When saying the initial branch is equal to the currently active
remote branch, it is probably intended that the branch heads
point to the same commit. Maybe it would be more useful to a
new user to emphasize that the tree contents and history are the
same.
More important, probably, is that this new branch is set up so
that "git pull" merges changes from the corresponding remote
branch. The next paragraph addresses that directly. What the
reader needs to know to begin with is that (1) the initial branch
is your own; if you do not pull, it won't get updated, and that
(2) the initial branch starts out at the same commit as the
upstream.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Idealists may want USE_NSEC to be the default on Linux some day.
Point to a patch to better explain the requirements on
filesystem code for that to happen.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is not necessarily obvious to a git novice what it means for a
filesystem tree to be equal to the HEAD. Spell it out.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The default --aggressive window has been 250 since 1c192f34 "gc
--aggressive: make it really aggressive", released in git v1.6.3.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
A sample "git describe -h" did not match what the program actually says.
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A command line
$ git archive -o my-v2.0.zip v2.0
almost certainly wants the output in zip format, even though it does not
specify any --format option.
When --format is not given, but output filename is, try to infer what
format is requested from the filename extension. Currently this code only
knows about '.zip'. When the format is unspecified and the filename does
not tell us, the output will be in 'tar' format as before.
Of course, an explicit --format will not trigger this guesswork.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '-o' option is commonly used in many tools to specify the output file.
Typing '--output' every time is a bit too long to be a practical alternative
to redirecting output. But specifying the output name has the advantage of
making possible to guess the desired output format by filename extension.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-push is not currently using -n for anything else, and it seems
unlikely we will want to use it to mean anything else in the future,
so add it as an alias for convenience.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
60c2993 (Documentation/git-commit.txt: describe --dry-run, 2009-08-15)
wanted to update the documentation to say that "git status" is not the
same as "git commit --dry-run" anymore, but it screwed up and also added
the description of --dry-run that was already present.
Noticed by Johannes Gilger.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These messages are nice for new users, but experienced git
users know how to manipulate the index, and these messages
waste a lot of screen real estate.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This message is designed to help new users understand what
has happened when refs fail to push. However, it does not
help experienced users at all, and significantly clutters
the output, frequently dwarfing the regular status table and
making it harder to see.
This patch introduces a general configuration mechanism for
optional messages, with this push message as the first
example.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This configuration option allows systematically rewriting fetch-only URLs
to push-capable URLs when used with push. For instance:
[url "ssh://example.org/"]
pushInsteadOf = "git://example.org/"
This will allow clones of "git://example.org/path/to/repo" to subsequently
push to "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo", without manually configuring
pushurl for that remote.
Includes documentation for the new option, bash completion updates, and
test cases (both that pushInsteadOf applies to push, that it does not
apply to fetch, and that it is ignored when pushURL is already defined).
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-pull.txt includes fetch-options.txt and merge-options.txt, both of
which document the --quiet and --verbose.
Supress the ones from fetch-options.txt.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Trillaud <etrillaud@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All hooks are currently in its own section. Which may confuse users,
because the section name serves as the hook file name and sections are
all caps for man pages. Putting them into a new HOOKS section and each
hook into a subsection keeps the case to lower case.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the earlier DWIM patches, certain combination of options defaulted
to the "save" command correctly while certain equally valid combination
did not. For example, "git stash -k" were Ok but "git stash -q -k" did
not work.
This makes the logic of defaulting to "save" much simpler. If there are no
non-flag arguments, it is clear that there is no command word, and we
default to "save" subcommand. This rule prevents "git stash -q apply"
from quietly creating a stash with "apply" as the message.
This also teaches "git stash save" to reject an unknown option. This is
to keep a mistyped "git stash save --quite" from creating a stash with a
message "--quite", and this safety is more important with the new logic
to default to "save" with any option-looking argument without an explicit
comand word.
[jc: this is based on Matthieu's 3-patch series, and a follow-up
discussion, and he and Peff take all the credit; if I have introduced bugs
while reworking, they are mine.]
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
A request to clone the repository does not give any "have" but asks for
all the refs we offer with "want". When a request does not ask to clone
the repository fully, but asks to fetch some refs into an empty
repository, it will not give any "have" but its "want" won't ask for all
the refs we offer.
If we suppose (and I would say this is a rather big if) that it makes
sense to distinguish these two cases, a hook cannot reliably do this
alone. The hook can detect lack of "have" and bunch of "want", but there
is no direct way to tell if the other end asked for all refs we offered,
or merely most of them.
Between the time we talked with the other end and the time the hook got
called, we may have acquired more refs or lost some refs in the repository
by concurrent operations. Given that we plan to introduce selective
advertisement of refs with a protocol extension, it would become even more
difficult for hooks to guess between these two cases.
This adds "kind [clone|fetch]" to hook's input, as a stable interface to
allow the hooks to tell these cases apart.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After upload-pack successfully finishes its operation, post-upload-pack
hook can be called for logging purposes.
The hook is passed various pieces of information, one per line, from its
standard input. Currently the following items can be fed to the hook, but
more types of information may be added in the future:
want SHA-1::
40-byte hexadecimal object name the client asked to include in the
resulting pack. Can occur one or more times in the input.
have SHA-1::
40-byte hexadecimal object name the client asked to exclude from
the resulting pack, claiming to have them already. Can occur zero
or more times in the input.
time float::
Number of seconds spent for creating the packfile.
size decimal::
Size of the resulting packfile in bytes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --format option was made optional in 8ff21b1 (git-archive: make
tar the default format, 2007-04-09), but it was not marked as optional
in the summary. This trival patch just changes the summary to match
the rest of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Describe what a scissors mark looks like, and explain in what situation
it is often used.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We currently point the HEAD of a newly cloned repo to the
same ref as the parent repo's HEAD. While a user can then
"git checkout -b foo origin/foo" whichever branch they
choose, it is more convenient and more efficient to tell
clone which branch you want in the first place.
Based on a patch by Kirill A. Korinskiy.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
Mongoose (http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/) is a lightweight web
server. It's just a single binary so it's a lot simpler to configure and
install.
Signed-off-by: Wilhansen Li <wil@nohakostudios.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many projects using submodules expect all submodules to be checked out
in order to build/work correctly. A common command sequence for
developers on such projects is:
git clone url/to/project
cd project
git submodule update --init (--recursive)
This patch introduces the --recursive option to git-clone. The new
option causes git-clone to recursively clone and checkout all
submodules of the cloned project. Hence, the above command sequence
can be reduced to:
git clone --recursive url/to/project
--recursive is ignored if no checkout is done by the git-clone.
The patch also includes documentation and a selftest.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In very large and hierarchically structured projects, one may encounter
nested submodules. In these situations, it is valuable to not only show
status for all the submodules in the current repo (which is what is
currently done by 'git submodule status'), but also to show status for
all submodules at all levels (i.e. recursing into nested submodules as
well).
This patch teaches the new --recursive option to the 'git submodule status'
command. The patch also includes documentation and selftests.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano