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Junio C Hamano
f496b064fc Merge branch 'nd/switch-and-restore'
Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.

* nd/switch-and-restore: (46 commits)
  completion: disable dwim on "git switch -d"
  switch: allow to switch in the middle of bisect
  t2027: use test_must_be_empty
  Declare both git-switch and git-restore experimental
  help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
  doc: promote "git restore"
  user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
  completion: support restore
  t: add tests for restore
  restore: support --patch
  restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
  restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
  restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
  restore: add --worktree and --staged
  checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
  restore: disable overlay mode by default
  restore: make pathspec mandatory
  restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
  checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
  doc: promote "git switch"
  ...
2019-07-09 15:25:44 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
80f537f79c doc: promote "git restore"
The new command "git restore" (together with "git switch") are added
to avoid the confusion of one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new
users. They are also helpful to avoid ambiguous context.

For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands.

One nice thing about git-restore is the ability to restore
"everything", so it can be used in "git status" advice instead of both
"git checkout" and "git reset".  The three commands suggested by "git
status" are add, rm and restore.

"git checkout" is also removed from "git help" (i.e. it's no longer
considered a commonly used command)

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-05-07 13:04:48 +09:00
Denton Liu
407e768072 git-clean.txt: clarify ignore pattern files
In the git-clean documentation, -x and -e documented .gitignore,
$GIT_DIR/info/excludes but neglected to mention the file pointed to by
core.excludesFile.

Remove specific list of files and, instead, reference gitignore(5)
documentation so that information is consolidated and the git-clean
documentation is more precise.

Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-08 09:11:21 +09:00
Matthieu Moy
23f8239bbe doc: typeset short command-line options as literal
It was common in our documentation to surround short option names with
forward quotes, which renders as italic in HTML. Instead, use backquotes
which renders as monospace. This is one more step toward conformance to
Documentation/CodingGuidelines.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(-[a-z])'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:20:52 -07:00
Matt McCutchen
31e3c2d7f8 Documentation/git-clean.txt: don't mention deletion of .git/modules/*
The latter half of this sentence, the removal of the submodules, was
never done with (or without) double -f back when it was written, and
we still do not do so.

Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-02-09 10:07:34 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
34e4e05b51 Merge branch 'mr/doc-clean-f-f'
Documentation update.

* mr/doc-clean-f-f:
  Documentation/git-clean.txt: document that -f may need to be given twice
2015-03-06 15:02:26 -08:00
Mikko Rapeli
bcd57cb9e1 Documentation/git-clean.txt: document that -f may need to be given twice
This is needed in build automation where the tree really needs to
be reset to known state.

Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-26 13:10:40 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
f745acb028 Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about
the following points:

 - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS;
 - Spell Linux as Capitalized;
 - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.".

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04 13:14:44 -08:00
Jiang Xin
309422e033 Documentation/git-clean: fix description for range
The descriptions of "select by numbers" section for interactive
git-clean are borrowed from git-add, and one sentence should be
replaced.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-07-24 19:16:13 -07:00
Jiang Xin
c0be6b4c8a git-clean: add documentation for interactive git-clean
Add new section "Interactive mode" for documentation of interactive
git-clean.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26 11:25:11 -07:00
Jiang Xin
1769600208 git-clean: add support for -i/--interactive
Show what would be done and the user must confirm before actually
cleaning.

    Would remove ...
    Would remove ...
    Would remove ...

    Remove [y/n]?

Press "y" to start cleaning, and press "n" if you want to abort.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-26 11:25:11 -07:00
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
Philip Oakley
068c6745fe Doc clean: add See Also link
'git clean' is controlled by gitignore. Provide See Also link for it.

Use of core.excludesfile is implied.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-18 21:49:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b6194678b0 Documentation: clarify "git clean -e <pattern>"
The current explanation of -e can be misread as allowing the user to say

    I know 'git clean -XYZ' (substitute -XYZ with any option and/or
    parameter) will remove paths A, B, and C, and I want them all removed
    except for paths matching this pattern by adding '-e C' to the same
    command line, i.e. 'git clean -e C -XYZ'.

But that is not what this option does. It augments the set of ignore rules
from the command line, just like the same "-e <pattern>" argument does
with the "ls-files" command (the user could probably pass "-e \!C" to tell
the command to clean everything the command would normally remove, except
for C). Also error out when both -x and -e are given with an explanation of
what -e means---it is a symptom of misunderstanding what -e does.

It also fixes small style nit in the parameter to add_exclude() call. The
current code only works because EXC_CMDL happens to be defined as 0.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-28 23:47:55 -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
Jared Hance
07de4eba60 Add -e/--exclude to git-clean.
With the -e/--exclude option for git-clean, a user can specify files
that they haven't yet told git about, but either need for a short amount
of time or plan to tell git about them later. This allows one to still
use git-clean while these files are around without losing data.

Signed-off-by: Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-20 16:52:53 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
89c3850019 git-clean: fix the description of the default behavior
Currently, when called without -n and -f, git clean issues

fatal: clean.requireForce not set and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean

which leaves the user wondering why force is required when requireForce
is not set. Looking up in git-clean(1) does not help because its
description is wrong.

Change it so that git clean issues

fatal: clean.requireForce defaults to true and -n or -f not given; refusing to clean

in this situation (and "...set to true..." when it is set) which makes
it clearer that an unset config means true here, and adjust the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-04 15:12:13 -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
René Scharfe
f7aec129fa UI consistency: allow --force for where -f means force
git branch, checkout, clean, mv and tag all have an option -f to override
certain checks.  This patch makes them accept the long option --force as
a synonym.

While we're at it, document that checkout support --quiet as synonym for
its short option -q.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-29 14:08:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a0f4afbe87 clean: require double -f options to nuke nested git repository and work tree
When you have an embedded git work tree in your work tree (be it
an orphaned submodule, or an independent checkout of an unrelated
project), "git clean -d -f" blindly descended into it and removed
everything.  This is rarely what the user wants.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-29 12:22:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6a260f53ad git-clean doc: the command only affects paths under $(cwd)
Fredrik Skolmli and Thomas Rast noticed that it was left unstated that
"git clean" ran from a subdirectory will not affect anything outside it,
with or without path limiters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-05-06 10:51:34 -07:00
Wesley J. Landaker
911198f6c0 Documentation: git-clean: make description more readable
The existing text is a little bit awkward. This rewrites the description
section to be more readable and friendly.

Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-25 09:29:38 -07:00
Wesley J. Landaker
926337fe89 Documentation: git-clean: fix minor grammatical errors
There were a few minor grammatical errors that made this paragraph hard
to read. This patch fixes the errors in a very minimal manner.

Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-25 09:29:38 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
f448e24e2f Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30 21:42:55 -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
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
Stephan Beyer
459cf2e985 Docs: add some long/short options
Namely:

 git-clean.txt: --dry-run --quiet
 git-count-objects.txt: --verbose
 git-quiltimport.txt: -n
 git-remote.txt: -v --verbose

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

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

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

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

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Michael Spang
0fc4baebf3 Fix minor documentation errors
- git-ls-files.txt: typo in description of --ignored
- git-clean.txt: s/forceRequire/requireForce/

Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-07 15:39:57 -07:00
Josh Triplett
2122591b3b Add clean.requireForce option, and add -f option to git-clean to override it
Add a new configuration option clean.requireForce.  If set, git-clean will
refuse to run, unless forced with the new -f option, or not acting due to -n.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-23 22:13:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
393e3b1910 Teach git-clean optional <paths>... parameters.
When optional paths arguments are given, git-clean passes them
to underlying git-ls-files; with this, you can say:

	git clean 'temp-*'

to clean only the garbage files whose names begin with 'temp-'.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
2006-05-08 16:40:45 -07:00
Pavel Roskin
c3b831bd84 Add git-clean command
This command removes untracked files from the working tree.  This
implementation is based on cg-clean with some simplifications.  The
documentation is included.

[jc: with trivial documentation fix, noticed by Jakub Narebski]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-05 02:51:27 -07:00