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Junio C Hamano
6b0f1d9c47 Merge branch 'nd/doc-header'
Doc formatting fix.

* nd/doc-header:
  doc: keep first level section header in upper case
2018-05-23 14:38:22 +09:00
Jeff King
ee930754d8 apply: clarify "-p" documentation
We're not really removing slashes, but slash-separated path
components. Let's make that more clear.

Reported-by: kelly elton <its.the.doc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-11 12:34:17 +09:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
76a8788c14 doc: keep first level section header in upper case
When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper
case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers
uppercase to keep it close to the final output.

This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's
a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers.

Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where
case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has
suggestions about this.

While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples
vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-02 17:03:33 +09:00
Martin Ågren
7560f547e6 treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to date"
Follow the Oxford style, which says to use "up-to-date" before the noun,
but "up to date" after it. Don't change plumbing (specifically
send-pack.c, but transport.c (git push) also has the same string).

This was produced by grepping for "up-to-date" and "up to date". It
turned out we only had to edit in one direction, removing the hyphens.

Fix a typo in Documentation/git-diff-index.txt while we're there.

Reported-by: Jeffrey Manian <jeffrey.manian@gmail.com>
Reported-by: STEVEN WHITE <stevencharleswhitevoices@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-23 12:17:22 -07:00
Andreas Heiduk
860cd699c2 Documentation: improve description for core.quotePath
Linking the description for pathname quoting to the configuration
variable "core.quotePath" removes inconstistent and incomplete
sections while also giving two hints how to deal with it: Either with
"-c core.quotePath=false" or with "-z".

Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-02 11:40:51 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
16a86d4329 git-apply.txt: mention the behavior inside a subdir
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-24 10:16:52 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
d725fbde4f git-apply.txt: remove a space
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-03-24 10:16:50 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
da0005b885 *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention
This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and
"thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can
decide what to do with them later.

 - am.keepcr
 - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime
 - diff.dirstat .noprefix
 - gitcvs.usecrlfattr
 - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime
 - pull.twohead
 - receive.autogc
 - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-13 22:13:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c536c0755f apply: reject input that touches outside the working area
By default, a patch that affects outside the working area (either a
Git controlled working tree, or the current working directory when
"git apply" is used as a replacement of GNU patch) is rejected as a
mistake (or a mischief).  Git itself does not create such a patch,
unless the user bends over backwards and specifies a non-standard
prefix to "git diff" and friends.

When `git apply` is used as a "better GNU patch", the user can pass
the `--unsafe-paths` option to override this safety check. This
option has no effect when `--index` or `--cached` is in use.

The new test was stolen from Jeff King with slight enhancements.
Note that a few new tests for touching outside the working area by
following a symbolic link are still expected to fail at this step,
but will be fixed in later steps.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-10 13:40:20 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
78fb67f31e apply: document --3way option
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-09 14:40:03 -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
Michał Kiedrowicz
964498e7f9 Documentation: fix a typo in git-apply.txt
git-apply accepts the --cached option, not --cache.

Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-04 10:05:00 -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
Štěpán Němec
62b4698e55 Use angles for placeholders consistently
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 12:29:52 -07:00
Brad King
08b2982645 Documentation: cite git-am from git-apply
Users reading git-apply documentation may also be interested in git-am,
especially after receiving an email created with git-format-patch.  The
documentation for git-am already references git-apply.  Add the reverse.

Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09 09:15:41 -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
Björn Gustavsson
c34ec65567 apply: Use the term "working tree" consistently
The documentation for 'git apply' uses both the terms
"work tree" and "working tree". Since the glossary uses
the term "working tree", change all occurrences of
"work tree" to "working tree".

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22 12:08:08 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
f9821e2b21 apply: Format all options using back-quotes
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22 12:08:07 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
38a39647b4 apply: apply works outside a repository
The documentation for 'git apply' talks about applying a
patch/diff to the index and to the working tree, which seems
to imply that it will not work outside a git repository.

Actually 'git patch' works outside a repository (which can
be useful especially for applying binary or rename patches that
the standard "patch" utility cannot handle), so the documentation
should mention it.

Thanks to Junio for suggesting better wording.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22 12:08:04 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
64485b4aba Clarify and correct -z
The description for -z is too vague and general for the
apply, diff*, and log commands.

Change the description of -z for 'git log' to note that
commits will be separated by NULs.

Change the description of -z for 'git diff*' and 'git apply'
to note that it applies to the --numstat option, and for
'git diff*' also for --raw option.

Also correct the description of the "munging" of pathanmes that
takes place in the absence of -z for the 'git diff*' and
'git apply' commands, namely that apart from the characters mentioned,
double quotes will also be escaped and that the pathname will be
enclosed in double quotes if any characters are escaped.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22 12:08:00 -08:00
Giuseppe Bilotta
86c91f9179 git apply: option to ignore whitespace differences
Introduce --ignore-whitespace option and corresponding config bool to
ignore whitespace differences while applying patches, akin to the
'patch' program.

'git am', 'git rebase' and the bash git completion are made aware of
this option.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-05 11:59:56 -07:00
Björn Steinbrink
c4d5359230 git-apply(1): Clarify that one can select where to apply the patch
The patch can be applied to the work tree, the index or both, but the
short description made it look like it's always applied to both.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-31 15:39:04 -07:00
David J. Mellor
1d035f8564 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes.
The final hunk in this patch corrects what appears to be a typo:

of --> or

Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-02 12:34:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
12ef3d8439 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes.
  added missing backtick in git-apply.txt
2009-02-28 14:39:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
325e9bca37 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint
* maint-1.6.0:
  added missing backtick in git-apply.txt
2009-02-28 14:05:09 -08:00
Danijel Tasov
eb006ccfca added missing backtick in git-apply.txt
Signed-off-by: Danijel Tasov <dt@korn.shell.la>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-28 13:10:16 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
f26c4940c4 parse-opt: migrate builtin-apply.
The only incompatible change is that the user how have to use '--'
before a patch file if it is named "--build-fake-ancestor=something".

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-30 00:03:48 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6ecb1ee28a git-apply:--include=pathspec
This allows --include=pathspec, similar to --exclude=pathspec.

The rule when one or both of these are used is that the include/exclude
patterns are examined in the order they are given on the command line, and
the first match determines if a patch to each path is used or not.  Hence:

    $ git apply --include='specific.h' --exclude='*.h' <diff

would apply the patch to specific.h header file, but all other patches in
the input file to other header files are ignored.  A patch to a path that
does not match any include/exclude pattern is used by default if there is
no include pattern on the command line, and ignored if there is any
include pattern.

This originally came from Joe Perches, but both the design of the
semantics and the implementation have been redone complately.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-06 18:56:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e9a9d6edee Merge branch 'js/apply-root'
* js/apply-root:
  git-apply --directory: make --root more similar to GNU diff
  apply --root: thinkofix.
  Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"
2008-07-09 16:58:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f556388747 git-apply --directory: make --root more similar to GNU diff
Applying a patch in the directory that is different from what the patch
records is done with --directory option in GNU diff.  The --root option we
introduced previously does the same, and we can call it the same way to
give users more familiar feel.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-06 19:33:08 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
2fd02c92db manpages: italicize nongit command names (if they are in teletype font)
Some manual pages use teletype font to set command names. We
change them to use italics, instead.  This creates a visual
distinction between names of commands and command lines that
can be typed at the command line. It is also more consistent
with other man pages outside Git.

In this patch, the commands named are non-git commands like bash.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.

Using

	doit () {
	  perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
	}
	for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
	        merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
	do
	  doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i"
	done
	git diff

.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
0979c10649 manpages: italicize command names
This includes nongit commands like RCS 'merge'.  This patch only
italicizes names of commands if they had no formatting before.

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
Johannes Schindelin
c4730f35cc Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"
With "git apply --root=<root>", all file names in the patch are prepended
with <root>.  If a "-p" value was given, the paths are stripped _before_
prepending <root>.

Wished for by HPA.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01 18:04:28 -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
Johannes Schindelin
c14b9d1e33 Allow git-apply to recount the lines in a hunk (AKA recountdiff)
Sometimes, the easiest way to fix up a patch is to edit it directly, even
adding or deleting lines.  Now, many people are not as divine as certain
benevolent dictators as to update the hunk headers correctly at the first
try.

So teach the tool to do it for us.

[jc: with tests]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-28 01:19:42 -07:00
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -07:00
Christian Couder
9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(1)
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
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
Wincent Colaiuta
71a9883db2 Documentation: minor grammar fix for "git apply"
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-12 10:59:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
91af7ae54f core.whitespace: documentation updates.
This adds description of core.whitespace to the manual page of git-config,
and updates the stale description of whitespace handling in the manual
page of git-apply.

Also demote "strip" to a synonym status for "fix" as the value of --whitespace
option given to git-apply.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-24 16:47:08 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
7a98869935 apply: get rid of --index-info in favor of --build-fake-ancestor
git-am used "git apply -z --index-info" to find the original versions
of the files touched by the diff, to be able to do an inexpensive
three-way merge.

This operation makes only sense in a repository, since the index
information in the diff refers to blobs, which have to be present in
the current repository.

Therefore, teach "git apply" a mode to write out the result as an
index file to begin with, obviating the need for scripts to do it
themselves.

The sole user for --index-info is "git am" is converted to
use --build-fake-ancestor in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-18 17:41:18 -07:00
Sven Verdoolaege
e06c5a6c7b git-apply: apply submodule changes
Apply "Subproject commit HEX" changes produced by git-diff.
As usual in the current git, only the superproject itself is actually
modified (possibly creating empty directories for new submodules).
Any checked-out submodule is left untouched and is not required to
be up-to-date.

With clean-ups from Junio C Hamano.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-15 21:39:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Andrew Ruder
0b9a9dd00a Update git-apply documentation
Document -v (short form of --verbose).  Redo usage
to not wrap on 80 column terminal with typical
settings.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16 01:14:46 -07:00
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
Junio C Hamano
2f89543eaf Document --numstat in git-apply and git-diff
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-26 00:15:26 -08:00
Petr Baudis
f847c07b9a git-apply: Documentation typo fix
inacurate -> inaccurate, sorry if it was a pun. ;-)

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-18 11:09:55 -08:00