Some source material (e.g. Subversion dump files) perform directory
renames without telling us exactly which files in that subdirectory
were moved. This makes it hard for a frontend to convert such data
formats to a fast-import stream, as all the frontend has on hand
is "Rename a/ to b/" with no details about what files are in a/,
unless the frontend also kept track of all files.
The new 'R' subcommand within a commit allows the frontend to
rename either a file or an entire subdirectory, without needing to
know the object's SHA-1 or the specific files contained within it.
The rename is performed as efficiently as possible internally,
making it cheaper than a 'D'/'M' pair for a file rename.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The 'D' subcommand within a commit can also delete a directory
recursively. This wasn't clear in the prior version of the
documentation, leading to a question on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Since the external interface seems to have stabilized for this
new feature, let's document it properly.
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
user-manual: fix directory name in git-archive example
user-manual: more explanation of push and pull usage
tutorial: Fix typo
user-manual: grammar and style fixes
Junio noticed that switching on autosetupmerge unilaterally started
cluttering the config for local branches. That is not the original
intention of branch.autosetupmerge, which was meant purely for
convenience when branching off of remote branches, but that semantics
got lost somewhere.
If you still want that "new" behavior, you can switch
branch.autosetupmerge to the value "all". Otherwise, it is interpreted
as a boolean, which triggers setting up defaults _only_ when branching
off of a remote branch, i.e. the originally intended behavior.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recently a user on the mailing list complained that they'd read the
manual but couldn't figure out how to keep a couple private repositories
in sync. They'd tried using push, and were surprised by the effect.
Add a little text in an attempt to make it clear that:
- Pushing to a branch that is checked out will have odd results.
- It's OK to synchronize just using pull if that's simpler.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
- "method of" is vulgar, "method for" is nicer
- "recovery" becomes "recovering" from Steve Hoelzer's original version
of this patch
- "if you want" is nicer as "if you wish"
- "you may" should be "you can"; "you may" is "you have permission to"
rather than "you can"'s "it is possible to"
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
When git-submodule was updated to allow mapping between submodule name and
submodule path, the documentation was left untouched.
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Earlier, "git rerere" was enabled by creating the directory
.git/rr-cache. That is definitely not in line with most other
features, which are enabled by a config variable.
So, check the config variable "rerere.enabled". If it is set
to "false" explicitely, do not activate rerere, even if
.git/rr-cache exists. This should help when you want to disable
rerere temporarily.
If "rerere.enabled" is not set at all, fall back to detection
of the directory .git/rr-cache.
[jc: with minimum tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The SYNOPSIS section of git-submodule.txt contains two forms. Since
it doesn't use the verse style, the line boundary between them is not
preserved and the second form can appear on the same line as the first
form. Adding [verse] enables the verse style, which preserves the
line boundary between them.
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This one fixes a small formulation weirdness in
Documentation/user-manual.txt
Signed-off-by: Marcus Fritzsch <m@fritschy.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Bob cloned from Alice.
The origin url is actually Alice's repo.
Signed-off-by: Alecs King <alecsk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All filters, except the commit filter, are evaluated.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since git-clone is one of the many commands taking
URLs to remote repositories as an argument, it should include
the URL-types list from urls.txt.
Split up urls.txt into urls.txt and urls-remotes.txt. The latter
should be used by anything besides git-clone where a discussion of
using .git/config and .git/remotes/ to name URLs just doesn't make
as much sense.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- The map function used to fail, but no longer does (since 3520e1e8687.)
- Fix the "edge-graft" example.
- Show the same using .git/info/grafts.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All based on comments from Frank Lichtenheld.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds a configuration variable that performs the same function as,
but is overridden by, GIT_PAGER.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Acked-by: Johannes E. Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Document -<n> for git-format-patch
glossary: add 'reflog'
diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files
Don't smash stack when $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is too long
To prevent funky games with external diff engines, git-log and
friends prevent external diff engines from being called. That makes
sense in the context of git-format-patch or git-rebase.
However, for "git log -p" it is not so nice to get the message
that binary files cannot be compared, while "git diff" has no
problems with them, if you provided an external diff driver.
With this patch, "git log --ext-diff -p" will do what you expect,
and the option "--no-ext-diff" can be used to override that
setting.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This moves the documentation in git-filter-branch.sh to its own
man page, with a few touch ups (incorporating comments by Frank
Lichtenheld).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The -<n> option was not mentioned in git-format-patch's manpage till
now. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With this option, dangling objects are not only reported, but also
written to .git/lost-found/commit/ or .git/lost-found/other/. This
option implies '--full' and '--no-reflogs'.
'git fsck --lost-found' is meant as a replacement for git-lost-found.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change lets you use the format.subjectprefix config option to override the
default subject prefix.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ns/stash:
Documentation: quote {non-attributes} for asciidoc
git-stash: don't complain when listing in a repo with no stash
git-stash: fix "can't shift that many" with no arguments
git-stash: fix "no arguments" case in documentation
git-stash: require "save" to be explicit and update documentation
Document git-stash
Add git-stash script
* js/rebase:
Teach rebase -i about --preserve-merges
rebase -i: provide reasonable reflog for the rebased branch
rebase -i: several cleanups
ignore git-rebase--interactive
Teach rebase an interactive mode
Move the pick_author code to git-sh-setup
Change "to made" to "made to", which is a typo. Use "reflog"
instead of "ref log", which is used elsewhere throughout the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc treats {foo} as an attribute to be substituted; if
'foo' doesn't exist as an attribute, then the entire line
gets dropped. When the literal {foo} is desired, \{foo} is
required.
The exceptions to this rule are:
- inside literal blocks
- if the 'foo' contains non-alphanumeric characters (e.g.,
{foo|bar} is assumed not to be an attribute)
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To make a submodule effectively usable, the path and
a URL where the submodule can be cloned need to be stored
in .gitmodules. This subcommand takes care of setting
this information after cloning the new submodule.
Only the index is updated, so, if needed, the user may still
change the URL or switch to a different branch of the submodule
before committing.
Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc treats {foo} as an attribute to be substituted; if
'foo' doesn't exist as an attribute, then the entire line
gets dropped. When the literal {foo} is desired, \{foo} is
required.
The exceptions to this rule are:
- inside literal blocks
- if the 'foo' contains non-alphanumeric characters (e.g.,
{foo|bar} is assumed not to be an attribute)
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 9488e875 changed this from 'save' to 'list', but
missed this spot in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ei/worktree+filter:
filter-branch: always export GIT_DIR if it is set
setup_git_directory: fix segfault if repository is found in cwd
test GIT_WORK_TREE
extend rev-parse test for --is-inside-work-tree
Use new semantics of is_bare/inside_git_dir/inside_work_tree
introduce GIT_WORK_TREE to specify the work tree
test git rev-parse
rev-parse: introduce --is-bare-repository
rev-parse: document --is-inside-git-dir
This describes the git-stash command.
I borrowed a few paragraphs from Johannes's version, and added a few
examples.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch arose from a discussion started by Jim Meyering's patch
whose intention was to provide better diagnostics for failed writes.
Linus proposed a better way to do things, which also had the added
benefit that adding a fflush() to git-log-* operations and incremental
git-blame operations could improve interactive respose time feel, at
the cost of making things a bit slower when we aren't piping the
output to a downstream program.
This patch skips the fflush() calls when stdout is a regular file, or
if the environment variable GIT_FLUSH is set to "0". This latter can
speed up a command such as:
GIT_FLUSH=0 strace -c -f -e write time git-rev-list HEAD | wc -l
a tiny amount.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'show' and 'prune' commands accept an option '-n'; document what
it does.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some minor enhancements to the git-repack manual page.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-init lacks an option to suppress non-error and non-warning output -
this patch adds one.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change makes git-send-email's behavior easier to modify by adding config
equivalents for two more of git-send-email's flags.
The mapping of flag to config setting is:
--[no-]supress-from => sendemail.suppressfrom
--[no-]signed-off-cc => sendemail.signedoffcc
It renames the --threaded option to --thread/--no-thread; the
config variable is also called sendemail.thread.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --threaded option controls whether the In-Reply-To header will be set on
any emails sent. The current behavior is to always set this header, so this
option is most useful in its negated form, --no-threaded. This behavior can
also be controlled through the 'sendemail.threaded' config setting.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use \n as delimiter between key and value and \0 as
delimiter after each key/value pair. This should be
easily parsable output.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option "-p" (or long "--preserve-merges") makes it possible to
rebase side branches including merges, without straightening the
history.
Example:
X
\
A---M---B
/
---o---O---P---Q
When the current HEAD is "B", "git rebase -i -p --onto Q O" will yield
X
\
---o---O---P---Q---A'---M'---B'
Note that this will
- _not_ touch X [*1*], it does
- _not_ work without the --interactive flag [*2*], it does
- _not_ guess the type of the merge, but blindly uses recursive or
whatever strategy you provided with "-s <strategy>" for all merges it
has to redo, and it does
- _not_ make use of the original merge commit via git-rerere.
*1*: only commits which reach a merge base between <upstream> and HEAD
are reapplied. The others are kept as-are.
*2*: git-rebase without --interactive is inherently patch based (at
least at the moment), and therefore merges cannot be preserved.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The asciidoc documentation of the --get-regexp option was
incomplete. Add some missing pieces:
- List the option in SYNOPSIS
- Mention that key names are printed
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rounding down the printed (dis)similarity index allows us to use
"100%" as a special value that indicates complete rewrites and
fully equal file contents, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't you just hate the fact sometimes, that git-rebase just applies
the patches, without any possibility to edit them, or rearrange them?
With "--interactive", git-rebase now lets you edit the list of patches,
so that you can reorder, edit and delete patches.
Such a list will typically look like this:
pick deadbee The oneline of this commit
pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
...
By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can amend
that patch and/or its commit message, and by replacing it with "squash"
you can tell rebase to fold that patch into the patch before that.
It is derived from the script sent to the list in
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702252156190.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We always quote "unusual" byte values in a pathname using
C-string style, to make it safer for parsing scripts that do not
handle NUL separated records well (or just too lazy to bother).
The absolute minimum bytes that need to be quoted for this
purpose are TAB, LF (and other control characters), double quote
and backslash.
However, we have also always quoted the bytes in high 8-bit
range; this was partly because we were lazy and partly because
we were being cautious.
This introduces an internal "quote_path_fully" variable, and
core.quotepath configuration variable to control it. When set
to false, it does not quote bytes in high 8-bit range anymore
but passes them intact.
The variable defaults to "true" to retain the traditional
behaviour for now.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make clear in the documentation that when using --branches/-b and
--prefix with 'init', the prefix must include a trailing slash.
This matches the actual behavior of git-svn, e.g.:
$ git svn init -Ttrunk -treleases -bbranches --prefix xxx \
http://svn.sacredchao.net/svn/quodlibet/
--prefix='xxx' must have a trailing slash '/'
$
This was noticed by R. Vanicat and reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/429443
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Jakub Narebski pointed out that the git-gui blame viewer is not a
widely known feature, but is incredibly useful. Part of the issue
is advertising. Up until now we haven't even referenced git-gui from
within the core Git manual pages, mostly because I just wasn't sure
how I wanted to supply git-gui documentation to end-users, or how
that documentation should integrate with the core Git documentation.
Based upon Jakub's comment that many users may not even know that
the gui is available in a stock Git distribution I'm offering up
two basic manual pages: git-citool and git-gui. These should offer
enough of a starting point for users to identify that the gui exists,
and how to start it. Future releases of git-gui may contain their
own documentation system available from within a running git-gui.
But not today.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Based on description of commit 477f2b4131
"git log --full-diff" adding this option.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation taken from paraphrased description of "--abbrev[=<n>]"
diff option, and from description of commit 5c51c985 introducing
this option.
Note that to change number of digits one must use "--abbrev=<n>",
which affects [also] diff output.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that git log does not understand this option yet:
$ git log --timestamp
fatal: unrecognized argument: --timestamp
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document --stale-fix, used in "git reflog expire --stale-fix --all"
to remove invalid reflog entries, to fix situation after running
non reflog-aware git-prune from an older git in the presence of
reflogs (see RelNotes-1.5.0.txt).
Based on description of commit 1389d9ddaa
"reflog expire --fix-stale"
which introduced this option.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/remote:
git-push: Update description of refspecs and add examples
remote.c: "git-push frotz" should update what matches at the source.
remote.c: fix "git push" weak match disambiguation
remote.c: minor clean-up of match_explicit()
remote.c: refactor creation of new dst ref
remote.c: refactor match_explicit_refs()
* fl/cvsserver:
cvsserver: Actually implement --export-all
cvsserver: Let --base-path and pserver get along just fine
cvsserver: Add some useful commandline options
* 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
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>
Asciidoc treats a line starting with a period followed by a title as a
blocktitle element. My introduction of gitmodules(5) unfortunatly broke
the documentation build process due to this processing, since it made
asciidoc generate an illegal (empty) synopsis element. Removing the leading
period fixes the problem and also makes gitmodules(5) use the same synopsis
notation as gitattributes(5).
Noticed-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Embarrassing bug number two in my options patch.
Also enforce that --export-all is only ever used together with an
explicit whitelist. Otherwise people might export every git repository
on the whole system without realising.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 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
Earlier, a second "-C" on the command line had no effect.
But "--find-copies-harder" is so long to type, let's make doubled -C
enable that option. It is in line with how "git blame" handles such
doubled options to mean "work harder".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
tutorial: use "project history" instead of "changelog" in header
Documentation: user-manual todo
user-manual: add a missing section ID
Fix typo in remote branch example in git user manual
user-manual: quick-start updates
The word "changelog" seems a little too much like jargon to me, and beginners
must understand section headers so they know where to look for help.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>