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Jean-Noël Avila
133db54dab doc: use only hyphens as word separators in placeholders
According to CodingGuidelines, multi-word placeholders should use
hyphens as word separators.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-09 09:39:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
bd250ab5ce Merge branch 'jk/doc-cvs-update'
Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.

* jk/doc-cvs-update:
  docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats
  docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage
  docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
2016-09-26 16:09:22 -07:00
Jeff King
1eba3e5147 docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
parsecvs maintenance was taken over by ESR, and the name
changed to cvs-fast-export as it learned to support that
output format. Let's point to cvs-fast-export, as it should
have additional bug-fixes and be more convenient to use.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-22 11:23:45 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
661c3e9bc0 doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
This is an application of the newly added CodingGuidelines to HEAD and
variants like FETCH_HEAD. It was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'([A-Z_]*HEAD)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
23f8239bbe doc: typeset short command-line options as literal
It was common in our documentation to surround short option names with
forward quotes, which renders as italic in HTML. Instead, use backquotes
which renders as monospace. This is one more step toward conformance to
Documentation/CodingGuidelines.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(-[a-z])'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:20:52 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
f745acb028 Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:

 - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
 - Spell Linux as Capitalized;
 - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04 13:14:44 -08:00
Roberto Tyley
2df85669d1 Documentation: fix documentation AsciiDoc links for external urls
Turns out that putting 'link:' before the 'http' is actually superfluous
in AsciiDoc, as there's already a predefined macro to handle it.

"http, https, [etc] URLs are rendered using predefined inline macros."
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_urls

"Hypertext links to files on the local file system are specified
using the link inline macro."
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_linking_to_local_documents

Despite being superfluous, the reference implementation of AsciiDoc
tolerates the extra 'link:' and silently removes it, giving a functioning
link in the generated HTML. However, AsciiDoctor (the Ruby implementation
of AsciiDoc used to render the http://git-scm.com/ site) does /not/ have
this behaviour, and so generates broken links, as can be seen here:

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-cvsimport (links to cvs2git & parsecvs)
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-filter-branch (link to The BFG)

It's worth noting that after this change, the html generated by 'make html'
in the git project is identical, and all links still work.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-20 14:14:58 -08:00
Jason St. John
0ffa154b5b Correct word usage of "timezone" in "Documentation" directory
"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct).

Correct this in these files:
-- date-formats.txt
-- git-blame.txt
-- git-cvsimport.txt
-- git-fast-import.txt
-- git-svn.txt
-- gitweb.conf.txt
-- rev-list-options.txt

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 10:47:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e34c7e2b51 Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git".  The latter was the intended spelling.

Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.

* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
  Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
  Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
  Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
  Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
  Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
  Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
2013-02-05 16:13:32 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
67d9c41c4a Merge branch 'jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3'
Warn people that other tools are more recommendable over
cvsimport+cvsps2 combo when doing a one-shot import, and cvsimport
will not work with cvsps3.

* jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3:
  git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated
2013-02-01 12:39:59 -08:00
John Keeping
1187ec99b9 git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated
git-cvsimport relies on version 2 of cvsps and does not work with the
new version 3.  Since cvsps 3.x does not currently work as well as
version 2 for incremental import, document this fact.

Specifically, there is no way to make new git-cvsimport that supports
cvsps 3.x and have a seamless transition for existing users since cvsps
3.x needs a time from which to continue importing and git-cvsimport does
not save the time of the last import or import into a specific namespace
so there is no safe way to calculate the time of the last import.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-24 12:14:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
00f1a867b4 Merge branch 'er/stop-recommending-parsecvs'
Stop recommending a defunct third-party software.

* er/stop-recommending-parsecvs:
  Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.
2013-01-09 08:25:36 -08:00
Eric S. Raymond
95f95c99f6 Remove the suggestion to use parsecvs, which is currently broken.
The parsecvs code has been neglected for a long time, and the only
public version does not even build correctly.  I have been handed
control of the project and intend to fix this, but until I do it
cannot be recommended.

Also, the project URL given for Subversion needed to be updated
to follow their site move.

Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-28 11:35:32 -08:00
Chris Rorvick
fb2c984148 git-cvsimport: allow author-specific timezones
CVS patchsets are imported with timestamps having an offset of +0000
(UTC).  The cvs-authors file is already used to translate the CVS
username to full name and email in the corresponding commit.  Extend
this file to support an optional timezone for calculating a user-
specific timestamp offset.

Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-16 22:23:18 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Ville Skyttä
6b677a28ff Documentation: spelling fixes
[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-20 16:59:17 -07:00
Aaron Crane
0455ec0330 cvsimport: new -R option: generate .git/cvs-revisions mapping
This option causes the creation or updating of a file mapping CVS
(filename, revision number) pairs to Git commit IDs.  This is expected
to be useful if you have CVS revision numbers stored in commit messages,
bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Crane <git@aaroncrane.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-06 11:01:59 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Mike Ralphson
680ebc0180 Documentation: fix typos / spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-20 15:56:07 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
75fd877e15 Cleanup warning about known issues in cvsimport documentation
Not all statements were complete sentences.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-01 15:46:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eed1fcd76d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  documentation: update cvsimport description of "-r" for recent clone
2009-03-26 00:29:05 -07:00
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
a8fac795dd documentation: update cvsimport description of "-r" for recent clone
the "--use-separate-remote" option no longer exists, having since
become the default for a clone.

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-26 00:24:26 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
7c98213abc Add warning about known issues to documentation of cvsimport
The described issues are compiled from the tests by Michael Haggerty and me.
Because it is not apparent that these can be fixed anytime soon at least warn
unwary users not to rely on the inbuilt cvsimport to much.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-24 19:44:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
08b51f51e6 Merge branch 'qq/maint'
* qq/maint:
  clone -q: honor "quiet" option over native transports.
  attribute documentation: keep EXAMPLE at end
  builtin-commit.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'commit.template'
  http.c: Use 'git_config_string' to clean up SSL config.
  diff.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'diff.external'
  convert.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'smudge' and 'clean'
  builtin-log.c: Use 'git_config_string' to get 'format.subjectprefix' and 'format.suffix'
  Documentation cvs: Clarify when a bare repository is needed
  Documentation: be precise about which date --pretty uses

Conflicts:

	Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-07-05 18:33:16 -07:00
Matthew Ogilvie
a41a32bf1c Documentation cvs: Clarify when a bare repository is needed
New users sometimes import a project and then immediately
try to use the imported repository as a central shared repository.
This provides pointers about setting up a bare repository for that
in the parts of the documentation dealing with CVS migration.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ogilvie <mmogilvi_git@miniinfo.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 17:42:16 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.

Using

	doit () {
	  perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
	}
	for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
	        merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
	do
	  doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
	done
	git diff

.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
483bc4f045 Documentation formatting and cleanup
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format
names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`.

While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some
places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page
synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:16 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b1889c36d8 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using
"git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is
not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to
refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no
escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.)

This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command,
program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can
be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are
made to use the dashless form.

The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens
and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched
versions are identical.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:15 -07:00
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
Philippe Bruhat (BooK
3c832a78b1 cvsimport: document that -M can be used multiple times
Also document the capture behaviour (source branch name in $1)

Signed-off-by: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book@cpan.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-01 00:55:39 -08:00
Sergei Organov
8608b33434 git-cvsimport.txt: fix '-M' description.
Fix '-M' description. Old one reads as if the user can somehow "see"
the default regex when using -M along with -m.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-13 11:08:41 -08:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
 # Inline macros.
 # Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
 # (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
 # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
 (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]

This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9bfe9f80b1 Merge branch 'aw/cvs'
* aw/cvs:
  cvsimport: add <remote>/HEAD reference in separate remotes more
  cvsimport: update documentation to include separate remotes option
  cvsimport: add support for new style remote layout
2007-06-12 21:04:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
cbc9be5ca3 cvsimport: update documentation to include separate remotes option
Document the cvsimport -r <remote> option which switches cvsimport
to using a separate remote for tracking branches.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06 02:35:49 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
0e070f997b cvsimport: Improve formating consistency
Use ' ' syntax for all commandline options mentioned in text.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 16:46:23 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
7b14b3c580 cvsimport: Reorder options in documentation for better understanding
The current order the options are documented in makes no sense
at all to me. Reorder them so that similar options are grouped
together and also order them somehwhat by importance.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 16:46:16 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
407049c59e cvsimport: Improve documentation of CVSROOT and CVS module determination
Document the fact that git-cvsimport tries to find out CVSROOT from
CVS/Root and $ENV{CVSROOT} and CVS_module from CVS/Repository.

Also use ` ` syntax for all filenames for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 16:46:06 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
edbe446674 cvsimport: sync usage lines with existing options
Sync both the usage lines in the code and the asciidoc
documentation with the real list of options. While
all options seems to be documented in the asciidoc
document, not all of them were listed in the usage line.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 16:45:58 -07:00
Michael Poole
0a43acbe85 Correct ordering in git-cvsimport's option documentation
A pair of commits on January 8th added option documentation (for -a,
-S and -L) in the middle of the documentation for the -A option.  This
makes -A's documentation contiguous again.

Signed-off-by: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27 20:44:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c3f0baacad Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:53:37 -08:00
René Scharfe
23bfbb815d Documentation: a few spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 08:44:32 -08:00
Martin Langhoff
eec8496210 cvsimport: document -S and -L options
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08 03:01:32 -08:00
Martin Langhoff
ded9f40059 cvsimport: skip commits that are too recent (option and documentation)
This makes the earlier "wait for 10 minutes before importing" safety
overridable with "-a(ll)" flag, and adds necessary documentation.

Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-08 03:01:16 -08:00
Jeff King
7fe08af485 Documentation: convert uses of git-link macro to gitlink
There isn't and never was such a macro; all uses are typos.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-02 11:32:04 -07:00
Francis Daly
3070b603ab Fix multi-paragraph list items in OPTIONS section
This patch makes the html docs right, makes the asciidoc docs a bit odd
but consistent with what is there already, and makes the manpages look
OK using docbook-xsl 1.68, but miss a paragraph separator when using 1.69.

For the manpages, current is like

       -A <author_file>
              Read a file with lines on the form

              username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>

              and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT

With this patch, docbook-xsl v1.68 looks like

       -A <author_file>
              Read a file with lines on the form

                      username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>

              and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT author and

while docbook-xsl v1.69 becomes

       -A <author_file>
              Read a file with lines on the form

                        username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
              and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT author and

The extra indentation is to keep the v1.69 manpage looking sane.
2006-03-20 14:37:33 -08:00
Matthias Urlichs
a541211ef4 cvsimport: Remove master-updating code
The code which tried to update the master branch was somewhat broken.
=> People should do that manually, with "git merge".

Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-07 17:00:45 -08:00
Andreas Ericsson
ffd97f3a35 git-cvsimport: Add -A <author-conv-file> option
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>
2006-01-15 21:13:22 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
353ce81597 Wrap synopsis lines and use [verse] to keep formatting
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>
2006-01-05 18:44:28 -08:00