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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-22 20:35:34 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-22 20:35:34 -0800 |
commit | 66afe50b439e4d83679d12639dd084bcab0486f0 (patch) | |
tree | 33b6c7f7b4c93207328f5bd67aa4a70161e64526 | |
parent | 854dfda8be946b6d2a7cbbf2cd85628c92ddfb64 (diff) | |
parent | 5e00439f0a522c6f240791b0d105a17e0dde3247 (diff) | |
download | git-66afe50b439e4d83679d12639dd084bcab0486f0.tar.gz git-66afe50b439e4d83679d12639dd084bcab0486f0.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ta/doc-cleanup' into maint
* ta/doc-cleanup:
Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt
Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1
Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
20 files changed, 134 insertions, 68 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index b81df682d..fe9a91d6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -24,8 +24,30 @@ SP_ARTICLES = user-manual SP_ARTICLES += howto/revert-branch-rebase SP_ARTICLES += howto/using-merge-subtree SP_ARTICLES += howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request +SP_ARTICLES += howto/use-git-daemon +SP_ARTICLES += howto/update-hook-example +SP_ARTICLES += howto/setup-git-server-over-http +SP_ARTICLES += howto/separating-topic-branches +SP_ARTICLES += howto/revert-a-faulty-merge +SP_ARTICLES += howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object +SP_ARTICLES += howto/rebuild-from-update-hook +SP_ARTICLES += howto/rebuild-from-update-hook +SP_ARTICLES += howto/rebase-from-internal-branch +SP_ARTICLES += howto/maintain-git API_DOCS = $(patsubst %.txt,%,$(filter-out technical/api-index-skel.txt technical/api-index.txt, $(wildcard technical/api-*.txt))) SP_ARTICLES += $(API_DOCS) + +TECH_DOCS = technical/index-format +TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-format +TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-heuristics +TECH_DOCS += technical/pack-protocol +TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-capabilities +TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-common +TECH_DOCS += technical/racy-git +TECH_DOCS += technical/send-pack-pipeline +TECH_DOCS += technical/shallow +TECH_DOCS += technical/trivial-merge +SP_ARTICLES += $(TECH_DOCS) SP_ARTICLES += technical/api-index DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES)) @@ -231,7 +253,7 @@ clean: $(RM) *.texi *.texi+ *.texi++ git.info gitman.info $(RM) *.pdf $(RM) howto-index.txt howto/*.html doc.dep - $(RM) technical/api-*.html technical/api-index.txt + $(RM) technical/*.html technical/api-index.txt $(RM) $(cmds_txt) *.made $(RM) manpage-base-url.xsl @@ -264,7 +286,7 @@ technical/api-index.txt: technical/api-index-skel.txt \ $(QUIET_GEN)cd technical && '$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)' ./api-index.sh technical/%.html: ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-relative-html-prefix=../ -$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index): %.html : %.txt +$(patsubst %,%.html,$(API_DOCS) technical/api-index $(TECH_DOCS)): %.html : %.txt $(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(ASCIIDOC) -b xhtml11 -f asciidoc.conf \ $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) -agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION) $*.txt diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index 8a2ba3790..ec4497e09 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Date: Sat May 3 11:59:44 2008 -0700 Linux 2.6.26-rc1 -:100644 100644 5cf8258195331a4dbdddff08b8d68642638eea57 4492984efc09ab72ff6219a7bc21fb6a957c4cd5 M Makefile +:100644 100644 5cf82581... 4492984e... M Makefile ------------- At this point we can see what the commit does, check it out (if it's @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ Date: Sat May 3 11:59:44 2008 -0700 Linux 2.6.26-rc1 -:100644 100644 5cf8258195331a4dbdddff08b8d68642638eea57 4492984efc09ab72ff6219a7bc21fb6a957c4cd5 M Makefile +:100644 100644 5cf82581... 4492984e... M Makefile bisect run success ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 474fa307a..8c751202d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] +'git fetch-pack' [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag] + [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>] + [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress] + [-v] [<host>:]<directory> [<refs>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt index 8823a3706..ea6e4a52c 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Abstract: Imagine that git development is racing along as usual, when our friend neighborhood maintainer is struck down by a wayward bus. Out of the hordes of suckers (loyal developers), you have been tricked (chosen) to step up as the new maintainer. This howto will show you "how to" do it. +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to maintain Git +=================== The maintainer's git time is spent on three activities. diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt index 74a1c0c4b..4627ee47f 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt @@ -8,7 +8,12 @@ Abstract: In this article, JC talks about how he rebases the the "master" branch, and how "rebase" works. Also discussed is how this applies to individual developers who sends patches upstream. +Content-type: text/asciidoc +How to rebase from an internal branch +===================================== + +-------------------------------------- Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes: > Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:57:13AM CEST, I got a letter @@ -19,6 +24,7 @@ Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes: >> > branch to the real branches. >> > Actually, wouldn't this be also precisely for what StGIT is intended to? +-------------------------------------- Exactly my feeling. I was sort of waiting for Catalin to speak up. With its basing philosophical ancestry on quilt, this is @@ -156,8 +162,3 @@ you continue on starting from the new "master" head, which is the #1' commit. -jc - -- -To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in -the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org -More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt index 48c67568d..00c1b45b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:19:10 -0700 Abstract: In this how-to article, JC talks about how he uses the post-update hook to automate git documentation page shown at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to rebuild from update hook +=============================== The pages under http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ are built from Documentation/ directory of the git.git project diff --git a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt index 323b513ed..748473532 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt @@ -3,11 +3,17 @@ From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Subject: corrupt object on git-gc Abstract: Some tricks to reconstruct blob objects in order to fix a corrupted repository. +Content-type: text/asciidoc +How to recover a corrupted blob object +====================================== + +----------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Yossi Leybovich wrote: > > Did not help still the repository look for this object? > Any one know how can I track this object and understand which file is it +----------------------------------------------------------- So exactly *because* the SHA1 hash is cryptographically secure, the hash itself doesn't actually tell you anything, in order to fix a corrupt @@ -31,19 +37,23 @@ original object, so right now the corrupt object is useless, but it's very interesting for the future, in the hope that you can re-create a non-corrupt version. +----------------------------------------------------------- So: > ib]$ mv .git/objects/4b/9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200 ../ +----------------------------------------------------------- This is the right thing to do, although it's usually best to save it under it's full SHA1 name (you just dropped the "4b" from the result ;). Let's see what that tells us: +----------------------------------------------------------- > ib]$ git-fsck --full > broken link from tree 2d9263c6d23595e7cb2a21e5ebbb53655278dff8 > to blob 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200 > missing blob 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200 +----------------------------------------------------------- Ok, I removed the "dangling commit" messages, because they are just messages about the fact that you probably have rebased etc, so they're not diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt index 6fd711996..8a685483f 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Abstract: Sometimes a branch that was already merged to the mainline after the offending branch is fixed. Message-ID: <7vocz8a6zk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812181949450.14014@localhost.localdomain> +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to revert a faulty merge +============================ Alan <alan@clueserver.org> said: diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt index 093c65604..a59ced8d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:39:02 -0700 Content-type: text/asciidoc Message-ID: <7voe7g3uop.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> -Reverting an existing commit -============================ +How to revert an existing commit +================================ One of the changes I pulled into the 'master' branch turns out to break building GIT with GCC 2.95. While they were well intentioned diff --git a/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt b/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt index 6d3eb8ed0..bd1027433 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/separating-topic-branches.txt @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Subject: Separating topic branches Abstract: In this article, JC describes how to separate topic branches. +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to separate topic branches +============================== This text was originally a footnote to a discussion about the behaviour of the git diff commands. diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt index 622ee5c8d..a695f01f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ From: Rutger Nijlunsing <rutger@nospam.com> Subject: Setting up a git repository which can be pushed into and pulled from over HTTP(S). Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:00:26 +0200 +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to setup git server over http +================================= Since Apache is one of those packages people like to compile themselves while others prefer the bureaucrat's dream Debian, it is diff --git a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt index b7f8d416d..a5193b1e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/update-hook-example.txt @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Message-ID: <7vfypumlu3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Abstract: An example hooks/update script is presented to implement repository maintenance policies, such as who can push into which branch and who can make a tag. +Content-type: text/asciidoc + +How to use the update hook +========================== When your developer runs git-push into the repository, git-receive-pack is run (either locally or over ssh) as that @@ -32,8 +36,7 @@ like this as your hooks/update script. [jc: editorial note. This is a much improved version by Carl since I posted the original outline] --- >8 -- beginning of script -- >8 -- - +---------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash umask 002 @@ -111,12 +114,12 @@ then info "Found matching head pattern: '$head_pattern'" for user_pattern in $user_patterns; do - info "Checking user: '$username' against pattern: '$user_pattern'" - matchlen=$(expr "$username" : "$user_pattern") - if test "$matchlen" = "${#username}" - then - grant "Allowing user: '$username' with pattern: '$user_pattern'" - fi + info "Checking user: '$username' against pattern: '$user_pattern'" + matchlen=$(expr "$username" : "$user_pattern") + if test "$matchlen" = "${#username}" + then + grant "Allowing user: '$username' with pattern: '$user_pattern'" + fi done deny "The user is not in the access list for this branch" done @@ -149,13 +152,13 @@ then info "Found matching head pattern: '$head_pattern'" for group_pattern in $group_patterns; do - for groupname in $groups; do - info "Checking group: '$groupname' against pattern: '$group_pattern'" - matchlen=$(expr "$groupname" : "$group_pattern") - if test "$matchlen" = "${#groupname}" - then - grant "Allowing group: '$groupname' with pattern: '$group_pattern'" - fi + for groupname in $groups; do + info "Checking group: '$groupname' against pattern: '$group_pattern'" + matchlen=$(expr "$groupname" : "$group_pattern") + if test "$matchlen" = "${#groupname}" + then + grant "Allowing group: '$groupname' with pattern: '$group_pattern'" + fi done done deny "None of the user's groups are in the access list for this branch" @@ -169,24 +172,21 @@ then fi deny >/dev/null "There are no more rules to check. Denying access" - --- >8 -- end of script -- >8 -- +---------------------------------------------------- This uses two files, $GIT_DIR/info/allowed-users and allowed-groups, to describe which heads can be pushed into by whom. The format of each file would look like this: - refs/heads/master junio - +refs/heads/pu junio - refs/heads/cogito$ pasky - refs/heads/bw/.* linus - refs/heads/tmp/.* .* - refs/tags/v[0-9].* junio + refs/heads/master junio + +refs/heads/pu junio + refs/heads/cogito$ pasky + refs/heads/bw/.* linus + refs/heads/tmp/.* .* + refs/tags/v[0-9].* junio With this, Linus can push or create "bw/penguin" or "bw/zebra" or "bw/panda" branches, Pasky can do only "cogito", and JC can do master and pu branches and make versioned tags. And anybody can do tmp/blah branches. The '+' sign at the pu record means that JC can make non-fast-forward pushes on it. - ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt index 4e2f75cb6..23cdf3543 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ +Content-type: text/asciidoc + How to use git-daemon +===================== Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a git server diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt index 98c0033a5..00f693bde 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ Abstract: Beginning v1.7.9, a contributor can push a signed tag to her later validate it. Content-type: text/asciidoc -Using signed tag in pull requests -================================= +How to use a signed tag in pull requests +======================================== A typical distributed workflow using Git is for a contributor to fork a project, build on it, publish the result to her public repository, and ask diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 9d25b3017..57d6f915b 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ GIT index format ================ -= The git index file has the following format +== The git index file has the following format All binary numbers are in network byte order. Version 2 is described here unless stated otherwise. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index 1803e64e4..a7871fb86 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ GIT pack format =============== -= pack-*.pack files have the following format: +== pack-*.pack files have the following format: - A header appears at the beginning and consists of the following: @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ GIT pack format - The trailer records 20-byte SHA1 checksum of all of the above. -= Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: +== Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: - The header consists of 256 4-byte network byte order integers. N-th entry of this table records the number of @@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ Pack file entry: <+ -= Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and - have some other reorganizations. They have the format: +== Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and + have some other reorganizations. They have the format: - A 4-byte magic number '\377tOc' which is an unreasonable fanout[0] value. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index d51e20f35..f1a51edf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ A few things to remember here: - The repository path is always quoted with single quotes. Fetching Data From a Server -=========================== +--------------------------- When one Git repository wants to get data that a second repository has, the first can 'fetch' from the second. This operation determines @@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ with the object name that each reference currently points to. $ echo -e -n "0039git-upload-pack /schacon/gitbook.git\0host=example.com\0" | nc -v example.com 9418 - 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag + 00887217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 HEAD\0multi_ack thin-pack + side-band side-band-64k ofs-delta shallow no-progress include-tag 00441d3fcd5ced445d1abc402225c0b8a1299641f497 refs/heads/integration 003f7217a7c7e582c46cec22a130adf4b9d7d950fba0 refs/heads/master 003cb88d2441cac0977faf98efc80305012112238d9d refs/tags/v0.9 @@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ entire packfile without multiplexing. Pushing Data To a Server -======================== +------------------------ Pushing data to a server will invoke the 'receive-pack' process on the server, which will allow the client to tell it which references it should diff --git a/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt b/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt index 681efe421..9b5a0bc18 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -git-send-pack -============= +Git-send-pack internals +======================= Overall operation ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt index 559263af4..0502a5471 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ -Def.: Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow +Shallow commits +=============== + +.Definition +********************************************************* +Shallow commits do have parents, but not in the shallow repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that these commits have no parents. +********************************************************* The basic idea is to write the SHA1s of shallow commits into $GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents diff --git a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt index 24c84100b..c79d4a7c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt @@ -74,24 +74,24 @@ For multiple ancestors, a '+' means that this case applies even if only one ancestor or remote fits; a '^' means all of the ancestors must be the same. -case ancest head remote result ----------------------------------------- -1 (empty)+ (empty) (empty) (empty) -2ALT (empty)+ *empty* remote remote -2 (empty)^ (empty) remote no merge -3ALT (empty)+ head *empty* head -3 (empty)^ head (empty) no merge -4 (empty)^ head remote no merge -5ALT * head head head -6 ancest+ (empty) (empty) no merge -8 ancest^ (empty) ancest no merge -7 ancest+ (empty) remote no merge -10 ancest^ ancest (empty) no merge -9 ancest+ head (empty) no merge -16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge -13 ancest+ head ancest head -14 ancest+ ancest remote remote -11 ancest+ head remote no merge + case ancest head remote result + ---------------------------------------- + 1 (empty)+ (empty) (empty) (empty) + 2ALT (empty)+ *empty* remote remote + 2 (empty)^ (empty) remote no merge + 3ALT (empty)+ head *empty* head + 3 (empty)^ head (empty) no merge + 4 (empty)^ head remote no merge + 5ALT * head head head + 6 ancest+ (empty) (empty) no merge + 8 ancest^ (empty) ancest no merge + 7 ancest+ (empty) remote no merge + 10 ancest^ ancest (empty) no merge + 9 ancest+ head (empty) no merge + 16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge + 13 ancest+ head ancest head + 14 ancest+ ancest remote remote + 11 ancest+ head remote no merge Only #2ALT and #3ALT use *empty*, because these are the only cases where there can be conflicts that didn't exist before. Note that we |