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2009-02-28git-rebase: Update --whitespace documentationTodd Zullinger
The parameters accepted by the --whitespace option of "git apply" have changed over time, and the documentation for "git rebase" was out of sync. Remove the specific parameter list from the "git rebase" documentation and simply point to the "git apply" documentation for details, as is already done in the "git am" documentation. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-13git-rebase.txt: --interactive does not work with --whitespaceMark Burton
Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-12rebase: update documentation for --rootThomas Rast
Since the new option depends on --onto and omission of <upstream>, use a separate invocation style, and omit most options to save space. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-19Merge branch 'tr/workflow-doc'Junio C Hamano
* tr/workflow-doc: Documentation: add manpage about workflows Documentation: Refer to git-rebase(1) to warn against rewriting Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebase
2008-10-19Merge branch 'ae/preservemerge'Junio C Hamano
* ae/preservemerge: rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive mode
2008-10-14rebase: Document --no-verify option to bypass pre-rebase hookNanako Shiraishi
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-30rebase: Support preserving merges in non-interactive modeAndreas Ericsson
As a result of implementation details, 'git rebase' could previously only preserve merges in interactive mode. That limitation was hard for users to understand and awkward to explain. This patch works around it by running the interactive rebase helper git-rebase--interactive with GIT_EDITOR set to ':' when the user passes "-p" but not "-i" to the rebase command. The effect is that the interactive rebase helper is used but the user never sees an editor. The test-case included in this patch was originally written by Stephen Habermann <stephen@exigencecorp.com>, but has been extensively modified since its creation. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-24Fixed some grammatical errors in git-rebase.txt documentation.Garry Dolley
Generally, the dependent clause "for example" is suffixed with a comma. Used present tense where appropriate to be consistent with the other paragraphs. Rewrote the paragraph in the second hunk to be more clear. Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-09-16Documentation: new upstream rebase recovery section in git-rebaseThomas Rast
Document how to recover if the upstream that you pull from has rebased the branches you depend your work on. Hopefully this can also serve as a warning to potential rebasers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-22Rename .git/rebase to .git/rebase-applyJohannes Schindelin
With git-am, it sounds awkward to have the patches in ".git/rebase/", but for technical reasons, we have to keep the same directory name for git-am and git-rebase. ".git/rebase-apply" seems to be a good compromise. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-21Update my e-mail addressJunio C Hamano
The old cox.net address is still getting mails from gitters. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-16Rename ".dotest/" to ".git/rebase" and ".dotest-merge" to "rebase-merge"Johannes Schindelin
Since the files generated and used during a rebase are never to be tracked, they should live in $GIT_DIR. While at it, avoid the rather meaningless term "dotest" to "rebase", and unhide ".dotest-merge". This was wished for on the mailing list, but so far unimplemented. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-08Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebaseBrian Gernhardt
Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we recently added it to am and rebase. These facts should be reflected in the documentation. git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in the very first example so no changes were needed there. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Jonathan Nieder
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$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>
2008-07-05Documentation: more "git-" versus "git " changesJonathan Nieder
With git-commands moving out of $(bindir), it is useful to make a clearer distinction between the git subcommand 'git-whatever' and the command you type, `git whatever <options>`. So we use a dash after "git" when referring to the former and not the latter. I already sent a patch doing this same thing, but I missed some spots. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-02Documentation formatting and cleanupJonathan Nieder
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>
2008-07-02Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Jonathan Nieder
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. 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 Beyer
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 Couder
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>
2008-03-11update 'git rebase' documentationSZEDER Gábor
Being in the project's top directory when starting or continuing a rebase is not necessary since 533b703 (Allow whole-tree operations to be started from a subdirectory, 2007-01-12). Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02Documentation/git-rebase.txt: Add --strategy to synopsysMike Hommey
Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.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>
2007-10-16git-rebase: document suppression of duplicate commitsJeff King
git-rebase uses format-patch's --ignore-if-in-upstream option, but we never document the user-visible behavior. The example is placed near the top of the example list rather than at the bottom because it is: a. a simple example b. a reasonably common scenario for many projects (mail some patches which get accepted upstream, then rebase) [sp: Corrected direction of 'HEAD..<upstream>' set comparsion] Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-09-30Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: git-remote: exit with non-zero status after detecting errors. rebase -i: squash should retain the authorship of the _first_ commit git-add--interactive: Improve behavior on bogus input git-add--interactive: Allow Ctrl-D to exit
2007-09-30rebase -i: squash should retain the authorship of the _first_ commitJohannes Schindelin
It was determined on the mailing list, that it makes more sense for a "squash" to keep the author of the first commit as the author for the result of the squash. Make it so. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-08git-rebase: support --whitespace=<option>J. Bruce Fields
Pass --whitespace=<option> to git-apply. Since git-apply and git-am expect this, I'm always surprised when I try to give it to git-rebase and it doesn't work. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-01Mention -m as an abbreviation for --mergeRobin Rosenberg
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-09-01rebase -i: mention the option to split commits in the man pageJohannes Schindelin
The interactive mode of rebase can be used to split commits. Tell the interested parties about it, with a dedicated section in the man page. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-08-16Documentation/git-rebase: fix an exampleJunio C Hamano
The example miscounted the commit to rebase from. Noticed by Cliff Brake. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-27Teach rebase -i about --preserve-mergesJohannes Schindelin
The option "-p" (or long "--preserve-merges") makes it possible to rebase side branches including merges, without straightening the history. Example: X \ A---M---B / ---o---O---P---Q When the current HEAD is "B", "git rebase -i -p --onto Q O" will yield X \ ---o---O---P---Q---A'---M'---B' Note that this will - _not_ touch X [*1*], it does - _not_ work without the --interactive flag [*2*], it does - _not_ guess the type of the merge, but blindly uses recursive or whatever strategy you provided with "-s <strategy>" for all merges it has to redo, and it does - _not_ make use of the original merge commit via git-rerere. *1*: only commits which reach a merge base between <upstream> and HEAD are reapplied. The others are kept as-are. *2*: git-rebase without --interactive is inherently patch based (at least at the moment), and therefore merges cannot be preserved. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-25Teach rebase an interactive modeJohannes Schindelin
Don't you just hate the fact sometimes, that git-rebase just applies the patches, without any possibility to edit them, or rearrange them? With "--interactive", git-rebase now lets you edit the list of patches, so that you can reorder, edit and delete patches. Such a list will typically look like this: pick deadbee The oneline of this commit pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit ... By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can amend that patch and/or its commit message, and by replacing it with "squash" you can tell rebase to fold that patch into the patch before that. It is derived from the script sent to the list in <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702252156190.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceJunio C Hamano
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>
2007-05-19Documentation: Added [verse] to SYNOPSIS where necessaryMatthias Kestenholz
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17Convert update-index references in docs to add.Shawn O. Pearce
Since `git add` is the approved porcelain for an end-user to invoke when they want to manipulate the index, porcelain documentation should steer the user to this command rather than the pure plumbing update-index. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-17Attempt to improve git-rebase lead-in description.Shawn O. Pearce
It was mentioned on #git this morning that the lead-in description of git-rebase is very confusing. Too many branch this and branch that in a very short run of text. This new description attempts to walk the user through the command syntax, while also describing exactly what git-rebase is doing to their repository. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-12Documentation: git-rebase -C<n>Junio C Hamano
Replace -CNUM in Synopsis section with -C<n> to make it consistent with the description text. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-08add -C[NUM] to git-amMichael S. Tsirkin
Add -C[NUM] to git-am and git-rebase so that patches can be applied even if context has changed a bit. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-02-05Show an example of deleting commits with git-rebase.Shawn O. Pearce
This particular use of git-rebase to remove a single commit or a range of commits from the history of a branch recently came up on the mailing list. Documenting the example should help other users arrive at the same solution on their own. It also was not obvious to the newcomer that git-rebase is able to accept any commit for --onto <newbase> and <upstream>. We should at least minimally document this, as much of the language in git-rebase's manpage refers to 'branch' rather than 'committish'. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> 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>
2006-11-07Merge branch 'maint'Junio C Hamano
* maint: Documentation: Transplanting branch with git-rebase --onto merge-recursive implicitely depends on trust_executable_bit adjust_shared_perm: chmod() only when needed. Fix git-runstatus for repositories containing a file named HEAD
2006-11-06Documentation: Transplanting branch with git-rebase --ontoJakub Narebski
Added example of transplantig feature branch from one development branch (for example "next") into the other development branch (for example "master"). [jc: talking Carl's advice this contains both examples sent to the list by Jakub in his original message.] Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-04git-rebase: Add a -v option to show a diffstat of the changes upstream at ↵Robert Shearman
the start of a rebase. Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rob@codeweavers.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-25rebase: allow --skip to work with --mergeEric Wong
Now that we control the merge base selection, we won't be forced into rolling things in that we wanted to skip beforehand. Also, add a test to ensure this all works as intended. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-21rebase: Allow merge strategies to be used when rebasingEric Wong
This solves the problem of rebasing local commits against an upstream that has renamed files. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-14Make git rebase interactive help match documentation.Sean
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-04-27Add --continue and --abort options to git-rebase.sean
git rebase [--onto <newbase>] <upstream> [<branch>] git rebase --continue git rebase --abort Add "--continue" to restart the rebase process after manually resolving conflicts. The user is warned if there are still differences between the index and the working files. Add "--abort" to restore the original branch, and remove the .dotest working files. Some minor additions to the git-rebase documentation. [jc: fix that applies to the maintenance track has been dealt with separately.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-27Document git-rebase behavior on conflicts.J. Bruce Fields
2006-03-18Clarify git-rebase example commands.Jon Loeliger
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09Remove trailing dot after short descriptionFredrik Kuivinen
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-02-22git-rebase: Clarify usage statement and copy it into the actual documentation.Carl Worth
I found a paper thin man page for git-rebase, but was quite happy to see something much more useful in the usage statement of the script when I went there to find out how this thing worked. Here it is cleaned up slightly and expanded a bit into the actual documentation. Signed-off-by: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>