delta/git.git/Documentation/git-prune.txt, branch pb/commit-editmsg-path

worktree: new place for "git prune --worktrees"

2015-06-29T15:48:44+00:00

Commit 23af91d (prune: strategies for linked checkouts - 2014-11-30)
adds "--worktrees" to "git prune" without realizing that "git prune" is
for object database only. This patch moves the same functionality to a
new command "git worktree".

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy

prune: strategies for linked checkouts

2014-12-01T19:00:17+00:00

(alias R=$GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/)

 - linked checkouts are supposed to keep its location in $R/gitdir up
   to date. The use case is auto fixup after a manual checkout move.

 - linked checkouts are supposed to update mtime of $R/gitdir. If
   $R/gitdir's mtime is older than a limit, and it points to nowhere,
   worktrees/ is to be pruned.

 - If $R/locked exists, worktrees/ is not supposed to be pruned. If
   $R/locked exists and $R/gitdir's mtime is older than a really long
   limit, warn about old unused repo.

 - "git checkout --to" is supposed to make a hard link named $R/link
   pointing to the .git file on supported file systems to help detect
   the user manually deleting the checkout. If $R/link exists and its
   link count is greated than 1, the repo is kept.

Helped-by: Marc Branchaud 
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine 
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt 
Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud 
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"

2014-03-31T22:16:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

prune: clean .git/shallow after pruning objects

2013-12-11T00:14:19+00:00

This patch teaches "prune" to remove shallow roots that are no longer
reachable from any refs (e.g. when the relevant refs are removed).

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: fix git-prune example usage

2013-07-18T23:23:51+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Mah 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sections

2011-07-06T21:26:26+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pages

2011-03-11T15:59:16+00:00

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.

prune: allow --dry-run for -n and --verbose for -v

2010-08-09T17:13:18+00:00

For consistency with other git commands, let git prune accept the long
options --dry-run and --verbose for the respective short ones -n and -v.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

docs: don't talk about $GIT_DIR/refs/ everywhere

2010-02-18T05:40:09+00:00

It is misleading to say that we pull refs from $GIT_DIR/refs/*, because we
may also consult the packed refs mechanism. These days we tend to treat
the "refs hierarchy" as more of an abstract namespace that happens to be
represented as $GIT_DIR/refs. At best, this is a minor inaccuracy, but at
worst it can confuse users who then look in $GIT_DIR/refs and find that it
is missing some of the refs they expected to see.

This patch drops most uses of "$GIT_DIR/refs/*", changing them into just
"refs/*", under the assumption that users can handle the concept of an
abstract refs namespace. There are a few things to note:

  - most cases just dropped the $GIT_DIR/ portion. But for cases where
    that left _just_ the word "refs", I changed it to "refs/" to help
    indicate that it was a hierarchy.  I didn't do the same for longer
    paths (e.g., "refs/heads" remained, instead of becoming
    "refs/heads/").

  - in some cases, no change was made, as the text was explicitly about
    unpacked refs (e.g., the discussion in git-pack-refs).

  - In some cases it made sense instead to note the existence of packed
    refs (e.g., in check-ref-format and rev-parse).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout

2010-01-10T12:01:28+00:00

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.