Explain that an asterisk will be displayed in front of the current
branch when you run `git branch' to see which are available.
Signed-off-by: NAmos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

- It does not matter how I read git list.  What matters is that
  I do not necessarily read everything on it.

- Talk a bit about how to use applymbox to check one's own
  patches.

- Talk a bit about PGP signed patches.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Add footnote about Thunderbird about trimming trailing WS.
Signed-off-by: N  <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Add some documentation.

Text taken from the the commit messages and the command sources.
Signed-off-by: N  <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Added a new test case for the scanning forwards and backwards for the
correct location to apply a patch fragment.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Added a test case for patches with multiple fragments.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Stop processing and return NULL if we encounter a '\n' character
before we have two matching names in the git header.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Fitzsimons <robfitz@273k.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

When there is non-empty $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file, use it along
with .gitignore per-directory exclude pattern files (which was
a convention agreed on the list while ago and is compatible with
Cogito) to generate a list of ignored files as well.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from d330948a5ff0df55c2f12627c0583b4e16f1ea4d commit)

When not working on "master" branch, remind the user at the beginning
of the status message, not at the end.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Saying "internal error" makes it look like my fault ;-).
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Inspired by a report by Kalle Valo, this changes git-sh-setup-script and
the "setup_git_directory()" function to test that $GIT_DIR/HEAD is a
symlink, since a number of core git features depend on that these days.

We used to allow a regular file there, but git-fsck-cache has been
complaining about that for a while, and anything that uses branches
depends on the HEAD file being a symlink, so let's just encode that as a
fundamental requirement.

Before, a non-symlink HEAD file would appear to work, but have subtle bugs
like not having the HEAD show up as a valid reference (because it wasn't
under "refs"). Now, we will complain loudly, and the user can fix it up
trivially instead of getting strange behaviour.

This also removes the tests for "$GIT_DIR" and "$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY"
being directories, since the other tests will implicitly test for that
anyway (ie the tests for HEAD, refs and 00 would fail).
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Yes it was irritating not to be able to do so.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

When the "git pull" command updates the branch head you are
currently on, before doing anything else, first update your
index file and the working tree contents to that of the new
branch head.  Otherwise, the later resolving steps would think
your index file is attempting to revert the change between the
original head commit and the updated head commit.

It uses two-tree fast-forward form of "read-tree -m -u" to
prevent losing whatever local changes you may have in the
working tree to do this update.  I think this would at least
make things safer (a lot safer), and prevent mistakes.

Also "git fetch" command is forbidden from fetching and fast
forwarding the current branch head unless --update-head-ok flag
is given.  "git pull" passes the flag when it internally calls
"git fetch".
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

You can define WITH_SEND_EMAIL to include the send-email command as
part of the installation.  Since Debian, unlike RPM/Fedora, has the
two necessary Perl modules available as part of the mainline
distribution, there is no reason for us to shy away from shipping
send-email.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Gitzilla updated bunch of undocumented command pages, so move the
entries in the main documentation index around to put them in proper
category.  Ordering within category will be fixed later.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Add some documentation.

Text taken from the the commit messages and the command sources.

Point Debian doc-base at the right files. Clean up.
Signed-off-by: NTommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Ignore generated files.
Signed-off-by: NTommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Generate docs for gitk. Install them in the right deb package.
Signed-off-by: NTommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Make the git deb conflict with cogito versions prior to 0.13, as those
versions used to contain git. Suggest cogito.
Signed-off-by: NTommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Fix syntax error in debian Build-Depends-Indep, dpkg-checkbuilddeps used
to give false ok results.
Signed-off-by: NTommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Maybe it's time for me to really learn asciidoc.  Also I should do Perl ;-).
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Describe a DAG and octopus, and change wording of tree object.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Various updates and cleanups for my howto on using branches in GIT
as a Linux subsystem maintainer.  Three categories of changes:

1) Updates for new features in GIT 0.99.5
2) Changes to use "git fetch" rather than "git pull" to update
   local linus branch.
3) Cleanups suggested by Len Brown
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

"git fetch tag <tag>" stored a tag after dereferencing.  Bad.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

The "verify_pathspec()" function doesn't test for ending NUL character in
the pathspec, causing some really funky and unexpected behaviour. It just
happened to work in the cases I had tested.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Sometimes the git-read-tree in git-checkout-script fails for me.
Make sure that the failed status is passed up to caller.
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Add documentation related to multi-head work, including $GIT_DIR/remotes/
changes.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>