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Author SHA1 Message Date
Steven Drake
ae6c098f15 Add 'git format-patch --to=' option and 'format.to' configuration variable.
Has the same functionality as the '--cc' option and 'format.cc'
configuration variable but for the "To:" email header.  Half of the code to
support this was already there.

With email the To: header usually more important than the Cc: header.

[jc: tests are by Stephen Boyd]

Signed-off-by: Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-06 19:57:44 -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
Björn Gustavsson
dce5ef1420 format-patch documentation: Fix formatting
Format git commands and options consistently using back quotes
(i.e. a fixed font in the resulting HTML document).

Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-10 11:38:21 -08:00
Yann Dirson
f693b7e9a5 Improve doc for format-patch threading options.
This hopefully makes the relationship between threading options of
format-patch and send-email easier to grasp.

Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-22 21:57:41 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
50710ce49b git-format-patch.txt: general rewordings and cleanups
Clarify --no-binary description using some words from the original
commit 37c22a4b (add --no-binary, 2008-05-9). Cleanup --suffix
description. Add --thread style option to synopsis and reorganize it a
bit. Clarify renaming patches example and the configuration paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-23 12:53:16 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
fd1ff306b7 Documentation: use lowercase for shallow and deep threading
Even when a sentence is started with 'shallow' or 'deep' use the
lowercase version to maintain consistency.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-23 04:20:34 -07:00
Mike Ralphson
680ebc0180 Documentation: fix typos / spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-20 15:56:07 -07:00
Heiko Voigt
1d1876e930 Add configuration variable for sign-off to format-patch
If you regularly create patches which require a Signed-off: line you may
want to make it your default to add that line. It also helps you not to forget
to add the -s/--signoff switch.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-06 00:12:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
37a13acb2e Merge branch 'mh/format-patch-add-header'
* mh/format-patch-add-header:
  format-patch: add arbitrary email headers
2009-04-01 22:49:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
85b7bd50c4 Merge branch 'tr/maint-1.6.1-doc-format-patch--root'
* tr/maint-1.6.1-doc-format-patch--root:
  Documentation: format-patch --root clarifications
2009-04-01 22:49:03 -07:00
Michael Hendricks
d7d9c2d049 format-patch: add arbitrary email headers
format-patch supports the format.headers configuration for adding
arbitrary email headers to the patches it outputs.  This patch adds
support for an --add-header argument which makes the same feature
available from the command line.  This is useful when the content of
custom email headers must change from branch to branch.

This patch has been sponsored by Grant Street Group

Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 23:49:50 -07:00
Thomas Rast
2d266f9d62 Documentation: format-patch --root clarifications
Users were confused about the meaning and use of the --root option.
Notably, since 68c2ec7 (format-patch: show patch text for the root
commit, 2009-01-10), --root has nothing to do with showing the patch
text for the root commit any more.

Shorten and clarify the corresponding paragraph in the DESCRIPTION
section, document --root under OPTIONS, and add an explicit note that
root commits are formatted regardless.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:38:01 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c511549e0c Sync with maint
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-21 23:24:11 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
b60df87a6b format-patch: --numbered-files and --stdout aren't mutually exclusive
For example:

    git format-patch --numbered-files --stdout --attach HEAD~~

will create two messages with files 1 and 2 attached respectively.
Without --attach/--inline but with --stdout, --numbered-files option
can be simply ignored, because we are not creating any file ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-21 22:45:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5a5bd23486 Merge branch 'tr/format-patch-thread'
* tr/format-patch-thread:
  format-patch: support deep threading
  format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to
  format-patch: track several references
  format-patch: threading test reactivation

Conflicts:
	builtin-log.c
2009-03-11 13:48:07 -07:00
Thomas Rast
30984ed2e9 format-patch: support deep threading
For deep threading mode, i.e., the mode that gives a thread structured
like

  + [PATCH 0/n] Cover letter
   `-+ [PATCH 1/n] First patch
      `-+ [PATCH 2/n] Second patch
         `-+ ...

we currently have to use 'git send-email --thread' (the default).  On
the other hand, format-patch also has a --thread option which gives
shallow mode, i.e.,

  + [PATCH 0/n] Cover letter
  |-+ [PATCH 1/n] First patch
  |-+ [PATCH 2/n] Second patch
  ...

To reduce the confusion resulting from having two indentically named
features in different tools giving different results, let format-patch
take an optional argument '--thread=deep' that gives the same output
as 'send-mail --thread'.  With no argument, or 'shallow', behave as
before.  Also add a configuration variable format.thread with the same
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-21 20:26:10 -08:00
Jeremy White
0db5260bd0 Enable setting attach as the default in .gitconfig for git-format-patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-12 14:48:43 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5508064394 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
2008-11-04 15:11:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
16088d8870 format-patch documentation: mention the special case of showing a single commit
Even long timers seem to have missed that "format-patch -1 $commit" is a
much simpler and more obvious way to say "format-patch $commit^..$commit"
from the current documentation (and an example "format-patch -3 $commit"
to get three patches).  Add an explicit instruction in a much earlier part
of the documentation to make it easier to find.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02 20:45:55 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt
a567fdcb01 format-patch: autonumber by default
format-patch is most commonly used for multiple patches at once when
sending a patchset, in which case we want to number the patches; on
the other hand, single patches are not usually expected to be
numbered.

In other words, the typical behavior expected from format-patch is the
one obtained by enabling autonumber, so we set it to be the default.

Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do
so with the existing -N command-line switch.  Users that want to
change the default behavior can use the format.numbering config key.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Test-updates-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-18 07:18:03 -07:00
Matt McCutchen
f491239170 git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-14 17:49:12 -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
7f9d77f279 manpages: fix bogus whitespace
It's distracting.

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
9c67c75719 git-format-patch(1): fix stray \ in output
In listing blocks (set off by rows of dashes), the usual
formatting characters of asciidoc are instead rendered verbatim.
When the escaped double-hyphen of olden days is moved into such a
block along with other formatting improvements, it becomes
backslash-dash-dash.

So we remove the backslash.

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
Stephan Beyer
3240240ff4 Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sections
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list
of the options a git command accepts.

Currently there are several variants to describe the case that
different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section.

Some are:

 -f, --foo::
 -f|--foo::
 -f | --foo::

But AsciiDoc has the special form:

 -f::
 --foo::

This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite,
and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08 13:46:38 -07:00
Christian Couder
9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(1)
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user
level, it seems better to move it to man section 1.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
486d1a5644 Merge branch 'mv/format-cc'
* mv/format-cc:
  Add tests for sendemail.cc configuration variable
  git-send-email: add a new sendemail.cc configuration variable
  git-format-patch: add a new format.cc configuration variable
2008-05-14 13:34:34 -07:00
Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho
37c22a4bf8 git-format-patch: add --no-binary to omit binary changes in the patch.
Add a new option --no-binary to git-format-patch so that no binary
changes are included in the generated patches, only notices that those
files changed.  This generate patches that cannot be applied, but still
is useful for generating mails for code review purposes.

See also: commit e47f306d4b, where --binary
option was turned on by default.

Signed-off-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <cmarcelo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-11 10:12:19 -07:00
Christian Couder
921177f50f Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples
Before this patch in "git-add.txt" and "git-format-patch.txt", the
commands used in the examples were "git-CMD" instead of "git CMD".
This patch fixes that.

In "git-pull.txt" only the last example had the code sample in an
asciidoc "Listing Block", and in the other two files, none.
This patch fixes that by putting all code samples in listing
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-06 21:46:42 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
fe8928e6e8 git-format-patch: add a new format.cc configuration variable
Some projects prefer to always CC patches to a given mailing list. In
these cases, it's handy to configure that address once.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-29 19:56:25 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
736cc67dd7 Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patch
When you have particular reviewers you want to sent particular series
to, it's nice to be able to generate the whole series with them as
additional recipients, without configuring them into your general
headers or adding them by hand afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:38 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
a5a27c79b7 Add a --cover-letter option to format-patch
If --cover-letter is provided, generate a cover letter message before
the patches, numbered 0.

Original patch thanks to Johannes Schindelin

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:31 -08:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:

@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
 # Inline macros.
 # Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
 # (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
 # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
 (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]

This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Sergei Organov
c1a95fa629 Documentation: customize diff-options depending on particular command
Customize diff-options depending on particular command as follows,
mostly to make git-diff and git-format-patch manuals less confusing:

* git-format-patch:

  - Mark --patch-with-stat as being the default.

  - Change -p description so that it matches what it actually does and
    so that it doesn't refer to absent "section on generating
    patches".

* git-diff: mark -p as being the default.

* git-diff-index/git-diff-files/git-diff-tree: mark --raw as being
  the default.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-15 22:44:17 -08:00
David Symonds
6eea60f85e Rearrange git-format-patch synopsis to improve clarity.
Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-05 18:52:16 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt
49604a4d62 format-patch: Add configuration and off switch for --numbered
format.numbered is a tri-state variable.  Boolean values enable or
disable numbering by default and "auto" enables number when outputting
more than one patch.

--no-numbered (short: -N) will disable numbering.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-04 01:26:30 -08:00
Sergei Organov
136e631670 git-format-patch.txt: fix explanation of an example.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-01 15:19:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2f6a382370 format-patch documentation: reword to hint "--root <one-commit>" more clearly
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 21:58:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a1d076e21 "format-patch --root rev" is the way to show everything.
We used to trigger the special case "things not in origin"
semantics only when one and only one positive ref is given, and
no number (e.g. "git format-patch -4 origin") was specified, and
used the general revision range semantics for everything else.

This narrows the special case a bit more, by making:

	git format-patch --root this_version

to show everything that leads to the named commit.

More importantly, document the two different semantics better.
The generic revision range semantics came later and bolted on
without being clearly documented.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 00:38:48 -07:00
Brian Hetro
027830755d Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-24 18:54:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e2b1accc59 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Document -<n> for git-format-patch
  glossary: add 'reflog'
  diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files
  Don't smash stack when $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is too long
2007-07-03 22:56:59 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
ed5f07a6fd Document -<n> for git-format-patch
The -<n> option was not mentioned in git-format-patch's manpage till
now. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-03 19:02:13 -07:00
Adam Roben
dbd2144736 format-patch: Add format.subjectprefix config option
This change lets you use the format.subjectprefix config option to override the
default subject prefix.

Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 21:05:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
e6ff0f42bb Add the --numbered-files option to git-format-patch.
With this option, git-format-patch will generate simple
numbered files as output instead of the default using
with the first commit line appended.

This simplifies the ability to generate an MH-style
drafts folder with each message to be sent.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06 00:35:15 -07:00