We saw this explanation repeated on the mailing list a few times. Even
though the description of individual options to particular commands are
explained in their manual pages, the reason behind choosing which is which
has not been clearly explained in any of the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
With the dashed forms of git commands not in $(bindir), we have
to change many instances of "git-command" to "git command". Also,
for consistency it is at times appropriate to make the opposite
change. In some cases, the change is not so simple as changing one
character.
This patch gets rid of some of those cases by rewrapping lines.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the example inetd.conf lines in git-daemon(1), it was
assumed that `git-daemon` resides in the user's /usr/bin.
With this patch, we only assume `git` is in /usr/bin.
The stronger assumption fails in the default installation
nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The manual page for the command invoked as "git clone" is named
git-clone(1), and similarly for the rest of the git commands.
Make sure our first example of this in tutorials makes it clear
that it is the first two words of a command line that make up the
command's name (that is: for example, the effect of "git svn
dcommit" is described in git-svn(1)).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change leading spaces to tabs to match the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the conversion of HTML documentation to man pages
tutorial.html -> gittutorial (7)
tutorial-2.html -> gittutorial-2 (7)
cvs-migration.html -> gitcvs-migration (7)
diffcore.html -> gitdiffcore (7)
repository-layout.html -> gitrepository-layout (5)
hooks.html -> githooks (5)
glossary.html -> gitglossary (7)
core-tutorial.html -> gitcore-tutorial (7)
and the automatic update of references to these pages,
a little debris was left behind. We clear it away.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* tr/send-email-ssl:
git-send-email: prevent undefined variable warnings if no encryption is set
git-send-email: add support for TLS via Net::SMTP::SSL
The rev-parse manpage introduces the branch@{date} syntax,
and mentions the reflog specifically. However, new users may
not be familiar with the distinction between the reflog and
the commit date, so let's help them out with a "you may be
interested in --until" pointer.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When git-parse-remote and git-sh-setup are not installed in
$(bindir) anymore, the shell script library won't be found on
user's $PATH in general.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
git-svn: don't sanitize remote names in config
git-svn: avoid filling up the disk with temp files.
git cat-file: Fix memory leak in batch mode
fix git config example syntax
avoid off-by-one error in run_upload_archive
This removes, from the documentation and the bash completion script, the
two config options that were introduced by the git-whatchanged.sh script
and lost in the C rewrite. Today, we can use aliases as an alternative.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-config expects a space, not '=' between option and value.
Also, quote the value since it contains globs, which some shells will not
pass through unchanged, or will abort if the glob doesn't expand.
Signed-off-by: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes, the easiest way to fix up a patch is to edit it directly, even
adding or deleting lines. Now, many people are not as divine as certain
benevolent dictators as to update the hunk headers correctly at the first
try.
So teach the tool to do it for us.
[jc: with tests]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is a very well established command line convention that old residents
of the git mailing list knew by heart and nobody even thought about
documenting it explicitly, which was not very nice.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes it is desirable to have non-fast-forward branches in a
shared repository. A typical example of that is the 'pu' branch.
This patch extends the format of allowed-users and allow-groups
files by using the '+' sign at the beginning as the mark that
non-fast-forward pushes are permitted to the branch.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do this by handing over the Net::SMTP instance to Net::SMTP::SSL,
which avoids Net::SMTP::TLS and its weird error checking. This trick
is due to Brian Evins.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As announced for 1.6.0.
Git older than version 1.5.2 (or any other git version with this option
set to 1) may revert to version 1 of the pack index by manually deleting
all .idx files and recreating them using 'git index-pack'. Communication
over the git native protocol is unaffected since the pack index is never
transferred.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
GIT 1.5.6.1
fix update-hook-example to work with packed tag references
clone: create intermediate directories of destination repo
for-each-ref: implement missing tag values
git-rebase.sh: Add check if rebase is in progress
* lt/config-fsync:
Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files
Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines
Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine
Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
The update-hook-example used 'test -f' to check the tag present, which
does not work if the checked reference is packed. This check has been
changed to use 'git rev-parse $tag' instead.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As announced for 1.6.0.
Access over the native protocol by old git versions is unaffected as
this capability is negociated by the protocol. Otherwise setting this
config option to "false" and doing a 'git repack -a -d' is enough to
remain compatible with ancient git versions (older than 1.4.4).
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We used to mark hooks we ship as samples by making them unexecutable, but
some filesystems cannot tell what is executable and what is not.
This makes it much more explicit. The hooks are suffixed with .sample
(but now are made executable), so enabling it is still one step operation
(instead of "chmod +x $hook", you would do "mv $hook.sample $hook") but
now they won't get accidentally enabled on systems without executable bit.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Extend parse-options test suite
api-parse-options.txt: Introduce documentation for parse options API
parse-options.c: fix documentation syntax of optional arguments
api-builtin.txt: update and fix typo
Add some documentation of basics, macros and callback
implementation of the parse-options API.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mention NEED_WORK_TREE flag and command-list.txt.
Fix "bulit-in" typo and AsciiDoc-formatting of a paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option behaves more like:
git push $url +refs/*:refs/*
than it does like:
git push $url +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
so we should document it to be more clear about that.
Suggested-by: Marek Zawirski <marek.zawirski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The script appp.sh can be used with the External Editor extension for
Mozilla Thunderbird in order to be able to send inline patches in an
easy way.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Due to a misplaced list block separator, general hints about the config
file options got indented at the same level as the description of the last
option, making it easy to miss them.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
