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* Merge branch 'fc/trivial'Junio C Hamano2013-12-171-0/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * fc/trivial: remote: fix status with branch...rebase=preserve fetch: add missing documentation t: trivial whitespace cleanups abspath: trivial style fix
| * fetch: add missing documentationFelipe Contreras2013-12-091-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no mention of the 'origin' default, or the fact that the upstream tracking branch remote is used. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | git-fetch.txt: improve description of tag auto-followingMichael Haggerty2013-10-301-7/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make it clearer that tags are fetched independent of which branches were fetched from the remote in any particular fetch. (Tags are even fetched if they point at objects that are in the current repository but not reachable, which is probably a bug.) Put less emphasis on the mechanism and more on the effect of tag auto-following. Also mention the options and configuration settings that can change the tag-fetching behavior. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Thomas Ackermann2013-02-011-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sectionsMartin von Zweigbergk2011-07-061-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SYNOPSIS sections of most commands that span several lines already use [verse] to retain line breaks. Most commands that don't span several lines seem not to use [verse]. In the HTML output, [verse] does not only preserve line breaks, but also makes the section indented, which causes a slight inconsistency between commands that use [verse] and those that don't. Use [verse] in all SYNOPSIS sections for consistency. Also remove the blank lines from git-fetch.txt and git-rebase.txt to align with the other man pages. In the case of git-rebase.txt, which already uses [verse], the blank line makes the [verse] not apply to the last line, so removing the blank line also makes the formatting within the document more consistent. While at it, add single quotes to 'git cvsimport' for consistency with other commands. Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* remove doubled words, e.g., s/to to/to/, and fix related typosJim Meyering2011-04-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from which I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile rule in gnulib to help prevent recurrence. Running the command below spotted a few in git, too: git ls-files | xargs perl -0777 -n \ -e 'while (/\b(then?|[iao]n|i[fst]|but|f?or|at|and|[dt])\s+\1\b/gims)' \ -e '{$n=($` =~ tr/\n/\n/ + 1); ($v=$&)=~s/\n/\\n/g;' \ -e 'print "$ARGV:$n:$v\n"}' Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jl/submodule-fetch-on-demand'Junio C Hamano2011-04-041-0/+9
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jl/submodule-fetch-on-demand: fetch/pull: Describe --recurse-submodule restrictions in the BUGS section submodule update: Don't fetch when the submodule commit is already present fetch/pull: Don't recurse into a submodule when commits are already present Submodules: Add 'on-demand' value for the 'fetchRecurseSubmodule' option config: teach the fetch.recurseSubmodules option the 'on-demand' value fetch/pull: Add the 'on-demand' value to the --recurse-submodules option fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary Conflicts: builtin/fetch.c submodule.c
| * fetch/pull: Describe --recurse-submodule restrictions in the BUGS sectionJens Lehmann2011-03-091-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the --recurse-submodules option with fetch and pull might not always fetch all the submodule commits the user expects, as this will only work when the submodule is already checked out. Document that and warn that this is expected to change in the future. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesJeff King2011-03-111-10/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The point of these sections is generally to: 1. Give credit where it is due. 2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or file bug reports. But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless. So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section to give credit to the major contributors and point to shortlog and blame for more information. Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can follow that to the main git manpage.
* Change "tracking branch" to "remote-tracking branch"Matthieu Moy2010-11-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | One more step towards consistancy. We change the documentation and the C code in a single patch, since the only instances in the C code are in comment and usage strings. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Use parentheses and `...' where appropriateŠtěpán Němec2010-10-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the same purpose. Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* fetch/push: fix usage stringsTay Ray Chuan2010-04-091-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - use "<options>" instead of just "options". - use "[<repository> [<refspec>...]]" to indicate that <repository> and <refspec> are optional, and that <refspec> cannot be specified without specifying <repository>. Note that when called without specifying <repository> (eg. "git fetch -f"), it is accurate to say that the "git fetch [<options>] [<repository> ...]" case takes precedence over "git fetch [<options>] <group>". Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutThomas Rast2010-01-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Merge branch 'bg/fetch-multi'Junio C Hamano2009-11-231-2/+12
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * bg/fetch-multi: Re-implement 'git remote update' using 'git fetch' builtin-fetch: add --dry-run option builtin-fetch: add --prune option teach warn_dangling_symref to take a FILE argument remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads() Add missing test for 'git remote update --prune' Add the configuration option skipFetchAll Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch' Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
| * Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'Björn Gustavsson2009-11-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the --multiple option to specify that all arguments are either groups or remotes. The primary reason for adding this option is to allow us to re-implement 'git remote update' using fetch. It would have been nice if this option was not needed, but since the colon in a refspec is optional, it is in general not possible to know whether a single, colon-less argument is a remote or a refspec. Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| * Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'Björn Gustavsson2009-11-101-2/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'git remote' is meant for managing remotes and 'git fetch' is meant for actually fetching data from remote repositories. Therefore, it is not logical that you must use 'git remote update' to fetch from more than one repository at once. Add the --all option to 'git fetch', to tell it to attempt to fetch from all remotes. Also, if --all is not given, the <repository> argument is allowed to be the name of a group, to allow fetching from all repositories in the group. Other options except -v and -q are silently ignored. Signed-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | modernize fetch/merge/pull examplesClemens Buchacher2009-10-211-0/+29
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "git pull" documentation has examples which follow an outdated style. Update the examples to use "git merge" where appropriate and move the examples to the corresponding manpages. Furthermore, - show that pull is equivalent to fetch and merge, which is still a frequently asked question, - explain the default fetch refspec. Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Update my e-mail addressJunio C Hamano2008-07-211-1/+1
| | | | | | The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder2008-07-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i" done git diff . Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder2008-07-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder2008-07-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Christian Couder2008-06-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee2008-01-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Add urls.txt to git-clone man pageAndrew Ruder2007-07-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since git-clone is one of the many commands taking URLs to remote repositories as an argument, it should include the URL-types list from urls.txt. Split up urls.txt into urls.txt and urls-remotes.txt. The latter should be used by anything besides git-clone where a discussion of using .git/config and .git/remotes/ to name URLs just doesn't make as much sense. Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git-fetch: document automatic tag following.Junio C Hamano2007-02-091-0/+8
| | | | Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page titleJunio C Hamano2007-01-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Remove trailing dot after short descriptionFredrik Kuivinen2006-03-091-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Docs: move git url and remotes text to separate sectionsJ. Bruce Fields2006-02-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The sections on git urls and remotes files in the git-fetch, git-pull, and git-push manpages seem long enough to be worth a manpage section of their own. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: recursive is the default strategy these days.Junio C Hamano2005-12-081-1/+1
| | | | | | We still said resolve was the default in handful places. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Refactored merge options into separate merge-options.txt.Jon Loeliger2005-11-061-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Refactored fetch options into separate fetch-options.txt. Made git-merge use merge-options. Made git-fetch use fetch-options. Made git-pull use merge-options and fetch-options. Added --help option to git-pull and git-format-patch scripts. Rewrote Documentation/Makefile to dynamically determine include dependencies. Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Documentation: git-fetch/pull updates.Junio C Hamano2005-11-051-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We do not accept multiple <refspecs> on one Pull:/Push: line right now (we could lift this tentative workaround for the broken refnames), but we have always accepted multiple such lines, so use that form in the examples and discussion. Also explicitly mention that Octopus is made only with an explicit command line request and never from Pull: lines. Add a couple of cross references. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* git-fetch/push/pull: documentation.Junio C Hamano2005-10-191-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | The documentation was lazily sharing the argument description across these commands. Lazy may be a way of life, but that does not justify confusing others ;-). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Remove the version tags from the manpagesJunio C Hamano2005-10-101-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* [PATCH] Random documentation fixesJonas Fonseca2005-10-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The fixes focuses on improving the HTML output. Most noteworthy: - Fix the Makefile to also make various *.html files depend on included files. - Consistently use 'NOTE: ...' instead of '[ ... ]' for additional info. - Fix ending '::' for description lists in OPTION section etc. - Fix paragraphs in description lists ending up as preformated text. - Always use listingblocks (preformatted text wrapped in lines with -----) for examples that span empty lines, so they are put in only one HTML block. - Use '1.' instead of '(1)' for numbered lists. - Fix linking to other GIT docs. - git-rev-list.txt: put option descriptions in an OPTION section. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macroSergey Vlasov2005-09-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The replacement was performed automatically by these commands: perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \ README Documentation/*.txt perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \ README Documentation/*.txt Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* [PATCH] Document git-fetch optionsSergey Vlasov2005-09-151-0/+6
| | | | | | Add documentation for git-fetch options Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* Big tool rename.Junio C Hamano2005-09-071-0/+41
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences since 0.99.6 are: (1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if something is implemented as a shell script or not. (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with 'index' if that is what they mean. There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near future. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>