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author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> | 2008-07-03 00:41:41 -0500 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-05 11:24:40 -0700 |
commit | ba020ef5eb5fca3d757bd580ff117adaf81ca079 (patch) | |
tree | 974c4e60c9bc212d0ce939b31e8fbb61b5fb1f07 /Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | |
parent | 0979c106498f21838140313b485f90faf06f454f (diff) | |
download | git-ba020ef5eb5fca3d757bd580ff117adaf81ca079.tar.gz |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-fast-import.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 960276423b..2d01d0d100 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION This program is usually not what the end user wants to run directly. Most end users want to use one of the existing frontend programs, which parses a specific type of foreign source and feeds the contents -stored there to `git-fast-import`. +stored there to 'git-fast-import'. fast-import reads a mixed command/data stream from standard input and writes one or more packfiles directly into the current repository. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ updated branch and tag refs, fully updating the current repository with the newly imported data. The fast-import backend itself can import into an empty repository (one that -has already been initialized by `git-init`) or incrementally +has already been initialized by 'git-init') or incrementally update an existing populated repository. Whether or not incremental imports are supported from a particular foreign source depends on the frontend program in use. @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ OPTIONS This information may be useful after importing projects whose total object set exceeds the 4 GiB packfile limit, as these commits can be used as edge points during calls - to `git-pack-objects`. + to 'git-pack-objects'. --quiet:: Disable all non-fatal output, making fast-import silent when it @@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ an ideal situation, given that most conversion tools are throw-away Parallel Operation ------------------ -Like `git-push` or `git-fetch`, imports handled by fast-import are safe to +Like 'git-push' or 'git-fetch', imports handled by fast-import are safe to run alongside parallel `git repack -a -d` or `git gc` invocations, -or any other Git operation (including `git-prune`, as loose objects +or any other Git operation (including 'git-prune', as loose objects are never used by fast-import). fast-import does not lock the branch or tag refs it is actively importing. @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ variation in formatting will cause fast-import to reject the value. + An example value is ``Tue Feb 6 11:22:18 2007 -0500''. The Git parser is accurate, but a little on the lenient side. It is the -same parser used by `git-am` when applying patches +same parser used by 'git-am' when applying patches received from email. + Some malformed strings may be accepted as valid dates. In some of @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ timezone. This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit right now, without needing to use a working directory or -`git-update-index`. +'git-update-index'. + If separate `author` and `committer` commands are used in a `commit` the timestamps may not match, as the system clock will be polled @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ recommended, as the frontend does not (easily) have access to the complete set of bytes which normally goes into such a signature. If signing is required, create lightweight tags from within fast-import with `reset`, then create the annotated versions of those tags offline -with the standard `git-tag` process. +with the standard 'git-tag' process. `reset` ~~~~~~~ @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ is not `refs/heads/TAG_FIXUP`). When committing fixups, consider using `merge` to connect the commit(s) which are supplying file revisions to the fixup branch. -Doing so will allow tools such as `git-blame` to track +Doing so will allow tools such as 'git-blame' to track through the real commit history and properly annotate the source files. @@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ Repacking Historical Data ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are repacking very old imported data (e.g. older than the last year), consider expending some extra CPU time and supplying -\--window=50 (or higher) when you run `git-repack`. +\--window=50 (or higher) when you run 'git-repack'. This will take longer, but will also produce a smaller packfile. You only need to expend the effort once, and everyone using your project will benefit from the smaller repository. |