The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
* mm/am-c-doc:
Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable
Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
If we are expiring reflog entries for a symbolic reference, then how
should --updateref be handled if the newest reflog entry is expired?
Option 1: Update the referred-to reference. (This is what the current
code does.) This doesn't make sense, because the referred-to reference
has its own reflog, which hasn't been rewritten.
Option 2: Update the symbolic reference itself (as in, REF_NODEREF).
This would convert the symbolic reference into a non-symbolic
reference (e.g., detaching HEAD), which is surely not what a user
would expect.
Option 3: Error out. This is plausible, but it would make the
following usage impossible:
git reflog expire ... --updateref --all
Option 4: Ignore --updateref for symbolic references.
We choose to implement option 4.
Note: another problem in this code will be fixed in a moment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Revamp the "git reflog" usage documentation in the manpage and the
command help to match the current reality and improve its clarity:
* Add documentation for some options that had been left out.
* Group the subcommands and options more logically and move more
common subcommands/options higher.
* Improve some explanations.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In "git log --decorate", you would see the commit header like this:
commit ... (HEAD, jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color)
where "commit ... (" is painted in color.diff.commit, "HEAD" in
color.decorate.head, ", " in color.diff.commit, the branch name in
color.decorate.branch and then closing ")" in color.diff.commit.
If you wanted to paint the HEAD and local branch name in the same
color as the body text (perhaps because cyan and green are too faint
on a black-on-white terminal to be readable), you would not want to
have to say
[color "decorate"]
head = black
branch = black
because that you would not be able to reuse same configuration on a
white-on-black terminal. You would naively expect
[color "decorate"]
head = normal
branch = normal
to work, but unfortunately it does not. It paints the string "HEAD"
and the branch name in the same color as the opening parenthesis or
comma between the decoration elements. This is because the code
forgets to reset the color after printing the "prefix" in its own
color.
It theoretically is possible that some people were expecting and
relying on that the attribute set as the "diff.commit" color, which
is used to draw these opening parenthesis and inter-item comma, is
inherited by the drawing of branch names, but it is not how the
coloring works everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The 'true' short-hand doesn't deserve a separate sentence; even our own
git config --bool foo.bar yes
would not produce it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of describing it for color.branch.<slot> and have everybody
else refer to it, explain how colors are spelled in "Values" section
upfront.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The various types of values set to the configuration variables
deserve more than a brief footnote mention in the syntax section,
and it will be more so after the later steps of this clean up
effort.
Move the mention of booleans from the syntax section to this new
section, and describe how human-readble integers can be spelled with
scaling there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A line can be continued via a backquote-LF and can be chomped at a
comment character. But that is not specific to string-typed values.
It is common to all, just like unquoted leading and trailing
whitespaces are stripped and inter-word spacing are retained.
Move the description around and desribe these structural rules
first, then introduce the double-quote facility as a way to override
them, and finally mention various types of values.
Note that these structural rules only apply to the value part of the
configuration file. E.g.
[aSection] \
name \
= value
does not work, because the rules kick in only after seeing "name =".
Both the original and the updated text are phrased in an awkward way
by singling out the "value" part of the line because of this.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The syntax section repeats what the preamble explained already.
That a variable can have multiple values is more about what a
variable is than the syntax of the file.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Section names and variable names are both case-insensitive, but one
is described as "not case sensitive". Use "case-insensitive" for
both.
Instead of saying "... have to be escaped" without telling what that
escaping achieves, state it in a more positive way, i.e. "... can be
included by escaping".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing,
updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under
--index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a
replacement for GNU patch).
* jc/apply-beyond-symlink:
apply: do not touch a file beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index
apply: reject input that touches outside the working area
The documentation of 'git submodule update' has several problems:
1) It mentions that value 'none' of submodule.$name.update can be
overridden by --checkout, but other combinations of configuration
values and command line options are not mentioned.
2) The documentation of submodule.$name.update is scattered across three
places, which is confusing.
3) The documentation of submodule.$name.update in gitmodules.txt is
incorrect, because the code always uses the value from .git/config
and never from .gitmodules.
4) Documentation of --force was incomplete, because it is only effective
in case of checkout method of update.
Fix all these problems by documenting submodule.*.update in
git-submodule.txt and make everybody else refer to it.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is needed in build automation where the tree really needs to
be reset to known state.
Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
can check only one place for all necessary information.
* jk/strbuf-doc-to-header:
strbuf.h: group documentation for trim functions
strbuf.h: drop boilerplate descriptions of strbuf_split_*
strbuf.h: reorganize api function grouping headers
strbuf.h: format asciidoc code blocks as 4-space indent
strbuf.h: drop asciidoc list formatting from API docs
strbuf.h: unify documentation comments beginnings
strbuf.h: integrate api-strbuf.txt documentation
The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
the API manual.
* jn/doc-api-errors:
doc: document error handling functions and conventions
"git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
to the "log" command.
* jc/doc-log-rev-list-options:
Documentation: what does "git log --indexed-objects" even mean?
The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
the --raw format.
* jc/diff-format-doc:
diff-format doc: a score can follow M for rewrite
The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
easily misunderstood.
* mg/push-repo-option-doc:
git-push.txt: document the behavior of --repo
Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
the documentation.
* jc/conf-var-doc:
CodingGuidelines: describe naming rules for configuration variables
config.txt: mark deprecated variables more prominently
config.txt: clarify that add.ignore-errors is deprecated
It was already documented, but the user had to follow the link to
git-mailinfo.txt to find it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The variable was documented in git-mailinfo.txt, but not in config.txt.
The detailed documentation is still the one of --scissors in
git-mailinfo.txt, but we give enough information here to let the user
understand what it is about, and to make it easy to find it (e.g.
searching ">8" and "8<" finds it).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify in the documentation that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and
"remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed
via different transports, not two separate repositories.
* jc/remote-set-url-doc:
Documentation/git-remote.txt: stress that set-url is not for triangular
The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
easily misunderstood.
* mg/push-repo-option-doc:
git-push.txt: document the behavior of --repo
The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
the --raw format.
* jc/diff-format-doc:
diff-format doc: a score can follow M for rewrite
"git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
to the "log" command.
* jc/doc-log-rev-list-options:
Documentation: what does "git log --indexed-objects" even mean?
Extending the js/push-to-deploy topic, the behaviour of "git push"
when updating the working tree and the index with an update to the
branch that is checked out can be tweaked by push-to-checkout hook.
* jc/push-to-checkout:
receive-pack: support push-to-checkout hook
receive-pack: refactor updateInstead codepath
"git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
"git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do
not have the string "WIP" in their messages.
* cj/log-invert-grep:
log: teach --invert-grep option
The clone subcommand has long had support for excluding
subdirectories, but sync has not. This is a nuisance,
since as soon as you do a sync, any changed files that
were initially excluded start showing up.
Move the "exclude" command-line option into the parent
class; the actual behavior was already present there so
it simply had to be exposed.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Reviewed-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default, a patch that affects outside the working area (either a
Git controlled working tree, or the current working directory when
"git apply" is used as a replacement of GNU patch) is rejected as a
mistake (or a mischief). Git itself does not create such a patch,
unless the user bends over backwards and specifies a non-standard
prefix to "git diff" and friends.
When `git apply` is used as a "better GNU patch", the user can pass
the `--unsafe-paths` option to override this safety check. This
option has no effect when `--index` or `--cached` is in use.
The new test was stolen from Jeff King with slight enhancements.
Note that a few new tests for touching outside the working area by
following a symbolic link are still expected to fail at this step,
but will be fixed in later steps.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/atomic-push:
Document receive.advertiseatomic
t5543-atomic-push.sh: add basic tests for atomic pushes
push.c: add an --atomic argument
send-pack.c: add --atomic command line argument
send-pack: rename ref_update_to_be_sent to check_to_send_update
receive-pack.c: negotiate atomic push support
receive-pack.c: add execute_commands_atomic function
receive-pack.c: move transaction handling in a central place
receive-pack.c: move iterating over all commands outside execute_commands
receive-pack.c: die instead of error in case of possible future bug
receive-pack.c: shorten the execute_commands loop over all commands
We may want to say something about command line option names in the
new section as well, but for now, let's make sure everybody is clear
on how to structure and name their configuration variables.
The text for the rules are partly taken from the log message of
Jonathan's 6b3020a2 (add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for
add.ignore-errors, 2010-12-01).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems to be a common mistake to try using a single remote
(e.g. 'origin') to fetch from one place (i.e. upstream) while
pushing to another (i.e. your publishing point).
That will never work satisfactorily, and it is easy to understand
why if you think about what refs/remotes/origin/* would mean in such
a world. It fundamentally cannot reflect the reality. If it
follows the state of your upstream, it cannot match what you have
published, and vice versa.
It may be that misinformation is spread by some people. Let's
counter them by adding a few words to our documentation.
- The description was referring to <oldurl> and <newurl>, but never
mentioned <name> argument you give from the command line. By
mentioning "remote <name>", stress the fact that it is configuring
a single remote.
- Add a reminder that explicitly states that this is about a single
remote, which the triangular workflow is not about.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
b6d8f309 (diff-raw format update take #2., 2005-05-23) started
documenting the diff format, and it said
...
(8) sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
(9) status, followed by similarlity index number only for C and R.
(10) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
...
because C and R _were_ the only ones that came with a number back
then. This was corrected by ddafa7e9 (diff-helper: Fix R/C score
parsing under -z flag., 2005-05-29) and we started saying "score"
instead of "similarlity index" (because we can have other kind of
score there), and stopped saying "only for C and R" (because Git is
an ever evolving system). Later f345b0a0 (Add -B flag to diff-*
brothers., 2005-05-30) introduced a new concept, "dissimilarity"
score; it did not have to fix any documentation.
The current text that says only C and R can have scores came
independently from a5a323f3 (Add reference for status letters in
documentation., 2008-11-02) and it was wrong from the day one.
Noticed-by: Mike Hommey
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As per the code, the --repo <repo> option is equivalent to the
<repo> argument to 'git push', but somehow it was documented as
something that is more than that. [It exists for historical
reasons, back from the time when options had to come before
arguments.]
Say so. [But not that.]
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The old text gave an impression that even in a new repository using
old form might be safer. Only Git from pre 1.7.0 days choke on the
correctly named variable, which is ancient by today's standard.
We have no intention to remove the support for deprecated ones, but
let's make sure that we do not give room for confused questions such
as "why does core.sparse-checkout not work, when add.ignore-errors
does?"
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
4fe10219 (rev-list: add --indexed-objects option, 2014-10-16) adds
"--indexed-objects" option to "rev-list", and it is only useful in
the context of "git rev-list" and not "git log". There are other
object traversal options that do not make sense for "git log" that
are shown in the manual page.
Move the description of "--indexed-objects" to the object traversal
section so that it sits together with its friends "--objects",
"--objects-edge", etc. and then show them only in "git rev-list"
documentation.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Version numbers in asciidoc-generated content (such as man pages)
went missing as of da8a366 (Documentation: refactor common operations
into variables). Fix by putting the underscore back in the variable
name.
Signed-off-by: Sven van Haastregt <svenvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
