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Junio C Hamano
ed73fe5642 Merge branch 'tr/line-log'
* tr/line-log:
  git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff description
  line-log: fix documentation formatting
  log -L: improve comments in process_all_files()
  log -L: store the path instead of a diff_filespec
  log -L: test merge of parallel modify/rename
  t4211: pass -M to 'git log -M -L...' test
  log -L: fix overlapping input ranges
  log -L: check range set invariants when we look it up
  Speed up log -L... -M
  log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
  Implement line-history search (git log -L)
  Export rewrite_parents() for 'log -L'
  Refactor parse_loc
2013-06-02 16:00:44 -07:00
Thomas Rast
4999266706 git-log(1): remove --full-line-diff description
This option is a remnant of an earlier log -L version, and not
currently implemented.  Remove it until (if at all) it is implemented
again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-22 07:53:59 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
00200e9ea0 git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required
In its current form, the note talks about separating options from
"branch names" and "refnames" in the same sentence.  This is entirely
inaccurate, as <revision range> need not be a set of branch names or
ref names.  Rewrite it to use the word "revision range", to be
consistent with the SYNOPSIS.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21 23:10:51 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
21a40b90e9 git-log.txt: generalize <since>..<until>
'<since>..<until>' is misleading, as there are many other forms that
'git log' can accept as an argument.  Replace it with <revision range>,
referring to the section "Specifying Ranges" in revisions.txt, and
rewrite the section appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21 23:10:40 -07:00
Ramkumar Ramachandra
a682187e19 git-log.txt: order OPTIONS properly; move <since>..<until>
The OPTIONS section lists <since>..<until> as the first item, but this
is inconsistent with the ordering in SYNOPSIS.  Move it down until it
appears just before [[--] <path>...].

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21 23:10:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0f483436e9 line-log: fix documentation formatting
The second paragraph of the added description for the -L option
"<start> and <end> can take one of these forms:", and the list of
forms that follow the headline, were indented one level too short,
due to the missing "+" to signal that the next paragraph continues
the previous one.

Also "You can specify this option more than once" is about the -L
option, not about its various forms of starting and ending points.
Move it to the end of the main text.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-21 19:41:24 -07:00
Thomas Rast
13b8f68c1f log -L: :pattern:file syntax to find by funcname
This new syntax finds a funcname matching /pattern/, and then takes from there
up to (but not including) the next funcname.  So you can say

  git log -L:main:main.c

and it will dig up the main() function and show its line-log, provided
there are no other funcnames matching 'main'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28 10:30:04 -07:00
Thomas Rast
12da1d1f6f Implement line-history search (git log -L)
This is a rewrite of much of Bo's work, mainly in an effort to split
it into smaller, easier to understand routines.

The algorithm is built around the struct range_set, which encodes a
series of line ranges as intervals [a,b).  This is used in two
contexts:

* A set of lines we are tracking (which will change as we dig through
  history).
* To encode diffs, as pairs of ranges.

The main routine is range_set_map_across_diff().  It processes the
diff between a commit C and some parent P.  It determines which diff
hunks are relevant to the ranges tracked in C, and computes the new
ranges for P.

The algorithm is then simply to process history in topological order
from newest to oldest, computing ranges and (partial) diffs.  At
branch points, we need to merge the ranges we are watching.  We will
find that many commits do not affect the chosen ranges, and mark them
TREESAME (in addition to those already filtered by pathspec limiting).
Another pass of history simplification then gets rid of such commits.

This is wired as an extra filtering pass in the log machinery.  This
currently only reduces code duplication, but should allow for other
simplifications and options to be used.

Finally, we hook a diff printer into the output chain.  Ideally we
would wire directly into the diff logic, to optionally use features
like word diff.  However, that will require some major reworking of
the diff chain, so we completely replace the output with our own diff
for now.

As this was a GSoC project, and has quite some history by now, many
people have helped.  In no particular order, thanks go to

  Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
  Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
  Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
  Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>

Apologies to everyone I forgot.

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-28 10:29:22 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
577f63e781 Merge branch 'ap/log-mailmap'
Teach commands in the "log" family to optionally pay attention to
the mailmap.

* ap/log-mailmap:
  log --use-mailmap: optimize for cases without --author/--committer search
  log: add log.mailmap configuration option
  log: grep author/committer using mailmap
  test: add test for --use-mailmap option
  log: add --use-mailmap option
  pretty: use mailmap to display username and email
  mailmap: add mailmap structure to rev_info and pp
  mailmap: simplify map_user() interface
  mailmap: remove email copy and length limitation
  Use split_ident_line to parse author and committer
  string-list: allow case-insensitive string list
2013-01-20 17:06:53 -08:00
Antoine Pelisse
ea57bc0d41 log: add --use-mailmap option
Add the --use-mailmap option to log commands. It allows to display
names from mailmap file when displaying logs, whatever the format
used.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-10 12:33:08 -08:00
Jeff King
d5422b0c0b mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob
Anywhere we mention mailmap.file, it is probably worth
mentioning mailmap.blob, as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-12-13 10:19:26 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
70c2a258c6 doc: move rev-list option -<n> from git-log.txt to rev-list-options.txt
rev-list-options.txt is included in git-rev-list.txt. This makes sure
rev-list man page also shows that, and at one place, together with
equivalent options -n and --max-count.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-09-06 13:26:50 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4b5eac7f03 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation: clarify effects of -- <path> arguments
2011-08-30 12:35:51 -07:00
Thomas Rast
b15b5b10a7 Documentation: clarify effects of -- <path> arguments
'git log -- <path>' does not "show commits that affect the specified
paths" in a literal sense unless --full-history is given (for example,
a file that only existed on a side branch will turn up no commits at
all!).

Reword it to specify the actual intent of the filtering, and point to
the "History Simplification" section.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-30 10:05:21 -07:00
Jeff King
5d2fc9135a docs: put listed example commands in backticks
Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing
blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of
special characters.  Some manpages make a list of examples, like:

  git foo::
    Run git foo.

  git foo -q::
    Use the "-q" option.

to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to
read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for
example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be
difficult).

This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the
equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without
character interpretation).

As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which
"git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list,
and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:49:13 -07:00
Martin von Zweigbergk
7791a1d9b9 Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections
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>
2011-07-06 14:26:26 -07:00
Johan Herland
ab18b2c0df log/pretty-options: Document --[no-]notes and deprecate old notes options
Document the behavior or the new --notes, --notes=<ref> and --no-notes
options, and list --show-notes[=<ref>] and --[no-]standard-notes options
as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-30 11:36:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
06a054014b Merge branch 'mg/rev-list-n-reverse-doc'
* mg/rev-list-n-reverse-doc:
  git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper order
  git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limiting
2011-03-19 23:25:32 -07:00
Jeff King
48bb914ed6 doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages
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.
2011-03-11 10:59:16 -05:00
Michael J Gruber
f98fd43675 git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper order
Match the order of the description to the one in which they get applied:

  commit limiting
  commit ordering
  commit formatting
  diff options

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-09 15:15:52 -08:00
Michael J Gruber
190767f6c1 git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limiting
They are applied after commit ordering and formatting options, in
particular --reverse.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-08 11:59:43 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
0e615b252f Replace "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"
"remote-tracking" branch makes it explicit that the branch is "tracking a
remote", as opposed to "remote, and tracking something".

See discussion in e.g.
http://mid.gmane.org/8835ADF9-45E5-4A26-9F7F-A72ECC065BB2@gmail.com
for more details.

This patch is a straightforward application of

  perl -pi -e 's/remote tracking branch/remote-tracking branch/'

except in the RelNotes directory.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-11-03 09:19:04 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
9d83e3827f Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.

In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-13 19:10:55 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
b1c7946d0c Documentation/git-log: Clarify --full-diff
The current description gives the impression that "--full-diff" affects
"log -p" only.

Make it clearer that it affects all diff-based output types.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-09 11:53:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
90a0f1b44b Merge branch 'eb/doc-log-manpage'
* eb/doc-log-manpage:
  Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.
2010-07-15 12:07:56 -07:00
Eli Barzilay
4ded69169b Reorganize `git-log' man page to clarify common diff options.
This will reduce considerably the common confusion where people miss the
`--follow' option, and wonder why `-M'/`-C' is not working.

* Move the diff options include to after the log-specific flags, and add
  a "Common diff options" subtitle before them.  (These options apply
  only when patches are shown, which is not a common use case among
  newbies, so having them first is confusing.)

* Move the `--follow' description to the top of the listed options.  The
  options before that seem less important: `--full-diff' applies only
  when patches are shown, `--source' and `--decorate' are less useful
  with many common commit specifications.

* Clarify that `--follow' works only for a single path argument.

Signed-off-by: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-08 17:00:09 -07:00
Michael J Gruber
f028cdae66 Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parse
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we
link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has
this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes.

Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except
- when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or
- in very technical context (git-send-pack).

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05 13:39:13 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
95e42a64a9 Merge branch 'jn/notes-doc'
* jn/notes-doc:
  Documentation/notes: nitpicks
  Documentation/notes: clean up description of rewriting configuration
  Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default display refs
  Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section
  Documentation/notes: simplify treatment of default notes ref
  Documentation/notes: add configuration section
  Documentation/notes: describe content of notes blobs
  Documentation/notes: document format of notes trees
2010-06-13 11:21:06 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
82c531b3b6 Merge branch 'by/log-follow'
* by/log-follow:
  tests: rename duplicate t4205
  Make git log --follow find copies among unmodified files.
  Make diffcore_std only can run once before a diff_flush
  Add a macro DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR.
2010-05-21 04:02:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
72d9b222a9 Merge branch 'sd/log-decorate'
* sd/log-decorate:
  log.decorate: only ignore it under "log --pretty=raw"
  script with rev-list instead of log
  log --pretty/--oneline: ignore log.decorate
  log.decorate: usability fixes
  Add `log.decorate' configuration variable.
  git_config_maybe_bool()

Conflicts:
	builtin/log.c
2010-05-08 22:36:14 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
59893a88f9 Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section
Add a configuration section summarizing variables that affect the
log family of commands.

Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-08 22:30:03 -07:00
Bo Yang
0cdca133ec Make git log --follow find copies among unmodified files.
'git log --follow <path>' don't track copies from unmodified
files, and this patch fix it.

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-07 09:34:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a3d203bd0 log.decorate: usability fixes
The configuration is meant to suppliment --decorate command line option
that can be used as a boolean to turn the feature on, so it is natural
to expect

	[log]
		decorate
		decorate = yes

to work.  The original commit would segfault with the first one, and
would not understand the second one.

Once a user has this configuration in ~/.gitconfig, there needs to be a
way to override it from the command line.  Add --no-decorate option to
log family and also allow --decorate=no to mean the same thing.  Since
we allow setting log.decorate to 'true', the command line also should
accept --decorate=yes and behave accordingly.

New tests in t4202 are designed to exercise the interaction between the
configuration variable and the command line option that overrides it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-17 10:20:49 -08:00
Petr Baudis
88d9d45d07 git log -p -m: document -m and honor --first-parent
git log -p -m is used to show one merge entry per parent, with an
appropriate diff; this can be useful when examining histories where
full set of changes introduced by a merged branch is interesting, not
only the conflicts.

This patch properly documents the -m switch, which has so far been
mentioned only as a fairly special diff-tree flag.

It also makes the code show full patch entry only for the first parent
when --first-parent is used. Thus:

	git log -p -m --first-parent

will show the history from the "main branch perspective", while also
including full diff of changes introduced by other merged in branches.

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-12 11:32:23 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
78bc024ab0 Merge branch 'il/rev-glob'
* il/rev-glob:
  Documentation: improve description of --glob=pattern and friends
  rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=pattern
  rev-parse --glob
2010-01-22 16:08:16 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
b09fe971de rev-parse --branches/--tags/--remotes=pattern
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>
2010-01-20 12:30:25 -08:00
Ilari Liusvaara
d08bae7e22 rev-parse --glob
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>
2010-01-20 12:29:05 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
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.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Lars Hjemli
33e7018c45 git-log: allow --decorate[=short|full]
Commit de435ac0 changed the behavior of --decorate from printing the
full ref (e.g., "refs/heads/master") to a shorter, more human-readable
version (e.g., just "master"). While this is nice for human readers,
external tools using the output from "git log" may prefer the full
version.

This patch introduces an extension to --decorate to allow the caller to
specify either the short or the full versions.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-18 13:14:17 -07:00
Nanako Shiraishi
30c4d7a76a Document "git log --source"
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-11 12:55:42 -08:00
martin f. krafft
b1524ee0f3 Improve git-log documentation wrt file filters
The need for "--" in the git-log synopsis was previously unclear and
confusing. This patch makes it a little clearer.

Thanks to hyy <yiyihu@gmail.com> for his help.

[sp: Changed -- to \-- per prior commit e1ccf53.]

Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-01 08:21:22 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
f448e24e2f Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSIS
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION
also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural)
are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30 21:42:55 -07:00
Abhijit Menon-Sen
35faca1f99 Clarify that "git log x.c y.h" lists commits that touch either file
Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-27 14:14:00 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
ba020ef5eb manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
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>
2008-07-05 11:24:40 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
483bc4f045 Documentation formatting and cleanup
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>
2008-07-01 17:20:16 -07:00
Jonathan Nieder
b1889c36d8 Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
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>
2008-07-01 17:20:15 -07:00
Christian Couder
9e1f0a85c6 documentation: move git(7) to git(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>
2008-06-06 11:18:28 -07:00
Miklos Vajna
fdcf39e59b Include rev-list options in git-log manpage.
Replace the "This manual page describes only the most frequently used options."
text with the list of rev-list options in git-log manpage. (The git-diff-tree
options are already included.)

Move these options to a separate file and include it from both
git-rev-list.txt and git-log.txt.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-18 15:09:08 -08:00
Dan McGee
5162e69732 Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgit
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>
2008-01-06 18:41:44 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
25db465a34 Fix documentation of --first-parent in git-log and copy it to git-rev-list
Credit goes to Avi Kivity for noticing the lack of description in
rev-list manual page.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-26 16:05:54 -08:00
Miklos Vajna
272bd3cfd0 Include diff options in the git-log manpage
[jc: with quite a few fixups]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-05 01:57:40 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
170c04383b Porcelain level "log" family should recurse when diffing.
Most notably, "git log --name-status" stopped at top level
directory changes without "-r" option.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-28 00:10:21 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
d56651c0ef Don't allow combination of -g and --reverse as it doesn't work
The --walk-reflogs logic and the --reverse logic are completely
incompatible with one another.  Attempting to use both at the same
time leads to confusing results that sometimes violates the user's
formatting options or ignores the user's request to see the reflog
message and timestamp.

Unfortunately the implementation of both of these features is glued
onto the side of the revision walking machinary in such a way that
they are probably not going to be easy to make them compatible with
each other.  Rather than offering the user confusing results we are
better off bailing out with an error message until such a time as
the implementations can be refactored to be compatible.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-19 22:52:06 -07:00
Marco Costalba
9fa3465d6b Add --log-size to git log to print message size
With this option git-log prints log message size
just before the corresponding message.

Porcelain tools could use this to speedup parsing
of git-log output.

Note that size refers to log message only. If also
patch content is shown its size is not included.

In case it is not possible to know the size upfront
size value is set to zero.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-14 01:59:33 -07:00
Steven Walter
4f50f6a966 Documentation for git-log --follow
After vainly searching the Documentation for how to follow renames, I
finally broke down and grepped the source.  It would appear that Linus
didn't add write and docs for this feature when he wrote it.  The
following patch rectifies that, hopefully sparing future users from
resorting to the source code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-12 14:36:41 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
2e88c26626 Document git log --full-diff
Based on description of commit 477f2b4131
"git log --full-diff" adding this option.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 13:10:52 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
ef3cb65c21 Use tabs for indenting definition list for options in git-log.txt
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-16 13:10:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a6080a0a44 War on whitespace
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have
crept in to our source files over time.  There are a few files that need
to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors).  The results
still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07 00:04:01 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
331b51d240 Documentation: Split description of pretty formats of commit log
Split description of pretty formats into list of pretty options
(--pretty and --encoding) in new file Documentation/pretty-options.txt
and description of formats itself as a separate "PRETTY FORMATS"
section in pretty-formats.txt

While at it correct formatting a bit, to be better laid out in the
resulting manpages: git-rev-list(1), git-show(1), git-log(1) and
git-diff-tree(1).  Those manpages now include pretty options in the
same place as it was before, and description of formats just after
all options.

Inspired by the split into two filesdocumentation for merge strategies:
Documentation/merge-options.txt and Documentation/merge-strategies.txt

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-13 18:44:50 -07:00
Michael Hendricks
56822cc9ab Document 'git-log --decorate'
Signed-off-by: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-10 15:21:54 -07:00
Alex Riesen
5f2e1df5c9 Document -g (--walk-reflogs) option of git-log
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-15 16:05:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
89d5892389 Document git-log --first-parent
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-03-27 12:51:13 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
66e788bc7f Update git-log and git-show documentation
Point at where the options not so frequently used are found.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-08 15:22:21 -08:00
Shawn O. Pearce
41a5564e05 Refer users to git-rev-parse for revision specification syntax.
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as
SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by
almost every tool.  Unfortunately it is only documented in
git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17 20:45:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
adb7ba6b11 git log documentation: teach -<n> form.
We say "this shows only the most often used ones"; so instead of
teaching --max-number=<n> form, list -<n> form which is much
easier to type.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-14 18:23:22 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
99e09cce8d Documentation: minor rewording for git-log and git-show pages.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 02:36:13 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
5dc7bcc245 Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30 02:36:08 -08:00
Chris Riddoch
5d1faf8791 Move --pretty options into Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
Asciidoc-include it into the manuals for programs that use the
--pretty command-line option, for consistency among the docs.

This describes all the pretty-formats currently listed in the cmit_fmt
enum in commit.h, and also briefly describes the presence and format
of the 'Merge: ' line in some pretty formats.

There's a hedge that limiting your view of history can affect what
goes in the Merge: line, and that --abbrev/--no-abbrev do nothing to
the 'raw' format.

Signed-off-by: Chris Riddoch <chris@syntacticsugar.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-22 16:06:32 -08:00
sean
e994004f93 Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.
A bare "--" doesn't show up in man or html pages correctly
as two individual dashes unless backslashed as \--
in the asciidoc source.  Note, no backslash is needed
inside a literal block.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05 14:21:52 -07:00
Sean Estabrooks
aa6bf0eb64 Fix trivial typo in git-log man page.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-04-28 14:31:53 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e51c3b5006 git-log <diff-options> <paths> documentation
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-14 12:59:09 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
27dedf0c3b GIT 0.99.9j aka 1.0rc3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-11-16 21:32:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bd66361195 Add examples for git-log documentation and others.
I don't think people really follow the links or think very abstractly at
all in the first place.

So I was thinking more of some explicit examples. I actually think every
command should have an example in the man-page, and hey, here's a patch to
start things off.

Of course, I'm not exactly "Mr Documentation", and I don't know that this
is the prettiest way to do this, but I checked that the resulting html and
man-page seems at least reasonable.

And hey, if the examples look like each other, that's just because I'm
also not "Mr Imagination".

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-30 22:54:39 -08:00
Christian Meder
cc1621e2a0 The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version
The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version of the git
commands. Adapt the remaining offenders.

Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 16:01:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
98438bd0e8 Remove the version tags from the manpages
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10 14:49:52 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov
a7154e916c [PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macro
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>
2005-09-20 15:07:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
215a7ad1ef Big tool rename.
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>
2005-09-07 17:45:20 -07:00