For a long time, this developer thought that Git's insistence that
pushing into the current branch is evil was completely merited.
Just for fun, the original patch tried to show people that Git is right
there, and that it causes more trouble than it does good when Git allows
you to try to update the working tree for fast-forwards, or to detach the
HEAD, depending on some config settings.
Surprisingly, the opposite was shown.
So here is the support for two new options you can give the config
variable receive.denyCurrentBranch:
'updateInstead':
Try to merge the working tree with the new tip of the branch
(which can lead to really horrible merge conflicts).
'detachInstead':
Detach the HEAD, thereby avoiding a disagreement between the
HEAD and the index (as well as the working tree), possibly
leaving the local user wondering how on earth her HEAD became
so detached.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
At least for cross-platform projects, it makes sense to hide the
files starting with a dot, as this is the behavior on Unix/MacOSX.
However, at least Eclipse has problems interpreting the hidden flag
correctly, so the default is to hide only the .git/ directory.
The config setting core.hideDotFiles therefore supports not only
'true' and 'false', but also 'dotGitOnly'.
[jes: clarified the commit message, made git init respect the setting
by marking the .git/ directory only after reading the config, and added
documentation, and rebased on top of current junio/next]
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We earlier removed a link to list of contributors that pointed to a
defunct page; let's use a working one from Ohloh.net to replace it
instead.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sl/maint-git-svn-docs:
git-svn: Note about tags.
git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
Document that when using git svn, one should usually either use the
directory structure options to import branches as branches, or only
import one subdirectory. The default behaviour of cloning all branches
and tags as subdirectories in the working copy is usually not what the
user wants.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git svn sometimes creates branches with an at-sign in the name
(branchname@revision). These branches confuse many users and it is a FAQ
why they are created. Document when git svn creates them.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Leske <sebastian.leske@sleske.name>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the distant past, the order things were documented was
'Invocation', 'Commands', 'Capabilities', ...
Then it was decided that before giving a list of Commands, there
should be an overall description of the 'Input format', which was
a wise decision. However, this description was put as the very
first thing, with the rationale that any implementor would want
to know that first.
However, it seems an implementor would actually first need to
know how the remote helper will be invoked, so moving
'Invocation' to the front again seems logical. Moreover, we now
don't switch from discussing the input format to the invocation
style and then back to input related stuff.
Signed-off-by: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
19299a8 (Documentation: Move diff.<driver>.* from config.txt to
diff-config.txt, 2011-04-07) moved the diff configuration options to
diff-config.txt, but forgot about diff.wordRegex, which was left
behind in config.txt. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* ta/doc-cleanup:
Documentation: build html for all files in technical and howto
Documentation/howto: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Documentation/technical: convert plain text files to asciidoc
Change headline of technical/send-pack-pipeline.txt to not confuse its content with content from git-send-pack.txt
Shorten two over-long lines in git-bisect-lk2009.txt by abbreviating some sha1
Split over-long synopsis in git-fetch-pack.txt into several lines
Howto documents in howto-index.txt were listed in a rather
random order. So better sort them.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff <blob> <blob>" was not documented and was only hinted as
an extension to "git diff <commit> <commit> -- <pathspec>", but
comparison between two blobs are more special than that. It does
not take any pathspec to begin with.
* jc/doc-diff-blobs:
Documentation: Describe "git diff <blob> <blob>" separately
Document the magic "git checkout <no-such-branch>" hack to create
local branch out of a remote tracking branch that hasn't been
documented so far.
* cr/doc-checkout-branch:
Documentation/git-checkout.txt: document 70c9ac2 behavior
Documentation/git-checkout.txt: clarify usage
Avoids invalid sample e-mail addresses from becoming mailto links
in the formatted output.
* jk/avoid-mailto-invalid-in-doc:
Documentation: don't link to example mail addresses
It might be a better idea to move the text the bottom one adds to
the extended description from the quick checklist part.
* as/doc-for-devs:
Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines
SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages
"git fetch --tags" was explained as if it were "git fetch
--no-no-tags", which is not the case, causing confusion.
* jc/fetch-tags-doc:
fetch --tags: clarify documentation
* sl/git-svn-docs:
git-svn: Note about tags.
git-svn: Expand documentation for --follow-parent
git-svn: Recommend use of structure options.
git-svn: Document branches with at-sign(@).
The contents of this document does not describe any particular API, but
is more about the way to add a new command, which belongs to the "How To"
section of the documentation suite.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As it was not a common operation, it was described as if it is a
side note for the more common two-commit variant, but this mode
behaves very differently, e.g. it does not make any sense to ask
recursive behaviour, or give the command a pathspec.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the behavior implemented in 70c9ac2 (DWIM "git checkout
frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz").
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The forms of checkout that do not take a path are lumped together in
the DESCRIPTION section, but the description for this group is
dominated by explanation of the -b|-B form.
Split these apart for more clarity.
Signed-off-by: Chris Rorvick <chris@rorvick.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "Try to be nice to older C compilers" text is clearly a guideline
to be borne in mind whilst coding rather than when submitting patches.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Conscientious newcomers to git development will read SubmittingPatches
and CodingGuidelines, but could easily miss the convention of
prefixing commit messages with a single word identifying the file
or area the commit touches.
Signed-off-by: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Email addresses in documentation are converted into mailto: hyperlinks
in the HTML output and footnotes in man pages. This isn't desirable for
cases where the address is used as an example and is not valid.
Particularly annoying is the example "jane@laptop.(none)" which appears
in git-shortlog(1) as "jane@laptop[1].(none)", with note 1 saying:
1. jane@laptop
mailto:jane@laptop
Fix this by escaping these email addresses with a leading backslash, to
prevent Asciidoc expanding them as inline macros.
In the case of mailmap.txt, render the address monospaced so that it
matches the block examples surrounding that paragraph.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Start list with 1 instead of 0; ASCIIDOC will renumber it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
