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Matt McCutchen
f491239170 git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-14 17:49:12 -07:00
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
467c0197fd Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changes
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a
clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and
the command you type, `git whatever <options>`.  So we use a dash
after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter.

I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some
spots.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:39 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
7f9d77f279 manpages: fix bogus whitespace
It's distracting.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:39 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
9c67c75719 git-format-patch(1): fix stray \ in output
In listing blocks (set off by rows of dashes), the usual
formatting characters of asciidoc are instead rendered verbatim.
When the escaped double-hyphen of olden days is moved into such a
block along with other formatting improvements, it becomes
backslash-dash-dash.

So we remove the backslash.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05 11:24:39 -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
Junio C Hamano
56ae8df5c7 Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSO
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-28 16:59:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
486d1a5644 Merge branch 'mv/format-cc'
* mv/format-cc:
  Add tests for sendemail.cc configuration variable
  git-send-email: add a new sendemail.cc configuration variable
  git-format-patch: add a new format.cc configuration variable
2008-05-14 13:34:34 -07:00
Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho
37c22a4bf8 git-format-patch: add --no-binary to omit binary changes in the patch.
Add a new option --no-binary to git-format-patch so that no binary
changes are included in the generated patches, only notices that those
files changed.  This generate patches that cannot be applied, but still
is useful for generating mails for code review purposes.

See also: commit e47f306d4b, where --binary
option was turned on by default.

Signed-off-by: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho <cmarcelo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-11 10:12:19 -07:00
Christian Couder
921177f50f Documentation: improve "add", "pull" and "format-patch" examples
Before this patch in "git-add.txt" and "git-format-patch.txt", the
commands used in the examples were "git-CMD" instead of "git CMD".
This patch fixes that.

In "git-pull.txt" only the last example had the code sample in an
asciidoc "Listing Block", and in the other two files, none.
This patch fixes that by putting all code samples in listing
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-06 21:46:42 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
fe8928e6e8 git-format-patch: add a new format.cc configuration variable
Some projects prefer to always CC patches to a given mailing list. In
these cases, it's handy to configure that address once.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-29 19:56:25 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
736cc67dd7 Support a --cc=<email> option in format-patch
When you have particular reviewers you want to sent particular series
to, it's nice to be able to generate the whole series with them as
additional recipients, without configuring them into your general
headers or adding them by hand afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:38 -08:00
Daniel Barkalow
a5a27c79b7 Add a --cover-letter option to format-patch
If --cover-letter is provided, generate a cover letter message before
the patches, numbered 0.

Original patch thanks to Johannes Schindelin

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19 21:49:31 -08:00
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
Sergei Organov
c1a95fa629 Documentation: customize diff-options depending on particular command
Customize diff-options depending on particular command as follows,
mostly to make git-diff and git-format-patch manuals less confusing:

* git-format-patch:

  - Mark --patch-with-stat as being the default.

  - Change -p description so that it matches what it actually does and
    so that it doesn't refer to absent "section on generating
    patches".

* git-diff: mark -p as being the default.

* git-diff-index/git-diff-files/git-diff-tree: mark --raw as being
  the default.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-15 22:44:17 -08:00
David Symonds
6eea60f85e Rearrange git-format-patch synopsis to improve clarity.
Signed-off-by: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-05 18:52:16 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt
49604a4d62 format-patch: Add configuration and off switch for --numbered
format.numbered is a tri-state variable.  Boolean values enable or
disable numbering by default and "auto" enables number when outputting
more than one patch.

--no-numbered (short: -N) will disable numbering.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-04 01:26:30 -08:00
Sergei Organov
136e631670 git-format-patch.txt: fix explanation of an example.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-01 15:19:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2f6a382370 format-patch documentation: reword to hint "--root <one-commit>" more clearly
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 21:58:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a1d076e21 "format-patch --root rev" is the way to show everything.
We used to trigger the special case "things not in origin"
semantics only when one and only one positive ref is given, and
no number (e.g. "git format-patch -4 origin") was specified, and
used the general revision range semantics for everything else.

This narrows the special case a bit more, by making:

	git format-patch --root this_version

to show everything that leads to the named commit.

More importantly, document the two different semantics better.
The generic revision range semantics came later and bolted on
without being clearly documented.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 00:38:48 -07:00
Brian Hetro
027830755d Documentation: Correct various misspellings and typos.
Fix minor typos throughout the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Brian Hetro <whee@smaertness.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-24 18:54:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e2b1accc59 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Document -<n> for git-format-patch
  glossary: add 'reflog'
  diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files
  Don't smash stack when $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES is too long
2007-07-03 22:56:59 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
ed5f07a6fd Document -<n> for git-format-patch
The -<n> option was not mentioned in git-format-patch's manpage till
now. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-03 19:02:13 -07:00
Adam Roben
dbd2144736 format-patch: Add format.subjectprefix config option
This change lets you use the format.subjectprefix config option to override the
default subject prefix.

Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-02 21:05:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Jon Loeliger
e6ff0f42bb Add the --numbered-files option to git-format-patch.
With this option, git-format-patch will generate simple
numbered files as output instead of the default using
with the first commit line appended.

This simplifies the ability to generate an MH-style
drafts folder with each message to be sent.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-06 00:35:15 -07:00
Robin H. Johnson
2d9e4a47d1 Add custom subject prefix support to format-patch (take 3)
Add a new option to git-format-patch, entitled --subject-prefix that allows
control of the subject prefix '[PATCH]'. Using this option, the text 'PATCH' is
replaced with whatever input is provided to the option. This allows easily
generating patches like '[PATCH 2.6.21-rc3]' or properly numbered series like
'[-mm3 PATCH N/M]'. This patch provides the implementation and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-11 18:48:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a3fbdd9e6 Merge branch 'js/attach'
* js/attach:
  format-patch --attach: not folding some long headers.
  format-patch: add --inline option and make --attach a true attachment
2007-03-10 23:38:18 -08:00
Brian Gernhardt
b8105375ab Fix diff-options references in git-diff and git-format-patch
Most of the git-diff-* documentation used [<common diff options>]
instead of [--diff-options], so make that change in git-diff and
git-format-patch.

In addition, git-format-patch didn't include the meanings of the diff
options.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-05 21:21:39 -08:00
Johannes Schindelin
c112f689c2 format-patch: add --inline option and make --attach a true attachment
The existing --attach option did not create a true "attachment"
but multipart/mixed with Content-Disposition: inline.  It should
have been with Content-Disposition: attachment.

Introduce --inline to add multipart/mixed that is inlined, and
make --attach to create an attachement.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-04 17:31:29 -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
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
Josh Triplett
da56645dd7 Add option to set initial In-Reply-To/References
Add the --in-reply-to option to provide a Message-Id for an initial
In-Reply-To/References header, useful for including a new patch series as part
of an existing thread.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-14 20:41:37 -07:00
Josh Triplett
cc35de8470 Add option to enable threading headers
Add a --thread option to enable generation of In-Reply-To and References
headers, used to make the second and subsequent mails appear as replies to the
first.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-14 20:41:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
efd0201684 git-format-patch: add --output-directory long option again
Additionally notices and complains to an -o option without
directory or a duplicated -o option, -o and --stdout given
together.  Also delays the creation of directory until all
arguments are parsed, so that the command does not leave an
empty directory behind when it exits after seeing an unrelated
invalid option.

[jc: originally from Dennis Stosberg but with minor fixes, and
 documentation updates from Dennis.]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-06 14:16:43 -07:00
Dennis Stosberg
2052d146f6 Update documentation for git-format-patch
[jc: adjusted for recently resurrected features]

Signed-off-by: Dennis Stosberg <dennis@stosberg.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-02 18:17:08 -07:00
Mike McCormack
96ce6d2607 Describe how to add extra mail header lines in mail generated by git-format-patch. 2006-03-09 22:01:10 -08:00
Mike McCormack
a15a44ef6e Document the --attach flag. 2006-03-09 22:01:00 -08:00
Fredrik Kuivinen
7bd7f2804d Remove trailing dot after short description
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09 11:44:11 -08:00
Andreas Ericsson
66f04f38f4 format-patch: Remove last vestiges of --mbox option
Don't mention it in docs or --help output.
Remove mbox, date and author variables from git-format-patch.sh.

Use DESCRIPTION text from man-page to update LONG_USAGE output. It's
a bit silly to have two texts saying the same thing in different words,
and I'm too lazy to update both.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-07 02:09:55 -08:00
Jonas Fonseca
353ce81597 Wrap synopsis lines and use [verse] to keep formatting
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-05 18:44:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
803f498c03 Documentation: diff examples.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-13 01:54:15 -08:00
Nikolai Weibull
6f855371a5 Documentation/git-format-patch.txt: Add --signoff, --check, and long option-names.
The documentation was lacking descriptions for the --signoff and --check
options to git-format-patch.  It was also missing the following long
option-names: --output-directory (-o), --numbered (-n), --keep-subject
(-k), --author (-a), --date (-d), and --mbox (-m).

Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08 15:50:15 -08:00