Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and
gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files.
Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Otherwise, the sentence "Defaults to HEAD." can be mis-read to mean
that "git checkout -- hello.c" checks-out from HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The command "git checkout" checks out from the index by default, not
HEAD (the introducing comment were correct, but the detailled
explanation added below were not).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a tag is not annotated, git tag displays the commit message
instead. Add this hint to the manpage to unhide this secret.
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@ikn.schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As of commit 03300c0 the graph API uses '*' for all nodes including merges.
This updates the example in the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users were confused about the meaning and use of the --root option.
Notably, since 68c2ec7 (format-patch: show patch text for the root
commit, 2009-01-10), --root has nothing to do with showing the patch
text for the root commit any more.
Shorten and clarify the corresponding paragraph in the DESCRIPTION
section, document --root under OPTIONS, and add an explicit note that
root commits are formatted regardless.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'Everyday GIT' guide was using the old dashed form
of git-init.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was introduced in 85af7929ee but
not documented outside the commit message.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While b259f09 made git-push output a better error message for 'git-push
--all --tags', this commit fixes the synopsis in the documentation.
Inconsistency spotted and fix suggested by Jari Aalto through
http://bugs.debian.org/502567
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These days you must explicitly say "git stash save <comment>".
Signed-off-by: William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This tries to make the description of ref matching in git push easier
to read. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Include examples of using HEAD. The order of examples
introduces new concepts one by one. This pushes the
example of deleting a ref to the end of the list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The refspec format description was a mix of regexp and BNF, making it
very difficult to read. The format was also wrong: it did not show
that each part of a refspec is optional in different situations.
Rather than having a confusing grammar, just present the format in
informal prose.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-describe says the default abbreviation is 8
hexadecimal digits while cache.c clearly shows DEFAULT_ABBREV set to 7.
This patch corrects the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All the other config variables use CamelCase. This config variable should
not be an exception.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-shell's man page explicitly lists all allowed commands, but 'cvs
server' was missing. Add it.
Signed-off-by: Lars Noschinski <lars@public.noschinski.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The <ref> parameter has not been introduced, so rewrite to
avoid it.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "matching refs" semantics works only on matching branches these days.
Instead of using "heads" which traditionally has been used more or less
interchangeably with "refs", say "branch" explicitly here.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The comment in parentheses is wrong, as one has to leave out both the
colon and <dst>. This situation is covered by the section a few lines
down:
A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source
repository to the destination repository under the same name.
So, just remove the parentheses.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is copied from pull-fetch-param.txt and helps the reader
to not get stuck in the URL section.
Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Command line options can share the same paragraph of description, if
they are related or synonymous. In these cases they should be written
among each other, so that asciidoc can format them itself.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
tar handles switches with and witout preceding '-', but the
documentation should be consistent nonetheless.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Linux kernel and Emacs are both spelled capitalized
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is no grace period before pruning unreferenced objects, it is
pointless to push those objects in their loose form just to delete them
right away.
Also be more explicit about the possibility of using "now" in the
gc.pruneexpire config variable (needed for the above behavior to
happen).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.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>
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>
Daniel Cheng (aka SDiZ)