This is similar in spirit to "make -C dir ..." and "tar -C dir ...".
It takes more keypresses to invoke git command in a different
directory without leaving the current directory:
1. (cd ~/foo && git status)
git --git-dir=~/foo/.git --work-dir=~/foo status
GIT_DIR=~/foo/.git GIT_WORK_TREE=~/foo git status
2. (cd ../..; git grep foo)
3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do (cd $d && git svn rebase); done
The methods shown above are acceptable for scripting but are too
cumbersome for quick command line invocations.
With this new option, the above can be done with fewer keystrokes:
1. git -C ~/foo status
2. git -C ../.. grep foo
3. for d in d1 d2 d3; do git -C $d svn rebase; done
A new test script is added to verify the behavior of this option with
other path-related options like --git-dir and --work-tree.
Signed-off-by: Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Merges are often treated as special case objects so tell users that
they are not special here.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
AsciiDoc's "link" is supposed to create hyperlinks for HTML output, so
prefer a "link" to point to an HTML file instead of a text file if an HTML
version of the file is being generated. For RelNotes, keep pointing to
text files as no equivalent HTML files are generated.
If appropriate, also update the link description to not contain the linked
file's extension.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Historically, "git status" needed to prefix each output line with '#' so
that the output could be added as comment to the commit message. This
prefix comment has no real purpose when "git status" is ran from the
command-line, and this may distract users from the real content.
Disable this prefix comment by default, and make it re-activable for
users needing backward compatibility with status.displayCommentPrefix.
Obviously, "git commit" ignores status.displayCommentPrefix and keeps the
comment unconditionnaly when writing to COMMIT_EDITMSG (but not when
writing to stdout for an error message or with --dry-run).
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is now standard practice in Git to have both short and long option
names. So let's give a long option name to the git replace options too.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There were no hints in the documentation about how to create
replacement objects.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A previous patch ensures that both the replaced and the replacement
objects passed to git replace must be of the same type, except if
-f option is used.
While at it state that there is no other restriction on both objects.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
You need at least four dashes in a line to have it recognized as listing
block delimiter by asciidoc.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If possible, <rev> will be dereferenced even if it is not a tag type
(e.g., commit dereferenced to a tree).
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A tree-ish isn't a ref. Also, mention dereferencing, and that a
commit dereferences to a tree, to support gitrevisions(7) and
rev-parse's error messages.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace 'committish' in documentation and comments with 'commit-ish'
to match gitglossary(7) and to be consistent with 'tree-ish'.
The only remaining instances of 'committish' are:
* variable, function, and macro names
* "(also committish)" in the definition of commit-ish in
gitglossary[7]
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace 'treeish' in documentation and comments with 'tree-ish' to
match gitglossary(7).
The only remaining instances of 'treeish' are:
* variable, function, and macro names
* "(also treeish)" in the definition of tree-ish in gitglossary(7)
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation contains a mix of the two spellings, so include both
in the glossary so that a search for either will lead to the
definition.
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If a user is working on master, and has merged in their feature branch, but now
has to "git pull" because master moved, with pull.rebase their feature branch
will be flattened into master.
This is because "git pull" currently does not know about rebase's preserve
merges flag, which would avoid this behavior, as it would instead replay just
the merge commit of the feature branch onto the new master, and not replay each
individual commit in the feature branch.
Add a --rebase=preserve option, which will pass along --preserve-merges to
rebase.
Also add 'preserve' to the allowed values for the pull.rebase config setting.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert most uses of OPT_BOOLEAN/OPTION_BOOLEAN that can use
OPT_BOOL/OPTION_BOOLEAN which have much saner semantics, and turn
remaining ones into OPT_SET_INT, OPT_COUNTUP, etc. as necessary.
* sb/parseopt-boolean-removal:
revert: use the OPT_CMDMODE for parsing, reducing code
checkout-index: fix negations of even numbers of -n
config parsing options: allow one flag multiple times
hash-object: replace stdin parsing OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_COUNTUP
branch, commit, name-rev: ease up boolean conditions
checkout: remove superfluous local variable
log, format-patch: parsing uses OPT__QUIET
Replace deprecated OPT_BOOLEAN by OPT_BOOL
Remove deprecated OPTION_BOOLEAN for parsing arguments
"git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input
(with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the
option on the output side.
This is potentially a backward incompatible fix. Let's see if
anybody screams before deciding if we want to do anything to help
existing users (there may be none).
* jc/check-x-z:
check-attr -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
check-ignore -z: a single -z should apply to both input and output
check-attr: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
check-ignore: the name of the character is NUL, not NULL
Complete the <rev>^{<type>} family of object descriptors by having
<rev>^{tag} dereference <rev> until a tag object is found (or fail if
unable).
At first glance this may not seem very useful, as commits, trees, and
blobs cannot be peeled to a tag, and a tag would just peel to itself.
However, this can be used to ensure that <rev> names a tag object:
$ git rev-parse --verify v1.8.4^{tag}
04f013dc38d7512eadb915eba22efc414f18b869
$ git rev-parse --verify master^{tag}
error: master^{tag}: expected tag type, but the object dereferences to tree type
fatal: Needed a single revision
Users can already ensure that <rev> is a tag object by checking the
output of 'git cat-file -t <rev>', but:
* users may expect <rev>^{tag} to exist given that <rev>^{commit},
<rev>^{tree}, and <rev>^{blob} all exist
* this syntax is more convenient/natural in some circumstances
Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 664059fb (transport-helper: update remote helper namespace,
2013-04-17), a 'push' operation on a remote helper updates the
private ref by default. This is often a good thing, but it can also
be desirable to disable this update to force the next 'pull' to
re-import the pushed revisions.
Allow remote-helpers to disable the automatic update by introducing a new
capability.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is tentatively called 1.8.5, but it should be an easy matter of
renaming the release-notes file and RelNotes symlink to later call
it 1.9 near the end of the cycle if we wanted to.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Declare that the official grammar & spelling of the source of this
project is en_US, but strongly discourage patches only to "fix"
existing en_UK strings to avoid unnecessary churns.
* mb/docs-favor-en-us:
Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation.
The text mentions core.pager and GIT_PAGER without giving the
overall picture of precedences. Borrow a better description from
the git-var(1) documentation.
The use of the mechanism to allow system-wide, global and
per-repository configuration files is not limited to this particular
variable. Remove it to clarify the paragraph.
Rewrite the part that explains how the environment variable LESS is
set to Git's default value, and how to selectively customize it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation for "diff-files" mode of "git diff" primarily
talks about how changes in the files in the working tree are shown
relative to the contents previously added to that index, and tucks
explanation on how "--no-index" mode, which works in a quite
different way, may be implicitly used instead. Instead, add a
separate paragraph to explain what "--no-index" mode does, and also
mention when "--no-index" can be omitted from the command line
(essentially, when it is obvious from the context).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add "-i" (interactive clean option) to clarify the documentation for
"clean.requireForce" config variable.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git prune" is safe in case of concurrent accesses to a repository
but using it in such a case is not recommended.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sorry Jon, but this might not be of any help to new Git users ;)
Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove unnecessary quoting.
Simplify description of three-way merge.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add some missing punctuation.
Simplify description of "git branch -d/-D".
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Combine the two cases for "git add" into one.
Add verb "use" to "git rm" case.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git pull ." works, but "git merge" is the recommended
way for new users to do things. (The old description
also should have read "The former is actually *not* very
commonly used".)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current documentation mentions the private ref namespace, but does
not really explain why it can be useful.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In most cases, "feature <foo>" does not just require that the feature
exists, but also changes the behavior by enabling it.
Cases where the feature is only requested like cat-blob, notes or ls are
clearly documented below.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify documentation for "diff --no-index". State that when not
inside a repository, --no-index is implied and two arguments are
mandatory.
Clarify error message from diff-no-index to inform user that CWD is
not inside a repository and thus two arguments are mandatory.
Signed-off-by: Dale Worley <worley@ariadne.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
