There is a nice shortlog-ish output of the authors there. We
also point people directly to shortlog, but of course they
might be reading the documentation online or from a binary
package of git.
The point of these sections is generally to:
1. Give credit where it is due.
2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or
file bug reports.
But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they
are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer
can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the
correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you
wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and
incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody
useless.
So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except
git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list
for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section
to give credit to the major contributors and point to
shortlog and blame for more information.
Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can
follow that to the main git manpage.
This reverts commit 72a5b561fc1c4286bc7c5b0693afc076af261e1f, as adding
fixed number of hexdigits more than necessary to make one object name
locally unique does not help in futureproofing the uniqueness of names
we generate today.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Fix typo in t/README
ls-remote documentation: <refs> argument is optional
Add Author and Documentation sections to git-for-each-ref.txt
Documentation: remove redundant colons in git-for-each-ref.txt
Earlier, 47afed5 (SubmittingPatches: itemize and reflect upon well written
changes, 2009-04-28) added a discussion on the contents of the commit log
message, but the last part of the new paragraph didn't make much sense.
Reword it slightly to make it more readable.
Update the "quicklist" to clarify what we mean by "motivation" and
"contrast". Also mildly discourage external references.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description was unclear if -c or --cc was the default (--cc is for
some commands), and incorrectly implied that the default applies to
all the diff generating commands.
Most importantly, "log" does not default to "--cc" (it defaults to
"--no-merges") and "log -p" obeys the user's wish to see non-combined
format. Only "diff" (during merge and three-blob comparison) and
"show" use --cc as the default.
Signed-off-by: Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-apply accepts the --cached option, not --cache.
Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 'svn-fe' of git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn: (31 commits)
fast-import: make code "-Wpointer-arith" clean
vcs-svn: teach line_buffer about temporary files
vcs-svn: allow input from file descriptor
vcs-svn: allow character-oriented input
vcs-svn: add binary-safe read function
t0081 (line-buffer): add buffering tests
vcs-svn: tweak test-line-buffer to not assume line-oriented input
tests: give vcs-svn/line_buffer its own test script
vcs-svn: make test-line-buffer input format more flexible
vcs-svn: teach line_buffer to handle multiple input files
vcs-svn: collect line_buffer data in a struct
vcs-svn: replace buffer_read_string memory pool with a strbuf
vcs-svn: eliminate global byte_buffer
fast-import: add 'ls' command
vcs-svn: Allow change nodes for root of tree (/)
vcs-svn: Implement Prop-delta handling
vcs-svn: Sharpen parsing of property lines
vcs-svn: Split off function for handling of individual properties
vcs-svn: Make source easier to read on small screens
vcs-svn: More dump format sanity checks
...
* mg/placeholders-are-lowercase:
Make <identifier> lowercase in Documentation
Make <identifier> lowercase as per CodingGuidelines
Make <identifier> lowercase as per CodingGuidelines
Make <identifier> lowercase as per CodingGuidelines
CodingGuidelines: downcase placeholders in usage messages
* uk/checkout-ambiguous-ref:
Rename t2019 with typo "amiguous" that meant "ambiguous"
checkout: rearrange update_refs_for_switch for clarity
checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"
checkout: split off a function to peel away branchname arg
checkout: fix bug with ambiguous refs
Conflicts:
builtin/checkout.c
* nd/struct-pathspec: (22 commits)
t6004: add pathspec globbing test for log family
t7810: overlapping pathspecs and depth limit
grep: drop pathspec_matches() in favor of tree_entry_interesting()
grep: use writable strbuf from caller for grep_tree()
grep: use match_pathspec_depth() for cache/worktree grepping
grep: convert to use struct pathspec
Convert ce_path_match() to use match_pathspec_depth()
Convert ce_path_match() to use struct pathspec
struct rev_info: convert prune_data to struct pathspec
pathspec: add match_pathspec_depth()
tree_entry_interesting(): optimize wildcard matching when base is matched
tree_entry_interesting(): support wildcard matching
tree_entry_interesting(): fix depth limit with overlapping pathspecs
tree_entry_interesting(): support depth limit
tree_entry_interesting(): refactor into separate smaller functions
diff-tree: convert base+baselen to writable strbuf
glossary: define pathspec
Move tree_entry_interesting() to tree-walk.c and export it
tree_entry_interesting(): remove dependency on struct diff_options
Convert struct diff_options to use struct pathspec
...
Lazy fast-import frontend authors that want to rely on the backend to
keep track of the content of the imported trees _almost_ have what
they need in the 'cat-blob' command (v1.7.4-rc0~30^2~3, 2010-11-28).
But it is not quite enough, since
(1) cat-blob can be used to retrieve the content of files, but
not their mode, and
(2) using cat-blob requires the frontend to keep track of a name
(mark number or object id) for each blob to be retrieved
Introduce an 'ls' command to complement cat-blob and take care of the
remaining needs. The 'ls' command finds what is at a given path
within a given tree-ish (tag, commit, or tree):
'ls' SP <dataref> SP <path> LF
or in fast-import's active commit:
'ls' SP <path> LF
The response is a single line sent through the cat-blob channel,
imitating ls-tree output. So for example:
FE> ls :1 Documentation
gfi> 040000 tree 9e6c2b599341d28a2a375f8207507e0a2a627fe9 Documentation
FE> ls 9e6c2b599341d28a2a375f8207507e0a2a627fe9 git-fast-import.txt
gfi> 100644 blob 4f92954396e3f0f97e75b6838a5635b583708870 git-fast-import.txt
FE> ls :1 RelNotes
gfi> 120000 blob b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743 RelNotes
FE> cat-blob b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743
gfi> b942e499449d97aeb50c73ca2bdc1c6e6d528743 blob 32
gfi> Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.4.txt
The most interesting parts of the reply are the first word, which is
a 6-digit octal mode (regular file, executable, symlink, directory,
or submodule), and the part from the second space to the tab, which is
a <dataref> that can be used in later cat-blob, ls, and filemodify (M)
commands to refer to the content (blob, tree, or commit) at that path.
If there is nothing there, the response is "missing some/path".
The intent is for this command to be used to read files from the
active commit, so a frontend can apply patches to them, and to copy
files and directories from previous revisions.
For example, proposed updates to svn-fe use this command in place of
its internal representation of the repository directory structure.
This simplifies the frontend a great deal and means support for
resuming an import in a separate fast-import run (i.e., incremental
import) is basically free.
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improved-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Previously the user was advised to use commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD after
a conflicting cherry-pick. While this would preserve the original
commit's authorship, it would sadly discard cherry-pick's carefully
crafted MERGE_MSG (which contains the list of conflicts as well as the
original commit-id in the case of cherry-pick -x).
On the other hand, if a bare 'commit' were performed, it would preserve
the MERGE_MSG while resetting the authorship.
In other words, there was no way to simultaneously take the authorship
from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.
This change fixes that situation. A bare 'commit' will now take the
authorship from CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and the commit message from MERGE_MSG.
If the user wishes to reset authorship, that must now be done explicitly
via --reset-author.
A side-benefit of passing commit authorship along this way is that we
can eliminate redundant authorship parsing code from revert.c.
(Also removed an unused include from revert.c)
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a cherry-pick conflicts git advises:
$ git commit -c <original commit id>
to preserve the original commit message and authorship. Instead, let's
record the original commit id in CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and advise:
$ git commit -c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD
A later patch teaches git to handle the '-c CHERRY_PICK_HEAD' part.
Note that we record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even in the case where there
are no conflicts so that we may use it to communicate authorship to
commit; this will then allow us to remove set_author_ident_env from
revert.c. However, we do not record CHERRY_PICK_HEAD when --no-commit
is used, as presumably the user intends to further edit the commit
and possibly even cherry-pick additional commits on top.
Tests and documentation contributed by Jonathan Nieder.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The detached HEAD state is a source of much confusion for users
new to git. Here we try to document it better.
Reworked from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/138440
Requested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Leaving uppercase abbreviations (e.g. URL) and an identifier named after
an upercase env variable (CVSROOT) in place, this adjusts the few
remaining cases and fixes an unidentified identifier along the way.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users are sometimes confused with two different types of "tracking" behavior
in Git: "remote-tracking" branches (e.g. refs/remotes/*/*) versus the
merge/rebase relationship between a local branch and its @{upstream}
(controlled by branch.foo.remote and branch.foo.merge config settings).
When the push.default is set to 'tracking', it specifies that a branch should
be pushed to its @{upstream} branch. In other words, setting push.default to
'tracking' applies only to the latter of the above two types of "tracking"
behavior.
In order to make this more understandable to the user, we rename the
push.default == 'tracking' option to push.default == 'upstream'.
push.default == 'tracking' is left as a deprecated synonym for 'upstream'.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
pull: do not display fetch usage on --help-all
git-tag.txt: list all modes in the description
commit,status: describe -u likewise
add: describe --patch like checkout, reset
commit,merge,tag: describe -m likewise
clone,init: describe --template using the same wording
commit,status: describe --porcelain just like push
commit,tag: use same wording for -F
configure: use AC_LANG_PROGRAM consistently
string_list_append: always set util pointer to NULL
correct type of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
Currently, the description sounds as if it applied always, but most of
its content is true in "create tag mode" only.
Make this clearer by listing all modes upfront.
Also, sneak in some linguistic improvements and make it clearer that
lightweight tags are "created" because "written" may be misread as
"are output".
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Here is a 'feature' command for streams to use to require support for
the notemodify (N) command.
When the 'feature' facility was introduced (v1.7.0-rc0~95^2~4,
2009-12-04), the notes import feature was old news (v1.6.6-rc0~21^2~8,
2009-10-09) and it was not obvious it deserved to be a named feature.
But now that is clear, since all major non-git fast-import backends
lack support for it.
Details: on git version with this patch applied, any "feature notes"
command in the features/options section at the beginning of a stream
will be treated as a no-op. On fast-import implementations without
the feature (and older git versions), the command instead errors out
with a message like
This version of fast-import does not support feature notes.
So by declaring use of notes at the beginning of a stream, frontends
can avoid wasting time and other resources when the backend does not
support notes. (This would be especially important for backends that
do not support rewinding history after a botched import.)
Improved-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Improved-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "feature" command allows streams to specify options for the import
that must not be ignored. Logically, they are part of the stream,
even though technically most supported features are synonyms to
command-line options.
Make this more obvious by being more explicit about how the analogy
between most "feature" commands and command-line options works. Treat
the feature (import-marks) that does not fit this analogy separately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to
test that two topics work well together.
Patch by Junio, with tests from Jeff King.
[jn: with some extra checks for bogus commandline usage]
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In commits be254a0ea9 and 7dce19d374 the handling of the new fetch options
"--[no-]recurse-submodules" had been added to git-pull.sh. But they were
not documented as the pull options they now are, so let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --cached" (without revision) used to mean "git diff --cached
HEAD" (i.e. the user was too lazy to type HEAD). This "correctly"
failed when there was no commit yet. But was that correctness useful?
This patch changes the definition of what particular command means.
It is a request to show what _would_ be committed without further "git
add". The internal implementation is the same "git diff --cached HEAD"
when HEAD exists, but when there is no commit yet, it compares the index
with an empty tree object to achieve the desired result.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
