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Junio C Hamano
7a54d74045 Merge branch 'ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs'
Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".

* ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs:
  docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that fuzzy map to built-ins
  docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-in
  log docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
  difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
  notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections
  apply docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
  send-email docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
  grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
  docs: add and use include template for config/* includes
2022-09-14 12:56:40 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00c80534f6 log docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
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
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
5bd277e2e2 notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections
Combine the various "notes" configuration sections spread across
Documentation/config/notes.txt and Documentation/git-notes.txt to live
in the former, and to be included in the latter.

We'll now forward link from "git notes" to the "CONFIGURATION" section
below, rather than to "git-config(1)" when discussing configuration
variables that are (also) discussed in that section.

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
Derrick Stolee
3e103ed23f log: create log.initialDecorationSet=all
The previous change introduced the --clear-decorations option for users
who do not want their decorations limited to a narrow set of ref
namespaces.

Add a config option that is equivalent to specifying --clear-decorations
by default.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-05 14:13:12 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
748706d713 log: add --clear-decorations option
The previous changes introduced a new default ref filter for decorations
in the 'git log' command. This can be overridden using
--decorate-refs=HEAD and --decorate-refs=refs/, but that is cumbersome
for users.

Instead, add a --clear-decorations option that resets all previous
filters to a blank filter that accepts all refs.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-05 14:13:12 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
92156291ca log: add default decoration filter
When a user runs 'git log', they expect a certain set of helpful
decorations. This includes:

* The HEAD ref
* Branches (refs/heads/)
* Stashes (refs/stash)
* Tags (refs/tags/)
* Remote branches (refs/remotes/)
* Replace refs (refs/replace/ or $GIT_REPLACE_REF_BASE)

Each of these namespaces was selected due to existing test cases that
verify these namespaces appear in the decorations. In particular,
stashes and replace refs can have custom colors from the
color.decorate.<slot> config option.

While one test checks for a decoration from notes, it only applies to
the tip of refs/notes/commit (or its configured ref name). Notes form
their own kind of decoration instead. Modify the expected output for the
tests in t4013 that expect this note decoration.  There are several
tests throughout the codebase that verify that --decorate-refs,
--decorate-refs-exclude, and log.excludeDecoration work as designed and
the tests continue to pass without intervention.

However, there are other refs that are less helpful to show as
decoration:

* Prefetch refs (refs/prefetch/)
* Rebase refs (refs/rebase-merge/ and refs/rebase-apply/)
* Bundle refs (refs/bundle/) [!]

[!] The bundle refs are part of a parallel series that bootstraps a repo
    from a bundle file, storing the bundle's refs into the repo's
    refs/bundle/ namespace.

In the case of prefetch refs, 96eaffebbf (maintenance: set
log.excludeDecoration durin prefetch, 2021-01-19) added logic to add
refs/prefetch/ to the log.excludeDecoration config option. Additional
feedback pointed out that having such a side-effect can be confusing and
perhaps not helpful to users. Instead, we should hide these ref
namespaces that are being used by Git for internal reasons but are not
helpful for the users to see.

The way to provide a seamless user experience without setting the config
is to modify the default decoration filters to match our expectation of
what refs the user actually wants to see.

In builtin/log.c, after parsing the --decorate-refs and
--decorate-refs-exclude options from the command-line, call
set_default_decoration_filter(). This method populates the exclusions
from log.excludeDecoration, then checks if the list of pattern
modifications are empty. If none are specified, then the default set is
restricted to the set of inclusions mentioned earlier (HEAD, branches,
etc.).  A previous change introduced the ref_namespaces array, which
includes all of these currently-used namespaces. The 'decoration' value
is non-zero when that namespace is associated with a special coloring
and fits into the list of "expected" decorations as described above,
which makes the implementation of this filter very simple.

Note that the logic in ref_filter_match() in log-tree.c follows this
matching pattern:

 1. If there are exclusion patterns and the ref matches one, then ignore
    the decoration.

 2. If there are inclusion patterns and the ref matches one, then
    definitely include the decoration.

 3. If there are config-based exclusions from log.excludeDecoration and
    the ref matches one, then ignore the decoration.

With this logic in mind, we need to ensure that we do not populate our
new defaults if any of these filters are manually set. Specifically, if
a user runs

	git -c log.excludeDecoration=HEAD log

then we expect the HEAD decoration to not appear. If we left the default
inclusions in the set, then HEAD would match that inclusion before
reaching the config-based exclusions.

A potential alternative would be to check the list of default inclusions
at the end, after the config-based exclusions. This would still create a
behavior change for some uses of --decorate-refs-exclude=<X>, and could
be overwritten somewhat with --decorate-refs=refs/ and
--decorate-refs=HEAD. However, it no longer becomes possible to include
refs outside of the defaults while also excluding some using
log.excludeDecoration.

Another alternative would be to exclude the known namespaces that are
not intended to be shown. This would reduce the visible effect of the
change for expert users who use their own custom ref namespaces. The
implementation change would be very simple to swap due to our use of
ref_namespaces:

	int i;
	struct string_list *exclude = decoration_filter->exclude_ref_pattern;

	/*
	 * No command-line or config options were given, so
	 * populate with sensible defaults.
	 */
	for (i = 0; i < NAMESPACE__COUNT; i++) {
		if (ref_namespaces[i].decoration)
			continue;

		string_list_append(exclude, ref_namespaces[i].ref);
	}

The main downside of this approach is that we expect to add new hidden
namespaces in the future, and that means that Git versions will be less
stable in how they behave as those namespaces are added.

It is critical that we provide ways for expert users to disable this
behavior change via command-line options and config keys. These changes
will be implemented in a future change.

Add a test that checks that the defaults are not added when
--decorate-refs is specified. We verify this by showing that HEAD is not
included as it normally would.  Also add a test that shows that the
default filter avoids the unwanted decorations from refs/prefetch,
refs/rebase-merge,
and refs/bundle.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-05 14:13:12 -07:00
Jean-Noël Avila
133db54dab doc: use only hyphens as word separators in placeholders
According to CodingGuidelines, multi-word placeholders should use
hyphens as word separators.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-09 09:39:11 -08:00
Đoàn Trần Công Danh
a0538e5c8b doc/log: correct default for --decorate
There're two different default options for log --decorate:
* Should `--decorate` be given without any arguments, it's default to
  `short`
* Should neither `--decorate` nor `--no-decorate` be given, it's default
  to the `log.decorate` or `auto`.

We documented the former, but not the latter.

Let's document them, too.

Reported-by: Andy AO <zen96285@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-08 13:34:48 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
aac006aa99 Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merge'
"git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option.

* so/log-diff-merge: (32 commits)
  t4013: add tests for --diff-merges=first-parent
  doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description
  doc/rev-list-options: document --first-parent changes merges format
  doc/diff-generate-patch: mention new --diff-merges option
  doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options
  diff-merges: add '--diff-merges=1' as synonym for 'first-parent'
  diff-merges: add old mnemonic counterparts to --diff-merges
  diff-merges: let new options enable diff without -p
  diff-merges: do not imply -p for new options
  diff-merges: implement new values for --diff-merges
  diff-merges: make -m/-c/--cc explicitly mutually exclusive
  diff-merges: refactor opt settings into separate functions
  diff-merges: get rid of now empty diff_merges_init_revs()
  diff-merges: group diff-merge flags next to each other inside 'rev_info'
  diff-merges: split 'ignore_merges' field
  diff-merges: fix -m to properly override -c/--cc
  t4013: add tests for -m failing to override -c/--cc
  t4013: support test_expect_failure through ':failure' magic
  diff-merges: revise revs->diff flag handling
  diff-merges: handle imply -p on -c/--cc logic for log.c
  ...
2021-02-05 16:40:44 -08:00
Sergey Organov
1d24509b7b doc/git-show: include --diff-merges description
Move description of --diff-merges option from git-log.txt to
diff-options.txt so that it is included in the git-show help.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
Sergey Organov
b5ffa9ec10 doc/git-log: describe new --diff-merges options
Describe all the new --diff-merges options in the git-log.txt and
adopt description of originals accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-12-21 13:47:32 -08:00
Philippe Blain
f9c8d8cbbe doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'
The description of the '-L' option for `git log` and `gitk` is almost
the same, but is repeated in both 'git-log.txt' and 'gitk.txt' (the
difference being that 'git-log.txt' lists the option with a space
after '-L', while 'gitk.txt' lists it as stuck and notes that `gitk`
only understands the stuck form).

Reduce duplication by creating a new file, 'line-range-options.txt',
and include it in both files.

To simplify the presentation, only list the stuck form for both
commands, and remove the note about `gitk` only understanding the stuck
form.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-01 15:54:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a555b514cd Merge branch 'so/log-diff-merges-opt'
Earlier, to countermand the implicit "-m" option when the
"--first-parent" option is used with "git log", we added the
"--[no-]diff-merges" option in the jk/log-fp-implies-m topic.  To
leave the door open to allow the "--diff-merges" option to take
values that instructs how patches for merge commits should be
computed (e.g. "cc"? "-p against first parent?"), redefine
"--diff-merges" to take non-optional value, and implement "off"
that means the same thing as "--no-diff-merges".

* so/log-diff-merges-opt:
  t/t4013: add test for --diff-merges=off
  doc/git-log: describe --diff-merges=off
  revision: change "--diff-merges" option to require parameter
2020-08-17 17:02:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
eca8c62a50 Merge branch 'jk/log-fp-implies-m'
"git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent
commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has
been made to imply "-m".  Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the
previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits.

* jk/log-fp-implies-m:
  doc/git-log: clarify handling of merge commit diffs
  doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options list
  doc/git-log: drop "-r" diff option
  doc/git-log: move "Diff Formatting" from rev-list-options
  log: enable "-m" automatically with "--first-parent"
  revision: add "--no-diff-merges" option to counteract "-m"
  log: drop "--cc implies -m" logic
2020-08-17 17:02:49 -07:00
Sergey Organov
405a2fdf99 doc/git-log: describe --diff-merges=off
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-08-11 14:20:27 -07:00
Jeff King
5fbb4bc191 doc/git-log: clarify handling of merge commit diffs
It can be surprising that git-log doesn't show any diff for merge
commits by default. Arguably "--cc" would be a reasonable default, but
it's very expensive (which is why we turn it on for "git show" but not
for "git log"). Let's at least document the current behavior, including
the recent "--first-parent implies -m" case

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29 13:44:03 -07:00
Jeff King
9a6d515fc3 doc/git-log: move "-t" into diff-options list
The "-t" option is infrequently used; it doesn't deserve a spot near the
top of the options list. Let's push it down into the diff-options
include, near the definition of --raw.

We'll protect it with a git-log ifdef, since it doesn't make any sense
for non-tree diff commands. Note that this means it also shows up in
git-show, but that's a good thing; it applies equally well there.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29 13:44:03 -07:00
Jeff King
6cea104b2c doc/git-log: drop "-r" diff option
This has been the default since 170c04383b (Porcelain level "log" family
should recurse when diffing., 2007-08-27). There's not even a way to
turn it off, so you'd never even want "-r" to override that.

It's not the default for plumbing like diff-tree, of course, but the
option is documented separately there.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29 13:44:03 -07:00
Jeff King
6f2e02aeb0 doc/git-log: move "Diff Formatting" from rev-list-options
Our rev-list-options.txt include has a "Diff Formatting" section, but it
is ifndef'd out for all manpages except git-log. And a few bits of the
text are rather out of date.

We say "some of these options are specific to git-rev-list". That's
obviously silly since we (even before this patch) show the content only
for git-log. But moreover, it's not true; each of the listed options is
meaningful for other diff commands.

We also say "...however other diff options may be given. See git-diff-files
for more options." But there's no need to do so; git-log already has a
"Common Diff Options" section which includes diff-options.txt.

So let's move these options over to git-log and put them with the other
diff options, giving a single "diff" section for the git-log
documentation. We'll call it "Diff Formatting" but use the all-caps
top-level header to match its sibling sections. And we'll rewrite the
section intro to remove the useless bits and give a more generic
overview of the section which can be later extended.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-29 13:44:03 -07:00
Philippe Blain
bea866587c git-log.txt: include rev-list-description.txt
The `git log` synopsis mentions `<revision range>`, and the description
of this option links to gitrevisions(7), but a nice explanation of
how a revision range can be constructed from individual commits,
optionnally prefixed with `^`, also exists in `rev-list-description.txt`.

Include this description in the man page for `git log`.

Add Asciidoc 'ifdef's to `rev-list-description.txt` so that either `git
rev-list` or `git log` appears in the respective man pages.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08 22:08:54 -07:00
Philippe Blain
f8f28ed9a0 git-log.txt: add links to 'rev-list' and 'diff' docs
Add links to the documentation for `git rev-list` and `git diff`
instead of simply mentioning them, to make it easier for readers to reach
these documentation pages. Let's link to `git diff` as this is the
porcelain command, and the rest of the family (`diff-index`, `diff-tree` and
`diff-files`) are mentioned in the "Raw output format" section of the
`git diff` documentation.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-07-08 22:08:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d3fc8dc53a Merge branch 'ds/log-exclude-decoration-config'
The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git
log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable
log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the
family.

* ds/log-exclude-decoration-config:
  log: add log.excludeDecoration config option
  log-tree: make ref_filter_match() a helper method
2020-04-28 15:50:08 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
a6be5e6764 log: add log.excludeDecoration config option
In 'git log', the --decorate-refs-exclude option appends a pattern
to a string_list. This list is used to prevent showing some refs
in the decoration output, or even by --simplify-by-decoration.

Users may want to use their refs space to store utility refs that
should not appear in the decoration output. For example, Scalar [1]
runs a background fetch but places the "new" refs inside the
refs/scalar/hidden/<remote>/* refspace instead of refs/<remote>/*
to avoid updating remote refs when the user is not looking. However,
these "hidden" refs appear during regular 'git log' queries.

A similar idea to use "hidden" refs is under consideration for core
Git [2].

Add the 'log.excludeDecoration' config option so users can exclude
some refs from decorations by default instead of needing to use
--decorate-refs-exclude manually. The config value is multi-valued
much like the command-line option. The documentation is careful to
point out that the config value can be overridden by the
--decorate-refs option, even though --decorate-refs-exclude would
always "win" over --decorate-refs.

Since the 'log.excludeDecoration' takes lower precedence to
--decorate-refs, and --decorate-refs-exclude takes higher
precedence, the struct decoration_filter needed another field.
This led also to new logic in load_ref_decorations() and
ref_filter_match().

There are several tests in t4202-log.sh that test the
--decorate-refs-(include|exclude) options, so these are extended.
Since the expected output is already stored as a file, most tests
could simply replace a "--decorate-refs-exclude" option with an
in-line config setting. Other tests involve the precedence of
the config option compared to command-line options and needed more
modification.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/77b1da5d3063a2404cd750adfe3bb8be9b6c497d.1585946894.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gister@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-16 11:05:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
88acccda38 log: give --[no-]use-mailmap a more sensible synonym --[no-]mailmap
The option name "--use-mailmap" looks OK, but it becomes awkward
when you have to negate it, i.e. "--no-use-mailmap".  I, perhaps
with many other users, always try "--no-mailmap" and become unhappy
to see it fail.

Add an alias "--[no-]mailmap" to remedy this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-16 14:27:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c4117fcb97 Merge branch 'pb/clarify-line-log-doc'
Doc update.

* pb/clarify-line-log-doc:
  doc: log, gitk: line-log arguments must exist in starting revision
  doc: log, gitk: document accepted line-log diff formats
2020-01-06 14:17:50 -08:00
Philippe Blain
ace0f86c7f doc: log, gitk: line-log arguments must exist in starting revision
The line number, regex or offset parameters <start> and <end> in
`git log -L <start>,<end>:<file>`, or the function name regex in
`git log -L :<funcname>:<file>` must exist in the starting
revision, or else the command exits with a fatal error.

This is not obvious in the documentation, so add a note to that
effect.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-26 11:00:15 -08:00
Philippe Blain
2be45868a8 doc: log, gitk: document accepted line-log diff formats
Currently the line-log functionality (git log -L) only supports
displaying patch output (`-p | --patch`, its default behavior) and suppressing it
(`-s | --no-patch`). A check was added in the code to that effect in 5314efaea
(line-log: detect unsupported formats, 2019-03-10) but the documentation was not
updated.

Explicitly mention that `-L` implies `-p`, that patch output can be
suppressed using `-s`, and that all other diff formats are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-26 11:00:13 -08:00
Ariadne Conill
2d9c569058 documentation: mention --no-use-mailmap and log.mailmap false setting
The log.mailmap setting may be explicitly set to false, which disables
the mailmap feature implicity. In practice, doing so is equivalent to
always using the previously undocumented --no-use-mailmap option on the
command line.

Accordingly, we document both the existence of --no-use-mailmap as
well as briefly discuss the equivalence of it to log.mailmap=False.

Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-15 11:44:26 -07:00
Stephen P. Smith
038a878810 Add 'human' date format documentation
Display date and time information in a format similar to how people
write dates in other contexts. If the year isn't specified then, the
reader infers the date is given is in the current year.

By not displaying the redundant information, the reader concentrates
on the information that is different. The patch reports relative dates
based on information inferred from the date on the machine running the
git command at the time the command is executed.

While the format is more useful to humans by dropping inferred
information, there is nothing that makes it actually human. If the
'relative' date format wasn't already implemented then using
'relative' would have been appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-22 14:16:17 -08:00
Martin Ågren
6955047ff4 git-[short]log.txt: unify quoted standalone --
In git-log.txt, we have an instance of \--, which is known to sometimes
render badly. This one is even worse than normal though, since ``\-- ''
(with or without that trailing space) appears to be entirely broken,
both in HTML and manpages, both with AsciiDoc (version 8.6.9) and
Asciidoctor (version 1.5.4).

Further down in git-log.txt we have a ``--'', which renders good. In
git-shortlog.txt, we use "\-- " (including the quotes and the space),
which happens to look fairly good. I failed to find any other similar
instances. So all in all, we quote a double-dash in three different
places and do it differently each time, with various degrees of success.

Switch all of these to `--`. This sets the double-dash in monospace and
matches what we usually do with example command line usages and options.
Note that we drop the trailing space as well, since `-- ` does not
render well. These should still be clear enough since just a few lines
above each instance, the space is clearly visible in a longer context.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
2018-04-18 12:49:26 +09:00
Martin Ågren
933c758c7d doc: convert [\--] to [--]
Commit 1c262bb7b (doc: convert \--option to --option, 2015-05-13)
explains that we used to need to write \--option to play well with older
versions of AsciiDoc, but that we do not support such versions anymore
anyway, and that Asciidoctor literally renders \--.

With [\--], which is used to denote the optional separator between
revisions and paths, Asciidoctor renders the backslash literally.
Change all [\--] to [--]. This changes nothing for AsciiDoc version
8.6.9, but is an improvement for Asciidoctor version 1.5.4.

We use double-dashes in several list entries (\--::). In my testing, it
appears that we do need to use the backslash there, so leave those.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
2018-04-18 12:49:26 +09:00
Rafael Ascensão
65516f586b log: add option to choose which refs to decorate
When `log --decorate` is used, git will decorate commits with all
available refs. While in most cases this may give the desired effect,
under some conditions it can lead to excessively verbose output.

Introduce two command line options, `--decorate-refs=<pattern>` and
`--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>` to allow the user to select which
refs are used in decoration.

When "--decorate-refs=<pattern>" is given, only the refs that match the
pattern are used in decoration. The refs that match the pattern when
"--decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" is given, are never used in
decoration.

These options follow the same convention for mixing negative and
positive patterns across the system, assuming that the inclusive default
is to match all refs available.

 (1) if there is no positive pattern given, pretend as if an
     inclusive default positive pattern was given;

 (2) for each candidate, reject it if it matches no positive
     pattern, or if it matches any one of the negative patterns.

The rules for what is considered a match are slightly different from the
rules used elsewhere.

Commands like `log --glob` assume a trailing '/*' when glob chars are
not present in the pattern. This makes it difficult to specify a single
ref.  On the other hand, commands like `describe --match --all` allow
specifying exact refs, but do not have the convenience of allowing
"shorthand refs" like 'refs/heads' or 'heads' to refer to
'refs/heads/*'.

The commands introduced in this patch consider a match if:

  (a) the pattern contains globs chars,
	and regular pattern matching returns a match.

  (b) the pattern does not contain glob chars,
         and ref '<pattern>' exists, or if ref exists under '<pattern>/'

This allows both behaviours (allowing single refs and shorthand refs)
yet remaining compatible with existent commands.

Helped-by: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Ascensão <rafa.almas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-11-22 13:18:59 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
369dc4081c Merge branch 'mj/log-show-signature-conf'
"git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a
command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it.

* mj/log-show-signature-conf:
  log: add log.showSignature configuration variable
  log: add "--no-show-signature" command line option
  t4202: refactor test
2016-07-11 10:31:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
94c61d25da Merge branch 'tr/doc-tt'
The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.

* tr/doc-tt:
  doc: change configuration variables format
  doc: more consistency in environment variables format
  doc: change environment variables format
  doc: clearer rule about formatting literals
2016-06-27 09:56:42 -07:00
Mehul Jain
fce04c3ca6 log: add log.showSignature configuration variable
Users may want to always use "--show-signature" while using git-log and
related commands.

When log.showSignature is set to true, git-log and related commands will
behave as if "--show-signature" was given to them.

Note that this config variable is meant to affect git-log, git-show,
git-whatchanged and git-reflog. Other commands like git-format-patch,
git-rev-list are not to be affected by this config variable.

Signed-off-by: Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-24 13:01:13 -07:00
Tom Russello
eee7f4a233 doc: change environment variables format
This change GIT_* variables that where in italic style to monospaced font
according to the guideline. It was obtained with

	perl -pi -e "s/\'(GIT_.*?)\'/\`\1\`/g" *.txt

One of the main purposes is to stick to the CodingGuidelines as possible so
that people writting new documentation by mimicking the existing are more likely
to have it right (even if they didn't read the CodingGuidelines).

Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08 12:04:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5b67f9a028 Merge branch 'rj/log-decorate-auto'
We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we
added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe.

* rj/log-decorate-auto:
  log: document the --decorate=auto option
2016-05-29 18:06:43 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
462cbb415e log: document the --decorate=auto option
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-27 13:16:47 -07:00
Eric N. Vander Weele
fd8d07efda log: Update log.follow doc and add to config.txt
Documentation/config.txt does not include the documentation for
log.follow that is in Documentation/git-log.txt.  This commit adds the
log.follow documentation to config.txt and also updates the wording to
be consistent with the format that is followed by other boolean
configuration variables.

Signed-off-by: Eric N. Vander Weele <ericvw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-07 10:37:48 -07:00
David Turner
076c98372e log: add "log.follow" configuration variable
People who work on projects with mostly linear history with frequent
whole file renames may want to always use "git log --follow" when
inspecting the life of the content that live in a single path.

Teach the command to behave as if "--follow" was given from the
command line when log.follow configuration variable is set *and*
there is one (and only one) path on the command line.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-09 10:24:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6749850769 Merge branch 'mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex'
Documentation fix.

* mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex:
  log -L: improve error message on malformed argument
  Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
2015-05-05 21:00:36 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
d349e0ee60 Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not
regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function
name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular
expression is documented in line-range-format.txt).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-20 11:05:50 -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
a2cb44c61d Merge branch 'jj/log-doc'
Mark-up fixes.

* jj/log-doc:
  Documentation/git-log.txt: mark-up fix and minor rephasing
  Documentation/git-log: update "--log-size" description
2013-12-03 11:41:41 -08:00
Jason St. John
b20cc13e73 Documentation/git-log.txt: mark-up fix and minor rephasing
- typeset options, commands, and paths in monospace;
 - typeset references to sections with emphasis;
 - replace some double quotes with proper AsciiDoc quotes (e.g. ``foo'');
 - use title case when referring to section headings.

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-13 14:09:14 -08:00
Jason St. John
c20e6fb1df Documentation/git-log: update "--log-size" description
"--log-size" was added in commit 9fa3465, and the commit message
contained a satisfactory explanation; however, the man page entry
for it did not describe the actual output format, what the output
meant and what the option was meant to be used for.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-13 14:06:17 -08:00
Eric Sunshine
0ddd47193c line-range-format.txt: clarify -L:regex usage form
blame/log documentation describes -L option as:

  -L<start>,<end>
  -L:<regex>

  <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

    * number
    * /regex/
    * +offset or -offset
    * :regex

which is incorrect and confusing since :regex is not one of the valid
forms of <start> or <end>; in fact, it must be -L's lone argument.

Clarify by discussing :<regex> at the same indentation level as "<start>
and <end>...":

  -L<start>,<end>
  -L:<regex>

  <start> and <end> can take one of these forms:

    * number
    * /regex/
    * +offset or -offset

  If :<regex> is given in place of <start> and <end> ...

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Eric Sunshine
1e159833c7 git-log.txt: place each -L option variation on its own line
Standard practice in Git documentation is for each variation of an
option (such as: -p / --porcelain) to be placed on its own line in the
OPTIONS table. The -L option does not follow suit. It cuddles "-L
<start>,<end>:<file>" and "-L :<regex>:<file>", separated by a comma.
This is inconsistent and potentially confusing since the comma
separating them is typeset the same as the comma in "<start>,<end>". Fix
this by placing each variation on its own line.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:25:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e2ecd252b5 Merge branch 'mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s'
"git show -s" was less discoverable than it should be.

* mm/diff-no-patch-synonym-to-s:
  Documentation/git-log.txt: capitalize section names
  Documentation: move description of -s, --no-patch to diff-options.txt
  Documentation/git-show.txt: include common diff options, like git-log.txt
  diff: allow --patch & cie to override -s/--no-patch
  diff: allow --no-patch as synonym for -s
  t4000-diff-format.sh: modernize style
2013-07-22 11:23:27 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
4ba258b7e1 Documentation/git-log.txt: capitalize section names
This is the convention in most other files and even at the beginning of
git-log.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-17 17:50:56 -07:00