Commit Graph

18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Štěpán Němec
edfbbf7eea doc: A few minor copy edits.
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
  linkification in frontends that support it; remove them

- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
  the other way around

- trivial typo and wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-14 22:32:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0e8a23bf1f Merge branch 'nk/ref-doc'
* nk/ref-doc:
  glossary: clarify description of HEAD
  glossary: update description of head and ref
  glossary: update description of "tag"
  git.txt: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
  check-ref-format doc: de-emphasize the implementation detail of a ref
  git-remote.txt: avoid sounding as if loose refs are the only ones in the world
  git-remote.txt: fix wrong remote refspec
2011-07-13 14:31:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
67393c5dc9 glossary: clarify description of HEAD
HEAD on a branch does reference a commit via the branch ref it refers to.
The main difference of a detached HEAD is that it _directly_ refers to
a commit.  Clarify this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-23 15:39:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
deaef1e947 glossary: update description of head and ref
Reword them to avoid sounding as if loose refs are the only ones in the world.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-23 15:39:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
487b04411d glossary: update description of "tag"
It is an unimportant implementation detail that ref namespaces are
implemented as subdirectories of $GIT_DIR/refs. What is more important
is that tags are in refs/tags hierarchy in the ref namespace.

Also note that a tag can point at an object of arbitrary type, not limited
to commit.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-23 15:39:24 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
6fd09f537c t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-10 12:42:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6d94292710 Revert "magic pathspec: add ":(icase)path" to match case insensitively"
This reverts commit d0546e2d48, which
was only meant to be a Proof-of-concept used during the discussion.

The real implementation of the feature needs to wait until we migrate
all the code to use "struct pathspec", not "char **", to represent
richer semantics given to pathspec.
2011-05-10 10:23:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d0546e2d48 magic pathspec: add ":(icase)path" to match case insensitively
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-08 16:20:16 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a42c98501 magic pathspec: add tentative ":/path/from/top/level" pathspec support
Support ":/" magic string that can be prefixed to a pathspec element to
say "this names the path from the top-level of the working tree", when
you are in the subdirectory.

For example, you should be able to say:

    $ edit Makefile ;# top-level
    $ cd Documentation
    $ edit git.txt ;# in the subdirectory

and then do one of three things, still inside the subdirectory:

    $ git add -u .  ;# add only Documentation/git.txt
    $ git add -u :/ ;# add everything, including paths outside Documentation
    $ git add -u    ;# whatever the default setting is.

To truly support magic pathspec, the API needs to be restructured so that
get_pathspec() and init_pathspec() are unified into one call.  Currently,
the former just prefixes the user supplied pathspec with the current
subdirectory path, and the latter takes the output from the former and
pre-parses them into a bit richer structure for easier handling.  They
should become a single API function that takes the current subdirectory
path and the remainder of argv[] (after parsing --options and revision
arguments from the command line) and returns an array of parsed pathspec
elements, and "magic" should become attributes of struct pathspec_item.

This patch implements only "top" magic because it can be hacked into the
system without such a refactoring.

The syntax for magic pathspec prefix is designed to be extensible yet
simple to type to invoke a simple magic like "from the top".  The parser
for the magic prefix is hooked into get_pathspec() function in this patch,
and it needs to be moved when we refactor the API.

But we have to start from somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-04-06 17:08:46 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
3bd2bcfa98 glossary: define pathspec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03 13:22:58 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
8b3f3f84b2 Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"
One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C
code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in
comment and usage strings.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:20:41 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
a75d7b5409 Use 'fast-forward' all over the place
It's a compound word.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-24 23:50:28 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
580cbb58a2 Documentation: clarify "working tree" definition
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a
filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD.  Spell it out.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-09 14:54:55 -07:00
Santi Béjar
e892dc713e Documentation: Introduce "upstream branch"
Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 22:04:41 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
dcb11263bc Documentation: remove extra quoting/emphasis around literal texts
If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from
normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need
extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments.

config.txt

  Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide
  emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough.

  Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present
  in the described config value, so drop them.

git-checkout.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line
  argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve
  curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to
  indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of
  certain shells (tcsh).

git-merge.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge
  conflict markers. The quotes should are not important.

git-rev-parse.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line
  arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary.

gitcli.txt

  Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line
  examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong
  inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it.

glossary-content.txt
user-manual.txt

  Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-17 14:16:44 -07:00
Markus Heidelberg
d1983677f7 Documentation: fix description for enabling hooks
Since f98f8cb (Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix, 2008-06-24) hooks
are not enabled by making them executable anymore, but by removing the
'.sample' suffix from the filename.

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-17 00:57:33 -08:00
Lea Wiemann
850d3a7c05 glossary: improve a few links
They now point to more specific/appropriate targets.

Signed-off-by: Lea Wiemann <LeWiemann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:26:37 -07:00
Christian Couder
497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00