The new --reference flag introduced to git-clone in
GIT 1.3.0 was not documented but is rather handy.
So document it.
Also corrected a minor issue with the documentation for the
-s flag; the info/alternates file name was spelled wrong.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
With this option, git prepends a diffstat in front of the patch.
Since I really, really do not know what a diffstat of a combined diff
("merge diff") should look like, the diffstat is not generated for these.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Now, you can say "git diff --stat" (to get an idea how many changes are
uncommitted), or "git log --stat".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Ok this really should be the good version. The option
handling has been reworked to be automation safe.
Currently to import the -mm tree I have to work around
git-apply by using patch. Because some of Andrews
patches in quilt will only apply with fuzz.
I started out implementing a --fuzz option and then I realized
fuzz is not a very safe concept for an automated system. What
you really want is a minimum number of context lines that must
match. This allows policy to be set without knowing how many
lines of context a patch actually provides. By default
the policy remains to match all provided lines of context.
Allowng git-apply to match a restricted set of context makes
it much easier to import the -mm tree into git. I am still only
processing 1.5 to 1.6 patches a second for the 692 patches in
2.6.17-rc1-mm2 is still painful but it does help.
If I just loop through all of Andrews patches in order
and run git-apply --index -C1 I process the entire patchset
in 1m53s or about 6 patches per second. So running
git-mailinfo, git-write-tree, git-commit-tree, and
git-update-ref everytime has a measurable impact,
and shows things can be speeded up even more.
All of these timings were taking on my poor 700Mhz Athlon
with 512MB of ram. So people with fast machiens should
see much better performance.
When a match is found after the number of context are reduced a
warning is generated. Since this is a rare event and possibly
dangerous this seems to make sense. Unless you are patching
a single file the error message is a little bit terse at
the moment, but it should be easy to go back and fix.
I have also updated the documentation for git-apply to reflect
the new -C option that sets the minimum number of context
lines that must match.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This tries to clarify the -c/-cc documentation and clean up the style and
grammar.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Once the content has been generated, the formatting elves can reorder
it to be pretty...
Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The "--amend" option is used to amend the tip of the current branch. This
documentation text was copied straight from the commit that implemented it.
Some minor format tweaks for asciidoc were taken from work by Francis Daly
in commit b0d08a5.. It looks good now also in the html page.
[jc: amended further to follow the recommendation by Francis in
commit 3070b60].
Signed-off-by: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This command removes untracked files from the working tree. This
implementation is based on cg-clean with some simplifications. The
documentation is included.
[jc: with trivial documentation fix, noticed by Jakub Narebski]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-diff-* --pickaxe-regex will change the -S pickaxe to match
POSIX extended regular expressions instead of fixed strings.
The regex.h library is a rather stupid interface and I like pcre too, but
with any luck it will be everywhere we will want to run Git on, it being
POSIX.2 and all. I'm not sure if we can expect platforms like AIX to
conform to POSIX.2 or if win32 has regex.h. We might add a flag to
Makefile if there is a portability trouble potential.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
I'm afraid I'll be accused of trying to suck all the jokes and the
personality out of the git documentation. I'm not! Really!
That said, "man git" is one of the first things a new user is likely try,
and it seems a little cruel to start off with a somewhat obscure joke
about the architecture of git.
So instead I'm trying for a relatively straightforward description of what
git does, and what features distinguish it from other systems, together
with immediate links to introductory documentation.
I also did some minor reorganization in an attempt to clarify the
classification of commands. And revised a bit for conciseness (as is
obvious from the diffstat--hopefully I didn't cut anything important).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Without the --directory flag, git-ls-files wouldn't ever list directories,
producing no output for empty directories, which is good since they cannot
be added and they bear no content, even untracked one (if Git ever starts
tracking directories on their own, this should obviously change since the
content notion will change).
With the --directory flag however, git-ls-files would list even empty
directories. This may be good in some situations but sometimes you want to
prevent that. This patch adds a --no-empty-directory option which makes
git-ls-files omit empty directories.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Clarify update and post-update hooks.
Made a few references to the hooks documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Some documentation "options" were followed by independent preformatted
paragraphs. Now they are associated plain text paragraphs. The
difference is clear in the generated html.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch makes the html docs right, makes the asciidoc docs a bit odd
but consistent with what is there already, and makes the manpages look
OK using docbook-xsl 1.68, but miss a paragraph separator when using 1.69.
For the manpages, current is like
-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form
username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT
With this patch, docbook-xsl v1.68 looks like
-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form
username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT author and
while docbook-xsl v1.69 becomes
-A <author_file>
Read a file with lines on the form
username = User's Full Name <email@addr.es>
and use "User's Full Name <email@addr.es>" as the GIT author and
The extra indentation is to keep the v1.69 manpage looking sane.
The fsck-objects command (back then it was called fsck-cache)
used to complain if objects referred to by files in .git/refs/
or objects stored in files under .git/objects/??/ were not found
as stand-alone SHA1 files (i.e. found in alternate object pools
or packed archives stored under .git/objects/pack). Back then,
packs and alternates were new curiosity and having everything as
loose objects were the norm.
When we adjusted the behaviour of fsck-cache to consider objects
found in packs are OK, we introduced the --standalone flag as a
backward compatibility measure.
It still correctly checks if your repository is complete and
consists only of loose objects, so in that sense it is doing the
"right" thing, but checking that is pointless these days. This
commit removes --standalone flag.
See also:
23676d407c8a498a05c3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The code which tried to update the master branch was somewhat broken.
=> People should do that manually, with "git merge".
Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
docbook-xsl v1.68 incorrectly converts "<screen>" from docbook to
manpage by not rendering it verbatim. v1.69 handles it correctly, but
not many current popular distributions ship with it.
asciidoc by default converts "listingblock" to "<screen>". This change
causes asciidoc in git to convert "listingblock" to "<literallayout>", which
both old and new docbook-xsl handle correctly.
The difference can be seen in any manpage which includes a multi-line
example, such as git-branch.
[jc: the original patch was an disaster for html backends, so I made
it apply only to docbook backends. ]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Pair up git-add and git-rm by adding a 'see also' section that
references the opposite command to each of their documentation files.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In particular, git-tools.txt isn't a manpage, and my Asciidoc gets upset
by it. The simplest fix is to Remove articles from the list of manpages
the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... and stripped trailing whitespace to appease the Gods...
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sometimes it is convient for a Porcelain to be able to checkout all
unmerged files in all stages so that an external merge tool can be
executed by the Porcelain or the end-user. Using git-unpack-file
on each stage individually incurs a rather high penalty due to the
need to fork for each file version obtained. git-checkout-index -a
--stage=all will now do the same thing, but faster.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
A brief survey of useful git tools, including third-party
and external projects.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Found with:
for i in *.txt; do
grep -A 2 "SYNOPSIS" "$i" | grep -q "^\[verse\]$" && continue
multiline=$(grep -A 3 "SYNOPSIS" "$i" | tail -n 1)
test -n "$multiline" && echo "$i: $multiline"
done
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Shawn Pearce