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Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
75df1f434f commit: add --cleanup=scissors
Since 1a72cfd (commit -v: strip diffs and submodule shortlogs from the
commit message - 2013-12-05) we have a less fragile way to cut out
"git status" at the end of a commit message but it's only enabled for
stripping submodule shortlogs.

Add new cleanup option that reuses the same mechanism for the entire
"git status" without accidentally removing lines starting with '#'.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-25 09:35:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
55ca3f99ae commit-tree: add and document --no-gpg-sign
Document how to override commit.gpgsign configuration that is set to
true per "git commit" invocation (parse-options machinery lets us
say "--no-gpg-sign" to do so).

"git commit-tree" does not use parse-options, so manually add the
corresponding option for now.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 14:51:35 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
0460ed2c93 documentation: trivial style cleanups
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17 12:09:21 -07:00
Anders Granskogen Bjørnstad
9a3e36cd67 Documentation/git-commit: Typo under --edit
-C takes a commit object, not a file.

Signed-off-by: Anders Granskogen Bjørnstad <andersgb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-02 12:03:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
788e98f8c0 Merge branch 'cn/commit-amend-doc' into maint
* cn/commit-amend-doc:
  Documentation/git-commit: reword the --amend explanation
2013-04-12 13:41:47 -07:00
Carlos Martín Nieto
aa7b8c657e Documentation/git-commit: reword the --amend explanation
The explanation for 'git commit --amend' talks about preparing a tree
object, which shouldn't be how user-facing documentation talks about
commit.

Reword it to say it works as usual, but replaces the current commit.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-05 07:40:39 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
14c79b1faa Merge branch 'bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option' into maint
'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.

* bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option:
  Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
  git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary
  t7502: demonstrate breakage with a commit message with trailing newlines
  t/t7502: compare entire commit message with what was expected
2013-04-03 09:26:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d011ab4312 Merge branch 'maint-1.8.1' into maint
* maint-1.8.1:
  merge-tree: fix typo in merge-tree.c::unresolved
  git-commit doc: describe use of multiple `-m` options
  git-pull doc: fix grammo ("conflicts" is plural)
2013-03-27 10:51:10 -07:00
Christian Helmuth
6bf6366cc6 git-commit doc: describe use of multiple -m options
The text is copied from Documentation/git-tag.txt.

Signed-off-by: Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth@genode-labs.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-27 09:32:02 -07:00
Brandon Casey
46fbf75364 Documentation/git-commit.txt: rework the --cleanup section
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 12:36:06 -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
Ralf Thielow
51fb3a3dfa commit: make default of "cleanup" option configurable
The default of the "cleanup" option in "git commit"
is not configurable. Users who don't want to use the
default have to pass this option on every commit since
there's no way to configure it. This commit introduces
a new config option "commit.cleanup" which can be used
to change the default of the "cleanup" option in
"git commit".

Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10 11:45:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4f96f1fbab Merge branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign' into maint
* branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign':
  Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"
2012-12-27 15:25:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cf48960b6d Merge branch 'mm/maint-doc-commit-edit' into maint
* mm/maint-doc-commit-edit:
  Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly
2012-11-20 10:14:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
cdcd793213 Merge branch 'as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite' into maint
* as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite:
  commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description
2012-11-20 10:14:47 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6b34d6e692 Merge branch 'mm/maint-doc-commit-edit'
* mm/maint-doc-commit-edit:
  Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly
2012-11-15 10:24:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
80b2234e9b Merge branch 'as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite'
* as/maint-doc-fix-no-post-rewrite:
  commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description
2012-11-15 10:24:29 -08:00
Jeff King
f07e5551a8 Merge branch 'tj/maint-doc-commit-sign'
* tj/maint-doc-commit-sign:
  Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"
2012-11-04 08:00:47 -05:00
Andreas Schwab
77effefefd commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description
In e858af6 (commit: document a couple of options) the description of the
--no-post-rewrite option was put inside the paragraph for the --amend
option.  Move it down after the paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-11-02 09:22:02 -04:00
Matthieu Moy
ae45320c40 Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-11-02 07:49:28 -04:00
Tom Jones
098bbdc31c Add -S, --gpg-sign option to manpage of "git commit"
git commit -S, --gpg-sign was mentioned in the program's help message,
but not in the manpage.

This adds an equivalent entry for the option in the manpage.

Signed-off-by: Tom Jones <tom@oxix.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-29 04:16:49 -04:00
Jeff King
f3f47a1e8d status: add --long output format option
You can currently set the output format to --short or
--porcelain. There is no --long, because we default to it
already. However, you may want to override an alias that
uses "--short" to get back to the default.

This requires a little bit of refactoring, because currently
we use STATUS_FORMAT_LONG internally to mean the same as
"the user did not specify anything". By expanding the enum
to include STATUS_FORMAT_NONE, we can distinguish between
the implicit and explicit cases. This effects these
conditions:

  1. The user has asked for NUL termination. With NONE, we
     currently default to turning on the porcelain mode.
     With an explicit --long, we would in theory use NUL
     termination with the long mode, but it does not support
     it. So we can just complain and die.

  2. When an output format is given to "git commit", we
     default to "--dry-run". This behavior would now kick in
     when "--long" is given, too.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-10-18 15:01:35 -07:00
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
Junio C Hamano
9c3f19fdfd Merge branch 'jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg'
Document $GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG file.

* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg:
  commit: document the temporary commit message file
2012-07-24 14:05:23 -07:00
Jeff King
41f597d9bb commit: document the temporary commit message file
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want
to know about it for two reasons:

  1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself
     for formatting a commit message.

  2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want
     to recover the commit message they typed.

Let's put a note in git-commit(1).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 15:10:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
45362148fa Merge branch 'rr/doc-commit'
* rr/doc-commit:
  commit: document a couple of options
2012-06-25 11:24:42 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
e858af6d50 commit: document a couple of options
Document git commit '--branch' and '--no-post-rewrite'.  Mention that
'-z' can also be spelt as '--null'.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-08 08:14:22 -07:00
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
Junio C Hamano
1f08c2c825 Documentation/git-commit: rephrase the "initial-ness" of templates
The description of "commit -t <file>" said the file is used "as the
initial version" of the commit message, but in the context of an SCM,
"version" is a loaded word that can needlesslyl confuse readers.

Explain the purpose of the mechanism without using "version".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-03 16:41:21 -07:00
Adam Monsen
b0ad5e2780 git-commit.txt: clarify -t requires editing message
Make it clear that, when using commit --template, the message *must* be
changed or the commit will be aborted.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Ivan Heffner <iheffner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-01 15:20:38 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
347231f735 Merge branch 'jn/maint-doc-dashdash' into jn/doc-dashdash
* jn/maint-doc-dashdash:
  Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
2011-06-29 09:25:51 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
565e135a1e Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc
AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces
(outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash.
Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not
followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus
signs.  Thus from time to time there have been patches to add
backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant
to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line;
see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly,
2006-05-05, for example.

AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating
double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash,
though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages
(e.g., HTML).  Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash
before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see
v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30).

AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that
requirement.  Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not
rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by
alphanumeric characters.  The unescaped markup for option names (e.g.,
"--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into
Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em
dashes when formatted by an older toolchain.  (This patch will not
change that.)

The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git
web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash
by current asciidoc.  Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in
sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line
argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use
"{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command
name.  The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work
around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23).

List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em".

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29 09:24:26 -07:00
Conrad Irwin
b4bd466820 Add support for -p/--patch to git-commit
The --interactive flag is already shared by git add and git commit,
share the -p and --patch flags too.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 17:02:33 -07:00
Conrad Irwin
1020d08786 Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive
Change the behaviour of git commit --interactive so that when you abort
the commit (by leaving the commit message empty) the index remains
unchanged.

Hitherto an aborted commit --interactive has added the selected hunks to
the index regardless of whether the commit succeeded or not.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-08 12:28:30 -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
Junio C Hamano
66ecd2d053 Merge branch 'js/cherry-pick-usability'
* js/cherry-pick-usability:
  Teach commit about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
  bash: teach __git_ps1 about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
  Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
  t3507: introduce pristine-detach helper
2011-03-09 15:56:17 -08:00
Jay Soffian
37f7a85793 Teach commit about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
Previously the user was advised to use commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
a conflicting cherry-pick. While this would preserve the original
commit's authorship, it would sadly discard cherry-pick's carefully
crafted MERGE_MSG (which contains the list of conflicts as well as the
original commit-id in the case of cherry-pick -x).

On the other hand, if a bare 'commit' were performed, it would preserve
the MERGE_MSG while resetting the authorship.

In other words, there was no way to simultaneously take the authorship
from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.

This change fixes that situation. A bare 'commit' will now take the
authorship from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.
If the user wishes to reset authorship, that must now be done explicitly
via --reset-author.

A side-benefit of passing commit authorship along this way is that we
can eliminate redundant authorship parsing code from revert.c.

(Also removed an unused include from revert.c)

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 22:58:32 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
4cc6260684 Documentation: clarify -u<mode> option defaults
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 21:48:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9bec60d3a5 Merge branch 'pn/commit-autosquash'
* pn/commit-autosquash:
  add tests of commit --squash
  commit: --squash option for use with rebase --autosquash
  add tests of commit --fixup
  commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
  pretty.c: teach format_commit_message() to reencode the output
  commit: helper methods to reduce redundant blocks of code

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-commit.txt
	t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
2010-12-03 16:13:06 -08:00
Jari Aalto
dc91e1b2cb git-commit.txt: (synopsis): move -i and -o before "--"
All options, including -i and -o, must come before "--" which is the
end of options marker.

Reported-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-01 11:26:43 -08:00
Pat Notz
89ac1223c0 commit: --squash option for use with rebase --autosquash
This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
with 'rebase --autosquash'.  The resulting commit message will be
"squash! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
message.  This option can be used with other commit message options
such as -m, -c, -C and -F.

If an editor is invoked (as with -c or -eF or no message options) the
commit message is seeded with the correctly formatted subject line.

Example usage:
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -m "clever comment"
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -F msgfile
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -C deadbeef

Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-04 13:53:35 -07:00
Pat Notz
d71b8ba7c9 commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
with 'rebase --autosquash'.  The resulting commit message will be
"fixup! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
message.

Example usage:
  $ git commit --fixup HEAD~2

Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-04 13:53:35 -07:00
Ville Skyttä
6b677a28ff Documentation: spelling fixes
[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-20 16:59:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4a2b34eb0c Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
2010-06-07 15:46:01 -07:00
Jay Soffian
3334729cf2 commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
commit --author was added by 146ea06 (git commit --author=$name: look $name up
in existing commits), but its documentation was sorely lacking compared to its
excellent commit message. This commit tries to improve the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06 22:13:51 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
c9b5fde759 Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages
Change git-commit(1) to accept the --allow-empty-message option
to allow a commit with an empty message.  This is analogous to the
existing --allow-empty option which allows a commit that records
no changes.  As these are mainly for interoperating with foreign SCM
systems, and are not meant for normal use, ensure that "git commit -h"
does not talk about them.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-07 15:22:57 -07:00
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
Jing Xue
97e9a2216f replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc
The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached'
to unstage is just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'.

Suggested by Jan Hudec.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-26 16:57:24 -07:00