It seems to be a FAQ that people try running git-gc, and
then get puzzled about why the size of their .git directory
didn't change. This note mentions the reasons why things
might unexpectedly get kept.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Coming from CVS, I found the git glossary vital to learning git and learning
how terms in git correlate to the cvs terminology with which I am familiar.
This patch links the glossary from the cvs-migration page so cvs users will
be able to fine the glossary as soon as they start looking at git documents.
Signed-off-by: Matt Graham <mdg149@gmail.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These paragraphs are a little confusing. Also, make it clearer when
you have to specify the full name for <dst>
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
25ee9731c137d0a24b0f4879eb0b0cce9b77d5b0 made the '--prune' option
deprecated and removed its description from the git-gc man page. This
patch removes all references to this option from the rest of the Git
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git diff --name-status outputs letters, but the meaning of those letters
is documented elsewhere. Add a note to make the manpage more intuitive.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since git-gc now always calls prune, even with --auto, unreferenced objects
may be removed by more operations than just git-gc. This is important for
clones created using --shared or --reference.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit adds the documentation for the new option added by 7df7c01
(Add "--dirstat" for some directory statistics, 2008-02-12).
Noticed by Clint Adams, reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/476437
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I managed to set up a Git repository on a preconfigured WebDAV server,
and using HTTPS, without installing Git on it or changing the server
configuration. This works through a proxy too. This patch reflects
this (it previously stated that Git was _necessary_ on the server,
which isn't true). Also give a few hints to troubleshoting.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Do some verb-noun agreement changes.
Clarify some file globbing cases.
Fixed a wrong statement in an example.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.5.4:
git-bisect: make "start", "good" and "skip" succeed or fail atomically
git-am: cope better with an empty Subject: line
Ignore leading empty lines while summarizing merges
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
builtin-apply: Show a more descriptive error on failure when opening a patch
Clarify documentation of git-cvsserver, particularly in relation to git-shell
For SSH clients restricted to git-shell, CVS_SERVER does not have to be
specified, because git-shell understands the default value of 'cvs' to
mean git-cvsserver'. This makes it totally transparent to CVS users, but
the instruction to set up CVS access for people with real shell access
does not apply.
Previous wording mentioning GIT_AUTHOR, GIT_COMMITTER variables was
unclear that we really meant GIT_AUTHOR_(NAME|EMAIL), etc.
Note that the .ssh/environment file is a good place to set these, and that
the .bashrc is shell-specific. Add a bit of text to differentiate cvs -d
(setting CVSROOT) from cvs co -d (setting the name of the newly checked
out directory). Removed an extra 'Example:' string.
Signed-off-by: Scott Collins <scc@ScottCollins.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.5.4:
bisect: fix bad rev checking in "git bisect good"
revision.c: make --date-order overriddable
Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
Document option --only of git commit
Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
The tagger is equal to the committer, not the author, so
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is the right environment variable to use, not
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE.
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Its documentation was removed by 6c96753 (Documentation/git-commit: rewrite
to make it more end-user friendly, 2006-12-08), even though it is referenced
from a few places, including builtin-commit.c (as part of the commentary in
the commit message template).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.5.4:
core-tutorial.txt: Fix showing the current behaviour.
git-archive: ignore prefix when checking file attribute
Fix documentation syntax of optional arguments in short options.
The --root option from "git diff-tree" won't do nothing
when is given to commands like git-whatchanged or git-log,
because those always print the initial commit by default.
This fixes the tutorial explaining the function of the
log.showroot configuration variable.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When an argument for an option is optional, like in -n from git-tag,
puting a space between the option and the argument is interpreted
as a missing argument for the option plus an isolated argument.
Documentation now reflects the need to write the parameter following
the option -n, as in "git tag -nARG", for instance.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a bit confusing on first read, that
"The packed archive format (.pack) is designed
to be unpackable..."
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rate of fixes that trickle in has slowed and we are definitely
getting there. Hopefully one final round and we will have the final
1.5.5 soon.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interactive mode does not work with files whose names contain
characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adds a gitcvs.dbtablenameprefix config variable, the contents of which
are prepended to any database tables names used by git-cvsserver. The
same substutions as gitcvs.dbname and gitcvs.dbuser are supported, and
any non-alphabetic characters are replaced with underscores.
A typo found in contrib/completion/git-completion.bash is also fixed.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Update draft release notes for 1.5.4.5
Documentation: clarify use of .git{ignore,attributes} versus .git/info/*
t/t3800-mktag.sh: use test_must_fail rather than '!'
Conflicts:
t/t3800-mktag.sh
gitignore patterns can be read from three different
files, while gitattributes can come from two files. Let's
provide some hints to the user about the differences and how
they are typically used.
Suggested by Toby Corkindale, but gratuitously reworded by Jeff King.
Signed-off-by: Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@rea-group.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.
Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
(cherry picked from commit 0c829391cfcdc57172765322575804a7ad5f3116)
For a while now, git-checkout has been more powerful than the man-page
summary would suggest (the main text does describe the new features),
so update the summary to hopefully better reflect the current
functionality. Also update the glossary description of the word checkout.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Texts between ~ and ~ will be subscripted during the asciidoc translation.
Signed-off-by: Guanqun Lu <Guanqun.Lu@Gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
checkout and branch recently learnt to track local branches when
branch.autosetupmerge = always, but they _also_ learnt to do that when
asked explicitely with the option "--track".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent discussion on the list, with the improvement f7c22cc (always start
looking up objects in the last used pack first, 2007-05-30) brought in,
reached the concensus that the current default 20 is too low.
Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/77586
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fast-import documentation currently does not document the behaviour
of "merge" when there is no "from" in a commit. This patch adds a
description of what happens: the commit is created with a parent, but
no files. This behaviour is equivalent to "from" followed by
"filedeleteall".
Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add sendemail.smtpserverport to the Configuration section
of the git-send-email manpage. It should probably be
referenced in the --smtp-server-port option as well.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
