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* docs/git-blame: explain more clearly the example pickaxe useAlbert L. Lash, IV2014-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | We state that the following paragraph mentions the pickaxe interface, but the term pickaxe is not then used. This change clarifies that the example command uses the pickaxe interface and what it is searching for. Signed-off-by: Albert L. Lash, IV <alash3@bloomberg.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Correct word usage of "timezone" in "Documentation" directoryJason St. John2013-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct). Correct this in these files: -- date-formats.txt -- git-blame.txt -- git-cvsimport.txt -- git-fast-import.txt -- git-svn.txt -- gitweb.conf.txt -- rev-list-options.txt Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* blame: document multiple -L supportEric Sunshine2013-08-06
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcnameThomas Rast2013-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there up to (but not including) the next funcname. So you can say git log -L:main:main.c and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided there are no other funcnames matching 'main'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Thomas Ackermann2013-02-01
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git blame: document that it always follows origin across whole-file renamesJunio C Hamano2012-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make it clear to people who (rightly or wrongly) think that the "--follow" option should follow origin across while-file renames that we already do so. That would explain the output that they see when they do give the "--follow" option to the command. We may or may not want to do a "--no-follow" patch as a follow-up, but that is a separate topic. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literalJeff King2012-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* blame: add --line-porcelain output formatJeff King2011-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | This is just like --porcelain, except that we always output the commit information for each line, not just the first time it is referenced. This can make quick and dirty scripts much easier to write; see the example added to the blame documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* blame: add --abbrev command line option and make it honor core.abbrevNamhyung Kim2011-04-05
| | | | | | | | | If user sets config.abbrev option, use it as if --abbrev was given. This is the default value and user can override different abbrev length by specifying the --abbrev=N command line option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesJeff King2011-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* blame: Add option to show author email instead of nameKevin Ballard2010-10-19
| | | | | | | | | Add a new option -e (or --show-email) to git-blame that will display the author's email instead of name on each line. This option works for both git-blame and git-annotate. Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge remote branch 'remotes/trast-doc/for-next'Junio C Hamano2010-01-20
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * remotes/trast-doc/for-next: Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull" Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-config.txt Documentation/git-merge.txt
| * Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutThomas Rast2010-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
* | Document git-blame triple -C optionRamkumar Ramachandra2010-01-14
|/ | | | | | | Lift the explanation of -CCC option in the source to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt.David J. Mellor2009-03-17
| | | | | Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2009-02-19
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint: More friendly message when locking the index fails. Document git blame --reverse. Documentation: Note file formats send-email accepts
| * Document git blame --reverse.Matthieu Moy2009-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was introduced in 85af7929ee125385c2771fa4eaccfa2f29dc63c9 but not documented outside the commit message. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Move mailmap documentation into separate fileMarius Storm-Olsen2009-02-08
|/ | | | | | | | Include it directly from git-shortlog.txt, and refer to it from pretty-format.txt. Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Update my e-mail addressJunio C Hamano2008-07-21
| | | | | | The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder2008-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i" done git diff . Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder2008-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder2008-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsStephan Beyer2008-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list of the options a git command accepts. Currently there are several variants to describe the case that different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section. Some are: -f, --foo:: -f|--foo:: -f | --foo:: But AsciiDoc has the special form: -f:: --foo:: This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite, and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Christian Couder2008-06-06
| | | | | | | | As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee2008-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* git-blame -w: ignore whitespaceJunio C Hamano2007-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | When refactoring code to split one iteration of a too deeply nested loop into a separate function, it inevitably makes the indentation levels shallower (that's the sole point of such a refactoring). With "git blame -w", you can ignore such re-indentation and pass blame for such moved lines to the parent. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* blame -s: suppress author name and time.Junio C Hamano2007-04-29
| | | | | | | With this "git blame -b -s HEAD~n..HEAD" becomes a nicer way to review the result of recent changes in context. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Update git-annotate/git-blame documentationAndrew Ruder2007-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Moved options that pertained to both git-blame and git-annotate to a common file blame-options.txt. builtin-blame.c: Removed --compatibility, --long, --time from the short usage as they are not handled in the code. Documentation/git-blame.txt: Removed common options to git-annotate. Added documentation for --score-debug. Removed --compatibility. Adjusted usage at top to not wrap on 80 columns. Documentation/git-annotate.txt: Using common options blame-options.txt. Documentation/blame-options.txt: Added -b note about associated config option, added --root note about associated config option, added documentation for --show-stats. Removed --long, --time, --rev-file as those options do not really exist. Added documentation for -M/-C taking an optional score argument for detection of moved lines. Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* blame: document --contents optionJunio C Hamano2007-02-05
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Document 'git-blame --incremental'Junio C Hamano2007-01-28
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: m can be relative in "git-blame -Ln,m"Junio C Hamano2007-01-17
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: a few spelling fixesRené Scharfe2007-01-17
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: move blame examplesJunio C Hamano2006-11-09
| | | | | | | This moves the example to specify a line range with regexps to a later part of the manual page that has similar examples. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-pickaxe: retire pickaxeJunio C Hamano2006-11-08
| | | | | | | | | Just make it take over blame's place. Documentation and command have all stopped mentioning "git-pickaxe". The built-in synonym is left in the command table, so you can still say "git pickaxe", but it probably is a good idea to retire it as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* blame: Document and add help text for -f, -n, and -pJunio C Hamano2006-10-12
| | | | | | | | New options --show-name, --show-number and --porcelain were not documented. Also add -p as a short-hand for --porcelain for consistency. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-blame(1): mention options in the synopsis and advertise pickaxeJonas Fonseca2006-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | Inspired by the cvs annotate documentation improve and expand the man page to also mention the limitations of file annotations. Since people coming from the SVN/CVS world might first look here, also briefly advertise how the pickaxe interface makes it easy to go beyond these limitation. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* blame: Add --time to produce raw timestampsFredrik Kuivinen2006-06-16
| | | | | | | fix the usage string and clean up the docs while we are at it Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: Spelling fixesHorst H. von Brand2006-06-03
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Add git-annotate(1) and git-blame(1)Jonas Fonseca2006-04-18
[jc: with entries in git.txt] Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>