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2018-02-27Merge branch 'bc/doc-interpret-trailers-grammofix'Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * bc/doc-interpret-trailers-grammofix: docs/interpret-trailers: fix agreement error
2018-02-13docs/interpret-trailers: fix agreement errorbrian m. carlson
In the description of git interpret-trailers, we describe "a group…of lines" that have certain characteristics. Ensure both options describing this group use a singular verb for parallelism. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-27Merge branch 'jk/trailers-parse'Junio C Hamano
"git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing trailer lines from a commit log message. * jk/trailers-parse: doc/interpret-trailers: fix "the this" typo pretty: support normalization options for %(trailers) t4205: refactor %(trailers) tests pretty: move trailer formatting to trailer.c interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option interpret-trailers: add an option to unfold values interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct
2017-08-20doc/interpret-trailers: fix "the this" typoMartin Ågren
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-15interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience optionJeff King
The last few commits have added command line options that can turn interpret-trailers into a parsing tool. Since they'd most often be used together, let's provide a convenient single option for callers to invoke this mode. This is implemented as a callback rather than a boolean so that its effect is applied immediately, as if those options had been specified. Later options can then override them. E.g.: git interpret-trailers --parse --no-unfold would work. Let's also update the documentation to make clear that this parsing mode behaves quite differently than the normal "add trailers to the input" mode. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-15interpret-trailers: add an option to unfold valuesJeff King
The point of "--only-trailers" is to give a caller an output that's easy for them to parse. Getting rid of the non-trailer material helps, but we still may see more complicated syntax like whitespace continuation. Let's add an option to unfold any continuation, giving the output as a single "key: value" line per trailer. As a bonus, this could be used even without --only-trailers to clean up unusual formatting in the incoming data. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-15interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailersJeff King
It can be useful to invoke interpret-trailers for the primary purpose of parsing existing trailers. But in that case, we don't want to apply existing ifMissing or ifExists rules from the config. Let's add a special mode where we avoid applying those rules. Coupled with --only-trailers, this gives us a reasonable parsing tool. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-15interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailersJeff King
In theory it's easy for any reader who wants to parse trailers to do so. But there are a lot of subtle corner cases around what counts as a trailer, when the trailer block begins and ends, etc. Since interpret-trailers already has our parsing logic, let's let callers ask it to just output the trailers. They still have to parse the "key: value" lines, but at least they can ignore all of the other corner cases. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-14interpret-trailers: fix documentation typoPaolo Bonzini
Self-explanatory... trailer.ifexists is documented with the right name, but after a while it switches to ifexist. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-14interpret-trailers: add options for actionsPaolo Bonzini
Allow using non-default values for trailers without having to set them up in .gitconfig first. For example, if you have the following configuration trailer.signed-off-by.where = end you may use "--where before" when a patch author forgets his Signed-off-by and provides it in a separate email. Likewise for --if-exists and --if-missing Reverting to the behavior specified by .gitconfig is done with --no-where, --no-if-exists and --no-if-missing. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-23Documentation: fix reference to ifExists for interpret-trailersAndreas Heiduk
The manual for "git interpret-trailers" mentioned a non-existing literal `overwrite` for its config option `trailer.ifexists`. The correct name for that choice is `replace`. Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-11-21doc: mention user-configured trailersJonathan Tan
In commit 1462450 ("trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer block", 2016-10-21), functionality was added (and tested [1]) to allow non-trailer lines in trailer blocks, as long as those blocks contain at least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer, and consists of at least 25% trailers. The documentation was updated to mention this new functionality, but did not mention "user-configured trailer". Further update the documentation to also mention "user-configured trailer". [1] "with non-trailer lines mixed with a configured trailer" in t/t7513-interpret-trailers.sh Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-21trailer: support values folded to multiple linesJonathan Tan
Currently, interpret-trailers requires that a trailer be only on 1 line. For example: a: first line second line would be interpreted as one trailer line followed by one non-trailer line. Make interpret-trailers support RFC 822-style folding, treating those lines as one logical trailer. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-21trailer: forbid leading whitespace in trailersJonathan Tan
Currently, interpret-trailers allows leading whitespace in trailer lines. This leads to false positives, especially for quoted lines or bullet lists. Forbid leading whitespace in trailers. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-21trailer: allow non-trailers in trailer blockJonathan Tan
Currently, interpret-trailers requires all lines of a trailer block to be trailers (or comments) - if not it would not identify that block as a trailer block, and thus create its own trailer block, inserting a blank line. For example: echo -e "\nSigned-off-by: x\nnot trailer" | git interpret-trailers --trailer "c: d" would result in: Signed-off-by: x not trailer c: d Relax the definition of a trailer block to require that the trailers (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contain at least one Git-generated trailer and consists of at least 25% trailers. Signed-off-by: x not trailer c: d (i) is the existing functionality. (ii) allows arbitrary lines to be included in trailer blocks, like those in [1], and still allow interpret-trailers to be used. [1] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable/+/e7d316a02f683864a12389f8808570e37fb90aa3 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28doc: typeset long command-line options as literalMatthieu Moy
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>
2016-01-14interpret-trailers: add option for in-place editingTobias Klauser
Add a command line option --in-place to support in-place editing akin to sed -i. This allows to write commands like the following: git interpret-trailers --trailer "X: Y" a.txt > b.txt && mv b.txt a.txt in a more concise way: git interpret-trailers --trailer "X: Y" --in-place a.txt Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-15Merge branch 'tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo'Junio C Hamano
* tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo: Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fix
2015-10-07Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fixTobias Klauser
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-04Documentation: typofixesThomas Ackermann
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about the following points: - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS; - Spell Linux as Capitalized; - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-13Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'Christian Couder
While at it add git-interpret-trailers to "command-list.txt". Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>