e9fcd1e (Add push --set-upstream, 2010-01-16) inadvertently patched
the description of --upstream in the middle of that of --repo.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bed575e (commit: support commit.status, --status, and --no-status,
2009-12-07) forgot to add the :: that sets off an item from the
paragraph that explains it, breaking the layout.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
commit 57bddb11 (Documentation/git-merge: reword references to
"remote" and "pull", 2010-01-07) fixed the manual to drop the
assumption that the other branch being merged is from a remote
repository. Unfortunately, in a few places, to do so it
introduced the antecedentless phrase "their versions". Worse, in
passages like the following, 'they' is playing two roles.
| highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions.
|
| * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p <path>'
Using HEAD and MERGE_HEAD nicely assigns terminology to "our" and
"their" sides. It also provides the reader with practice using
names that git will recognize on the command line.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The user most likely does not care about the exact order of
operations because he cannot see it happening anyway. Instead,
try to explain what it means to merge two commits into a single
tree.
While at it:
- Change the heading to TRUE MERGE. The entire manual page is
about how merges work.
- Document MERGE_HEAD. It is a useful feature, since it makes
the parents of the intended merge commit easier to refer to.
- Do not assume commits named on the 'git merge' command line come
from another repository. For simplicity, the discussion of
conflicts still does assume that there is only one and it is a
branch head.
- Do not start list items with `code`. Otherwise, a toolchain bug
produces a line break in the generated nroff, resulting in odd
extra space.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Novices sometimes find the behavior of 'git merge' in the
fast-forward case surprising. Describe it thoroughly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
A merge-based operation in git can fail in two ways: one that
stops before touching anything, or one that goes ahead and
results in conflicts.
As the 'git merge' manual explains:
| A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
| commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
| match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit)
| when it starts out.
Unfortunately, the placement of this sentence makes it easy to
skip over, and its formulation leaves the important point, that
any other attempted merge will be gracefully aborted, unspoken.
So give this point its own section and expand upon it.
Probably this could be simplified somewhat: after all, a change
registered in the index is just a special kind of local
uncommited change, so the second added paragraph is only a
special case of the first. It seemed more helpful to be explicit
here.
Inspired by <http://gitster.livejournal.com/25801.html>.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost. Try to help him with a diagram.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
So the section layout changes as follows:
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-MERGE STRATEGIES
HOW MERGE WORKS
HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED
HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS
EXAMPLES
+MERGE STRATEGIES
CONFIGURATION
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
DOCUMENTATION
GIT
NOTES
The first-time user will care more about conflicts than about
strategies other than 'recursive'.
One of the examples uses -s ours, but I do not think this hinders
readability.
Suggested-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The 'merge' manual suggests 'reset' to cancel a merge at the end
of the Merge Strategies list. It is more logical to explain this
right before explaining how merge conflicts work, so the daunted
reader can have a way out when he or she needs it most.
While at it, make the advice more dependable and self-contained
by providing the --merge option.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Configuration and environment variables belong to the back matter
of a manual page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
For very large projects it is useful to be able to clone a subset of the
upstream SVN repo's branches. Allow for this by letting the left-side of
the branches and tags glob specs contain a brace-delineated comma-separated
list of names. e.g.:
branches = branches/{red,green}/src:refs/remotes/branches/*
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
In certain situations it may be necessary to manually remap an svn
repostitory UUID. For example:
o--- [git-svn clone]
/
[origin svn repo]
\
o--- [svnsync clone]
Imagine that only "git-svn clone" and "svnsync clone" are made available
to external users. Furthur, "git-svn clone" contains only trunk, and for
reasons unknown, "svnsync clone" is missing the revision properties that
normally provide the origin svn repo's UUID.
A git user who has cloned the "git-svn clone" repo now wishes to use
git-svn to pull in the missing branches from the "synsync clone" repo.
In order for git-svn to get the history correct for those branches,
it needs to know the origin svn repo's UUID. Hence rewriteUUID.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Consolidate the descriptions of --branches, --tags and --remotes a
bit, to make it less repetitive. Improve the grammar a bit, and spell
out the meaning of the 'append /*' rule.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Giving "Notes" information in the default output format of "log" and
"show" is a sensible progress (the user has asked for it by having the
notes), but for some commands (e.g. "format-patch") spewing notes into the
formatted commit log message without being asked is too aggressive.
Enable notes output only for "log", "show", "whatchanged" by default and
only when the user didn't ask any specific --pretty/--format from the
command line; users can explicitly override this default with --show-notes
and --no-notes option.
Parts of tests are taken from Jeff King's fix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since local branch, tags and remote tracking branch namespaces are
most often used, add shortcut notations for globbing those in
manner similar to --glob option.
With this, one can express the "what I have but origin doesn't?"
as:
'git log --branches --not --remotes=origin'
Original-idea-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --glob=<glob-pattern> option to rev-parse and everything that
accepts its options. This option matches all refs that match given
shell glob pattern (complete with some DWIM logic).
Example:
'git log --branches --not --glob=remotes/origin'
To show what you have that origin doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add --set-upstream option to branch that works like --track, except that
when branch exists already, its upstream info is changed without changing
the ref value.
Based-on-patch-from: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'git remote set-url' for changing URL of remote repository with
one "porcelain-level" command.
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Also document the recently added -Xtheirs, -Xours and -Xsubtree[=path]
options to the merge-recursive strategy.
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Back when the git core tutorial was written, porcelain commands were
shell scripts. This patch adds a paragraph explaining this.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Frequent complaint is lack of easy way to set up upstream (tracking)
references for git pull to work as part of push command. So add switch
--set-upstream (-u) to do just that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds '-x' as a shorthand for the '--extcmd' option.
Arguments to '--extcmd' can be specified separately, which
was not originally possible.
This also fixes the brief help text so that it mentions
both '-x' and '--extcmd'.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lift the explanation of -CCC option in the source to the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We now nag the user with a giant warning when their identity
was pulled from the username, hostname, and gecos
information, in case it is not correct. Most users will
suppress this by simply setting up their information
correctly.
However, there may be some users who consciously want to use
that information, because having the value change from host
to host contains useful information. These users can now set
advice.implicitidentity to false to suppress the message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is handy for creating strings which will be fed to printf() or
strbuf_expand().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The only way to safely quote arbitrary text in a pretty-print user
format is to replace instances of "%" with "%x25". This is slightly
unreadable, and many users would expect "%%" to produce a single
"%", as that is what printf format specifiers do.
This patch converts "%%" to "%" for all users of strbuf_expand():
(1) git-daemon interpolated paths
(2) pretty-print user formats
(3) merge driver command lines
Case (1) was already doing the conversion itself outside of
strbuf_expand(). Case (2) is the intended beneficiary of this patch.
Case (3) users probably won't notice, but as this is user-facing
behavior, consistently providing the quoting mechanism makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new configuration variable commit.status, and new command line
options --status, and --no-status control whether or not the git
status information is included in the commit message template
when using an editor to prepare the commit message. It does not
affect the effects of a user's commit.template settings.
Signed-off-by: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new notation '<branch>@{upstream}' refers to the branch <branch> is set
to build on top of. Missing <branch> (i.e. '@{upstream}') defaults to the
current branch.
This allows you to run, for example,
for l in list of local branches
do
git log --oneline --left-right $l...$l@{upstream}
done
to inspect each of the local branches you are interested in for the
divergence from its upstream.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various commands refuse to run in the presence of conflicts (commit,
merge, pull, cherry-pick/revert). They all used to provide rough, and
inconsistant error messages.
A new variable advice.resolveconflict is introduced, and allows more
verbose messages, pointing the user to the appropriate solution.
For commit, the error message used to look like this:
$ git commit
foo.txt: needs merge
foo.txt: unmerged (c34a92682e0394bc0d6f4d4a67a8e2d32395c169)
foo.txt: unmerged (3afcd75de8de0bb5076942fcb17446be50451030)
foo.txt: unmerged (c9785d77b76dfe4fb038bf927ee518f6ae45ede4)
error: Error building trees
The "need merge" line is given by refresh_cache. We add the IN_PORCELAIN
option to make the output more consistant with the other porcelain
commands, and catch the error in return, to stop with a clean error
message. The next lines were displayed by a call to cache_tree_update(),
which is not reached anymore if we noticed the conflict.
The new output looks like:
U foo.txt
fatal: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
Please, fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as
appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit, or use 'git commit -a'.
Pull is slightly modified to abort immediately if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD
exists instead of waiting for merge to complain.
The behavior of merge and the test-case are slightly modified to reflect
the usual flow: start with conflicts, fix them, and afterwards get rid of
MERGE_HEAD, with different error messages at each stage.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Shows the absolute path of the top-level working directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Drake <sdrake@xnet.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The accepted style in the SYNOPSIS section is for a command to be
'emphasised'. Do so for the git-shortlog(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Amazingly, a reference to 'show files' survived from the core command
documentation introduced in c64b9b8 (Reference documentation for the
core git commands., 2005-05-05)!
However, the tool is now called git-ls-files.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
As a verb, 'setup' is spelled 'set up'. “diff commands such as
diff-files” scans better without a comma. Clarify that shallow
and deep are special non-boolean values for format.thread rather
than boolean values with some other name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
In commit 56752391 (Make "git gc" pack all refs by default,
2007-05-24), 'git gc' was changed to run pack-refs by default
Versions before v1.5.1.2 cannot clone repos with packed refs over
http, and versions before v1.4.4 cannot handled packed refs at
all, but more recent git should have no problems. Try to make
this more clear in the git-config manual.
The analagous passage in git-gc.txt was updated already with
commit fe2128a (Change git-gc documentation to reflect
gc.packrefs implementation., 2008-01-09).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
Junio C Hamano