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2008-02-06git-commit: add a prepare-commit-msg hookPaolo Bonzini
The prepare-commit-msg hook is run whenever a "fresh" commit message is prepared, just before it is shown in the editor (if it is). Its purpose is to modify the commit message in-place. It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit message, and can be: "message" (if a -m or -F option was given); "template" (if a -t option was given or the configuration option commit.template is set); "merge" (if the commit is a merge or a .git/MERGE_MSG file exists); "squash" (if a .git/SQUASH_MSG file exists); or "commit", followed by a commit SHA1 as the third parameter (if a -c, -C or --amend option was given). If its exit status is non-zero, git-commit will abort. The hook is not suppressed by the --no-verify option, so it should not be used as a replacement for the pre-commit hook. The sample prepare-commit-msg comments out the `Conflicts:` part of a merge's commit message; other examples are commented out, including adding a Signed-off-by line at the bottom of the commit messsage, that the user can then edit or discard altogether. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-07Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitDan McGee
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>
2007-12-23Allow selection of different cleanup modes for commit messagesAlex Riesen
Although we traditionally stripped away excess blank lines, trailing whitespaces and lines that begin with "#" from the commit log message, sometimes the message just has to be the way user wants it. For instance, a commit message template can contain lines that begin with "#", the message must be kept as close to its original source as possible if you are converting from a foreign SCM, or maybe the message has a shell script including its comments for future reference. The cleanup modes are default, verbatim, whitespace and strip. The default mode depends on if the message is being edited and will either strip whitespace and comments (if editor active) or just strip the whitespace (for where the message is given explicitely). Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09Documentation: fix --no-verify documentation for "git commit"Wincent Colaiuta
The documentation for the --no-verify switch should mention the commit-msg hook, not just the pre-commit hook. Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03git-commit documentation: fix unfinished sentence.Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-03git-commit --allow-emptyJunio C Hamano
It does not usually make sense to record a commit that has the exact same tree as its sole parent commit and that is why git-commit prevents you from making such a mistake, but when data from foreign scm is involved, it is a different story. We are equipped to represent such an (perhaps insane, perhaps by mistake, or perhaps done on purpose) empty change, and it is better to represent it bypassing the safety valve for native use. This is primarily for use by foreign scm interface scripts. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-14replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit docJing Xue
The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached' to unstage is just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'. Suggested by Jan Hudec. Signed-off-by: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-07Documentation/git-commit.txt: correct bad list formatting.David Kastrup
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-06documentation: use the word "index" in the git-commit man pageJ. Bruce Fields
As with git-add, I think previous updates to the git-commit man page did indeed help make it more user-friendly. But I think the banishment of the word "index" from the description goes too far; reinstate its use, to simplify some of the language slightly and smooth the transition to other documentation. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-26Document commit.template configuration variable.Brian Gernhardt
Add it to the list in config.txt and explicitly say that the --template option to git-commit overrides the configuration variable. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-25Teach git-commit about commit message templates.Steven Grimm
These are useful in organizations that enforce particular formats for commit messages, e.g., to specify bug IDs or test plans. Use of the template is not enforced; it is simply used as the initial content when the editor is invoked. Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-20Add GIT_EDITOR environment and core.editor configuration variablesAdam Roben
These variables let you specify an editor that will be launched in preference to the EDITOR and VISUAL environment variables. The order of preference is GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, EDITOR, VISUAL. [jc: added a test and config variable documentation] Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-13Document git commit --untracked-files and --verboseJakub Narebski
Documentation based on description of commit 443f8338 which added '-u'|'--untracked-files' option to git-status, and on git-runstatus(1) man page. Note that those options apply also to git-status. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-07-13Document long options '--message=<msg>' and '--no-commit'Jakub Narebski
Document that '--message=<msg>' is long version of '-m <msg>' in git-commit, and that '--no-checkout' is long version of '-n' in git-clone. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-03-09git-commit: add a --interactive optionPaolo Bonzini
The --interactive option behaves like "git commit", except that "git add --interactive" is executed before committing. It is incompatible with -a and -i. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-24Documentation: --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F.Peter Eriksen
We used to get the following confusing error message: $ git commit --amend -a -m foo Option -m cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F This is because --amend cannot be combined with -c/-C/-F, which makes sense, because they try to handle the same log message in different ways. So update the documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-18Documentation: sync git.txt command list and manual page titleJunio C Hamano
Also reorders a handful entries to make each list sorted alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17Documentation: a few spelling fixesRené Scharfe
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17git-commit: document log message formatting conventionJunio C Hamano
Take it from the tutorial, since not everybody necessarily reads it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17git-commit documentation: remove comment on unfixed git-rmJunio C Hamano
... which was fixed since then. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-13git-commit documentation: -a adds and also removesJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12fix documentation for git-commit --no-verifyMichael S. Tsirkin
Despite what the documentation claims, git-commit does not check commit for suspicious lines: all hooks are disabled by default, and the pre-comit hook could be changed to do something else. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-30Documentation: i18n commit log message notes.Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-16make commit message a little more consistent and confortingNicolas Pitre
It is nicer to let the user know when a commit succeeded all the time, not only the first time. Also the commit sha1 is much more useful than the tree sha1 in this case. This patch also introduces a -q switch to supress this message as well as the summary of created/deleted files. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-12-10Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.Junio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-07-02Minor documentation fixup.Robin Rosenberg
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-04Documentation: Spelling fixesHorst H. von Brand
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-05Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly.sean
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>
2006-04-05Tweaks to make asciidoc play nice.Francis Daly
Once the content has been generated, the formatting elves can reorder it to be pretty... Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-05git-commit: document --amendMarco Roeland
The "--amend" option is used to amend the tip of the current branch. This documentation text was copied straight from the commit that implemented it. Some minor format tweaks for asciidoc were taken from work by Francis Daly in commit b0d08a5.. It looks good now also in the html page. [jc: amended further to follow the recommendation by Francis in commit 3070b60]. Signed-off-by: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-18Reference git-commit-tree for env vars.Jon Loeliger
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-13git-commit: Now --only semantics is the default.Junio C Hamano
This changes the "git commit paths..." to default to --only semantics from traditional --include semantics, as agreed on the list. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-07git-commit: revamp the git-commit semantics.Junio C Hamano
- "git commit" without _any_ parameter keeps the traditional behaviour. It commits the current index. We commit the whole index even when this form is run from a subdirectory. - "git commit --include paths..." (or "git commit -i paths...") is equivalent to: git update-index --remove paths... git commit - "git commit paths..." acquires a new semantics. This is an incompatible change that needs user training, which I am still a bit reluctant to swallow, but enough people seem to have complained that it is confusing to them. It 1. refuses to run if $GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD exists, and reminds trained git users that the traditional semantics now needs -i flag. 2. refuses to run if named paths... are different in HEAD and the index (ditto about reminding). Added paths are OK. 3. reads HEAD commit into a temporary index file. 4. updates named paths... from the working tree in this temporary index. 5. does the same updates of the paths... from the working tree to the real index. 6. makes a commit using the temporary index that has the current HEAD as the parent, and updates the HEAD with this new commit. - "git commit --all" can run from a subdirectory, but it updates the index with all the modified files and does a whole tree commit. - In all cases, when the command decides not to create a new commit, the index is left as it was before the command is run. This means that the two "git diff" in the following sequence: $ git diff $ git commit -a $ git diff would show the same diff if you abort the commit process by making the commit log message empty. This commit also introduces much requested --author option. $ git commit --author 'A U Thor <author@example.com>' Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-22Minor git-reset and git-commit documentation fixesJ. Bruce Fields
Minor copyediting of recent additions to git-commit and git-reset documentation. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-13Documentation: git-commit -aJunio C Hamano
A bit more elaboration on what "update all paths" means. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-06Wrap synopsis lines and use [verse] to keep formattingJonas Fonseca
In addition, also fixes a few synopses to be more consistent and a gitlink. Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-17Examples of resetting.Junio C Hamano
Morten Welinder says examples of resetting is really about recovering from botched commit/pulls. I agree that pointers from commands that cause a reset to be needed in the first place would be very helpful. Also reset examples did not mention "pull/merge" cases. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-08Documentation/git-commit.txt: Add long options and -- to documentation.Nikolai Weibull
Added the following long options to documentation: * --all * --signoff * --verify * --no-verify * --edit Also added documentation for the -- option for terminating option parsing. Signed-off-by: Nikolai Weibull <nikolai@bitwi.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated versionChristian Meder
The synopsis of the manpages should use the hyphenated version of the git commands. Adapt the remaining offenders. Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-10Remove the version tags from the manpagesJunio C Hamano
Signed-off-by: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-09-20[PATCH] Documentation: Update all files to use the new gitlink: macroSergey Vlasov
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>
2005-09-08Big tool rename.Junio C Hamano
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences since 0.99.6 are: (1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if something is implemented as a shell script or not. (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with 'index' if that is what they mean. There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near future. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>