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Michael Haggerty
f21e1c5d36 Add cross-references between docs for for-each-ref and show-ref
Add cross-references between the manpages for git-for-each-ref(1) and
git-show-ref(1).

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-22 12:08:39 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
fddb74c947 for-each-ref: introduce %(color:...) for color
Enhance 'git for-each-ref' with color formatting options.  You can now
use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(color:green)%(refname:short)%(color:reset)

where color names are described in color.branch.*.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-19 10:14:15 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
b28061ce0d for-each-ref: introduce %(upstream:track[short])
Introduce %(upstream:track) to display "[ahead M, behind N]" and
%(upstream:trackshort) to display "=", ">", "<", or "<>"
appropriately (inspired by contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh).

Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(refname:short)%(upstream:trackshort)

to display refs with terse tracking information.

Note that :track and :trackshort only work with "upstream", and error
out when used with anything else.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-19 10:14:15 -08:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
7a48b83219 for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk marker
'git branch' shows which branch you are currently on with an '*', but
'git for-each-ref' misses this feature.  So, extend its format with
%(HEAD) for the same effect.

Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(HEAD) %(refname:short)

to display an asterisk next to the current ref.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-18 13:49:42 -08:00
John Keeping
b344bb1935 git-for-each-ref.txt: 'raw' is a supported date format
Commit 7dff9b3 (Support 'raw' date format) added a raw date format.
Update the git-for-each-ref documentation to include this.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-21 16:26:26 -08:00
Jeremy White
52ffe995b9 Documentation: describe subject more precisely
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>
2012-09-13 21:30:21 -07:00
Michał Górny
e2b239722a for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*).
The %(body) placeholder returns the whole body of a tag or
commit, including the signature. However, callers may want
to get just the body without signature, or just the
signature.

Rather than change the meaning of %(body), which might break
some scripts, this patch introduces a new set of
placeholders which break down the %(contents) placeholder
into its constituent parts.

[jk: initial patch by mg, rebased on top of my refactoring
and with tests by me]

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-09-08 13:56:19 -07:00
Alexei Sholik
621c39de22 Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt
Signed-off-by: Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09 12:22:15 -08:00
Alexei Sholik
22817b400c Documentation: remove redundant colons in git-for-each-ref.txt
Signed-off-by: Alexei Sholik <alcosholik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09 11:54:56 -08:00
Štěpán Němec
0adda9362a Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:31:07 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
12378c0aa8 Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopses
For some reason, various manual pages have an asterisk escaped
with \ in the synopsis.  Since there is no other asterisk to pair it
with, Asciidoc does not consider this asterisk escapable, so it passes
the backslash through.

Each page either uses [verse] or has only one asterisk, so it
is safe to drop the backslashes (checked with asciidoc 8.5.2).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:22 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
67687feae5 for-each-ref: Field with abbreviated objectname
Introduce a :short modifier to objectname which outputs the abbreviated
object name.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18 21:49:04 -07:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Bert Wesarg
2bb98169be for-each-ref: utilize core.warnAmbiguousRefs for :short-format
core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select strict mode for the
abbreviation for the ":short" format specifier of "refname" and "upstream".

In strict mode, the abbreviated ref will never trigger the
'warn_ambiguous_refs' warning. I.e. for these refs:

  refs/heads/xyzzy
  refs/tags/xyzzy

the abbreviated forms are:

  heads/xyzzy
  tags/xyzzy

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-13 09:36:52 -07:00
Jeff King
8cae19d987 for-each-ref: add "upstream" format field
The logic for determining the upstream ref of a branch is
somewhat complex to perform in a shell script. This patch
provides a plumbing mechanism for scripts to access the C
logic used internally by git-status, git-branch, etc.

For example:

  $ git for-each-ref \
       --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)' \
       refs/heads/
  master origin/master

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 23:22:15 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
7d66f21a1b for-each-ref: :short format for refname
Tries to shorten the refname to a non-ambiguous name.

Szeder Gábor noticed that the git bash completion takes a
tremendous amount of time to strip leading components from
heads and tags refs (i.e. refs/heads, refs/tags, ...). He
proposed a new atom called 'refbasename' which removes at
most two leading components from the ref name.

I myself, proposed a more dynamic solution, which strips off
common leading components with the matched pattern.

But the current bash solution and both proposals suffer from
one mayor problem: ambiguous refs.

A ref is ambiguous, if it resolves to more than one full refs.
I.e. given the refs refs/heads/xyzzy and refs/tags/xyzzy. The
(short) ref xyzzy can point to both refs.

( Note: Its irrelevant whether the referenced objects are the
  same or not. )

This proposal solves this by checking for ambiguity of the
shorten ref name.

The shortening is done with the same rules for resolving refs
but in the reverse order. The short name is checked if it
resolves to a different ref.

To continue the above example, the output would be like this:

heads/xyzzy
xyzzy

So, if you want just tags, xyzzy is not ambiguous, because it
will resolve to a tag. If you need the heads you get a also
a non-ambiguous short form of the ref.

To integrate this new format into the bash completion to get
only non-ambiguous refs is beyond the scope of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-05 23:06:37 -07:00
SZEDER Gábor
d4040e0a17 Documentation: fix reference to a for-each-ref option
... to match the synopsis section

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-01 21:58:22 -07:00
Mike Ralphson
1168d402d2 Documentation: typos / spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-05 21:21:18 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
f448e24e2f Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30 21:42:55 -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
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
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
Lea Wiemann
c0f6dc9b20 git-for-each-ref.txt: minor improvements
Rewrapped synopsis and removed wrong asterisk behind --count option;
clarified --sort=<key> description for multiple keys; documented that
for-each-ref supports not only glob patterns but also prefixes like
"refs/heads" as patterns, and that multiple patterns can be given.

Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 08:39:54 -07:00
Andy Parkins
d392e712a8 Make for-each-ref's grab_date() support per-atom formatting
grab_date() gets an extra parameter - atomname; this extra parameter is
checked to see if it has a ":<format>" extra component in it, and if so
that "<format>" string is passed to parse_date_format() to produce an
enum date_mode value which is then further passed to show_date().

In short it allows the user of git-for-each-ref to do things like this:

 $ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:default)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
 Sun May 20 00:30:42 2007 -0700
 $ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:relative)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
 4 months ago
 $ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:short)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
 2007-05-20
 $ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:local)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
 Sun May 20 08:30:42 2007
 $ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:iso8601)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
 2007-05-20 00:30:42 -0700
 $ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:rfc2822)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
 Sun, 20 May 2007 00:30:42 -0700

The default, when no ":<format>" is specified is ":default", leaving the
existing behaviour unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-29 20:31:59 -07:00
Matthias Kestenholz
97925fde00 Documentation: Reformatted SYNOPSIS for several commands
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-18 21:47:45 -07:00
Andy Parkins
69057cf39f git-for-each-ref doesn't return "the bit after $GIT_DIR/refs"
The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable
would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-05 13:48:59 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
5558e55c06 Teach for-each-ref about a little language called Tcl.
Love it or hate it, some people actually still program in Tcl.  Some
of those programs are meant for interfacing with Git.  Programs such as
gitk and git-gui.  It may be useful to have Tcl-safe output available
from for-each-ref, just like shell, Perl and Python already enjoy.

Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for pointing out the horrible flaws in the
first and second version of this patch, and steering me in the right
direction for Tcl value quoting.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 13:00:26 -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
1dc5e55f2d Documentation: fix git-format-patch mark-up and link it from git.txt
Two asterisks the SYNOPSIS section were mistaken as emphasis,
and the latter backtick in "`<key>`s" were not recognized as
closing backtick.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-28 14:25:41 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
ba7545adab Documentation: Update information about <format> in git-for-each-ref
Update information about value of <format> used when it is left
unspecified.  Add information about `%%` and `%xx` interpolation
(URL encoding).

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-28 14:23:34 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
1729fa9878 git-for-each-ref: improve the documentation on scripting modes
When reading the synopsis for git-for-each-ref it is easy to miss
the obvious power of --shell and family.  Call this feature out in
the primary paragragh.  Also add more description to the examples
to indicate which features we are demonstrating.  Finally add a
very simple eval based example in addition to the very complex one
to give a gentler introduction.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-21 12:38:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9f613ddd21 Add git-for-each-ref: helper for language bindings
This adds a new command, git-for-each-ref.  You can have it iterate
over refs and have it output various aspects of the objects they
refer to.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-16 10:22:02 -07:00