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Michael J Gruber
76f9d8bac8 Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
We use different types of signature formats in different places.
Set up the infrastructure and overview to describe them systematically
in our technical documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-17 11:39:05 -07:00
Erwan Mathoniere
5945717009 Documentation: bold literals in man
Backticks are emphasized through monospaced styling in the HTML
version of Git documentation. But they were left unstyled in the
manual pages.

To make the man pages more comfortably read, `MAN_BOLD_LITERAL` was
added by 5121a6d (Documentation: option to render literal text as
bold for manpages, 2009-03-27).  It allowed the user to build the
manpages with literals in bold style.

For precaution it was not set by default back then.

Since 79c461d (docs: default to more modern toolset, 2010-11-19), it
is assumed ASCIIDOC 8 and at least docbook-xsl 1.73 are used, so the
need for compatibility concern is much lessor now.

Remove `MAN_BOLD_LITERAL`, and typeset literals as bold by default .
Add `NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL`, a new Makefile option, disabling this
feature when defined.

Signed-off-by: Erwan MATHONIERE <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom RUSSELLO <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-31 11:42:30 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ab81411ced ci: validate "linkgit:" in documentation
It is easy to add incorrect "linkgit:<page>[<section>]" references
to our documentation suite.  Catch these common classes of errors:

 * Referring to Documentation/<page>.txt that does not exist.

 * Referring to a <page> outside the Git suite.  In general, <page>
   must begin with "git".

 * Listing the manual <section> incorrectly.  The first line of the
   Documentation/<page>.txt must end with "(<section>)".

with a new script "ci/lint-gitlink", and drive it from "make check-docs".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-10 11:15:04 -07:00
Sven van Haastregt
a4c044484e Documentation: fix version numbering
Version numbers in asciidoc-generated content (such as man pages)
went missing as of da8a366 (Documentation: refactor common operations
into variables).  Fix by putting the underscore back in the variable
name.

Signed-off-by: Sven van Haastregt <svenvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-01-22 13:44:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
853878d520 Merge branch 'bc/asciidoctor'
Add machinery to alternatively use AsciiDoctor to format our
documentation.

* bc/asciidoctor:
  Documentation: remove Asciidoctor linkgit macro
  Documentation: refactor common operations into variables
  Documentation: implement linkgit macro for Asciidoctor
  Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variables
2014-10-29 10:07:40 -07:00
brian m. carlson
da8a3664b1 Documentation: refactor common operations into variables
The Makefile performs several very similar tasks to convert AsciiDoc
files into either HTML or DocBook.  Move these items into variables to
reduce the duplication.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-27 11:52:27 -07:00
brian m. carlson
7d61547db8 Documentation: move some AsciiDoc parameters into variables
Asciidoctor takes slightly different arguments from AsciiDoc in some
cases.  It has a different name for the HTML backend and the "docbook"
backend produces DocBook 5, not DocBook 4.5.  Also, Asciidoctor does not
accept the -f option.  Move these values into variables so that they can
be overridden by users wishing to use Asciidoctor instead of Asciidoc.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15 13:44:07 -07:00
Philip Oakley
673151a9bb doc: add 'everyday' to 'git help'
The "Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So" is not accessible via the
Git help system.  Move everyday.txt to giteveryday.txt so that "git
help everyday" works, and create a new placeholder file everyday.html
to refer people who follow existing URLs to the updated location.

giteveryday.txt now formats well with AsciiDoc as a man page and
refreshed content to a more command modern style.

Add 'everyday' to the help --guides list and update git(1) and 5
other links to giteveryday.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-10 16:02:26 -07:00
Philip Oakley
5a568ea050 doc: Makefile regularise OBSOLETE_HTML list building
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-10 15:59:41 -07:00
Stephen P. Smith
0678b649a1 How to keep a project's canonical history correct.
During the mail thread about "Pull is mostly evil" a user asked how
the first parent could become reversed.

This howto explains how the first parent can get reversed when viewed
by the project and then explains a method to keep the history correct.

Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-28 13:35:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
43cc5ce9ea Documentation: make it easier to maintain enumerated documents
Instead of starting an enumeration of documents with a DOC = doc1
followed by DOC += doc2, DOC += doc3, ..., empty it with "DOC =" at
the beginning and consistently add them with "DOC += ...".

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-27 09:04:32 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
586aa78631 create HTML for http-protocol.txt
./Documentation/technical/http-protocol.txt was missing from TECH_DOCS in Makefile.
Add it and also improve HTML formatting while still retaining good readability of the ASCII text:
- Use monospace font instead of italicized or roman font for machine output and source text
- Use roman font for things which should be body text
- Use double quotes consistently for "want" and "have" commands
- Use uppercase "C" / "S" consistently for "client" / "server";
  also use "C:" / "S:" instead of "(C)" / "(S)" for consistency and
  to avoid having formatted "(C)" as copyright symbol in HTML
- Use only spaces and not a combination of tabs and spaces for whitespace

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-27 09:02:02 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
145e073b84 user-manual: improve html and pdf formatting
Use asciidoc style 'article' instead of 'book' and change asciidoc
title level.  This removes blank first page and superfluous "Part I"
page (there is no "Part II") in pdf output. Also pdf size is
decreased by this from 77 to 67 pages.  In html output this removes
unnecessary sub-tocs and chapter numbering.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-06 11:30:17 -08:00
Jeff King
41dfbb2dbe howto: add article on recovering a corrupted object
This is an asciidoc-ified version of a corruption post-mortem sent to
the git list. It complements the existing howto article, since it covers
a case where the object couldn't be easily recreated or copied from
elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-25 14:55:30 -07:00
John Keeping
0079d6ebd7 Documentation/Makefile: make AsciiDoc dblatex dir configurable
On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex.  Extract this portion of the path to a variable
so that is can be set in config.mak.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
2013-10-03 12:21:19 -07:00
John Keeping
e21db2c6ad Documentation/Makefile: move infodir to be with other '*dir's
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-17 13:11:56 -07:00
John Keeping
692cfd6b2b Documentation/Makefile: fix spaces around assignments
A simple style fix; no functional change.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-06-17 13:11:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
39ca1bd882 Merge branch 'da/mergetool-docs'
Build on top of the clean-up done by jk/mergetool and automatically
generate the list of mergetool and difftool backends the build
supports to be included in the documentation.

* da/mergetool-docs:
  doc: generate a list of valid merge tools
  mergetool--lib: list user configured tools in '--tool-help'
  mergetool--lib: add functions for finding available tools
  mergetool--lib: improve the help text in guess_merge_tool()
  mergetool--lib: simplify command expressions
2013-02-07 14:42:16 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b9a5f6811d Merge branch 'jk/doc-makefile-cleanup'
* jk/doc-makefile-cleanup:
  Documentation/Makefile: clean up MAN*_TXT lists
2013-02-07 14:41:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8e12ab2f33 Merge branch 'jk/remote-helpers-doc'
"git help remote-helpers" did not work; 'remote-helpers' is not
a subcommand name but a concept, so its documentation should have
been in gitremote-helpers, not git-remote-helpers.

* jk/remote-helpers-doc:
  Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
2013-02-07 14:41:45 -08:00
David Aguilar
f35ec54600 doc: generate a list of valid merge tools
Use the show_tool_names() function to build lists of all
the built-in tools supported by difftool and mergetool.
This frees us from needing to update the documentation
whenever a new tool is added.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-02 21:46:52 -08:00
John Keeping
bd4a3d6168 Rename {git- => git}remote-helpers.txt
When looking up a topic via "git help <topic>", git-help prepends "git-"
to topics that are the names of commands (either builtin or found on the
path) and "git" (no hyphen) to any other topic name.

"git-remote-helpers" is not the name of a command, so "git help
remote-helpers" looks for "gitremote-helpers" and does not find it.

Fix this by renaming "git-remote-helpers.txt" to
"gitremote-helpers.txt".

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 14:12:34 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Jeff King
a617578d37 Documentation/Makefile: clean up MAN*_TXT lists
We keep a list of the various files that end up as man1,
man5, etc. Let's break these single-line lists into sorted
multi-line lists, which makes diffs that touch them much
easier to read.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 12:35:30 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
32a03dc165 Merge branch 'jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf' into maint
* jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf:
  docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.conf
2013-01-14 08:01:00 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1eba20c045 Merge branch 'jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf'
* jn/xml-depends-on-asciidoc-conf:
  docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.conf
2013-01-11 18:34:38 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
fdb042449b docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.conf
When building manual pages, the source text is transformed to XML with
AsciiDoc before the man pages are generated from the XML with xmlto.

Fix the dependencies in the Makefile so that the XML files are rebuilt
when asciidoc.conf changes and not just the manual pages from
unchanged XML, and move the dependencies from a recipeless rule to the
rules with commands that use asciidoc.conf to make the dependencies
easier to understand and maintain.

Reported-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Tested-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-06 11:13:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
86c3e6ed51 Merge branch 'maint' 2012-12-22 20:40:07 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
66afe50b43 Merge branch 'ta/doc-cleanup' into maint
* ta/doc-cleanup:
  Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
  Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
  Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc
  Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt
  Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1
  Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
2012-12-22 20:35:34 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
854dfda8be Sort howto documents in howto-index.txt
Howto documents in howto-index.txt were listed in a rather
random order. So better sort them.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-22 20:26:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
b10c4add03 Merge branch 'ta/new-command-howto'
* ta/new-command-howto:
  Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
2012-12-21 15:19:25 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
81670e9bfc Move ./technical/api-command.txt to ./howto/new-command.txt
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but
is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To"
section of the documentation suite.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-21 10:35:53 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
18499ba694 Remove duplicate entry in ./Documentation/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-19 10:24:23 -08:00
Thomas Ackermann
5e00439f0a Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
These files were recently revised to be valid asciidoc, so
there is no reason not to build html versions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker66@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2012-10-25 05:38:14 -04:00
Dave Borowitz
dd4f307561 Documentation/Makefile: Allow custom XMLTO binary
Signed-off-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-19 16:35:10 -07:00
Jeff King
5fafce0b78 check-docs: get documented command list from Makefile
The current code tries to get a list of documented commands
by doing "ls Documentation/git*txt" and culling a bunch of
special cases from the result. Looking for "git-*.txt" would
be more accurate, but would miss a few commands like
"gitweb" and "gitk".

Fortunately, Documentation/Makefile already knows what this
list is, so we can just ask it. Annoyingly, we still have to
post-process its output a little, since make will print
extra cruft like "GIT-VERSION-FILE is up to date" to stdout.

Now that our list is accurate, we can remove all of the ugly
special-cases.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-08 14:32:17 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
10fcd5194f Merge branch 'jk/no-more-asciidoc7'
We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
more modern style.

* jk/no-more-asciidoc7:
  docs: drop antique comment from Makefile
  docs: drop asciidoc7compatible flag
2012-06-25 11:24:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
02101c969d Merge branch 'mm/api-credentials-doc'
Finishing touches...

* mm/api-credentials-doc:
  docs: fix cross-directory linkgit references
2012-06-08 08:32:20 -07:00
Jeff King
fe77b416c7 docs: fix cross-directory linkgit references
Most of our documentation is in a single directory, so using
linkgit:git-config[1] just generates a relative link in the
same directory. However, this is not the case with the API
documentation in technical/*, which need to refer to
git-config from the parent directory.

We can fix this by passing a special prefix attribute when building
in a subdirectory, and respecting that prefix in our linkgit
definitions.

We only have to modify the html linkgit definition.  For
manpages, we can ignore this for two reasons:

  1. we do not generate actual links to the file in
     manpages, but instead just give the name and section of
     the linked manpage

  2. we do not currently build manpages for subdirectories,
     only html

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-06-08 08:31:52 -07:00
Jeff King
a3d05510ce docs: drop antique comment from Makefile
This comment warns about a bug in asciidoc 6, and points to
a patch from 2005. Since we don't even support versions of
asciidoc that old, we can safely get rid of the warning.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-30 09:24:28 -07:00
Jeff King
bf17126211 docs: drop asciidoc7compatible flag
When we made the switch to supporting asciidoc 8 in 4c7100a
(Documentation: adjust to AsciiDoc 8, 2007-06-14), we were
able to leave most of the documentation intact by defining
asciidoc7compatible.

Since commit 6cf378f (docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal,
2012-04-26), we don't support versions of asciidoc older
than 8.4.1, which is when inline literals were introduced.
Therefore there is not much point in keeping our
documentation compatible with asciidoc 7.

So we are now free to drop the asciidoc7compatible flag and
update the documentation itself to assume asciidoc8.
Fortunately, doing the latter is very easy; we weren't using
any of the constructs impacted by asciidoc7compatible, so
there are no changes to make.

The reason is somewhat subtle. The asciidoc7compatible
affects only super/sub-scripts ("^" and "~") and index
terms. We don't use the latter at all. Nor we do we use the
former, but we did have to protect them from accidental
expansion in constructs like "rev^1". However, all of our
uses of "~" and "^" are either in code blocks (which are
rendered literally), or inside backticks. Prior to 6cf378f,
backticks were not inline literals, and needed proper
quoting. But post-6cf378f, we don't have to worry whether we
are using the old or new rules, as those characters are not
interpreted at all in either case.

I verified that the result of "make install-html
install-man" is identical before and after this patch on
asciidoc 8.6.7.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-30 09:22:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d274fc093c Merge branch 'jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal'
Our documentation was written for an ancient version of AsciiDoc,
making the source not very readable.

By Jeff King
* jk/doc-asciidoc-inline-literal:
  docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
2012-05-02 13:51:45 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
5b58619aa0 var doc: advertise current DEFAULT_PAGER and DEFAULT_EDITOR settings
Document the default pager and editor chosen at compile time in the
git-var(1) manpage so users curious about what command _this_ copy of
git will fall back to when EDITOR, VISUAL, and PAGER are unset can
find the answer quickly.

In builds leaving those settings uncustomized, this patch makes the
manpage continue to say "usually vi" and "usually less" so the
formatted documentation is usable for a wide audience including users
of custom builds that change those settings.  If you would like your
copy of the docs to be less noncommittal, you will need to set
DEFAULT_PAGER=less and DEFAULT_EDITOR=vi explicitly.

Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-10 14:50:27 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
11b17afc93 pulling signed tag: add howto document
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-18 15:17:27 -08:00
Jeff King
a6fc9fd3f4 docs: end-user documentation for the credential subsystem
The credential API and helper format is already defined in
technical/api-credentials.txt.  This presents the end-user
view.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-11 23:16:25 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
14ba45a2e6 Sync with 1.7.7.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 16:38:14 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
fcbebfdd33 docs: Update install-doc-quick
The preformatted documentation pages live in their own repositories
these days. Adjust the installation procedure to the updated layout.

Tested-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-11-08 13:37:10 -08:00
Jakub Narebski
07ea4df278 gitweb: Add gitweb(1) manpage for gitweb itself
Most of what is in gitweb.txt it has been pulled directly from the
README and INSTALL files of gitweb.

Current version is somewhat based on structure of SVN::Web manpage
(one of web interfaces for Subversion).

gitweb.conf(5) i.e. gitweb configuration manpage now refers to
appropriate sections in gitweb(1).  gitweb/README now refers to
gitweb/INSTALL and gitweb(1) manpage.  gitweb/INSTALL now refers to
gitweb.conf(5) and gitweb(1).

Inspired-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-16 11:09:34 -07:00
Drew Northup
6d3902b0d0 gitweb: Add gitweb.conf(5) manpage for gitweb configuration files
Much of what is in gitweb.conf.txt has been pulled directly from the
README file of gitweb.  The manpage was supplemented with description
of missing gitweb config variables, and with description of gitweb's
%features.

There remains a bit of redundancy, which should be reduced if
possible... but I think some of duplication of information is
inevitable.

[jn: Improved, extended, removed duplicate info from README]

Signed-off-by: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-16 11:09:34 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
6ed547b53b Merge branch 'js/ref-namespaces'
* js/ref-namespaces:
  ref namespaces: tests
  ref namespaces: documentation
  ref namespaces: Support remote repositories via upload-pack and receive-pack
  ref namespaces: infrastructure
  Fix prefix handling in ref iteration functions
2011-08-17 17:35:38 -07:00
Emilio G. Cota
ae8044a2f5 Documentation/Makefile: add *.pdf to `clean' target
user-manual.pdf is not removed by `make clean'; fix it.

Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-08 09:30:14 -07:00
Josh Triplett
d49483f0ca ref namespaces: documentation
Document the namespace mechanism in a new gitnamespaces(7) page.
Reference it from receive-pack and upload-pack.

Document the new --namespace option and GIT_NAMESPACE environment
variable in git(1), and reference gitnamespaces(7).

Add a sample Apache configuration to http-backend(1) to support
namespaced repositories, and reference gitnamespaces(7).

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-11 09:35:46 -07:00
Jeff King
79c461d5b1 docs: default to more modern toolset
When the ASCIIDOC8 and ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF knobs were built,
many people were still on asciidoc 7 and using older
versions of docbook-xsl. These days, even the almost
2-year-old Debian stable needs these knobs turned.

So let's turn them by default. The new knobs ASCIIDOC7 and
ASCIIDOC_ROFF can be used to get the old behavior if people
are on older systems.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-24 15:13:58 -08:00
Jeff King
f2aff316d3 docs: fix Makefile dependency for user manual
We use our custom xsl file to build the user manual, so make
sure we depend on it. We don't use it anywhere else, so we
can stick it straight in the rule.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-21 21:53:16 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
1ed6f2c5b9 Documentation: gitrevisions
Create a new man page gitrevisions(7) which contains the revsions and
ranges documentation but not more. This uses (per include) the same bits
as the pertaining section of git-rev-parse(1).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 13:39:02 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
f9dae0d3e6 Documentation/Makefile: fix interrupted builds of user-manual.xml
Unlike gcc, asciidoc does not atomically write its output file or
delete it when interrupted.  If it is interrupted in the middle of
writing an XML file, the result will be truncated input for xsltproc.

	XSLTPROC user-manual.html
	user-manual.xml:998: parser error : Premature end of data in t

Take care of this case by writing to a temporary and renaming it when
finished.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-21 23:46:51 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
13fca9f36b Makefile: consolidate .FORCE-* targets
Providing multiple targets to force a rebuild is unnecessary
complication.

Avoid using a name that could conflict with future special
targets in GNU make (a leading period followed by uppercase
letters).

The corresponding change to the git-gui Makefile is left for
another patch.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-06 01:33:45 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
3880c18336 Sync with 1.6.5.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-05 11:39:13 -08:00
Todd Zullinger
50d9bbba92 Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam
The --stringparam option is not available on older xmlto versions.
Instead, set man.base.url.for.relative.links via a .xsl file.  Older
docbook versions will ignore this without causing grief to users of
older xmlto versions.

Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-05 10:03:49 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
1a56be134f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Prepare for 1.6.5.5
  Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam
  t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1
2009-12-03 14:07:46 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
59a0a0bd57 Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam
Newer DocBook stylesheets want man.base.url.for.relative.links
parameter set when formatting manpages with external references
to turn them into full URLs, and leave a helpful "you should
set this parameter" message in the output.  Earlier we added
the MAN_BASE_URL make variable to specify the value for it.

When MAN_BASE_URL is not given, it ought to be safe to set the
parameter to empty; it would result in an empty leading path for
older stylesheets that ignore the parameter, and newer ones
would produce the same "relative URL" without the message.

Unfortunately, older xmlto (at least version 0.0.18 released in
early 2004 that comes with RHEL/CentOS 5) does not understand
the --stringparam command line option, so we cannot add the
parameter definition unconditionally to the command line.  Work
it around by passing the parameter only when set.

If you do not have a suitable URL prefix, you can pass a quoted empty
string to it, like so:

    $ make MAN_BASE_URL='""'

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 11:23:03 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
e21a857708 Merge in 1.6.5.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 00:37:56 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
8dd35c7121 Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links
Even setting it to empty is better than leaving it unset as it
prevents the warning cruft from appearing in the output.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-03 00:06:52 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
61b8f407a7 Merge branch 'maint' 2009-12-03 02:45:26 +00:00
Junio C Hamano
a479a564dc Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>
2009-12-03 02:45:09 +00:00
Junio C Hamano
69abb194ee Merge branch 'tr/maint-roff-quote' into maint
* tr/maint-roff-quote:
  Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
2009-11-15 16:38:36 -08:00
Christian Couder
69a9cd31b1 Documentation: add "Fighting regressions with git bisect" article
This patch adds an asciidoc version of the "Fighting regressions with
git bisect" article that the author wrote for the Linux-Kongress
2009 (http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009).

This paper might be interesting to people who want to learn as much as
possible about "git bisect" from a single document.

The slides of the related presentation are available at:

http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/slides/fighting_regressions_with_git_bisect_christian_couder.pdf

But the Linux Kongress people will not publish this paper online because
they print the papers on their UpTimes magazine
(http://www.lob.de/isbn/978-3-86541-358-1). But they don't take away the
rights of the author (which is very nice), so I have the right to publish
it.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-11-08 18:29:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
92246f6bcf Merge branch 'tr/maint-roff-quote'
* tr/maint-roff-quote:
  Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
2009-10-30 20:05:54 -07:00
Thomas Rast
204d363f5a Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
The docbook/xmlto toolchain insists on quoting ' as \'.  This does
achieve the quoting goal, but modern 'man' implementations turn the
apostrophe into a unicode "proper" apostrophe (given the right
circumstances), breaking code examples in many of our manpages.

Quote them as \(aq instead, which is an "apostrophe quote" as per the
groff_char manpage.

Unfortunately, as Anders Kaseorg kindly pointed out, this is not
portable beyond groff, so we add an extra Makefile variable GNU_ROFF
which you need to enable to get the new quoting.

Thanks also to Miklos Vajna for documentation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-22 12:59:50 -07:00
Thomas Rast
71c020c53e Disable asciidoc 8.4.1+ semantics for {plus} and friends
asciidoc 8.4.1 changed the semantics of inline backtick quoting so
that they disable parsing of inline constructs, i.e.,

  Input:	`{plus}`
  Pre 8.4.1:	+
  Post 8.4.1:	{plus}

Fix this by defining the asciidoc attribute 'no-inline-literal'
(which, per the 8.4.1 changelog, is the toggle to return to the old
behaviour) when under ASCIIDOC8.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-25 10:07:06 -07:00
Eric Blake
26e47f2540 doc: consistently use ASCIIDOC_EXTRA
For all uses of $(ASCIIDOC) in Documentation/Makefile, supply the same
options via $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-28 11:50:18 -07:00
Ben Walton
ee7ec2f9de documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting
Ensure that the Makefile that generates and installs the Documentation is
aware of any SHELL_PATH setting.  Use this value if found or the current
setting for SHELL if not.  This is an accommodation for systems where sh
is not POSIX enough.

Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-12 01:35:12 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
2346431e47 Documentation: use "spurious .sp" XSLT if DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP is set
With this change, the "spurious .sp" suppression XSLT code is
disabled by default. It can be enabled by defining
DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP.

The "spurious .sp" XSLT fragment was used to work around a bug
first released in docbook-xsl 1.69.1. Modern versions of
docbook-xsl are negatively affected by the code (some empty lines
are omitted from manpage output; see
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115302>).

The key revisions in the docbook SVN repo seem to be 5144 (before
docbook-xsl 1.69.1) and 6359 (before docbook-xsl 1.71.1).

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-01 11:02:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3278609310 Merge branch 'cj/doc-quiet' into cj/doc-format
* cj/doc-quiet:
  Documentation/Makefile: break up texi pipeline
  Documentation/Makefile: make most operations "quiet"

Conflicts:
	Documentation/Makefile
2009-03-27 00:36:47 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
5121a6d993 Documentation: option to render literal text as bold for manpages
This allows manpages viewed on a tty to render inline literal
text in a manner that is distinct from the surrounding text.

The initial implementation (pre-mailing-list) of this patch
included a conditional variant of the XSLT code in
manpage-base.xsl and use xmlto's --stringparam option to
optionally enable the functionality. It turns out that
--stringparam is broken in all versions of xmlto except for the
pre-release, SVN version. Since xmlto is a shell script the patch
to fix it is simple enough, but I instead opted to use xmlto's
"module" functionality.

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:33:20 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
8fa2b45f3a Documentation: rename docbook-xsl-172 attribute to git-asciidoc-no-roff
It seems that the ability to use raw roff codes in asciidoc.conf
was eliminated by docbook-xsl 1.72.0 _and later_. Unlike the
1.72.0-specific XSLT problem, this behavior was not reverted in
later releases.

This patch aims to make it clear that the affected asciidoc
attribute (flag) can be reasonably used with docbook-xsl versions
other than 1.72.0.

Also, document which make variables should be set for various
versions of asciidoc and docbook-xsl.

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:33:19 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
c30e948523 Documentation: move callouts.xsl to manpage-{base,normal}.xsl
Each of manpage-base.xsl and manpage-normal.xsl gets a copy of
the contents of callouts.xsl and the original is removed. The
Makefile is adjusted to refer to manpage-normal.xsl instead of
callouts.xsl. manpage-base.xsl will be later made into a common
base for -normal and -1.72.

Testing done with asciidoc 8.3.1 and docbook-xsl 1.74.0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:33:19 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
c6a5ad21e5 Documentation/Makefile: break up texi pipeline
Most shells define the exit value of a pipeline as the exit value
of the last process. For each texi rule, run the DOCBOOK2X_TEXI
tool and the "fixup" script in their own non-pipeline commands so
that make will notice an error exit code.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:29:39 -07:00
Chris Johnsen
bb2300976b Documentation/Makefile: make most operations "quiet"
This adapts the "quiet make" implementation from the main
Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-27 00:28:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8f8b8873a9 Merge branch 'mv/um-pdf'
* mv/um-pdf:
  Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
2009-01-07 00:09:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
9c6c304d6a Fix the building of gitman.info document
"makeinfo" failed to generate gitman.info from gitman.texi input file
because the combined manual page file contains several nodes with the
same name (DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, SEE ALSO etc.). An Info document should
contain unique node names.

This patch creates a simple (read: ugly) work-around by suppressing the
validation of the final Info file. Jumping to nodes in the Info document
still works but they are not very useful. Common man-page headings like
DESCRIPTION and OPTIONS appear in the Info node list and they point to
the man page where they appear first (that is git-add currently).

Also, this patch adds directory-entry information for Info document to
make the document appear in the top-level Info directory.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:10 -08:00
Teemu Likonen
8b30ad01b4 Fix the building of user-manual.texi and gitman.texi documents
Previously "docbook2x-texi" failed to generate user-manual.texi and
gitman.texi files from .xml input files because "iconv" stopped at
"illegal input sequence" error. This was due to some UTF-8 octets in the
input .xml files. This patch adds option --encoding=UTF-8 for
"docbook2x-texi" to allow the building of .texi files complete.

Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-29 00:40:04 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
a325a1a70b Add support for a pdf version of the user manual
Use dblatex in order to create a pdf version of the git user manual.  No
existing Makefile targets (including "all") are touched, so you need to
explicitly say

make pdf
sudo make install-pdf

to get user-manual.pdf created and installed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-10 19:17:43 -08:00
Markus Heidelberg
b1a46b70b3 Makefile: add install-man rules (quick and normal)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-02 20:46:52 -08:00
Thomas Rast
f948dd8992 Documentation: add manpage about workflows
This attempts to make a manpage about workflows that is both handy to
point people at it and as a beginner's introduction.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19 14:27:59 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
6fe570de05 allow installation of man and html doc from the man and html branches
This patch introduces a make target "quick-install-html" which installs
the html documentation from the branch origin/html, without the need for
asciidoc/xmlto. This is analogous to the existing "quick-install-doc"
target for the man pages.

We advertise these targets in the INSTALL file now.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-10 15:40:13 -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
Christian Couder
30eba7bf2c documentation: convert "diffcore" and "repository-layout" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

diffcore.txt          -> gitdiffcore.txt		(man section 7)
repository-layout.txt -> gitrepository-layout.txt	(man section 5)

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 11:14:52 -07:00
Christian Couder
497c83314c Documentation: convert "glossary" and "core-tutorial" to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man format:

core-tutorial.txt -> gitcore-tutorial.txt
glossary.txt      -> gitglossary.txt

But as the glossary is included in the user manual and as the new
gitglossary man page cannot be included as a whole in the user manual,
the actual glossary content is now in its own "glossary-content.txt"
new file. And this file is included by both the user manual and the
gitglossary man page.

Other documents that reference the above ones are changed accordingly
and sometimes improved a little too.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-01 22:23:10 -07:00
Christian Couder
b27a23e35d Documentation: convert tutorials to man pages
This patch renames the following documents and at the same time converts
them to the man page format:

cvs-migration.txt -> gitcvs-migration.txt
tutorial.txt      -> gittutorial.txt
tutorial-2.txt    -> gittutorial-2.txt

These new man pages are put in section 7, and other documents that reference
the above ones are change accordingly.

[jc: with help from Nanako to clean things up]

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-24 22:28:16 -07:00
Christian Couder
a5af0e2c55 Documentation: rename "hooks.txt" to "githooks.txt" and make it a man page
Also now "gitcli(5)" becomes "gitcli(7)".

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-04 17:41:34 -07:00
Jonas Fonseca
7a2078b4b0 man pages are littered with .ft C and others
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Sun, Feb 03, 2008:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [From] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53457/focus=53458
> Julian Phillips:
> > Are you using docbook xsl 1.72?  There are known problems building the
> > manpages with that version.  1.71 works, and 1.73 should work when it get
> > released.

I was able to solve this problem with this patch, which adds a XSL file
used specifically for DOCBOOK_XSL_172=YesPlease and where dots and
backslashes are escaped properly so they won't be substituted to the
wrong thing further down the "DocBook XSL pipeline". Doing the escaping
in the existing callout.xsl breaks v1.70.1. Hopefully v1.73 will end
this part of the manpage nightmare.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-05 00:30:22 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
471a5ce5dd Add using merge subtree How-To
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-14 18:04:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c785e50de Documentation: remove gitman.info with "make clean"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Mark Levedahl
5682694a3c Documentation/Makefile - honor $DESTDIR for quick-install target
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mdl123@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06 18:41:43 -08:00
Pierre Habouzit
2f7ee089df parse-options: Add a gitcli(5) man page.
This page should hold every information about the git ways to parse command
lines, and best practices to be used for scripting.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
2007-12-22 10:26:08 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
530e741c72 Start preparing the API documents.
Most of them are still stubs, but the procedure to build the HTML
documentation, maintaining the index and installing the end product are
there.

I placed names of people who are likely to know the most about the topic
in the stub files, so that volunteers will know whom to ask questions as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14 22:29:38 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
50b3555c48 Documentation: rename git.texi to user-manual.texi
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-12 13:31:02 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5cefc33bff Documentation: add gitman.info target
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-10 01:36:13 -08:00