This commit adds a discussion of the challenge of bisecting
merge commits to the user manual. The original author is
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, who posted the text to
the mailing list <http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119403257315527&w=2>.
His email was adapted for the manual.
The discussion is added to "Rewriting history and maintainig
patch series". The text added requires good understanding of
merging and rebasing. Therefore it should not be placed too
early in the manual. Right after the section on "Problems with
rewriting history", the discussion of bisect gives another reason
for linearizing as much of the history as possible.
The text includes suggestions and fixes by
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> and
Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Customize diff-options depending on particular command as follows,
mostly to make git-diff and git-format-patch manuals less confusing:
* git-format-patch:
- Mark --patch-with-stat as being the default.
- Change -p description so that it matches what it actually does and
so that it doesn't refer to absent "section on generating
patches".
* git-diff: mark -p as being the default.
* git-diff-index/git-diff-files/git-diff-tree: mark --raw as being
the default.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This provides a way for scripts to get at the new standard exclude
function.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio screwed up when applying the previous round of the patch;
rewording from "previous" to "old" does make the description
clearer.
Also revert the rewording from head to branch. The description
is talking about the branch's tip commit and using the word head
is clearer.
Based on input from Sergei and Bruce.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From version 1.72 it will replace all dots in roff requests with U+2302
("house" character), and add escaping in output for all instances of dot
that are not in roff requests. This caused the ".ft" hack forcing
monospace font in listingblocks to end up as "\&.ft" and being visible
in the resulting man page.
The fix adds a DOCBOOK_XSL_172 build variable that will disable the
hack. To allow this variable to be defined in config.mak it also moves
build variable handling below the inclusion of config.mak.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One of examples has wrong output given the arguments provided.
Fix arguments to match the output.
Fix a minor syntax mistake in another place.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached'
to unstage is just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'.
Suggested by Jan Hudec.
Signed-off-by: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tweak the "filter" section of the gitattributes documentation to add
some
missing articles and improve some word choices without changing the
semantics of the section.
Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some basic documentation on the --mirror mode for git-push.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
... by changing git-tar-tree reference to git-archive and removing
seemingly unrelevant footnote about git-ssh-{fetch,upload}.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This looks like a cut and paste error from the git-checkout
explanation of --no-track.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some uses of git-rev-list are to run it with --objects to see if
a range of objects between two or more commits is fully connected
or not. In such a case the caller doesn't care about the actual
object names or hash hints so formatting this data only for it to
be dumped to /dev/null by a redirect is a waste of CPU time. If
all the caller needs is the exit status then --quiet can be used
to bypass the commit and object formatting.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Old commit walkers other than http/curl transport have been removed
for some time now. Remove their documents.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it possible to mark commands that are deprecated in the
command list of the primary manual page git(7), and uses it to
mark "git lost-found" and "git tar-tree" as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were 2 items "send patch to..." but having different set of
addresses to send patch to. Merge them together and move the resulting
item to the end of checklist.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fsck" learnt the option "--lost-found" in v1.5.3-rc0~5, to make
"git lost-found" obsolete. It is time to deprecate "git lost-found".
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even if our code is quite a good documentation for our coding style,
some people seem to prefer a document describing it.
The part about the shell scripts is clearly just copied from one of
Junio's helpful mails, and some parts were added from comments by
Junio, Andreas Ericsson and Robin Rosenberg.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Many git commands have a -q option to suppress output to stdout, let's
have it for git-reset too.
This was asked for by Joey Hess through
http://bugs.debian.org/444933
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes the clean.requireForce configuration default to true.
Too many people are burned by typing "git clean" by mistake when
they meant to say "make clean".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
format.numbered is a tri-state variable. Boolean values enable or
disable numbering by default and "auto" enables number when outputting
more than one patch.
--no-numbered (short: -N) will disable numbering.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation quotes commit messages 14 times with double-quotes, and 7
times with single-quotes. The patch turns everything to double-quotes.
A nice side effect is that documentation becomes more Windoze-friendly
as AFAIK single quotes won't work there.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The escaped were ending up verbatim in the generated documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a good idea to use pack index version 2 all the time since it has
proper protection against propagation of certain pack corruptions when
repacking which is not possible with index version 1, as demonstrated
in test t5302.
Hence this config option.
The default is still pack index version 1.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-diff.txt includes diff-options.txt which for the -p option refers
to a section "generating patches.." which is missing from the git-diff
documentation. This patch adapts diff-format.txt to additionally
mention the git-diff program, and includes diff-format.txt into
git-diff.txt.
Tino Keitel noticed this problem.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This has been proposed for a few times without much reaction
from the list. Actually remove it to see who screams.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano