In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
Spell some of the guidelines out.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During the code review of a recent patch, it was noted that shell scripts
must not use 'which $cmd' to check the availability of the command $cmd.
The output of the command is not machine parseable and its exit code is
not reliable across platforms.
It is better to use 'type' to accomplish this task.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
During code review of some patches, it was noted that redirection operators
should have space before, but no space after them.
Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If --use-client-spec was given, set the matching configuration
variable. This is necessary to ensure that future submits
work properly.
The alternatives of requiring the user to set it, or providing
a command-line option on every submit, are error prone.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was part of the "branch description" feature in the larger
"help people communicate better during their pull based workflow"
topic, but was never documented.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The canonical order of command line arguments is always to have dashed
commands before other parameters, but the "git remote set-branches"
subcommand was described to take "name" before an optional "--add".
Signed-off-by: Philip Jägenstedt <philip@foolip.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The line was extended in 2dd8c3 ('git: add --info-path and --man-path
options'), and the formatted man output stopped fitting into the 80
column window.
Signed-off-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --stat" and "git apply --stat" now learn to print the line
"%d files changed, %d insertions(+), %d deletions(-)" in singular form
whenever applicable. "0 insertions" and "0 deletions" are also omitted
unless they are both zero.
This matches how versions of "diffstat" that are not prehistoric produced
their output, and also makes this line translatable.
[jc: with help from Thomas Dickey in archaeology of "diffstat"]
[jc: squashed Jonathan's updates to illustrations in tutorials and a test]
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When asking for a tag to be pulled, disambiguate by leaving tags/ prefix
in front of the name of the tag. E.g.
... in the git repository at:
git://example.com/git/git.git/ tags/v1.2.3
for you to fetch changes up to 123456...
This way, older versions of "git pull" can be used to respond to such a
request more easily, as "git pull $URL v1.2.3" did not DWIM to fetch
v1.2.3 tag in older versions. Also this makes it clearer for humans that
the pull request is made for a tag and he should anticipate a signed one.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's actually unlimited recursion if wildcards are active regardless
--max-depth
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Two "^" characters were incorrectly being interpreted as markup for
superscripting. Fix them by writing them as attribute references
"{caret}".
Although a single "^" character in a paragraph cannot be
misinterpreted in this way, also write other "^" characters as
"{caret}" in the interest of good hygiene (unless they are in literal
paragraphs, of course, in which context attribute references are not
recognized).
Spell "{}" consistently, namely *not* quoted as "\{\}". Since the
braces are empty, they cannot be interpreted as an attribute
reference, and either spelling is OK. So arbitrarily choose one
variation and use it consistently.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Update draft release notes to 1.7.8.4
Update draft release notes to 1.7.7.6
Update draft release notes to 1.7.6.6
thin-pack: try harder to use preferred base objects as base
