92c62a3 (Porcelain scripts: Rewrite cryptic "needs update" error
message, 2010-10-19) refactored git's own checking to a function in
git-sh-setup. This is a very useful thing for script writers, so
document it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 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
* maint:
t/t9001-send-email.sh: fix stderr redirection in 'Invalid In-Reply-To'
Clarify and extend the "git diff" format documentation
git-show-ref.txt: clarify the pattern matching
documentation: git-config minor cleanups
Update test script annotate-tests.sh to handle missing/extra authors
Move the similarity and dissimilarity index header description closer to
where those extended headers are described.
Describe and/or clarify the format used for file modes, pathnames, and
the index header.
Document that all "old" files refer to the state before applying the
*entire* output, and all "new" files refer to the state thereafter.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-show-ref really does not do what one would expect under the name
pattern matching, so describe it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change push.default's description to add hyphens between values and
descriptions to make the manpage easier to read. The html version is
readable either way.
Change status.showUntrackedFiles to make item descriptions be
sentences and to use the same asciidoc format as push.default. The
only visual change is the additions of "."
Signed-off-by: Cliff Frey <cliff@meraki.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Better advice on using topic branches for kernel development
Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff"
Documentation: expand 'git diff' SEE ALSO section
Documentation: diff can compare blobs
Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
shell portability: no "export VAR=VAL"
CodingGuidelines: reword parameter expansion section
Documentation: update-index: -z applies also to --index-info
Documentation: No argument of ALLOC_GROW should have side-effects
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>
Originally "--no-index" mode triggered for untracked files within the
tracked tree, but with v1.5.6-rc1~41 (Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index,
2008-05-26) the command was fixed to only implicitly trigger when paths
outside the tracked tree are mentioned.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Point in many directions in the hope of helping the reader find what
is needed more quickly.
This commit also removes the summary attached to the SEE ALSO entry
for difftool, to avoid making the SEE ALSO list too verbose. If the
reader wants a summary of the commands referred to, she can always
look to the top of the named pages or to the table of contents on the
main git(1) page.
Suggested-by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Meanwhile, there is no plumbing command to compare two blobs.
Strange.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
v1.7.3-rc0~75^2 (Teach fast-import to import subtrees named by tree id,
2010-06-30) has a shortcoming - it doesn't allow the root to be set.
Extend this behaviour by allowing the root to be referenced as the
empty path, "".
For a command (like filter-branch --subdirectory-filter) that wants
to commit a lot of trees that already exist in the object db, writing
undeltified objects as loose files only to repack them later can
involve a significant amount of overhead.
(23% slow-down observed on Linux 2.6.35, worse on Mac OS X 10.6)
Fortunately we have fast-import (which is one of the only git commands
that will write to a pack directly) but there is not an advertised way
to tell fast-import to commit a given tree without unpacking it.
This patch changes that, by allowing
M 040000 <tree id> ""
as a filemodify line in a commit to reset to a particular tree without
any need to parse it. For example,
M 040000 4b825dc642 ""
is a synonym for the deleteall command and the fast-import equivalent of
git read-tree 4b825dc642
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Commit-message-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Group entries related to parameter substitutions together and avoid
using the word "regexp" to refer to the ${parameter/pattern/string}
substitution (banned), as the pattern there is a shell glob and not
a regular expression.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Quotes (for emphasis) are used in option explanations, not the
headings.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Instead of using the regex-like bracket expression, use grouping to make
it more consistent with other similar places. The brackets now have the
same meaning as in other documentation (i.e., the argument is optional).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Mentored-and-Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the meanings of the tags "Reported-by:", "Acked-by:",
"Reviewed-by:" and "Tested-by:" clearly. Also mention that the user is
free to use any custom tags.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/repack-reuse-object:
Documentation: pack.compression: explain how to recompress
repack: add -F flag to let user choose between --no-reuse-delta/object
* mg/reset-doc:
git-reset.txt: make modes description more consistent
git-reset.txt: point to git-checkout
git-reset.txt: use "working tree" consistently
git-reset.txt: reset --soft is not a no-op
git-reset.txt: reset does not change files in target
git-reset.txt: clarify branch vs. branch head
* maint:
Documentation/git-clone: describe --mirror more verbosely
do not depend on signed integer overflow
work around buggy S_ISxxx(m) implementations
xdiff: cast arguments for ctype functions to unsigned char
init: plug tiny one-time memory leak
diffcore-pickaxe.c: remove unnecessary curly braces
t3020 (ls-files-error-unmatch): remove stray '1' from end of file
setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer
environment.c: remove unused variable
git-svn: fix processing of decorated commit hashes
git-svn: check_cherry_pick should exclude commits already in our history
Documentation/git-svn: discourage "noMetadata"
Some people in #linux-rt noticed that describing what "--mirror" option does
with "it mirrors" is way insufficient.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Fix typo in pack-objects' usage
Make sure that git_getpass() never returns NULL
t0004 (unwritable files): simplify error handling
rev-list-options: clarify --parents and --children
Make it clearer that --parents resp. --children list the parent resp.
child commits next to each commit, so that I understand next time.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jc/pickaxe-grep:
diff/log -G<pattern>: tests
git log/diff: add -G<regexp> that greps in the patch text
diff: pass the entire diff-options to diffcore_pickaxe()
gitdiffcore doc: update pickaxe description
* rr/fmt-merge-msg:
t6200-fmt-merge-msg: Exercise '--log' to configure shortlog length
t6200-fmt-merge-msg: Exercise 'merge.log' to configure shortlog length
merge: Make 'merge.log' an integer or boolean option
merge: Make '--log' an integer option for number of shortlog entries
fmt_merge_msg: Change fmt_merge_msg API to accept shortlog_len
Conflicts:
builtin/merge.c
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>
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>
Add new long-form options --detect-renames[=<n>], --detect-copies[=<n>],
and --break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]] as synonyms for the -M, -C, and -B
options (respectively).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The recursive merge strategy turns on rename detection but leaves the
rename threshold at the default. Add a strategy option to allow the user
to specify a rename threshold to use.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the host has more than one interfaces, daemon can listen to all
of them by not giving any --listen option, or listen to only one.
Teach it to accept more than one --listen options.
Remove the hostname information form the die, if no socket could be
created. It would only trigger when no interface out of either all
interface or the ones specified on the command line with --listen
options, can be listened to and so the user does know which "host" was
asked.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sulfrian <alexander@sulfrian.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
