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* modernize fetch/merge/pull examplesClemens Buchacher2009-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and move the examples to the corresponding manpages. Furthermore, - show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a frequently asked question, - explain the default fetch refspec. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: clarify mergeoptions descriptionJonathan Nieder2009-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same" instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey the meaning better here.) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: git fmt-merge-msg does not have to be a scriptJonathan Nieder2009-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | The fmt-merge-message builtin can be invoked as "git fmt-merge-msg" rather than through the hard link in GIT_EXEC_PATH. Although this is unlikely to confuse most script writers, it should not hurt to make the documentation a little clearer anyway. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: merge: one <remote> is requiredPaul Bolle2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | merge only requires one <remote>, so "<remote>..." should be used in the synopsis (and not "<remote> <remote>..."). Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Grammar fix for "git merge" man pageWincent Colaiuta2009-03-26
| | | | | | | As spotted by the eagle eyes of Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Grammar fixes to "merge" and "patch-id" docsWincent Colaiuta2009-03-25
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: remove extra quoting/emphasis around literal textsChris Johnsen2009-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If literal text (asciidoc `...`) can be rendered in a differently from normal text for each output format (man, HTML), then we do not need extra quotes or other wrapping around inline literal text segments. config.txt Change '`...`' to `...`. In asciidoc, the single quotes provide emphasis, literal text should be distintive enough. Change "`...`" to `...`. These double quotes do not work if present in the described config value, so drop them. git-checkout.txt Change "`...`" to `...` or `"..."`. All instances are command line argument examples. One "`-`" becomes `-`. Two others are involve curly braces, so move the double quotes inside the literal region to indicate that they might need to be quoted on the command line of certain shells (tcsh). git-merge.txt Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are used to describe merge conflict markers. The quotes should are not important. git-rev-parse.txt Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances are around command line arguments where no in-shell quoting should be necessary. gitcli.txt Change `"..."` to `...`. All instances are around command line examples or single command arguments. They do not semanticly belong inside the literal text, and they are not needed outside it. glossary-content.txt user-manual.txt Change "`...`" to `...`. All instances were around command lines. Signed-off-by: Chris Johnsen <chris_johnsen@pobox.com> 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>
* Merge branch 'jc/better-conflict-resolution'Shawn O. Pearce2008-09-29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jc/better-conflict-resolution: Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentation git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presented checkout --conflict=<style>: recreate merge in a non-default style checkout -m: recreate merge when checking out of unmerged index git-merge-recursive: learn to honor merge.conflictstyle merge.conflictstyle: choose between "merge" and "diff3 -m" styles rerere: understand "diff3 -m" style conflicts with the original rerere.c: use symbolic constants to keep track of parsing states xmerge.c: "diff3 -m" style clips merge reduction level to EAGER or less xmerge.c: minimum readability fixups xdiff-merge: optionally show conflicts in "diff3 -m" style xdl_fill_merge_buffer(): separate out a too deeply nested function checkout --ours/--theirs: allow checking out one side of a conflicting merge checkout -f: allow ignoring unmerged paths when checking out of the index Conflicts: Documentation/git-checkout.txt builtin-checkout.c builtin-merge-recursive.c t/t7201-co.sh
| * Fix AsciiDoc errors in merge documentationJohan Herland2008-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the section on conflict markers, the "<<<<<<<" sequence is compiled by AsciiDoc into invalid XML. A way to resolve this is by inserting something between the last two characters in that sequence (i.e. between '<' and '"'). This patch encloses the conflict markers in backticks, which renders them in a monospace font (in the HTML version; the manual page is unaffected), and with the pleasant side-effect that it also fixes the AsciiDoc compile problem. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * git-merge documentation: describe how conflict is presentedJunio C Hamano2008-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We took it granted that everybody knows how to read the RCS merge style conflicts, and did not give illustrations in the documentation. Now we are introducing an alternative output style, it is time to document this. The lack of illustration has been bugging me for a long time. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | git-merge documentation: more details about resolving conflictsDan Hensgen2008-08-22
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Dan Hensgen <dan@methodhead.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* 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>
* 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>
* Documentation/git-merge.txt: Partial rewrite of How Merge WorksPetr Baudis2008-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The git-merge documentation's "HOW MERGE WORKS" section is confusingly composed and actually omits the most interesting part, the merging of the arguments into HEAD itself, surprisingly not actually mentioning the fast-forward merge anywhere. This patch replaces the "[NOTE]" screenful of highly technical details by a single sentence summing up the interesting information, and instead explains how are the arguments compared with HEAD and the three possible inclusion states that are named "Already up-to-date", "Fast-forward" and "True merge". It also makes it clear that the rest of the section talks only about the true merge situation, and slightly expands the talk on solving conflicts. Junio initiated the removal of the Note screenful altogether and offered many stylistical fixes. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebaseBrian Gernhardt2008-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we recently added it to am and rebase. These facts should be reflected in the documentation. git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in the very first example so no changes were needed there. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.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>
* 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>
* merge, pull: introduce '--(no-)stat' optionSZEDER Gábor2008-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | This option has the same effect as '--(no-)summary' (i.e. whether to show a diffsat at the end of the merge or not), and it is consistent with the '--stat' option of other git commands. Documentation, tests, and bash completion are updaed accordingly, and the old --summary option is marked as being deprected. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: moved merge.* config variables into separate merge-config.txtSZEDER Gábor2008-04-12
| | | | | | | Include the new file from config.txt and git-merge.txt. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Fix incorrect wording in git-merge.txt.Matthieu Moy2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | A merge is not necessarily with a remote branch, it can be with any commit. Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi for pointing out the problem, and to Nicolas Pitre for pointing out the fact that a merge is not necessarily with a branch head. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: fix and clarify grammar in git-merge docs.Dave Peticolas2008-01-16
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.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>
* Documentation: describe 'union' low-level merge driverJunio C Hamano2007-12-22
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'maint' into HEADJunio C Hamano2007-10-30
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint: Update GIT 1.5.3.5 Release Notes git-rebase--interactive.sh: Make 3-way merge strategies work for -p. git-rebase--interactive.sh: Don't pass a strategy to git-cherry-pick. Fix --strategy parsing in git-rebase--interactive.sh Make merge-recursive honor diff.renamelimit cherry-pick/revert: more compact user direction message core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge. git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntax Prevent send-pack from segfaulting (backport from 'master') Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt: s/mgs/msg/ in example Conflicts: git-rebase--interactive.sh
| * git-merge: document but discourage the historical syntaxJunio C Hamano2007-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically "git merge" took its command line arguments in a rather strange order. Document the historical syntax, and also document clearly that it is not encouraged in new scripts. There is no reason to deprecate the historical syntax, as the current code can sanely tell which syntax the caller is using, and existing scripts by people do use the historical syntax. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'lh/merge'Junio C Hamano2007-10-03
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * lh/merge: git-merge: add --ff and --no-ff options git-merge: add support for --commit and --no-squash git-merge: add support for branch.<name>.mergeoptions git-merge: refactor option parsing git-merge: fix faulty SQUASH_MSG Add test-script for git-merge porcelain
| * git-merge: add support for branch.<name>.mergeoptionsLars Hjemli2007-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This enables per branch configuration of merge options. Currently, the most useful options to specify per branch are --squash, --summary/--no-summary and possibly --strategy, but all options are supported. Note: Options containing whitespace will _not_ be handled correctly. Luckily, the only option which can include whitespace is --message and it doesn't make much sense to give that option a default value. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Fix spelling of overridden in documentationShawn Bohrer2007-09-25
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> 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>
* Update git-merge documentation.Jakub Narebski2007-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add "Configuration" section to describe merge.summary configuration variable (which is mentioned in git-fmt-merge-msg(1) man page, but it is a plumbing command), and merge.verbosity configuration variable (so there is a place to make reference from "Environment Variables" section of git(7) man page) to the git-merge(1) man page. Also describe GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY environment. The configuration variable merge.verbosity and environment variable GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY were introduced in commit 8c3275ab, which also documented configuration variable but not environment variable. 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>
* Add a configuration option to control diffstat after mergeAlex Riesen2007-05-24
| | | | | | | | | The diffstat can be controlled either with command-line options (--summary|--no-summary) or with merge.diffstat. The default is left as it was: diffstat is active by default. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Convert update-index references in docs to add.Shawn O. Pearce2007-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing update-index. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git merge documentation: -m is optionalMatthias Lederhofer2007-02-12
| | | | | | | Changed -m=<msg> to -m <msg> too. Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> 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>
* Use GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable instead.Shawn O. Pearce2006-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Junio rightly pointed out that the --reflog-action parameter was starting to get out of control, as most porcelain code needed to hand it to other porcelain and plumbing alike to ensure the reflog contained the top-level user action and not the lower-level actions it invoked. At Junio's suggestion we are introducing the new set_reflog_action function to all shell scripts, allowing them to declare early on what their default reflog name should be, but this setting only takes effect if the caller has not already set the GIT_REFLOG_ACTION environment variable. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-merge: make it usable as the first class UIJunio C Hamano2006-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This teaches the oft-requested syntax git merge $commit to implement merging the named commit to the current branch. This hopefully would make "git merge" usable as the first class UI instead of being a mere backend for "git pull". Most notably, $commit above can be any committish, so you can say for example: git merge js/shortlog~2 to merge early part of a topic branch without merging the rest of it. A custom merge message can be given with the new --message=<msg> parameter. The message is prepended in front of the usual "Merge ..." message autogenerated with fmt-merge-message. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Assorted typo fixesPavel Roskin2006-07-09
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Examples of resetting.Junio C Hamano2005-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place would be very helpful. Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-merge documentation: conflicting merge leaves higher stages in indexJunio C Hamano2005-12-02
| | | | | | | | | | This hopefully concludes the latest updates that changes the behaviour of the merge on an unsuccessful automerge. Instead of collapsing the conflicted path in the index to show HEAD, we leave it unmerged, now that diff-files can compare working tree files with higher stages. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: Describe merge operation a bit better.Junio C Hamano2005-11-28
| | | | | | | | In git-merge documentation, add a section to describe what happens to the index and working tree during merge, and what their cleanliness requirements are before the merge. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Refactored merge options into separate merge-options.txt.Jon Loeliger2005-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Refactored fetch options into separate fetch-options.txt. Made git-merge use merge-options. Made git-fetch use fetch-options. Made git-pull use merge-options and fetch-options. Added --help option to git-pull and git-format-patch scripts. Rewrote Documentation/Makefile to dynamically determine include dependencies. Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Refactor merge strategies into separate includable file.Jon Loeliger2005-11-06
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: git-fetch/pull updates.Junio C Hamano2005-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion. Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines. Add a couple of cross references. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: -merge and -pull: describe merge strategies.Junio C Hamano2005-11-04
| | | | | | | ... and give a couple of examples of running 'git pull' against local repository. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation for git-fmt-merge-msgPetr Baudis2005-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | Simple description. It appears to be mostly internal command, but hey, it is (it seems) the only undocumented one, so let's fix it up... Also add a note about it to git-merge documentation. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Remove the version tags from the manpagesJunio C Hamano2005-10-10
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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