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Junio C Hamano
edac1883dc Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-28 17:42:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
54fcb21b89 Merge branch 'tr/send-email-8bit' into maint
* tr/send-email-8bit:
  send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails
2010-06-28 16:19:03 -07:00
Christian Couder
8b6d7924f8 Documentation: grep: fix asciidoc problem with --
Asciidoc interprets two dashes separated by spaces as a single big
dash. So let's escape the first dash, so that "\--" will properly
appear as "--".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-25 08:57:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a4c24549ac Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-22 09:33:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a7e664fc2a Merge branch 'jn/document-rebase-i-p-limitation' into maint
* jn/document-rebase-i-p-limitation:
  rebase -i -p: document shortcomings
2010-06-22 09:31:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
12575b78fb Merge branch 'jn/checkout-doc' into maint
* jn/checkout-doc:
  Documentation/checkout: clarify description
  Documentation/checkout: clarify description
2010-06-22 09:31:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e3ed7f721c Merge branch 'tc/merge-m-log' into maint
* tc/merge-m-log:
  merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
  fmt-merge-msg: add function to append shortlog only
  fmt-merge-msg: refactor merge title formatting
  fmt-merge-msg: minor refactor of fmt_merge_msg()
  merge: rename variable
  merge: update comment
  t7604-merge-custom-message: show that --log doesn't append to -m
  t7604-merge-custom-message: shift expected output creation
2010-06-22 08:31:25 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9932977173 Update draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-21 05:48:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7a0d54facd Merge branch 'jk/diff-m-doc' into maint
* jk/diff-m-doc:
  docs: clarify meaning of -M for git-log
2010-06-21 05:40:57 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b17847884f Merge branch 'jn/maint-doc-ignore' into maint
* jn/maint-doc-ignore:
  gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules
2010-06-21 05:40:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
443f26cbca Merge branch 'cb/assume-unchanged-fix' into maint
* cb/assume-unchanged-fix:
  Documentation: git-add does not update files marked "assume unchanged"
  do not overwrite files marked "assume unchanged"
2010-06-21 05:39:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1b9fa0e811 Merge branch 'jn/notes-doc' into maint
* jn/notes-doc:
  Documentation/notes: nitpicks
  Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configuration
  Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refs
  Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section
  Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref
  Documentation/notes: add configuration section
  Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobs
  Documentation/notes: document format of notes trees
2010-06-21 05:39:16 -07:00
Thomas Rast
3cae7e5b2b send-email: ask about and declare 8bit mails
git-send-email passes on an 8bit mail as-is even if it does not
declare a content-type.  Because the user can edit email between
format-patch and send-email, such invalid mails are unfortunately not
very hard to come by.

Make git-send-email stop and ask about the encoding to use if it
encounters any such mail.  Also provide a configuration setting to
permanently configure an encoding.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-18 08:47:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
45a0ee1163 Prepare draft release notes to 1.7.1.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-16 17:00:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3b3b9a6152 Merge branch 'by/blame-doc-m-c' into maint
* by/blame-doc-m-c:
  blame-options.txt: Add default value for `-M/-C` options.
2010-06-16 16:23:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
db1cf2eb98 Merge branch 'rr/doc-submitting' into maint
* rr/doc-submitting:
  SubmittingPatches: Add new section about what to base work on
2010-06-16 16:23:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
799c34449e Merge branch 'jn/shortlog' into maint
* jn/shortlog:
  pretty: Respect --abbrev option
  shortlog: Document and test --format option
  t4201 (shortlog): Test output format with multiple authors
  t4201 (shortlog): guard setup with test_expect_success
  Documentation/shortlog: scripted users should not rely on implicit HEAD
2010-06-16 16:22:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
419ff2c575 Merge branch 'bg/send-email-smtpdomain' into maint
* bg/send-email-smtpdomain:
  send-email: Cleanup smtp-domain and add config
  Document send-email --smtp-domain
  send-email: Don't use FQDNs without a '.'
  send-email: Cleanup { style
2010-06-16 16:20:06 -07:00
Zhang Le
e0a9110176 git-mailinfo documentation: clarify -u/--encoding
Instead of talking about hardcoded UTF-8, describe i18n.commitencoding
and the --encoding option, and state that they default to UTF-8.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13 20:18:23 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
74e42ce122 add-interactive: Clarify “remaining hunks in the file”
The "a" and "d" commands to ‘add --patch’ (accept/reject rest of file)
interact with "j", "g", and "/" (skip some hunks) in a perhaps
confusing way: after accepting or rejecting all _later_ hunks in the
file, they return to the earlier, skipped hunks and prompt the user
about them again.

This behavior can be very useful in practice.  One can still accept or
reject _all_ undecided hunks in a file by using the "g" command to
move to hunk #1 first.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13 10:05:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b831deda17 Documentation/checkout: clarify description
git checkout can be used to switch branches and to retrieve files from
the index or an arbitrary tree.  Split the description into
subsections corresponding to each mode to make each use easier to
understand.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-11 08:47:48 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
cddb42d2c5 rebase -i -p: document shortcomings
The rebase --preserve-merges facility presents a list of commits
in its instruction sheet and uses a separate table to keep
track of their parents.  Unfortunately, in practice this means
that with -p after most attempts to rearrange patches, some
commits have the "wrong" parent and the resulting history is
rarely what the caller expected.

Yes, it would be nice to fix that.  But first, add a warning to the
manual to help the uninitiated understand what is going on.

Reported-by: Jiří Paleček <jpalecek@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-11 08:44:13 -07:00
Jay Soffian
3334729cf2 commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used
commit --author was added by 146ea06 (git commit --author=$name: look $name up
in existing commits), but its documentation was sorely lacking compared to its
excellent commit message. This commit tries to improve the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06 22:13:51 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
873c347205 Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase
Describe the A...B shortcuts for checkout and rebase [-i] which were
introduced in these commits:

619a64e ("checkout A...B" switches to the merge base between A and B, 2009-10-18)
61dfa1b ("rebase --onto A...B" replays history on the merge base between A and B, 2009-11-20)
230a456 (rebase -i: teach --onto A...B syntax, 2010-01-07)

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-02 10:03:53 -07:00
Nazri Ramliy
41e4d69fb8 Documentation/pretty-{formats,options}: better reference for "format:<string>"
In "git help log" (and friends) it's not easy to find the possible
placeholder for <string> for the "--pretty=format:<string>" option
to git log.

This patch makes the placeholder easier to find by adding a reference
to the "PRETTY FORMATS" section and repeating the "format:<string>"
phrase.

Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-02 10:03:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6774e2bf08 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.0' into maint
* maint-1.7.0:
  Documentation/config: describe status.submodulesummary
2010-05-31 18:14:17 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
81c13fde37 gitignore.5: Clarify matching rules
Patterns containing a / are implicitly anchored to the directory
containing the relevant .gitignore file.

Patterns not containing a / are textual matches against the path
name relative to the directory containing .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-31 18:11:10 -07:00
Tim Henigan
811dd906db Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Fix typo in GMail section
Commit e498257d introduced a typo while improving the GMail section
of SubmittingPatches.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-31 18:05:17 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
c5b41519c7 Documentation/checkout: clarify description
To the first-time reader, it may not be obvious that ‘git checkout’
has two modes, nor that if no branch is specified it will read
from the index.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-31 17:50:03 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
4b2343fa41 Documentation/config: describe status.submodulesummary
ac8d5af (builtin-status: submodule summary support, 2008-04-12)
intoduced this variable and described it in git-status[1].

Include this description in git-config[1], as well.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-28 18:26:33 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
e498257d65 Documentation/SubmittingPatches: clarify GMail section and SMTP
We keep getting mangled submissions from GMail's web interface. Try to
be more proactive in SubmittingPatches by

- pointing to MUA specific instructions early on,
- structuring the GMail section more clearly,
- putting send-email/SMTP before imap-send/IMAP.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-25 10:50:58 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
d07ef71575 Documentation/gitdiffcore: fix order in pickaxe description
Reverse the order of "origin" and "result" so that the sentence
really describes an addition rather than a removal.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18 21:55:11 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
f3838ce16a Documentation: fix minor inconsistency
While we don't always write out commands in full (`git command`) we
should do it consistently in adjacent paragraphs.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18 21:51:50 -07:00
Markus Heidelberg
56a05720b1 Documentation: rebase -i ignores options passed to "git am"
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18 21:51:40 -07:00
Jeff King
7ffad25014 docs: clarify meaning of -M for git-log
As an option to the "diff" family, it is fairly obvious what
"detect renames" means. However, for revision traversal, the
"-M" option is just included in the long list of options,
with no indication that it is about showing renames in diffs
versus following renames. Let's make it more explicit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-18 21:32:41 -07:00
Tay Ray Chuan
f0ecac2b70 merge: --log appends shortlog to message if specified
When the user specifies a message, use fmt_merge_msg_shortlog() to
append the shortlog.

Previously, when a message was specified, we ignored the merge title
("Merge <foo> into <bar>") and shortlog from fmt_merge_msg().

Update the documentation for -m to reflect this too.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-10 12:02:20 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
1a3eb9a032 Documentation/notes: nitpicks
Spell out “or” in the NAME line and simplify the leading sentence
in the DESCRIPTION.

Some other language cleanups, too.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:03 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
c5ce183671 Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configuration
Clarify that the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REFS environment variable
overrides both ‘[notes "rewrite"] <command>’ and ‘[notes] rewriteRef’.

Add explanations of GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE and GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REFS
to the ENVIRONMENT section.

Cc: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:03 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
66c4c32d29 Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refs
The main description of display refs for notes should be in
git-log.1, where there is a chance to give a leisurely description
of all the ways they can be set, what they are used for, and so
on.  The description in git-notes.1 is only meant to be a quick
reminder of how notes are used.

So simplify it.

Also add an entry for GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF to the environment
section.

Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:03 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
59893a88f9 Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section
Add a configuration section summarizing variables that affect the
log family of commands.

Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:03 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
0097971031 Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref
Separate the documentation of the semantics, command-line option,
configuration item, and environment variable for the default notes
ref.  The documentation is easier to digest in bite-sized pieces.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ed9098fda2 Documentation/notes: add configuration section
Copy the descriptions of configuration variables from git-config.1.
Once the descriptions have been ironed out, it would be nice to
refactor them to share text, but for now it is simplest to experiment
with separate copies.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
8d6888ec6a Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobs
stripspace/text-based formatting kicks in when specifying the notes
content with -m or -F, or when an editor is used to edit the notes.
To binary-safely create notes from files, the following construct is
required:

    git notes add -C $(git hash-object -w <file>) <object>

Explain this trick (thanks, Johan!) in the manual.  Add an ordinary
example, too, to keep this esoteric one company.

Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
9eb3f816de Documentation/notes: document format of notes trees
Separate the specification of the notes format exposed in
git-config.1 from the description of the option; or in other
words, move the explanation for what to expect to find at
refs/notes/commits from git-config.1 to git-notes.1.

Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:02 -07:00
Clemens Buchacher
ac472ba65f Documentation: git-add does not update files marked "assume unchanged"
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 11:12:28 -07:00
Leif Arne Storset
cfb88e9a8d Documentation/config.txt: GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF overrides notes.rewriteRef
The documentation erroneously mentions the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF
override in the description of notes.rewrite.<command>.  Move it
under notes.rewriteRef where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-07 21:38:50 -07:00
Bo Yang
509de65f3b blame-options.txt: Add default value for -M/-C options.
Both `-M` and `-C` have default values and the <num> argument
the last `-C` option takes effect.

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-07 09:34:59 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
600372497c shortlog: Document and test --format option
Do not document the --pretty synonym, since it takes too long to
explain the name to people.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-04 15:30:59 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
02646fe55d Documentation/shortlog: scripted users should not rely on implicit HEAD
When passed no revision arguments, ‘git shortlog’ reads a log from
stdin if and only if stdin is not a tty.  So scripts that need to
function identically when standard input is a terminal (as when run
interactively) and not (as when run through a cron job) should either
supply a log themselves or specify the desired revisions explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-04 15:29:50 -07:00
Ping Yin
2b873e064c Documentation/git-send-email: Add "Use gmail as the smtp server"
Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Acked by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-04 10:12:26 -07:00