We will wait for a handful of other fixes that have graduated to the
'master' for 1.8.0 to be tested in the wild and then tag 1.7.12.1:
. mz/cherry-pick-cmdline-order
. jk/maint-quiet-is-synonym-to-s-in-log
. jk/maint-http-half-auth-push
. jc/apply-binary-p0
. jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths
. kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* jk/check-docs-update:
check-docs: get documented command list from Makefile
check-docs: drop git-help special-case
check-docs: list git-gui as a command
check-docs: factor out command-list
command-list: mention git-credential-* helpers
command-list: add git-sh-i18n
check-docs: update non-command documentation list
check-docs: mention gitweb specially
* maint-1.7.11:
Almost 1.7.11.6
gitweb: URL-decode $my_url/$my_uri when stripping PATH_INFO
rebase -i: use full onto sha1 in reflog
sh-setup: protect from exported IFS
receive-pack: do not leak output from auto-gc to standard output
t/t5400: demonstrate breakage caused by informational message from prune
setup: clarify error messages for file/revisions ambiguity
send-email: improve RFC2047 quote parsing
fsck: detect null sha1 in tree entries
do not write null sha1s to on-disk index
diff: do not use null sha1 as a sentinel value
People who are not used to working with shell may intellectually
understand how the command line argument is massaged by the shell
but still have a hard time visualizing the difference between
letting the shell expand fileglobs and having Git see the fileglob
to use as a pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The paragraph to encourage use of "--" in scripts belongs to the
bullet point that describes the behaviour for a command line without
the explicit "--" disambiguation; it is not a supporting explanation
for the entire bulletted list, and it is wrong to make it a separate
paragraph outside the list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The built-in "binary" attribute macro expands to "-diff -text", so
that textual diff is not produced, and the contents will not go
through any CR/LF conversion ever. During a merge, it should also
choose the "binary" low-level merge driver, but it didn't.
Make it expand to "-diff -merge -text".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The (discouraged) -Xours/-Xtheirs modes of merge are supposed to
give a quick and dirty way to come up with a random mixture of
cleanly merged parts and punted conflict resolution to take contents
from one side in conflicting parts. These options however were only
passed down to the low level merge driver for text.
Teach the built-in binary merge driver to notice them as well.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While looking for a way to expand the URL of a remote
that uses a 'url.<name>.insteadOf' config option I stumbled
over the undocumented '--get-url' option of 'git ls-remote'.
This adds some minimum documentation for that option.
And while at it, also add that option to the '-h' output.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Naewe <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-list-options.txt is included in git-rev-list.txt. This makes sure
rev-list man page also shows that, and at one place, together with
equivalent options -n and --max-count.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All remote subcommands are spelled out words except 'rm'. 'rm', being a
popular UNIX command name, may mislead users that there are also 'ls' or
'mv'. Use 'remove' to fit with the rest of subcommands.
'rm' is still supported and used in the test suite. It's just not
widely advertised.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes we build a set of similar command lines, differing
only in the final arguments (e.g., "fetch --multiple"). To
use argv_array for this, you have to either push the same
set of elements repeatedly, or break the abstraction by
manually manipulating the array's internal members.
Instead, let's provide a sanctioned "pop" function to remove
elements from the end.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When 'git log' is passed the --no-walk option, no revision walk takes
place, naturally. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, however, the provided
revisions still get sorted by commit date. So e.g 'git log --no-walk
HEAD HEAD~1' and 'git log --no-walk HEAD~1 HEAD' give the same result
(unless the two revisions share the commit date, in which case they
will retain the order given on the command line). As the commit that
introduced --no-walk (8e64006 (Teach revision machinery about
--no-walk, 2007-07-24)) points out, the sorting is intentional, to
allow things like
git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --decorate --all --no-walk
to show all refs in order by commit date.
But there are also other cases where the sorting is not wanted, such
as
<command producing revisions in order> |
git log --oneline --no-walk --stdin
To accomodate both cases, leave the decision of whether or not to sort
up to the caller, by allowing --no-walk={sorted,unsorted}, defaulting
to 'sorted' for backward-compatibility reasons.
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the synopsis section makes it clear that the new branch name
is the parameter to these flags, the option description did not.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint-1.7.11:
Prepare for 1.7.11.6
Make the ciabot scripts completely self-configuring in the normal case.
Improved documentation for the ciabot scripts.
man: git pull -r is a short for --rebase
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
tests: Introduce test_seq
We did not document that many commands take unique prefix
abbreviations of long options (e.g. "--option" may be the only flag
that the command accepts that begin with "--opt", in which case you
can give "--opt") anywhere easy to find for new people.
* jc/maint-abbrev-option-cli:
gitcli: describe abbreviation of long options
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the
documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but
also about "don't mix lineages".
* jc/maint-rev-list-topo-doc:
rev-list docs: clarify --topo-order description
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
* hv/coding-guidelines:
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: spell out more shell guidelines
Our documentation used to assume having files in .git/refs/*
directories was the only to have branches and tags, but that is not
true for quite some time.
* jc/tag-doc:
Documentation: do not mention .git/refs/* directories
Currently, it will only do a checkout if the sha1 registered in the containing
repository doesn't match the HEAD of the submodule, regardless of whether the
submodule is dirty. As discussed on the mailing list, the '--force' flag is a
strong indicator that the state of the submodule is suspect, and should be reset
to HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Either end of revision range operator can be omitted to default to HEAD,
as in "origin.." (what did I do since I forked) or "..origin" (what did
they do since I forked). But the current parser interprets ".." as an
empty range "HEAD..HEAD", and worse yet, because ".." does exist on the
filesystem, we get this annoying output:
$ cd Documentation/howto
$ git log .. ;# give me recent commits that touch Documentation/ area.
fatal: ambiguous argument '..': both revision and filename
Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions
Surely we could say "git log ../" or even "git log -- .." to disambiguate,
but we shouldn't have to.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One fictitious command "proxy-command" is enclosed inside a double
quote pair, while another fictitious command "default-proxy" is not
in the example, but the quoting does not change anything in the pair
of examples. Remove the quotes to avoid unnecessary confusion.
Noticed by Michael Haggerty.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "--add" option is required to add a new value to a multivalued
configuration entry.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The second paragraph in the git(1) description section were meant to
guide people who are not ready to dive into this page away from here.
Referring migrating CVS users to another page before they get
acquainted with Git was somewhat out of place. Move the reference to
the "FURTHER DOCUMENTATION" section and push that section down.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The one at kernel.org has not been updated for quite a while and
can no longer be called "the latest".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Letting the "--rebase" option squat on the short-and-sweet single
letter option "-r" was an unintended accident and was not even
documented, but the short option seems to be already used in the
wild. Let's document it so that other options that begin with "r"
would not be tempted to steal it.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was unclear what "--topo-order" was really about in the
documentation. It is not just about "children before parent", but
also about "don't mix lineages".
Reword the description for both "--date-order" and "--topo-order",
and add an illustration to it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In earlier days, "imitate the style in the neibouring code" was
sufficient to keep the coherent style, but over time some parts of
the codebase have drifted enough to make it ineffective.
Spell some of the guidelines out.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
These commands were never added to the command-list. Adding
them makes "make check-docs" run without complaint.
While we're at it, let's capitalize the first letter of
their one-line summaries to match the rest of the git
manpages.
The credential-cache--daemon command is somewhat special. It
is already ignored by check-docs because it contains a "--",
marking it as a non-interesting implementation detail. It
is, in fact, documented, but since the documentation
basically just redirects you to a more appropriate command
anyway, let's explicitly omit it so it is not mentioned in
git(1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit e30b2feb1b (Jun 24 2012, add 'git credential' plumbing command)
forgot to add git-credential to command-list.txt, hence the command was
not appearing in the documentation, making it hard for users to discover
it.
While we're there, capitalize the description line for git-crendential
for consistency with other commands.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When asciidoc converts a listing block like:
----------------------
$ git log --merge
----------------------
it marks it to be displayed in a monospace font. This works
fine when generating HTML output. However, when generating
docbook output, we override the expansion of a listingblock
to work around bugs in some versions of the docbook
toolchain. Our override did not mark the listingblock with
the "monospaced" class.
The main output that uses docbook as an intermediate format
is the manpages. We didn't notice any issue there because
the monospaced class seems to be ignored when generating
roff from the docbook manpages.
However, when generating texinfo to make info pages, docbook
does respect this class. The resulting texinfo output
properly uses "@example" blocks to display the listing in
this case. Besides possibly looking prettier in some texinfo
backends, one important effect is that the monospace font
suppresses texinfo's expansion of "--" and "---" into
en-dashes and em-dashes. With the current code, the example
above ends up looking like "git log -merge", which is
confusing and wrong.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
linkification in frontends that support it; remove them
- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
the other way around
- trivial typo and wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an implementation detail that a new tag is created by adding a
file in the .git/refs/tags directory. The only thing the user needs
to know is that a "git tag" creates a ref in the refs/tags namespace,
and without "-f", it does not overwrite an existing tag.
Inspired by a report from 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>; I think I
caught all the existing mention in Documentation/ directory in the
tip of 1.7.9.X maintenance track, but we may have added new ones
since then.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
message user edits was not documented.
* jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg:
commit: document the temporary commit message file
"git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
* kk/maint-commit-tree:
Revert "git-commit-tree(1): update synopsis"
commit-tree: resurrect command line parsing updates
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
We instead failed with an undocumented exit status 255.
Also define a "catch-all" status and document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was a bit hard to learn how <rev>^@, <rev>^! and various other
forms of range specifiers are used, because they were discussed
mostly in the prose part of the documentation, unlike various forms
of extended SHA-1 expressions that are listed in an enumerated list.
Also add a few more examples showing use of <rev>, <rev>..<rev> and
<rev>^! forms, stolen from a patch by Max Horn.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
* jc/mergetool-tool-help:
mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool does
We do not document COMMIT_EDITMSG at all, but users may want
to know about it for two reasons:
1. They may want to tell their editor to configure itself
for formatting a commit message.
2. If a commit is aborted by an error, the user may want
to recover the commit message they typed.
Let's put a note in git-commit(1).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync
between the implementation and the documentation.
In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools
with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in
the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid
tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things
the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help
for a complete list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
* pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch:
am: indicate where a failed patch is to be found
Teaches the object name parser things like a "git describe" output
is always a commit object, "A" in "git log A" must be a committish,
and "A" and "B" in "git log A...B" both must be committish, etc., to
prolong the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
* jc/sha1-name-more: (27 commits)
t1512: match the "other" object names
t1512: ignore whitespaces in wc -l output
rev-parse --disambiguate=<prefix>
rev-parse: A and B in "rev-parse A..B" refer to committish
reset: the command takes committish
commit-tree: the command wants a tree and commits
apply: --build-fake-ancestor expects blobs
sha1_name.c: add support for disambiguating other types
revision.c: the "log" family, except for "show", takes committish
revision.c: allow handle_revision_arg() to take other flags
sha1_name.c: introduce get_sha1_committish()
sha1_name.c: teach lookup context to get_sha1_with_context()
sha1_name.c: many short names can only be committish
sha1_name.c: get_sha1_1() takes lookup flags
sha1_name.c: get_describe_name() by definition groks only commits
sha1_name.c: teach get_short_sha1() a commit-only option
sha1_name.c: allow get_short_sha1() to take other flags
get_sha1(): fix error status regression
sha1_name.c: restructure disambiguation of short names
sha1_name.c: correct misnamed "canonical" and "res"
...
The git-credential command requires that you feed it a
broken-down credential, which means that the client needs to
parse a URL itself. Since we have our own URL-parsing
routines, we can easily allow the caller to just give us the
URL as-is, saving them some code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The text in git-credential(1) was copied from
technical/api-credentials, so it still talks about the
input/output format as coming from git to the helper. Since
the surrounding text already indicates that this format is
used for reading and writing with git credential, we can
just remove the extraneous confusing bits.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This reverts commit d28436736a078a429213003a9472e8caeb86c286, which
was done without realizing that the updated command line argument
order was lost by mistake.
"git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
* jc/apply-3way:
apply: tests for the --3way option
apply: document --3way option
apply: allow rerere() to work on --3way results
apply: register conflicted stages to the index
apply: --3way with add/add conflict
apply: move verify_index_match() higher
apply: plug the three-way merge logic in
apply: fall back on three-way merge
apply: accept -3/--3way command line option
apply: move "already exists" logic to check_to_create()
apply: move check_to_create_blob() closer to its sole caller
apply: further split load_preimage()
apply: refactor "previous patch" logic
apply: split load_preimage() helper function out
apply: factor out checkout_target() helper function
apply: refactor read_file_or_gitlink()
apply: clear_image() clears things a bit more
apply: a bit more comments on PATH_TO_BE_DELETED
apply: fix an incomplete comment in check_patch()
"git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
history down to the root.
* cw/rebase-i-root:
t3404: make test 57 work with dash and others
Add tests for rebase -i --root without --onto
rebase -i: support --root without --onto
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its
linkification in frontends that support it; remove them
- (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not
the other way around
- trivial typo and wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If "git am" fails to apply something, the end user may need to know
where to find the patch that failed to apply, so that the user can
do other things (e.g. trying "GNU patch" on it, running "diffstat"
to see what it tried to change, etc.) The input to "am" may have
contained more than one patch, or the message may have been MIME
encoded, and knowing what the user fed to "am" does not help very
much for this purpose.
Also introduce advice.amworkdir configuration to allow people who
learned where to look to squelch this message.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teaches git to normalize pathnames read from readdir(3) and all
arguments from the command line into precomposed UTF-8 (assuming
that they come as decomposed UTF-8) to work around issues on Mac OS.
I think there still are other places that need conversion
(e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
should be a good first step in the right direction.
* tb/sanitize-decomposed-utf-8-pathname:
git on Mac OS and precomposed unicode
