We attribute each documentation text file to a man section by finding a
line in the file that looks like "gitfoo(<digit>)". Commit cc75e556a9
("scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list", 2022-09-02) updated this
logic to look not only for "gitfoo" but also "scalarfoo". In doing so,
it forgot to account for the fact that after the updated regex has found
a match, the man section is no longer to be found in `$1` but now lives
in `$2`.
This makes our git(1) manpage look as follows:
Main porcelain commands
git-add(git)
Add file contents to the index.
[...]
gitk(git)
The Git repository browser.
scalar(scalar)
A tool for managing large Git repositories.
Restore the man sections by not capturing the (git|scalar) part of the
match into `$1`.
As noted by Ævar [1], we could even match any "foo" rather than just
"gitfoo" and "scalarfoo", but that's a larger change. For now, just fix
the regression in cc75e556a9.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/220923.86wn9u4joo.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/#t
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various technical
documentation files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored
false-positives between american and british english.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Used GNU "aspell check <filename>" to review various documentation
files with the default aspell dictionary. Ignored false-positives
between american and british english.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a reviewing guidelines document including advice and common terminology
used in Git mailing list reviews. The document is included in the
'TECH_DOCS' list in order to include it in Git's published documentation.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Hoist the remainder of "scalar" out of contrib/ to the main part of
the codebase.
* vd/scalar-to-main:
Documentation/technical: include Scalar technical doc
t/perf: add 'GIT_PERF_USE_SCALAR' run option
t/perf: add Scalar performance tests
scalar-clone: add test coverage
scalar: add to 'git help -a' command list
scalar: implement the `help` subcommand
git help: special-case `scalar`
scalar: include in standard Git build & installation
scalar: fix command documentation section header
In f6d25d7878 (api docs: document that BUG() emits a trace2 error event,
2021-04-13), a link to the plain text version of api-trace2 was added in
`technical/api-error-handling.txt`.
All of our other `link:`s point to the html versions. Do the same here.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some links were broken in the recent move of various technical docs
c0f6dd49f1 (Merge branch 'ab/tech-docs-to-help', 2022-08-14).
Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".
* ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs:
docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that fuzzy map to built-ins
docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-in
log docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections
apply docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
send-email docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
docs: add and use include template for config/* includes
As the 'master' front will soon tag a preview and then release
candidates for 2.38, it is unknown if we are going to issue another
maintenance release on the 2.37.x track, but as we have accumulated
enough material there, let's prepare a draft for it.
Even if we end up not tagging 2.37.4, it would help motivated distro
packagers to maintain their slightly older and "more stable" versions.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inspired by 24966cd982 ("doc: fix repeated words", 08-09-2019),
I ran "egrep -R "\<([a-zA-Z]+)\> \<\1\>" ./Documentation/*" to
find current cases of repeated words such as "the the" that were
quite clearly typos.
There were many false positives reported, such as "really really"
or valid uses of "that that" which I left alone.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Stopak <jacob@initialcommit.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git format-patch --from=<ident>" can be told to add an in-body
"From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given
<ident> with "--force-in-body-from"option.
* jc/format-patch-force-in-body-from:
format-patch: learn format.forceInBodyFrom configuration variable
format-patch: allow forcing the use of in-body From: header
pretty: separate out the logic to decide the use of in-body from
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt doesn't map only to
one git-NAME.txt. In particular:
* config/blame.txt: used by git-{blame,annotate}.txt. Since the
git-annotate(1) documentation refers to git-blame(1) don't add a
"CONFIGURATION" section to git-annotate(1), only to git-blame(1).
* config/checkout.txt: maps to both git-checkout.txt and
git-switch.txt (but nothing else).
* config/init.txt: should be included in git-init(1) and
git-clone(1).
* config/column.txt: We should ideally mention the relevant subset of
this in git-{branch,clean,status,tag}.txt, but let's punt on it for
now. We will when we eventually split these sort of files into
e.g. config/column.txt and
config/column/{branch,clean,status,tag}.txt, with the former
including the latter set.
Things that are being left out, and why:
* config/{remote,remotes,credential}.txt: Configuration that affects
how we talk to remote repositories is harder to untangle. We'll need
to include some of this in git-{fetch,remote,push,ls-remote}.txt
etc., but some of those only use a small subset of these
options. Let's leave this for now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins,
for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt describes
configuration that is only used by the relevant built-in documented in
git-NAME.txt. Subsequent commits will handle more complex cases.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the "config/difftool.txt" file in "git-difftool.txt", and move
the relevant part of git-difftool(1) configuration from
"config/diff.txt" to config/difftool.txt".
Doing this is slightly odd, as we usually discuss configuration in
alphabetical order, but by doing it we're able to include the full set
of configuration used by git-difftool(1) (and only that configuration)
in its own documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Combine the various "notes" configuration sections spread across
Documentation/config/notes.txt and Documentation/git-notes.txt to live
in the former, and to be included in the latter.
We'll now forward link from "git notes" to the "CONFIGURATION" section
below, rather than to "git-config(1)" when discussing configuration
variables that are (also) discussed in that section.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The wording is not identical to Documentation/config/apply.txt, but
that version is better.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
De-duplicate the discussion of "send-email" configuration, such that
the "git-config(1)" manual page becomes the source of truth, and
"git-send-email(1)" includes the relevant part.
Most commands that suffered from such duplication had diverging text
discussing the same variables, but in this case some config was also
only discussed in one or the other.
This is mostly a move-only change, the exception is a minor rewording
of changing wording like "see above" to "see linkgit:git-config[1]",
as well as a clarification about the big section of command-line
option tweaking config being discussed in git-send-email(1)'s main
docs.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include the "config/grep.txt" file in "git-grep.txt", instead of
repeating an almost identical description of the "grep" configuration
variables in two places.
There is no loss of information here that isn't shown in the addition
to "grep.txt". This change was made by copying the contents of
"git-grep.txt"'s version over the "grep.txt" version. Aside from the
change "grep.txt" being made here the two were identical.
This documentation started being copy/pasted around in
b22520a37c8 (grep: allow -E and -n to be turned on by default via
configuration, 2011-03-30). After that in e.g. 6453f7b3486 (grep: add
grep.fullName config variable, 2014-03-17) they started drifting
apart, with only grep.fullName being described in the command
documentation.
In 434e6e753fe (config.txt: move grep.* to a separate file,
2018-10-27) we gained the include, but didn't do this next step, let's
do it now.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In b6a8d09f6d8 (gc docs: include the "gc.*" section from "config" in
"gc", 2019-04-07) the "git gc" documentation was made to include the
config/gc.txt in its "CONFIGURATION" section. We do that in several
other places, but "git gc" was the only one with a blurb above the
include to orient the reader.
We don't want readers to carefully scrutinize "git-config(1)" and
"git-gc(1)" looking for discrepancies, instead we should tell them
that the latter includes a part of the former.
This change formalizes that wording in two new templates to be
included, one for the "git gc" case where the entire section is
included from "git-config(1)", and another for when the inclusion of
"git-config(1)" follows discussion unique to that documentation. In
order to use that re-arrange the order of those being discussed in the
"git-merge(1)" documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.
* ac/bitmap-lookup-table:
pack-bitmap-write: drop unused pack_idx_entry parameters
bitmap-lookup-table: add performance tests for lookup table
pack-bitmap: prepare to read lookup table extension
pack-bitmap-write: learn pack.writeBitmapLookupTable and add tests
pack-bitmap-write.c: write lookup table extension
bitmap: move `get commit positions` code to `bitmap_writer_finish`
Documentation/technical: describe bitmap lookup table extension
Include 'Documentation/technical/scalar.txt' alongside the other HTML
technical docs when installing them.
Now that the document is intended as a widely-accessible reference, remove
the internal work-in-progress roadmap from the document. Those details
should no longer be needed to guide Scalar's development and, if they were
left, they could fall out-of-date and be misleading to readers.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'scalar' as a 'mainporcelain' command in the Git command list. Update
the regex in 'cmd-list.perl' used to match the first line of command
documentation to find 'scalar(1)'.
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move 'scalar' out of 'contrib/' and into the root of the Git tree. The goal
of this change is to build 'scalar' as part of the standard Git build &
install processes.
This patch includes both the physical move of Scalar's files out of
'contrib/' ('scalar.c', 'scalar.txt', and 't9xxx-scalar.sh'), and the
changes to the build definitions in 'Makefile' and 'CMakelists.txt' to
accommodate the new program.
At a high level, Scalar is built so that:
- there is a 'scalar-objs' target (similar to those created in 029bac01a8
(Makefile: add {program,xdiff,test,git,fuzz}-objs & objects targets,
2021-02-23)) for debugging purposes.
- it appears in the root of the install directory (rather than the
gitexecdir).
- it is included in the 'bin-wrappers/' directory for use in tests.
- it receives a platform-specific executable suffix (e.g., '.exe'), if
applicable.
- 'scalar.txt' is installed as 'man1' documentation.
- the 'clean' target removes the 'scalar' executable.
Additionally, update the root level '.gitignore' file to ignore the Scalar
executable.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce the "subcommand" mode to parse-options API and update the
command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.
* sg/parse-options-subcommand: (23 commits)
remote: run "remote rm" argv through parse_options()
maintenance: add parse-options boilerplate for subcommands
pass subcommand "prefix" arguments to parse_options()
builtin/worktree.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/stash.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/sparse-checkout.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/remote.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/reflog.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/notes.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/multi-pack-index.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/hook.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/gc.c: let parse-options parse 'git maintenance's subcommands
builtin/commit-graph.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
builtin/bundle.c: let parse-options parse subcommands
parse-options: add support for parsing subcommands
parse-options: drop leading space from '--git-completion-helper' output
parse-options: clarify the limitations of PARSE_OPT_NODASH
parse-options: PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN only applies to --options
api-parse-options.txt: fix description of OPT_CMDMODE
t0040-parse-options: test parse_options() with various 'parse_opt_flags'
...
Commit e4319562bc (trailer: be stricter in parsing separators, 2016-11-02)
restricted whitespaces allowed by `git interpret-trailers` in the "token"
part of the trailers it reads. This commit didn't update the related
documentation in Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt though.
Also commit 60ef86a162 (trailer: support values folded to multiple lines,
2016-10-21) updated the documentation, but didn't make it clear how many
whitespace characters are allowed at the beginning of new lines in folded
values.
Let's fix both of these issues by rewriting the paragraph describing
what whitespaces are allowed by `git interpret-trailers` in the trailers
it reads.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
when able.
* vd/scalar-enables-fsmonitor:
scalar: update technical doc roadmap with FSMonitor support
scalar unregister: stop FSMonitor daemon
scalar: enable built-in FSMonitor on `register`
scalar: move config setting logic into its own function
scalar-delete: do not 'die()' in 'delete_enlistment()'
scalar-[un]register: clearly indicate source of error
scalar-unregister: handle error codes greater than 0
scalar: constrain enlistment search
"git rev-list --ancestry-path=C A..B" is a natural extension of
"git rev-list A..B"; instead of choosing a subset of A..B to those
that have ancestry relationship with A, it lets a subset with
ancestry relationship with C.
* en/ancestry-path-in-a-range:
revision: allow --ancestry-path to take an argument
t6019: modernize tests with helper
rev-list-options.txt: fix simple typo
The namespaces used by "log --decorate" from "refs/" hierarchy by
default has been tightened.
* ds/decorate-filter-tweak:
fetch: use ref_namespaces during prefetch
maintenance: stop writing log.excludeDecoration
log: create log.initialDecorationSet=all
log: add --clear-decorations option
log: add default decoration filter
log-tree: use ref_namespaces instead of if/else-if
refs: use ref_namespaces for replace refs base
refs: add array of ref namespaces
t4207: test coloring of grafted decorations
t4207: modernize test
refs: allow "HEAD" as decoration filter
