Asciidoc interprets two dashes separated by spaces as a single big
dash. So let's escape the first dash, so that "\--" will properly
appear as "--".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tc/merge-m-log:
merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog only
fmt-merge-msg: refactor merge title formatting
fmt-merge-msg: minor refactor of fmt_merge_msg()
merge: rename variable
merge: update comment
t7604-merge-custom-message: show that --log doesn't append to -m
t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creation
* jn/shortlog:
pretty: Respect --abbrev option
shortlog: Document and test --format option
t4201 (shortlog): Test output format with multiple authors
t4201 (shortlog): guard setup with test_expect_success
Documentation/shortlog: scripted users should not rely on implicit HEAD
Instead of talking about hardcoded UTF-8, describe i18n.commitencoding
and the --encoding option, and state that they default to UTF-8.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "a" and "d" commands to ‘add --patch’ (accept/reject rest of file)
interact with "j", "g", and "/" (skip some hunks) in a perhaps
confusing way: after accepting or rejecting all _later_ hunks in the
file, they return to the earlier, skipped hunks and prompt the user
about them again.
This behavior can be very useful in practice. One can still accept or
reject _all_ undecided hunks in a file by using the "g" command to
move to hunk #1 first.
Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git checkout can be used to switch branches and to retrieve files from
the index or an arbitrary tree. Split the description into
subsections corresponding to each mode to make each use easier to
understand.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rebase --preserve-merges facility presents a list of commits
in its instruction sheet and uses a separate table to keep
track of their parents. Unfortunately, in practice this means
that with -p after most attempts to rearrange patches, some
commits have the "wrong" parent and the resulting history is
rarely what the caller expected.
Yes, it would be nice to fix that. But first, add a warning to the
manual to help the uninitiated understand what is going on.
Reported-by: Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit --author was added by 146ea06 (git commit --author=$name: look $name up
in existing commits), but its documentation was sorely lacking compared to its
excellent commit message. This commit tries to improve the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were
introduced in these commits:
619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18)
61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20)
230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "git help log" (and friends) it's not easy to find the possible
placeholder for <string> for the "--pretty=format:<string>" option
to git log.
This patch makes the placeholder easier to find by adding a reference
to the "PRETTY FORMATS" section and repeating the "format:<string>"
phrase.
Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patterns containing a / are implicitly anchored to the directory
containing the relevant .gitignore file.
Patterns not containing a / are textual matches against the path
name relative to the directory containing .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e498257d introduced a typo while improving the GMail section
of SubmittingPatches.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To the first-time reader, it may not be obvious that ‘git checkout’
has two modes, nor that if no branch is specified it will read
from the index.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ac8d5af (builtin-status: submodule summary support, 2008-04-12)
intoduced this variable and described it in git-status[1].
Include this description in git-config[1], as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We keep getting mangled submissions from GMail's web interface. Try to
be more proactive in SubmittingPatches by
- pointing to MUA specific instructions early on,
- structuring the GMail section more clearly,
- putting send-email/SMTP before imap-send/IMAP.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reverse the order of "origin" and "result" so that the sentence
really describes an addition rather than a removal.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we don't always write out commands in full (`git command`) we
should do it consistently in adjacent paragraphs.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As an option to the "diff" family, it is fairly obvious what
"detect renames" means. However, for revision traversal, the
"-M" option is just included in the long list of options,
with no indication that it is about showing renames in diffs
versus following renames. Let's make it more explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user specifies a message, use fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() to
append the shortlog.
Previously, when a message was specified, we ignored the merge title
("Merge <foo> into <bar>") and shortlog from fmt_merge_msg().
Update the documentation for -m to reflect this too.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Spell out “or” in the NAME line and simplify the leading sentence
in the DESCRIPTION.
Some other language cleanups, too.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REFS environment variable
overrides both ‘[notes "rewrite"] <command>’ and ‘[notes] rewriteRef’.
Add explanations of GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE and GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REFS
to the ENVIRONMENT section.
Cc: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The main description of display refs for notes should be in
git-log.1, where there is a chance to give a leisurely description
of all the ways they can be set, what they are used for, and so
on. The description in git-notes.1 is only meant to be a quick
reminder of how notes are used.
So simplify it.
Also add an entry for GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF to the environment
section.
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a configuration section summarizing variables that affect the
log family of commands.
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separate the documentation of the semantics, command-line option,
configuration item, and environment variable for the default notes
ref. The documentation is easier to digest in bite-sized pieces.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Copy the descriptions of configuration variables from git-config.1.
Once the descriptions have been ironed out, it would be nice to
refactor them to share text, but for now it is simplest to experiment
with separate copies.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
stripspace/text-based formatting kicks in when specifying the notes
content with -m or -F, or when an editor is used to edit the notes.
To binary-safely create notes from files, the following construct is
required:
git notes add -C $(git hash-object -w <file>) <object>
Explain this trick (thanks, Johan!) in the manual. Add an ordinary
example, too, to keep this esoteric one company.
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Separate the specification of the notes format exposed in
git-config.1 from the description of the option; or in other
words, move the explanation for what to expect to find at
refs/notes/commits from git-config.1 to git-notes.1.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation erroneously mentions the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF
override in the description of notes.rewrite.<command>. Move it
under notes.rewriteRef where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both `-M` and `-C` have default values and the <num> argument
the last `-C` option takes effect.
Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do not document the --pretty synonym, since it takes too long to
explain the name to people.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When passed no revision arguments, ‘git shortlog’ reads a log from
stdin if and only if stdin is not a tty. So scripts that need to
function identically when standard input is a terminal (as when run
interactively) and not (as when run through a cron job) should either
supply a log themselves or specify the desired revisions explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Incorporates the detailed explanation from Jeff King in
<20100410040959.GA11977@coredump.intra.peff.net> and fixes
the bug noted by Junio C Hamano in
<7vmxxc1i8g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>.
Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
