Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to
specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line;
in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be
ignored.
But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other
references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in
addition to* other references. So change the semantics of this option
to do the latter.
If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to
specifying an explicit refspec:
git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous
about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior. Commit
f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation
made the documentation match the old behavior. This commit changes
the documentation to match the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Replace reference to function parse_ref_spec() with references to
functions parse_fetch_refspec() and parse_push_refspec().
* Correct description of src and dst: they *do* include the '*'
characters.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option to gpg sign a merge commit is available but was not
documented. Use wording from the git-commit(1) manpage.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-prune-packed operates on GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, not
GIT_OBJECT_DIR.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Labeled lists require a double colon.
[jc] I eyeballed the output from
git grep '[^:]:$' Documentation/\*.txt
and the patch fixes all breakages of this kind.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way to spell the current repository with a '.' dot is
independent from how the pathspec allows globs expanded by Git.
Make them two separate bullet items in the enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Thunderbird section of the 'MUA-specific hints' contains three
different approaches to setting up the mail client to leave patch
emails unmolested. The second approach (configuration) has a step
missing when configuring the composition window not to wrap. In
particular, the "mailnews.wraplength" configuration variable needs
to be set to zero. Update the documentation to add the missing
setting.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The style for multi-line comments is often mentioned and should be documented
for clarity.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The description of the user.signingkey option only mentioned its use
when creating a signed tag. Make it clear that is is also used when
creating signed commits.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Several uses of the '^' operator are being interpreted by asciidoc
as requests to show the following text as a superscript. In order
to fix this problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected git command invocations.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The text contains two 'grep' invocations which include the 'start
of line' regular expression character '^'. Asciidoc mis-interprets
this use of '^' as a superscript request. In order to fix this
formatting problem, use backticks (`) to quote the text of the
affected 'grep' command invocations.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
In Git v2.0, we will change the default --prefix for init/clone from
none/empty to "origin/" (which causes SVN-tracking branches to be
placed at refs/remotes/origin/* instead of refs/remotes/*).
This patch warns users about the upcoming change, both in the git-svn
manual page, and on stderr when running init/clone in the "multi-mode"
without providing a --prefix.
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Currently, the git-svn defaults to using an empty prefix, which ends
up placing the SVN-tracking refs directly in refs/remotes/*. This
placement runs counter to Git's convention of placing remote-tracking
branches in refs/remotes/$remote/*.
Furthermore, combining git-svn with "regular" Git remotes run the risk
of clobbering refs under refs/remotes (e.g. if you have a git remote
called "tags" with a "v1" branch, it will overlap with the git-svn's
tracking branch for the "v1" tag from Subversion.
Even though the git-svn refs stored in refs/remotes/* are not "proper"
remote-tracking branches (since they are not covered by a proper git
remote's refspec), they clearly represent a similar concept, and would
benefit from following the same convention.
For example, if git-svn tracks Subversion branch "foo" at
refs/remotes/foo, and you create a local branch refs/heads/foo to add
some commits to be pushed back to Subversion (using "git svn dcommit),
then it is clearly unhelpful of Git to throw
warning: refname 'foo' is ambiguous.
every time you checkout, rebase, or otherwise interact with the branch.
At this time, the user is better off using the --prefix=foo/ (the
trailing slash is important) to git svn init/clone, to cause the
SVN-tracking refs to be placed at refs/remotes/foo/* instead of
refs/remotes/*. This patch updates the documentation to encourage
use of --prefix.
This is also in preparation for changing the default value of --prefix
at some point in the future.
Cc: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
The man page for `git svn` describes a situation in which "'git svn'
will not be able to rebuild" your $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files, but
no mention is made of in what circumstances `git svn` *will* be able to
do so, how to get `git svn` to do so, or even what these files are.
This patch adds a FILES section to the man page with a description of
what $GIT_DIR/svn/**/.rev_map* files are and how they are (re)built, and
links to this description from various other parts of the man page.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
As $GIT_DIR may not equal '.git', it's usually more generally correct to
refer to files in $GIT_DIR rather than in .git .
This will also allow me to link some of the occurrences of '.git' in
git-svn.txt to a new reference target inside this file in an upcoming
commit, because in AsciiDoc definitions apparently can't start with
a '.' character.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
It's redundant to say that $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/unhandled.log or
$GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index is in .git/svn when $GIT_DIR is '.git', and
is wrong when $GIT_DIR is not '.git'
Also, a '/' was missing from the pathname $GIT_DIR/svn/<refname>/index .
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
As asterisks are used to indicate bold text in AsciiDoc, shell glob
expressions must be escaped appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
On my system this is in /usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex not
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex. Extract this portion of the path to a variable
so that is can be set in config.mak.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
"git remote set-head" has always supported --add and --delete
as synonyms for the -a and -d option but forgot to document
them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
The id is already different for binary files. The hash used is an
implementation detail, so let's just document how diffs are compared.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
branch.<name>.remote can be set to '.' (period) as the repository
path (URL) as part of the remote name dwimmery. Tell the reader.
Such relative paths are not 'special'. Correct the branch.<name>.merge
note.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The Git cli will accept dot '.' (period) as the relative path
to the current repository. Explain this action.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked
paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output. This prevents
debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is
first removed from the index with `git rm --cached <path>`.
The option --no-index tells the command to bypass the check for the
path being in the index and hence allows tracked paths to be checked
too.
Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of `git add` and
`git status` its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion.
Test scripts are augmented to check this option against the standard
ignores to ensure correct behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@opensourcesolutions.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead.
The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the
ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no
operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume
'HEAD'.
So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so
let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the synopsis, the second form to detach HEAD at the named commit
labelled the argument as '<commit>'. While this is technically more
correct, because the feature to detach is not limited to the tip of
a named branch, it was found confusing and did not express the fact
that you have to give `--detach` if you are naming the commit you
want to detach HEAD at with a branch name.
Separate this case into two syntactical forms, mimicking the way how
the DESCRIPTION section shows this usage. Also update the text that
explains the syntax to name the commit to detach HEAD at to clarify.
Suggested-by: Benjamin Bergman <ben@benbergman.ca>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git status' and 'git commit' can be told to also show the output of "git
submodule summary" by setting the "status.submodulesummary" config option.
But status and commit also honor the "diff.ignoreSubmodules" and the
"submodule.<name>.ignore" settings, which then disable the summary partly
or completely. This - and the fact that the last two settings do not
affect the "git submodule" commands at all - is not well documented.
Extend the documentation in those places where "status.submodulesummary",
"diff.ignoreSubmodules" and "submodule.<name>.ignore" are described to
better explain these dependencies.
Thanks-to: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no reason not to turn on keepalives by default.
They take very little bandwidth, and significantly less than
the progress reporting they are replacing. And in the case
that progress reporting is on, we should never need to send
a keepalive anyway, as we will constantly be showing
progress and resetting the keepalive timer.
We do not necessarily know what the client's idea of a
reasonable timeout is, so let's keep this on the low side of
5 seconds. That is high enough that we will always prefer
our normal 1-second progress reports to sending a keepalive
packet, but low enough that no sane client should consider
the connection hung.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a quiet
period while pack-objects prepares the pack (i.e., counting objects
and delta compression). Normally we would see (and send to the
client) progress information, but if "--quiet" is in effect,
pack-objects will produce nothing at all until the pack data is
ready. On a large repository, this can take tens of seconds (or even
minutes if the system is loaded or the repository is badly packed).
Clients or intermediate proxies can sometimes give up in this
situation, assuming that the server or connection has hung.
This patch introduces a "keepalive" option; if upload-pack sees no
data from pack-objects for a certain number of seconds, it will send
an empty sideband data packet to let the other side know that we are
still working on it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it easier for readers to find the actual config variables that
implement the "upstream" relationship.
Suggested-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a --stdin signature to read update instructions from standard input
and apply multiple ref updates together. Use an input format that
supports any update that could be specified via the command-line,
including object names like "branch:path with space".
Signed-off-by: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is similar in spirit to "make -C dir ..." and "tar -C dir ...".
It takes more keypresses to invoke git command in a different
directory without leaving the current directory:
1. (cd ~/foo && git status)
git --git-dir=~/foo/.git --work-dir=~/foo status
GIT_DIR=~/foo/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=~/foo git status
2. (cd ../..; git grep foo)
3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do (cd $d && git svn rebase); done
The methods shown above are acceptable for scripting but are too
cumbersome for quick command line invocations.
With this new option, the above can be done with fewer keystrokes:
1. git -C ~/foo status
2. git -C ../.. grep foo
3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do git -C $d svn rebase; done
A new test script is added to verify the behavior of this option with
other path-related options like --git-dir and --work-tree.
Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that
they are not special here.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc's "link" is supposed to create hyperlinks for HTML output, so
prefer a "link" to point to an HTML file instead of a text file if an HTML
version of the file is being generated. For RelNotes, keep pointing to
text files as no equivalent HTML files are generated.
If appropriate, also update the link description to not contain the linked
file's extension.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Historically, "git status" needed to prefix each output line with '#' so
that the output could be added as comment to the commit message. This
prefix comment has no real purpose when "git status" is ran from the
command-line, and this may distract users from the real content.
Disable this prefix comment by default, and make it re-activable for
users needing backward compatibility with status.displayCommentPrefix.
Obviously, "git commit" ignores status.displayCommentPrefix and keeps the
comment unconditionnaly when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG (but not when
writing to stdout for an error message or with --dry-run).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is now standard practice in Git to have both short and long option
names. So let's give a long option name to the git replace options too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Michael Haggerty