The only incompatible change is that the user how have to use '--'
before a patch file if it is named "--build-fake-ancestor=something".
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of listing short option (e.g. "-U<n>") as a shorthand for its
longer counterpart (e.g. "--unified=<n>"), list the synonyms together. It
saves one indirection to find what the reader wants.
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable was added in 5f8b9fc (git-send-email: add a new
sendemail.cc configuration variable, 2008-04-27), but is not yet refered
to by the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merge two hunks if there is only the specified number of otherwise unshown
context between them. For --inter-hunk-context=1, the resulting patch has
the same number of lines but shows uninterrupted context instead of a
context header line in between.
Patches generated with this option are easier to read but are also more
likely to conflict if the file to be patched contains other changes.
This patch keeps the default for this option at 0. It is intended to just
make the feature available in order to see its advantages and downsides.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"makeinfo" failed to generate gitman.info from gitman.texi input file
because the combined manual page file contains several nodes with the
same name (DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, SEE ALSO etc.). An Info document should
contain unique node names.
This patch creates a simple (read: ugly) work-around by suppressing the
validation of the final Info file. Jumping to nodes in the Info document
still works but they are not very useful. Common man-page headings like
DESCRIPTION and OPTIONS appear in the Info node list and they point to
the man page where they appear first (that is git-add currently).
Also, this patch adds directory-entry information for Info document to
make the document appear in the top-level Info directory.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously "docbook2x-texi" failed to generate user-manual.texi and
gitman.texi files from .xml input files because "iconv" stopped at
"illegal input sequence" error. This was due to some UTF-8 octets in the
input .xml files. This patch adds option --encoding=UTF-8 for
"docbook2x-texi" to allow the building of .texi files complete.
Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When introducing --format-patch, its documentation was accidentally inserted
in the middle of documentation for --validate.
Signed-off-by: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description on .mailmap made it seem like they are only useful for
commits with a wrong address for an author, but they are about fixing the
real name. Explain this better in the text, and replace the existing
example with a new one that hopefully makes things clearer.
Signed-off-by: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The straightforward way with using 'cat .git/refs/heads/*' doesn't work
with packed refs as well as branches of the form topic/topic1. So let's
use git-for-each-ref for getting the heads' SHA1s in this example.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The script 'git notes' allows you to edit and show commit notes, by
calling either
git notes show <commit>
or
git notes edit <commit>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit notes are blobs which are shown together with the commit
message. These blobs are taken from the notes ref, which you can
configure by the config variable core.notesRef, which in turn can
be overridden by the environment variable GIT_NOTES_REF.
The notes ref is a branch which contains "files" whose names are
the names of the corresponding commits (i.e. the SHA-1).
The rationale for putting this information into a ref is this: we
want to be able to fetch and possibly union-merge the notes,
maybe even look at the date when a note was introduced, and we
want to store them efficiently together with the other objects.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The displayed example is typeset with acute accents around the string that
should be surrounded by a pair of single quotes in manpage. Replace them
with double quotes (the semantics of the example does not change).
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus and Junio explained issues that are involved in reverting a merge
and how to continue working with a branch that was updated since such a
revert on the mailing list. This is to help new people who did not see
these messages.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
[jc: the original patch was against master but 99% of it
applied to maint; this commit splits out the part that
applies only to master.]
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When no tagger was found (old Git produced tags like this),
no "tagger" line is printed (but this is incompatible with the current
git fast-import).
Alternatively, you can pass the option --fake-missing-tagger, forcing
fast-export to fake a tagger
Unspecified Tagger <no-tagger>
with a tag date of the beginning of (Unix) time in the case of a missing
tagger, so that fast-import is still able to import the result.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Especially with something that is supposed to hopefully have some legal
value down the line if somebody starts making noises, it really would be
nice to have a real person to associate things with. Suggest this in the
SubmittingPatches document.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't confuse the user with old git messages.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The SYNOPSIS section of the manual writes:
git checkout [options] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
but the DESCRIPTION says that this form checks the paths out "from the
index, or from a named commit." A later sentence refers to the same
argument as "<tree-ish> argument", but it is not clear that these two
sentences are talking about the same command line argument for first-time
readers.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a freshly initialized repo it is only necessary to rename the .sample
hooks, but when using older repos (initialized with older git init)
enabled the +x mode is still necessary - docuement this.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "Interrupted workflow" situation is a good example for using
git-stash.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since f98f8cb (Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix, 2008-06-24) hooks
are not enabled by making them executable anymore, but by removing the
'.sample' suffix from the filename.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use '{tilde}' instead of '~', becase the later does not appear in the
manpage version, just in the HTML one.
Noticed by gonzzor on IRC.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now git gui has a customizable Tools menu, so this adds
information about variables that are used to configure it.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This changes git mergetool to remove the temporary files used to invoke
the merge tool even if it returns non-zero.
This also adds a configuration option (mergetool.keepTemporaries) to
retain the previous behaviour if desired.
Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use dblatex in order to create a pdf version of the git user manual. No
existing Makefile targets (including "all") are touched, so you need to
explicitly say
make pdf
sudo make install-pdf
to get user-manual.pdf created and installed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The commit log message for the feature made it sound as if this is a saner
version of --mixed, but the use case presented makes it clear that it is a
better variant of --hard when your changes and somebody else's changes are
mixed together.
Perhaps we would want to rewrite the example that shows the use of --hard
not to talk about recovering from a failed merge?
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Improve some minor language and format issues like hyphenation,
phrases, spacing, word order, comma, attributes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It appears that a reference to an anchor defined as [[anchor-name]] from
another place using <<anchor-name>> syntax, when the anchor name contains
a string "-with-" in its name, triggers these warnings from Python
interpreter.
asciidoc -b docbook -d book user-manual.txt
<string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
<string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
<string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
<string>:1: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
There currently is no reference to "Finding comments with given content",
but for consistency and for futureproofing, the anchor is also updated as
the other ones that are actually used and trigger these warnings.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Starting with asciidoc 8.3.0 linkgit macro is no longer recognized by
asciidoc and user guide suggests
(http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_macro_definitions)
that macros are supposed to be defined in [macros] section. I'm not
sure whether undefined linkgit macro was working by pure chance or it
is a regression in asciidoc 8.3.0, but this patch adds proper
definition for the linkgit macro, allowing it to work on 8.3.0.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Borzenkov <snaury@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A handful of fixes have been backmerged to 'maint' and are now contained
in 1.6.0.X series as the result, so drop them from this document.
Also contains typofix and duplicate removal pointed out by
Bjørn Lindeijer and Jakub Narebski.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This comes from conversation at the GitTogether where we thought it would
be helpful to be able to teach people to 'stage' files because it tends
to cause confusion when told that they have to keep 'add'ing them.
This continues the movement to start referring to the index as a
staging area (eg: the --staged alias to 'git diff'). Also adds a
doc file for 'git stage' that basically points to the docs for
'git add'.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Miklos Vajna