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Author SHA1 Message Date
Romain Francoise
5059a42780 builtin-help: fallback to GIT_MAN_VIEWER before man
In some situations it is useful to be able to switch viewers via the
environment, e.g. in Emacs shell buffers.  So check the GIT_MAN_VIEWER
environment variable and try it before falling back to "man".

Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-29 21:46:33 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
db5d6666af manpages: use teletype font for sample command lines
I think that some of these uses of italics were meant to be
rendered in quotation marks, anyway.

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
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
467c0197fd Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changes
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a
clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and
the command you type, `git whatever <options>`.  So we use a dash
after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter.

I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some
spots.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:39 -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
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
0bb6400958 documentation: help: add info about "man.<tool>.cmd" config var
This patch also describes the current behavior for "konqueror" and
how to modify it using "man.<tool>.cmd" if needed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-26 14:34:49 -07:00
Christian Couder
7e8114c068 documentation: help: add "man.<tool>.path" config variable
This patch documents the "man.<tool>.path" configuration
variable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-26 14:33:56 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
63f671a440 Documentation/git-help: typofix
Noticed by Xavier Maillard

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-13 19:15:30 -07:00
Christian Couder
b8322ea83b Documentation: help: explain 'man.viewer' multiple values
Also add titles to paragraphs under "CONFIGURATION VARIABLES".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-12 23:03:35 -07:00
Christian Couder
b5578f3335 Documentation: help: describe 'man.viewer' config variable
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-11 23:02:01 -07:00
Christian Couder
cb45f83cbd Documentation: add 'git-web--browse.txt' and simplify other docs.
'git-help.txt' and 'git-instaweb.txt' contained duplicated
information about 'git-web--browse'.

This patch puts this information where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16 00:46:33 -08:00
Christian Couder
5884f1fe96 Rename 'git-help--browse.sh' to 'git-web--browse.sh'.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05 01:01:48 -08:00
Christian Couder
f7ff09d718 Documentation: help: specify supported html browsers.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-29 00:49:27 -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
Ralf Wildenhues
02ff62504e Fix some documentation typos.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-18 12:00:18 -08:00
Jeff King
d7e522cffb rename git-browse--help to git-help--browse
The convention for helper scripts has been
git-$TOOL--$HELPER. Since this is a "browse" helper for the
"help" tool, git-help--browse is a more sensible name.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-16 12:52:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5b4617c749 Rename git-browse-help helper to git-browse--help
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 22:04:43 -08:00
Christian Couder
70087cdbd3 git-help: add "help.format" config variable.
This config variable makes it possible to choose the default format
used to display help. This format will be used only if no option
like -a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web is passed to "git-help".

The following values are possible for this variable:

	- "man"  --> "man" program is used
	- "info" --> "info" program is used
	- "web"  --> "git-browse-help" is used

By default we still show help using "man".

This patch also adds -m|--man command line option to use "man"
to allow overriding the "help.format" configuration variable.

Note that this patch also revert some recent changes in
"git-browse-help" because they prevented to look for config
variables in the global configuration file.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 21:58:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7be2b6e02b Merge branch 'master' into cc/help
This is to primarily pull in MANPATH tweak and help.txt formatting fix
from the master branch.
2007-12-10 01:22:42 -08:00
Christian Couder
c07a07c588 Documentation: describe -w/--web option to "git-help".
Also explain that "git instaweb" may use "web.browser" config
variable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09 01:19:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dada0c1212 Formatting fix for Documentation/git-help.txt
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-04 00:29:32 -08:00
Christian Couder
45533d2694 Documentation: describe -i/--info option to "git-help"
Option -i|--info for "git-help" is documented only in the new
"git-help.txt" man page, but this new man page is referenced
from the "--help" option documentation in the "git.txt" man page.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 22:16:54 -08:00
Christian Couder
0f6f195b77 Documentation: add a new man page for "git-help"
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 22:11:38 -08:00