Documentation/SubmittingPatches informs the contributor that gitk's
context menu command "Copy commit summary" can be used to obtain the
conventional format of referencing existing commits. This command in
gitk was renamed to "Copy commit reference" in commit [1], following
implementation of Git's "reference" pretty format in [2].
Update mention of this gitk command in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
to its new name.
[1] b8b60957ce (gitk: rename "commit summary" to "commit reference",
2019-12-12)
[2] commit 1f0fc1d (pretty: implement 'reference' format, 2019-11-20)
Signed-off-by: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of the `git bisect run` command syntax at the beginning
of the manpage is `git bisect run <cmd>...`, which isn't quite clear
about what `<cmd>` is or what the `...` mean; one could think that it is
the whole (quoted) command line with all arguments in a single string,
or that it supports multiple commands, or that it doesn't accept
commands with arguments at all.
Change to `git bisect run <cmd> [<arg>...]` to clarify the syntax,
in both the manpage and the `git bisect -h` command output.
Additionally, change `--term-{new,bad}` et al to `--term-(new|bad)`
for consistency with the synopsis syntax conventions.
Signed-off-by: Javier Mora <cousteaulecommandant@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "-v" option is shown in the SYNOPSIS section near the top, but
"-q" is not shown anywhere there.
List "-q" alongside "-v".
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user writes a message via --compose, send-email will pick up
various headers like "From", "Subject", etc and use them for other
patches as if they were specified on the command-line. But we don't
handle "To", "Cc", or "Bcc" this way; we just tell the user "those
aren't interpeted yet" and ignore them.
But it seems like an obvious thing to want, especially as the same
feature exists when the cover letter is generated separately by
format-patch. There it is gated behind the --to-cover option, but I
don't think we'd need the same control here; since we generate the
--compose template ourselves based on the existing input, if the user
leaves the lines unchanged then the behavior remains the same.
So let's fill in the implementation; like those other headers we already
handle, we just need to assign to the initial_* variables. The only
difference in this case is that they are arrays, so we'll feed them
through parse_address_line() to split them (just like we would when
reading a single string via prompting).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for git-send-email lists the headers handled specially
by --compose in a way that implies that this is the complete set of
headers that are special. But one more was added by d11c943c78
(send-email: support separate Reply-To address, 2018-03-04) and never
documented.
Let's add it, and reword the documentation slightly to avoid having to
specify the list of headers twice (as it is growing and will continue to
do so as we add new features).
If you read the code, you may notice that we also handle MIME-Version
specially, in that we'll avoid over-writing user-provided MIME headers.
I don't think this is worth mentioning, as it's what you'd expect to
happen (as opposed to the other headers, which are picked up to be used
in later emails). And certainly this feature existed when the
documentation was expanded in 01d3861217 (git-send-email.txt: describe
--compose better, 2009-03-16), and we chose not to mention it then.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`git am` passes the value given to its `--whitespace` option through
to the underlying `git apply`, and the value is called <action> over
there. Fix the documentation for the command that calls the value
<option> to say <action> instead.
Note that the option help given by `git am -h` already calls the
value <action>, so there is no need to make a matching change there.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git repack" learned "--max-cruft-size" to prevent cruft packs from
growing without bounds.
* tb/repack-max-cruft-size:
repack: free existing_cruft array after use
builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferred
builtin/repack.c: implement support for `--max-cruft-size`
builtin/repack.c: parse `--max-pack-size` with OPT_MAGNITUDE
t7700: split cruft-related tests to t7704
The documentation for geometric repacking mentions a "--unpacked" option
that supposedly changes how loose objects are rolled up. This option has
never existed, and the implied behaviour, namely to include all unpacked
objects into the resulting packfile, is in fact the default behaviour.
Correct the documentation to not mention this option.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `-g` switch is a shorthand for `--geometric=` and allows the user to
specify the geometric. The documentation is wrong though and indicates
that the syntax for the shorthand is `-g=<factor>`. In fact though, the
option must be specified without the equals sign via `-g<factor>`.
Fix the syntax accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test coverage for trailers has been improved.
* la/trailer-test-and-doc-updates:
trailer doc: <token> is a <key> or <keyAlias>, not both
trailer doc: separator within key suppresses default separator
trailer doc: emphasize the effect of configuration variables
trailer --unfold help: prefer "reformat" over "join"
trailer --parse docs: add explanation for its usefulness
trailer --only-input: prefer "configuration variables" over "rules"
trailer --parse help: expose aliased options
trailer --no-divider help: describe usual "---" meaning
trailer: trailer location is a place, not an action
trailer doc: narrow down scope of --where and related flags
trailer: add tests to check defaulting behavior with --no-* flags
trailer test description: this tests --where=after, not --where=before
trailer tests: make test cases self-contained
44451a2 (attr: teach "--attr-source=<tree>" global option to "git",
2023-05-06) provided the ability to pass in a treeish as the attr
source. In the context of serving Git repositories as bare repos like we
do at GitLab however, it would be easier to point --attr-source to HEAD
for all commands by setting it once.
Add a new config attr.tree that allows this.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some references are special in the context of worktrees as they are
considered to be per-worktree instead of shared across all of the
worktrees. Most importantly, this includes "refs/worktree/" that have
explicitly been designed such that users can create per-woorktree refs.
But there are also special references that have an associated meaning
like "refs/bisect/", which is used to track state of git-bisect(1).
These special per-worktree references are documented in git-worktree(1),
but one instance is missing. In a9be29c981 (sequencer: make refs
generated by the `label` command worktree-local, 2018-04-25), we have
converted "refs/rewritten/" to be a per-worktree reference as well.
These references are used by our sequencer infrastructure to generate
labels for rebased commits. So in order to allow for multiple concurrent
rebases to happen in different worktrees, these references need to be
tracked per worktree.
We forgot to update our documentation to mention these new per-worktree
references, which is fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option provides a shortcut to request diff with respect to first
parent for any kind of commit, universally. It's implemented as pure
synonym for "--diff-merges=first-parent --patch".
Gives user quick and universal way to see what changes, exactly, were
brought to a branch by merges as well as by regular commits.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Put descriptions of convenience shortcuts first, so they are the
first things reader observes rather than lengthy detailed stuff.
* Get rid of very long line containing all the --diff-merges formats
by replacing them with <format>, and putting each supported format
on its own line.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The DESCRIPTION's "first form" is actually the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th
form in SYNOPSIS, the "second form" is the 4th one.
Interestingly, this state of affairs was introduced in
97fe725075 (cat-file docs: fix SYNOPSIS and "-h" output, 2021-12-28)
with the claim of "Now the two will match again." ("the two" being
DESCRIPTION and SYNOPSIS)...
The description also suffers from other correctness and clarity issues,
e.g., the "first form" paragraph discusses -p, -s and -t, but leaves out
-e, which is included in the corresponding SYNOPSIS section; the second
paragraph mentions <format>, which doesn't occur in SYNOPSIS at all, and
of the three batch options, really only describes the behavior of
--batch-check. Also the mention of "drivers" seems an implementation
detail not adding much clarity in a short summary (and isn't expanded
upon in the rest of the man page, either).
Rather than trying to maintain one-to-one (or N-to-M) correspondence
between the DESCRIPTION and SYNOPSIS forms, creating duplication and
providing opportunities for error, shorten the former into a concise
summary describing the two general modes of operation: batch and
non-batch, leaving details to the subsequent manual sections.
While here, fix a grammar error in the description of -e and make the
following further minor improvements:
NAME:
shorten ("content or type and size" isn't the whole story; say
"details" and leave the actual details to later sections)
SYNOPSIS and --help:
move the (--textconv | --filters) form before --batch, closer
to the other non-batch forms
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The soft limit of the first line of the commit message should be
"no more than 50 characters" or "50 characters or less", but not
"less than 50 character".
This is an addition to commit c2c349a15c (doc: correct the 50 characters
soft limit, 2023-09-28).
Signed-off-by: 谢致邦 (XIE Zhibang) <Yeking@Red54.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Get rid of extraneous whitespace, replace tab-after-fullstop with
space, etc.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
