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* Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2011-08-30
|\ | | | | | | | | * maint: Documentation: clarify effects of -- <path> arguments
| * Documentation: clarify effects of -- <path> argumentsThomas Rast2011-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'git log -- <path>' does not "show commits that affect the specified paths" in a literal sense unless --full-history is given (for example, a file that only existed on a side branch will turn up no commits at all!). Reword it to specify the actual intent of the filtering, and point to the "History Simplification" section. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | docs: put listed example commands in backticksJeff King2011-08-04
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of special characters. Some manpages make a list of examples, like: git foo:: Run git foo. git foo -q:: Use the "-q" option. to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be difficult). This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without character interpretation). As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which "git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list, and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sectionsMartin von Zweigbergk2011-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse] does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections for consistency. Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting within the document more consistent. While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with other commands. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* log/pretty-options: Document --[no-]notes and deprecate old notes optionsJohan Herland2011-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | Document the behavior or the new --notes, --notes=<ref> and --no-notes options, and list --show-notes[=<ref>] and --[no-]standard-notes options as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'mg/rev-list-n-reverse-doc'Junio C Hamano2011-03-19
|\ | | | | | | | | | | * mg/rev-list-n-reverse-doc: git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper order git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limiting
| * git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper orderMichael J Gruber2011-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Match the order of the description to the one in which they get applied: commit limiting commit ordering commit formatting diff options Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limitingMichael J Gruber2011-03-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They are applied after commit ordering and formatting options, in particular --reverse. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> 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.
* Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"Matthieu Moy2010-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something". See discussion in e.g. http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com for more details. This patch is a straightforward application of perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/' except in the RelNotes directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7Jonathan Nieder2010-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML documentation. In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a hard copy of the git reference manual. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation/git-log: Clarify --full-diffMichael J Gruber2010-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | The current description gives the impression that "--full-diff" affects "log -p" only. Make it clearer that it affects all diff-based output types. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'eb/doc-log-manpage'Junio C Hamano2010-07-15
|\ | | | | | | | | * eb/doc-log-manpage: Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.
| * Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.Eli Barzilay2010-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This will reduce considerably the common confusion where people miss the `--follow' option, and wonder why `-M'/`-C' is not working. * Move the diff options include to after the log-specific flags, and add a "Common diff options" subtitle before them. (These options apply only when patches are shown, which is not a common use case among newbies, so having them first is confusing.) * Move the `--follow' description to the top of the listed options. The options before that seem less important: `--full-diff' applies only when patches are shown, `--source' and `--decorate' are less useful with many common commit specifications. * Clarify that `--follow' works only for a single path argument. Signed-off-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parseMichael J Gruber2010-07-05
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes. Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except - when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or - in very technical context (git-send-pack). Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jn/notes-doc'Junio C Hamano2010-06-13
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jn/notes-doc: Documentation/notes: nitpicks Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configuration Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refs Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref Documentation/notes: add configuration section Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobs Documentation/notes: document format of notes trees
| * Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION sectionJonathan Nieder2010-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a configuration section summarizing variables that affect the log family of commands. Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'by/log-follow'Junio C Hamano2010-05-21
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * by/log-follow: tests: rename duplicate t4205 Make git log --follow find copies among unmodified files. Make diffcore_std only can run once before a diff_flush Add a macro DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR.
| * | Make git log --follow find copies among unmodified files.Bo Yang2010-05-07
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'git log --follow <path>' don't track copies from unmodified files, and this patch fix it. Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'sd/log-decorate'Junio C Hamano2010-05-08
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * sd/log-decorate: log.decorate: only ignore it under "log --pretty=raw" script with rev-list instead of log log --pretty/--oneline: ignore log.decorate log.decorate: usability fixes Add `log.decorate' configuration variable. git_config_maybe_bool() Conflicts: builtin/log.c
| * log.decorate: usability fixesJunio C Hamano2010-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The configuration is meant to suppliment --decorate command line option that can be used as a boolean to turn the feature on, so it is natural to expect [log] decorate decorate = yes to work. The original commit would segfault with the first one, and would not understand the second one. Once a user has this configuration in ~/.gitconfig, there needs to be a way to override it from the command line. Add --no-decorate option to log family and also allow --decorate=no to mean the same thing. Since we allow setting log.decorate to 'true', the command line also should accept --decorate=yes and behave accordingly. New tests in t4202 are designed to exercise the interaction between the configuration variable and the command line option that overrides it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | git log -p -m: document -m and honor --first-parentPetr Baudis2010-02-12
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git log -p -m is used to show one merge entry per parent, with an appropriate diff; this can be useful when examining histories where full set of changes introduced by a merged branch is interesting, not only the conflicts. This patch properly documents the -m switch, which has so far been mentioned only as a fairly special diff-tree flag. It also makes the code show full patch entry only for the first parent when --first-parent is used. Thus: git log -p -m --first-parent will show the history from the "main branch perspective", while also including full diff of changes introduced by other merged in branches. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'il/rev-glob'Junio C Hamano2010-01-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * il/rev-glob: Documentation: improve description of --glob=pattern and friends rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=pattern rev-parse --glob
| * rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=patternIlari Liusvaara2010-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in manner similar to --glob option. With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?" as: 'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin' Original-idea-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * rev-parse --globIlari Liusvaara2010-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic). Example: 'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin' To show what you have that origin doesn't. 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.
* git-log: allow --decorate[=short|full]Lars Hjemli2009-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit de435ac0 changed the behavior of --decorate from printing the full ref (e.g., "refs/heads/master") to a shorter, more human-readable version (e.g., just "master"). While this is nice for human readers, external tools using the output from "git log" may prefer the full version. This patch introduces an extension to --decorate to allow the caller to specify either the short or the full versions. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Document "git log --source"Nanako Shiraishi2008-11-11
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Improve git-log documentation wrt file filtersmartin f. krafft2008-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | The need for "--" in the git-log synopsis was previously unclear and confusing. This patch makes it a little clearer. Thanks to hyy <yiyihu@gmail.com> for his help. [sp: Changed -- to \-- per prior commit e1ccf53.] Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
* Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSISAbhijit Menon-Sen2008-07-30
| | | | | | | | | When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural) are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Clarify that "git log x.c y.h" lists commits that touch either fileAbhijit Menon-Sen2008-07-27
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder2008-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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>
* 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>
* Include rev-list options in git-log manpage.Miklos Vajna2008-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the "This manual page describes only the most frequently used options." text with the list of rev-list options in git-log manpage. (The git-diff-tree options are already included.) Move these options to a separate file and include it from both git-rev-list.txt and git-log.txt. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.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>
* Fix documentation of --first-parent in git-log and copy it to git-rev-listJunio C Hamano2007-12-26
| | | | | | | Credit goes to Avi Kivity for noticing the lack of description in rev-list manual page. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Include diff options in the git-log manpageMiklos Vajna2007-12-05
| | | | | | | [jc: with quite a few fixups] Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Porcelain level "log" family should recurse when diffing.Junio C Hamano2007-08-28
| | | | | | | Most notably, "git log --name-status" stopped at top level directory changes without "-r" option. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Don't allow combination of -g and --reverse as it doesn't workShawn O. Pearce2007-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The --walk-reflogs logic and the --reverse logic are completely incompatible with one another. Attempting to use both at the same time leads to confusing results that sometimes violates the user's formatting options or ignores the user's request to see the reflog message and timestamp. Unfortunately the implementation of both of these features is glued onto the side of the revision walking machinary in such a way that they are probably not going to be easy to make them compatible with each other. Rather than offering the user confusing results we are better off bailing out with an error message until such a time as the implementations can be refactored to be compatible. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add --log-size to git log to print message sizeMarco Costalba2007-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this option git-log prints log message size just before the corresponding message. Porcelain tools could use this to speedup parsing of git-log output. Note that size refers to log message only. If also patch content is shown its size is not included. In case it is not possible to know the size upfront size value is set to zero. Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation for git-log --followSteven Walter2007-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | After vainly searching the Documentation for how to follow renames, I finally broke down and grepped the source. It would appear that Linus didn't add write and docs for this feature when he wrote it. The following patch rectifies that, hopefully sparing future users from resorting to the source code. Signed-off-by: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Document git log --full-diffJakub Narebski2007-06-16
| | | | | | | | Based on description of commit 477f2b41310c4b1040a9e7f72720b9c39d82caf9 "git log --full-diff" adding this option. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Use tabs for indenting definition list for options in git-log.txtJakub Narebski2007-06-16
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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: Split description of pretty formats of commit logJakub Narebski2007-05-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options (--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS" section in pretty-formats.txt While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and git-diff-tree(1). Those manpages now include pretty options in the same place as it was before, and description of formats just after all options. Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies: Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Document 'git-log --decorate'Michael Hendricks2007-05-10
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Document -g (--walk-reflogs) option of git-logAlex Riesen2007-04-15
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Document git-log --first-parentJunio C Hamano2007-03-27
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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