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-rw-r--r--Documentation/.gitignore2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt2
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/cat-texi.perl2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cat-file.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pull.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gittutorial.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pretty-formats.txt22
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt15
8 files changed, 37 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/.gitignore b/Documentation/.gitignore
index 2f938f471..d8edd9040 100644
--- a/Documentation/.gitignore
+++ b/Documentation/.gitignore
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
*.html
*.[1-8]
*.made
+*.texi
git.info
+gitman.info
howto-index.txt
doc.dep
cmds-*.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
index a79e4b939..ac4881e19 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
* "git init --bare" is a synonym for "git --bare init" now.
-* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-aut-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
+* "git gc --auto" honors a new pre-auto-gc hook to temporarily disable it.
* "git log --pretty=tformat:<custom format>" gives a LF after each entry,
instead of giving a LF between each pair of entries which is how
diff --git a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
index e3d8e9faa..dbc133cd3 100755
--- a/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
+++ b/Documentation/cat-texi.perl
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ while (<STDIN>) {
if (s/^\@top (.*)/\@node $1,,,Top/) {
push @menu, $1;
}
- s/\(\@pxref{\[URLS\]}\)//;
+ s/\(\@pxref{\[(URLS|REMOTES)\]}\)//;
print TMP;
}
close TMP;
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 3f77dbd10..f58013ca6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects
SYNOPSIS
--------
+[verse]
'git-cat-file' [-t | -s | -e | -p | <type>] <object>
'git-cat-file' [--batch | --batch-check] < <list-of-objects>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index 5f55f6494..d0f1595f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ include::merge-options.txt[]
for branch `<name>`, set configuration `branch.<name>.rebase`
to `true`.
+
-*NOTE:* This is a potentially _dangerous_ mode of operation.
+[NOTE]
+This is a potentially _dangerous_ mode of operation.
It rewrites history, which does not bode well when you
published that history already. Do *not* use this option
unless you have read linkgit:git-rebase[1] carefully.
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index 9563a632e..d465aab64 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ newly modified content to the index. Finally, commit your changes with:
$ git commit
------------------------------------------------
-This will again prompt your for a message describing the change, and then
+This will again prompt you for a message describing the change, and then
record a new version of the project.
Alternatively, instead of running `git add` beforehand, you can use
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index e8bea3e18..ec3755579 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -124,3 +124,25 @@ The placeholders are:
- '%m': left, right or boundary mark
- '%n': newline
- '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
+
+* 'tformat:'
++
+The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it
+provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
+other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a
+newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries.
+This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly
+terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format does.
+For example:
++
+---------------------
+$ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
+ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
+
+$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
+ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973
+---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index bfde507e0..64a820bf6 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1254,16 +1254,15 @@ these three "file stages" represents a different version of the file:
-------------------------------------------------
$ git show :1:file.txt # the file in a common ancestor of both branches
-$ git show :2:file.txt # the version from HEAD, but including any
- # nonconflicting changes from MERGE_HEAD
-$ git show :3:file.txt # the version from MERGE_HEAD, but including any
- # nonconflicting changes from HEAD.
+$ git show :2:file.txt # the version from HEAD.
+$ git show :3:file.txt # the version from MERGE_HEAD.
-------------------------------------------------
-Since the stage 2 and stage 3 versions have already been updated with
-nonconflicting changes, the only remaining differences between them are
-the important ones; thus linkgit:git-diff[1] can use the information in
-the index to show only those conflicts.
+When you ask linkgit:git-diff[1] to show the conflicts, it runs a
+three-way diff between the conflicted merge results in the work tree with
+stages 2 and 3 to show only hunks whose contents come from both sides,
+mixed (in other words, when a hunk's merge results come only from stage 2,
+that part is not conflicting and is not shown. Same for stage 3).
The diff above shows the differences between the working-tree version of
file.txt and the stage 2 and stage 3 versions. So instead of preceding