'git mergetool' creates '*.orig' backup files in its
default configuration. Mention this in its documentation.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The url, path, and the update items in [submodule "foo"] stanzas
are nicely explained in the .gitmodules and ‘git submodule’
documentation. Point there from the config documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is already excellent documentation for this facility in
git-submodule.1, but it is not so discoverable.
Relative paths in .gitmodules can be useful for serving the
same repository over multiple protocols, for example.
Thanks to Peter for pointing this out.
Cc: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
dea4562 (rerere forget path: forget recorded resolution, 2009-12-25)
introduced the forget subcommand for rerere.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This advertises the existence of the 'pre-auto-gc' hook and adds a cross
reference to where the hook is documented.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Several items in the caret, colon and friends section contain examples
already. Make sure they all come with examples, and that examples come
early so that they serve as a visual guide, as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The empty treeish in ":path" means "index". This is actually a special
case of the ":stage:path" syntax where it is documented, but mentioning
it also together with "treeish:path" is helpful, so do it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Asciidoc interprets two dashes separated by spaces as a single big
dash. So let's escape the first dash, so that "\--" will properly
appear as "--".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tc/merge-m-log:
merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog only
fmt-merge-msg: refactor merge title formatting
fmt-merge-msg: minor refactor of fmt_merge_msg()
merge: rename variable
merge: update comment
t7604-merge-custom-message: show that --log doesn't append to -m
t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creation
git-send-email passes on an 8bit mail as-is even if it does not
declare a content-type. Because the user can edit email between
format-patch and send-email, such invalid mails are unfortunately not
very hard to come by.
Make git-send-email stop and ask about the encoding to use if it
encounters any such mail. Also provide a configuration setting to
permanently configure an encoding.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jn/shortlog:
pretty: Respect --abbrev option
shortlog: Document and test --format option
t4201 (shortlog): Test output format with multiple authors
t4201 (shortlog): guard setup with test_expect_success
Documentation/shortlog: scripted users should not rely on implicit HEAD
Instead of talking about hardcoded UTF-8, describe i18n.commitencoding
and the --encoding option, and state that they default to UTF-8.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "a" and "d" commands to ‘add --patch’ (accept/reject rest of file)
interact with "j", "g", and "/" (skip some hunks) in a perhaps
confusing way: after accepting or rejecting all _later_ hunks in the
file, they return to the earlier, skipped hunks and prompt the user
about them again.
This behavior can be very useful in practice. One can still accept or
reject _all_ undecided hunks in a file by using the "g" command to
move to hunk #1 first.
Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git checkout can be used to switch branches and to retrieve files from
the index or an arbitrary tree. Split the description into
subsections corresponding to each mode to make each use easier to
understand.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rebase --preserve-merges facility presents a list of commits
in its instruction sheet and uses a separate table to keep
track of their parents. Unfortunately, in practice this means
that with -p after most attempts to rearrange patches, some
commits have the "wrong" parent and the resulting history is
rarely what the caller expected.
Yes, it would be nice to fix that. But first, add a warning to the
manual to help the uninitiated understand what is going on.
Reported-by: Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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>
Patterns containing a / are implicitly anchored to the directory
containing the relevant .gitignore file.
Patterns not containing a / are textual matches against the path
name relative to the directory containing .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@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>
To the first-time reader, it may not be obvious that ‘git checkout’
has two modes, nor that if no branch is specified it will read
from the index.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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>
As an option to the "diff" family, it is fairly obvious what
"detect renames" means. However, for revision traversal, the
"-M" option is just included in the long list of options,
with no indication that it is about showing renames in diffs
versus following renames. Let's make it more explicit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the user specifies a message, use fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() to
append the shortlog.
Previously, when a message was specified, we ignored the merge title
("Merge <foo> into <bar>") and shortlog from fmt_merge_msg().
Update the documentation for -m to reflect this too.
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
