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4cc6260684 Documentation: clarify -u<mode> option defaults
Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 21:48:55 -08:00
59c8afdf47 rev-list: documentation and test for --left/right-only
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 16:34:05 -08:00
99bfc6691d merge: enable progress reporting for rename detection
The user can enable or disable it explicitly with the new
--progress, but it defaults to checking isatty(2).

This works only with merge-recursive and subtree. In theory
we could pass a progress flag to other strategies, but none
of them support progress at this point, so let's wait until
they grow such a feature before worrying about propagating
it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-21 10:24:08 -08:00
3b0d24053b Make <identifier> lowercase in Documentation
Leaving uppercase abbreviations (e.g. URL) and an identifier named after
an upercase env variable (CVSROOT) in place, this adjusts the few
remaining cases and fixes an unidentified identifier along the way.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-17 11:49:54 -08:00
da656f17d3 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.2' into maint-1.7.3
* maint-1.7.2:
  fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
  fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
2011-02-16 14:32:59 -08:00
6a7f71d376 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.1' into maint-1.7.2
* maint-1.7.1:
  fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
  fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
2011-02-16 14:32:54 -08:00
206af7c96b Merge branch 'maint-1.7.0' into maint-1.7.1
* maint-1.7.0:
  fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
  fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
2011-02-16 14:32:47 -08:00
53c403116a push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'
Users are sometimes confused with two different types of "tracking" behavior
in Git: "remote-tracking" branches (e.g. refs/remotes/*/*) versus the
merge/rebase relationship between a local branch and its @{upstream}
(controlled by branch.foo.remote and branch.foo.merge config settings).

When the push.default is set to 'tracking', it specifies that a branch should
be pushed to its @{upstream} branch. In other words, setting push.default to
'tracking' applies only to the latter of the above two types of "tracking"
behavior.

In order to make this more understandable to the user, we rename the
push.default == 'tracking' option to push.default == 'upstream'.

push.default == 'tracking' is left as a deprecated synonym for 'upstream'.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-16 10:21:52 -08:00
b1afe49dfb CodingGuidelines: downcase placeholders in usage messages
We accumulated some inconsistencies without an explicit guidance to spell
this out over time.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 11:53:00 -08:00
43f9f05301 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  pull: do not display fetch usage on --help-all
  git-tag.txt: list all modes in the description
  commit,status: describe -u likewise
  add: describe --patch like checkout, reset
  commit,merge,tag: describe -m likewise
  clone,init: describe --template using the same wording
  commit,status: describe --porcelain just like push
  commit,tag: use same wording for -F
  configure: use AC_LANG_PROGRAM consistently
  string_list_append: always set util pointer to NULL
  correct type of EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN
2011-02-15 11:03:22 -08:00
cfb5e6b2da git-tag.txt: list all modes in the description
Currently, the description sounds as if it applied always, but most of
its content is true in "create tag mode" only.

Make this clearer by listing all modes upfront.

Also, sneak in some linguistic improvements and make it clearer that
lightweight tags are "created" because "written" may be misread as
"are output".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-15 10:51:08 -08:00
00e6ee7246 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Git 1.7.4.1
  clone: fixup recurse_submodules option
  svn-fe: warn about experimental status

Conflicts:
	contrib/examples/git-revert.sh
	contrib/svn-fe/svn-fe.txt
2011-02-11 16:01:47 -08:00
9971d6d52c Git 1.7.4.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-11 14:39:55 -08:00
15a147e618 rebase: use @{upstream} if no upstream specified
'git rebase' without arguments is currently not supported. Make it
default to 'git rebase @{upstream}'. That is also what 'git pull
[--rebase]' defaults to, so it only makes sense that 'git rebase'
defaults to the same thing.

Defaulting to @{upstream} will make it possible to run e.g. 'git
rebase -i' without arguments, which is probably a quite common use
case. It also improves the scenario where you have multiple branches
that rebase against a remote-tracking branch, where you currently have
to choose between the extra network delay of 'git pull' or the
slightly awkward keys to enter 'git rebase @{u}'.

The error reporting when no upstream is configured for the current
branch or when no branch is checked out is reused from git-pull.sh. A
function is extracted into git-parse-remote.sh for this purpose.

Helped-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-10 14:45:25 -08:00
fc180d98a2 Merge branch 'rr/fi-import-marks-if-exists'
* rr/fi-import-marks-if-exists:
  fast-import: Introduce --import-marks-if-exists
2011-02-09 16:41:16 -08:00
06938a37dc Merge branch 'jn/cherry-pick-strategy-option'
* jn/cherry-pick-strategy-option:
  cherry-pick/revert: add support for -X/--strategy-option
2011-02-09 16:41:16 -08:00
a8e4a5943a Merge branch 'maint-1.7.0' into maint
* maint-1.7.0:
  fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
  fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
2011-02-09 16:40:12 -08:00
547e8b9205 fast-import: introduce "feature notes" command
Here is a 'feature' command for streams to use to require support for
the notemodify (N) command.

When the 'feature' facility was introduced (v1.7.0-rc0~95^2~4,
2009-12-04), the notes import feature was old news (v1.6.6-rc0~21^2~8,
2009-10-09) and it was not obvious it deserved to be a named feature.
But now that is clear, since all major non-git fast-import backends
lack support for it.

Details: on git version with this patch applied, any "feature notes"
command in the features/options section at the beginning of a stream
will be treated as a no-op.  On fast-import implementations without
the feature (and older git versions), the command instead errors out
with a message like

	This version of fast-import does not support feature notes.

So by declaring use of notes at the beginning of a stream, frontends
can avoid wasting time and other resources when the backend does not
support notes.  (This would be especially important for backends that
do not support rewinding history after a botched import.)

Improved-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Improved-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 16:06:51 -08:00
68595cd442 fast-import: clarify documentation of "feature" command
The "feature" command allows streams to specify options for the import
that must not be ignored.  Logically, they are part of the stream,
even though technically most supported features are synonyms to
command-line options.

Make this more obvious by being more explicit about how the analogy
between most "feature" commands and command-line options works.  Treat
the feature (import-marks) that does not fit this analogy separately.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 16:06:47 -08:00
59ab4eb36e Documentation/merge subtree How-To: fix typo
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-09 14:03:51 -08:00
32669671c7 checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"
For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to
test that two topics work well together.

Patch by Junio, with tests from Jeff King.

[jn: with some extra checks for bogus commandline usage]

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-08 11:14:26 -08:00
7811d9600f pull: Document the "--[no-]recurse-submodules" options
In commits be254a0ea9 and 7dce19d374 the handling of the new fetch options
"--[no-]recurse-submodules" had been added to git-pull.sh. But they were
not documented as the pull options they now are, so let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:19:09 -08:00
a2b7a3b3a9 diff: support --cached on unborn branches
"git diff --cached" (without revision) used to mean "git diff --cached
HEAD" (i.e. the user was too lazy to type HEAD). This "correctly"
failed when there was no commit yet. But was that correctness useful?

This patch changes the definition of what particular command means.
It is a request to show what _would_ be committed without further "git
add". The internal implementation is the same "git diff --cached HEAD"
when HEAD exists, but when there is no commit yet, it compares the index
with an empty tree object to achieve the desired result.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-07 15:04:30 -08:00
3bd2bcfa98 glossary: define pathspec
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-02-03 13:22:58 -08:00
7ed863a85a Git 1.7.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-30 19:02:37 -08:00
630fc7878b Git 1.7.4-rc3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-24 11:00:00 -08:00
0efbb7d9f4 Merge branch 'jn/setup-fixes'
* jn/setup-fixes:
  t1510: fix typo in the comment of a test
  Documentation updates for 'GIT_WORK_TREE without GIT_DIR' historical usecase
  Subject: setup: officially support --work-tree without --git-dir
  tests: compress the setup tests
  tests: cosmetic improvements to the repo-setup test
  t/README: hint about using $(pwd) rather than $PWD in tests
  Fix expected values of setup tests on Windows
2011-01-24 10:53:09 -08:00
ea472c1e35 Documentation updates for 'GIT_WORK_TREE without GIT_DIR' historical usecase
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-24 10:13:59 -08:00
8c0db6fd51 Documentation: do not treat reset --keep as a special case
The current treatment of "git reset --keep" emphasizes how it
differs from --hard (treatment of local changes) and how it breaks
down into plumbing (git read-tree -m -u HEAD <commit> followed by git
update-ref HEAD <commit>).  This can discourage people from using
it, since it might seem to be a complex or niche option.

Better to emphasize what the --keep flag is intended for --- moving
the index and worktree from one commit to another, like "git checkout"
would --- so the reader can make a more informed decision about the
appropriate situations in which to use it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-21 12:41:14 -08:00
ae830c211b Merge branch 'jk/diff-driver-binary-doc' into maint
* jk/diff-driver-binary-doc:
  docs: explain diff.*.binary option
2011-01-19 08:26:44 -08:00
e5959106d6 Documentation/fast-import: put explanation of M 040000 <dataref> "" in context
Omit needless words ("Additionally ... <path> may also" is redundant).
While at it, place the explanation of this special case after the
general rules for paths to provide the reader with some context.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-18 16:51:13 -08:00
898243b82d Documentation/fast-import: capitalize beginning of sentence
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-18 10:15:59 -08:00
dded4f12a4 fast-import: Introduce --import-marks-if-exists
When a frontend uses a marks file to ensure its state persists between
runs, it may represent "clean slate" when bootstrapping with "no marks
yet". In such a case, feeding the last state with --import-marks and
saving the state after the current run with --export-marks would be a
natural thing to do.

The --import-marks option however errors out when the specified marks file
doesn't exist; this makes bootstrapping a bit difficult.  The location of
the marks file becomes backend-dependent when --relative-marks is in
effect, and the frontend cannot check for the existence of the file in
such a case.

The --import-marks-if-exists option does the same thing as --import-marks
but does not flag an error if the named file does not exist yet to help
these frontends.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-18 07:07:01 -08:00
adf872e783 Git 1.7.4-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-13 12:14:18 -08:00
17e1c9e2fd Merge branch 'jn/perl-funcname'
* jn/perl-funcname:
  userdiff/perl: catch BEGIN/END/... and POD as headers
  diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
2011-01-13 11:38:05 -08:00
37ee62bc6b Merge branch 'jk/diff-driver-binary-doc'
* jk/diff-driver-binary-doc:
  docs: explain diff.*.binary option
2011-01-13 11:34:56 -08:00
3e70e37e72 RelNotes/1.7.4: minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-13 11:32:39 -08:00
a6fd3d4925 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Documentation/githooks: post-rewrite-copy-notes never existed
  Documentation/git-archive: spell --worktree-attributes correctly
2011-01-10 10:39:38 -08:00
54f4cd9e8c Merge branch 'maint-1.7.2' into maint
* maint-1.7.2:
  Documentation/githooks: post-rewrite-copy-notes never existed
  Documentation/git-archive: spell --worktree-attributes correctly
2011-01-10 10:39:28 -08:00
7a876edf5d Merge branch 'maint-1.7.1' into maint-1.7.2
* maint-1.7.1:
  Documentation/githooks: post-rewrite-copy-notes never existed
  Documentation/git-archive: spell --worktree-attributes correctly
2011-01-10 10:39:18 -08:00
567323d387 Merge branch 'maint-1.7.0' into maint-1.7.1
* maint-1.7.0:
  Documentation/git-archive: spell --worktree-attributes correctly
2011-01-10 10:39:04 -08:00
ab4356111a docs: explain diff.*.binary option
This was added long ago as part of the userdiff refactoring
for textconv, as internally it made the code simpler and
cleaner. However, there was never a concrete use case for
actually using the config variable.

Now that Matthieu Moy has provided such a use case, it's
easy to explain it using his example.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-10 10:00:14 -08:00
920a5d436b Documentation/githooks: post-rewrite-copy-notes never existed
The documentation for the post-rewrite hook contains a paragraph from
its early development, where the automatic notes copying facilities
were not part of the series and thus this had to be a hook.  Later
versions of the series implemented notes copying as a core feature.

Thus mentioning post-rewrite-copy-notes was never correct.  As the
other hooks do not have a "there is no default hook, but..." sentence
unless they ship a sample hook in either templates or contrib, we
simply remove the whole paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-10 09:09:02 -08:00
fc7642a096 Documentation/git-archive: spell --worktree-attributes correctly
The --worktree-attributes option was correctly documented in ba053ea
(archive: do not read .gitattributes in working directory,
2009-04-18).  However, later in 9b4c8b0 (archive documentation:
attributes are taken from the tree by default, 2010-02-10) the
misspelling "--work-tree-attributes" was used to refer to it.  Fix
this.

Noticed-by: Jeffrey Phillips Freeman <jeffrey.freeman@syncleus.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-10 09:07:24 -08:00
9cfdbf9bef git svn: fix the final example in man page
'git-remote add' creates a remote.origin.fetch entry in the config, we
want to replace this entry rather than add another one (which will
cause 'git fetch' to error).

This adds 'git config --remove-section remote.origin' after the fetch
for encouraging users to only use "git svn" for future updates.

[ew: rewording of commit message for present tense]

Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: StephenB <mail4stb@gmail.com>
2011-01-07 21:50:11 +00:00
685e9d9145 Git 1.7.4-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-05 14:57:19 -08:00
8594495cd6 Merge branch 'maint' to sync with 1.7.3.5 2011-01-05 14:50:33 -08:00
6e97ef31ce Git 1.7.3.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-05 14:49:19 -08:00
9e98354ab9 Merge branch 'pw/convert-pathname-substitution'
* pw/convert-pathname-substitution:
  t0021: avoid getting filter killed with SIGPIPE
  convert filter: supply path to external driver
2011-01-05 13:31:01 -08:00
469bfc962d Fix typos in the documentation
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-04 11:23:42 -08:00