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Arjen Laarhoven
ae25c67aca usermanual.txt: some capitalization nits
Signed-off-by: Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@yaph.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-06 17:20:34 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
04483524ec Documentation: A few minor fixes to Git User's Manual
Mainly consistent usage of "git command" and not "git-command" syntax

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-03 19:04:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2603fa5fb3 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  user-manual: introduce "branch" and "branch head" differently
  glossary: clean up cross-references
  glossary: stop generating automatically
  user-manual: Use def_ instead of ref_ for glossary references.
  user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.
  user-manual: run xsltproc without --nonet option
2007-03-25 15:08:11 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
81b6c950de user-manual: introduce "branch" and "branch head" differently
I was using "branch" to mean "head", but that's perhaps a little
sloppy; so instead start by using the terms "branch head" and "head",
while still quickly falling back on "branch", since that's what
people actually say more frequently.

Also include glossary references on the first uses of "head" and "tag".

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-18 23:06:00 -04:00
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
Jim Meyering
21f13ee203 user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.
"file patch" was doubtless intended to be "file path",
but "directory name" is clearer.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-18 21:53:29 -04:00
Junio C Hamano
ed287ab7fa Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git.el: Retrieve commit log information from .dotest directory.
  git.el: Avoid appending a signoff line that is already present.
  setup_git_directory_gently: fix off-by-one error
  user-manual: install user manual stylesheet with other web documents
  user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
  user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
  user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
  user-manual: fix inconsistent example
  glossary: fix overoptimistic automatic linking of defined terms
  Documentation: s/seperator/separator/
  Adjust reflog filemode in shared repository
2007-03-10 22:07:26 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
1dc71a9155 user-manual: fix rendering of history diagrams
Asciidoc appears to interpret a backslash at the end of a line as
escaping the end-of-line character, which screws up the display of
history diagrams like

 o--o--o
	\
	 o--...

The obvious fix (replacing "\" by "\\") doesn't work.  The only
workaround I've found is to include all such diagrams in a LiteralBlock.
Asciidoc claims that should be equivalent to a literal paragraph, so I
don't understand why the difference--perhaps it's an asciidoc bug.

Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-10 23:05:01 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
ed4eb0d8f3 user-manual: fix missing colon in git-show example
There should be a colon in this git-show example.

Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-10 23:05:01 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
fabbd8f6ca user-manual: fix inconsistent use of pull and merge
I used "git pull ." instead of "git merge" here without any explanation.
Stick instead to "git merge" for now (the equivalent pull syntax is
still covered in a later chapter).

Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-10 23:05:01 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
923642fe1b user-manual: fix inconsistent example
The configuration file fragment here is inconsistent with the text
above.  Thanks to Ramsay Jones for the correction.

Cc: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-03-10 23:05:01 -05:00
Junio C Hamano
784b11cd05 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  GIT 1.5.0.3
  glossary: Add definitions for dangling and unreachable objects
  user-manual: more detailed merge discussion
  user-manual: how to replace commits older than most recent
  user-manual: insert earlier of mention content-addressable architecture
  user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet
  user-manual: reset to ORIG_HEAD not HEAD to undo merge
  Documentation: mention module option to git-cvsimport
2007-03-04 17:24:49 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
ef561ac738 user-manual: more detailed merge discussion
Add more details on conflict, including brief discussion of file stages.

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
J. Bruce Fields
365aa19919 user-manual: how to replace commits older than most recent
"Modifying" an old commit by checking it out, --amend'ing it, then
rebasing on top of it, is a slightly cumbersome technique, but I've
found it useful frequently enough to make it seem worth documenting.

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
J. Bruce Fields
3512193034 user-manual: insert earlier of mention content-addressable architecture
The content-addressable design is too important not to be worth at least
a brief mention a little earlier on.

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
J. Bruce Fields
1c73bb0ef7 user-manual: reset to ORIG_HEAD not HEAD to undo merge
As Linus pointed out recently on the mailing list,

	git reset --hard HEAD^

doesn't undo a merge in the case where the merge did a fast-forward.  So
the rcommendation here is a little dangerous.

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
Junio C Hamano
c4f8f82755 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  builtin-fmt-merge-msg: fix bugs in --file option
  index-pack: Loop over pread until data loading is complete.
  blameview: Fix the browse behavior in blameview
  Fix minor typos/grammar in user-manual.txt
  Correct ordering in git-cvsimport's option documentation
  git-show: Reject native ref
  Fix git-show man page formatting in the EXAMPLES section
2007-02-27 22:15:42 -08:00
Michael Coleman
79c96c5733 Fix minor typos/grammar in user-manual.txt
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-27 21:24:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
207dfa0791 Remove git-resolve.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-12 19:33:03 -08:00
Pavel Roskin
3dff5379bf Assorted typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-03 21:49:54 -08:00
Mike Coleman
aacd404e77 Fix some documentation typos and grammar
Also suggest user manual mention .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-01 22:45:04 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
0b375ab0a5 user-manual: todo's
Update todo's.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-30 12:48:48 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
a8cd1402f0 user-manual: point to README for gitweb information
I'd like complete gitweb setup instructions some day, but for now just
refer to the gitweb README.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-30 12:43:36 -05:00
Junio C Hamano
036be17e0a Two small typofixes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-29 02:18:53 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
d55ae921ce user-manual: SHA1 -> object name
Prefer "object name" to SHA1, at least in higher level documentation.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 02:16:45 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
4a7979ca82 user-manual: document git-show-branch example
Document Junio's show-branch trick for finding out which tags are
descendents of a given comit.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 02:00:35 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
9a241220fd user-manual: minor "TODO" updates
I still really want a section on interoperability with CVS, subversion,
etc., but I'm not getting around to it very fast, so just add this to
the TODO section for now.  And a few other minor todo updates.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 01:43:33 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
1191ee1824 user-manual: rewrap a few long lines
Rewrap some long lines.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 01:33:55 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
559e4d7a0d user-manual: reflogs, other recovery
Add a brief discussion of reflogs.  Also recovery of dangling commits
seems to fit in here, so move some of the discussion out of Linus's
email to here.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 01:31:35 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
61b41790c4 user-manual: fix a header level
Oops.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 00:45:33 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
988b27d3f5 user-manual: typo fix
Oops

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 00:33:57 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
fc90c536dc user-manual: add references to git-config man page
Direct editing of config files may be more natural for users than using
the git-config commandline; but we should still reference the
git-config man page when we describe such editing, so people know where
to go for details on the config file syntax and meanings of the
variables.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-29 00:17:51 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
9d13bda3ff user-manual: repo-config -> config
Looks like we're going to allow git-config as the preferred alias to
git-repo-config, so let's document that instead.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-28 23:50:22 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
04e50e9457 user-manual: fsck-objects -> fsck
There seems to be an agreement to rename fsck-objects to fsck.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-28 23:31:47 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
21dcb3b7ab user-manual: git-fsck, dangling objects
Initial import of fsck and dangling objects discussion, mostly lifted from
an email from Linus.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-28 23:29:19 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
b181d57ff4 user-manual: reorganize fetch discussion, add internals, etc.
Keep git remote discussion in the first chapter, but postpone
lower-level git fetch usage (to fetch individual branches) till later.

Import a bunch of slightly modified text from the readme to give an
architectural overview at the end.

Add more discussion of history rewriting.

And a bunch of other miscellaneous changes....

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-27 01:12:19 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
11e016a32c user-manual: stub discussion of fsck and reflog
Have some sort of recovery/reliability section that deals with reflog
and fsck.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-26 00:17:12 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
17217090cf user-manual: update git-gc discussion
It appears git-gc will no longer prune automatically, so we don't
need to tell people not to do other stuff while running it.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-21 23:03:36 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
f60b964249 user-manual: update references discussion
Since references may be packed, it's no longer as helpful to
introduce references as paths relative to .git.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-21 22:31:07 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
fe4b3e591b user-manual: clarify difference between tag and branch
Explain the difference (well, one of the differences) between a tag
and a branch.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-21 22:14:39 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
e4add70cd4 user-manual: minor quickstart reorganization
Move around some stuff in the quickstart, add "push" examples.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-21 22:02:34 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
ef89f701a0 user-manual: add "quick start" as chapter 1
Add a "quick start" guide, modelled after Mercurial's, as the
first chapter.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-20 21:41:48 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
2f99710cfe user-manual: rewrap, fix heading levels
Fix some heading levels that prevented compile; rewrap some stuff.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-14 22:43:47 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
69f7ad730a user-manual: reindent
Just some minor reindenting

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-14 16:29:40 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
f1d2b47794 user-manual: replace init-db by init
Replace mentions of init-db by mentions of init.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-11 12:44:08 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
01997b4a25 user manual: answer some comments from Junio
Junio left a few comments in his previous patch; deal with
each of them.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-10 23:23:37 -05:00
Junio C Hamano
eb6ae7f4ad User manual: fix typos in examples
Correct command line examples of repo-config, format-patch and am.

A full object name is 40-hexdigit; it may be 20-byte but
20-digit is misleading.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-10 23:18:08 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
aec053bb0a Documentation: rev-list -> rev-parse, other typos, start examples
Fix some typos, start adding some more simple examples.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-10 23:17:00 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
d5cd5de495 Documentation: begin discussion of git-remote in user manual
Start discussion of git-remote.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-09 00:18:09 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
b684f830cc Documentation: reorder development section, todo's
Update todo's.  Split out "sharing development" section into a separate
chapter, reorder.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-08 23:42:36 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
e9c0390a92 Documentation: more user-manual todo's
Add some more todo's for the user manual.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-08 21:59:42 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
4c63ff452f Documentation: git-rebase discussion, miscellaneous user-manual updates
Add discussion of git-rebase, patch series, history rewriting.

Mention "pull ." as a synonym for "merge".

Remind myself of another case I want to cover in the other-vcs's chapter.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-07 23:57:41 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
6bd9b6822f Documentation: expand preface and todo's
Add a brief description of the organization to the preface, expand the
final notes/todo's section, in hopes maybe some others will want to
contribute.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-01-07 22:58:14 -05:00
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