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.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select strict mode for the
abbreviation for the ":short" format specifier of "refname" and "upstream".
In strict mode, the abbreviated ref will never trigger the
'warn_ambiguous_refs' warning. I.e. for these refs:
refs/heads/xyzzy
refs/tags/xyzzy
the abbreviated forms are:
heads/xyzzy
tags/xyzzy
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The logic for determining the upstream ref of a branch is
somewhat complex to perform in a shell script. This patch
provides a plumbing mechanism for scripts to access the C
logic used internally by git-status, git-branch, etc.
For example:
$ git for-each-ref \
--format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)' \
refs/heads/
master origin/master
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tries to shorten the refname to a non-ambiguous name.
Szeder Gábor noticed that the git bash completion takes a
tremendous amount of time to strip leading components from
heads and tags refs (i.e. refs/heads, refs/tags, ...). He
proposed a new atom called 'refbasename' which removes at
most two leading components from the ref name.
I myself, proposed a more dynamic solution, which strips off
common leading components with the matched pattern.
But the current bash solution and both proposals suffer from
one mayor problem: ambiguous refs.
A ref is ambiguous, if it resolves to more than one full refs.
I.e. given the refs refs/heads/xyzzy and refs/tags/xyzzy. The
(short) ref xyzzy can point to both refs.
( Note: Its irrelevant whether the referenced objects are the
same or not. )
This proposal solves this by checking for ambiguity of the
shorten ref name.
The shortening is done with the same rules for resolving refs
but in the reverse order. The short name is checked if it
resolves to a different ref.
To continue the above example, the output would be like this:
heads/xyzzy
xyzzy
So, if you want just tags, xyzzy is not ambiguous, because it
will resolve to a tag. If you need the heads you get a also
a non-ambiguous short form of the ref.
To integrate this new format into the bash completion to get
only non-ambiguous refs is beyond the scope of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the
commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics,
as is usual for command names in manpages.
Using
doit () {
perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }'
}
for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \
merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt
do
doit <"$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>
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>
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.
Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.
Some are:
-f, --foo::
-f|--foo::
-f | --foo::
But AsciiDoc has the special form:
-f::
--foo::
This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rewrapped synopsis and removed wrong asterisk behind --count option;
clarified --sort=<key> description for multiple keys; documented that
for-each-ref supports not only glob patterns but also prefixes like
"refs/heads" as patterns, and that multiple patterns can be given.
Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
grab_date() gets an extra parameter - atomname; this extra parameter is
checked to see if it has a ":<format>" extra component in it, and if so
that "<format>" string is passed to parse_date_format() to produce an
enum date_mode value which is then further passed to show_date().
In short it allows the user of git-for-each-ref to do things like this:
$ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:default)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
Sun May 20 00:30:42 2007 -0700
$ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:relative)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
4 months ago
$ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:short)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
2007-05-20
$ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:local)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
Sun May 20 08:30:42 2007
$ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:iso8601)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
2007-05-20 00:30:42 -0700
$ git-for-each-ref --format='%(taggerdate:rfc2822)' refs/tags/v1.5.2
Sun, 20 May 2007 00:30:42 -0700
The default, when no ":<format>" is specified is ":default", leaving the
existing behaviour unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-for-each-ref said that the refname variable
would return "the part after $GIT_DIR/refs/", which isn't true.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Love it or hate it, some people actually still program in Tcl. Some
of those programs are meant for interfacing with Git. Programs such as
gitk and git-gui. It may be useful to have Tcl-safe output available
from for-each-ref, just like shell, Perl and Python already enjoy.
Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for pointing out the horrible flaws in the
first and second version of this patch, and steering me in the right
direction for Tcl value quoting.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Two asterisks the SYNOPSIS section were mistaken as emphasis,
and the latter backtick in "`<key>`s" were not recognized as
closing backtick.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Update information about value of <format> used when it is left
unspecified. Add information about `%%` and `%xx` interpolation
(URL encoding).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When reading the synopsis for git-for-each-ref it is easy to miss
the obvious power of --shell and family. Call this feature out in
the primary paragragh. Also add more description to the examples
to indicate which features we are demonstrating. Finally add a
very simple eval based example in addition to the very complex one
to give a gentler introduction.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This adds a new command, git-for-each-ref. You can have it iterate
over refs and have it output various aspects of the objects they
refer to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
