Signed-off-by: Robert Schiele <rschiele@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 22:11:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
79d30668ab Consolidate command list to one.
The categorized list of commands in git(7) and the list of common
commands in "git help" output were maintained separately, which was
insane.  This consolidates them to a single command-list.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-01 23:48:28 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
7f55cf451c Documentation: Fix man page breakage with DocBook XSL v1.72
From version 1.72 it will replace all dots in roff requests with U+2302
("house" character), and add escaping in output for all instances of dot
that are not in roff requests. This caused the ".ft" hack forcing
monospace font in listingblocks to end up as "\&.ft" and being visible
in the resulting man page.

The fix adds a DOCBOOK_XSL_172 build variable that will disable the
hack. To allow this variable to be defined in config.mak it also moves
build variable handling below the inclusion of config.mak.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 02:01:54 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
40dac517ee documentation: replace Discussion section by link to user-manual chapter
The "Discussion" section has a lot of useful information, but is a
little wordy, especially for an already-long man page, and is designed
for an audience more of potential git hackers than users, which probably
doesn't make as much sense as git matures.  Also, I (perhaps foolishly)
forked a version in the user manual, which has been significantly
rewritten in an attempt to address some of the above problems.

So, remove this section and replace it by a (very terse) summary of the
original material--my attempt at the World's Shortest Git Overview--and
a reference to the appropriate chapter of the user manual.  It's
unfortunate to remove something that's been in this place for a long
time, as some people may still depend on finding it there.  But I think
we'll want to do this some day anyway.

Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-09-15 22:17:24 -04:00
David Kastrup
f9286765b2 Documentation/Makefile: remove cmd-list.made before redirecting to it.
If cmd-list.made has been created by a previous run as root, output
redirection to it will fail.  So remove it before regeneration.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-10 23:50:00 -07:00
David Kastrup
4739809cd0 Add support for an info version of the user manual
These patches use docbook2x in order to create an info version of the
git user manual.  No existing Makefile targets (including "all") are
touched, so you need to explicitly say

make info
sudo make install-info

to get git.info created and installed.  If the info target directory
does not already contain a "dir" file, no directory entry is created.
This facilitates $(DESTDIR)-based installations.  The same could be
achieved with

sudo make INSTALL_INFO=: install-info

explicitly.

perl is used for patching up sub-par file and directory information in
the Texinfo file.  It would be cleaner to place the respective info
straight into user-manual.txt or the conversion configurations, but I
find myself unable to find out how to do this with Asciidoc/Texinfo.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
2007-08-10 23:16:18 -07:00
David Kastrup
50cff52f1a When generating manpages, delete outdated targets first.
This makes "make doc" work even if you made "sudo make doc" previously
by mistake.  Apparently an oversight: the other targets did this already.

Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-01 19:52:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1cffddd654 Mark user-manual as UTF-8
There have been several complaints against k.org's user-manual
page.  The document is generated in ISO-8859-1 by the xsltproc
toolchain (I suspect this is because released docbook.xsl we use
has xsl:output element that says the output is ISO-8859-1) but
server delivers it with "charset=UTF-8", and all h*ll breaks
loose.

This attempts to force UTF-8 on the generating end.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-24 00:47:05 -07:00
Emil Medve
4cb08df553 Use $(RM) in Makefiles instead of 'rm -f'
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-14 23:31:01 -07:00
Ismail Dönmez
45fd8bd32d Change default man page path to /usr/share/man
According to FHS,

    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES

default man page path is $prefix/share/man.

Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-20 16:22:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ad2a2f6f0b Merge branch 'lh/submodule'
* lh/submodule:
  gitmodules(5): remove leading period from synopsis
  Add gitmodules(5)
  git-submodule: give submodules proper names
  Rename sections from "module" to "submodule" in .gitmodules
  git-submodule: remember to checkout after clone
  t7400: barf if git-submodule removes or replaces a file
2007-06-16 01:22:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4c7100a9f4 Documentation: adjust to AsciiDoc 8
It turns out that the attribute definition we have had for a
long time to hide "^" character from AsciiDoc 7 was not honored
by AsciiDoc 8 even under "-a asciidoc7compatible" mode.  There is
a similar breakage with the "compatible" mode with + characters.

The double colon at the end of definition list term needs
to be attached to the term, without a whitespace.  After this
minimum fixups, AsciiDoc 8 (I used 8.2.1 on Debian) with
compatibility mode seems to produce reasonably good results.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 01:11:16 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
891dbc6e40 Add gitmodules(5)
This adds documentation for the .gitmodules file.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-12 01:06:21 -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
Jeff King
4159c57813 Documentation: robustify asciidoc GIT_VERSION replacement
Instead of using sed on the resulting file, we now have a
git_version asciidoc attribute. This means that we don't
pipe the output of asciidoc, which means we can detect build
failures.

Problem reported by Scott Lamb, solution suggested by Jonas Fonseca.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-06-02 11:28:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2d76548b6a Documentation/Makefile: fix section (5) installation
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-22 00:21:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
88e7fdf2cb Document gitattributes(5)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-19 22:38:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4392da4d5d Documentation: support manual section (5) - file formats.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-19 20:47:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ced38ea252 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: tighten dependency for git.{html,txt}
  Makefile: iconv() on Darwin has the old interface
  t5300-pack-object.sh: portability issue using /usr/bin/stat
  t3200-branch.sh: small language nit
  usermanual.txt: some capitalization nits
  Make builtin-branch.c handle the git config file
  rename_ref(): only print a warning when config-file update fails
  Distinguish branches by more than case in tests.
  Avoid composing too long "References" header.
  cvsimport: Improve formating consistency
  cvsimport: Reorder options in documentation for better understanding
  cvsimport: Improve usage error reporting
  cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination
  cvsimport: sync usage lines with existing options

Conflicts:

	Documentation/Makefile
2007-04-07 01:30:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d79073922f Documentation: tighten dependency for git.{html,txt}
Every time _any_ documentation page changed, cmds-*.txt files
were regenerated, which caused git.{html,txt} to be remade.  Try
not to update cmds-*.txt files if their new contents match the
old ones.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 21:29:16 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
7b8a74f39c Documentation: Replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in documentation
Include GIT-VERSION-FILE and replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in
the HTML and XML asciidoc output. The documentation
doesn't depend on GIT-VERSION-FILE so it will not be
automatically rebuild if nothing else changed.

[jc: fixing the case for interrupted build]

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-28 16:48:50 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
f562e6f316 glossary: stop generating automatically
The sort_glossary.pl script sorts the glossary, checks for duplicates,
and automatically adds cross-references.

But it's not so hard to do all that by hand, and sometimes the automatic
cross-references are a little wrong; so let's run the script one last
time and check in its output.

Note: to make the output fit better into the user manual I also deleted
the acknowledgements at the end, which was maybe a little rude; feel
free to object and I can find a different solution.

Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-18 23:06:00 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
0a3985dcfb user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option
The --nonet option prevents xsltproc from going to the network to find
anything.  But it always tries to find them locally first, so for a
user with the necessary docbook stylesheets installed the build will
work just fine without xsltproc attempting to use the network; all
--nonet does is make it fail rather than falling back on that.  That
doesn't seem particularly helpful.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-18 21:53:19 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
1c95c565c2 user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet
The generated user manual is rather hard to read thanks to the lack of
the css that's supposed to be included from docbook-xsl.css.

I'm totally ignorant of the toolchain; grubbing through xmlto and
related scripts, the easiest way I could find to ensure that the
generated html links to the stylesheet is by calling xsltproc directly.
Maybe there's some better way.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-04 16:47:32 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
4fa96e1557 Include config.mak in doc/Makefile
config.mak.autogen is already there.  Without this change it is not
possible to override mandir in config.mak.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-28 13:48:10 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
26cfcfbff4 Add release notes to the distribution.
This also adds a hook in the Makefile I can use to automatically
include pointers to documentation for older releases when updating
the pages at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-13 15:15:05 -08:00
Dotan Barak
1187d7564d Make it easier to override path to asciidoc command
Allow setting the path of asciidoc in only one place when creating
the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-11 12:44:09 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bfcd4ca3da Do not use hardcoded path to xhmtl.xsl to generate user's manual
It does not seem to need it either and gives an error on FC5 I use
at kernel.org to cut documentation tarballs, so remove it in the
meantime.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-31 15:41:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9299c4f147 Merge branch 'master' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git
This is in the hope of giving JBF's user-manual wider exposure.
I am not very happy with trailing whitespaces in the new
document, but let's not worry too much about the formatting
issues for now, but concentrate more on the structure and the
contents.
2007-01-31 14:43:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
89bf207758 Documentation/git.txt: command re-classification
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page.  The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.

Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:53:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
be93fc088f Documentation: generated cmds-*.txt does not depend on git.txt
Pointed out by Santi.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 11:33:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
72fe6a5989 Documentation: Generate command lists.
This moves the source of the list of commands and categorization
to the end of Documentation/cmd-list.perl, so that re-categorization
and re-ordering would become easier to manage.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 16:18:29 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
556b6600b2 sanitize content of README file
Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.

The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 12:03:50 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
d19fbc3c17 Documentation: add git user's manual
The goals are:

	- Readable from beginning to end in order without having read
	  any other git documentation beforehand.
	- Helpful section names and cross-references, so it's not too
	  hard to skip around some if you need to.
	- Organized to allow it to grow much larger (unlike the
	  tutorials)

It's more liesurely than tutorial.txt, but tries to stay focused on
practical how-to stuff.  It adds a discussion of how to resolve merge
conflicts, and partial instructions on setting up and dealing with a
public repository.

I've lifted a little bit from "branching and merging" (e.g., some of the
discussion of history diagrams), and could probably steal more if that's
OK.  (Similarly anyone should of course feel free to reuse bits of this
if any parts seem more useful than the whole.)

There's a lot of detail on managing branches and using git-fetch, just
because those are essential even to people needing read-only access
(e.g., kernel testers).  I think those sections will be much shorter
once the new "git remote" command and the disconnected checkouts are
taken into account.

I do feel bad about adding yet another piece of documentation, but I we
need something that goes through all the basics in a logical order, and
I wasn't seeing how to grow the tutorials into that.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-07 20:33:06 -05:00
Eric Wong
6538d1ef31 Makefile: add quick-install-doc for installing pre-built manpages
This adds and uses the install-doc-quick.sh file to
Documentation/, which is usable for people who track either the
'html' or 'man' heads in Junio's repository (prefixed with
'origin/' if cloned locally).  You may override this by
specifying DOC_REF in the make environment or in config.mak.

GZ may also be set in the environment (or config.mak) if you
wish to gzip the documentation after installing it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-23 09:22:30 -08:00
Chris Wright
d44c92d6ab no need to install manpages as executable
No need to install manpages as executable.  Noticed by Ville Skytt,Ad(B.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-11 11:32:50 -08:00
Sergey Vlasov
501524e938 Documentation: Fix howto/revert-branch-rebase.html generation
The rule for howto/*.html used "$?", which expands to the list of all
newer prerequisites, including asciidoc.conf added by another rule.
"$<" should be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-01 12:41:34 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
95676853b2 Include config.mak.autogen in the doc Makefile
... to install documentation relative to the path set with configure's
--prefix option.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-31 16:24:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
24cf6e5847 Merge branch 'pb/configure'
* pb/configure:
  Rename man1 and man7 variables to man1dir and man7dir
  Allow INSTALL, bindir, mandir to be set in main Makefile
2006-07-26 13:35:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c7543ce0be Documentation/Makefile: product depends on asciidoc.conf
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-14 16:32:38 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
7b8cf0cf29 Rename man1 and man7 variables to man1dir and man7dir
This patch renames man1 and man7 variables to man1dir and man7dir,
according to "Makefile Conventions: Variables for Installation
Directories" in make.info of GNU Make.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-29 23:49:16 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
e14421b9aa Allow INSTALL, bindir, mandir to be set in main Makefile
Makefiles in subdirectories now use existing value of INSTALL, bindir,
mandir if it is set, allowing those to be set in main Makefile or in
included config.mak.  Main Makefile exports variables which it sets.

Accidentally it renames bin to bindir in Documentation/Makefile
(should be bindir from start, but is unused, perhaps to be removed).

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-29 23:49:16 -07:00
Martin Waitz
c53603249c Documentation/Makefile: remove extra /
As both DESTDIR and the prefix are supposed to be absolute pathnames
they can simply be concatenated without an extra / (like in the main Makefile).
The extra slash may even break installation on Windows.

[jc: adjusted an earlier workaround for this problem in the dist-doc
 target in the main Makefile as well. ]

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-25 22:48:45 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
e31952da5c tutorial: add discussion of index file, object database
Add a sequel to tutorial.txt which discusses the index file and
the object database.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-21 17:15:43 -07:00
Sean Estabrooks
776e994af5 Properly render asciidoc "callouts" in git man pages.
Adds an xsl fragment to render docbook callouts when
converting to man page format.  Update the Makefile
to have "xmlto" use it when generating man pages.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-04-28 14:31:51 -07:00
Mark Wooding
4a5d693950 Documentation/Makefile: Some `git-*.txt' files aren't manpages.
In particular, git-tools.txt isn't a manpage, and my Asciidoc gets upset
by it.  The simplest fix is to Remove articles from the list of manpages
the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-05 02:32:13 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
941c944999 Don't include ../README in git.txt - make a local copy
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>
2006-01-24 23:16:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dcc6e28f70 Documentation: finishing touches to the new tutorial.
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>
2006-01-22 22:43:59 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
db9536c856 Everyday GIT with 20 commands
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-09 23:07:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fb612d54c1 Documentation: fix dependency generation.
The previous rule misses the case where git.txt or tutorial.txt
includes new files.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-08 00:23:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a5ae8e64cf Fix documentation dependency generation.
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>
2005-11-07 18:21:51 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
93d69d8691 Refactored merge options into separate merge-options.txt.
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>
2005-11-06 23:32:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3746501664 Documentation: -merge and -pull: describe merge strategies.
... and give a couple of examples of running 'git pull' against
local repository.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-04 00:18:29 -08:00
Kai Ruemmler
d2b8593fd3 make $prefix available for sub-makefiles
exports $prefix and makes Documentation/Makefile following it also.

Signed-off-by: Kai Ruemmler <kai.ruemmler@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-08 15:54:37 -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
0493a3fd52 Merge branch 'fixes' 2005-09-21 12:31:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b163512d4e Fix documentation dependency.
Randal L. Schwartz noticed that 'make install' does not rebuild what
is installed.  Make the 'install' rule depend on 'man'.

I noticed also 'touch' of the source files were used to express include
dependencies, which is a no-no.  Rewrite it to do dependencies properly,
and add missing include dependencies while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-21 12:29:59 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov
d1c2e113c5 [PATCH] Documentation: Add asciidoc.conf file and gitlink: macro
Introduce an asciidoc.conf file with the purpose of adding a gitlink:
macro which will improve the manpage output.

Original cogito patch by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>;
asciidoc.conf from that patch was further enhanced to use the proper
DocBook tag <citerefentry> for references to man pages.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20 15:07:51 -07:00
Peter Eriksen
53764ee43d [PATCH] Use '-d' as the first flag to 'install'
... in order to please Solaris 'install'.  GNU install is not harmed
with this.

[jc: Documentation/Makefile also fixed.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-15 12:46:31 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6d35cc7690 Document hooks.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-02 22:38:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a1d4aa7424 Add repository-layout document.
... and link to it from both the main index and the tutorial.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-01 16:56:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8db9307c9c Documentaion updates.
Mostly making the formatted html prettier.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 7adf1f15ebe074d4767df941817a6cf86d8e2533 commit)
2005-08-30 13:55:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
789d577412 Make sure howto/*.html is built as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-29 23:09:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8d0991d7d7 Allow asciidoc formatted documentation in howto/
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-29 22:38:12 -07:00
Tommi Virtanen
88db5f809d [PATCH] git bugfixes and cleanups, mainly Debian things
Generate docs for gitk. Install them in the right deb package.

Signed-off-by: Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-26 12:52:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
248542ea9a Don't forget to build the howto-index file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-25 00:36:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e6fc2346c1 Link howto documents from the main git.txt documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-25 00:28:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2a29da7c6d Tutorial updates.
- Use "working tree", "object name", "repository" as the canonical
   term consistenly.

 - Start formatting tutorial with asciidoc.

 - Mention shared repository style of cooperation.

 - Update with some usability enhancements recently made, such as
   the "-m" flag to the "git commit" command.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-23 15:28:34 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
23bb8df2fb [PATCH] Add Makefile target glossary.html
This also includes a script which does the sorting, and introduces
hyperlinks for every described term.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-18 10:25:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3f971fc425 Documentation updates.
Linus brought up that documentation for many commands have
incorrect attribution.  I started counting lines again, but
ended up adding a handful of missing manual pages.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-14 17:24:36 -07:00
Petr Baudis
a682ef9f06 [PATCH] Use $DESTDIR instead of $dest
$DESTDIR is more usual during the build than $dest and is what
is usually used in the makefiles, so let's use it too.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-12 10:38:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
71931c1965 Fix up "make doc"
Fix 'git-var.txt' and use "-b xhtml11" instead of "-b css-embedded" to
make asciidoc 7.0.1 happy.
2005-07-15 14:57:09 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
87a81c834b [PATCH] Add doc and install-doc targets to the Makefile
This makes it straightforward for people wanting to build and install
the git man pages and the rest of the documentation to do so.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-15 11:38:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dda2d79af2 [PATCH] Clean up diff option descriptions.
I got tired of maintaining almost duplicated descriptions in
diff-* brothers, both in usage string and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 13:09:17 -07:00
David Greaves
b2bf34d6c5 [PATCH] Docs - Makefile update
A Makefile that works just fine when the 6 character patch is applied
to asciidoc

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-22 11:07:22 -07:00
Sebastian Kuzminsky
7984eabe07 [PATCH] manpage name conflict
This moves the git manpage to man7, since "git" isn't a direct command
per se.  It also does two other things:

    * Sort of works around the asciidoc 6.0.3 bug where the manpages all
      get called "git.1".  It just renames them to what they should have
      been called.

    * Fixes a cut-n-paste bug in git-diff-helper.txt that was making
      asciidoc choke.
2005-05-19 09:58:44 -07:00
David Greaves
f77b100ada The Makefile is now aware of Documentation/ include directives
It makes the includers (diff commands documentation) depend on the includee
(diff format description).

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
2005-05-14 00:01:41 +02:00
David Greaves
b790abb874 [PATCH 4/4] split core-git.txt and update
Makefile for html and man

Signed-off-by: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
2005-05-10 15:03:34 -07:00