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Junio C Hamano
b5c1781430 Merge branch 'ja/maint-pull-rebase-doc'
* ja/maint-pull-rebase-doc:
  git-pull.txt: Mention branch.autosetuprebase
2010-12-12 21:49:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b281796eeb Merge branch 'maint' to sync with Git 1.7.3.3
* maint:
  Git 1.7.3.3
  CodingGuidelines: mention whitespace preferences for shell scripts
  Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold text

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-pull.txt
	RelNotes
2010-12-03 15:23:55 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
3bae8d4da1 Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold text
Use the {asterisk} entity to avoid mistreating the asterisks
in "(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*)" as delimiters
for bold text.

From a quick search with 'git grep -e "\*.*\*"', this seems to
be the last example of this particular formatting problem.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-03 15:22:52 -08:00
Jari Aalto
c4f4157ee8 git-pull.txt: Mention branch.autosetuprebase
In "Options related to merging" mention also related option
branch.autosetuprebase in git-config(1).

Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-03 11:16:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
786f174dab Merge branch 'mm/phrase-remote-tracking'
* mm/phrase-remote-tracking:
  git-branch.txt: mention --set-upstream as a way to change upstream configuration
  user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD
  user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch terms
  Change incorrect "remote branch" to "remote tracking branch" in C code
  Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"
  Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"
  everyday.txt: change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"
  Change remote tracking to remote-tracking in non-trivial places
  Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"
  Better "Changed but not updated" message in git-status
2010-11-24 15:55:05 -08:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
11fe3f73cc Documentation/git-pull: clarify configuration
The sentence about 'branch.<name>.rebase' refers to the first sentence
in the paragraph and not to the sentence about avoiding rebasing
non-local changes. Clarify this.

Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-17 13:17:46 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
8b3f3f84b2 Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:41 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
0e615b252f Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".

See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.

This patch is a straightforward application of

  perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'

except in the RelNotes directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:19:04 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
3f8fc184c0 Documentation: flesh out “git pull” description
The current description in the pull man page does not say much more
than that “git pull” is fetch + merge.  Though that is all a person
needs to know in the end, it would be useful to summarize a bit about
what those commands do for new readers.

Most of this description is taken from the “git merge” docs.

Now that we explain how to back out of a failed merge (reset --merge),
we can tone down the warning against that a bit.

Except, as Thomas noticed, there’s a risk with that because people
might read this version of the manpage online and then conclude that
it is safe to try a merge with uncommitted changes, only to find that
their “git reset” doesn't support --merge yet.  Or worse, verify that
their git-reset has --merge by a quick test (1b5b465 is in 1.6.2) but
then find that it does not help with backing out of a merge (e11d7b5
is only in 1.7.0!).  So keep the warning.

With clarifications from Ævar, Thomas, and Junio.

Noticed-by: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Cc: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-02 15:48:18 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
9839018e87 fetch and pull: learn --progress
Note that in the documentation for git-pull, documentation for the
--progress option is displayed under the "Options related to fetching"
subtitle via fetch-options.txt.

Also, update the documentation of the -q/--quiet option for git-pull to
mention its effect on progress reporting during fetching.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24 08:35:45 -08:00
Tay Ray Chuan
409b8d82df Documentation/git-pull: put verbosity options before merge/fetch ones
After 3f7a9b5 (Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included
option files, Thu Oct 22 2009), the -q/-v options were mentioned only
for the merge options section, giving the impression that git-fetch did
not take those arguments.

Follow 90e4311 (git-pull: do not mention --quiet and --verbose twice,
Mon Sep 7 2009) and hide -q/-v for merge options, while mentioning -q/-v
before the merge- and fetch-specific options.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24 08:35:43 -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
Thomas Rast
e330d8ca1a Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert
(over)users of git-pull to the issue.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-09 21:08:26 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
b7eb912b0d Merge branch 'ja/fetch-doc'
* ja/fetch-doc:
  Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups
  Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
  Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
2009-10-30 20:05:47 -07:00
Jari Aalto
3f7a9b5ad1 Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-22 12:39:10 -07:00
Clemens Buchacher
d504f6975d modernize fetch/merge/pull examples
The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated
style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and
move the examples to the corresponding manpages.

Furthermore,

 - show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a
   frequently asked question,

 - explain the default fetch refspec.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21 14:20:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
59eb68aa2b Update my e-mail address
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 12:14:42 -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
Junio C Hamano
6bfa3c9929 Documentation/git-pull.txt: Use more standard [NOTE] markup
Unlike other manual pages (e.g. git-blame.txt), this used *NOTE:*
to show a side note headed with boldface string "NOTE".  Use a paragraph
headed by [NOTE] like others instead.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-12 14:19:09 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -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
921177f50f Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples
Before this patch in "git-add.txt" and "git-format-patch.txt", the
commands used in the examples were "git-CMD" instead of "git CMD".
This patch fixes that.

In "git-pull.txt" only the last example had the code sample in an
asciidoc "Listing Block", and in the other two files, none.
This patch fixes that by putting all code samples in listing
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-06 21:46:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1c53606978 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-pull documentation: warn about the option order
2008-03-11 01:54:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5b10a3c124 git-pull documentation: warn about the option order
We might eventually be loosening this rule, but there is a longstanding
restriction that the users currently need to be aware of.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-10 01:22:03 -07:00
Jay Soffian
a288394ed3 Correct git-pull documentation
The --rebase option was documented in the wrong place (under MERGE
STRATEGIES instead of OPTIONS). Noted the branch.<name>.rebase
option.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:31:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
473d33168b git-pull documentation: fix markup
A note paragraph was mistakenly made into an indented monospace display.
Noticed by Miklos Vajna.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11 11:22:01 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
c85c79279d pull --rebase: be cleverer with rebased upstream branches
When the upstream branch is tracked, we can detect if that branch
was rebased since it was last fetched.  Teach git to use that
information to rebase from the old remote head onto the new remote head.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-26 18:24:24 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
10eb64f5fd git pull manpage: don't include -n from fetch-options.txt
The -n option stands for --no-summary in git pull

[jes: reworded the description to avoid mentioning 'git-fetch';
 also exclude '-n' conditional on git-pull -- ugly because of
 the missing "else" statement in asciidoc]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-25 22:42:36 -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
Johannes Schindelin
cd67e4d46b Teach 'git pull' about --rebase
When calling 'git pull' with the '--rebase' option, it performs a
fetch + rebase instead of a fetch + merge.

This behavior is more desirable than fetch + pull when a topic branch
is ready to be submitted and needs to be update.

fetch + rebase might also be considered a better workflow with shared
repositories in any case, or for contributors to a centrally managed
repository, such as WINE's.

As a convenience, you can set the default behavior for a branch by
defining the config variable branch.<name>.rebase, which is
interpreted as a bool.  This setting can be overridden on the command
line by --rebase and --no-rebase.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-28 17:32:23 -08:00
Andrew Ruder
37ba05619c Add urls.txt to git-clone man page
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>
2007-07-05 21:43:48 -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
Junio C Hamano
9e2586ff2f Documentation/git-pull: describe default behaviour and config interactions
The way 'git pull' without explicit parameters work were not
explained well in any existing documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-08 23:35:43 -08:00
Tom Prince
e0d10e1c63 [PATCH] Rename git-repo-config to git-config.
Signed-off-by: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 16:16:53 -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
Nicolas Pitre
c14261eaa2 some doc updates
1) talk about "git merge" instead of "git pull ."

2) suggest "git repo-config" instead of directly editing config files

3) echo "URL: blah" > .git/remotes/foo is obsolete and should be
   "git repo-config remote.foo.url blah"

4) support for partial URL prefix has been removed (see commit
   ea560e6d64) so drop mention of it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-14 21:12:14 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
33a59fd07d Documentation: update git-pull.txt for new clone behavior
Update examples, stop using branch named "origin" as an example.
Remove large example of use of remotes; that particular case is
nicely automated by default, so it's not so pressing to explain, and
we can refer to git-repo-config for the details.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-01 14:36:36 -08:00
Robin Rosenberg
ce4231ffa8 Mention that pull can work locally in the synopsis
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 12:36:27 -08:00
Fredrik Kuivinen
7bd7f2804d Remove trailing dot after short description
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09 11:44:11 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
85a97d4e10 Docs: move git url and remotes text to separate sections
The sections on git urls and remotes files in the git-fetch,
git-pull, and git-push manpages seem long enough to be worth a
manpage section of their own.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-06 21:14:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3ae854c356 Examples of resetting.
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about
recovering from botched commit/pulls.  I agree that pointers
from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place
would be very helpful.

Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-16 18:23:33 -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
Jon Loeliger
bb73d73c08 Refactor merge strategies into separate includable file.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-06 10:31:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fdd089793c Documentation: git-fetch/pull updates.
We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line
right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the
broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such
lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion.

Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an
explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines.

Add a couple of cross references.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-05 01:39:18 -08:00
Jon Loeliger
bccf5956c3 Added a few examples to git-pull man page.
Clarified and added notes for pull/push refspecs.
Converted to back-ticks for literal text examples.

[jc: Also fixed git-pull description that still talked about its
calling git-resolve or git-octopus (we do not anymore; instead
we just call git-merge).  BTW, I am reasonably impressed by how
well "git-am -3" applied this patch, which had some conflicts
because I've updated the documentation somewhat.]

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-04 19:28:39 -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
Junio C Hamano
710c97dbb1 Document the use of "current directory" as pull source.
The repository to pull from can be a local repository, and as a
special case the current directory can be specified to perform
merges across local branches.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-01 14:03:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
d6a73596e7 git-fetch/push/pull: documentation.
The documentation was lazily sharing the argument description across these
commands.

Lazy may be a way of life, but that does not justify confusing others ;-).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-19 21:25:39 -07:00