Actually, we should have a competition for the favorite example commit.
Criteria:
- length: one-line changes with one-line comments preferred,
and no long lines
- significance/memorability
- comic value
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The immediate motivation for writing this section was to explain the
various places ignore patterns could be used. However, I still think
.gitignore is the case most people will want to learn about first. It
also makes it a bit more concrete to introduce ignore patterns in the
context of .gitignore first. And the existance of gitignore(5) relieves
the pressure to explain it all here.
So, stick to the .gitignore example, with only a brief mention of the
others, explain the syntax only by example, and leave the rest to
gitignore(5).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
For the html output we can use a stylesheet to make sure that the
listingblocks are presented in a monospaced font. For the manpages do
it manually by inserting a ".ft C" before and ".ft" after the block in
question.
In order for these roff commands to get through to the manpage they
have to be element encoded to prevent quoting.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'D' subcommand within a commit can also delete a directory
recursively. This wasn't clear in the prior version of the
documentation, leading to a question on the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Recently a user on the mailing list complained that they'd read the
manual but couldn't figure out how to keep a couple private repositories
in sync. They'd tried using push, and were surprised by the effect.
Add a little text in an attempt to make it clear that:
- Pushing to a branch that is checked out will have odd results.
- It's OK to synchronize just using pull if that's simpler.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
- "method of" is vulgar, "method for" is nicer
- "recovery" becomes "recovering" from Steve Hoelzer's original version
of this patch
- "if you want" is nicer as "if you wish"
- "you may" should be "you can"; "you may" is "you have permission to"
rather than "you can"'s "it is possible to"
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The -<n> option was not mentioned in git-format-patch's manpage till
now. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'show' and 'prune' commands accept an option '-n'; document what
it does.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some minor enhancements to the git-repack manual page.
Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The asciidoc documentation of the --get-regexp option was
incomplete. Add some missing pieces:
- List the option in SYNOPSIS
- Mention that key names are printed
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that the attribute definition we have had for a
long time to hide "^" character from AsciiDoc 7 was not honored
by AsciiDoc 8 even under "-a asciidoc7compatible" mode. There is
a similar breakage with the "compatible" mode with + characters.
The double colon at the end of definition list term needs
to be attached to the term, without a whitespace. After this
minimum fixups, AsciiDoc 8 (I used 8.2.1 on Debian) with
compatibility mode seems to produce reasonably good results.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The word "changelog" seems a little too much like jargon to me, and beginners
must understand section headers so they know where to look for help.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
In Documentation/user-manual.txt the example
$ git checkout --track -b origin/maint maint
under "Getting updates with git pull", should read
$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint
This was noticed by Ron, and reported through
http://bugs.debian.org/427502
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Update text to reflect new position in appendix.
Update the name to reflect the fact that this is closer to reference
than tutorial documentation (as suggested by Jonas Fonseca).
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb is inconsistent.
For example, "Add" vs "Creates". It is customary to use imperative for
command description.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
unpack-objects -n didn't print the object list as promised on the
manual page, so alter the documentation to reflect the behaviour
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Only git-ls-files(1) describes the gitignore format in detail, and it does so
with reference to git-ls-files options. Most users don't use the plumbing
command git-ls-files directly, and shouldn't have to look in its manpage for
information on the gitignore format.
Create a new manpage gitignore(5) (Documentation/gitignore.txt), and factor
out the gitignore documentation into that file, changing it to refer to
.gitignore and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude as used by porcelain commands. Reference
gitignore(5) from other relevant manpages and documentation. Remove
now-redundant information on exclude patterns from git-ls-files(1), leaving
only information on how git-ls-files options specify exclude patterns and what
precedence they have.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Instead of using sed on the resulting file, we now have a
git_version asciidoc attribute. This means that we don't
pipe the output of asciidoc, which means we can detect build
failures.
Problem reported by Scott Lamb, solution suggested by Jonas Fonseca.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint-1.5.1:
git-config: Improve documentation of git-config file handling
git-config: Various small fixes to asciidoc documentation
decode_85(): fix missing return.
fix signed range problems with hex conversions
The description which files git-config uses and how the various
command line options and environment variables affect its
behaviour was incomplete, outdated and confusing.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add '' around the only mentioned commandline option that didn't
have it.
Make reference to section EXAMPLE a link and rename it to
EXAMPLES because it actually contains a lot of examples.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Reasonably new versions of the cvs CLI client allow one to
specifiy CVS_SERVER as a method variable directly in
CVSROOT. This is way more convinient than using an
environment variable since it gets saved in CVS/Root.
Since I only discovered this by accident I guess there
might be others out there that learnt CVS on the 1.11
series (or even earlier) and profit from such a note
about cvs improvements in the last couple years.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While the given example worked, it made us look rather
incompetent. Give the correct reason why one needs the
more complex syntax and change the example to reflect
that.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* maint-1.5.1:
Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
More echo "$user_message" fixes.
Add tests for the last two fixes.
git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
Ensure that the same link is not repeated in single glossary entry,
and that there is no self-link i.e. link to current entry.
Add links to other definitions in git glossary.
Remove inappropriate (nonsense) links, or change link to link to
correct definition (to correct term).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch documents the branch.autosetupmerge config option, added
by commit 0746d19a.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-add reads this variable, and honours the contents of that file if that
exists. Match this behaviour in git-status, too.
Noticed by Evan Carroll on IRC.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
