git-commit-vandalism/Documentation
Elijah Newren 10cdb9f38a rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends
Two related changes, with separate rationale for each:

Rename the 'interactive' backend to 'merge' because:
  * 'interactive' as a name caused confusion; this backend has been used
    for many kinds of non-interactive rebases, and will probably be used
    in the future for more non-interactive rebases than interactive ones
    given that we are making it the default.
  * 'interactive' is not the underlying strategy; merging is.
  * the directory where state is stored is not called
    .git/rebase-interactive but .git/rebase-merge.

Rename the 'am' backend to 'apply' because:
  * Few users are familiar with git-am as a reference point.
  * Related to the above, the name 'am' makes sentences in the
    documentation harder for users to read and comprehend (they may read
    it as the verb from "I am"); avoiding this difficult places a large
    burden on anyone writing documentation about this backend to be very
    careful with quoting and sentence structure and often forces
    annoying redundancy to try to avoid such problems.
  * Users stumble over pronunciation ("am" as in "I am a person not a
    backend" or "am" as in "the first and thirteenth letters in the
    alphabet in order are "A-M"); this may drive confusion when one user
    tries to explain to another what they are doing.
  * While "am" is the tool driving this backend, the tool driving git-am
    is git-apply, and since we are driving towards lower-level tools
    for the naming of the merge backend we may as well do so here too.
  * The directory where state is stored has never been called
    .git/rebase-am, it was always called .git/rebase-apply.

For all the reasons listed above:
  * Modify the documentation to refer to the backends with the new names
  * Provide a brief note in the documentation connecting the new names
    to the old names in case users run across the old names anywhere
    (e.g. in old release notes or older versions of the documentation)
  * Change the (new) --am command line flag to --apply
  * Rename some enums, variables, and functions to reinforce the new
    backend names for us as well.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-16 15:40:42 -08:00
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config rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends 2020-02-16 15:40:42 -08:00
howto Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new 2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
RelNotes Revert "Merge branch 'ra/rebase-i-more-options'" 2020-01-12 13:25:18 -08:00
technical Merge branch 'jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix' 2020-01-08 12:44:12 -08:00
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.gitignore Merge branch 'js/misc-doc-fixes' 2019-05-09 00:37:27 +09:00
asciidoc.conf Doc/Makefile: give mansource/-version/-manual attributes 2019-09-16 12:27:34 -07:00
asciidoctor-extensions.rb Merge branch 'ma/user-manual-markup-update' 2019-10-06 12:25:16 +09:00
blame-options.txt blame: add config options for the output of ignored or unblamable lines 2019-05-16 11:36:23 +09:00
build-docdep.perl
cat-texi.perl Documentation: remove unneeded argument in cat-texi.perl 2017-01-23 10:56:47 -08:00
cmd-list.perl
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config.txt Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new 2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
date-formats.txt Merge branch 'lr/doc-fix-cet' into maint 2017-01-17 15:19:08 -08:00
diff-format.txt doc: indent multi-line items in list 2019-12-13 12:18:07 -08:00
diff-generate-patch.txt diff, log doc: small grammer, format, and language fixes 2019-09-17 12:14:06 -07:00
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fetch-options.txt fetch: add the command-line option --write-commit-graph 2019-11-06 10:59:36 +09:00
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git-am.txt Merge branch 'pm/am-in-body-header-doc-update' 2020-01-08 12:44:12 -08:00
git-annotate.txt Use proper syntax for replaceables in command docs 2018-05-25 17:16:47 +09:00
git-apply.txt Merge branch 'nd/diff-apply-ita' 2018-06-25 13:22:36 -07:00
git-archimport.txt git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about 2018-09-21 09:28:58 -07:00
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git-bisect-lk2009.txt Merge branch 'dl/lore-is-the-archive' 2019-12-06 15:09:24 -08:00
git-bisect.txt Documentation/git-bisect.txt: add --no-ff to merge command 2019-10-29 11:53:56 +09:00
git-blame.txt blame: add the ability to ignore commits and their changes 2019-05-16 11:36:23 +09:00
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git-bundle.txt Merge branch 'po/bundle-doc-clonable' 2019-12-10 13:11:41 -08:00
git-cat-file.txt Merge branch 'dt/cat-file-batch-ambiguous' 2019-02-06 22:05:21 -08:00
git-check-attr.txt Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new 2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
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git-check-mailmap.txt Use proper syntax for replaceables in command docs 2018-05-25 17:16:47 +09:00
git-check-ref-format.txt doc: promote "git switch" 2019-04-02 13:57:00 +09:00
git-checkout-index.txt
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git-cherry-pick.txt cherry-pick/revert: add --skip option 2019-07-02 12:08:08 -07:00
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git-clean.txt Merge branch 'en/clean-nested-with-ignored' 2019-10-11 14:24:46 +09:00
git-clone.txt Merge branch 'ja/doc-markup-cleanup' 2019-12-25 11:22:00 -08:00
git-column.txt git-column.txt: fix section header 2018-12-26 15:29:30 -08:00
git-commit-graph.txt test-tool: use 'read-graph' helper 2019-11-13 11:14:16 +09:00
git-commit-tree.txt commit-tree: utilize parse-options api 2019-03-08 10:31:24 +09:00
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git-config.txt Documentation: wrap config listings in "----" 2019-09-09 11:05:51 -07:00
git-count-objects.txt count-objects: report alternates via verbose mode 2016-10-10 13:52:37 -07:00
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git-credential-store.txt Use proper syntax for replaceables in command docs 2018-05-25 17:16:47 +09:00
git-credential.txt credential: move doc to credential.h 2019-11-18 15:21:29 +09:00
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git-cvsserver.txt Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new 2019-11-07 13:42:00 +09:00
git-daemon.txt doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace. 2019-03-13 11:14:22 +09:00
git-describe.txt describe doc: remove '7-char' abbreviation reference 2019-04-08 17:24:51 +09:00
git-diff-files.txt
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git-diff-tree.txt Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt: fix formatting 2019-04-01 15:17:47 +09:00
git-diff.txt git-diff.txt: document return code of --no-index 2019-11-02 13:16:41 +09:00
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git-fetch-pack.txt Documentation: fix several one-character-off spelling errors 2018-04-09 14:15:02 +09:00
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git-filter-branch.txt Merge branch 'ja/doc-markup-cleanup' 2019-12-25 11:22:00 -08:00
git-fmt-merge-msg.txt config.txt: move fmt-merge-msg-config.txt to config/ 2018-10-29 10:17:01 +09:00
git-for-each-ref.txt ref-filter: add worktreepath atom 2019-05-07 13:45:53 +09:00
git-format-patch.txt format-patch: teach --no-base 2019-12-05 06:06:18 -08:00
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git-gc.txt Recommend git-filter-repo instead of git-filter-branch 2019-09-05 13:01:48 -07:00
git-get-tar-commit-id.txt usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file 2015-10-16 15:27:52 -07:00
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git-help.txt doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace. 2019-03-13 11:14:22 +09:00
git-http-backend.txt Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces 2019-03-07 09:25:32 +09:00
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git-imap-send.txt git-imap-send.txt: move imap.* to a separate file 2018-10-29 10:17:02 +09:00
git-index-pack.txt doc: keep first level section header in upper case 2018-05-02 17:03:33 +09:00
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git-interpret-trailers.txt interpret-trailers.txt: start the desc line with a capital letter 2019-04-01 15:49:47 +09:00
git-log.txt Merge branch 'pb/clarify-line-log-doc' 2020-01-06 14:17:50 -08:00
git-ls-files.txt doc/ls-files: put nested list for "-t" option into block 2019-04-23 10:25:04 +09:00
git-ls-remote.txt git-ls-remote.txt: wrap shell listing in "----" 2019-09-09 11:05:52 -07:00
git-ls-tree.txt doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace. 2019-03-13 11:14:22 +09:00
git-mailinfo.txt Merge branch 'va/mailinfo-doc-typofix' into maint 2016-05-26 13:17:14 -07:00
git-mailsplit.txt mailsplit: support unescaping mboxrd messages 2016-06-06 11:14:43 -07:00
git-merge-base.txt git-merge-base.txt: render indentations correctly under Asciidoctor 2019-09-09 11:05:51 -07:00
git-merge-file.txt merge-file: clamp exit code to maximum 127 2015-10-29 12:10:23 -07:00
git-merge-index.txt git-merge-index.txt: wrap shell listing in "----" 2019-09-09 11:05:52 -07:00
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git-mergetool.txt mergetool: fallback to tool when guitool unavailable 2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00
git-mktag.txt usage: do not insist that standard input must come from a file 2015-10-16 15:27:52 -07:00
git-mktree.txt Documentation: normalize spelling of 'normalised' 2018-04-09 14:15:07 +09:00
git-multi-pack-index.txt multi-pack-index: add [--[no-]progress] option. 2019-10-23 12:05:06 +09:00
git-mv.txt doc: typeset short command-line options as literal 2016-06-28 08:20:52 -07:00
git-name-rev.txt doc: keep first level section header in upper case 2018-05-02 17:03:33 +09:00
git-notes.txt notes: fix minimum number of parameters to "copy" subcommand 2019-10-18 09:43:10 +09:00
git-p4.txt doc: tidy asciidoc style 2019-01-23 11:37:29 -08:00
git-pack-objects.txt doc: fix repeated words 2019-08-11 17:40:07 -07:00
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git-read-tree.txt sparse-checkout: create builtin with 'list' subcommand 2019-11-22 16:11:43 +09:00
git-rebase.txt rebase: rename the two primary rebase backends 2020-02-16 15:40:42 -08:00
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git-tools.txt doc: replace or.cz gitwiki link with git.wiki.kernel.org 2017-04-20 22:05:37 -07:00
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