In some use cases it is not desirable that the diff family considers
submodules that only contain untracked content as dirty. This may happen
e.g. when the submodule is not under the developers control and not all
build generated files have been added to .gitignore by the upstream
developers. Using the "untracked" parameter for the "--ignore-submodules"
option disables checking for untracked content and lets git diff report
them as changed only when they have new commits or modified content.
Sometimes it is not wanted to have submodules show up as changed when they
just contain changes to their work tree. An example for that are scripts
which just want to check for submodule commits while ignoring any changes
to the work tree. Also users having large submodules known not to change
might want to use this option, as the - sometimes substantial - time it
takes to scan the submodule work tree(s) is saved.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Describe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were
introduced in these commits:
619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18)
61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20)
230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "git help log" (and friends) it's not easy to find the possible
placeholder for <string> for the "--pretty=format:<string>" option
to git log.
This patch makes the placeholder easier to find by adding a reference
to the "PRETTY FORMATS" section and repeating the "format:<string>"
phrase.
Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e498257d introduced a typo while improving the GMail section
of SubmittingPatches.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
ac8d5af (builtin-status: submodule summary support, 2008-04-12)
intoduced this variable and described it in git-status[1].
Include this description in git-config[1], as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We keep getting mangled submissions from GMail's web interface. Try to
be more proactive in SubmittingPatches by
- pointing to MUA specific instructions early on,
- structuring the GMail section more clearly,
- putting send-email/SMTP before imap-send/IMAP.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reverse the order of "origin" and "result" so that the sentence
really describes an addition rather than a removal.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we don't always write out commands in full (`git command`) we
should do it consistently in adjacent paragraphs.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation erroneously mentions the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF
override in the description of notes.rewrite.<command>. Move it
under notes.rewriteRef where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Incorporates the detailed explanation from Jeff King in
<20100410040959.GA11977@coredump.intra.peff.net> and fixes
the bug noted by Junio C Hamano in
<7vmxxc1i8g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>.
Signed-off-by: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Unlike gcc, asciidoc does not atomically write its output file or
delete it when interrupted. If it is interrupted in the middle of
writing an XML file, the result will be truncated input for xsltproc.
XSLTPROC user-manual.html
user-manual.xml:998: parser error : Premature end of data in t
Take care of this case by writing to a temporary and renaming it when
finished.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* rr/remote-helper-doc:
Documentation/remote-helpers: Fix typos and improve language
Fixup: Second argument may be any arbitrary string
Documentation/remote-helpers: Add invocation section
Documentation/urls: Rewrite to accomodate <transport>::<address>
Documentation/remote-helpers: Rewrite description
Fix some typos and errors in grammar and tense.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is intended to be a fixup for commit ad466d1 in pu. As Jonathan
Neider pointed out, the second argument may be any arbitrary string,
and need not conform to any URL-like shape.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add an 'Invocation' section to specify what the command line arguments
mean. Also include a link to git-remote in the 'See Also' section.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rewrite the first part of the document to explicitly show differences
between the URLs that can be used with different transport
protocols. Mention <transport>::<address> format to explicitly invoke
a remote helper.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rewrite the description section to describe what exactly remote
helpers are and the need for them. Also mention the curl family of
remote helpers as an example.
[jc: with readability fixes from Jonathan squashed in]
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-z also alters the behaviour of --name-only and --name-status.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
t1010-mktree: Adjust expected result to code and documentation
combined diff: correctly handle truncated file
Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -d
The description for core.autocrlf refers to reads from / writes to
"the filesystem", the only use of this rather ambiguous term, which
technically could be referring to the git object database. (All other
mentions are part of phrases such as "..filesystems (like NFS)..").
Other sections, including the section on core.safecrlf, use the term
"work tree" for the same purpose as the term "the filesystem" is used in
the core.autocrlf section, so that seems like a good alternative, which
makes it clearer what direction the addition/removal of CR characters
occurs in.
Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
v1.7.0-rc0~18^2 (branch -d: base the "already-merged" safety on the
branch it merges with, 2009-12-29) taught ‘git branch’ a new heuristic
for when it is safe to delete a branch without forcing the issue. It
is safe to delete a branch "topic" without second thought if:
- the branch "topic" is set up to pull from a (remote-tracking,
usually) branch and is fully merged in that "upstream" branch, or
- there is no branch.topic.merge configuration and branch "topic" is
fully merged in the current HEAD.
Update the man page to acknowledge the new rules.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default for gc.aggressiveWindow has been 250 since 1c192f3
(gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive, 2007-12-06).
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also move -X's description next to -s's in merge-options.txt.
This makes it easier to learn how to specify merge strategy options.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- use "<options>" instead of just "options".
- use "[<repository> [<refspec>...]]" to indicate that <repository> and
<refspec> are optional, and that <refspec> cannot be specified
without specifying <repository>.
Note that when called without specifying <repository> (eg. "git fetch
-f"), it is accurate to say that the "git fetch [<options>]
[<repository> ...]" case takes precedence over "git fetch [<options>]
<group>".
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option is mostly useless these days because we turn on
reflogs by default in non-bare repos.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even if you use imap-send to throw your drafts in the outbox, using their
web interface will mangle your patches. Clarify that the imap-send is
meant to be used together with a real MUA that can use IMAP drafts, and
remove instructions related to the web interface, which is irrelevant.
Add description of send-email as an alternative.
Use --cover-letter, and do not use -C nor --no-color, on the example
command line for format-patch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
