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Markus Heidelberg
04c8ce9c1c Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 19:10:46 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
a0178ae2cf Fix typos in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-27 01:00:45 -08:00
Abhijit Bhopatkar
09cff066f6 Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit
'--signoff' uses commiter name always to add the signoff line,
make it explicit in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-18 22:19:52 -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
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
d69806d198 git-commit(1): depersonalize description
The intent is to make git-commit(1) feel more like a manual page.  The
change also makes the page four words shorter.

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
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
Jonathan Nieder
6998e4db52 Documentation: fix links to tutorials and other new manual pages
With the conversion of HTML documentation to man pages

tutorial.html -> gittutorial (7)
tutorial-2.html -> gittutorial-2 (7)
cvs-migration.html -> gitcvs-migration (7)
diffcore.html -> gitdiffcore (7)
repository-layout.html -> gitrepository-layout (5)
hooks.html -> githooks (5)
glossary.html -> gitglossary (7)
core-tutorial.html -> gitcore-tutorial (7)

and the automatic update of references to these pages,
a little debris was left behind. We clear it away.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 17:20:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1947bdbc31 Merge branch 'mo/status-untracked'
* mo/status-untracked:
  Add configuration option for default untracked files mode
  Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files
  Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option

Conflicts:

	Documentation/git-commit.txt
2008-06-22 14:32:27 -07:00
Marius Storm-Olsen
d6293d1f2c Add configuration option for default untracked files mode
By default, the untracked files mode for commit/status is 'normal'

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09 15:48:20 -07:00
Marius Storm-Olsen
6c2ce048bb Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files
This new argument teaches Git to not look for any untracked files,
saving cycles on slow file systems, or large repos.

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09 15:48:19 -07:00
Marius Storm-Olsen
4bfee30a98 Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option
This lets you specify how you want untracked files to be listed.
The possible options are:

    normal - Show untracked files and directories
    all    - Show all untracked files

The 'all' mode is used, if the mode is not specified.

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09 15:47:36 -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
Stephan Beyer
bc47c29ec1 git-commit.txt: Add missing long/short options
Also split the "-c or -C <commit>" item into two separate items.

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
Stephan Beyer
c4a7ff52bd git-commit.txt: Correct option alternatives
This patch fixes the SYNOPSIS in git-commit.txt:

 * --amend could be used in conjunction with -c/-C/-F/-m;
   it is not mutually exclusive with them.

 * -m and -F are not alternative options to -c/-C;
   you can reuse authorship from a commit (-c/-C)
   but change the message (-m/-F).

Furthermore, for long-option consistency --author <author>
is changed to --author=<author>.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:37 -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
a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eed81838f0 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint
* maint-1.5.4:
  bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
  revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
  Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
  Document option --only of git commit
  Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
2008-04-11 23:55:55 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
d4ba07cac5 Document option --only of git commit
Its documentation was removed by 6c96753 (Documentation/git-commit: rewrite
to make it more end-user friendly, 2006-12-08), even though it is referenced
from a few places, including builtin-commit.c (as part of the commentary in
the commit message template).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-11 12:54:15 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
8089c85bcb git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hook
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message
is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is).
Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place.

It takes one to three parameters.  The first is the name of the file that
the commit log message.  The second is the source of the commit message,
and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a
-t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set);
"merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists);
"squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by
a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option
was given).

If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort.  The hook is
not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used
as a replacement for the pre-commit hook.

The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of
a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including
adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage,
that the user can then edit or discard altogether.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06 02:26:55 -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
Alex Riesen
5f06573743 Allow selection of different cleanup modes for commit messages
Although we traditionally stripped away excess blank lines, trailing
whitespaces and lines that begin with "#" from the commit log message,
sometimes the message just has to be the way user wants it.

For instance, a commit message template can contain lines that begin with
"#", the message must be kept as close to its original source as possible
if you are converting from a foreign SCM, or maybe the message has a shell
script including its comments for future reference.

The cleanup modes are default, verbatim, whitespace and strip. The
default mode depends on if the message is being edited and will either
strip whitespace and comments (if editor active) or just strip the
whitespace (for where the message is given explicitely).

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-22 19:55:07 -08:00
Wincent Colaiuta
aa6da6cddb Documentation: fix --no-verify documentation for "git commit"
The documentation for the --no-verify switch should mention the
commit-msg hook, not just the pre-commit hook.

Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09 00:55:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
17ef10d055 git-commit documentation: fix unfinished sentence.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 13:35:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
36863af16e git-commit --allow-empty
It does not usually make sense to record a commit that has the exact
same tree as its sole parent commit and that is why git-commit prevents
you from making such a mistake, but when data from foreign scm is
involved, it is a different story.  We are equipped to represent such an
(perhaps insane, perhaps by mistake, or perhaps done on purpose) empty
change, and it is better to represent it bypassing the safety valve for
native use.

This is primarily for use by foreign scm interface scripts.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03 00:36:49 -08:00
Jing Xue
97e9a2216f replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc
The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached'
to unstage is just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'.

Suggested by Jan Hudec.

Signed-off-by: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14 01:58:03 -08:00
David Kastrup
f9935bf931 Documentation/git-commit.txt: correct bad list formatting.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-06 23:25:10 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
a76c2acb28 documentation: use the word "index" in the git-commit man page
As with git-add, I think previous updates to the git-commit man page did
indeed help make it more user-friendly.  But I think the banishment of
the word "index" from the description goes too far; reinstate its use,
to simplify some of the language slightly and smooth the transition to
other documentation.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-05 22:08:54 -07:00
Brian Gernhardt
383e45cec4 Document commit.template configuration variable.
Add it to the list in config.txt and explicitly say that the
--template option to git-commit overrides the configuration variable.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-26 16:57:24 -07:00
Steven Grimm
d1cc130a5e Teach git-commit about commit message templates.
These are useful in organizations that enforce particular formats
for commit messages, e.g., to specify bug IDs or test plans.
Use of the template is not enforced; it is simply used as the
initial content when the editor is invoked.

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-24 20:46:54 -07:00
Adam Roben
ef0c2abf3e Add GIT_EDITOR environment and core.editor configuration variables
These variables let you specify an editor that will be launched in
preference to the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables. The order
of preference is GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, EDITOR, VISUAL.

[jc: added a test and config variable documentation]

Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-20 00:46:34 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
af83bed690 Document git commit --untracked-files and --verbose
Documentation based on description of commit 443f8338 which added
'-u'|'--untracked-files' option to git-status, and on git-runstatus(1)
man page.

Note that those options apply also to git-status.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 20:22:07 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
fd0368f985 Document long options '--message=<msg>' and '--no-commit'
Document that '--message=<msg>' is long version of '-m <msg>' in
git-commit, and that '--no-checkout' is long version of '-n' in
git-clone.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 20:22:06 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
6cbf07efc5 git-commit: add a --interactive option
The --interactive option behaves like "git commit", except that
"git add --interactive" is executed before committing.  It is
incompatible with -a and -i.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-09 00:05:23 -08:00
Peter Eriksen
497171e765 Documentation: --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F.
We used to get the following confusing error message:

    $ git commit --amend -a -m foo
    Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F

This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes
sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways.
So update the documentation to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24 15:32:52 -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
René Scharfe
23bfbb815d Documentation: a few spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 08:44:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
936f32d3de git-commit: document log message formatting convention
Take it from the tutorial, since not everybody necessarily reads it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 22:53:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7905ba626e git-commit documentation: remove comment on unfixed git-rm
... which was fixed since then.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 16:36:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
696b1b507f git-commit documentation: -a adds and also removes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-13 12:26:13 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
fc41be3b2e fix documentation for git-commit --no-verify
Despite what the documentation claims, git-commit does not check commit
for suspicious lines: all hooks are disabled by default,
and the pre-comit hook could be changed to do something else.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12 00:09:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5dc7bcc245 Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 02:36:08 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
ebd124c678 make commit message a little more consistent and conforting
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time,
not only the first time.  Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than
the tree sha1 in this case.

This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well
as the summary of created/deleted files.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-15 22:29:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6c96753df9 Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-09 16:56:34 -08:00
Robin Rosenberg
c64ea8521b Minor documentation fixup.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-01 17:09:01 -07:00
Horst H. von Brand
abda1ef590 Documentation: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03 23:54:55 -07:00
sean
e994004f93 Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.
A bare "--" doesn't show up in man or html pages correctly
as two individual dashes unless backslashed as \--
in the asciidoc source.  Note, no backslash is needed
inside a literal block.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05 14:21:52 -07:00
Francis Daly
6cbd5d7d79 Tweaks to make asciidoc play nice.
Once the content has been generated, the formatting elves can reorder
it to be pretty...

Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-05 15:46:54 -07:00