The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list. It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.
While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The accepted style in the SYNOPSIS section is for a command to be
'emphasised'. Do so for the git-shortlog(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Amazingly, a reference to 'show files' survived from the core command
documentation introduced in c64b9b8 (Reference documentation for the
core git commands., 2005-05-05)!
However, the tool is now called git-ls-files.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'. “diff commands such as
diff-files” scans better without a comma. Clarify that shallow
and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather
than boolean values with some other name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
In commit 56752391 (Make "git gc" pack all refs by default,
2007-05-24), 'git gc' was changed to run pack-refs by default
Versions before v1.5.1.2 cannot clone repos with packed refs over
http, and versions before v1.4.4 cannot handled packed refs at
all, but more recent git should have no problems. Try to make
this more clear in the git-config manual.
The analagous passage in git-gc.txt was updated already with
commit fe2128a (Change git-gc documentation to reflect
gc.packrefs implementation., 2008-01-09).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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.
Use `code snippet` style instead of 'emphasis' for `git cmd ...`
according to the following rules:
* The SYNOPSIS sections are left untouched.
* If the intent is that the user type the command exactly as given, it
is `code`.
If the user is only loosely referred to a command and/or option, it
remains 'emphasised'.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
We do this for both git-merge and git-pull, so as to hopefully alert
(over)users of git-pull to the issue.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The git-merge manpage was written in terms of merging a "remote",
which is no longer the case: you merge local or remote-tracking
branches; pull is for actual remotes.
Adjust the manpage accordingly. We refer to the arguments as
"commits", and change instances of "remote" to "other" (where branches
are concerned) or "theirs" (where conflict sides are concerned).
Remove the single reference to "pulling".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
* sb/maint-octopus:
octopus: remove dead code
octopus: reenable fast-forward merges
octopus: make merge process simpler to follow
Conflicts:
git-merge-octopus.sh
* bg/maint-add-all-doc:
git-rm doc: Describe how to sync index & work tree
git-add/rm doc: Consistently back-quote
Documentation: 'git add -A' can remove files
Newcomers to git that want to remove from the index only the
files that have disappeared from the working tree will probably
look for a way to do that in the documentation for 'git rm'.
Therefore, describe how that can be done (even though it involves
other commands than 'git rm'). Based on a suggestion by Junio,
but re-arranged and rewritten to better fit into the style of
command reference.
While at it, change a single occurrence of "work tree" to "working
tree" for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* mo/bin-wrappers:
INSTALL: document a simpler way to run uninstalled builds
run test suite without dashed git-commands in PATH
build dashless "bin-wrappers" directory similar to installed bindir
The %.o: %.S pattern rule should depend on GIT-CFLAGS to avoid
trouble when ALL_CFLAGS changes.
The pattern only applies to one file (ppc/sha1ppc.S) and that
file does not use any #ifdefs, so leaving the dependency out is
probably harmless. Nevertheless, it is safer to include the
dependency in case future code's behavior does depend on the
build flags.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
branch: die explicitly why when calling "git branch [-a|-r] branchname".
fast-import: Document author/committer/tagger name is optional
SubmittingPatches: hints to know the status of a submitted patch.
The -a and -r options used to be silently ignored in such a command.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fast-import parser does not validate that the author, committer
or tagger name component contains both a name and an email address.
Therefore the name component has always been optional. Correct the
documentation to match the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"What happened to my patch" is pretty much a FAQ on the Git mailing list,
it deserves a few paragraphs in SubmittingPatches...
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Native cvs update outputs the string "cvs update: Updating <DIR>" for
every directory it processes (to stderr) unless -q or -Q is given on
comman-line. This is used, e.g., by emacs pcl-cvs to split files by
directory. This commit implements this feature in cvsserver.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Acked-by: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve the readability of the bash prompt by adding a space between
the branch name and the status flags (dirty, stash, untracked).
While we are cleaning up this section of code, the two cases for
formatting the prompt are identical except for the format string,
so make them the same.
Suggested-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
textconv: stop leaking file descriptors
commit: --cleanup is a message option
git count-objects: handle packs bigger than 4G
t7102: make the test fail if one of its check fails
Documentation: always respect core.worktree if set
* maint-1.6.1:
textconv: stop leaking file descriptors
commit: --cleanup is a message option
git count-objects: handle packs bigger than 4G
t7102: make the test fail if one of its check fails
Conflicts:
builtin-commit.c
diff.c
We read the output from textconv helpers over a pipe, but we
never actually closed our end of the pipe after using it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the usage message for "git commit", the --cleanup option appeared
at the end, as one of the "contents options":
usage: git commit [options] [--] <filepattern>...
...
Commit message options
...
Commit contents options
...
--allow-empty ok to record an empty change
--cleanup <default> how to strip spaces and #comments from message
This is confusing, in part because it makes it ambiguous whether
--allow-empty, just above, refers to an empty diff or an empty message.
Move --cleanup into the 'message options' group. Also add a pair of
comments to prevent similar oversights in the future.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use off_t to count sizes of packs and objects to avoid overflow after
4Gb.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The value of core.worktree in a ".git/config" is honored even when it
differs from the directory that has the ".git" directory as its
subdirectory. This is likely to be a misconfiguration, so warn users
about it. Also, drop the part of the documentation that incorrectly
claimed that we ignore such a misconfigured value.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/1.7.0-status:
status/commit: do not suggest "reset HEAD <path>" while merging
commit/status: "git add <path>" is not necessarily how to resolve
commit/status: check $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD only once
t7508-status: test all modes with color
t7508-status: status --porcelain ignores relative paths setting
status: reduce duplicated setup code
status: disable color for porcelain format
status -s: obey color.status
builtin-commit: refactor short-status code into wt-status.c
t7508-status.sh: Add tests for status -s
status -s: respect the status.relativePaths option
docs: note that status configuration affects only long format
commit: support alternate status formats
status: add --porcelain output format
status: refactor format option parsing
status: refactor short-mode printing to its own function
status: typo fix in usage
git status: not "commit --dry-run" anymore
git stat -s: short status output
git stat: the beginning of "status that is not a dry-run of commit"
Conflicts:
t/t4034-diff-words.sh
wt-status.c
On big endian platforms with 8-byte unsigned long, the code reads the
size of the index extension section (which is a 4-byte network byte
order integer) incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Makefile: FreeBSD (both 7 and 8) needs OLD_ICONV
Start 1.6.6.X maintenance track
Add git-http-backend to command-list.
t4019 "grep" portability fix
t1200: work around a bug in some implementations of "find"
Conflicts:
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