Various updates and cleanups for my howto on using branches in GIT
as a Linux subsystem maintainer. Three categories of changes:
1) Updates for new features in GIT 0.99.5
2) Changes to use "git fetch" rather than "git pull" to update
local linus branch.
3) Cleanups suggested by Len Brown
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Use "working tree", "object name", "repository" as the canonical
term consistenly.
- Start formatting tutorial with asciidoc.
- Mention shared repository style of cooperation.
- Update with some usability enhancements recently made, such as
the "-m" flag to the "git commit" command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The text does not say anything interesting, but at least the
author list should reflect something close to reality.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When showing only one branch a lot of default output becomes redundant,
so clean it up a bit, and document what is shown. Retire the earlier
implementation "git-show-branches-script".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Changes to the descriptions of tree and tag objects, a link for ent, and
descriptions for rewind, rebase and core git were added.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Small fix (use "git branch" to make branches, rather than "git checkout -b").
Optimization for trivial patches (apply to release and merge to test).
Three sample scripts appended.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This also includes a script which does the sorting, and introduces
hyperlinks for every described term.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Based on the discussion on the git list, here are some important changes
to the glossary. (There is no cache, but an index. Use "object name"
rather than "SHA1". Reorder. Clarify.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Added -m and -M flags for git-cvsimport to detect merge commits in cvs.
While this trusts the commit message, in repositories where merge commits
indicate 'merged from FOOBRANCH' the import works surprisingly well.
Even if some merges from CVS are bogus or incomplete, the resulting
branches are in better state to go forward (and merge) than without any
merge detection.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[jc: This is the version without asciidoc cross references;
Johannes says that the cross referenced one is generated from
this file using a Perl script, so I am placing this as the
source, and expecting to later receive the script and a Makefile
entry or two to massage this file into the final HTML or
whatever form.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
At one place in Documentation/tutorial.txt and several in the base
README, its was wrongly used in place of it's or vice versa. One
instance remains somewhere in Documentation/howto/, which I didn't
correct because it's in a quotation.
Signed-off-by: Greg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
substitute that character to a '-' by default (override with "-s <subst>").
This should work well, despite the fact that a division and a difference
are completely different :-)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There are many programs like git-add not described at all, and the
organization of the list of commands may be suboptimal, but we have to
start somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Early versions of git-cvsimport defaulted to using preexisting keyword
expansion settings. This change preserves compatibility with existing cvs
imports and allows new repository migrations to kill keyword expansion.
After exploration of the different -k modes in the cvs protocol, we use -kk
which kills keyword expansion wherever possible. Against the protocol
spec, -ko and -kb will sometimes expand keywords.
Should improve our chances of detecting merges and reduce imported
repository size.
Signed-off: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-cvsimport-script had a copule of small bugs that prevented me
from importing a big CVS repository.
The first was that it didn't handle removed files with a multi-digit
primary revision number.
The second was that it was asking the CVS server for "F" messages,
although they were not handled.
I also updated the documentation for that script to correspond to
actual flags.
Signed-off-by: David K?5gedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[jc: the patch forgot to update the main git.txt documentation,
making all these new documentation practically no-op, so I added
a minimum attempt linking them from there.]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
I would eventually like to move this to become a part of the tutorial,
but anyway, this was an excellent post that describes how topic
branches can be used to keep track of local changes.
Often I find myself wanting to do quick branches check when I am
not in the windowing environment and cannot run gitk.
This stupid script shows commits leading to the heads of
interesting branches with indication which ones belong to which
branches, so that fork point is somewhat discernible without
using gitk.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I think these are useful, and I think putting them in a new "howto"
directory might help some users until we get to the point of splitting
up the tutorial to be easier to read.
Given the authorship, I think it's safe to put these in the repository.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Linus brought up that documentation for many commands have
incorrect attribution. I started counting lines again, but
ended up adding a handful of missing manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Not that I have stricter patch submission standard than ordinary
projects, I wanted to have it to make sure people understand
what they are doing when they add their own Signed-off-by line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
$DESTDIR is more usual during the build than $dest and is what
is usually used in the makefiles, so let's use it too.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This is a beginning of resurrecting the multi-head pulling support
for git-fetch-pack command. The git-fetch-script wrapper still
only knows about fetching a single head, without renaming, so it is
not very useful unless you directly call git-fetch-pack itself yet.
It also fixes a longstanding obsolete description of how the command
discovers the list of local commits.
The store operation was never useful because we needed to fetch
the objects needed to complete the reference. Remove it.
The fetch command fetch multiple references shortly to
replace the lost "store" functionality in more a generic way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our
use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections
not related to the terminology unification. I really appreciate
it.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The king penguin said:
It has no point any more, all the tools check the file
status on their own, and yes, the thing should probably be
removed.
and the faithful servant makes it so.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Describe the renaming push. The wording is horrible and I would
appreciate a rewrite, but it is better than nothing ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The earlier one conflated update and post-update hooks for no
good reason. Correct that ugly hack. Now post-update hooks
will take the list of successfully updated refs.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-merge-cache reporting failed merge program is undesirable for
Cogito, since it emits its own more appropriate error message in that
case. However, I want to show other possible git-merge-cache error
messages. So -q will just silence this particular error.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix a few typos.
Adapt to git-http-pull not borking on packed repositories.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Yes, push does not lock, but that does not mean it is not
meant for multi-user repository. It just ought to perform
correctly without using locks.
- Let's not pretend we know _the_ right way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Just before updating a ref,
$GIT_DIR/hooks/update refname old-sha1 new-sha1
is called if executable. The hook can decline the ref to be
updated by exiting with a non-zero status, or allow it to be
updated by exiting with a zero status. The mechanism also
allows e.g sending of a mail with pushed commits on the remote
repository.
Documentation update with an example hook is included.
jc: The credits of the basic idea and initial implementation go
to Josef, but I ended up rewriting major parts of his patch, so
bugs are all mine. Also I changed the semantics for the hook
from his original version (which were post-update hook) so that
the hook can optionally decline to update the ref, and also can
be used to implement the overall cleanups. The latter was
primarily to implement a suggestion from Linus that calling
update-server-info should be made optional.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Document new (and not-so-new) flags of git-rev-list.
Signed-off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Simple whitespace-related tidyups ensuring style consistency.
This is carried over from my old git-pb branch.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
