Both of these pages document very similar `--empty` options, but with
different styles. The exact behavior of these `--empty` options differs
somewhat, but consistent styling in the docs is still beneficial. This
commit aims to make them more consistent.
Break the possible values for `--empty` into separate sections for
readability. Alphabetical order is chosen for consistency.
In a future commit, we'll be documenting a new `--empty` option for
git-cherry-pick(1), making the consistency even more relevant.
Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in
"git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the
option is passed through to the underlying "git apply".
* jc/am-whitespace-doc:
doc: add shortcut to "am --whitespace=<action>"
We refer readers of "git am --help" to "git apply --help" for many
options that are passed through, and most of them are simple
booleans, but --whitespace takes from a set of actions whose names
may slip users' minds. Give a list of them in "git am --help" to
reduce one level of redirection only to find out what they are.
In the helper function to parse the available options, there was a
helpful comment reminding the developer to update list of <action>s
in the completion script. Mention the two documentation pages there
as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git am` passes the value given to its `--whitespace` option through
to the underlying `git apply`, and the value is called <action> over
there. Fix the documentation for the command that calls the value
<option> to say <action> instead.
Note that the option help given by `git am -h` already calls the
value <action>, so there is no need to make a matching change there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were two reasons we didn't do this. As "git am" is designed
to grok e-mailed patches, not necessarily taken out of a Git
repostiory or even if it came from a Git repository not necessarily
produced with format-patch, we didn't want to single it out as the
"blessed" input producer to the command. Also, in the original
workflow that "git am" was invented for, the user of "am" was
expected to be a different person than the users of "format-patch".
But this is a very safe change to make in 2023. Thanks to the
effort by many contributors, Git ended up becoming a bit more
popular than we initially thought it would be, and "format-patch",
which took me a few weeks to pursuade Linus to take in 2005, seems
to have become the de-facto standard tool to produce patch e-mails.
Interestingly, the documentation for "git apply", which is listed in
SEE ALSO section of "git am" documentation, does mention "am" and
"format-patch" as two things that are related but different from
"apply" in an early part.
Suggested-by: Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The git-am --no-verify flag is analogous to the same flag passed to
git-commit. It bypasses the pre-applypatch and applypatch-msg hooks
if they are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.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
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>
The `--rerere-autoupdate` option is shared across 5 commands, and
are described the same way because it works exactly the same way in
these commands.
Create a separate file and include it from the help pages for these
commands, so that we can improve the description at one place to
improve all of them at once, and keep them in sync.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option helps to record specific empty patches in the middle
of an am session, which does create empty commits only when:
1. the index has not changed
2. lacking a branch
When the index has changed, "--allow-empty" will create a non-empty
commit like passing "--continue" or "--resolved".
Signed-off-by: 徐沛文 (Aleen) <aleen42@vip.qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since that the command 'git-format-patch' can include patches of
commits that emit no changes, the 'git-am' command should also
support an option, named as '--empty', to specify how to handle
those empty patches. In this commit, we have implemented three
valid options ('stop', 'drop' and 'keep').
Signed-off-by: 徐沛文 (Aleen) <aleen42@vip.qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both Johannes and I assumed (perhaps due to familiarity with rebase)
that am --abort would return the user to a clean state. However, since
am, unlike rebase, is intended to be used within a dirty working tree,
--abort will only clean the files involved in the am operation.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In previous changes, mailinfo has learnt to process lines that decoded
from base64 or quoted-printable, and ends with CRLF.
Let's teach "am" that new trick, too.
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 95791be750 (doc: camelCase the i18n config variables to improve
readability, 2017-07-17), the other i18n config variables were
camel cased. However, this one instance was missed.
Camel case and monospace "i18n.commitEncoding" so that it matches the
surrounding text.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
[jc: fixed 3 other mistakes that are exactly the same]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ted reported an old typo in the git-commit.txt and merge-options.txt.
Namely, the phrase "Signed-off-by line" was used without either a
definite nor indefinite article.
Upon examination, it seems that the documentation (including items in
Documentation/, but also option help strings) have been quite
inconsistent on usage when referring to `Signed-off-by`.
First, very few places used a definite or indefinite article with the
phrase "Signed-off-by line", but that was the initial typo that led
to this investigation. So, normalize using either an indefinite or
definite article consistently.
The original phrasing, in Commit 3f971fc425 (Documentation updates,
2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a5 (Add
--signoff, --check, and long option-names. 2005-12-09) switched to
using "Add `Signed-off-by:` line", but didn't normalize the former
commit to match. Later commits seem to have cut and pasted from one
or the other, which is likely how the usage became so inconsistent.
Junio stated on the git mailing list in
<xmqqy2k1dfoh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> a preference to leave off
the colon. Thus, prefer `Signed-off-by` (with backticks) for the
documentation files and Signed-off-by (without backticks) for option
help strings.
Additionally, Junio argued that "trailer" is now the standard term to
refer to `Signed-off-by`, saying that "becomes plenty clear that we
are not talking about any random line in the log message". As such,
prefer "trailer" over "line" anywhere the former word fits.
However, leave alone those few places in documentation that use
Signed-off-by to refer to the process (rather than the specific
trailer), or in places where mail headers are generally discussed in
comparison with Signed-off-by.
Reported-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am:
add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it
as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch. Unfortunately the suggestion
is somewhat misguided; for example, the output of "git am --show-current-patch"
cannot be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable
or base64. Add a new mode to "git am --show-current-patch" in order to
straighten the suggestion.
Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am:
add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it
as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch. Unfortunately the suggestion
is somewhat misguided; for example, the output "git am --show-current-patch"
cannot be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable or
base64. To simplify worktree operations and to avoid that users poke into
.git, it would be better if "git am" also provided a mode that copies
.git/rebase-merge/patch to stdout.
One possibility could be to have completely separate options, introducing
for example --show-current-message (for .git/rebase-apply/NNNN)
and --show-current-diff (for .git/rebase-apply/patch), while possibly
deprecating --show-current-patch.
That would even remove the need for the first two patches in the series.
However, the long common prefix would have prevented using an abbreviated
option such as "--show". Therefore, I chose instead to add a string
argument to --show-current-patch. The new argument is optional, so that
"git am --show-current-patch"'s behavior remains backwards-compatible.
The next choice to make is how to handle multiple --show-current-patch
options. Right now, something like "git am --abort --show-current-patch"
is rejected, and the previous suggestion would likewise have naturally
rejected a command line like
git am --show-current-message --show-current-diff
Therefore, I decided to also reject for example
git am --show-current-patch=diff --show-current-patch=raw
In other words the whole of --show-current-patch=xxx (including the
optional argument) is treated as the command mode. I found this to be
more consistent and intuitive, even though it differs from the usual
"last one wins" semantics of the git command line.
Add the code to parse submodes based on the above design, where for now
"raw" is the only valid submode. "raw" prints the full e-mail message
just like "git am --show-current-patch".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to "From:" and "Subject:" already mentioned in the
documentation, "Date:" can also appear as an in-body header
to override the value in the e-mail headers. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing wording gives an impression that it only gives the
contents of the $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply/patch file, i.e. the patch
proper, but the option actually emits the entire e-mail message
being processed (iow, one of the output files from "git mailsplit").
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option was missing from the man pages of these commands.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way
to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am")
stops with a conflict.
* nd/rebase-show-current-patch:
rebase: introduce and use pseudo-ref REBASE_HEAD
rebase: add --show-current-patch
am: add --show-current-patch
Among the "in progress" commands, only git-am and git-merge do not
support --quit. Support --quit in git-am too.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Pointing the user to $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply may encourage them to mess
around in there, which is not a good thing. With this, the user does
not have to keep the path around somewhere (because after a couple of
commands, the path may be out of scrollback buffer) when they need to
look at the patch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.
* mm/doc-tt:
doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal
CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation
doc: typeset long options with argument as literal
doc: typeset '--' as literal
doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
doc: typeset short command-line options as literal
Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.
This was obtained with:
perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt
and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Combined with "git format-patch --pretty=mboxrd", this should
allow us to round-trip commit messages with embedded mbox
"From " lines without corruption.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Modify various document (man page) files to explain
in more detail what --signoff means.
This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where
paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit
doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...".
Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue
that developers understood --signoff when they use it.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional
(which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end
of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and
every one of them.
* mm/keyid-docs:
Documentation: explain optional arguments better
Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O
Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two
ways:
* Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands
creating commits) when used without the optional argument.
* Document the syntax of these options.
For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is
easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g.
"git status -u no" does not work.
Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having
an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '='
sign between the option and its argument.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way
option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired
for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to
override it.
Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d96a275b91.
It used to be possible to apply a patch series with "git am mbox"
and then only after seeing a failure, switch to three-way mode via
"git am -3" (no other options or arguments). The commit being
reverted broke this workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way
option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired
for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to
override it.
Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
* mm/am-c-doc:
Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable
Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
It was already documented, but the user had to follow the link to
git-mailinfo.txt to find it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Parse the option and pass it directly to git-mailinfo.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --patch-format option has been supported for a while but it is not
mentioned in the man page and the short help cannot tell the user what
the supported formats are. Add the option to the man page along with the
supported options.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not obvious when looking at a new command what hooks will affect
it. Add a HOOKS section to the git-am(1) page, imitating
git-commit(1), to make it easier for people to discover e.g. the
applypatch-msg hook that can implement a custom subject-mangling
strategy (e.g., removing a "bug #nnnn:" prefix introduced by a bug
tracker).
Reported-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Brian Lyles
Junio C Hamano
Elijah Newren
Thierry Reding
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
徐沛文 (Aleen)
Đoàn Trần Công Danh
Denton Liu
Bradley M. Kuhn
Paolo Bonzini
Paul Menzel
Phillip Wood
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Matthieu Moy
Eric Wong
David A. Wheeler
Remi Lespinet
Ronald Wampler
Chris Packham
Jonathan Nieder