In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT,
to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small
caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days.
Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer
to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the
command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding
guideline.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
Back in 2005 when this document was written, it may have made sense to
introduce ‘git fsck’ (then ‘git fsck-objects’) as the very first example
command for new users of Git 0.99.9. Now that Git has been stable for
years and does not actually tend to eat your data, it makes significantly
less sense. In fact, it sends an entirely wrong message.
‘git gc’ is also unnecessary for the purposes of this document, especially
with gc.auto enabled by default.
The only other commands in the “Basic Repository” section were ‘git init’
and ‘git clone’. ‘clone’ is already listed in the “Participant” section,
so move ‘init’ to the “Standalone” section and get rid of “Basic
Repository” entirely.
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'Everyday GIT' guide was using the old dashed form
of git-init.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
25ee9731c1 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>
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock
Asciidoc configuration:
@@ -149,7 +153,10 @@
# Inline macros.
# Backslash prefix required for escape processing.
# (?s) re flag for line spanning.
-(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
+# Explicit so they can be nested.
+(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])=
+
# Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor.
(?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3
# Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]]
This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this
case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline
macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being
matched by the wrong regex.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In everyday tasks, "repack -a -d -f" won't be used, so there
is not much point mentioning "repack". By showing the --prune
option to "gc", we can do without mentioning "git prune", too.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation quotes commit messages 14 times with double-quotes, and 7
times with single-quotes. The patch turns everything to double-quotes.
A nice side effect is that documentation becomes more Windoze-friendly
as AFAIK single quotes won't work there.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
1) talk about "git merge" instead of "git pull ."
2) suggest "git repo-config" instead of directly editing config files
3) echo "URL: blah" > .git/remotes/foo is obsolete and should be
"git repo-config remote.foo.url blah"
4) support for partial URL prefix has been removed (see commit
ea560e6d64) so drop mention of it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Make "init" the equivalent of "init-db". This should make first GIT
impression a little more friendly.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix minor mark-up mistakes and adjust to v1.5.0 BCP, namely:
- use "git add" instead of "git update-index";
- use "git merge" instead of "git pull .";
- use separate remote layout;
- use config instead of remotes/origin file;
Also updates "My typical git day" example since now I have
'next' branch these days.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
It is useless because --inetd implies --syslog.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Remove the introduction: I think it should be obvious why
we have this. (And if it isn't obvious then we've got other
problems.)
Replace reference to git whatchanged by git log.
Miscellaneous style and grammar fixes.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
All should be clear enough, except perhaps committish / commitish.
I just kept the more-used one within the current docs.
[jc: with rephrasing of check-ref-format description later discussed
on the list]
Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Many Linux distributions use xinetd(8), not inetd(8).
Give a sample configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Unfortunately docbook does not allow a callout to be
referenced from inside a callout list description.
Rewrite one paragraph in git-reset man page to work
around this limitation.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Talk about the following as well:
* git fetch --tags
* Use of "git push" as a one-man distributed development vehicle.
* Show example of remotes file for pulling and pushing.
* Annotate git-shell setup.
* Using Carl's update hook in a CVS-style shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Thomas Ackermann
Jeff King
Matthieu Moy
Anders Kaseorg
David Aguilar
Dmitry Potapov
Dan McGee
Miklos Vajna
Sergei Organov
Junio C Hamano
Tom Prince
Nicolas Pitre
Christian Couder
J. Bruce Fields
Francis Daly
Horst H. von Brand
Sean Estabrooks