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Author SHA1 Message Date
Conrad Irwin
b4bd466820 Add support for -p/--patch to git-commit
The --interactive flag is already shared by git add and git commit,
share the -p and --patch flags too.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 17:02:33 -07:00
Conrad Irwin
1020d08786 Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive
Change the behaviour of git commit --interactive so that when you abort
the commit (by leaving the commit message empty) the index remains
unchanged.

Hitherto an aborted commit --interactive has added the selected hunks to
the index regardless of whether the commit succeeded or not.

Signed-off-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-08 12:28:30 -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are out of date and incomplete.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wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and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
Junio C Hamano
66ecd2d053 Merge branch 'js/cherry-pick-usability'
* js/cherry-pick-usability:
  Teach commit about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
  bash: teach __git_ps1 about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
  Introduce CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
  t3507: introduce pristine-detach helper
2011-03-09 15:56:17 -08:00
Jay Soffian
37f7a85793 Teach commit about CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
Previously the user was advised to use commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
a conflicting cherry-pick. While this would preserve the original
commit's authorship, it would sadly discard cherry-pick's carefully
crafted MERGE_MSG (which contains the list of conflicts as well as the
original commit-id in the case of cherry-pick -x).

On the other hand, if a bare 'commit' were performed, it would preserve
the MERGE_MSG while resetting the authorship.

In other words, there was no way to simultaneously take the authorship
from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.

This change fixes that situation. A bare 'commit' will now take the
authorship from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.
If the user wishes to reset authorship, that must now be done explicitly
via --reset-author.

A side-benefit of passing commit authorship along this way is that we
can eliminate redundant authorship parsing code from revert.c.

(Also removed an unused include from revert.c)

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 22:58:32 -08:00
Clemens Buchacher
4cc6260684 Documentation: clarify -u<mode> option defaults
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 21:48:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
9bec60d3a5 Merge branch 'pn/commit-autosquash'
* pn/commit-autosquash:
  add tests of commit --squash
  commit: --squash option for use with rebase --autosquash
  add tests of commit --fixup
  commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
  pretty.c: teach format_commit_message() to reencode the output
  commit: helper methods to reduce redundant blocks of code

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-commit.txt
	t/t3415-rebase-autosquash.sh
2010-12-03 16:13:06 -08:00
Jari Aalto
dc91e1b2cb git-commit.txt: (synopsis): move -i and -o before "--"
All options, including -i and -o, must come before "--" which is the
end of options marker.

Reported-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-01 11:26:43 -08:00
Pat Notz
89ac1223c0 commit: --squash option for use with rebase --autosquash
This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
with 'rebase --autosquash'.  The resulting commit message will be
"squash! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
message.  This option can be used with other commit message options
such as -m, -c, -C and -F.

If an editor is invoked (as with -c or -eF or no message options) the
commit message is seeded with the correctly formatted subject line.

Example usage:
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -m "clever comment"
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -F msgfile
  $ git commit --squash HEAD~2 -C deadbeef

Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-04 13:53:35 -07:00
Pat Notz
d71b8ba7c9 commit: --fixup option for use with rebase --autosquash
This option makes it convenient to construct commit messages for use
with 'rebase --autosquash'.  The resulting commit message will be
"fixup! ..." where "..." is the subject line of the specified commit
message.

Example usage:
  $ git commit --fixup HEAD~2

Signed-off-by: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-04 13:53:35 -07:00
Ville Skyttä
6b677a28ff Documentation: spelling fixes
[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-20 16:59:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4a2b34eb0c Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
2010-06-07 15:46:01 -07:00
Jay Soffian
3334729cf2 commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
commit --author was added by 146ea06 (git commit --author=$name: look $name up
in existing commits), but its documentation was sorely lacking compared to its
excellent commit message. This commit tries to improve the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06 22:13:51 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
c9b5fde759 Add option to git-commit to allow empty log messages
Change git-commit(1) to accept the --allow-empty-message option
to allow a commit with an empty message.  This is analogous to the
existing --allow-empty option which allows a commit that records
no changes.  As these are mainly for interoperating with foreign SCM
systems, and are not meant for normal use, ensure that "git commit -h"
does not talk about them.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-07 15:22:57 -07:00
Jacob Helwig
e9e921981d Documentation: Fix indentation problem in git-commit(1)
Ever since the "See linkgit:git-config[1]..." paragraph was added to the
description for --untracked-files (d6293d1), the paragraphs for the
following options were indented at the same level as the "See
linkgit:git-config[1]" paragraph.  This problem showed up in the
manpages, but not in the HTML documentation.

While this does fix the alignment of the options following
--untracked-files in the manpage, the "See linkgit..." portion of the
description does not retain its previous indentation level in the
manpages, or HTML documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-19 19:03:24 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
add0951ab0 Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
  Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
  Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
  Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
  Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Documentation/git-config.txt
	Documentation/git-merge.txt
2010-01-20 20:28:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
f8eb50f60b Merge branch 'jh/commit-status'
* jh/commit-status:
  t7502: test commit.status, --status and --no-status
  commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-commit.txt
	builtin-commit.c
2010-01-17 16:00:07 -08:00
James P. Howard, II
bed575e400 commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status
A new configuration variable commit.status, and new command line
options --status, and --no-status control whether or not the git
status information is included in the commit message template
when using an editor to prepare the commit message.  It does not
affect the effects of a user's commit.template settings.

Signed-off-by: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-13 00:01:53 -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
Junio C Hamano
762c710b36 Merge branch 'mv/commit-date'
* mv/commit-date:
  Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
  builtin-commit: add --date option
2010-01-07 15:35:55 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c2ff10c98e Merge branch 'jk/1.7.0-status'
* jk/1.7.0-status:
  status/commit: do not suggest "reset HEAD <path>" while merging
  commit/status: "git add <path>" is not necessarily how to resolve
  commit/status: check $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD only once
  t7508-status: test all modes with color
  t7508-status: status --porcelain ignores relative paths setting
  status: reduce duplicated setup code
  status: disable color for porcelain format
  status -s: obey color.status
  builtin-commit: refactor short-status code into wt-status.c
  t7508-status.sh: Add tests for status -s
  status -s: respect the status.relativePaths option
  docs: note that status configuration affects only long format
  commit: support alternate status formats
  status: add --porcelain output format
  status: refactor format option parsing
  status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
  status: typo fix in usage
  git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore
  git stat -s: short status output
  git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit"

Conflicts:
	t/t4034-diff-words.sh
	wt-status.c
2009-12-27 23:01:32 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
788070a261 Document date formats accepted by parse_date()
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 12:41:37 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
02b47cd77e builtin-commit: add --date option
This is like --author: allow a user to specify a given date without
using the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 12:41:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c142465c07 Merge branch 'em/commit-claim' 2009-11-30 14:43:26 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
b4479f0747 add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"
Use the new "git var GIT_EDITOR" feature to decide what editor to
use, instead of duplicating its logic elsewhere.  This should make
the behavior of commands in edge cases (e.g., editor names with
spaces) a little more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-13 12:20:50 -08:00
Erick Mattos
c51f6ceed6 commit -c/-C/--amend: reset timestamp and authorship to committer with --reset-author
When we use -c, -C, or --amend, we are trying one of two things: using the
source as a template or modifying a commit with corrections.

When these options are used, the authorship and timestamp recorded in the
newly created commit are always taken from the original commit.  This is
inconvenient when we just want to borrow the commit log message or when
our change to the code is so significant that we should take over the
authorship (with the blame for bugs we introduce, of course).

The new --reset-author option is meant to solve this need by regenerating
the timestamp and setting the committer as the new author.

Signed-off-by: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-04 16:59:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
12efe45a33 git-commit doc: remove duplicated --dry-run description
60c2993 (Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run, 2009-08-15)
wanted to update the documentation to say that "git status" is not the
same as "git commit --dry-run" anymore, but it screwed up and also added
the description of --dry-run that was already present.

Noticed by Johannes Gilger.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-13 11:24:26 -07:00
Jeff King
7c9f7038e9 commit: support alternate status formats
The status command recently grew "short" and "porcelain"
options for alternate output formats. Since status is no
longer "commit --dry-run", these formats are inaccessible to
people who do want to see a dry-run in a parseable form.

This patch makes those formats available to "git commit",
implying the "dry-run" option when they are used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-09-05 23:16:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
60c2993c92 Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-15 01:58:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3a5d13a3c3 commit: --dry-run
This teaches --dry-run option to "git commit".

It is the same as "git status", but in the longer term we would want to
change the semantics of "git status" not to be the preview of commit, and
this is the first step for doing so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-07 23:03:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
efe05b019c Merge branch 'maint' to sync with GIT 1.6.0.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 19:35:55 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg
04c8ce9c1c Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntax
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19 19:10:46 -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
Mark Burton
6fc4a7e546 git-commit.txt - mention that files listed on the command line must be known to git.
Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-18 16:15:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
310d188f7e Merge branch 'tr/workflow-doc'
* tr/workflow-doc:
  Documentation: add manpage about workflows
  Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting
  Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
2008-10-19 16:07:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3aa615bc5d Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit
2008-10-19 15:53:46 -07:00
Abhijit Bhopatkar
09cff066f6 Documentation: Clarify '--signoff' for git-commit
'--signoff' uses commiter name always to add the signoff line,
make it explicit in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-18 22:19:52 -07:00
Thomas Rast
97c33c6583 Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting
This points readers at the "Recovering from upstream rebase" warning
in git-rebase(1) when we talk about rewriting published history in the
'reset', 'commit --amend', and 'filter-branch' documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-15 21:22:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
146ea068a0 git commit --author=$name: look $name up in existing commits
This allows "git commit --author=$name" to accept a name that is not in
the required "A U Thor <author@example.xz>" format, and use that to look
up an author name that matches from existing commits.

When using this feature, it is the user's responsibility to give a name
that uniquely matches the name s/he wants, as the logic returns the name
from the first matching commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-30 21:04:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
59eb68aa2b Update my e-mail address
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21 12:14:42 -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
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
d69806d198 git-commit(1): depersonalize description
The intent is to make git-commit(1) feel more like a manual page.  The
change also makes the page four words shorter.

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
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
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
1947bdbc31 Merge branch 'mo/status-untracked'
* mo/status-untracked:
  Add configuration option for default untracked files mode
  Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files
  Add an optional <mode> argument to commit/status -u|--untracked-files option

Conflicts:

	Documentation/git-commit.txt
2008-06-22 14:32:27 -07:00
Marius Storm-Olsen
d6293d1f2c Add configuration option for default untracked files mode
By default, the untracked files mode for commit/status is 'normal'

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09 15:48:20 -07:00
Marius Storm-Olsen
6c2ce048bb Add argument 'no' commit/status option -u|--untracked-files
This new argument teaches Git to not look for any untracked files,
saving cycles on slow file systems, or large repos.

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
2008-06-09 15:48:19 -07:00