After looking the git-tag manpage, someone on #git wondered how
to tag a commit that is not a branch head. This patch changes
the synopsis to say "<commit> | <object>" instead of "<head>" to
address his question.
Samuel Bronson had the idea of putting "<commit> | <object>"
for "<object>" because most tags point to commits (and for the
rest of the manpage, all tags point to commits).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git checkout' uses '--' to separate options from paths, but it was not
mentioned in the documentation
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The example to remove paths using index-filter was done with
"git update-index --remove"; "git rm --cached" would be more familiar to
new people and is sufficient for this particular case.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-rerere documentation talks about commands that invoke
"git rerere clear" automatically. git am --abort is added and
a typo is fixed additionally.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the documentation, where you cannot get compile errors for using the
wrong member name, there were two mentions of 'path' left.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The name path_list was correct for the first usage of that data structure,
but it really is a general-purpose string list.
$ perl -i -pe 's/path-list/string-list/g' $(git grep -l path-list)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path_list/string_list/g' $(git grep -l path_list)
$ git mv path-list.h string-list.h
$ git mv path-list.c string-list.c
$ perl -i -pe 's/has_path/has_string/g' $(git grep -l has_path)
$ perl -i -pe 's/path/string/g' string-list.[ch]
$ git mv Documentation/technical/api-path-list.txt \
Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt
$ perl -i -pe 's/strdup_paths/strdup_strings/g' $(git grep -l strdup_paths)
... and then fix all users of string-list to access the member "string"
instead of "path".
Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt needed some rewrapping, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
After failing to apply patches in the middle of a series, "git am --abort"
lets you go back to the original commit.
[jc: doc/help update from Olivier, and fixups for "am -3" squashed in]
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.6.4
builtin-rm: fix index lock file path
http-fetch: do not SEGV after fetching a bad pack idx file
rev-list: honor --quiet option
api-run-command.txt: typofix
Currently fast-import/export cannot be used for
repositories with submodules. This patch extends
the relevant programs to make them correctly
process gitlinks.
Links can be represented by two forms of the
Modify command:
M 160000 SHA1 some/path
which sets the link target explicitly, or
M 160000 :mark some/path
where the mark refers to a commit. The latter
form can be used by importing tools to build
all submodules simultaneously in one physical
repository, and then simply fetch them apart.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-merge documentation's "HOW MERGE WORKS" section is confusingly
composed and actually omits the most interesting part, the merging of
the arguments into HEAD itself, surprisingly not actually mentioning
the fast-forward merge anywhere.
This patch replaces the "[NOTE]" screenful of highly technical details
by a single sentence summing up the interesting information, and instead
explains how are the arguments compared with HEAD and the three possible
inclusion states that are named "Already up-to-date", "Fast-forward"
and "True merge". It also makes it clear that the rest of the section
talks only about the true merge situation, and slightly expands the
talk on solving conflicts.
Junio initiated the removal of the Note screenful altogether and
offered many stylistical fixes.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch explains more carefully that `.gitignore` concerns only
untracked files and refers the reader to
git update-index --assume-unchanged
in the need of ignoring uncommitted changes in already tracked files.
The description of this option is lifted to a more "porcelainish"
level and explains the caveats of this usecase.
Whether feasible or not, I believe adding this functionality to
the porcelain is out of the scope of this patch. (And I personally
think that referring to the plumbing in the case of such a special
usage is fine.)
This is currently probably one of the top FAQs at #git and the
--assume-unchanged switch is not widely known; gitignore(5) is the first
place where people are likely to look for it.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch rewrites the general description yet again, first clarifying
the high-level concept, mentioning the difference to remotes and using
the subtree merge strategy, then getting to the details about tree
entries and .gitmodules file.
The patch also makes few smallar grammar fixups within the rest of the
description and clarifies how does 'init' relate to 'update --init'.
Cc: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace "run_command_v_opt_dir" by "run_command_v_opt_cd".
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Note that v1.4.4.5 supports pack index v2, and describe how to keep
your repositories backwards-compatible, shall you need to.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Figuring out how submodules work conceptually is quite a bumpy
ride for a newcomer; the user manual helps (if one knows to actually
look into it), but the reference documentation should provide good
quick intro as well. This patch attempts to do that, with suggestions
from Heikki Orsila.
Cc: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Start preparing 1.5.6.4 release notes
git fetch-pack: do not complain about "no common commits" in an empty repo
rebase-i: keep old parents when preserving merges
t7600-merge: Use test_expect_failure to test option parsing
Fix buffer overflow in prepare_attr_stack
Fix buffer overflow in git diff
Fix buffer overflow in git-grep
git-cvsserver: fix call to nonexistant cleanupWorkDir()
Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt et al.: Fix misleading -n description
Conflicts:
RelNotes
The manual page of git-cherry-pick and git-revert asserts that -n works
primarily on the working tree, while in fact the primary object it operates
on is the index, and the changes only "accidentally" propagate to the
working tree. This e.g. leads innocent #git IRC folks to believe that you
can use -n to prepare changes for git-add -i staging.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
git-add -i ranges expect number-number. But for the supremely lazy, typing in
that second number when selecting "from patch 7 to the end" is wasted effort.
So treat an empty second number in a range as "until the last item".
Signed-off-by: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change makes "submodule add" much more strict in the arguments it
takes, and is intended to address confusion as recently noted on the
git-list. With this change, the required syntax is:
$ git submodule add URL path
Specifically, this eliminates the form
$ git submodule add URL
which was confused by more than one person as
$ git submodule add path
With this patch, the URL locating the submodule's origin repository can be
either an absolute URL, or (if it begins with ./ or ../) can express the
submodule's repository location relative to the superproject's origin.
This patch also eliminates a third form of URL, which was relative to the
superproject's top-level directory (not its repository). Any URL that was
neither absolute nor matched ./*|../* was assumed to point to a
subdirectory of the superproject as the location of the submodule's origin
repository. This URL form was confusing and does not seem to correspond
to an important use-case. Specifically, no-one has identified the need to
clone from a repository already in the superproject's tree, but if this is
needed it is easily done using an absolute URL: $(pwd)/relative-path. So,
no functionality is lost with this patch. (t6008-rev-list-submodule.sh did
rely upon this relative URL, fixed by using $(pwd).)
Following this change, there are exactly four variants of
submodule-add, as both arguments have two flavors:
URL can be absolute, or can begin with ./|../ and thus names the
submodule's origin relative to the superproject's origin.
Note: With this patch, "submodule add" discerns an absolute URL as
matching /*|*:*: e.g., URL begins with /, or it contains a :. This works
for all valid URLs, an absolute path in POSIX, as well as an absolute path
on Windows).
path can either already exist as a valid git repo, or will be cloned from
the given URL. The first form here eases creation of a new submodule in
an existing superproject as the submodule can be added and tested in-tree
before pushing to the public repository. However, the more usual form is
the second, where the repo is cloned from the given URL.
This specifically addresses the issue of
$ git submodule add a/b/c
attempting to clone from a repository at "a/b/c" to create a new module
in "c". This also simplifies description of "relative URL" as there is now
exactly *one* form: a URL relative to the parent's origin repo.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The document says that a fetch with a configured remote stores what are
fetched in the remote tracking branches "Unlike the longhand form", but
there is no longhand form "fetch" demonstrated earlier.
This adds a missing demonstration of the longhand form, and a new
paragraph to explain why some people might want to fetch before pull.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Invoking git-am or git-mailsplit without mbox or Maildir results in
reading an mbox from stdin. Mention this in the synopsis and usage
strings.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.6.3
git-am: Do not exit silently if committer is unset
t0004: fix timing bug
git-mailinfo: document the -n option
Fix backwards-incompatible handling of core.sharedRepository
* ph/parseopt-step-blame:
revisions: refactor handle_revision_opt into parse_revision_opt.
git-shortlog: migrate to parse-options partially.
git-blame: fix lapsus
git-blame: migrate to incremental parse-option [2/2]
git-blame: migrate to incremental parse-option [1/2]
revisions: split handle_revision_opt() from setup_revisions()
parse-opt: add PARSE_OPT_KEEP_ARGV0 parser option.
parse-opt: fake short strings for callers to believe in.
parse-opt: do not print errors on unknown options, return -2 intead.
parse-opt: create parse_options_step.
parse-opt: Export a non NORETURN usage dumper.
parse-opt: have parse_options_{start,end}.
git-blame --reverse
builtin-blame.c: allow more than 16 parents
builtin-blame.c: move prepare_final() into a separate function.
rev-list --children
revision traversal: --children option
The pretty format %an does not respect .mailmap, but gives the exact
author name recorded in the commit. Sometimes it is more desirable,
however, to look if the email has another name mapped to it in .mailmap.
This commit adds %aN (and %cN for the committer name) to do exactly that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/apply-root:
git-apply --directory: make --root more similar to GNU diff
apply --root: thinkofix.
Teach "git apply" to prepend a prefix with "--root=<root>"
"git-branch --merged" is a handy way to list all the branches that have
already been merged to the current branch, but it did not allow checking
against anything but the current branch. Having to switch branches only
to list the branches that are merged with another branch made the feature
practically useless.
This updates the option parser so that "git branch --merged next" is
accepted when you are on 'master' branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
