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Jakub Narebski
e136f33b5f Documentation/config.txt: Document config file syntax better
Separate part of Documentation/config.txt which deals with git config file
syntax into "Syntax" subsection, and expand it.  Add information about
subsections, boolean values, escaping and escape sequences in string
values, and continuing variable value on the next line.

Add also proxy settings to config file example to show example of
partially enclosed in double quotes string value.

Parts based on comments by Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin,
config.c, and the smb.conf(5) man page.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-22 12:54:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e3ff4b2447 git-gc: do not run git-prune by default.
git-prune is not safe when run uncontrolled in parallel while
other git operations are creating new objects.  To avoid
mistakes, do not run git-prune by default from git-gc.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-21 23:28:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
026aa93818 Revert "prune: --grace=time"
This reverts commit 9b088c4e39.

Protecting 'mature' objects does not make it any safer.  We should
admit that git-prune is inherently unsafe when run in parallel with
other operations without involving unwarranted locking overhead,
and with the latest git, even rebase and reset would not immediately
create crufts anyway.
2007-01-21 21:29:57 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1bb914603a Documentation/tutorial-2: Fix interesting typo in an example.
Marco Candrian noticed that one cat-file example refers to a
blob object that is never used in the example sequence.

The bug is interesting in that the output from the botched
sample command is consistent with the incorrect blob object
name ;-).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-21 21:24:49 -08:00
Matthias Lederhofer
9b088c4e39 prune: --grace=time
This option gives grace period to objects that are unreachable
from the refs from getting pruned.

The default value is 24 hours and may be changed using
gc.prunegrace.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-20 23:29:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4d12a47123 Fix --walk-reflog with --pretty=oneline
Now, "git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=o --walk-reflogs HEAD" is
reasonably pleasant to use.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-20 21:32:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
911cedc95c log --walk-reflog: documentation
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-20 21:32:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
453c1e8575 git-tag -d: allow deleting multiple tags at once.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-20 19:19:12 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
06f6228a90 Stop ignoring Documentation/README
We do not copy this file from elsewhere anymore.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-20 19:10:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
76a44c5c0b show-branch --reflog: show the reflog message at the top.
This changes the output so the list at the top shows the reflog
message, along with their relative timestamps.

You can use --reflog=<n> to show <n> most recent log entries, or
use --reflog=<n>,<b> to show <n> entries going back from the
entry <b>.  <b> can be either a number (so --reflog=4,20 shows 4
records starting from @{20}) or a timestamp (e.g. --reflog='4,1 day').

Here is a sample output (with --list option):

  $ git show-branch --reflog=10 --list jc/show-reflog
    [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
    [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
    [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
    [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: sho
    [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
    [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
    [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_ref_a
    [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow retrievi
    [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
    [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog: use

This shows what I did more cleanly:

  $ git show-branch --reflog=10 jc/show-reflog
  ! [jc/show-reflog@{0}] (3 minutes ago) commit (amend): show-branch --ref
   ! [jc/show-reflog@{1}] (5 minutes ago) reset HEAD^
    ! [jc/show-reflog@{2}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
     ! [jc/show-reflog@{3}] (14 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --reflog:
      ! [jc/show-reflog@{4}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read_
       ! [jc/show-reflog@{5}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend read
        ! [jc/show-reflog@{6}] (18 minutes ago) commit (amend): Extend rea
         ! [jc/show-reflog@{7}] (18 minutes ago) am: read_ref_at(): allow
          ! [jc/show-reflog@{8}] (18 minutes ago) reset --hard HEAD~4
           ! [jc/show-reflog@{9}] (61 minutes ago) commit: show-branch --r
  ----------
  +          [jc/show-reflog@{0}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
    +        [jc/show-reflog@{2}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
   +++       [jc/show-reflog@{1}] show-branch --reflog: show the reflog
  +++++      [jc/show-reflog@{4}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
       +     [jc/show-reflog@{5}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
        +    [jc/show-reflog@{6}] Extend read_ref_at() to be usable fro
         +   [jc/show-reflog@{7}] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the r
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}] show-branch --reflog: use updated rea
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}^] read_ref_at(): allow reporting the c
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}~2] show-branch --reflog: show the refl
           + [jc/show-reflog@{9}~3] read_ref_at(): allow retrieving the
  ++++++++++ [jc/show-reflog@{8}] dwim_ref(): Separate name-to-ref DWIM

At @{9}, I had a commit to complete 5 patch series, but I wanted
to consolidate two commits that enhances read_ref_at() into one
(they were @{9}^ and @{9}~3), and another two that touch show-branch
into one (@{9} and @{9}~2).

I first saved them with "format-patch -4", and then did a reset
at @{8}.  At @{7}, I applied one of them with "am", and then
used "git-apply" on the other one, and amended the commit at
@{6} (so @{6} and @{7} has the same parent).  I did not like the
log message, so I amended again at @{5}.

Then I cherry-picked @{9}~2 to create @{3} (the log message
shows that it needs to learn to set GIT_REFLOG_ACTION -- it uses
"git-commit" and the log entry is attributed for it).  Another
cherry-pick built @{2} out of @{9}, but what I wanted to do was
to squash these two into one, so I did a "reset HEAD^" at @{1}
and then made the final commit by amending what was at the top.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:57:53 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
d23842fd53 rename --exec to --receive-pack for push and send-pack
For now it's just to get a more descriptive name.  Later we might update the
push protocol to run more than one program on the other end.  Moreover this
matches better the corresponding config option remote.<name>. receivepack.

--exec continues to work

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:33 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
060aafc11f make --exec=... option to git-push configurable
Having to specify git push --exec=... is annoying if you cannot have
git-receivepack in your PATH on the remote side (or don't want to).

This introduces the config item remote.<name>.receivepack to override
the default value (which is "git-receive-pack").

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:33 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
18bd8821ca Update documentation of fetch-pack, push and send-pack
add all supported options to Documentation/git-....txt and the usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:54:32 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
89bf207758 Documentation/git.txt: command re-classification
This adds two new classes (pure-helpers and "Interacting with
Others") to the command list in the main manual page.  The
latter class is primarily about foreign SCM interface and is
placed before low-level (plumbing) commands.

Also it promotes a handful commands to mainporcelain category
while demoting some others.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 17:53:39 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
be93fc088f Documentation: generated cmds-*.txt does not depend on git.txt
Pointed out by Santi.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-19 11:33:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
72fe6a5989 Documentation: Generate command lists.
This moves the source of the list of commands and categorization
to the end of Documentation/cmd-list.perl, so that re-categorization
and re-ordering would become easier to manage.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 16:18:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c3f0baacad Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page title
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted
alphabetically.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:53:37 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
377e81392f Documentation: move command list in git.txt into separate files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 15:03:13 -08:00
David Kågedal
cc75ad6762 Document --ignore-if-in-upstream in git-format-patch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18 14:29:42 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
917a8f891f git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt
Editors often give easier handling of patch files if the
filename ends with .patch, so use it instead of .txt.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 23:48:20 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7c49628010 git-format-patch -3
This teaches "git-format-patch" to honor the --max-count
parameter revision traversal machinery takes, so that you can
say "git-format-patch -3" to process the three topmost commits
from the current HEAD (or "git-format-patch -2 topic" to name a
specific branch).

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 23:48:20 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
41a5564e05 Refer users to git-rev-parse for revision specification syntax.
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as
SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by
almost every tool.  Unfortunately it is only documented in
git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 20:45:41 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ee53aff486 Document the master@{n} reflog query syntax.
In ab2a1a32 Junio improved the reflog query logic to support
obtaining the n-th prior value of a ref, but this was never
documented in git-rev-parse.  Now it is.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 20:45:15 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
de3820f5e4 Documentation/git-parse-remote.txt: we deal with config vars as well
... but we never documented it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 13:06:32 -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
Junio C Hamano
5cb545fa22 Documentation: suggest corresponding Porcelain-level in plumbing docs.
Instead of keeping the confused end user reading low-level
documentation, suggest the higher level commands that implement
what the user may want to do using them upfront.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 13:03:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
475abf1b63 Documentation/git-resolve: deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 13:00:23 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
556b6600b2 sanitize content of README file
Current README content is way too esoteric for someone looking at GIT
for the first time. Instead it should provide a quick summary of what
GIT is with a few pointers to other resources.

The bulk of the previous README content is moved to
Documentation/core-intro.txt.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 12:03:50 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
03eeaeaea5 Introduce 'git-format-patch --suffix=.patch'
The default can also be changed with "format.suffix" configuration.
Leaving it empty would not add any suffix.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 12:03:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
2aa73a8fa2 Documentation/glossary.txt: describe remotes/ tracking and packed-refs
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 10:54:58 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
24a0fd02c9 Documentation/glossary.txt: unpacked objects are loose.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 10:54:18 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
428ddc5de6 Documentation: describe shallow repository
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 10:53:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
df59afe3eb Make a short-and-sweet "git-add -i" synonym for "git-add --interactive"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 10:52:36 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5e1a2e8c61 Documentation: detached HEAD
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 10:43:50 -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
850844e28f Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt: programmer's docs
Clarify that this is not meant for end users, and list what
shell functions are defined.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:13:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7055172667 Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt: show -<n> instead of --max-count.
... to match the change we did earlier to git-log documentation.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:11:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
31fcd63c4a Documentation/git-status.txt: mention color configuration
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:11:01 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
0f2ba25d54 Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt: default umask is now 002
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:10:26 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e541557508 Documentation/git-tools.txt: mention tig and refer to wiki
In general list at Wiki seems to be maintained a lot better than
this list.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:09:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
79d5b81fee Documentation/git-tag: the command can be used to also verify a tag.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:08:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e30b217ba4 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Gnus tips
Also warn about format=flowed (aka 'flawed').

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 01:07:27 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
936f32d3de git-commit: document log message formatting convention
Take it from the tutorial, since not everybody necessarily reads it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 22:53:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5ea5621f89 Document where configuration files are in config.txt
Talking about what the files contain without talking about where
they are does not help new users.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 22:45:35 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
7905ba626e git-commit documentation: remove comment on unfixed git-rm
... which was fixed since then.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 16:36:54 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
c1ff284a70 tutorial: shorthand for remotes but show distributed nature of git
* Promiscous pull shows the distributed nature of git better.
* Add a new step after that to teach "remote add".
* Highlight that with the shorthand defined you will get
  remote tracking branches for free.
* Fix Alice's workflow.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 16:23:58 -08:00
Santi Béjar
8b616f24ea tutorial: Use only separate layout
Then the newbies only have to understand one layout.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 16:23:31 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
a9877f83e0 git-rm documentation: remove broken behaviour from the example.
The example section were talking about the old broken default
behaviour.  Correct it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 11:50:29 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dc36f26525 git-push documentation: remaining bits
Mention --thin, --no-thin, --repo and -v.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 11:46:03 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig
5214f77044 document --exec for git-push
The text is just copied from git-send-pack.txt.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K,Av(Bnig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-16 11:33:38 -08:00