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Junio C Hamano
7b9b634ca5 Merge branch 'ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage'
The short-help text shown by "git cmd -h" and the synopsis text
shown at the beginning of "git help cmd" have been made more
consistent.

* ab/doc-synopsis-and-cmd-usage: (34 commits)
  tests: assert consistent whitespace in -h output
  tests: start asserting that *.txt SYNOPSIS matches -h output
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "worktree" consistent
  worktree: define subcommand -h in terms of command -h
  reflog doc: list real subcommands up-front
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "commit" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "diff-tree" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: use "[<label>...]" for "zero or more"
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "annotate" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "stash" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options
  doc txt & -h consistency: use "git foo" form, not "git-foo"
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "bundle" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "read-tree" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: make "rerere" consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: add missing options and labels
  doc txt & -h consistency: make output order consistent
  doc txt & -h consistency: add or fix optional "--" syntax
  doc txt & -h consistency: fix mismatching labels
  doc SYNOPSIS & -h: use "-" to separate words in labels, not "_"
  ...
2022-10-28 11:26:54 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
951ec747d4 doc txt & -h consistency: make "stash" consistent
Amend both the -h output and *.txt to match one another. In this case
the *.txt didn't list the "save" subcommand, and the "-h" was
similarly missing some commands.

Let's also convert the *.c code to use a macro definition, similar to
that used in preceding commits. This avoids duplication.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-13 09:32:57 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
007512152e stash doc SYNOPSIS & -h: correct padding around "[]()"
The whitespace padding of alternatives should be of the form "[-f |
--force]" not "[-f|--force]". Likewise we should not have padding
before the first option, so "(--all | <pack-filename>...)" is correct,
not "( --all | <pack-filename>... )".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-13 09:32:55 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d4056dba1f doc txt & -h consistency: fix incorrect alternates syntax
Fix the incorrect "[-o | --option <argument>]" syntax, which should be
"[(-o | --option) <argument>]", we were previously claiming that only
the long option accepted the "<argument>", which isn't what we meant.

This syntax issue for "bugreport" originated in
238b439d69 (bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info,
2020-04-16), and for "diagnose" in 6783fd3cef (builtin/diagnose.c:
create 'git diagnose' builtin, 2022-08-12), which copied and adjusted
"bugreport" documentation and code.

In the case of "Documentation/git-stash.txt" and "builtin/stash.c"
this is not a "doc txt & -h consistency" change, as we're changing
both versions, doing so here makes a subsequent change smaller.

In that case fix the incorrect "[-o | --option <argument>]" syntax,
which should be "[(-o | --option) <argument>]", we were previously
claiming that only the long option accepted the "<argument>", which
isn't what we meant.

The "stash" issue has been with us in both the "-h" and *.txt versions
since bd514cada4 (stash: introduce 'git stash store', 2013-06-15).

We could claim that this isn't a syntax issue if a "vertical bar binds
tighter than option and its argument", but such a rule would change
e.g. this "cat-file" SYNOPSIS example to mean something we don't:

	... [<rev>:<path|tree-ish> | --path=<path|tree-ish> <rev>]

We have various other examples where the post-image here is already
used, e.g. for "format-patch" ("-o"), "grep" ("-m"),
"submodule" ("set-branch -b") etc.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-13 09:32:55 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
16f6b0d1aa docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-in
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt describes
configuration that is only used by the relevant built-in documented in
git-NAME.txt. Subsequent commits will handle more complex cases.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-07 09:46:06 -07:00
Sergey Organov
41a28eb6c1 stash: implement '--staged' option for 'push' and 'save'
Stash only the changes that are staged.

This mode allows to easily stash-out for later reuse some changes
unrelated to the current work in progress.

Unlike 'stash push --patch', --staged supports use of any tool to
select the changes to stash-out, including, but not limited to 'git
add --interactive'.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-18 13:09:21 -07:00
Denton Liu
af5cd44b6f stash show: use stash.showIncludeUntracked even when diff options given
If options pertaining to how the diff is displayed is provided to
`git stash show`, the command will ignore the stash.showIncludeUntracked
configuration variable, defaulting to not showing any untracked files.
This is unintuitive behaviour since the format of the diff output and
whether or not to display untracked files are orthogonal.

Use stash.showIncludeUntracked even when diff options are given. Of
course, this is still overridable via the command-line options.

Update the documentation to explicitly say which configuration variables
will be overridden when a diff options are given.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-22 17:56:46 +09:00
Denton Liu
0af760e261 stash show: learn stash.showIncludeUntracked
The previous commit teaches `git stash show --include-untracked`. It
may be desirable for a user to be able to always enable the
--include-untracked behavior. Teach the stash.showIncludeUntracked
config option which allows users to do this in a similar manner to
stash.showPatch.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-05 14:31:27 -08:00
Denton Liu
d3c7bf73bd stash show: teach --include-untracked and --only-untracked
Stash entries can be made with untracked files via
`git stash push --include-untracked`. However, because the untracked
files are stored in the third parent of the stash entry and not the
stash entry itself, running `git stash show` does not include the
untracked files as part of the diff.

With --include-untracked, untracked paths, which are recorded in the
third-parent if it exists, are shown in addition to the paths that have
modifications between the stash base and the working tree in the stash.

It is possible to manually craft a malformed stash entry where duplicate
untracked files in the stash entry will mask tracked files. We detect
and error out in that case via a custom unpack_trees() callback:
stash_worktree_untracked_merge().

Also, teach stash the --only-untracked option which only shows the
untracked files of a stash entry. This is similar to `git show stash^3`
but it is nice to provide a convenient abstraction for it so that users
do not have to think about the underlying implementation.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-03-05 14:31:26 -08:00
Denton Liu
d6ab8b1929 git-stash.txt: be explicit about subcommand options
Currently, the options for the `list` and `show` subcommands are just
listed as `<options>`. This seems to imply, from a cursory glance at the
summary, that they take the stash options listed below. However, reading
more carefully, we see that they take log options and diff options
respectively.

Make it more obvious that they take log and diff options by explicitly
stating this in the subcommand summary.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-11 13:34:58 -08:00
Alexandr Miloslavskiy
8a98758a8d stash push: support the --pathspec-from-file option
Decisions taken for simplicity:
1) For now, `--pathspec-from-file` is declared incompatible with
   `--patch`, even when <file> is not `-`. Such use case is not
   really expected.
2) It is not allowed to pass pathspec in both args and file.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-19 10:56:49 -08:00
Alexandr Miloslavskiy
3f3d8068f5 doc: stash: synchronize <pathspec> description
This patch continues the effort that is already applied to
`git commit`, `git reset`, `git checkout` etc.

1) Added reference to 'linkgit:gitglossary[7]'.
2) Fixed mentions of incorrectly plural "pathspecs".

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-19 10:56:49 -08:00
Alexandr Miloslavskiy
b22909144c doc: stash: document more options
Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-19 10:56:49 -08:00
Alexandr Miloslavskiy
0093abc286 doc: stash: split options from description (2)
Together with the previous patch, this brings docs for `git stash` to
the common layout used for most other commands (see for example docs
for `git add`, `git commit`, `git checkout`, `git reset`) where all
options are documented in a separate list.

After some thinking and having a look at docs for `git svn` and
`git `submodule`, I have arrived at following conclusions:
  * Options should be described in a list rather then text to
    facilitate lookup for user.
  * Single list is better then multiple lists because it avoids
    copy&pasting descriptions between subcommands (or, without
    copy&pasting, user will have to look up missing options in other
    subcommands).
  * As a consequence, commands section should only give brief info and
    list possible options. Since options have good enough names, user
	will only need to look up the "interesting" options.
  * Every option should list which subcommands support it.

I have decided to use alphabetical sorting in the list of options to
facilitate lookup for user.

There is some text editing done to make old descriptions better fit
into the list-style format.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-19 10:56:49 -08:00
Alexandr Miloslavskiy
2b7460d167 doc: stash: split options from description (1)
This patch moves blocks of text as-is to make it easier to review the
next patch.

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-19 10:56:49 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
57d8f4b4c7 doc(stash): clarify the description of save
The original phrasing of this paragraph made at least one person stumble
over the word "from" (thinking that it was a typo and "from" was
intended), and other readers chimed in, agreeing that it was confusing:
https://public-inbox.org/git/0102016b8d597569-c1f6cfdc-cb45-4428-8737-cb1bc30655d8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com/#t

Let's rewrite that paragraph for clarity.

Inspired-by-a-patch-by: Catalin Criste <cris_linu_w@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-11 14:28:04 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
f496b064fc Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.

* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
  completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
  switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
  t2027: use test_must_be_empty
  Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
  help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
  doc: promote "git restore"
  user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
  completion: support restore
  t: add tests for restore
  restore: support --patch
  restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
  restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
  restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
  restore: add --worktree and --staged
  checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
  restore: disable overlay mode by default
  restore: make pathspec mandatory
  restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
  checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
  doc: promote "git switch"
  ...
2019-07-09 15:25:44 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
328c6cb853 doc: promote "git switch"
The new command "git switch" is added to avoid the confusion of
one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new users. They are also helpful
to avoid ambiguation context.

For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands...

The "Checking out files" progress line in unpack-trees.c is also updated
to "Updating files" to be neutral to both git-checkout and git-switch.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-04-02 13:57:00 +09:00
Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu
bef55dcf27 stash: mention options in show synopsis
Mention in the documentation, that `show` accepts any
option known to `git diff`.

Signed-off-by: Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu <ungureanupaulsebastian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 09:41:40 +09:00
Thomas Gummerer
0a790f09c6 git-stash.txt: remove extra square bracket
In 1ada5020b3 ("stash: use stash_push for no verb form", 2017-02-28),
when the pathspec argument was introduced in 'git stash', that was also
documented.  However I forgot to remove an extra square bracket after
the '--message' argument, even though the square bracket should have
been after the pathspec argument (where it was also added).

Remove the extra square bracket after the '--message' argument, to show
that the pathspec argument should be used with the 'push' verb.

While the pathspec argument can be used without the push verb, that's a
special case described later in the man page, and removing the first extra
square bracket instead of the second one makes the synopis easier to
understand.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-27 19:09:13 -07:00
Phil Hord
0d5f844f0a doc: prefer 'stash push' over 'stash save'
Although `git stash save` was deprecated recently, some parts of the
documentation still refer to it instead of `push`.

Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-22 13:40:25 +09:00
Thomas Gummerer
fd2ebf14db stash: mark "git stash save" deprecated in the man page
'git stash push' fixes a historical wart in the interface of 'git stash
save'.  As 'git stash push' has all functionality of 'git stash save',
with a nicer, more consistent user interface deprecate 'git stash
save'.  To do this, remove it from the synopsis of the man page, and
move it to a separate section, stating that it is deprecated.

Helped-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-27 09:59:11 +09:00
Thomas Gummerer
db37745eef stash: replace "git stash save" with "git stash push" in the documentation
"git stash push" is the newer interface for creating a stash.  While we
are still keeping "git stash save" around for the time being, it's better
to point new users of "git stash" to the more modern (and more feature
rich) interface, instead of teaching them the older version that we
might want to phase out in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-27 09:58:38 +09:00
Liam Beguin
e01db917d8 stash: update documentation to use 'stash entry'
Most of the time, a 'stash entry' is called a 'stash'. Lets try to make
this more consistent and use 'stash entry' instead.

Signed-off-by: Liam Beguin <liambeguin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-18 22:16:36 -07:00
Thomas Gummerer
9e140909f6 stash: allow pathspecs in the no verb form
Now that stash_push is used in the no verb form of stash, allow
specifying the command line for this form as well.  Always use -- to
disambiguate pathspecs from other non-option arguments.

Also make git stash -p an alias for git stash push -p.  This allows
users to use git stash -p <pathspec>.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-28 14:21:10 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer
1ada5020b3 stash: use stash_push for no verb form
Now that we have stash_push, which accepts pathspec arguments, use
it instead of stash_save in git stash without any additional verbs.

Previously we allowed git stash -- -message, which is no longer allowed
after this patch.  Messages starting with a hyphen was allowed since
3c2eb80f, ("stash: simplify defaulting to "save" and reject unknown
options").  However it was never the intent to allow that, but rather it
was allowed accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-28 14:21:10 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer
df6bba0937 stash: teach 'push' (and 'create_stash') to honor pathspec
While working on a repository, it's often helpful to stash the changes
of a single or multiple files, and leave others alone.  Unfortunately
git currently offers no such option.  git stash -p can be used to work
around this, but it's often impractical when there are a lot of changes
over multiple files.

Allow 'git stash push' to take pathspec to specify which paths to stash.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-28 14:21:05 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer
f5727e26e4 stash: introduce push verb
Introduce a new git stash push verb in addition to git stash save.  The
push verb is used to transition from the current command line arguments
to a more conventional way, in which the message is given as an argument
to the -m option.

This allows us to have pathspecs at the end of the command line
arguments like other Git commands do, so that the user can say which
subset of paths to stash (and leave others behind).

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-19 23:47:41 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer
20a7e06172 Documentation/stash: remove mention of git reset --hard
Don't mention git reset --hard in the documentation for git stash save.
It's an implementation detail that doesn't matter to the end user and
thus shouldn't be exposed to them.  In addition it's not quite true for
git stash -p, and will not be true when a filename argument to limit the
stash to a few files is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-13 14:20:38 -08:00
Aaron M Watson
a56c8f5aab stash: allow stashes to be referenced by index only
Instead of referencing "stash@{n}" explicitly, make it possible to
simply reference as "n".  Most users only reference stashes by their
position in the stash stack (what I refer to as the "index" here).

The syntax for the typical stash (stash@{n}) is slightly annoying and
easy to forget, and sometimes difficult to escape properly in a
script. Because of this the capability to do things with the stash by
simply referencing the index is desirable.

This patch includes the superior implementation provided by Øsse Walle
(thanks for that), with a slight change to fix a broken test in the test
suite. I also merged the test scripts as suggested by Jeff King, and
un-wrapped the documentation as suggested by Junio Hamano.

Signed-off-by: Aaron M Watson <watsona4@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2016-10-26 09:58:10 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
3086c064fb stash: allow "stash show" diff output configurable
Some users might want to see diff (patch) output always rather than
diffstat when [s]he runs 'git stash show'.  Although this can be
done with adding -p option, users are too lazy to type extra three
keys.

Add two variables that control to show diffstat and patch output
respectively.  The stash.showStat is for diffstat and default is
true.  The stat.showPatch is for the patch output and default is
false.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-31 11:29:04 -07:00
John Marshall
c20aec05e3 stash doc: mention short form -k in save description
Document --keep-index's short form -k in both main synopsis and
the save synopsis in the Options section.

Signed-off-by: John Marshall <jm18@sanger.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 09:13:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c1ebd90c83 Revert "git stash: avoid data loss when "git stash save" kills a directory"
This reverts commit a73653130e, as it
has been reported that "ls-files --killed" is too time-consuming in
a deep directory with too many untracked crufts (e.g. $HOME/.git
tracking only a few files).

We'd need to revisit it later but "ls-files --killed" needs to be
optimized before it happens.
2013-08-14 09:53:43 -07:00
Petr Baudis
a73653130e git stash: avoid data loss when "git stash save" kills a directory
"stash save" is about saving the local change to the working tree,
but also about restoring the state of the last commit to the working
tree.  When a local change is to turn a non-directory to a directory,
in order to restore the non-directory, everything in the directory
needs to be removed.

Which is fine when running "git stash save --include-untracked",
but without that option, untracked, newly created files in the
directory will have to be discarded, if the state you are restoring
to has a non-directory at the same path as the directory.

Introduce a safety valve to fail the operation in such case, using
the "ls-files --killed" which was designed for this exact purpose.

The "stash save" is stopped when untracked files need to be
discarded because their leading path ceased to be a directory, and
the user is required to pass --force to really have the data
removed.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-01 14:23:24 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
bd514cada4 stash: introduce 'git stash store'
save_stash() contains the logic for doing two potentially independent
operations; the first is preparing the stash merge commit, and the
second is updating the stash ref/ reflog accordingly.  While the first
operation is abstracted out into a create_stash() for callers to access
via 'git stash create', the second one is not.  Fix this by factoring
out the logic for storing the stash into a store_stash() that callers
can access via 'git stash store'.

Like create, store is not intended for end user interactive use, but for
callers in other scripts.  We can simplify the logic in the
rebase.autostash feature using this new subcommand.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-17 11:43:13 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
aa7e722dfe stash doc: document short form -p in synopsis
'git stash save' can take -p, the short form of --patch, as an option.
Document this.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-17 09:21:59 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
2be43516dd stash doc: add a warning about using create
Add a note saying that the user probably wants "save" in the create
description.  While at it, document that it can optionally take a
message in the synopsis.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-17 09:21:52 -07:00
Sébastien Loriot
5badfdcf88 Documentation/git-stash.txt: add a missing verb
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Loriot <sloriot.ml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-10 08:18:25 -08:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
David Caldwell
787513027a stash: Add --include-untracked option to stash and remove all untracked files
The --include-untracked option acts like the normal "git stash save" but
also adds all untracked files in the working directory to the stash and then
calls "git clean --force --quiet" to restore the working directory to a
pristine state.

This is useful for projects that need to run release scripts. With this
option, the release scripts can be from the main working directory so one
does not have to maintain a "clean" directory in parallel just for
releasing. Basically the work-flow becomes:

   $ git tag release-1.0
   $ git stash --include-untracked
   $ make release
   $ git clean -f
   $ git stash pop

"git stash" alone is not enough in this case--it leaves untracked files
lying around that might mess up a release process that expects everything to
be very clean or might let a release succeed that should actually fail (due
to a new source file being created that hasn't been committed yet).

Signed-off-by: David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-26 12:50:46 -07:00
Valentin Haenel
f2808a50a6 git-stash.txt: better docs for '--patch'
Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis and options.  Also
refer the reader to the patch mode description of git-add documentation.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-05 12:43:11 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
The point of these sections is generally to:

  1. Give credit where it is due.

  2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
     file bug reports.

But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame.  For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.

So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.

Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Jon Seymour
b0c6bf4a87 detached-stash: update Documentation
Update the documentation to indicate that git stash branch only attempts
to drop the specified stash if it looks like stash reference.

Also changed the synopsis to more clearly indicate which commands require
a stash entry reference as opposed to merely a stash-like commit.

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-21 23:51:22 -07:00
Jeff King
cc1b8d8bc6 docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhere
It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.

This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:

  - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
    that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
    indicate that it was a hierarchy.  I didn't do the same for longer
    paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
    "refs/heads/").

  - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
    unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).

  - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
    refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17 21:40:09 -08:00
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
Thomas Rast
ca768288b6 Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Use `code snippet` style instead of 'emphasis' for `git cmd ...`
according to the following rules:

* The SYNOPSIS sections are left untouched.

* If the intent is that the user type the command exactly as given, it
  is `code`.
  If the user is only loosely referred to a command and/or option, it
  remains 'emphasised'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
2010-01-10 13:01:25 +01:00
Thomas Rast
b7b10385a8 stash list: drop the default limit of 10 stashes
'git stash list' had an undocumented limit of 10 stashes, unless other
git-log arguments were specified.  This surprised at least one user,
but possibly served to cut the output below a screenful without using
a pager.

Since the last commit, 'git stash list' will fire up a pager according
to the same rules as the 'git log' it calls, so we can drop the limit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-19 22:28:26 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6ff9ae9f97 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.4' into maint
* maint-1.6.4:
  git-stash documentation: mention default options for 'list'
2009-10-13 01:01:04 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
0a0c342568 git-stash documentation: mention default options for 'list'
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-12 16:16:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
54f0bdc811 Merge branch 'tr/reset-checkout-patch'
* tr/reset-checkout-patch:
  stash: simplify defaulting to "save" and reject unknown options
  Make test case number unique
  tests: disable interactive hunk selection tests if perl is not available
  DWIM 'git stash save -p' for 'git stash -p'
  Implement 'git stash save --patch'
  Implement 'git checkout --patch'
  Implement 'git reset --patch'
  builtin-add: refactor the meat of interactive_add()
  Add a small patch-mode testing library
  git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
  Make 'git stash -k' a short form for 'git stash save --keep-index'
2009-09-07 15:24:38 -07:00