Allows "cvsimport" to read per-author timezone from the author info
file.
* cr/cvsimport-local-zone:
cvsimport: work around perl tzset issue
git-cvsimport: allow author-specific timezones
Add "symbolic-ref -d SYM" to delete a symbolic ref SYM.
It is already possible to remove a symbolic ref with "update-ref -d
--no-deref", but it may be a good addition for completeness.
* jh/symbolic-ref-d:
git symbolic-ref --delete $symref
293ab15e ("submodule: teach rm to remove submodules unless they
contain a git directory", 2012-09-26) inserted the "Submodules"
section between a sentence describing a command and the command. Move
the "Submodules" section further down.
Noticed-by: Horst H. von Brand
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git send-email --compose" can let the user create a non-ascii
cover letter message, but there was not a way to mark it with
appropriate content type before sending it out.
Further updates fix subject quoting.
* km/send-email-compose-encoding:
git-send-email: add rfc2047 quoting for "=?"
git-send-email: introduce quote_subject()
git-send-email: skip RFC2047 quoting for ASCII subjects
git-send-email: use compose-encoding for Subject
git-send-email: introduce compose-encoding
Start laying the foundation to build the "wildmatch" after we can
agree on its desired semantics.
* nd/attr-match-optim-more:
attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignore
gitignore: make pattern parsing code a separate function
exclude: split pathname matching code into a separate function
exclude: fix a bug in prefix compare optimization
exclude: split basename matching code into a separate function
exclude: stricten a length check in EXC_FLAG_ENDSWITH case
We long ago hyphenated "remote-tracking branch"; this
catches some new instances added since then.
* mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking:
Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch
Document strbuf_split_buf(), strbuf_split_str(), strbuf_split_max(),
strbuf_split(), and strbuf_list_free() in the header file and in
api-strbuf.txt. (These functions were previously completely
undocumented.)
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
In e858af6 (commit: document a couple of options) the description of the
--no-post-rewrite option was put inside the paragraph for the --amend
option. Move it down after the paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
git commit -S, --gpg-sign was mentioned in the program's help message,
but not in the manpage.
This adds an equivalent entry for the option in the manpage.
Signed-off-by: Tom Jones <tom@oxix.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Allow an earlier "--short" option on the command line to be
countermanded with the "--long" option for "git status" and "git
commit".
* nd/status-long:
status: add --long output format option
"git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
string literally. The early part of this series is a fix for it;
the latter part teaches log to respect the grep.* configuration.
* jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends:
log: honor grep.* configuration
log --grep: accept --basic-regexp and --perl-regexp
log --grep: use the same helper to set -E/-F options as "git grep"
revisions: initialize revs->grep_filter using grep_init()
grep: move pattern-type bits support to top-level grep.[ch]
grep: move the configuration parsing logic to grep.[ch]
builtin/grep.c: make configuration callback more reusable
If you remove a submodule, in order to keep the repository so that
"git checkout" to an older commit in the superproject history can
resurrect the submodule, the real repository will stay in $GIT_DIR
of the superproject. A later "git submodule add $path" to add a
different submodule at the same path will fail. Diagnose this case
a bit better, and if the user really wants to add an unrelated
submodule at the same path, give the "--name" option to give it a
place in $GIT_DIR of the superproject that does not conflict with
the original submodule.
* jl/submodule-add-by-name:
submodule add: Fail when .git/modules/<name> already exists unless forced
Teach "git submodule add" the --name option
"git rm submodule" cannot blindly remove a submodule directory as
its working tree may have local changes, and worse yet, it may even
have its repository embedded in it. Teach it some special cases
where it is safe to remove a submodule, specifically, when there is
no local changes in the submodule working tree, and its repository
is not embedded in its working tree but is elsewhere and uses the
gitfile mechanism to point at it.
* jl/submodule-rm:
submodule: teach rm to remove submodules unless they contain a git directory
This function was added in f103f95b11 in
the erroneous expectation that it would be used in the
reimplementation of longest_ancestor_length(). But it turned out to
be easier to use a function specialized for comparing path prefixes
(i.e., one that knows about slashes and root paths) than to prepare
the paths in such a way that a generic string prefix comparison
function can be used. So delete string_list_longest_prefix() and its
documentation and test cases.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
You can override an option set in the LESS variable by simply prefixing
the command line option with `-+`. This is more robust than the previous
example if the default LESS options are to ever change.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The git-reset's "<mode>" is an optional argument, however it was
documented as required.
The "<mode>" is documented as one of: --soft, --mixed, --hard, --merge
or --keep, so "<mode>" should be used instead of "--<mode>".
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Show that git format-patch can have a cover letter, include patch
commentary below the three dashes, and notes can also be
included.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The --log-window-size parameter to git-svn fetch is undocumented.
Minimally describe what it does and why the user might change it.
Signed-off-by: Gunnlaugur Þór Briem <gunnlaugur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Remove double negative, and include the repeat usage across
versions of a patch series.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
This change was already done by 0e615b252f (Matthieu Moy, Tue Nov 2
2010, Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"), but new
instances of remote tracking (without dash) were introduced in the
meantime.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
A GSoC project.
* fa/remote-svn:
Add a test script for remote-svn
remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration
Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing
remote-svn: add incremental import
remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import
Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata
vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes
Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls
remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs
When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet"
Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers
Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability
Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached
Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs
Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile
Implement a remote helper for svn in C
Teaches a new configuration variable to "git diff" Porcelain and
its friends.
* jm/diff-context-config:
t4055: avoid use of sed 'a' command
diff: diff.context configuration gives default to -U
git format-patch gained a --notes option. Tell the notes user.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
The git format-patch --notes option can now insert the commit notes
after the three dashes. Mention this after the regular cover letter
guidance for submitting patches.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
These files were recently revised to be valid asciidoc, so
there is no reason not to build html versions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker66@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Use "-b <branch>" instead of "-b branch". This brings the usage
strings in line with other options, e.g. "--reference <repository>".
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Teach symbolic-ref to delete symrefs by adding the -d/--delete option to
git-symbolic-ref. Both proper and dangling symrefs are deleted by this
option, but other refs - or anything else that is not a symref - is not.
The symref deletion is performed by first verifying that we are given a
proper symref, and then invoking delete_ref() on it with the REF_NODEREF
flag.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though I coded this, I am not sure what use scenarios would benefit
from this option, so the description is unnecessarily negative at this
moment. People who do want to use this feature need to come up with a
more plausible use case and replace it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You can currently set the output format to --short or
--porcelain. There is no --long, because we default to it
already. However, you may want to override an alias that
uses "--short" to get back to the default.
This requires a little bit of refactoring, because currently
we use STATUS_FORMAT_LONG internally to mean the same as
"the user did not specify anything". By expanding the enum
to include STATUS_FORMAT_NONE, we can distinguish between
the implicit and explicit cases. This effects these
conditions:
1. The user has asked for NUL termination. With NONE, we
currently default to turning on the porcelain mode.
With an explicit --long, we would in theory use NUL
termination with the long mode, but it does not support
it. So we can just complain and die.
2. When an output format is given to "git commit", we
default to "--dry-run". This behavior would now kick in
when "--long" is given, too.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were not originally meant for asciidoc, but they are already
so close. Mark them up in asciidoc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* po/maint-docs:
Doc branch: show -vv option and alternative
Doc clean: add See Also link
Doc add: link gitignore
Doc: separate gitignore pattern sources
Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
* jc/ll-merge-binary-ours:
ll-merge: warn about inability to merge binary files only when we can't
attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver
merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver
CVS patchsets are imported with timestamps having an offset of +0000
(UTC). The cvs-authors file is already used to translate the CVS
username to full name and email in the corresponding commit. Extend
this file to support an optional timezone for calculating a user-
specific timestamp offset.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were not originally meant for asciidoc, but they are already
so close. Mark them up in asciidoc.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These were used to keep track of the last commit a release notes
entry was written for, and should have been removed when cutting
the final release.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
.gitattributes and .gitignore share the same pattern syntax but has
separate matching implementation. Over the years, ignore's
implementation accumulates more optimizations while attr's stays the
same.
This patch reuses the core matching functions that are also used by
excluded_from_list. excluded_from_list and path_matches can't be
merged due to differences in exclude and attr, for example:
* "!pattern" syntax is forbidden in .gitattributes. As an attribute
can be unset (i.e. set to a special value "false") or made back to
unspecified (i.e. not even set to "false"), "!pattern attr" is unclear
which one it means.
* we support attaching attributes to directories, but git-core
internally does not currently make use of attributes on
directories.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On a multiuser system where mortals do not have write access to /etc,
the GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM variable is the best tool we have to keep
getting work done when a syntax error or other problem renders
/etc/gitconfig buggy, until the sysadmin sorts the problem out.
Noticed while experimenting with teaching git to error out when
/etc/gitconfig is unreadable.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the documentation part of
1a9d7e9 (attr.c: read .gitattributes from index as well. - 2007-08-14)
06f33c1 (Read attributes from the index that is being checked out - 2009-03-13)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The introduction email (--compose option) have encoding hardcoded to
UTF-8, but invoked editor may not use UTF-8 encoding.
The encoding used by patches can be changed by the "8bit-encoding"
option, but this option does not have effect on introduction email
and equivalent for introduction email is missing.
Added compose-encoding command line option and sendemail.composeencoding
configuration option specify encoding of introduction email.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we added the "--perl-regexp" option (or "-P") to "git grep", we
should have done the same for the commands in the "git log" family,
but somehow we forgot to do so. This corrects it, but we will
reserve the short-and-sweet "-P" option for something else for now.
Also introduce the "--basic-regexp" option for completeness, so that
the "last one wins" principle can be used to defeat an earlier -E
option, e.g. "git log -E --basic-regexp --grep='<bre>'". Note that
it cannot have the short "-G" option as the option is to grep in the
patch text in the context of "log" family.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not even worth mentioning their removal; just discourage
people from using them.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch
refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the
subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating
the whole point of specifying "only this branch".
* rt/maint-clone-single:
clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is
unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.
* jc/blame-follows-renames:
git blame: document that it always follows origin across whole-file renames
We support backslash escape, but we hide the details behind the phrase
"a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3)". So it may not
be obvious how one can get literal # or ! at the beginning of pattern.
Add a few lines on how to work around the magic characters.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow detaching of ownership of the argv_array's contents and add a
function to free those detached argv_arrays later.
This makes it possible to use argv_array efficiently with the exiting
struct child_process which only contains a member char **argv.
Add to documentation.
Signed-off-by: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Michael Barr <b@rr-dav.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe the behaviour, but do warn people against taking it too
literally and expect an abbreviation valid today will stay valid
forever.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach the commands from the "log" family the "--grep-reflog" option
to limit output by string that appears in the reflog entry when the
"--walk-reflogs" option is in effect.
* nd/grep-reflog:
revision: make --grep search in notes too if shown
log --grep-reflog: reject the option without -g
revision: add --grep-reflog to filter commits by reflog messages
grep: prepare for new header field filter
"git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown
subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint that
"git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz".
* rr/maint-submodule-unknown-cmd:
submodule: if $command was not matched, don't parse other args
It already is listed in the "git config" documentation, but people
interested in pushing would first look at "git push" documentation.
Noticed-by: David Glasser
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Fixed-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify the "blame" documentation to tell the users that there is
no need to ask for "--follow".
* jc/blame-follows-renames:
git blame: document that it always follows origin across whole-file renames
Running "git fetch" in a repository made with "git clone --single"
slurps all the branches, defeating the point of "--single".
* rt/maint-clone-single:
clone --single: limit the fetch refspec to fetched branch
Introduce a configuration variable diff.context that tells
Porcelain commands to use a non-default number of context
lines instead of 3 (the default). With this variable, users
do not have to keep repeating "git log -U8" from the command
line; instead, it becomes sufficient to say "git config
diff.context 8" just once.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizelaar@mozilla.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/maint-log-grep-all-match-1:
grep.c: make two symbols really file-scope static this time
t7810-grep: test --all-match with multiple --grep and --author options
t7810-grep: test interaction of multiple --grep and --author options
t7810-grep: test multiple --author with --all-match
t7810-grep: test multiple --grep with and without --all-match
t7810-grep: bring log --grep tests in common form
grep.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
log: document use of multiple commit limiting options
log --grep/--author: honor --all-match honored for multiple --grep patterns
grep: show --debug output only once
grep: teach --debug option to dump the parse tree
Teach an option to edit the insn sheet to "git rebase -i".
* aw/rebase-i-edit-todo:
rebase -i: suggest using --edit-todo to fix an unknown instruction
rebase -i: Add tests for "--edit-todo"
rebase -i: Teach "--edit-todo" action
rebase -i: Refactor help messages for todo file
rebase usage: subcommands can not be combined with -i
"git submodule add" initializes the name of a submodule to its path. This
was ok as long as the .git directory lived inside the submodule's work
tree, but since 1.7.8 it is stored in the .git/modules/<name> directory of
the superproject, making the submodule name survive the removal of the
submodule's work tree. This leads to problems when the user tries to add a
different submodule at the same path - and thus the same name - later, as
that will happily try to restore the submodule from the old repository
instead of the one the user specified and will lead to a checkout of the
wrong repository.
Add the new "--name" option to let the user provide a name for the
submodule. This enables the user to solve this conflict without having to
remove .git/modules/<name> by hand (which is no viable solution as it
makes it impossible to checkout a commit that records the old submodule
and populate it, as that will still check out the new submodule for the
same reason).
To achieve that the submodule's name is added to the parameter list of
the module_clone() helper function. This makes it possible to remove the
call of module_name() there because both callers of module_clone() already
know the name and can provide it as argument number two.
Reported-by: Jonathan Johnson <me@jondavidjohn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Notes are shown after commit body. From user perspective it looks
pretty much like commit body and they may assume --grep would search
in that part too.
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to --author/--committer which filters commits by author and
committer header fields. --grep-reflog adds a fake "reflog" header to
commit and a grep filter to search on that line.
All rules to --author/--committer apply except no timestamp stripping.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently using "git rm" on a submodule - populated or not - fails with
this error:
fatal: git rm: '<submodule path>': Is a directory
This made sense in the past as there was no way to remove a submodule
without possibly removing unpushed parts of the submodule's history
contained in its .git directory too, so erroring out here protected the
user from possible loss of data.
But submodules cloned with a recent git version do not contain the .git
directory anymore, they use a gitfile to point to their git directory
which is safely stored inside the superproject's .git directory. The work
tree of these submodules can safely be removed without losing history, so
let's teach git to do so.
Using rm on an unpopulated submodule now removes the empty directory from
the work tree and the gitlink from the index. If the submodule's directory
is missing from the work tree, it will still be removed from the index.
Using rm on a populated submodule using a gitfile will apply the usual
checks for work tree modification adapted to submodules (unless forced).
For a submodule that means that the HEAD is the same as recorded in the
index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked files that aren't
ignored are present in the submodules work tree (ignored files are deemed
expendable and won't stop a submodule's work tree from being removed).
That logic has to be applied in all nested submodules too.
Using rm on a submodule which has its .git directory inside the work trees
top level directory will just error out like it did before to protect the
repository, even when forced. In the future git could either provide a
message informing the user to convert the submodule to use a gitfile or
even attempt to do the conversion itself, but that is not part of this
change.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git submodule" command DWIMs the command line and assumes a
unspecified action word for 'status' action. This is a UI mistake
that leads to a confusing behaviour. A mistyped command name is
instead treated as a request for 'status' of the submodule with that
name, e.g.
$ git submodule show
error: pathspec 'show' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Did you forget to 'git add'?
Stop DWIMming an unknown or mistyped subcommand name as pathspec
given to unspelled "status" subcommand. "git submodule" without any
argument is still interpreted as "git submodule status", but its
value is questionable.
Adjust t7400 to match, and stop advertising the default subcommand
being 'status' which does not help much in practice, other than
promoting laziness and confusion.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running "whatchanged --graph -m" on a simple two-head merges
can fall into infinite loop.
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various documentation fixups.
* po/maint-docs:
Doc branch: show -vv option and alternative
Doc clean: add See Also link
Doc add: link gitignore
Doc: separate gitignore pattern sources
Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
"git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
"--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
* dj/fetch-all-tags:
fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote
submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array
argv-array: add pop function
Make it clear to people who (rightly or wrongly) think that the
"--follow" option should follow origin across while-file renames
that we already do so. That would explain the output that they see
when they do give the "--follow" option to the command.
We may or may not want to do a "--no-follow" patch as a follow-up,
but that is a separate topic.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Finishing touch to update documentation of string-list to make sure
the earlier rewrite of ref-list match logic that depends on its sort
order will not get broken.
* mh/fetch-filter-refs:
string_list API: document what "sorted" means
After running "git clone --single", the resulting repository has the
usual default "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" wildcard fetch
refspec installed, which means that a subsequent "git fetch" will
end up grabbing all the other branches.
Update the fetch refspec to cover only the singly cloned ref instead
to correct this.
That means:
If "--single" is used without "--branch" or "--mirror", the
fetch refspec covers the branch on which remote's HEAD points to.
If "--single" is used with "--branch", it'll cover only the branch
specified in the "--branch" option.
If "--single" is combined with "--mirror", then it'll cover all
refs of the cloned repository.
If "--single" is used with "--branch" that specifies a tag, then
it'll cover only the ref for this tag.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pretty formats for GPG signatures were introduced but never
documented. Use the documentation from the commit that introduced them.
Do the same for the --show-signature option added to git log and
friends.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Indicate that the -v option can be given twice in the short options.
Without it users pass over the option. Also indicate the alternate
'git remote show' method.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git clean' is controlled by gitignore. Provide See Also link for it.
Use of core.excludesfile is implied.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use a gitignore link rather than the gitrepository-
layout link.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use separate bulleted paragraphs for the three different gitignore
pattern sources.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify that 'depth=' specifies the new depth from the remote's
branch tip. It does not add the depth to the existing shallow clone.
(details from pack-protocol.txt).
Clarify that tags are not fetched. (details from shallow.txt)
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a long-standing bug in "git log --grep" when multiple "--grep"
are used together with "--all-match" and "--author" or "--committer".
* jc/maint-log-grep-all-match:
t7810-grep: test --all-match with multiple --grep and --author options
t7810-grep: test interaction of multiple --grep and --author options
t7810-grep: test multiple --author with --all-match
t7810-grep: test multiple --grep with and without --all-match
t7810-grep: bring log --grep tests in common form
grep.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
log: document use of multiple commit limiting options
log --grep/--author: honor --all-match honored for multiple --grep patterns
grep: show --debug output only once
grep: teach --debug option to dump the parse tree
Turn many file-scope private symbols to static to reduce the
global namespace contamination.
* jc/make-static:
sequencer.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
ident.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
trace.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
wt-status.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
read-cache.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
strbuf.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
sha1-array.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
symlinks.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
notes.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
rerere.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
graph.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static
diff.c: mark a private file-scope symbol as static
commit.c: mark a file-scope private symbol as static
builtin/notes.c: mark file-scope private symbols as static
Add '--conflict' option to git-p4 subcommand to specify what action
to take when conflicts are found during 'p4 submit'.
* pw/p4-submit-conflicts:
git-p4: add submit --conflict option and config varaiable
git p4: add submit --prepare-p4-only option
git p4: add submit --dry-run option
git p4: accept -v for --verbose
git p4: revert deleted files after submit cancel
git p4: rearrange submit template construction
git p4: test clean-up after failed submit, fix added files
git p4: standardize submit cancel due to unchanged template
git p4: move conflict prompt into run, add [q]uit input
git p4: remove submit failure options [a]pply and [w]rite
git p4: gracefully fail if some commits could not be applied
git p4 test: remove bash-ism of combined export/assignment
Avoid confusion in compound sentence about the start of the commit set
and the depth measure. Use two sentences.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The note that explains that changes introduced by removed commits are
preserved should be placed directly after the paragraph that describes
such commits removal. Otherwise the reference to "the commits" appears
out of context.
Also the big example that follows "Consider this history" is about
rewriting part of the history DAG. Move the paragraph that
describes the operation close to it.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recent work on using string_list to represent the list of refs
that matched with the refs on the other side during fetch heavily
depends on the sort order by string_list's implementation, and
changing string_list will break it. Document that it uses strcmp()
order, at least for now.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows users to edit the todo file while they're stopped in the
middle of an interactive rebase. When this action is executed, all
comments from the original todo file are stripped, and new help messages
are appended to the end.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
t/perf: add "trash directory" to .gitignore
Add missing -z to git check-attr usage text for consistency with man page
git-jump: ignore (custom) prefix in diff mode
Documentation: indent-with-non-tab uses "equivalent tabs" not 8
completion: add --no-edit to git-commit
Update parts of document that talked about "first line of commit
log" to say "title of commit" with definition of what that "title"
is.
* jw/doc-commit-title:
Documentation: describe subject more precisely
* mh/string-list:
api-string-list.txt: initialize the string_list the easy way
string_list: add a function string_list_longest_prefix()
string_list: add a new function, string_list_remove_duplicates()
string_list: add a new function, filter_string_list()
string_list: add two new functions for splitting strings
string_list: add function string_list_append_nodup()
Update the documentation of the core.whitespace option
"indent-with-non-tab" to correctly reflect that it catches the use of
spaces instead of the equivalent tabs, rather than a fixed number.
Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add Ada xfuncname and wordRegex patterns to the list of builtin
patterns.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson@redneon.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows specifying what to do when a conflict
happens when applying a commit to p4, automating the
interactive prompt.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option can be used to prepare the client workspace for
submission, only. It does not invoke the final "p4 submit".
A message describes how to proceed, either submitting the
changes or reverting.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new option, "git p4 submit --dry-run" can be used to verify
what commits and labels would be moved into p4.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The short form "-v" is common in many git commands as an
alias for "--verbose".
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git merge -Xtheirs" did not help content-level merge of binary
files; it should just take their version. Also "*.jpg binary" in
the attributes did not imply they should use the binary ll-merge
driver.
* jc/ll-merge-binary-ours:
ll-merge: warn about inability to merge binary files only when we can't
attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver
merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver
* mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order:
cherry-pick/revert: respect order of revisions to pick
demonstrate broken 'git cherry-pick three one two'
teach log --no-walk=unsorted, which avoids sorting
* jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc:
gitcli: contrast wildcard given to shell and to git
gitcli: formatting fix
Document file-glob for "git checkout -- '*.c'"
Generally speaking, using more options will further narrow the
selection, but there are a few exceptions. Document them.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The discussion of email subject throughout the documentation is
misleading; it indicates that the first line will always become
the subject. In fact, the subject is generally all lines up until
the first full blank line.
This patch refines that, and makes more use of the concept of a
commit title, with the title being all text up to the first blank line.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Updated with help from Peff.
* jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc:
gitcli: contrast wildcard given to shell and to git
gitcli: formatting fix
Document file-glob for "git checkout -- '*.c'"
Describe the following in the draft release notes:
. jc/apply-binary-p0
. jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory
. jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name
. jk/maint-http-half-auth-push
. kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort
Yet to be merged before 1.7.12.1 are:
. jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths
. jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log
. mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.
* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
documentation misleading.
* jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name:
doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name
In the demo code blurb, show how to initialize the string_list using
STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP rather than memset().
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function that finds the longest string from a string_list that
is a prefix of a given string.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a function that deletes duplicate entries from a sorted
string_list.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function allows entries that don't match a specified criterion to
be discarded from a string_list while preserving the order of the
remaining entries.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add two new functions, string_list_split() and
string_list_split_in_place(). These split a string into a string_list
on a separator character. The first makes copies of the substrings
(leaving the input string untouched) and the second splits the
original string in place, overwriting the separator characters with
NULs and referring to the original string's memory.
These functions are similar to the strbuf_split_*() functions except
that they work with the more powerful string_list interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a new function that appends a string to a string_list without
copying it. This can be used to pass ownership of an already-copied
string to a string_list that has strdup_strings set.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use argv-array API in "git fetch" implementation.
* jk/argv-array:
submodule: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
fetch: use argv_array instead of hand-building arrays
argv-array: fix bogus cast when freeing array
argv-array: add pop function
Optimise the "merge-base" computation a bit, and also update its
users that do not need the full merge-base information to call a
cheaper subset.
* jc/merge-bases:
reduce_heads(): reimplement on top of remove_redundant()
merge-base: "--is-ancestor A B"
get_merge_bases_many(): walk from many tips in parallel
in_merge_bases(): use paint_down_to_common()
merge_bases_many(): split out the logic to paint history
in_merge_bases(): omit unnecessary redundant common ancestor reduction
http-push: use in_merge_bases() for fast-forward check
receive-pack: use in_merge_bases() for fast-forward check
in_merge_bases(): support only one "other" commit
We will wait for a handful of other fixes that have graduated to the
'master' for 1.8.0 to be tested in the wild and then tag 1.7.12.1:
. mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order
. jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log
. jk/maint-http-half-auth-push
. jc/apply-binary-p0
. jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths
. kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/check-docs-update:
check-docs: get documented command list from Makefile
check-docs: drop git-help special-case
check-docs: list git-gui as a command
check-docs: factor out command-list
command-list: mention git-credential-* helpers
command-list: add git-sh-i18n
check-docs: update non-command documentation list
check-docs: mention gitweb specially
"git branch --set-upstream origin/master" is a common mistake to
create a local branch 'origin/master' and set it to integrate with
the current branch. With a plan to deprecate this option, introduce
"git branch (-u|--set-upstream-to) origin/master" that sets the
current branch to integrate with 'origin/master' remote tracking
branch.
* cn/branch-set-upstream-to:
branch: deprecate --set-upstream and show help if we detect possible mistaken use
branch: add --unset-upstream option
branch: introduce --set-upstream-to
"git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally expects.
* mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order:
cherry-pick/revert: respect order of revisions to pick
demonstrate broken 'git cherry-pick three one two'
teach log --no-walk=unsorted, which avoids sorting
* maint-1.7.11:
Almost 1.7.11.6
gitweb: URL-decode $my_url/$my_uri when stripping PATH_INFO
rebase -i: use full onto sha1 in reflog
sh-setup: protect from exported IFS
receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output
t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
send-email: improve RFC2047 quote parsing
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
People who are not used to working with shell may intellectually
understand how the command line argument is massaged by the shell
but still have a hard time visualizing the difference between
letting the shell expand fileglobs and having Git see the fileglob
to use as a pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The paragraph to encourage use of "--" in scripts belongs to the
bullet point that describes the behaviour for a command line without
the explicit "--" disambiguation; it is not a supporting explanation
for the entire bulletted list, and it is wrong to make it a separate
paragraph outside the list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The built-in "binary" attribute macro expands to "-diff -text", so
that textual diff is not produced, and the contents will not go
through any CR/LF conversion ever. During a merge, it should also
choose the "binary" low-level merge driver, but it didn't.
Make it expand to "-diff -merge -text".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The (discouraged) -Xours/-Xtheirs modes of merge are supposed to
give a quick and dirty way to come up with a random mixture of
cleanly merged parts and punted conflict resolution to take contents
from one side in conflicting parts. These options however were only
passed down to the low level merge driver for text.
Teach the built-in binary merge driver to notice them as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
localized, but the code to align it along with the names of branches
were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
* nd/branch-v-alignment:
branch -v: align even when branch names are in UTF-8
The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the branch
name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the option
description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the documentation
misleading. There may be room in documentation pages of other
commands for similar improvements.
* jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name:
doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name
"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.
* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set
While looking for a way to expand the URL of a remote
that uses a 'url.<name>.insteadOf' config option I stumbled
over the undocumented '--get-url' option of 'git ls-remote'.
This adds some minimum documentation for that option.
And while at it, also add that option to the '-h' output.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-list-options.txt is included in git-rev-list.txt. This makes sure
rev-list man page also shows that, and at one place, together with
equivalent options -n and --max-count.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All remote subcommands are spelled out words except 'rm'. 'rm', being a
popular UNIX command name, may mislead users that there are also 'ls' or
'mv'. Use 'remove' to fit with the rest of subcommands.
'rm' is still supported and used in the test suite. It's just not
widely advertised.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git submodule update --force" used to leave the working tree of the
submodule intact when there were local changes. It is more intiutive
to make "--force" a sign to run "checkout -f" to overwrite them.
* sz/submodule-force-update:
Make 'git submodule update --force' always check out submodules.
Allow an external command to tell git-daemon to decline service
based on the client address, repository path, etc.
* jc/daemon-access-hook:
daemon: --access-hook option
"git cherry-pick" by default stops when it sees a commit without any
log message. The "--allow-empty-message" option can be used to
silently proceed.
* cw/cherry-pick-allow-empty-message:
cherry-pick: add --allow-empty-message option
The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
being incorrect. Update the implementation to give the documented
status for a case that was documented, and introduce a new code for
"all other errors".
* jc/maint-config-exit-status:
config: "git config baa" should exit with status 1
Sometimes we build a set of similar command lines, differing
only in the final arguments (e.g., "fetch --multiple"). To
use argv_array for this, you have to either push the same
set of elements repeatedly, or break the abstraction by
manually manipulating the array's internal members.
Instead, let's provide a sanctioned "pop" function to remove
elements from the end.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many scripted Porcelain commands, we find this idiom:
if test "$(git rev-parse --verify A)" = "$(git merge-base A B)"
then
... A is an ancestor of B ...
fi
But you do not have to compute exact merge-base only to see if A is
an ancestor of B. Give them a more direct way to use the underlying
machinery.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git log' is passed the --no-walk option, no revision walk takes
place, naturally. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, however, the provided
revisions still get sorted by commit date. So e.g 'git log --no-walk
HEAD HEAD~1' and 'git log --no-walk HEAD~1 HEAD' give the same result
(unless the two revisions share the commit date, in which case they
will retain the order given on the command line). As the commit that
introduced --no-walk (8e64006 (Teach revision machinery about
--no-walk, 2007-07-24)) points out, the sorting is intentional, to
allow things like
git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --decorate --all --no-walk
to show all refs in order by commit date.
But there are also other cases where the sorting is not wanted, such
as
<command producing revisions in order> |
git log --oneline --no-walk --stdin
To accomodate both cases, leave the decision of whether or not to sort
up to the caller, by allowing --no-walk={sorted,unsorted}, defaulting
to 'sorted' for backward-compatibility reasons.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have ways of setting the upstream information, but if we want to
unset it, we need to resort to modifying the configuration manually.
Teach branch an --unset-upstream option that unsets this information.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output
for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
monospace.
* jk/docs-docbook-monospace-display:
docs: monospace listings in docbook output
"git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
temporary copy of the working tree when available.
* da/difftool-updates:
difftool: silence warning
Add Code Compare v2.80.4 as a merge / diff tool for Windows
mergetool,difftool: Document --tool-help consistently
difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin
difftool: Handle compare() returning -1
difftool: Wrap long lines for readability
difftool: Check all return codes from compare()
difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spaces
difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree
difftool: Call the temp directory "git-difftool"
difftool: Move option values into a hash
difftool: Eliminate global variables
difftool: Simplify print_tool_help()
"grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if a
configuration variable tells it to.
* js/grep-patterntype-config:
grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting
Branch names are usually in ASCII so they are not the problem. The
problem most likely comes from "(no branch)" translation, which is
in UTF-8 and makes display-width calculation just wrong. Clarify
this by renaming the field "len" in struct ref_item to "width", as
it stores the display-width and is used to compute the width of the
screen needed to show the names of all the branches, and compute the
display width using utf8_strwidth(), not byte-length with strlen().
Update document to mention the fact that we may want ref names in
UTF-8. Encodings that produce invalid UTF-8 are safe as utf8_strwidth()
falls back to strlen(). The ones that incidentally produce valid UTF-8
sequences will cause misalignment.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the synopsis section makes it clear that the new branch name
is the parameter to these flags, the option description did not.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.7.11:
Prepare for 1.7.11.6
Make the ciabot scripts completely self-configuring in the normal case.
Improved documentation for the ciabot scripts.
man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
tests: Introduce test_seq
We did not document that many commands take unique prefix
abbreviations of long options (e.g. "--option" may be the only flag
that the command accepts that begin with "--opt", in which case you
can give "--opt") anywhere easy to find for new people.
* jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli:
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the
documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but
also about "don't mix lineages".
* jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc:
rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
* hv/coding-guidelines:
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
Our documentation used to assume having files in .git/refs/*
directories was the only to have branches and tags, but that is not
true for quite some time.
* jc/tag-doc:
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
Currently, it will only do a checkout if the sha1 registered in the containing
repository doesn't match the HEAD of the submodule, regardless of whether the
submodule is dirty. As discussed on the mailing list, the '--force' flag is a
strong indicator that the state of the submodule is suspect, and should be reset
to HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to HEAD,
as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what did
they do since I forked). But the current parser interprets ".." as an
empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on the
filesystem, we get this annoying output:
$ cd Documentation/howto
$ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions
Surely we could say "git log ../" or even "git log -- .." to disambiguate,
but we shouldn't have to.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing --set-uptream option can cause confusion, as it uses the
usual branch convention of assuming a starting point of HEAD if none
is specified, causing
git branch --set-upstream origin/master
to create a new local branch 'origin/master' that tracks the current
branch. As --set-upstream already exists, we can't simply change its
behaviour. To work around this, introduce --set-upstream-to which
accepts a compulsory argument indicating what the new upstream branch
should be and one optinal argument indicating which branch to change,
defaulting to HEAD.
The new options allows us to type
git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master
to set the current branch's upstream to be origin's master.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We did not document that many commands take unique prefix
abbreviations of long options (e.g. "--option" may be the only flag
that the command accepts that begin with "--opt", in which case you
can give "--opt") anywhere easy to find for new people.
* jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli:
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the
documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but
also about "don't mix lineages".
* jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc:
rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
* hv/coding-guidelines:
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
Simplify "make check-docs" implementation and update its coverage.
* jk/check-docs-update:
check-docs: get documented command list from Makefile
check-docs: drop git-help special-case
check-docs: list git-gui as a command
check-docs: factor out command-list
command-list: mention git-credential-* helpers
command-list: add git-sh-i18n
check-docs: update non-command documentation list
check-docs: mention gitweb specially
Our documentation used to assume having files in .git/refs/*
directories was the only to have branches and tags, but that is not
true for quite some time.
* jc/tag-doc:
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
One fictitious command "proxy-command" is enclosed inside a double
quote pair, while another fictitious command "default-proxy" is not
in the example, but the quoting does not change anything in the pair
of examples. Remove the quotes to avoid unnecessary confusion.
Noticed by Michael Haggerty.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--add" option is required to add a new value to a multivalued
configuration entry.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second paragraph in the git(1) description section were meant to
guide people who are not ready to dive into this page away from here.
Referring migrating CVS users to another page before they get
acquainted with Git was somewhat out of place. Move the reference to
the "FURTHER DOCUMENTATION" section and push that section down.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The one at kernel.org has not been updated for quite a while and
can no longer be called "the latest".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Letting the "--rebase" option squat on the short-and-sweet single
letter option "-r" was an unintended accident and was not even
documented, but the short option seems to be already used in the
wild. Let's document it so that other options that begin with "r"
would not be tempted to steal it.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
