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From user feedback:
- One user is confused about why `git reset --merge`
(why not just `git reset`?). Handle this by mentioning
`git merge --abort` and `git reset --abort` instead, which have a
more obvious meaning.
- 2 users want to know what "In older versions of Git" means exactly
(in versions older than 1.7.0). Handle this by removing the warning
since it was added 15 years ago (in 3f8fc184c0e2c)
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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From user feedback: this example is confusing because it implies that
`git pull` will run `git merge` by default, but the default is
`--ff-only`.
We could instead show an example of a fast-forward merge, but that may
not add a lot since fast-forward merges are relatively simple. This lets
us keep the description short.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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From user feedback:
- One user is confused about the current default ("I was convinced that
the git default was still to merge on pull")
- One user is confused about why "git fetch" isn't mentioned earlier
- One user says they always forget what the arguments to `git pull` are
and that it's not immediately obvious that `--no-rebase` means "merge"
- One user wants `--ff-only` to be mentioned
Resolve this by listing the options for integrating the the remote
branch. This should help users figure out at a glance which one they
want to do, and make it clearer that --ff-only is the default.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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From user feedback:
- it's confusing that we use both <branch> and <refspec> to refer to the
second argument
- one user is not clear about what `refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*`
is meant to be an example of ("is it like a path?")
The DESCRIPTION section is also doing a lot right now: it's trying to
describe both how the <repository> and <refspec> arguments work (which
is pretty complex, as seen in the DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR section)
as well as how `git pull` calls `git fetch` and merge/rebase/etc
depending on the arguments.
Handle this by moving the description of the <repository> and <refspec>
arguments to the OPTIONS section, so that we can focus on the
merge/rebase/etc behaviour in the DESCRIPTION section, and refer folks
to the later sections for details.
Use the term "upstream" instead of 'the "remote" and "merge"
configuration for the current branch' since users are more likely to
know what an "upstream" is.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation mark-up fix.
* kh/doc-patch-id-markup-fix:
doc: patch-id: fix accidental literal blocks
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Documentation mark-up fix.
* ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix:
doc: fix indentation of refStorage item in git-config(1)
doc: change the markup of paragraphs following a nested list item
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Clarify the "--merge-base" command line option in "git merge-tree".
* en/doc-merge-tree-describe-merge-base:
Documentation/git-merge-tree.adoc: clarify the --merge-base option
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Doc update to describe a feature that has already been implemented.
* mh/doc-credential-url-prefix:
docs/gitcredentials: describe URL prefix matching
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Doc update.
* ag/doc-sendmail-gmail-example-update:
docs: update sendmail docs to use more secure SMTP server for Gmail
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Doc mark-up fix.
* jc/doc-includeif-hasconfig-remote-url-fix:
config: document includeIf conditions consistently
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Docfix.
* mm/worktree-doc-typofix:
docs: fix typo in worktree.adoc 'extension'
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Doc markup fixes.
* kh/doc-markup-fixes:
doc: remove extra backtick for inline-verbatim
doc: add missing backtick for inline-verbatim
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Docfix.
* km/alias-doc-markup-fix:
doc: fix formatting of function-wrap shell alias
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Doc update.
* js/doc-sending-patch-via-thunderbird:
doc/format-patch: adjust Thunderbird MUA hint to new add-on
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Doc fix.
* kr/clone-synopsis-fix:
docs: remove stray bracket from git-clone synopsis
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Doc update.
* kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix:
doc: git-log: fix description list
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"git refs migrate" to migrate the reflog entries from a refs
backend to another had a handful of bugs squashed.
* ps/reflog-migrate-fixes:
refs: fix invalid old object IDs when migrating reflogs
refs: stop unsetting REF_HAVE_OLD for log-only updates
refs/files: detect race when generating reflog entry for HEAD
refs: fix identity for migrated reflogs
ident: fix type of string length parameter
builtin/reflog: implement subcommand to write new entries
refs: export `ref_transaction_update_reflog()`
builtin/reflog: improve grouping of subcommands
Documentation/git-reflog: convert to use synopsis type
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Grammar and typo fixes. Also change “work it around” to “work around”.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The "files" backend has the ability to store symbolic refs as symbolic
links, which can be configured via "core.preferSymlinkRefs". This
feature stems back from the early days: the initial implementation of
symbolic refs used symlinks exclusively. The symref format was only
introduced in 9b143c6e15 (Teach update-ref about a symbolic ref stored
in a textfile., 2005-09-25) and made the default in 9f0bb90d16
(core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD, 2006-05-02).
This is all about 20 years ago, and there are no known reasons nowadays
why one would want to use symlinks instead of symrefs. Mark the feature
for deprecation in Git 3.0.
Note that this only deprecates _writing_ symrefs as symbolic links.
Reading such symrefs is still supported for now.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Doc mark-up fix.
* kh/doc-fast-import-markup-fix:
doc: fast-import: replace literal block with paragraph
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Documentation typofix.
* kh/doc-config-typofix:
doc: config: replace backtick with apostrophe for possessive
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Fix missing single-quote pairs in a documentation page.
* kh/doc-interpret-trailers-markup-fix:
doc: interpret-trailers: close all pairs of single quotes
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Docfix.
* ds/doc-count-objects-fix:
count-objects: document count-objects pack
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Doc mark-up fix.
* ja/asciidoc-doctor-verbatim-fixes:
doc: fix asciidoc format compatibility in pretty-formats.adoc
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The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API
did not clear its internal state, making an initial delay value
larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected.
* js/progress-delay-fix:
progress: pay attention to (customized) delay time
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Update the instruction to use of GGG in the MyFirstContribution
document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against `git/git`
instead of `gitgitgadget/git`.
* ds/doc-ggg-pr-fork-clarify:
doc: clarify which remotes can be used with GitGitGadget
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Manual page for "gitk" is updated with the current maintainer's
name.
* js/doc-gitk-history:
doc/gitk: update reference to the external project
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The compatObjectFormat extension is used to hide an incomplete
feature that is not yet usable for any purpose other than
developing the feature further. Document it as such to discourage
its use by mere mortals.
* bc/doc-compat-object-format-not-working:
docs: note that extensions.compatobjectformat is incomplete
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Configuration variables that take a pathname as a value
(e.g. blame.ignorerevsfile) can be marked as optional by prefixing
":(optoinal)" before its value.
* jc/optional-path:
parseopt: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
config: values of pathname type can be prefixed with :(optional)
t7500: fix GIT_EDITOR shell snippet
t7500: make each piece more independent
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Documentation updates.
* je/doc-push-upstream:
doc: git-push: add explanation of `git push origin main`
doc: git-push: clarify "what to push"
doc: git-push: clarify "where to push"
doc: add an UPSTREAM BRANCHES section to pull/push/fetch
doc: git-push: clarify intro
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Documentation mark-up fix.
* kh/doc-patch-id-markup-fix:
doc: patch-id: fix accidental literal blocks
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Documentation for "git log --pretty" options has been updated
to make it easier to translate.
* jn/doc-help-translaing-pretty-options:
doc: do not break sentences into "lego" pieces
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Doc-mark-up modernization continues.
* jn/doc-synopsis:
doc: convert git worktree to synopsis style
doc: convert git tag to synopsis style
doc: convert git-stash.adoc to synopis style
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The reftable backend learned to sanity check its on-disk data more
carefully.
* kn/reftable-consistency-checks:
refs/reftable: add fsck check for checking the table name
reftable: add code to facilitate consistency checks
fsck: order 'fsck_msg_type' alphabetically
Documentation/fsck-msgids: remove duplicate msg id
reftable: check for trailing newline in 'tables.list'
refs: move consistency check msg to generic layer
refs: remove unused headers
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Documentation mark-up fix.
* ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix:
doc: fix indentation of refStorage item in git-config(1)
doc: change the markup of paragraphs following a nested list item
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Convert this command documentation to the modern synopsis style based on
similar work.[1] Concretely:
• Change the Synopsis section from `verse` to a `synopsis` block which
will automatically apply the correct formatting to various elements
(although this Synopsis is very simple)
• Use backticks (`) for code-like things which will also use the correct
formatting for interior placeholders (`<orderfile>`)
• Use inline-verbatim on options listing
† 1: E.g.,
• 026f2e3b (doc: convert git-log to new documentation format,
2025-07-07)
• b983aaab (doc: convert git-switch manpage to new synopsis style,
2025-05-25)
• 16543967 (doc: convert git-mergetool manpage to new synopsis
style, 2025-05-25)
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Recently, eaaddf5791 (fast-import: add '--signed-commits=<mode>'
option, 2025-09-17) added support for controlling how signed commits
are handled by `git fast-import`, but there is no option yet to
decide about signed tags.
To remediate that, let's add a '--signed-tags=<mode>' option to
`git fast-import` too.
With this, both `git fast-export` and `git fast-import` have both
a '--signed-tags=<mode>' and a '--signed-commits=<mode>' supporting
the same <mode>s.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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It looks like the documentation of `git tag` is focused a bit too
much on GPG signed tags.
This starts with the "NAME" section where the command is described
with:
"Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG"
while for example `git branch` is described with simply:
"List, create, or delete branches"
This could give the false impression that `git tag` only works with
tag objects, not with lightweight tags, and that tag objects are
always GPG signed.
In the "DESCRIPTION" section, it looks like only "GnuPG signed tag
objects" can be created by the `-s` and `-u <key-id>` options, and it
seems `gpg.program` can only specify a "custom GnuPG binary".
This goes on in the "OPTIONS" section too, especially about the `-s`
and `-u <key-id>` options.
The "CONFIGURATION" section also doesn't talk about how to configure
the command to work with X.509 and SSH signatures.
Let's rework all that to make sure users have a more accurate and
balanced view of what the command can do.
Helped-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Clarify the "--merge-base" command line option in "git merge-tree".
* en/doc-merge-tree-describe-merge-base:
Documentation/git-merge-tree.adoc: clarify the --merge-base option
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Doc updates.
* rj/doc-missing-technical-docs:
doc: add some missing technical documents
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Make sure that normal paragraphs in most user-facing docs[1] don’t
use literal blocks. This can easily happen if you try to maintain
indentation in order to continue a block; that might work in
e.g. Markdown variants, but not in AsciiDoc.
The fixes are straightforward, i.e. just deindent the block and maybe
add line continuations. The only exception is git-sparse-checkout(1)
where we also replace indentation used for *intended* literal blocks
with `----`.
† 1: These have not been considered:
• `Documentation/howto/`
• `Documentation/technical/`
• `Documentation/gitprotocol*`
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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With 9842c0c749 (stash: honor stash.index in apply, pop modes,
2025-09-21) merged in a5d4779e6e (Merge branch 'dk/stash-apply-index',
2025-09-29), we did not advertise the connection between the new config
option stash.index and the implicit use of git-stash via --autostash
(which may also be configured). Do so.
Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When we're creating a tag, we want to make sure that gpgsig and
gpgsig-sha256 headers are allowed for the commit. The default fsck
behavior is to ignore the fact that they're left over, but some of our
tests enable strict checking which flags them nonetheless. Add
improved checking for these headers as well as documentation and several
tests.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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