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* 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 For (1), they are out of date and incomplete.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 For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless.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.
* Use angles for placeholders consistentlyŠtěpán Němec2010-10-08
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jn/doc-backslash'Junio C Hamano2010-09-03
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jn/doc-backslash: Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion Documentation: remove stray backslashes from "Fighting regressions" article Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual Documentation: avoid stray backslashes in core tutorial Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manual Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manual Documentation: remove stray backslash from "git bundle" manual Documentation/technical: avoid stray backslash in parse-options API docs Documentation: remove backslashes in manpage synopses Documentation: clarify quoting in gitignore docs Documentation: clarify quoting in "git rm" example Documentation: add missing quotes to "git grep" examples Documentation: clarify quoting in "git add" example Documentation: unbreak regex in show-ref manual Documentation: quoting trouble in "git rm" discussion Documentation: tweak description of log.date
| * Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manualJonathan Nieder2010-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the {tilde} entity to get a literal tilde without fuss. With \~, asciidoc 8.5.2 (and probably earlier versions) keeps the backslash in the output. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | fast-export: Add a --full-tree optionElijah Newren2010-07-19
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This option adds symmetry with fast-import, enabling it to also work with complete trees instead of just incremental changes. It works by issuing a 'deleteall' directive with each commit and then listing the full set of files that make up that commit, rather than just showing the list of files that have changed since the (first) parent commit. Note that this functionality is automatically turned on when using --import-marks together with path limiting in order to avoid dropping important but unchanged files. This functionality is desired when using hand-written filters along with 'fast-export | some-filter | fast-import' as it can be easier to write <some-filter> in terms of complete trees than incremental changes. We could avoid the need to add this option by simply always turning it on. While the end result would be identical, it would slow things down slightly by printing many more filenames per commit which goes somewhat against the 'fast' in 'fast-export'. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fix typos in technical documentation.Ralf Wildenhues2010-01-31
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> 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.
* git fast-export: add --no-data optionGeoffrey Irving2009-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | When using git fast-export and git fast-import to rewrite the history of a repository with large binary files, almost all of the time is spent dealing with blobs. This is extremely inefficient if all we want to do is rewrite the commits and tree structure. --no-data skips the output of blobs and writes SHA-1s instead of marks, which provides a massive speedup. Signed-off-by: Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* fast-export: Document the fact that git-rev-list arguments are acceptedElijah Newren2009-06-27
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* fast-export: Add a --tag-of-filtered-object option for newly dangling tagsElijah Newren2009-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When providing a list of paths to limit what is exported, the object that a tag points to can be filtered out entirely. This new switch allows the user to specify what should happen to the tag in such a case. The default action, 'abort' will exit with an error message. With 'drop', the tag will simply be omitted from the output. With 'rewrite', if the object tagged was a commit, the tag will be modified to tag an alternate commit. The alternate commit is determined by treating the original commit as the "parent" of the tag and then using the parent rewriting algorithm of the revision traversal machinery (related to the "--parents" option of "git rev-list") Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'maint' to sync with GIT 1.6.0.6Junio C Hamano2008-12-19
|\ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * fast-export: deal with tag objects that do not have a taggerJohannes Schindelin2008-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When no tagger was found (old Git produced tags like this), no "tagger" line is printed (but this is incompatible with the current git fast-import). Alternatively, you can pass the option --fake-missing-tagger, forcing fast-export to fake a tagger Unspecified Tagger <no-tagger> with a tag date of the beginning of (Unix) time in the case of a missing tagger, so that fast-import is still able to import the result. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Improve language in git-merge.txt and related docsRalf Wildenhues2008-12-09
|/ | | | | | | Improve some minor language and format issues like hyphenation, phrases, spacing, word order, comma, attributes. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Support copy and rename detection in fast-export.Alexander Gavrilov2008-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | Although it does not matter for Git itself, tools that export to systems that explicitly track copies and renames can benefit from such information. This patch makes fast-export output correct action logs when -M or -C are enabled. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com> 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>
* builtin-fast-export: Add importing and exporting of revision marksPieter de Bie2008-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | This adds the --import-marks and --export-marks to fast-export. These import and export the marks used to for all revisions exported in a similar fashion to what fast-import does. The format is the same as fast-import, so you can create a bidirectional importer / exporter by using the same marks file on both sides. Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> 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>
* fast-export: rename the signed tag mode 'ignore' to 'verbatim'Johannes Schindelin2007-12-03
| | | | | | | | | The name 'verbatim' describes much better what this mode does with signed tags. While at it, fix the documentation what it actually does. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add 'git fast-export', the sister of 'git fast-import'Johannes Schindelin2007-12-02
This program dumps (parts of) a git repository in the format that fast-import understands. For clarity's sake, it does not use the 'inline' method of specifying blobs in the commits, but builds the blobs before building the commits. Since signed tags' signatures will not necessarily be valid (think transformations after the export, or excluding revisions, changing the history), there are 4 modes to handle them: abort (default), ignore, warn and strip. The latter just turns the tags into unsigned ones. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>