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2025-08-25Merge branch 'ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis'Junio C Hamano
Doc lint updates to encourage the newer and easier-to-use `synopsis` format, with fixes to a handful of existing uses. * ja/doc-lint-sections-and-synopsis: doc lint: check that synopsis manpages have synopsis inlines doc:git-for-each-ref: fix styling and typos doc: check for absence of the form --[no-]parameter doc: check for absence of multiple terms in each entry of desc list doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections doc: test linkgit macros for well-formedness
2025-08-11doc:git-for-each-ref: fix styling and typosJean-Noël Avila
This commit fixes the synopsis syntax and changes the wording of a few descriptions to be more consistent with the rest of the documentation. It is a prepartion for the next commit that checks that synopsis style is applied consistently across a manual page. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-05doc: factor out common optionMeet Soni
In preparation for adding documentation for `git refs list`, factor out the common options from the `git-for-each-ref` man page into a shareable file `for-each-ref-options.adoc` and update `git-for-each-ref.adoc` to use an `include::` macro. This change is a pure refactoring and results in no change to the final rendered documentation for `for-each-ref`. Mentored-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Mentored-by: shejialuo <shejialuo@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Meet Soni <meetsoni3017@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-28for-each-ref: reword the documentation for '--start-after'Karthik Nayak
The documentation for '--start-after' states that the flag cannot be used with general pattern matching. This is a bit vague, since there is no clear understanding about what 'general' means here. Rewrite the sentence to be more specific. While here, fix a typo in the 'OPT_STRING'. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-28for-each-ref: fix documentation argument orderingKarthik Nayak
Improve the 'git-for-each-ref(1)' documentation with two corrections: 1. Add parentheses around `--exclude=<pattern>` to indicate this option can be repeated as a complete unit. 2. Move `--stdin | <pattern> ...` to the end, after all flags, since `<pattern>` is a positional argument that should appear last in the argument list. While here, change to using the synopsis block which will automatically format placeholders in italics and keywords in monospace. Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-07-15for-each-ref: introduce a '--start-after' optionKarthik Nayak
The `git-for-each-ref(1)` command is used to iterate over references present in a repository. In large repositories with millions of references, it would be optimal to paginate this output such that we can start iteration from a given reference. This would avoid having to iterate over all references from the beginning each time when paginating through results. The previous commit added 'seek' functionality to the reference backends. Utilize this and expose a '--start-after' option in 'git-for-each-ref(1)'. When used, the reference iteration seeks to the lexicographically next reference and iterates from there onward. This enables efficient pagination workflows, where the calling script can remember the last provided reference and use that as the starting point for the next set of references: git for-each-ref --count=100 git for-each-ref --count=100 --start-after=refs/heads/branch-100 git for-each-ref --count=100 --start-after=refs/heads/branch-200 Since the reference iterators only allow seeking to a specified marker via the `ref_iterator_seek()`, we introduce a helper function `start_ref_iterator_after()`, which seeks to next reference by simply adding (char) 1 to the marker. We must note that pagination always continues from the provided marker, as such any concurrent reference updates lexicographically behind the marker will not be output. Document the same. Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10doc: add a blank line around block delimitersJean-Noël Avila
The documentation is using the historical mode for titles, which is a setext-style (i.e., two-line) section title. The issue with this mode is that starting block delimiters (e.g., `----`) can be confused with a section title when they are exactly the same length as the preceding line. In the original documentation, this is taken care of for English by the writer, but it is not the case for translations where these delimiters are hidden. A translator can generate a line that is exactly the same length as the following block delimiter, which leads to this line being considered as a title. To safeguard against this issue, add a blank line before and after block delimiters where block is at root level, else add a "+" line before block delimiters to link it to the preceding paragraph. Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>