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2023-12-26doc: enforce dashes in placeholdersJean-Noël Avila1-2/+2
The CodingGuidelines documents stipulates that multi-word placeholders are to be separated by dashes, not underscores nor spaces. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-05doc/gitk: s/sticked/stuck/Štěpán Němec1-1/+1
The terminology was changed in b0d12fc9b23a (Use the word 'stuck' instead of 'sticked'). Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-01doc: log, gitk: move '-L' description to 'line-range-options.txt'Philippe Blain1-19/+1
The description of the '-L' option for `git log` and `gitk` is almost the same, but is repeated in both 'git-log.txt' and 'gitk.txt' (the difference being that 'git-log.txt' lists the option with a space after '-L', while 'gitk.txt' lists it as stuck and notes that `gitk` only understands the stuck form). Reduce duplication by creating a new file, 'line-range-options.txt', and include it in both files. To simplify the presentation, only list the stuck form for both commands, and remove the note about `gitk` only understanding the stuck form. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-26doc: log, gitk: line-log arguments must exist in starting revisionPhilippe Blain1-1/+2
The line number, regex or offset parameters <start> and <end> in `git log -L <start>,<end>:<file>`, or the function name regex in `git log -L :<funcname>:<file>` must exist in the starting revision, or else the command exits with a fatal error. This is not obvious in the documentation, so add a note to that effect. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-12-26doc: log, gitk: document accepted line-log diff formatsPhilippe Blain1-1/+4
Currently the line-log functionality (git log -L) only supports displaying patch output (`-p | --patch`, its default behavior) and suppressing it (`-s | --no-patch`). A check was added in the code to that effect in 5314efaea (line-log: detect unsupported formats, 2019-03-10) but the documentation was not updated. Explicitly mention that `-L` implies `-p`, that patch output can be suppressed using `-s`, and that all other diff formats are not allowed. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-13doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.Corentin BOMPARD1-4/+4
Applying CodingGuidelines about monospace on pathnames and URLs. See Documentation/CodingGuidelines.txt for more information. Signed-off-by: Corentin BOMPARD <corentin.bompard@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Nathan BERBEZIER <nathan.berbezier@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Pablo CHABANNE <pablo.chabanne@etu.univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Matthieu MOY <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-18doc: convert [\--] to [--]Martin Ågren1-1/+1
Commit 1c262bb7b (doc: convert \--option to --option, 2015-05-13) explains that we used to need to write \--option to play well with older versions of AsciiDoc, but that we do not support such versions anymore anyway, and that Asciidoctor literally renders \--. With [\--], which is used to denote the optional separator between revisions and paths, Asciidoctor renders the backslash literally. Change all [\--] to [--]. This changes nothing for AsciiDoc version 8.6.9, but is an improvement for Asciidoctor version 1.5.4. We use double-dashes in several list entries (\--::). In my testing, it appears that we do need to use the backslash there, so leave those. Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
2017-01-18Merge branch 'sb/remove-gitview'Junio C Hamano1-6/+8
Retire long unused/unmaintained gitview from the contrib/ area. * sb/remove-gitview: doc: git-gui browser does not default to HEAD doc: gitk: add the upstream repo location doc: gitk: remove gitview reference contrib: remove gitview
2017-01-13doc: gitk: add the upstream repo locationPhilip Oakley1-2/+8
Match the 'git gui' information regarding the graphical browser and its upstream location. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-13doc: gitk: remove gitview referencePhilip Oakley1-4/+0
contrib/gitview has been removed. Remove the reference. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-08Merge branch 'po/range-doc'Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the documentation. * po/range-doc: doc: revisions: sort examples and fix alignment of the unchanged doc: revisions: show revision expansion in examples doc: revisions - clarify reachability examples doc: revisions - define `reachable` doc: gitrevisions - clarify 'latter case' is revision walk doc: gitrevisions - use 'reachable' in page description doc: revisions: single vs multi-parent notation comparison doc: revisions: extra clarification of <rev>^! notation effects doc: revisions: give headings for the two and three dot notations doc: show the actual left, right, and boundary marks doc: revisions - name the left and right sides doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistently
2016-07-20doc: use 'symmetric difference' consistentlyPhilip Oakley1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy1-1/+1
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of forward-quotes, for long options. This was obtained with: perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to describe rewritten history). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-04-20Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>Matthieu Moy1-2/+2
The old wording was somehow implying that <start> and <end> were not regular expressions. Also, the common case is to use a plain function name here so <funcname> makes sense (the fact that it is a regular expression is documented in line-range-format.txt). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-05-21Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix ↵Jason St. John1-1/+1
other minor grammatical issues Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-20Documentation/gitk: document the location of the configulation fileAstril Hayato1-2/+8
User config file location complies with the XDG base directory specification while supporting the traditional $HOME/.gitk as a fallback. Signed-off-by: Astril Hayato <astrilhayato@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-01-21Documentation/gitk: document -L optionThomas Rast1-0/+16
The -L option is the same as for git-log, so the entire block is just copied from git-log.txt. However, until the parser is fixed we add a caveat that gitk only understands the stuck form. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-10-22Documentation: revamp gitk(1)Thomas Rast1-24/+83
The gitk manpage suffers from a bit of neglect: there have been only minor changes, and no changes to the set of options documented, since a2df1fb (Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line options., 2008-11-13). In the meantime, the set of rev-list options has been expanded several times by options that are useful in gitk, e.g., --ancestry-path and the optional globbing for --branches, --tags and --remotes. Restructure and expand the manpage. List more options that the author perceives as useful, while remaining somewhat terse. Ideally the user should not have to look up any of the references, but we dispense with precise explanations in some places and refer to git-log(1) instead. Note that the options that have an easy GUI equivalent (e.g., --word-diff, -S, --grep) are deliberately not listed even in the cases where they simply fill in the GUI fields. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'Thomas Ackermann1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-06Documentation: use [verse] for SYNOPSIS sectionsMartin von Zweigbergk1-0/+1
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 <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesJeff King1-9/+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.
2010-10-13Documentation: gitrevisions is in section 7Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML documentation. In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a hard copy of the git reference manual. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-05Documentation: link to gitrevisions rather than git-rev-parseMichael J Gruber1-1/+1
Currently, whenever we need documentation for revisions and ranges, we link to the git-rev-parse man page, i.e. a plumbing man page, which has this along with the documentation of all rev-parse modes. Link to the new gitrevisions man page instead in all cases except - when the actual git-rev-parse command is referred to or - in very technical context (git-send-pack). Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutThomas Rast1-1/+1
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.
2009-03-03Documentation: Expand a couple of abbreviationsMike Ralphson1-1/+1
These may not be obvious to non-native English speakers Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-08Documentation: clarify commits affected by gitk --mergeSitaram Chamarty1-1/+2
Signed-off-by: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19Merge branch 'maint' to sync with GIT 1.6.0.6Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-12-19Documentation: fix typos, grammar, asciidoc syntaxMarkus Heidelberg1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line options.Alexander Gavrilov1-0/+5
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options, configuration variables, and the encoding attribute. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-29Document gitk --argscmd flag.Yann Dirson1-0/+7
This was part of my original patch, but appears to have been lost. Signed-off-by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-30Make the DESCRIPTION match <x>... items in the SYNOPSISAbhijit Menon-Sen1-1/+1
When the SYNOPSIS says e.g. "<path>...", it is nice if the DESCRIPTION also mentions "<path>..." and says the specified "paths" (note plural) are used for $whatever. This fixes the obvious mismatches. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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>
2008-07-01Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder1-1/+2
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>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsStephan Beyer1-1/+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>
2008-06-06documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Christian Couder1-1/+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>
2008-05-28Manual subsection to refer to other pages is SEE ALSOJunio C Hamano1-1/+1
Consistently say so in all caps as it is customary to do so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-29Documentation gitk: Describe what --merge doesRichard Quirk1-0/+6
Signed-off-by: Richard Quirk <richard.quirk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-12Docs gitk: Explicitly mention the files that gitk uses (~/.gitk)Clifford Caoile1-0/+5
gitk creates and uses ~/.gitk Signed-off-by: Clifford Caoile <piyo@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee1-3/+3
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-10-19gitk.txt: Fix markup.Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
For the manpage, avoid generating an em dash in code. Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceJunio C Hamano1-1/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-02-03Assorted typo fixesPavel Roskin1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page titleJunio C Hamano1-1/+1
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17Refer users to git-rev-parse for revision specification syntax.Shawn O. Pearce1-0/+2
The revision specification syntax (sometimes referred to as SHA1-expressions) is accepted almost everywhere in Git by almost every tool. Unfortunately it is only documented in git-rev-parse.txt, and most users don't know to look there. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-20gitk(1): mention --allJonas Fonseca1-0/+9
Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-25gitk(1): expand the manpage to look less like a templateJonas Fonseca1-10/+50
Add a short description and document a few selected options additionally to the different "entities" in the standard calling convention. Advertise other git repository browsers. Lastly, climb Mount Ego. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.sean1-1/+1
A bare "--" doesn't show up in man or html pages correctly as two individual dashes unless backslashed as \-- in the asciidoc source. Note, no backslash is needed inside a literal block. Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-30Add examples for git-log documentation and others.Linus Torvalds1-0/+13
I don't think people really follow the links or think very abstractly at all in the first place. So I was thinking more of some explicit examples. I actually think every command should have an example in the man-page, and hey, here's a patch to start things off. Of course, I'm not exactly "Mr Documentation", and I don't know that this is the prettiest way to do this, but I checked that the resulting html and man-page seems at least reasonable. And hey, if the examples look like each other, that's just because I'm also not "Mr Imagination". Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20[PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macroSergey Vlasov1-1/+1
The replacement was performed automatically by these commands: perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \ README Documentation/*.txt perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \ README Documentation/*.txt Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-08-23Add placeholders for missing documents.Junio C Hamano1-0/+38
The text does not say anything interesting, but at least the author list should reflect something close to reality. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>