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* Merge branch 'po/maint-docs'Junio C Hamano2012-09-251-1/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various documentation fixups. * po/maint-docs: Doc branch: show -vv option and alternative Doc clean: add See Also link Doc add: link gitignore Doc: separate gitignore pattern sources Doc: shallow clone deepens _to_ new depth
| * Doc branch: show -vv option and alternativePhilip Oakley2012-09-191-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Indicate that the -v option can be given twice in the short options. Without it users pass over the option. Also indicate the alternate 'git remote show' method. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | branch: add --unset-upstream optionCarlos Martín Nieto2012-08-301-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have ways of setting the upstream information, but if we want to unset it, we need to resort to modifying the configuration manually. Teach branch an --unset-upstream option that unsets this information. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | branch: introduce --set-upstream-toCarlos Martín Nieto2012-08-231-1/+8
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing --set-uptream option can cause confusion, as it uses the usual branch convention of assuming a starting point of HEAD if none is specified, causing git branch --set-upstream origin/master to create a new local branch 'origin/master' that tracks the current branch. As --set-upstream already exists, we can't simply change its behaviour. To work around this, introduce --set-upstream-to which accepts a compulsory argument indicating what the new upstream branch should be and one optinal argument indicating which branch to change, defaulting to HEAD. The new options allows us to type git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master to set the current branch's upstream to be origin's master. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'nd/columns'Junio C Hamano2012-05-031-0/+9
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A couple of commands learn --column option to produce columnar output. By Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (9) and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (1) * nd/columns: tag: add --column column: support piping stdout to external git-column process status: add --column branch: add --column help: reuse print_columns() for help -a column: add dense layout support t9002: work around shells that are unable to set COLUMNS to 1 column: add columnar layout Stop starting pager recursively Add column layout skeleton and git-column
| * branch: add --columnNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy2012-04-271-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'jk/branch-quiet'Junio C Hamano2012-04-161-0/+5
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up tracking. Also "branch" learns "-q"uiet option to squelch informational message. By Jeff King * jk/branch-quiet: teach "git branch" a --quiet option checkout: suppress tracking message with "-q"
| * | teach "git branch" a --quiet optionjk/branch-quietJeff King2012-03-261-0/+5
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's currently no way to suppress the informational "deleted branch..." or "set up tracking..." messages. This patch provides a "-q" option to do so. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation/git-branch: add default for --containsvr/branch-docVincent van Ravesteijn2012-03-061-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Indicate that the commit parameter of --contains defaults to HEAD. Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation/git-branch: fix a typoVincent van Ravesteijn2012-03-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a typo by replacing 'tag' with 'branch'. Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation/git-branch: cleanupsVincent van Ravesteijn2012-03-061-6/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Most of the exact option strings to be typed by end users are already set in typewriter font by using `--option`, but a few places used '--option' to call for italics or with no quoting. Uniformly use `--option`. Also add a full-stop after a sentence that missed one. Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4'Junio C Hamano2011-12-091-0/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jc/request-pull-show-head-4: request-pull: use the annotated tag contents fmt-merge-msg.c: Fix an "dubious one-bit signed bitfield" sparse error environment.c: Fix an sparse "symbol not declared" warning builtin/log.c: Fix an "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" warning fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description request-pull: use the branch description request-pull: state what commit to expect request-pull: modernize style branch: teach --edit-description option format-patch: use branch description in cover letter branch: add read_branch_desc() helper function Conflicts: builtin/branch.c
| * branch: teach --edit-description optionJunio C Hamano2011-10-051-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using branch.$name.description as the configuration key, give users a place to write about what the purpose of the branch is and things like that, so that various subsystems, e.g. "push -s", "request-pull", and "format-patch --cover-letter", can later be taught to use this information. The "-m" option similar to "commit/tag" is deliberately omitted, as the whole point of branch description is about giving descriptive information (the name of the branch itself is a better place for information that fits on a single-line). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | branch: -v does not automatically imply --listMichael J Gruber2011-09-081-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "branch -v" without other options or parameters still works in the list mode, but that is not because there is "-v" but because there is no parameter nor option. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | branch: allow pattern argumentsMichael J Gruber2011-08-281-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow pattern arguments for the list mode just like for git tag -l. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | branch: introduce --list optionMichael J Gruber2011-08-281-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, there is no way to invoke the list mode explicitly, without giving -v to force verbose output. Introduce a --list option which invokes the list mode. This will be beneficial for invoking list mode with pattern matching, which otherwise would be interpreted as branch creation. Along with --list, test also combinations of existing options. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | git-branch: introduce missing long forms for the optionsMichael J Gruber2011-08-281-0/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | Long forms are better to memorize and more reliably uniform across commands. Names follow precedents, e.g. "git log --remotes". Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* branch -v: honor core.abbrevNamhyung Kim2011-07-011-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | Use the value from 'core.abbrev' configuration variable unless user specifies the length on command line when showing commit object name in "branch -v" output. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesJeff King2011-03-111-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* git-branch.txt: mention --set-upstream as a way to change upstream configurationMatthieu Moy2010-11-031-1/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Change incorrect uses of "remote branch" meaning "remote-tracking"Matthieu Moy2010-11-031-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | "remote branch" is a branch hosted in a remote repository, while "remote-tracking branch" is a copy of such branch, hosted locally. The distinction is subtle when the copy is up-to-date, but rather fundamental to understand what "git fetch" and "git push" do. This patch should fix all incorrect usages in Documentation/ directory. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2010-04-171-1/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | * maint: t1010-mktree: Adjust expected result to code and documentation combined diff: correctly handle truncated file Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -d
| * Document new "already-merged" rule for branch -dJonathan Nieder2010-04-151-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v1.7.0-rc0~18^2 (branch -d: base the "already-merged" safety on the branch it merges with, 2009-12-29) taught ‘git branch’ a new heuristic for when it is safe to delete a branch without forcing the issue. It is safe to delete a branch "topic" without second thought if: - the branch "topic" is set up to pull from a (remote-tracking, usually) branch and is fully merged in that "upstream" branch, or - there is no branch.topic.merge configuration and branch "topic" is fully merged in the current HEAD. Update the man page to acknowledge the new rules. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano2010-04-081-0/+2
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | * maint: docs: clarify "branch -l"
| * docs: clarify "branch -l"Jeff King2010-04-081-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This option is mostly useless these days because we turn on reflogs by default in non-bare repos. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Add an optional argument for --color optionsMark Lodato2010-02-181-2/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make git-branch, git-show-branch, git-grep, and all the diff-based programs accept an optional argument <when> for --color. The argument is a colorbool: "always", "never", or "auto". If no argument is given, "always" is used; --no-color is an alias for --color=never. This makes the command-line interface consistent with other GNU tools, such as `ls' and `grep', and with the git-config color options. Note that, without an argument, --color and --no-color work exactly as before. To implement this, two internal changes were made: 1. Allow the first argument of git_config_colorbool() to be NULL, in which case it returns -1 if the argument isn't "always", "never", or "auto". 2. Add OPT_COLOR_FLAG(), OPT__COLOR(), and parse_opt_color_flag_cb() to the option parsing library. The callback uses git_config_colorbool(), so color.h is now a dependency of parse-options.c. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'il/branch-set-upstream'Junio C Hamano2010-01-221-1/+7
|\ | | | | | | | | | | * il/branch-set-upstream: branch: warn and refuse to set a branch as a tracking branch of itself. Add branch --set-upstream
| * Add branch --set-upstreamIlari Liusvaara2010-01-181-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add --set-upstream option to branch that works like --track, except that when branch exists already, its upstream info is changed without changing the ref value. Based-on-patch-from: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutThomas Rast2010-01-101-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Documentation: clarify branch creationJonathan Nieder2009-10-091-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation seems to assume that the starting point for a new branch is the tip of an existing (ordinary) branch, but that is not the most common case. More often, "git branch" is used to begin a branch from a remote-tracking branch, a tag, or an interesting commit (e.g. origin/pu^2). Clarify the language so it can apply to these cases. Thanks to Sean Estabrooks for the wording. Also add a pointer to the user's manual for the bewildered. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: branch: update --merged descriptionJonathan Nieder2009-10-091-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | Update the documentation for --merged and --no-merged to explain the meaning of the optional parameter introduced in commit 049716b (branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit, 2008-07-08). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* UI consistency: allow --force for where -f means forceRené Scharfe2009-08-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | git branch, checkout, clean, mv and tag all have an option -f to override certain checks. This patch makes them accept the long option --force as a synonym. While we're at it, document that checkout support --quiet as synonym for its short option -q. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Documentation: consistently refer to check-ref-formatNanako Shiraishi2009-08-251-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change the <name> placeholder to <tagname> in the SYNOPSIS section of git-tag documentation, and describe it in the OPTIONS section in a way similar to how documentation for git-branch does. Add SEE ALSO section to list the other documentation pages these two pages refer to. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* allow -t abbreviation for --track in git branchSitaram Chamarty2009-05-091-0/+1
| | | | | | also makes it consistent with git-checkout Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: refer to tracking configuration as "upstream"Jeff King2009-04-131-11/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The term "tracking" often creates confusion between remote tracking branches and local branches which track a remote branch. The term "upstream" captures more clearly the idea of "branch A is based on branch B in some way", so it makes sense to mention it. At the same time, upstream branches are used for more than just git-pull these days; let's mention that here. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* doc: clarify --no-track optionJeff King2009-04-131-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | It is not really about ignoring the config option; it is about turning off tracking, _even if_ the config option is set. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* branch: show upstream branch when double verboseJeff King2009-04-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | This information is easily accessible when we are calculating the relationship. The only reason not to print it all the time is that it consumes a fair bit of screen space, and may not be of interest to the user. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'dm/maint-docco'Junio C Hamano2009-03-211-25/+25
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * dm/maint-docco: Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt. Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt. Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt. Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.
| * Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt.David J. Mellor2009-03-171-25/+25
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | git-branch.txt: document -f correctlyMichael J Gruber2009-03-171-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | 'git branch -f a b' resets a to b when a exists, rather then deleting a. Say so in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Update my e-mail addressJunio C Hamano2008-07-211-1/+1
| | | | | | The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Merge branch 'jc/branch-merged'Junio C Hamano2008-07-141-12/+15
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * jc/branch-merged: branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commit branch --contains: default to HEAD parse-options: add PARSE_OPT_LASTARG_DEFAULT flag Conflicts: Documentation/git-branch.txt
| * branch --merged/--no-merged: allow specifying arbitrary commitJunio C Hamano2008-07-091-12/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "git-branch --merged" is a handy way to list all the branches that have already been merged to the current branch, but it did not allow checking against anything but the current branch. Having to switch branches only to list the branches that are merged with another branch made the feature practically useless. This updates the option parser so that "git branch --merged next" is accepted when you are on 'master' branch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder2008-07-051-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder2008-07-011-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* | Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder2008-07-011-4/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsStephan Beyer2008-06-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list of the options a git command accepts. Currently there are several variants to describe the case that different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section. Some are: -f, --foo:: -f|--foo:: -f | --foo:: But AsciiDoc has the special form: -f:: --foo:: This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite, and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Christian Couder2008-06-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git-branch.txt: compare --contains, --merged and --no-mergedLars Hjemli2008-04-201-0/+21
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* git-branch: add support for --merged and --no-mergedLars Hjemli2008-04-201-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These options filter the output from git branch to only include branches whose tip is either merged or not merged into HEAD. The use-case for these options is when working with integration of branches from many remotes: `git branch --no-merged -a` will show a nice list of merge candidates while `git branch --merged -a` will show the progress of your integration work. Also, a plain `git branch --merged` is a quick way to find local branches which you might want to delete. Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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