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W. Trevor King
1249d8ad1c user-manual: Standardize backtick quoting
I tried to always use backticks for:
* Paths and filenames (e.g. `.git/config`)
* Compound refs (e.g. `origin/HEAD`)
* Git commands (e.g. `git log`)
* Command arguments (e.g. `--pretty`)
* URLs (e.g. `git://`), as a subset of command arguments
* Special characters (e.g. `+` in diffs).
* Config options (e.g. `branch.<name>.remote`)

Branch and tag names are sometimes set off with double quotes,
sometimes set off with backticks, and sometimes left bare.  I tried to
judge when the intention was introducing new terms or conventions
(double quotes), to reference a recently used command argument
(backticks), or to reference the abstract branch/commit (left bare).
Obviously these are not particularly crisp definitions, so my
decisions are fairly arbitrary ;).  When a reference had already been
introduced, I changed further double-quoted instances to backticked
instances.

When new backticks increased the length of a line beyond others in
that block, I re-wrapped blocks to 72 columns.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-25 15:40:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3ca26e8cdc Merge branch 'wk/user-manual'
Further updates to the user manual.

* wk/user-manual:
  user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates
  user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text
  user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
2013-02-25 08:27:17 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
6368a71b81 Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days'
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days:
  user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the)
2013-02-25 08:26:59 -08:00
David Aguilar
1a2ba8b90f Documentation/user-manual.txt: use a lowercase "usage:" string
Make the usage string in the example script consistent with Git.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-24 13:31:10 -08:00
W. Trevor King
9148673377 user-manual: Flesh out uncommitted changes and submodule updates
If you try and update a submodule with a dirty working directory, you
get an error message like:

  $ git submodule update
  error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
  ...
  Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
  Aborting
  ...

Mention this in the submodule notes.  The previous phrase was short
enough that I originally thought it might have been referring to the
reflog note (obviously, uncommitted changes will not show up in the
reflog either ;).

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 12:56:30 -08:00
W. Trevor King
ae6ef554c8 user-manual: Use request-pull to generate "please pull" text
Less work and more error checking (e.g. does a merge base exist?).
Add an explicit push before request-pull to satisfy request-pull,
which checks to make sure the references are publically available.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 12:56:30 -08:00
W. Trevor King
6c26bf4d4e user-manual: Reorganize the reroll sections, adding 'git rebase -i'
I think this interface is often more convenient than extended cherry
picking or using 'git format-patch'.  In fact, I removed the
cherry-pick section entirely.  The entry-level suggestions for
rerolling are now:

    1. git commit --amend
    2. git format-patch origin
       git reset --hard origin
       ...edit and reorder patches...
       git am *.patch
    3. git rebase -i origin

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-19 12:56:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
50995edda6 user-manual: typofix (ofthe->of the)
Noticed by Drew Northup

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18 12:43:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4cb8a83bb8 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball
  user-manual: use 'git config --global user.*' for setup
  user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch config
  user-manual: give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +master
  user-manual: use 'remote add' to setup push URLs
2013-02-18 00:50:33 -08:00
W. Trevor King
7ed1690c34 user-manual: use -o latest.tar.gz to create a gzipped tarball
This functionality was introduced by 0e804e09 (archive: provide
builtin .tar.gz filter, 2011-07-21) for v1.7.7.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18 00:48:52 -08:00
W. Trevor King
632cc3e6b6 user-manual: use 'git config --global user.*' for setup
A simple command line call is easier than spawning an editor,
especially for folks new to ideas like the "command line" and "text
editors".  This is also the approach suggested by 'git commit' if you
try and commit without having configured user.name or user.email.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18 00:48:47 -08:00
W. Trevor King
47adb8ac7c user-manual: mention 'git remote add' for remote branch config
I hardly ever setup remote.<name>.url using 'git config'.  While it
may be instructive to do so, we should also point out 'git remote
add'.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18 00:48:42 -08:00
W. Trevor King
d1471e0616 user-manual: give 'git push -f' as an alternative to +master
This mirrors existing language in the description of 'git fetch'.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18 00:48:37 -08:00
W. Trevor King
e9b4908302 user-manual: use 'remote add' to setup push URLs
There is no need to use here documents to setup this configuration.
It is easier, less confusing, and more robust to use `git remote add`
directly.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-18 00:48:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
17e45f8e41 Merge branch 'wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days'
* wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days:
  user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
2013-02-14 16:06:29 -08:00
W. Trevor King
d9be2485e2 user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse
acd2a45 (Refuse updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
via push, 2009-02-11) changed the default to refuse such a push, but
it forgot to update the docs.

7d182f5 (Documentation: receive.denyCurrentBranch defaults to
'refuse', 2010-03-17) updated Documentation/config.txt, but forgot to
update the user manual.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-14 10:54:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e1ebf21237 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing
  user-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typo
  user-manual: Fix 'http' -> 'HTTP' typos
  user-manual: Fix 'both: so' -> 'both; so' typo
2013-02-10 20:40:44 -08:00
W. Trevor King
901fd180c9 user-manual: Rewrite git-gc section for automatic packing
This should have happened back in 2007, when `git gc` learned about
auto (e9831e8, git-gc --auto: add documentation, 2007-09-17).

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10 20:39:26 -08:00
W. Trevor King
da2c7b3dc5 user-manual: Fix 'you - Git' -> 'you--Git' typo
Use an em-dash, not a hyphen, to join these clauses.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10 20:39:25 -08:00
W. Trevor King
de3f2c7b46 user-manual: Fix 'http' -> 'HTTP' typos
HTTP is an acronym which has not (yet) made the transition to word
status (unlike "laser", probably because lasers are inherently cooler
than HTTP ;).

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10 20:39:20 -08:00
W. Trevor King
ddd2369c5c user-manual: Fix 'both: so' -> 'both; so' typo
The clause "so `git log ...` will return no commits..." is
independent, not a description of "both", so a semicolon is more
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-10 14:18:57 -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
Thomas Ackermann
48a8c26c62 Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT,
to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small
caps.  Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days.

Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation.  The name to refer
to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the
command end-users type is "git".  And document this in the coding
guideline.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:25 -08:00
Philip Oakley
d84cef1817 Doc User-Manual: Patch cover letter, three dashes, and --notes
Show that git format-patch can have a cover letter, include patch
commentary below the three dashes, and notes can also be
included.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-26 10:31:38 -04:00
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
Štěpán Němec
edfbbf7eea doc: A few minor copy edits.
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
  linkification in frontends that support it; remove them

- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
  the other way around

- trivial typo and wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-14 22:32:28 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
b4ab1980da Documentation: spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-19 11:35:19 -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
c6a13b2c86 fsck: --no-dangling omits "dangling object" information
The default output from "fsck" is often overwhelmed by informational
message on dangling objects, especially if you do not repack often, and a
real error can easily be buried.

Add "--no-dangling" option to omit them, and update the user manual to
demonstrate its use.

Based on a patch by Clemens Buchacher, but reverted the part to change
the default to --no-dangling, which is unsuitable for the first patch.
The usual three-step procedure to break the backward compatibility over
time needs to happen on top of this, if we were to go in that direction.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-28 14:55:39 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
45dfd40396 user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:48 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
66a062a125 user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch terms
Now that the documentation is mostly consistant in the use of "remote
branch" Vs "remote-tracking branch", let's make this distinction explicit
early in the user-manual.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:47 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
29b9a66f28 Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"
"remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while
"remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally.
The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather
fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do.

This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:47 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
8b3f3f84b2 Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:41 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
0e615b252f Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".

See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.

This patch is a straightforward application of

  perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'

except in the RelNotes directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:19:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f7bff60de9 Merge branch 'sn/doc-opt-notation' into maint
* sn/doc-opt-notation:
  Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
  Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
  Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
  Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
  Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
  Use angles for placeholders consistently
2010-10-21 16:26:42 -07:00
Luck, Tony
352953a556 Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at
> all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just
> pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do
> their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are
> unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.

Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual.

Fix the manual to give them better guidance.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13 19:10:56 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
9d83e3827f Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.

In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13 19:10:55 -07:00
Štěpán Němec
0adda9362a Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 12:31:07 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
e1ba4c32cb user-manual: fix anchor name Finding-comments-With-given-Content
Change the anchor name to

Finding-commits-With-given-Content

so that it corresponds to the actual content there.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-29 13:21:49 -07:00
Kirill Smelkov
fa8347b816 user-manual: be consistent in illustrations to 'git rebase'
Since we use a-b-c for mywork commits in one place, I think it would be
logical to also use a-b-c too in other illustration on this topic.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-29 13:21:28 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
3c56c84eb8 Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-20 14:16:50 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
f028cdae66 Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.

Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 13:39:13 -07:00
Jens Lehmann
8d9e7d5293 Updates for dirty submodules in release notes and user manual
In the release notes "git status" was not mentioned, also shortly explain
the "-dirty" output generated by diff.

Added a paragraph to the "Pitfalls with submodules" section in
user-manual.txt describing new and old behavior of "git status" and "git
diff" for dirty submodules.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-01 12:08:12 -08:00
Ralf Wildenhues
6a5d0b0a90 Fix typos in technical documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-31 10:24:53 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
444e10df2a Merge branch 'mm/maint-hint-failed-merge'
* mm/maint-hint-failed-merge:
  user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes.
  merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.
2009-11-23 22:31:51 -08:00
Björn Gustavsson
73a1d050c4 User Manual: Write "Git" instead of "GIT"
In the Table of Contents, there is a notable inconsistency:
first there is "GIT Glossary", followed by "Git Quick Reference"
on the very next line.

Running "grep -c" on user-manual.txt, I find 780 occurrrences of
"git", 37 occurrences of "Git", and 9 occurrences of "GIT".
In general, "git" is the preferred spelling, except at the
beginning of a sentence.

Therefore, change "GIT Glossary" to "Git Glossary" for consistency
with the rest of the document.

Looking at the other eight occurrences of "GIT" I found one other
occurrence that should be changed:

* The mention of "StGIT". Looking at the web pages for "Stacked Git"
  at http://www.procode.org/stgit, I only saw the spelling "StGit",
  except in http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGIT_Tutorial,
  but that page was last updated in 2006.

The other seven occurrences should not be changed:

* Three occurrences were in the output of 'git show-branch' run
  on the git.git repository.

* One occurrence was in the output of 'git cat-file'.

* One occurrence was as part of the file name "GIT-VERSION-GEN".

* Two occurrences were in comments in scripts quoted in a description
  of Tony Luck's workflow.

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22 16:20:28 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
e63ec003b2 user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes.
We explain the user why uncommited changes can be problematic with merge,
and point to "commit" and "stash" for the solution. While talking about
commited Vs uncommited changes, we also make it clear that the result of
a merge is normally commited.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-22 16:07:28 -08:00
Felipe Contreras
a75d7b5409 Use 'fast-forward' all over the place
It's a compound word.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24 23:50:28 -07:00
Ori Avtalion
57f6ec0290 Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what
the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them
as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are
implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to
use the term "git commands" consistently.

Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 16:14:41 -07:00
Thomas Rast
7b8988e113 Documentation: teach stash/pop workflow instead of stash/apply
Recent discussion on the list showed some comments in favour of a
stash/pop workflow:

  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124234911423358&w=2
  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124235348327711&w=2

Change the stash documentation and examples to document pop in its own
right (and apply in terms of pop), and use stash/pop in the examples.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-28 23:52:25 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
a6e5ef7d9c user-manual: the name of the hash function is SHA-1, not sha1
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-06 00:37:34 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
6127c08647 user-manual: remove some git-foo usage
Also, use `git foo` when it make sense.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-06 00:15:58 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
dcb11263bc Documentation: remove extra quoting/emphasis around literal texts
If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from
normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need
extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments.

config.txt

  Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide
  emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough.

  Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present
  in the described config value, so drop them.

git-checkout.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line
  argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve
  curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to
  indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of
  certain shells (tcsh).

git-merge.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge
  conflict markers. The quotes should are not important.

git-rev-parse.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line
  arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary.

gitcli.txt

  Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line
  examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong
  inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it.

glossary-content.txt
user-manual.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:16:44 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
f081731090 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint
* maint-1.6.0:
  User-manual: "git stash <comment>" form is long gone
  add test-dump-cache-tree in Makefile
  fix typo in Documentation
  apply: fix access to an uninitialized mode variable, found by valgrind
2009-02-03 23:50:09 -08:00
William Pursell
7a85f6ae88 User-manual: "git stash <comment>" form is long gone
These days you must explicitly say "git stash save <comment>".

Signed-off-by: William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-03 22:13:47 -08:00
Henrik Austad
0ddd93b271 Be consistent in switch usage for tar
tar handles switches with and witout preceding '-', but the
documentation should be consistent nonetheless.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-05 12:04:23 -08:00
Henrik Austad
c7719fbe46 Use capitalized names where appropriate
The Linux kernel and Emacs are both spelled capitalized

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-05 12:04:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5363d0744e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  work around Python warnings from AsciiDoc
  git-svn: Make following parents atomic
2008-12-09 22:41:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
aa971cb9bf work around Python warnings from AsciiDoc
It appears that a reference to an anchor defined as [[anchor-name]] from
another place using <<anchor-name>> syntax, when the anchor name contains
a string "-with-" in its name, triggers these warnings from Python
interpreter.

  asciidoc -b docbook -d book user-manual.txt
  <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
  <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
  <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
  <string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6

There currently is no reference to "Finding comments with given content",
but for consistency and for futureproofing, the anchor is also updated as
the other ones that are actually used and trigger these warnings.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-09 19:06:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9b3b7fd807 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B
2008-12-02 16:13:21 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
25e30fa08e User's Manual: remove duplicated url at the end of Appendix B
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-02 15:17:07 -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
Christian Couder
b3d9888792 Documentation: user-manual: add information about "git help" at the beginning
Talking about "git help" is useful because it has a few more
features (like when using it without arguments or with "-a") and
it may work on non unix like platforms.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-17 08:21:31 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
20244ea2d0 git-remote: list branches in vertical lists
Previously, branches were listed on a single line in each section. But
if there are many branches, then horizontal, line-wrapped lists are very
inconvenient to scan for a human. This makes the lists vertical, i.e one
branch per line is printed.

Since "git remote" is porcelain, we can easily make this
backwards-incompatible change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-22 18:05:38 -07:00
Petr Baudis
7dce9918c7 Adjust for the new way of enabling the default post-update hook
The post-update hook, which is required to be enabled in order for
the repository to be accessible over HTTP, is not enabled by
chmod a+x anymore, but instead by dropping the .sample suffix.

This patch emphasizes this change in the release notes (since
I believe this is rather noticeable backwards-incompatible change).
It also adjusts the documentation which still described the old way
and fixes t/t5540-http-push.sh, which was broken for 1.5 month
but apparently noone ever runs this test.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-11 17:07:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
10d9d887ec Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual
  Fix deleting reflog entries from HEAD reflog
  reflog test: add more tests for 'reflog delete'
  Documentation: rev-list-options: Fix -g paragraph formatting

Conflicts:
	Documentation/user-manual.txt
2008-08-11 00:53:31 -07:00
Ivan Stankovic
4f80b27d48 Documentation: fix invalid reference to 'mybranch' in user manual
Signed-off-by: Ivan Stankovic <pokemon@fly.srk.fer.hr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-10 23:56:22 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
7be73ae94e Documentation: user-manual: "git commit -a" doesn't motivate .gitignore
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked
files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore.  So
don't use it to motivate gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-08 13:17:08 -07:00
Christian Couder
0e25790f1d documentation: user-manual: update "using-bisect" section
Since version 1.5.6 "git bisect" doesn't use a "bisect" branch any
more, but the user manual had not been updated to reflect this.

So this patch does that and while at it also adds a few words about
"git bisect skip" and points user to the "git bisect" man page for
more information.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30 21:42:20 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
a56bf5850a git submodule add now requires a <path>
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-29 23:18:04 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
51ef1daa4a Rename .git/rebase to .git/rebase-apply
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/",
but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name
for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good
compromise.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 18:51:47 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
28ed6e7b32 Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be
tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR.  While at it, avoid the rather
meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge".

This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-15 18:49:28 -07:00
Eric Hanchrow
843c81dcf4 user-manual: typo and grammar fixes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08 13:00:47 -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
7a7d4ef69c Documentation: rewrap to prepare for "git-" vs "git " change
Rewrap lines in preparation for added dashes.

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
0cafe944e9 Documentation: fix gitlinks
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
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
3861cd5582 Documentation: complicate example of "man git-command"
The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named
git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands.
Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear
that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the
command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn
dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)).

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
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
4209752da5 user-manual: describe how higher stages are set during a merge
Higher stages store the blobs involved from their side verbatim.  Removal
of uninteresting hunks are done by "diff --cc" upon demand and not stored
in the index.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-12 14:30:51 -07:00
Christian Couder
497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00
Christian Couder
b27a23e35d Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:

cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.

[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-24 22:28:16 -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
Dmitry Potapov
208641cf85 git-gc --prune is deprecated
25ee9731c1 made the '--prune' option
deprecated and removed its description from the git-gc man page. This
patch removes all references to this option from the rest of the Git
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-22 21:53:37 -07:00
Guanqun Lu
0c829391cf Fix the wrong output of git-show v1.3.0~155^2~4 in documentation.
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.

Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-23 12:02:11 -07:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
 # Inline macros.
 # Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
 # (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
 # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
 (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]

This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c477553b2f Merge branch 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git
* 'maint' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git:
  Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo
  Documentation: fix remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate description
2007-12-31 09:23:55 -08:00
Gustaf Hendeby
57283291b5 Documentation/user-manual.txt: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-12-31 11:27:15 -05:00
Shawn Bohrer
9e5d87d490 Fix spelling mistakes in user manual
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-13 09:46:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
65c6a4696a Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere
  cvsimport: fix usage of cvsimport.module
  t7003-filter-branch: Fix test of a failing --msg-filter.
  cvsimport: miscellaneous packed-ref fixes
  cvsimport: use rev-parse to support packed refs
  Add basic cvsimport tests
2007-11-30 16:21:33 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
10455d2a95 Replace the word 'update-cache' by 'update-index' everywhere
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-30 15:09:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1ab58e8d6f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  user-manual: recovering from corruption
  user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
  user-manual: failed push to public repository
  user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
  git-checkout: describe detached head correctly
2007-11-25 19:10:01 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
1cdade2c4c user-manual: recovering from corruption
Some instructions on dealing with corruption of the object database.

Most of this text is from an example by Linus, identified by Nicolas
Pitre <nico@cam.org> with a little further editing by me.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 21:13:10 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
7cb192eab0 user-manual: clarify language about "modifying" old commits
It's important to remember that git doesn't really allowing "editing" or
"modifying" commits, only replacing them by new commits.  Redo some of
the language to make this clearer.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 19:01:57 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
81eb417ad4 user-manual: failed push to public repository
More details on the case of a failed push to a public (non-shared)
repository.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 18:14:28 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
0c4a33b54f user-manual: define "branch" and "working tree" at start
Some explanation here might help.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-25 14:06:12 -05:00
Junio C Hamano
5d1d1c1479 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Fix references to deprecated commands
  user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
  user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
  git-remote.txt: fix example url
2007-11-19 00:19:15 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
5b98d9bca1 user-manual: mention "..." in "Generating diffs", etc.
We should mention the use of the "..." syntax for git-diff here.  The
note about the difference between diff and the combined output of
git-format-patch then no longer fits so well, so remove it.  Add a
reference to the git-format-patch[1] manpage.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18 19:22:26 -05:00
Steffen Prohaska
3fb0028253 user-manual: Add section "Why bisecting merge commits can be harder ..."
This commit adds a discussion of the challenge of bisecting
merge commits to the user manual.  The original author is
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, who posted the text to
the mailing list <http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119403257315527&w=2>.
His email was adapted for the manual.

The discussion is added to "Rewriting history and maintainig
patch series".  The text added requires good understanding of
merging and rebasing.  Therefore it should not be placed too
early in the manual.  Right after the section on "Problems with
rewriting history", the discussion of bisect gives another reason
for linearizing as much of the history as possible.

The text includes suggestions and fixes by
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> and
Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-11-18 18:15:47 -05:00