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Jason St. John
0ffa154b5b Correct word usage of "timezone" in "Documentation" directory
"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct).

Correct this in these files:
-- date-formats.txt
-- git-blame.txt
-- git-cvsimport.txt
-- git-fast-import.txt
-- git-svn.txt
-- gitweb.conf.txt
-- rev-list-options.txt

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-11-12 10:47:17 -08:00
Eric Sunshine
5bd9b79a20 blame: document multiple -L support
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-08-06 14:34:43 -07:00
Thomas Rast
13b8f68c1f log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there
up to (but not including) the next funcname.  So you can say

  git log -L:main:main.c

and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided
there are no other funcnames matching 'main'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28 10:30:04 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e5dce96e9e git blame: document that it always follows origin across whole-file renames
Make it clear to people who (rightly or wrongly) think that the
"--follow" option should follow origin across while-file renames
that we already do so.  That would explain the output that they see
when they do give the "--follow" option to the command.

We may or may not want to do a "--no-follow" patch as a follow-up,
but that is a separate topic.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-21 12:14:19 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Jeff King
ed747dd521 blame: add --line-porcelain output format
This is just like --porcelain, except that we always output
the commit information for each line, not just the first
time it is referenced. This can make quick and dirty scripts
much easier to write; see the example added to the blame
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-09 15:27:50 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
84393bfd73 blame: add --abbrev command line option and make it honor core.abbrev
If user sets config.abbrev option, use it as if --abbrev was given.  This
is the default value and user can override different abbrev length by
specifying the --abbrev=N command line option.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-05 20:08:41 -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
Kevin Ballard
1b8cdce94f blame: Add option to show author email instead of name
Add a new option -e (or --show-email) to git-blame that will display
the author's email instead of name on each line. This option works
for both git-blame and git-annotate.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-19 12:00:28 -07:00
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
Ramkumar Ramachandra
88d50e78c3 Document git-blame triple -C option
Lift the explanation of -CCC option in the source to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-14 21:54:23 -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
David J. Mellor
b89510f024 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt.
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 12:08:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8c5b85ce87 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  More friendly message when locking the index fails.
  Document git blame --reverse.
  Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
2009-02-19 23:44:07 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
b452cc16d8 Document git blame --reverse.
This was introduced in 85af7929ee but
not documented outside the commit message.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-19 23:22:18 -08:00
Marius Storm-Olsen
7d48e9e6f7 Move mailmap documentation into separate file
Include it directly from git-shortlog.txt, and refer
to it from pretty-format.txt.

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-08 12:38:08 -08:00
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
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
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
Junio C Hamano
b82871b3c3 git-blame -w: ignore whitespace
When refactoring code to split one iteration of a too deeply
nested loop into a separate function, it inevitably makes the
indentation levels shallower (that's the sole point of such a
refactoring).  With "git blame -w", you can ignore such
re-indentation and pass blame for such moved lines to the
parent.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-09 18:34:58 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
093dc5bee6 blame -s: suppress author name and time.
With this "git blame -b -s HEAD~n..HEAD" becomes a nicer way to
review the result of recent changes in context.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-29 02:05:06 -07:00
Andrew Ruder
635f4a30f0 Update git-annotate/git-blame documentation
Moved options that pertained to both git-blame and git-annotate to a
common file blame-options.txt.

builtin-blame.c: Removed --compatibility, --long, --time from the
short usage as they are not handled in the code.

Documentation/git-blame.txt: Removed common options to git-annotate.
Added documentation for --score-debug.  Removed --compatibility.
Adjusted usage at top to not wrap on 80 columns.

Documentation/git-annotate.txt: Using common options blame-options.txt.

Documentation/blame-options.txt: Added -b note about associated config
option, added --root note about associated config option, added
documentation for --show-stats.  Removed --long, --time, --rev-file as
those options do not really exist.  Added documentation for -M/-C taking
an optional score argument for detection of moved lines.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-16 01:14:46 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
06e75a7237 blame: document --contents option
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-05 15:04:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
57e7a0a494 Document 'git-blame --incremental'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-28 12:26:21 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
42f62db905 Documentation: m can be relative in "git-blame -Ln,m"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 13:04:15 -08:00
René Scharfe
23bfbb815d Documentation: a few spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 08:44:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
18d5453ed3 Documentation: move blame examples
This moves the example to specify a line range with regexps to
a later part of the manual page that has similar examples.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-09 10:44:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
acca687fa9 git-pickaxe: retire pickaxe
Just make it take over blame's place.  Documentation and command
have all stopped mentioning "git-pickaxe".  The built-in synonym
is left in the command table, so you can still say "git pickaxe",
but it probably is a good idea to retire it as well.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-08 18:49:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b24642b2f2 blame: Document and add help text for -f, -n, and -p
New options --show-name, --show-number and --porcelain were not
documented.  Also add -p as a short-hand for --porcelain for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-12 00:44:27 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
26e8c5d385 git-blame(1): mention options in the synopsis and advertise pickaxe
Inspired by the cvs annotate documentation improve and expand the man page
to also mention the limitations of file annotations. Since people coming
from the SVN/CVS world might first look here, also briefly advertise how
the pickaxe interface makes it easy to go beyond these limitation.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-25 19:26:05 -07:00
Fredrik Kuivinen
b19ee24b22 blame: Add --time to produce raw timestamps
fix the usage string and clean up the docs while we are at it

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-16 22:45:11 -07:00
Horst H. von Brand
abda1ef590 Documentation: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03 23:54:55 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
8f2b72a936 Add git-annotate(1) and git-blame(1)
[jc: with entries in git.txt]

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-18 12:06:55 -07:00