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* Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2010-04-17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint: t1010-mktree: Adjust expected result to code and documentation combined diff: correctly handle truncated file Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -d
| * Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -dJonathan Nieder2010-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v1.7.0-rc0~18^2 (branch -d: base the "already-merged" safety on the branch it merges with, 2009-12-29) taught ‘git branch’ a new heuristic for when it is safe to delete a branch without forcing the issue. It is safe to delete a branch "topic" without second thought if: - the branch "topic" is set up to pull from a (remote-tracking, usually) branch and is fully merged in that "upstream" branch, or - there is no branch.topic.merge configuration and branch "topic" is fully merged in the current HEAD. Update the man page to acknowledge the new rules. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2010-04-08
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | * maint: docs: clarify "branch -l"
| * docs: clarify "branch -l"Jeff King2010-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This option is mostly useless these days because we turn on reflogs by default in non-bare repos. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Add an optional argument for --color optionsMark Lodato2010-02-18
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make git-branch, git-show-branch, git-grep, and all the diff-based programs accept an optional argument <when> for --color. The argument is a colorbool: "always", "never", or "auto". If no argument is given, "always" is used; --no-color is an alias for --color=never. This makes the command-line interface consistent with other GNU tools, such as `ls' and `grep', and with the git-config color options. Note that, without an argument, --color and --no-color work exactly as before. To implement this, two internal changes were made: 1. Allow the first argument of git_config_colorbool() to be NULL, in which case it returns -1 if the argument isn't "always", "never", or "auto". 2. Add OPT_COLOR_FLAG(), OPT__COLOR(), and parse_opt_color_flag_cb() to the option parsing library. The callback uses git_config_colorbool(), so color.h is now a dependency of parse-options.c. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'il/branch-set-upstream'Junio C Hamano2010-01-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | * il/branch-set-upstream: branch: warn and refuse to set a branch as a tracking branch of itself. Add branch --set-upstream
| * Add branch --set-upstreamIlari Liusvaara2010-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add --set-upstream option to branch that works like --track, except that when branch exists already, its upstream info is changed without changing the ref value. Based-on-patch-from: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | 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.
* Documentation: clarify branch creationJonathan Nieder2009-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not the most common case. More often, "git branch" is used to begin a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting commit (e.g. origin/pu^2). Clarify the language so it can apply to these cases. Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording. Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: branch: update --merged descriptionJonathan Nieder2009-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | Update the documentation for --merged and --no-merged to explain the meaning of the optional parameter introduced in commit 049716b (branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit, 2008-07-08). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* UI consistency: allow --force for where -f means forceRené Scharfe2009-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | git branch, checkout, clean, mv and tag all have an option -f to override certain checks. This patch makes them accept the long option --force as a synonym. While we're at it, document that checkout support --quiet as synonym for its short option -q. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: consistently refer to check-ref-formatNanako Shiraishi2009-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change the <name> placeholder to <tagname> in the SYNOPSIS section of git-tag documentation, and describe it in the OPTIONS section in a way similar to how documentation for git-branch does. Add SEE ALSO section to list the other documentation pages these two pages refer to. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* allow -t abbreviation for --track in git branchSitaram Chamarty2009-05-09
| | | | | | also makes it consistent with git-checkout Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: refer to tracking configuration as "upstream"Jeff King2009-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The term "tracking" often creates confusion between remote tracking branches and local branches which track a remote branch. The term "upstream" captures more clearly the idea of "branch A is based on branch B in some way", so it makes sense to mention it. At the same time, upstream branches are used for more than just git-pull these days; let's mention that here. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: clarify --no-track optionJeff King2009-04-13
| | | | | | | | | It is not really about ignoring the config option; it is about turning off tracking, _even if_ the config option is set. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* branch: show upstream branch when double verboseJeff King2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | This information is easily accessible when we are calculating the relationship. The only reason not to print it all the time is that it consumes a fair bit of screen space, and may not be of interest to the user. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'dm/maint-docco'Junio C Hamano2009-03-21
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * dm/maint-docco: Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt. Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt. Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.
| * Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt.David J. Mellor2009-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | git-branch.txt: document -f correctlyMichael J Gruber2009-03-17
|/ | | | | | | | 'git branch -f a b' resets a to b when a exists, rather then deleting a. Say so in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> 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>
* Merge branch 'jc/branch-merged'Junio C Hamano2008-07-14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jc/branch-merged: branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit branch --contains: default to HEAD parse-options: add PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT flag Conflicts: Documentation/git-branch.txt
| * branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commitJunio C Hamano2008-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git-branch --merged" is a handy way to list all the branches that have already been merged to the current branch, but it did not allow checking against anything but the current branch. Having to switch branches only to list the branches that are merged with another branch made the feature practically useless. This updates the option parser so that "git branch --merged next" is accepted when you are on 'master' branch. 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>
* git-branch.txt: compare --contains, --merged and --no-mergedLars Hjemli2008-04-20
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git-branch: add support for --merged and --no-mergedLars Hjemli2008-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These options filter the output from git branch to only include branches whose tip is either merged or not merged into HEAD. The use-case for these options is when working with integration of branches from many remotes: `git branch --no-merged -a` will show a nice list of merge candidates while `git branch --merged -a` will show the progress of your integration work. Also, a plain `git branch --merged` is a quick way to find local branches which you might want to delete. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: documentation update for the branch track changesJay Soffian2008-02-19
| | | | | | | | Documents the branch.autosetupmerge=always setting and usage of --track when branching from a local branch. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> 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>
* Merge branch 'jc/branch-contains'Junio C Hamano2007-12-01
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * jc/branch-contains: git-branch --contains: doc and test git-branch --contains=commit parse-options: Allow to hide options from the default usage.
| * git-branch --contains: doc and testJunio C Hamano2007-11-22
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2007-11-28
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | * maint: scripts: do not get confused with HEAD in work tree Improve description of git-branch -d and -D in man page.
| * Improve description of git-branch -d and -D in man page.Jan Hudec2007-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some users expect that deleting a remote-tracking branch would prevent fetch from creating it again, so be explcit about that it's not the case. Also be a little more explicit about what fully merged means. Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2007-11-12
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint: for-each-ref: fix off by one read. git-branch: remove mention of non-existent '-b' option git-svn: prevent dcommitting if the index is dirty. Fix memory leak in traverse_commit_list
| * git-branch: remove mention of non-existent '-b' optionJeff King2007-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This looks like a cut and paste error from the git-checkout explanation of --no-track. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Update manpages to reflect new short and long option aliasesJonas Fonseca2007-10-29
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branchFederico Mena Quintero2007-10-02
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add documentation for --track and --no-track to the git-branch docs.Federico Mena Quintero2007-10-02
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Try to be consistent with capitalization in the documentationSteve Hoelzer2007-08-01
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fix git-branch documentation when using remote refsFrancis Moreau2007-07-16
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: minor cleanups to branch/checkout wordingJeff King2007-07-02
| | | | | | | | | Change "to made" to "made to", which is a typo. Use "reflog" instead of "ref log", which is used elsewhere throughout the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: quote {non-attributes} for asciidocJeff King2007-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Asciidoc treats {foo} as an attribute to be substituted; if 'foo' doesn't exist as an attribute, then the entire line gets dropped. When the literal {foo} is desired, \{foo} is required. The exceptions to this rule are: - inside literal blocks - if the 'foo' contains non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., {foo|bar} is assumed not to be an attribute) Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* War on whitespaceJunio C Hamano2007-06-07
| | | | | | | | | This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/branch: fix small typo in -D exampleQuy Tonthat2007-05-14
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Quy Tonthat <qtonthat@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-branch, git-checkout: autosetup for remote branch trackingPaolo Bonzini2007-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to track and build on top of a branch 'topic' you track from your upstream repository, you often would end up doing this sequence: git checkout -b mytopic origin/topic git config --add branch.mytopic.remote origin git config --add branch.mytopic.merge refs/heads/topic This would first fork your own 'mytopic' branch from the 'topic' branch you track from the 'origin' repository; then it would set up two configuration variables so that 'git pull' without parameters does the right thing while you are on your own 'mytopic' branch. This commit adds a --track option to git-branch, so that "git branch --track mytopic origin/topic" performs the latter two actions when creating your 'mytopic' branch. If the configuration variable branch.autosetupmerge is set to true, you do not have to pass the --track option explicitly; further patches in this series allow setting the variable with a "git remote add" option. The configuration variable is off by default, and there is a --no-track option to countermand it even if the variable is set. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-branch: document new --no-abbrev optionJulian Phillips2007-03-02
| | | | | | | Add the new --no-abbrev option to the man page for the git-branch command. Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page titleJunio C Hamano2007-01-18
| | | | | | | Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted alphabetically. 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>
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