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2025-01-21doc: use .adoc extension for AsciiDoc filesbrian m. carlson
We presently use the ".txt" extension for our AsciiDoc files. While not wrong, most editors do not associate this extension with AsciiDoc, meaning that contributors don't get automatic editor functionality that could be useful, such as syntax highlighting and prose linting. It is much more common to use the ".adoc" extension for AsciiDoc files, since this helps editors automatically detect files and also allows various forges to provide rich (HTML-like) rendering. Let's do that here, renaming all of the files and updating the includes where relevant. Adjust the various build scripts and makefiles to use the new extension as well. Note that this should not result in any user-visible changes to the documentation. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-17Merge branch 'jk/am-retry'Junio C Hamano
"git am" has a safety feature to prevent it from starting a new session when there already is a session going. It reliably triggers when a mbox is given on the command line, but it has to rely on the tty-ness of the standard input. Add an explicit way to opt out of this safety with a command line option. * jk/am-retry: test-terminal: drop stdin handling am: add explicit "--retry" option
2024-06-06am: add explicit "--retry" optionJeff King
After a patch fails, you can ask "git am" to try applying it again with new options by running without any of the resume options. E.g.: git am <patch # oops, it failed; let's try again git am --3way But since this second command has no explicit resume option (like "--continue"), it looks just like an invocation to read a fresh patch from stdin. To avoid confusing the two cases, there are some heuristics, courtesy of 8d18550318 (builtin-am: reject patches when there's a session in progress, 2015-08-04): if (in_progress) { /* * Catch user error to feed us patches when there is a session * in progress: * * 1. mbox path(s) are provided on the command-line. * 2. stdin is not a tty: the user is trying to feed us a patch * from standard input. This is somewhat unreliable -- stdin * could be /dev/null for example and the caller did not * intend to feed us a patch but wanted to continue * unattended. */ if (argc || (resume_mode == RESUME_FALSE && !isatty(0))) die(_("previous rebase directory %s still exists but mbox given."), state.dir); if (resume_mode == RESUME_FALSE) resume_mode = RESUME_APPLY; [...] So if no resume command is given, then we require that stdin be a tty, and otherwise complain about (potentially) receiving an mbox on stdin. But of course you might not actually have a terminal available! And sadly there is no explicit way to hit this same code path; this is the only place that sets RESUME_APPLY. So you're stuck, and scripts like our test suite have to bend over backwards to create a pseudo-tty. Let's provide an explicit option to trigger this mode. The code turns out to be quite simple; just setting "resume_mode" to RESUME_FALSE is enough to dodge the tty check, and then our state is the same as it would be with the heuristic case (which we'll continue to allow). When we don't have a session in progress, there's already code to complain when resume_mode is set (but we'll add a new test to cover that). To test the new option, we'll convert the existing tests that rely on the fake stdin tty. That lets us test them on more platforms, and will let us simplify test_terminal a bit in a future patch. It does, however, mean we're not testing the tty heuristic at all. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-03-25docs: clean up `--empty` formatting in git-rebase(1) and git-am(1)Brian Lyles
Both of these pages document very similar `--empty` options, but with different styles. The exact behavior of these `--empty` options differs somewhat, but consistent styling in the docs is still beneficial. This commit aims to make them more consistent. Break the possible values for `--empty` into separate sections for readability. Alphabetical order is chosen for consistency. In a future commit, we'll be documenting a new `--empty` option for git-cherry-pick(1), making the consistency even more relevant. Signed-off-by: Brian Lyles <brianmlyles@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-02-27Merge branch 'jc/am-whitespace-doc'Junio C Hamano
"git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in "git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the option is passed through to the underlying "git apply". * jc/am-whitespace-doc: doc: add shortcut to "am --whitespace=<action>"
2024-02-14doc: add shortcut to "am --whitespace=<action>"Junio C Hamano
We refer readers of "git am --help" to "git apply --help" for many options that are passed through, and most of them are simple booleans, but --whitespace takes from a set of actions whose names may slip users' minds. Give a list of them in "git am --help" to reduce one level of redirection only to find out what they are. In the helper function to parse the available options, there was a helpful comment reminding the developer to update list of <action>s in the completion script. Mention the two documentation pages there as well. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-02Merge branch 'jc/am-doc-whitespace-action-fix' into maint-2.42Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * jc/am-doc-whitespace-action-fix: am: align placeholder for --whitespace option with apply
2023-10-30Merge branch 'jc/am-doc-whitespace-action-fix'Junio C Hamano
Docfix. * jc/am-doc-whitespace-action-fix: am: align placeholder for --whitespace option with apply
2023-10-18am: align placeholder for --whitespace option with applyJunio C Hamano
`git am` passes the value given to its `--whitespace` option through to the underlying `git apply`, and the value is called <action> over there. Fix the documentation for the command that calls the value <option> to say <action> instead. Note that the option help given by `git am -h` already calls the value <action>, so there is no need to make a matching change there. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: add some commas where they are helpfulElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: use clearer prepositionsElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: add missing articleElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09documentation: fix singular vs. pluralElijah Newren
Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21am: refer to format-patch in the documentationJunio C Hamano
There were two reasons we didn't do this. As "git am" is designed to grok e-mailed patches, not necessarily taken out of a Git repostiory or even if it came from a Git repository not necessarily produced with format-patch, we didn't want to single it out as the "blessed" input producer to the command. Also, in the original workflow that "git am" was invented for, the user of "am" was expected to be a different person than the users of "format-patch". But this is a very safe change to make in 2023. Thanks to the effort by many contributors, Git ended up becoming a bit more popular than we initially thought it would be, and "format-patch", which took me a few weeks to pursuade Linus to take in 2005, seems to have become the de-facto standard tool to produce patch e-mails. Interestingly, the documentation for "git apply", which is listed in SEE ALSO section of "git am" documentation, does mention "am" and "format-patch" as two things that are related but different from "apply" in an early part. Suggested-by: Kai Grossjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-01-05am: allow passing --no-verify flagThierry Reding
The git-am --no-verify flag is analogous to the same flag passed to git-commit. It bypasses the pre-applypatch and applypatch-msg hooks if they are enabled. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-14Merge branch 'ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs'Junio C Hamano
Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git <subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config". * ab/dedup-config-and-command-docs: docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that fuzzy map to built-ins docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-in log docs: de-duplicate configuration sections difftool docs: de-duplicate configuration sections notes docs: de-duplicate and combine configuration sections apply docs: de-duplicate configuration sections send-email docs: de-duplicate configuration sections grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections docs: add and use include template for config/* includes
2022-09-07docs: add CONFIGURATION sections that map to a built-inÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Add a CONFIGURATION section to the documentation of various built-ins, for those cases where the relevant config/NAME.txt describes configuration that is only used by the relevant built-in documented in git-NAME.txt. Subsequent commits will handle more complex cases. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-03doc: consolidate --rerere-autoupdate descriptionJunio C Hamano
The `--rerere-autoupdate` option is shared across 5 commands, and are described the same way because it works exactly the same way in these commands. Create a separate file and include it from the help pages for these commands, so that we can improve the description at one place to improve all of them at once, and keep them in sync. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-15am: support --allow-empty to record specific empty patches徐沛文 (Aleen)
This option helps to record specific empty patches in the middle of an am session, which does create empty commits only when: 1. the index has not changed 2. lacking a branch When the index has changed, "--allow-empty" will create a non-empty commit like passing "--continue" or "--resolved". Signed-off-by: 徐沛文 (Aleen) <aleen42@vip.qq.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-15am: support --empty=<option> to handle empty patches徐沛文 (Aleen)
Since that the command 'git-format-patch' can include patches of commits that emit no changes, the 'git-am' command should also support an option, named as '--empty', to specify how to handle those empty patches. In this commit, we have implemented three valid options ('stop', 'drop' and 'keep'). Signed-off-by: 徐沛文 (Aleen) <aleen42@vip.qq.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-10git-am.txt: clarify --abort behaviorElijah Newren
Both Johannes and I assumed (perhaps due to familiarity with rebase) that am --abort would return the user to a clean state. However, since am, unlike rebase, is intended to be used within a dirty working tree, --abort will only clean the files involved in the am operation. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-05-10am: learn to process quoted lines that ends with CRLFĐoàn Trần Công Danh
In previous changes, mailinfo has learnt to process lines that decoded from base64 or quoted-printable, and ends with CRLF. Let's teach "am" that new trick, too. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-02-24i18n.txt: camel case and monospace "i18n.commitEncoding"Denton Liu
In 95791be750 (doc: camelCase the i18n config variables to improve readability, 2017-07-17), the other i18n config variables were camel cased. However, this one instance was missed. Camel case and monospace "i18n.commitEncoding" so that it matches the surrounding text. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> [jc: fixed 3 other mistakes that are exactly the same] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-20Documentation: stylistically normalize references to Signed-off-by:Bradley M. Kuhn
Ted reported an old typo in the git-commit.txt and merge-options.txt. Namely, the phrase "Signed-off-by line" was used without either a definite nor indefinite article. Upon examination, it seems that the documentation (including items in Documentation/, but also option help strings) have been quite inconsistent on usage when referring to `Signed-off-by`. First, very few places used a definite or indefinite article with the phrase "Signed-off-by line", but that was the initial typo that led to this investigation. So, normalize using either an indefinite or definite article consistently. The original phrasing, in Commit 3f971fc425b (Documentation updates, 2005-08-14), is "Add Signed-off-by line". Commit 6f855371a53 (Add --signoff, --check, and long option-names. 2005-12-09) switched to using "Add `Signed-off-by:` line", but didn't normalize the former commit to match. Later commits seem to have cut and pasted from one or the other, which is likely how the usage became so inconsistent. Junio stated on the git mailing list in <xmqqy2k1dfoh.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> a preference to leave off the colon. Thus, prefer `Signed-off-by` (with backticks) for the documentation files and Signed-off-by (without backticks) for option help strings. Additionally, Junio argued that "trailer" is now the standard term to refer to `Signed-off-by`, saying that "becomes plenty clear that we are not talking about any random line in the log message". As such, prefer "trailer" over "line" anywhere the former word fits. However, leave alone those few places in documentation that use Signed-off-by to refer to the process (rather than the specific trailer), or in places where mail headers are generally discussed in comparison with Signed-off-by. Reported-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@sfconservancy.org> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-03Documentation: document am --no-gpg-signĐoàn Trần Công Danh
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-20am: support --show-current-patch=diff to retrieve .git/rebase-apply/patchPaolo Bonzini
When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am: add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch. Unfortunately the suggestion is somewhat misguided; for example, the output of "git am --show-current-patch" cannot be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable or base64. Add a new mode to "git am --show-current-patch" in order to straighten the suggestion. Reported-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-02-20am: support --show-current-patch=raw as a synonym for--show-current-patchPaolo Bonzini
When "git am --show-current-patch" was added in commit 984913a210 ("am: add --show-current-patch", 2018-02-12), "git am" started recommending it as a replacement for .git/rebase-merge/patch. Unfortunately the suggestion is somewhat misguided; for example, the output "git am --show-current-patch" cannot be passed to "git apply" if it is encoded as quoted-printable or base64. To simplify worktree operations and to avoid that users poke into .git, it would be better if "git am" also provided a mode that copies .git/rebase-merge/patch to stdout. One possibility could be to have completely separate options, introducing for example --show-current-message (for .git/rebase-apply/NNNN) and --show-current-diff (for .git/rebase-apply/patch), while possibly deprecating --show-current-patch. That would even remove the need for the first two patches in the series. However, the long common prefix would have prevented using an abbreviated option such as "--show". Therefore, I chose instead to add a string argument to --show-current-patch. The new argument is optional, so that "git am --show-current-patch"'s behavior remains backwards-compatible. The next choice to make is how to handle multiple --show-current-patch options. Right now, something like "git am --abort --show-current-patch" is rejected, and the previous suggestion would likewise have naturally rejected a command line like git am --show-current-message --show-current-diff Therefore, I decided to also reject for example git am --show-current-patch=diff --show-current-patch=raw In other words the whole of --show-current-patch=xxx (including the optional argument) is treated as the command mode. I found this to be more consistent and intuitive, even though it differs from the usual "last one wins" semantics of the git command line. Add the code to parse submodes based on the above design, where for now "raw" is the only valid submode. "raw" prints the full e-mail message just like "git am --show-current-patch". Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-08Merge branch 'pm/am-in-body-header-doc-update'Junio C Hamano
Doc update. * pm/am-in-body-header-doc-update: am: document that Date: can appear as an in-body header
2020-01-04am: document that Date: can appear as an in-body headerPaul Menzel
Similar to "From:" and "Subject:" already mentioned in the documentation, "Date:" can also appear as an in-body header to override the value in the e-mail headers. Document it. Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-10-23doc: am --show-current-patch gives an entire e-mail messageJunio C Hamano
The existing wording gives an impression that it only gives the contents of the $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply/patch file, i.e. the patch proper, but the option actually emits the entire e-mail message being processed (iow, one of the output files from "git mailsplit"). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-18am/cherry-pick/rebase/revert: document --rerere-autoupdatePhillip Wood
This option was missing from the man pages of these commands. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-06Merge branch 'nd/rebase-show-current-patch'Junio C Hamano
The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am") stops with a conflict. * nd/rebase-show-current-patch: rebase: introduce and use pseudo-ref REBASE_HEAD rebase: add --show-current-patch am: add --show-current-patch
2018-02-14am: support --quitNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Among the "in progress" commands, only git-am and git-merge do not support --quit. Support --quit in git-am too. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-12am: add --show-current-patchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Pointing the user to $GIT_DIR/rebase-apply may encourage them to mess around in there, which is not a good thing. With this, the user does not have to keep the path around somewhere (because after a couple of commands, the path may be out of scrollback buffer) when they need to look at the patch. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-13Merge branch 'mm/doc-tt'Junio C Hamano
More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font. * mm/doc-tt: doc: typeset HEAD and variants as literal CodingGuidelines: formatting HEAD in documentation doc: typeset long options with argument as literal doc: typeset '--' as literal doc: typeset long command-line options as literal doc: typeset short command-line options as literal Documentation/git-mv.txt: fix whitespace indentation
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>
2016-06-06am: support --patch-format=mboxrdEric Wong
Combined with "git format-patch --pretty=mboxrd", this should allow us to round-trip commit messages with embedded mbox "From " lines without corruption. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-05Expand documentation describing --signoffDavid A. Wheeler
Modify various document (man page) files to explain in more detail what --signoff means. This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...". Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue that developers understood --signoff when they use it. Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-16Merge branch 'mm/keyid-docs' into maintJunio C Hamano
Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional (which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and every one of them. * mm/keyid-docs: Documentation: explain optional arguments better Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
2015-09-21Documentation: explain optional arguments betterMatthieu Moy
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two ways: * Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands creating commits) when used without the optional argument. * Document the syntax of these options. For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g. "git status -u no" does not work. Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '=' sign between the option and its argument. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-04git-am: add am.threeWay config variableRemi Lespinet
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to override it. Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-07-24Revert "git-am: add am.threeWay config variable"Junio C Hamano
This reverts commit d96a275b91bae1800cd43be0651e886e7e042a17. It used to be possible to apply a patch series with "git am mbox" and then only after seeing a failure, switch to three-way mode via "git am -3" (no other options or arguments). The commit being reverted broke this workflow. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-06-04git-am: add am.threeWay config variableRemi Lespinet
Add the am.threeWay configuration variable to use the -3 or --3way option of git am by default. When am.threeway is set and not desired for a specific git am command, the --no-3way option can be used to override it. Signed-off-by: Remi Lespinet <remi.lespinet@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-03-05Merge branch 'mm/am-c-doc'Junio C Hamano
The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to discover in the documentation. * mm/am-c-doc: Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
2015-02-20Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variableMatthieu Moy
It was already documented, but the user had to follow the link to git-mailinfo.txt to find it. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-12-22Merge branch 'rw/apply-does-not-take-ignore-date'Junio C Hamano
* rw/apply-does-not-take-ignore-date: git-am.txt: --ignore-date flag is not passed to git-apply
2014-12-09git-am.txt: --ignore-date flag is not passed to git-applyRonald Wampler
Signed-off-by: Ronald Wampler <rdwampler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-11-25git-am: add --message-id/--no-message-idPaolo Bonzini
Parse the option and pass it directly to git-mailinfo. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-25Merge branch 'cp/am-patch-format-doc'Junio C Hamano
* cp/am-patch-format-doc: Documentation/git-am: typofix Documentation/git-am: Document supported --patch-format options
2014-03-17Documentation/git-am: typofixChris Packham
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>