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Jacob Helwig
e9e921981d Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)
Ever since the "See linkgit:git-config[1]..." paragraph was added to the
description for --untracked-files (d6293d1), the paragraphs for the
following options were indented at the same level as the "See
linkgit:git-config[1]" paragraph.  This problem showed up in the
manpages, but not in the HTML documentation.

While this does fix the alignment of the options following
--untracked-files in the manpage, the "See linkgit..." portion of the
description does not retain its previous indentation level in the
manpages, or HTML documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-19 19:03:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
add0951ab0 Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
  Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
  Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
  Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
  Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-config.txt
	Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-20 20:28:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f8eb50f60b Merge branch 'jh/commit-status'
* jh/commit-status:
  t7502: test commit.status, --status and --no-status
  commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-commit.txt
	builtin-commit.c
2010-01-17 16:00:07 -08:00
James P. Howard, II
bed575e400 commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status
A new configuration variable commit.status, and new command line
options --status, and --no-status control whether or not the git
status information is included in the commit message template
when using an editor to prepare the commit message.  It does not
affect the effects of a user's commit.template settings.

Signed-off-by: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-13 00:01:53 -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
Junio C Hamano
762c710b36 Merge branch 'mv/commit-date'
* mv/commit-date:
  Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
  builtin-commit: add --date option
2010-01-07 15:35:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2ff10c98e Merge branch 'jk/1.7.0-status'
* jk/1.7.0-status:
  status/commit: do not suggest "reset HEAD <path>" while merging
  commit/status: "git add <path>" is not necessarily how to resolve
  commit/status: check $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD only once
  t7508-status: test all modes with color
  t7508-status: status --porcelain ignores relative paths setting
  status: reduce duplicated setup code
  status: disable color for porcelain format
  status -s: obey color.status
  builtin-commit: refactor short-status code into wt-status.c
  t7508-status.sh: Add tests for status -s
  status -s: respect the status.relativePaths option
  docs: note that status configuration affects only long format
  commit: support alternate status formats
  status: add --porcelain output format
  status: refactor format option parsing
  status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
  status: typo fix in usage
  git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore
  git stat -s: short status output
  git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit"

Conflicts:
	t/t4034-diff-words.sh
	wt-status.c
2009-12-27 23:01:32 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
788070a261 Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 12:41:37 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
02b47cd77e builtin-commit: add --date option
This is like --author: allow a user to specify a given date without
using the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 12:41:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c142465c07 Merge branch 'em/commit-claim' 2009-11-30 14:43:26 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
b4479f0747 add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to
use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere.  This should make
the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with
spaces) a little more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-13 12:20:50 -08:00
Erick Mattos
c51f6ceed6 commit -c/-C/--amend: reset timestamp and authorship to committer with --reset-author
When we use -c, -C, or --amend, we are trying one of two things: using the
source as a template or modifying a commit with corrections.

When these options are used, the authorship and timestamp recorded in the
newly created commit are always taken from the original commit.  This is
inconvenient when we just want to borrow the commit log message or when
our change to the code is so significant that we should take over the
authorship (with the blame for bugs we introduce, of course).

The new --reset-author option is meant to solve this need by regenerating
the timestamp and setting the committer as the new author.

Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 16:59:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
12efe45a33 git-commit doc: remove duplicated --dry-run description
60c2993 (Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run, 2009-08-15)
wanted to update the documentation to say that "git status" is not the
same as "git commit --dry-run" anymore, but it screwed up and also added
the description of --dry-run that was already present.

Noticed by Johannes Gilger.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-13 11:24:26 -07:00
Jeff King
7c9f7038e9 commit: support alternate status formats
The status command recently grew "short" and "porcelain"
options for alternate output formats. Since status is no
longer "commit --dry-run", these formats are inaccessible to
people who do want to see a dry-run in a parseable form.

This patch makes those formats available to "git commit",
implying the "dry-run" option when they are used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-05 23:16:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60c2993c92 Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-15 01:58:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3a5d13a3c3 commit: --dry-run
This teaches --dry-run option to "git commit".

It is the same as "git status", but in the longer term we would want to
change the semantics of "git status" not to be the preview of commit, and
this is the first step for doing so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-07 23:03:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
efe05b019c Merge branch 'maint' to sync with GIT 1.6.0.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 19:35:55 -08:00
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
Junio C Hamano
c0a4ae5caf Merge branch 'rw/maint-typofix' into rw/typofix
* rw/maint-typofix:
  Fix typos in the documentation.
2008-11-27 01:17:09 -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
Mark Burton
6fc4a7e546 git-commit.txt - mention that files listed on the command line must be known to git.
Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18 16:15:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
310d188f7e Merge branch 'tr/workflow-doc'
* tr/workflow-doc:
  Documentation: add manpage about workflows
  Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting
  Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
2008-10-19 16:07:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3aa615bc5d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit
2008-10-19 15:53:46 -07:00
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
Thomas Rast
97c33c6583 Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting
This points readers at the "Recovering from upstream rebase" warning
in git-rebase(1) when we talk about rewriting published history in the
'reset', 'commit --amend', and 'filter-branch' documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-15 21:22:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
146ea068a0 git commit --author=$name: look $name up in existing commits
This allows "git commit --author=$name" to accept a name that is not in
the required "A U Thor <author@example.xz>" format, and use that to look
up an author name that matches from existing commits.

When using this feature, it is the user's responsibility to give a name
that uniquely matches the name s/he wants, as the logic returns the name
from the first matching commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 21:04:50 -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