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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-10-23 13:56:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-10-23 13:56:37 -0700 |
| commit | d12166d3c8bb12d5a1638c870fc590c4e300a413 (patch) | |
| tree | e7966e82f4d5bb09686cea32472b7075e3130ce5 | |
| parent | 5edbcead426056b54286499149244ae4cbf8b5f7 (diff) | |
| parent | 5fbcdb2082ab5e154133048547c8f60c418b875c (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'en/docfixes'
Documentation typo and grammo fixes.
* en/docfixes: (25 commits)
documentation: add missing parenthesis
documentation: add missing quotes
documentation: add missing fullstops
documentation: add some commas where they are helpful
documentation: fix whitespace issues
documentation: fix capitalization
documentation: fix punctuation
documentation: use clearer prepositions
documentation: add missing hyphens
documentation: remove unnecessary hyphens
documentation: add missing article
documentation: fix choice of article
documentation: whitespace is already generally plural
documentation: fix singular vs. plural
documentation: fix verb vs. noun
documentation: fix adjective vs. noun
documentation: fix verb tense
documentation: employ consistent verb tense for a list
documentation: fix subject/verb agreement
documentation: remove extraneous words
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171 files changed, 478 insertions, 477 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 65af8d82ce..c494e07460 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Like other projects, we also have some guidelines to keep to the -code. For Git in general, a few rough rules are: +Like other projects, we also have some guidelines for our code. For +Git in general, a few rough rules are: - Most importantly, we never say "It's in POSIX; we'll happily ignore your needs should your system not conform to it." @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ As for more concrete guidelines, just imitate the existing code contributing to). It is always preferable to match the _local_ convention. New code added to Git suite is expected to match the overall style of existing code. Modifications to existing -code is expected to match the style the surrounding code already +code are expected to match the style the surrounding code already uses (even if it doesn't match the overall style of existing code). But if you must have a list of rules, here are some language diff --git a/Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.txt b/Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.txt index 0e323d5477..515d470d23 100644 --- a/Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.txt +++ b/Documentation/ReviewingGuidelines.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Principles Selecting patch(es) to review ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are looking for a patch series in need of review, start by checking -latest "What's cooking in git.git" email +the latest "What's cooking in git.git" email (https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqilm1yp3m.fsf@gitster.g/[example]). The "What's cooking" emails & replies can be found using the query `s:"What's cooking"` on the https://lore.kernel.org/git/[`lore.kernel.org` mailing list archive]; @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Terminology ----------- nit: :: Denotes a small issue that should be fixed, such as a typographical error - or mis-alignment of conditions in an `if()` statement. + or misalignment of conditions in an `if()` statement. aside: :: optional: :: diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 973d7a81d4..0e2d3fbb9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ maintainer. Under truly exceptional circumstances where you absolutely must depend on a select few topic branches that are already in `next` but not in `master`, you may want to create your own custom base-branch by forking -`master` and merging the required topic branches to it. You could then +`master` and merging the required topic branches into it. You could then work on top of this base-branch. But keep in mind that this base-branch would only be known privately to you. So when you are ready to send your patches to the list, be sure to communicate how you created it in diff --git a/Documentation/ToolsForGit.txt b/Documentation/ToolsForGit.txt index 5060d0d231..ae7690b45d 100644 --- a/Documentation/ToolsForGit.txt +++ b/Documentation/ToolsForGit.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Tools for developing Git [[summary]] == Summary -This document gathers tips, scripts and configuration file to help people +This document gathers tips, scripts, and configuration files to help people working on Git's codebase use their favorite tools while following Git's coding style. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ information on using the script. This is adapted from Linux's suggestion in its CodingStyle document: -- To follow rules of the CodingGuideline, it's useful to put the following in +- To follow the rules in CodingGuidelines, it's useful to put the following in GIT_CHECKOUT/.dir-locals.el, assuming you use cperl-mode: ---- ;; note the first part is useful for C editing, too diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 229b63a454..b1dba1ae85 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing -and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein +and the porcelain commands. The variables are divided into sections, wherein the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ was found. See below for examples. Conditional includes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a +You can conditionally include a config file from another by setting an `includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ are: pattern, the include condition is met. + The .git location may be auto-discovered, or come from `$GIT_DIR` -environment variable. If the repository is auto discovered via a .git +environment variable. If the repository is auto-discovered via a .git file (e.g. from submodules, or a linked worktree), the .git location would be the final location where the .git directory is, not where the .git file is. diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt index c548a91e67..2737381a11 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ advice.*:: + -- ambiguousFetchRefspec:: - Advice shown when fetch refspec for multiple remotes map to + Advice shown when a fetch refspec for multiple remotes maps to the same remote-tracking branch namespace and causes branch tracking set-up to fail. fetchShowForcedUpdates:: @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ advice.*:: the template shown when writing commit messages in linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown by linkgit:git-switch[1] or - linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. + linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branches. statusUoption:: Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1] when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ advice.*:: detachedHead:: Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1] - to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to + to move to the detached HEAD state, to instruct how to create a local branch after the fact. suggestDetachingHead:: Advice shown when linkgit:git-switch[1] refuses to detach HEAD @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ advice.*:: otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable for how to set a given remote - to used by default in some situations where this + to be used by default in some situations where this advice would be printed. amWorkDir:: Advice that shows the location of the patch file when diff --git a/Documentation/config/alias.txt b/Documentation/config/alias.txt index f1ca739d57..01df96fab3 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/alias.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/alias.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ alias.*:: `git last` is equivalent to `git cat-file commit HEAD`. To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by - spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. + spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping are supported. A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them. + Note that the first word of an alias does not necessarily have to be a diff --git a/Documentation/config/apply.txt b/Documentation/config/apply.txt index 8fb8ef763d..f9908e210a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/apply.txt @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ apply.ignoreWhitespace:: When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in whitespace, in the same way as the `--ignore-space-change` option. - When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to + When set to one of: no, none, never, false, it tells 'git apply' to respect all whitespace differences. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. apply.whitespace:: - Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way + Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespace, in the same way as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/branch.txt b/Documentation/config/branch.txt index 445341a906..432b9cd2c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/branch.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ branch.sort:: branch.<name>.remote:: When on branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push' - which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to + which remote to fetch from or push to. The remote to push to may be overridden with `remote.pushDefault` (for all branches). The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further overridden by `branch.<name>.pushRemote`. If no remote is @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ branch.<name>.merge:: handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a ref which is fetched from the remote given by "branch.<name>.remote". - The merge information is used by 'git pull' (which at first calls + The merge information is used by 'git pull' (which first calls 'git fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without this option, 'git pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. @@ -99,5 +99,5 @@ for details). branch.<name>.description:: Branch description, can be edited with `git branch --edit-description`. Branch description is - automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or + automatically added to the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary. diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt index bfbca90f0e..a323022993 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ checkout.workers:: all commands that perform checkout. E.g. checkout, clone, reset, sparse-checkout, etc. + -Note: parallel checkout usually delivers better performance for repositories +Note: Parallel checkout usually delivers better performance for repositories located on SSDs or over NFS. For repositories on spinning disks and/or machines with a small number of cores, the default sequential checkout often performs better. The size and compression level of a repository might also influence how @@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ well the parallel version performs. checkout.thresholdForParallelism:: When running parallel checkout with a small number of files, the cost of subprocess spawning and inter-process communication might outweigh - the parallelization gains. This setting allows to define the minimum + the parallelization gains. This setting allows you to define the minimum number of files for which parallel checkout should be attempted. The default is 100. diff --git a/Documentation/config/clean.txt b/Documentation/config/clean.txt index a807c925b9..f05b9403b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/clean.txt @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ clean.requireForce:: A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, - -i or -n. Defaults to true. + -i, or -n. Defaults to true. diff --git a/Documentation/config/clone.txt b/Documentation/config/clone.txt index 26f4fb137a..d037b57f72 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/clone.txt @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ clone.defaultRemoteName:: option to linkgit:git-clone[1]. clone.rejectShallow:: - Reject to clone a repository if it is a shallow one, can be overridden by - passing option `--reject-shallow` in command line. See linkgit:git-clone[1] + Reject cloning a repository if it is a shallow one; this can be overridden by + passing the `--reject-shallow` option on the command line. See linkgit:git-clone[1] clone.filterSubmodules:: If a partial clone filter is provided (see `--filter` in diff --git a/Documentation/config/color.txt b/Documentation/config/color.txt index 1795b2d16b..2f2275ac69 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/color.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/color.txt @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ color.grep.<slot>:: matching text in context lines `matchSelected`;; matching text in selected lines. Also, used to customize the following - linkgit:git-log[1] subcommands: `--grep`, `--author` and `--committer`. + linkgit:git-log[1] subcommands: `--grep`, `--author`, and `--committer`. `selected`;; non-matching text in selected lines. Also, used to customize the following linkgit:git-log[1] subcommands: `--grep`, `--author` and diff --git a/Documentation/config/column.txt b/Documentation/config/column.txt index 76aa2f29dc..01e4198429 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/column.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/column.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ column.branch:: See `column.ui` for details. column.clean:: - Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always + Specify the layout when listing items in `git clean -i`, which always shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details. column.status:: @@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ column.status:: See `column.ui` for details. column.tag:: - Specify whether to output tag listing in `git tag` in columns. + Specify whether to output tag listings in `git tag` in columns. See `column.ui` for details. diff --git a/Documentation/config/commit.txt b/Documentation/config/commit.txt index 2c95573930..62f0d92fda 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/commit.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ commit.cleanup:: This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in `git commit`. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for details. Changing the default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that begin - with comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you + with the comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log template yourself, if you do this). @@ -25,5 +25,5 @@ commit.template:: new commit messages. commit.verbose:: - A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with `git commit`. + A boolean or int to specify the level of verbosity with `git commit`. See linkgit:git-commit[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/credential.txt b/Documentation/config/credential.txt index 512f31876e..0221c3e620 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/credential.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ credential.username:: credential.<url>.*:: Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to - some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username" + some credentials. For example, "credential.https://example.com.username" would set the default username only for https connections to example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are matched. @@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP:: credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS:: The length of time, in milliseconds, for git-credential-store to retry - when trying to lock the credentials file. Value 0 means not to retry at + when trying to lock the credentials file. A value of 0 means not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for 1s). diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index 9391c77e55..bd5ae0c337 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ diff.autoRefreshIndex:: When using 'git diff' to compare with work tree - files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. + files, do not consider stat-only changes as changed. Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to update the cached stat information for paths whose contents in the work tree match the contents in the diff --git a/Documentation/config/fastimport.txt b/Documentation/config/fastimport.txt index c1166e330d..903677d7ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fastimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fastimport.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ fastimport.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1] is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into - loose object files. However if the number of imported objects - equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a + loose object files. However, if the number of imported objects + equals or exceeds this limit, then the pack will be stored as a pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt index 568f0f75b3..aea5b97477 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ fetch.pruneTags:: fetch.output:: Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are - `full` and `compact`. Default value is `full`. See section - OUTPUT in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for detail. + `full` and `compact`. Default value is `full`. See the + OUTPUT section in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for details. fetch.negotiationAlgorithm:: Control how information about the commits in the local repository diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt index 8cf6f00d93..c98412b697 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/format.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/format.txt @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ format.encodeEmailHeaders:: Defaults to true. format.pretty:: - The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, + The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command. See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], linkgit:git-whatchanged[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/fsck.txt b/Documentation/config/fsck.txt index a3c865df56..8e9e508933 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fsck.txt @@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ to clone or fetch it set `fetch.fsck.<msg-id>`. + The rest of the documentation discusses `fsck.*` for brevity, but the same applies for the corresponding `receive.fsck.*` and -`fetch.<msg-id>.*`. variables. +`fetch.fsck.*`. variables. + -Unlike variables like `color.ui` and `core.editor` the +Unlike variables like `color.ui` and `core.editor`, the `receive.fsck.<msg-id>` and `fetch.fsck.<msg-id>` variables will not fall back on the `fsck.<msg-id>` configuration if they aren't set. To -uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances -all three of them they must all set to the same values. +uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances, +all three of them must be set to the same values. + When `fsck.<msg-id>` is set, errors can be switched to warnings and vice versa by configuring the `fsck.<msg-id>` setting where the @@ -36,19 +36,19 @@ Setting an unknown `fsck.<msg-id>` value will cause fsck to die, but doing the same for `receive.fsck.<msg-id>` and `fetch.fsck.<msg-id>` will only cause git to warn. + -See `Fsck Messages` section of linkgit:git-fsck[1] for supported +See the `Fsck Messages` section of linkgit:git-fsck[1] for supported values of `<msg-id>`. fsck.skipList:: The path to a list of object names (i.e. one unabbreviated SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should - be ignored. On versions of Git 2.20 and later comments ('#'), empty - lines, and any leading and trailing whitespace is ignored. Everything + be ignored. On versions of Git 2.20 and later, comments ('#'), empty + lines, and any leading and trailing whitespace are ignored. Everything but a SHA-1 per line will error out on older versions. + This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted -despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored +despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored, such as invalid committer email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting. + @@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ Like `fsck.<msg-id>` this variable has corresponding Unlike variables like `color.ui` and `core.editor` the `receive.fsck.skipList` and `fetch.fsck.skipList` variables will not fall back on the `fsck.skipList` configuration if they aren't set. To -uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances -all three of them they must all set to the same values. +uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances, +all three of them must be set to the same values. + Older versions of Git (before 2.20) documented that the object names -list should be sorted. This was never a requirement, the object names +list should be sorted. This was never a requirement; the object names could appear in any order, but when reading the list we tracked whether the list was sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search implementation, which could save itself some work with an already sorted diff --git a/Documentation/config/fsmonitor--daemon.txt b/Documentation/config/fsmonitor--daemon.txt index c225c6c9e7..671f9b9462 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fsmonitor--daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fsmonitor--daemon.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ fsmonitor.allowRemote:: - By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work against network-mounted + By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work with network-mounted repositories. Setting `fsmonitor.allowRemote` to `true` overrides this behavior. Only respected when `core.fsmonitor` is set to `true`. diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt index c6e3acc99d..664a3c2874 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ gc.auto:: default value is 6700. + Setting this to 0 disables not only automatic packing based on the -number of loose objects, but any other heuristic `git gc --auto` will +number of loose objects, but also any other heuristic `git gc --auto` will otherwise use to determine if there's work to do, such as `gc.autoPackLimit`. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ See the `gc.bigPackThreshold` configuration variable below. When in use, it'll affect how the auto pack limit works. gc.autoDetach:: - Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background + Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in the background if the system supports it. Default is true. gc.bigPackThreshold:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt index 37e2831cd5..5cf32b179d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gpg.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gpg.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ gpg.program:: same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached signature, "`gpg --verify $signature - <$file`" is run, and the program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with - code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the + code 0. To generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its standard output. @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ gpg.<format>.program:: gpg.minTrustLevel:: Specifies a minimum trust level for signature verification. If this option is unset, then signature verification for merge - operations require a key with at least `marginal` trust. Other + operations requires a key with at least `marginal` trust. Other operations that perform signature verification require a key with at least `undefined` trust. Setting this option overrides the required trust-level for all operations. Supported values, @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ gpg.minTrustLevel:: * `ultimate` gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand:: - This command that will be run when user.signingkey is not set and a ssh + This command will be run when user.signingkey is not set and a ssh signature is requested. On successful exit a valid ssh public key prefixed with `key::` is expected in the first line of its output. This allows for a script doing a dynamic lookup of the correct public diff --git a/Documentation/config/gui.txt b/Documentation/config/gui.txt index 0c087fd8c9..171be774d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gui.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gui.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ gui.matchTrackingBranch:: not. Default: "false". gui.newBranchTemplate:: - Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the + Is used as a suggested name when creating new branches using the linkgit:git-gui[1]. gui.pruneDuringFetch:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/http.txt b/Documentation/config/http.txt index 51a70781e5..2d4e0c9b86 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/http.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/http.txt @@ -254,13 +254,13 @@ http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime:: http.noEPSV:: A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl. - This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't + This can be helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV` environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV). http.userAgent:: The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default - value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1. + value represents the version of the Git client such as git/1.7.1. This option allows you to override this value to a more common value such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set diff --git a/Documentation/config/i18n.txt b/Documentation/config/i18n.txt index cc25621731..6e72fdb45b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/i18n.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ i18n.commitEncoding:: Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history - browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other + browser (and possibly in other places in the future or in other porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'. i18n.logOutputEncoding:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/imap.txt b/Documentation/config/imap.txt index 06166fb5c0..3d28f72643 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/imap.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/imap.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ imap.folder:: "[Gmail]/Drafts". Required. imap.tunnel:: - Command used to setup a tunnel to the IMAP server through which + Command used to set up a tunnel to the IMAP server through which commands will be piped instead of using a direct network connection to the server. Required when imap.host is not set. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ imap.preformattedHTML:: format=fixed email. Default is `false`. imap.authMethod:: - Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP server. + Specify the authentication method for authenticating with the IMAP server. If Git was built with the NO_CURL option, or if your curl version is older than 7.34.0, or if you're running git-imap-send with the `--no-curl` option, the only supported method is 'CRAM-MD5'. If this is not set diff --git a/Documentation/config/index.txt b/Documentation/config/index.txt index 23c7985eb4..3eff420360 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/index.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/index.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ index.threads:: Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index. This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines. Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of - CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or + CPUs and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or 'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'. index.version:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/log.txt b/Documentation/config/log.txt index 5f96cf87fb..9003a82191 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/log.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/log.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ log.date:: `--date` option. See linkgit:git-log[1] for details. + If the format is set to "auto:foo" and the pager is in use, format -"foo" will be the used for the date format. Otherwise "default" will +"foo" will be used for the date format. Otherwise, "default" will be used. log.decorate:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/config/mailinfo.txt index 3854d4ae37..ec3a5d81f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/mailinfo.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ mailinfo.scissors:: If true, makes linkgit:git-mailinfo[1] (and therefore linkgit:git-am[1]) act by default as if the --scissors option - was provided on the command-line. When active, this features + was provided on the command-line. When active, this feature removes everything from the message body before a scissors line (i.e. consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-"). diff --git a/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt b/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt index 18f0562131..69a4f05153 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ maintenance.strategy:: then that value is used instead of the one provided by `maintenance.strategy`. The possible strategy strings are: + -* `none`: This default setting implies no task are run at any schedule. +* `none`: This default setting implies no tasks are run at any schedule. * `incremental`: This setting optimizes for performing small maintenance activities that do not delete any data. This does not schedule the `gc` task, but runs the `prefetch` and `commit-graph` tasks hourly, the diff --git a/Documentation/config/man.txt b/Documentation/config/man.txt index a727d987a8..5a0f82cc23 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/man.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/man.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ man.viewer:: man.<tool>.cmd:: Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page - passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].) + passed as an argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].) man.<tool>.path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to diff --git a/Documentation/config/merge.txt b/Documentation/config/merge.txt index 99e83dd36e..8851b6cede 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/merge.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ merge.conflictStyle:: marker and the original text before the `=======` marker. The "merge" style tends to produce smaller conflict regions than diff3, both because of the exclusion of the original text, and because - when a subset of lines match on the two sides they are just pulled + when a subset of lines match on the two sides, they are just pulled out of the conflict region. Another alternate style, "zdiff3", is similar to diff3 but removes matching lines on the two sides from the conflict region when those matching lines appear near either diff --git a/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt b/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt index 56a7eeeffb..294f61efd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode:: For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file - timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful - if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to + timestamp is checked, and the merge is assumed to have been successful + if the file has been updated; otherwise, the user is prompted to indicate the success of the merge. mergetool.meld.hasOutput:: @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ mergetool.meld.hasOutput:: mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge:: When the `--auto-merge` is given, meld will merge all non-conflicting - parts automatically, highlight the conflicting parts and wait for + parts automatically, highlight the conflicting parts, and wait for user decision. Setting `mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge` to `true` tells Git to unconditionally use the `--auto-merge` option with `meld`. Setting this value to `auto` makes git detect whether `--auto-merge` @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge:: mergetool.vimdiff.layout:: The vimdiff backend uses this variable to control how its split - windows look like. Applies even if you are using Neovim (`nvim`) or + windows appear. Applies even if you are using Neovim (`nvim`) or gVim (`gvim`) as the merge tool. See BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section ifndef::git-mergetool[] in linkgit:git-mergetool[1]. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ endif::[] for details. mergetool.hideResolved:: - During a merge Git will automatically resolve as many conflicts as + During a merge, Git will automatically resolve as many conflicts as possible and write the 'MERGED' file containing conflict markers around any conflicts that it cannot resolve; 'LOCAL' and 'REMOTE' normally represent the versions of the file from before Git's conflict @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ mergetool.keepTemporaries:: When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be - preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has + preserved; otherwise, they will be removed after the tool has exited. Defaults to `false`. mergetool.writeToTemp:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/notes.txt b/Documentation/config/notes.txt index c7c4811734..43db8e808d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/notes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ notes.mergeStrategy:: Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving notes conflicts. Must be one of `manual`, `ours`, `theirs`, `union`, or - `cat_sort_uniq`. Defaults to `manual`. See "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" + `cat_sort_uniq`. Defaults to `manual`. See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section of linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on each strategy. + This setting can be overridden by passing the `--strategy` option to diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt index 3748136d14..f50df9dbce 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ pack.threads:: warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window is however multiplied by the number of threads. - Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's + Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPUs and set the number of threads accordingly. pack.indexVersion:: @@ -83,11 +83,11 @@ pack.indexVersion:: the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced - and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is + and this config option is ignored whenever the corresponding pack is larger than 2 GB. + If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file, -cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http") +cloning or fetching over a non-native protocol (e.g. "http") that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however, @@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ pack.packSizeLimit:: in the creation of multiple packfiles. + Note that this option is rarely useful, and may result in a larger total -on-disk size (because Git will not store deltas between packs), as well -as worse runtime performance (object lookup within multiple packs is +on-disk size (because Git will not store deltas between packs) and +worse runtime performance (object lookup within multiple packs is slower than a single pack, and optimizations like reachability bitmaps cannot cope with multiple packs). + diff --git a/Documentation/config/push.txt b/Documentation/config/push.txt index 43338b65e8..0acbbea18a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/push.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/push.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ push.default:: * `tracking` - This is a deprecated synonym for `upstream`. -* `simple` - pushes the current branch with the same name on the remote. +* `simple` - push the current branch with the same name on the remote. + If you are working on a centralized workflow (pushing to the same repository you pull from, which is typically `origin`), then you need to configure an upstream @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ new default). -- push.followTags:: - If set to true enable `--follow-tags` option by default. You + If set to true, enable `--follow-tags` option by default. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying `--no-follow-tags`. diff --git a/Documentation/config/receive.txt b/Documentation/config/receive.txt index 85d5b5a3d2..c77e55b1cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/receive.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/receive.txt @@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ receive.autogc:: receive.certNonceSeed:: By setting this variable to a string, `git receive-pack` - will accept a `git push --signed` and verifies it by using + will accept a `git push --signed` and verify it by using a "nonce" protected by HMAC using this string as a secret key. receive.certNonceSlop:: - When a `git push --signed` sent a push certificate with a + When a `git push --signed` sends a push certificate with a "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce" found in the certificate to `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE` to the diff --git a/Documentation/config/rerere.txt b/Documentation/config/rerere.txt index 40abdf6a6b..3a78b5ebb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/rerere.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ rerere.autoUpdate:: When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using - previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. + previously recorded resolutions. Defaults to false. rerere.enabled:: Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical diff --git a/Documentation/config/safe.txt b/Documentation/config/safe.txt index bde7f31459..577df40223 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/safe.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/safe.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ repository that contains a bare repository and running a Git command within that directory. + This config setting is only respected in protected configuration (see -<<SCOPES>>). This prevents the untrusted repository from tampering with +<<SCOPES>>). This prevents untrusted repositories from tampering with this value. safe.directory:: @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ override any such directories specified in the system config), add a `safe.directory` entry with an empty value. + This config setting is only respected in protected configuration (see -<<SCOPES>>). This prevents the untrusted repository from tampering with this +<<SCOPES>>). This prevents untrusted repositories from tampering with this value. + The value of this setting is interpolated, i.e. `~/<path>` expands to a diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt index 92a9ebe98c..7fc770ee9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sendemail.aliasesFile:: sendemail.aliasFileType:: Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile. Must be - one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', or 'gnus', or 'sendmail'. + one of 'mutt', 'mailrc', 'pine', 'elm', 'gnus', or 'sendmail'. + What an alias file in each format looks like can be found in the documentation of the email program of the same name. The @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ sendemail.smtpBatchSize:: See also the `--batch-size` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1]. sendemail.smtpReloginDelay:: - Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. + Seconds to wait before reconnecting to the smtp server. See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1]. sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables:: diff --git a/Documentation/config/sequencer.txt b/Documentation/config/sequencer.txt index b48d532a96..e664eef01d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/sequencer.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/sequencer.txt @@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ sequence.editor:: Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file. The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used. It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable. - When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead. + When not configured, the default commit message editor is used instead. diff --git a/Documentation/config/splitindex.txt b/Documentation/config/splitindex.txt index afdb186df8..cfaa29610b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/splitindex.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/splitindex.txt @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ splitIndex.maxPercentChange:: percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the total number of entries in both the split index and the shared index before a new shared index is written. - The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then - a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new + The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0, then + a new shared index is always written; if it is 100, a new shared index is never written. - By default the value is 20, so a new shared index is written + By default, the value is 20, so a new shared index is written if the number of entries in the split index would be greater than 20 percent of the total number of entries. See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.txt b/Documentation/config/stash.txt index b9f609ed76..ec1edaeba6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.txt @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ stash.showIncludeUntracked:: If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command will show the untracked files of a stash entry. Defaults to false. See - description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. + the description of the 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. stash.showPatch:: If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false. - See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. + See the description of the 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. stash.showStat:: If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an - option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true. - See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. + option will show a diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true. + See the description of the 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/status.txt b/Documentation/config/status.txt index 0fc704ab80..2ff8237f8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/status.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/status.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ status.showUntrackedFiles:: contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some - systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays + systems. So, this variable controls how the commands display the untracked files. Possible values are: + -- @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. status.submoduleSummary:: Defaults to false. - If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an + If this is set to a non-zero number or true (identical to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note diff --git a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt index 6490527b45..0672d99117 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ submodule.<name>.url:: The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule - update'. If neither submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are + update'. If neither submodule.<name>.active nor submodule.active are set, the presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate whether the submodule is of interest to git commands. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore:: a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes - to the submodules work tree and + to the submodule's work tree and takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. diff --git a/Documentation/config/trace2.txt b/Documentation/config/trace2.txt index fe1642f0d4..3b6bca2b7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/trace2.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/trace2.txt @@ -66,6 +66,6 @@ trace2.destinationDebug:: trace2.maxFiles:: Integer. When writing trace files to a target directory, do not - write additional traces if we would exceed this many files. Instead, + write additional traces if doing so would exceed this many files. Instead, write a sentinel file that will block further tracing to this directory. Defaults to 0, which disables this check. diff --git a/Documentation/config/transfer.txt b/Documentation/config/transfer.txt index c3ac767d1e..55e13428db 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/transfer.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/transfer.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ transfer.credentialsInUrl:: and any other direct use of the configured URL. + Note that this is currently limited to detecting credentials in -`remote.<name>.url` configuration, it won't detect credentials in +`remote.<name>.url` configuration; it won't detect credentials in `remote.<name>.pushurl` configuration. + You might want to enable this to prevent inadvertent credentials @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ exposure, e.g. because: documented in procfs(5) allows for configuring this behavior. + If such concerns don't apply to you then you probably don't need to be -concerned about credentials exposure due to storing that sensitive +concerned about credentials exposure due to storing sensitive data in git's configuration files. If you do want to use this, set `transfer.credentialsInUrl` to one of these values: + diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt index ec9233b060..2ffc38d164 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/user.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ author.email:: committer.name:: committer.email:: The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends - up in the `author` and `committer` field of commit + up in the `author` and `committer` fields of commit objects. If you need the `author` or `committer` to be different, the - `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name` or + `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name`, or `committer.email` variables can be set. - Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, + All of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`, - `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables. + `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and `EMAIL` environment variables. + Note that the `name` forms of these variables conventionally refer to some form of a personal name. See linkgit:git-commit[1] and the @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ user.signingKey:: your private ssh key or the public key when ssh-agent is used. Alternatively it can contain a public key prefixed with `key::` directly (e.g.: "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier"). The private key - needs to be available via ssh-agent. If not set git will call + needs to be available via ssh-agent. If not set Git will call gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand (e.g.: "ssh-add -L") and try to use the first key available. For backward compatibility, a raw key which begins with "ssh-", such as "ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier", is treated diff --git a/Documentation/config/versionsort.txt b/Documentation/config/versionsort.txt index 6c7cc054fa..0cff090819 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/versionsort.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/versionsort.txt @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main release tag relative to tags with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix -among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and +among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck", and "-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally "v4.8-bfsX". + -If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will +If more than one suffix matches the same tagname, then that tagname will be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest position in -the tagname. If more than one different matching suffixes start at +the tagname. If more than one different matching suffix starts at that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the longest of those suffixes. The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index 546adf79e5..4b5aa5c2e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ You can customize the creation of patch text via the What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional diff format: -1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header that looks like this: +1. It is preceded by a "git diff" header that looks like this: diff --git a/file1 b/file2 + @@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is involved. Especially, even for a creation or a deletion, `/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of the `a/` or `b/` filenames. + -When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the +When a rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of -the file that rename/copy produces, respectively. +the file that the rename/copy produces, respectively. 2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines: @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ separate lines indicate the old and the new mode. 5. Hunk headers mention the name of the function to which the hunk applies. See "Defining a custom hunk-header" in - linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details of how to tailor to this to + linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details of how to tailor this to specific languages. @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give suitable `--diff-merges` option to any of these commands to force generation of -diffs in specific format. +diffs in a specific format. A "combined diff" format looks like this: @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510 for_each_ref(get_name); ------------ -1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like +1. It is preceded by a "git diff" header, that looks like this (when the `-c` option is used): diff --combined file @@ -142,22 +142,22 @@ or like this (when the `--cc` option is used): + The `mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>` line appears only if at least one of the <mode> is different from the rest. Extended headers with -information about detected contents movement (renames and -copying detection) are designed to work with diff of two +information about detected content movement (renames and +copying detection) are designed to work with the diff of two <tree-ish> and are not used by combined diff format. -3. It is followed by two-line from-file/to-file header +3. It is followed by a two-line from-file/to-file header: --- a/file +++ b/file + -Similar to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff +Similar to the two-line header for the traditional 'unified' diff format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted files. + However, if the --combined-all-paths option is provided, instead of a -two-line from-file/to-file you get a N+1 line from-file/to-file header, -where N is the number of parents in the merge commit +two-line from-file/to-file, you get an N+1 line from-file/to-file header, +where N is the number of parents in the merge commit: --- a/file --- a/file @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ added, from the point of view of that parent). In the above example output, the function signature was changed from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear -in either file1 or file2). Also eight other lines are the same +in either file1 or file2). Also, eight other lines are the same from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `+`). When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index ac6bc53d8e..1a75c28bca 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ matches "`fooasdfbar`" and "`foo/bar/baz/asdf`" but not "`foobarx`". --rotate-to=<file>:: Discard the files before the named <file> from the output (i.e. 'skip to'), or move them to the end of the output - (i.e. 'rotate to'). These were invented primarily for use + (i.e. 'rotate to'). These options were invented primarily for the use of the `git difftool` command, and may not be very useful otherwise. diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index 41fc7ca3c6..a1d6633a4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ the current repository has the same history as the source repository. --update-shallow:: By default when fetching from a shallow repository, `git fetch` refuses refs that require updating - .git/shallow. This option updates .git/shallow and accept such + .git/shallow. This option updates .git/shallow and accepts such refs. --negotiation-tip=<commit|glob>:: @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ endif::git-pull[] -f:: --force:: - When 'git fetch' is used with `<src>:<dst>` refspec it may + When 'git fetch' is used with `<src>:<dst>` refspec, it may refuse to update the local branch as discussed ifdef::git-pull[] in the `<refspec>` part of the linkgit:git-fetch[1] diff --git a/Documentation/fsck-msgids.txt b/Documentation/fsck-msgids.txt index 09b0aecbf8..f643585a34 100644 --- a/Documentation/fsck-msgids.txt +++ b/Documentation/fsck-msgids.txt @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ (ERROR) Missing space before date in an author/committer line. `missingSpaceBeforeEmail`:: - (ERROR) Missing space before the email in author/committer line. + (ERROR) Missing space before the email in an author/committer line. `missingTag`:: (ERROR) Unexpected end after `type` line in a tag object. @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ (FATAL) Missing end-of-line in the object header. `zeroPaddedDate`:: - (ERROR) Found a zero padded date in an author/commiter line. + (ERROR) Found a zero padded date in an author/committer line. `zeroPaddedFilemode`:: (WARN) Found a zero padded filemode in a tree. diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 900be198b1..0390dab20f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, -authorship information and patches, and applies them to the +Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log messages, +authorship information, and patches, and applies them to the current branch. You could think of it as a reverse operation of linkgit:git-format-patch[1] run on a branch with a straight history without merges. @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ OPTIONS --empty=(stop|drop|keep):: By default, or when the option is set to 'stop', the command errors out on an input e-mail message lacking a patch - and stops into the middle of the current am session. When this + and stops in the middle of the current am session. When this option is set to 'drop', skip such an e-mail message instead. When this option is set to 'keep', create an empty commit, recording the contents of the e-mail message as its log. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ OPTIONS Pass `-u` flag to 'git mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). The proposed commit log message taken from the e-mail is re-coded into UTF-8 encoding (configuration variable - `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify project's + `i18n.commitEncoding` can be used to specify the project's preferred encoding if it is not UTF-8). + This was optional in prior versions of git, but now it is the @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ include::rerere-options.txt[] automatically. This option allows the user to bypass the automatic detection and specify the patch format that the patch(es) should be interpreted as. Valid formats are mbox, mboxrd, - stgit, stgit-series and hg. + stgit, stgit-series, and hg. -i:: --interactive:: @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ include::rerere-options.txt[] --abort:: Restore the original branch and abort the patching operation. - Revert contents of files involved in the am operation to their + Revert the contents of files involved in the am operation to their pre-am state. --quit:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 5e16e6db7e..9cce68a38b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ DESCRIPTION Reads the supplied diff output (i.e. "a patch") and applies it to files. When running from a subdirectory in a repository, patched paths outside the directory are ignored. -With the `--index` option the patch is also applied to the index, and -with the `--cached` option the patch is only applied to the index. +With the `--index` option, the patch is also applied to the index, and +with the `--cached` option, the patch is only applied to the index. Without these options, the command applies the patch only to files, and does not require them to be in a Git repository. @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ OPTIONS --summary:: Instead of applying the patch, output a condensed summary of information obtained from git diff extended - headers, such as creations, renames and mode changes. + headers, such as creations, renames, and mode changes. Turns off "apply". --check:: @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ linkgit:git-config[1]). applying a diff generated with `--unified=0`. To bypass these checks use `--unidiff-zero`. + -Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches is +Note, for the reasons stated above, the usage of context-free patches is discouraged. --apply:: @@ -159,9 +159,9 @@ discouraged. --allow-binary-replacement:: --binary:: - Historically we did not allow binary patch applied + Historically we did not allow binary patch application without an explicit permission from the user, and this - flag was the way to do so. Currently we always allow binary + flag was the way to do so. Currently, we always allow binary patch application, so this is a no-op. --exclude=<path-pattern>:: @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ the `--unsafe-paths` option to override this safety check. This option has no effect when `--index` or `--cached` is in use. --allow-empty:: - Don't return error for patches containing no diff. This includes + Don't return an error for patches containing no diff. This includes empty patches and patches with commit text only. CONFIGURATION diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt index 6bab201d37..98526f2beb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt @@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard output. If <prefix> is specified it is prepended to the filenames in the archive. -'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when -given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is -used as the modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter -case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is -used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global -extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted -using 'git get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file -comment. +'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID as opposed to a +commit ID or tag ID. When a tree ID is provided, the current time is +used as the modification time of each file in the archive. On the +other hand, when a commit ID or tag ID is provided, the commit time as +recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead. +Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header +if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using 'git +get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index f69a871a96..5720d04ffe 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ include::blame-options.txt[] -e:: --show-email:: - Show the author email instead of author name (Default: off). + Show the author email instead of the author name (Default: off). This can also be controlled via the `blame.showEmail` config option. @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ When neither `--porcelain` nor `--incremental` option is specified, `git blame` will output annotation for each line with: - abbreviated object name for the commit the line came from; -- author ident (by default author name and date, unless `-s` or `-e` +- author ident (by default the author name and date, unless `-s` or `-e` is specified); and - line number @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ at least once for each commit: - the filename in the commit that the line is attributed to. - the first line of the commit log message ("summary"). -The contents of the actual line is output after the above +The contents of the actual line are output after the above header, prefixed by a TAB. This is to allow adding more header elements later. @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ which limits the annotation to the body of the `hello` subroutine. When you are not interested in changes older than version v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision -range specifiers similar to 'git rev-list': +range specifiers similar to 'git rev-list': git blame v2.6.18.. -- foo git blame --since=3.weeks -- foo diff --git a/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt b/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt index eca726e579..392d9eb6ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Captures information about the user's machine, Git client, and repository state, -as well as a form requesting information about the behavior the user observed, -into a single text file which the user can then share, for example to the Git -mailing list, in order to report an observed bug. +Collects information about the user's machine, Git client, and repository +state, in addition to a form requesting information about the behavior the +user observed, and stores it in a single text file which the user can then +share, for example to the Git mailing list, in order to report an observed +bug. The following information is requested from the user: diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt index 6e4f3aaf34..cb5a6c8f33 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ OPTIONS --stdin:: Read pathnames from the standard input, one per line, - instead of from the command-line. + instead of from the command line. -z:: The output format is modified to be machine-parsable. @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS --source=<tree-ish>:: Check attributes against the specified tree-ish. It is common to - specify the source tree by naming a commit, branch or tag associated + specify the source tree by naming a commit, branch, or tag associated with it. \--:: @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ unless `-z` is in effect, in which case NUL is used as delimiter: <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute -being queried and <info> can be either: +being queried, and <info> can be either: 'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path. 'unset';; when the attribute is defined as false. diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt index 2892799e32..3e3b4e3446 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ignore.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ linkgit:gitignore[5]. with a NUL character instead of a linefeed character. -n, --non-matching:: - Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only + Show given paths which don't match any pattern. This only makes sense when `--verbose` is enabled, otherwise it would not be possible to distinguish between paths which match a pattern and those which don't. diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index ee6a4144fb..2aacfd1808 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Git imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot begin or end with a slash `/` or contain multiple consecutive slashes (see the `--normalize` option below for an - exception to this rule) + exception to this rule). . They cannot end with a dot `.`. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The rule `git check-ref-format --branch $name` implements may be stricter than what `git check-ref-format refs/heads/$name` says (e.g. a dash may appear at the beginning of a ref component, but it is explicitly forbidden at the beginning of a branch name). -When run with `--branch` option in a repository, the input is first +When run with the `--branch` option in a repository, the input is first expanded for the ``previous checkout syntax'' `@{-n}`. For example, `@{-1}` is a way to refer the last thing that was checked out using "git switch" or "git checkout" operation. diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt index 01dbd5cbf5..faf8d6ca36 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout-index.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Will copy all files listed from the index to the working directory +Copies all listed files from the index to the working directory (not overwriting existing files). OPTIONS @@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ OPTIONS --stage=<number>|all:: Instead of checking out unmerged entries, copy out the - files from named stage. <number> must be between 1 and 3. + files from the named stage. <number> must be between 1 and 3. Note: --stage=all automatically implies --temp. --temp:: - Instead of copying the files to the working directory + Instead of copying the files to the working directory, write the content to temporary files. The temporary name associations will be written to stdout. @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ OPTIONS set. --stdin:: - Instead of taking list of paths from the command line, - read list of paths from the standard input. Paths are + Instead of taking a list of paths from the command line, + read the list of paths from the standard input. Paths are separated by LF (i.e. one path per line) by default. -z:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index a30e3ebc51..240c54639e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> You could omit `<branch>`, in which case the command degenerates to "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, -if exists, for the current branch. +if it exists, for the current branch. 'git checkout' -b|-B <new-branch> [<start-point>]:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt index 5e1a3d5148..69331e3f05 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ filter by pattern:: This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion. - E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from + E.g. "*.c *.h" will exclude files ending with ".c" and ".h" from deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press ENTER (empty) back to the main menu. diff --git a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt index cb9b4d2e46..97f9f12610 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-count-objects.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This counts the number of unpacked object files and disk space consumed by +Counts the number of unpacked object files and disk space consumed by them, to help you decide when it is a good time to repack. @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ OPTIONS ------- -v:: --verbose:: - Report in more detail: + Provide more detailed reports: + count: the number of loose objects + @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ size-pack: disk space consumed by the packs, in KiB (unless -H is specified) prune-packable: the number of loose objects that are also present in the packs. These objects could be pruned using `git prune-packed`. + -garbage: the number of files in object database that are neither valid loose +garbage: the number of files in the object database that are neither valid loose objects nor valid packs + size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt index f473994a86..487cc557a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION This command caches credentials for use by future Git programs. The stored credentials are kept in memory of the cache-daemon -process (instead of written to a file) and are forgotten after a +process (instead of being written to a file) and are forgotten after a configurable timeout. Credentials are forgotten sooner if the cache-daemon dies, for example if the system restarts. The cache is accessible over a Unix domain socket, restricted to the current diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt index 76b0798856..71864a8726 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential-store.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS Use `<path>` to lookup and store credentials. The file will have its filesystem permissions set to prevent other users on the system - from reading it, but will not be encrypted or otherwise + from reading it, but it will not be encrypted or otherwise protected. If not specified, credentials will be searched for from `~/.git-credentials` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials`, and credentials will be written to `~/.git-credentials` if it exists, or diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential.txt b/Documentation/git-credential.txt index a220afed4f..918a0aa42b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-credential.txt @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ unlocked) before it returned `password=secr3t`. that `git credential` will ask for a new password in its next invocation. In either case, `git credential` should be fed with the credential description obtained from step (2) (which also - contain the ones provided in step (1)). + contains the fields provided in step (1)). [[IOFMT]] INPUT/OUTPUT FORMAT diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 236df516c7..e064f91c9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ otherwise `stderr`. --user-path:: --user-path=<path>:: Allow {tilde}user notation to be used in requests. When - specified with no parameter, requests to + specified with no parameter, a request to git://host/{tilde}alice/foo is taken as a request to access 'foo' repository in the home directory of user `alice`. If `--user-path=path` is specified, the same request is diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt index 591e3801b7..bf78e31431 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] -2 --ours:: -3 --theirs:: -0:: - Diff against the "base" version, "our branch" or "their + Diff against the "base" version, "our branch", or "their branch" respectively. With these options, diffs for merged entries are not shown. + @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged". -c:: --cc:: This compares stage 2 (our branch), stage 3 (their - branch) and the working tree file and outputs a combined + branch), and the working tree file and outputs a combined diff, similar to the way 'diff-tree' shows a merge commit with these flags. -q:: - Remain silent even on nonexistent files + Remain silent even for nonexistent files include::diff-format.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index c30d8f0da8..4de1d4c8f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Compares the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object +Compare the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object with the corresponding tracked files in the working tree, or with the corresponding paths in the index. When <path> arguments are present, -compares only paths matching those patterns. Otherwise all tracked +compare only paths matching those patterns. Otherwise all tracked files are compared. OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt index 274d5eaba9..143318c411 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects. +Compare the content and mode of blobs found via two tree objects. If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents (see --stdin below). @@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ include::diff-options.txt[] matching one of the provided pathspecs. -r:: - recurse into sub-trees + Recurse into sub-trees. -t:: - show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. + Show tree entry itself as well as subtrees. Implies -r. --root:: When `--root` is specified the initial commit will be shown as a big @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ commits (but not trees). By default, 'git diff-tree --stdin' shows differences, either in machine-readable form (without `-p`) or in patch form (with `-p`). This output can be suppressed. It is - only useful with `-v` flag. + only useful with the `-v` flag. -v:: This flag causes 'git diff-tree --stdin' to also show @@ -104,10 +104,10 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed, in a similar way to the `-c` option. It implies the `-c` and `-p` options and further compresses the patch output - by omitting uninteresting hunks whose the contents in the parents + by omitting uninteresting hunks whose contents in the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them without modification. When all hunks are uninteresting, the commit - itself and the commit log message is not shown, just like in any other + itself and the commit log message are not shown, just like in any other "empty diff" case. --combined-all-paths:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt index ac0ac6fa02..50cb080085 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS --rotate-to=<file>:: Start showing the diff for the given path, - the paths before it will move to end and output. + the paths before it will move to the end and output. --skip-to=<file>:: Start showing the diff for the given path, skipping all @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`. Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`. --[no-]symlinks:: - 'git difftool''s default behavior is create symlinks to the + 'git difftool''s default behavior is to create symlinks to the working tree when run in `--dir-diff` mode and the right-hand side of the comparison yields the same content as the file in the working tree. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 8b5dd6add0..bd7b1e0a2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ in octal. Git only supports the following modes: * `100755` or `755`: A normal, but executable, file. * `120000`: A symlink, the content of the file will be the link target. * `160000`: A gitlink, SHA-1 of the object refers to a commit in - another repository. Git links can only be specified by SHA or through + another repository. Git links can only be specified either by SHA or through a commit mark. They are used to implement submodules. * `040000`: A subdirectory. Subdirectories can only be specified by SHA or through a tree mark set with `--import-marks`. @@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ the marks back to the source repository, it is easy to verify the accuracy and completeness of the import by comparing each Git commit to the corresponding source revision. -Coming from a system such as Perforce or Subversion this should be +Coming from a system such as Perforce or Subversion, this should be quite simple, as the fast-import mark can also be the Perforce changeset number or the Subversion revision number. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index 46747d5f42..b3467664d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>:: Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the - remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. + remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and your privately installed git may not be found on the system diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 711823a7f4..aaafce24be 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ A "message" generated by the command consists of three parts: * The "patch", which is the "diff -p --stat" output (see linkgit:git-diff[1]) between the commit and its parent. -The log message and the patch is separated by a line with a +The log message and the patch are separated by a line with a three-dash line. There are two ways to specify which commits to operate on. diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt index b6a0f8a085..5b82e4605c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ OPTIONS An object to treat as the head of an unreachability trace. + If no objects are given, 'git fsck' defaults to using the -index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs +index file, all SHA-1 references in the `refs` namespace, and all reflogs (unless --no-reflogs is given) as heads. --unreachable:: @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ index file, all SHA-1 references in `refs` namespace, and all reflogs --connectivity-only:: Check only the connectivity of reachable objects, making sure that any objects referenced by a reachable tag, commit, or tree - is present. This speeds up the operation by avoiding reading + are present. This speeds up the operation by avoiding reading blobs entirely (though it does still check that referenced blobs exist). This will detect corruption in commits and trees, but not do any semantic checks (e.g., for format errors). Corruption @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ care about this output and want to speed it up further. recorded with g+w bit set, which was created by older versions of Git. Existing repositories, including the Linux kernel, Git itself, and sparse repository have old - objects that triggers this check, but it is recommended + objects that trigger this check, but it is recommended to check new projects with this flag. --verbose:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt index 8238eadb0e..8585d19f4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsmonitor--daemon.txt @@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ the change (as happening against the super repo). However, the client will properly ignore these extra events, so performance may be affected but it will not cause an incorrect result. -By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work against network-mounted +By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work with network-mounted repositories; this may be overridden by setting `fsmonitor.allowRemote` to `true`. Note, however, that the fsmonitor daemon is not guaranteed to work -correctly with all network-mounted repositories and such use is considered +correctly with all network-mounted repositories, so such use is considered experimental. On Mac OS, the inter-process communication (IPC) between various Git @@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ but not on network-mounted filesystems, NTFS, or FAT32. Other filesystems may or may not have the needed support; the fsmonitor daemon is not guaranteed to work with these filesystems and such use is considered experimental. -By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory, however, if the -`.git` directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, it will be instead be +By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory. However, if the +`.git` directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, it will instead be created at `$HOME/.git-fsmonitor-*` unless `$HOME` itself is on a -network-mounted filesystem in which case you must set the configuration +network-mounted filesystem, in which case you must set the configuration variable `fsmonitor.socketDir` to the path of a directory on a Mac OS native filesystem in which to create the socket file. diff --git a/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt b/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt index ac44d85b0b..b537bb45b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-get-tar-commit-id.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ and extract the commit ID stored in it. It reads only the first 1024 bytes of input, thus its runtime is not influenced by the size of the tar archive very much. -If no commit ID is found, 'git get-tar-commit-id' quietly exists with a +If no commit ID is found, 'git get-tar-commit-id' quietly exits with a return code of 1. This can happen if the archive had not been created using 'git archive' or if the first parameter of 'git archive' had been a tree ID instead of a commit ID or tag. diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index dabdbe8471..0d0103c780 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ The `--threads` option (and the grep.threads configuration) will be ignored when When grepping the object store (with `--cached` or giving tree objects), running with multiple threads might perform slower than single threaded if `--textconv` -is given and there're too many text conversions. So if you experience low +is given and there are too many text conversions. So if you experience low performance in this case, it might be desirable to use `--threads=1`. CONFIGURATION diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt index 8577f7a7d4..ef4719ae41 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt @@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ OPTIONS of from the command-line. --path:: - Hash object as it were located at the given path. The location of - file does not directly influence on the hash value, but path is - used to determine what Git filters should be applied to the object - before it can be placed to the object database, and, as result of + Hash object as if it were located at the given path. The location of + the file does not directly influence the hash value, but the path is + used to determine which Git filters should be applied to the object + before it can be placed in the object database. As a result of applying filters, the actual blob put into the object database may differ from the given file. This option is mainly useful for hashing temporary files located outside of the working directory or files diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index 2b0b5e390d..f0bedc1f96 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ former is internally converted into the latter. To display the linkgit:git[1] man page, use `git help git`. -This page can be displayed with 'git help help' or `git help --help` +This page can be displayed with 'git help help' or `git help --help`. OPTIONS ------- -a:: --all:: - Prints all the available commands on the standard output. + Print all the available commands on the standard output. --no-external-commands:: When used with `--all`, exclude the listing of external "git-*" @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ OPTIONS aliases. --verbose:: - When used with `--all` print description for all recognized + When used with `--all`, print description for all recognized commands. This is the default. -c:: @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ OPTIONS -g:: --guides:: - Prints a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output. + Print a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output. --user-interfaces:: - Prints a list of the repository, command and file interfaces + Print a list of the repository, command and file interfaces documentation on the standard output. + In-repository file interfaces such as `.git/info/exclude` are @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ pseudo-configuration such as the file-based `.git/hooks/*` interface described in linkgit:githooks[5]. --developer-interfaces:: - Print list of file formats, protocols and other developer + Print a list of file formats, protocols and other developer interfaces documentation on the standard output. -i:: @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ other display programs (see below). format. A web browser will be used for that purpose. + The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable -`help.browser`, or `web.browser` if the former is not set. If none of +`help.browser`, or `web.browser` if the former is not set. If neither of these config variables is set, the 'git web{litdd}browse' helper script (called by 'git help') will pick a suitable default. See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1] for more information about this. @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ line option: * "info" corresponds to '-i|--info', * "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web'. -help.browser, web.browser and browser.<tool>.path -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +help.browser, web.browser, and browser.<tool>.path +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The `help.browser`, `web.browser` and `browser.<tool>.path` will also be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command-line diff --git a/Documentation/git-hook.txt b/Documentation/git-hook.txt index 3407f3c2c0..f6cc72d2ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-hook.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-hook.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -A command interface to running git hooks (see linkgit:githooks[5]), +A command interface for running git hooks (see linkgit:githooks[5]), for use by other scripted git commands. SUBCOMMANDS @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ OPTIONS ------- --to-stdin:: - For "run"; Specify a file which will be streamed into the + For "run"; specify a file which will be streamed into the hook's stdin. The hook will receive the entire file from beginning to EOF. diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index 0c5c0dde19..f37ddaded8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ discussion of `GIT_PROTOCOL` in the ENVIRONMENT section below. It verifies that the directory has the magic file "git-daemon-export-ok", and it will refuse to export any Git directory that hasn't explicitly been marked for export this way (unless the -`GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environmental variable is set). +`GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environment variable is set). By default, only the `upload-pack` service is enabled, which serves 'git fetch-pack' and 'git ls-remote' clients, which are invoked from @@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ http.getanyfile:: any file within the repository, including objects that are no longer reachable from a branch but are still present. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it - by setting this configuration item to `false`. + by setting this configuration value to `false`. http.uploadpack:: This serves 'git fetch-pack' and 'git ls-remote' clients. It is enabled by default, but a repository can disable it - by setting this configuration item to `false`. + by setting this configuration value to `false`. http.receivepack:: This serves 'git send-pack' clients, allowing push. It is @@ -265,12 +265,12 @@ by the invoking web server, including: * QUERY_STRING * REQUEST_METHOD -The `GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environmental variable may be passed to +The `GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL` environment variable may be passed to 'git-http-backend' to bypass the check for the "git-daemon-export-ok" file in each repository before allowing export of that repository. The `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUEST_BUFFER` environment variable (or the -`http.maxRequestBuffer` config variable) may be set to change the +`http.maxRequestBuffer` config option) may be set to change the largest ref negotiation request that git will handle during a fetch; any fetch requiring a larger buffer will not succeed. This value should not normally need to be changed, but may be helpful if you are fetching from diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt index 319062c021..4ec7c68d3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ commit-id:: Report what is downloaded. -w <filename>:: - Writes the commit-id into the filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on + Writes the commit-id into the specified filename under $GIT_DIR/refs/<filename> on the local end after the transfer is complete. --stdin:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt index 7c6a6dd7f6..ce0d808212 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Sends missing objects to remote repository, and updates the +Sends missing objects to the remote repository, and updates the remote branch. *NOTE*: This command is temporarily disabled if your libcurl is older than 7.16, as the combination has been reported -not to work and sometimes corrupts repository. +not to work and sometimes corrupts the repository. OPTIONS ------- @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS -d:: -D:: Remove <ref> from remote repository. The specified branch - cannot be the remote HEAD. If -d is specified the following + cannot be the remote HEAD. If -d is specified, the following other conditions must also be met: - Remote HEAD must resolve to an object that exists locally @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ and where it is pushed is determined by using the destination side. Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", -is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the -remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. +is performed to avoid accidentally overwriting the +remote ref and losing other peoples' commits from there. With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs. diff --git a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt index 4e71c256ec..6486620c3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-index-pack.txt @@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, and -builds a pack index file (.idx) for it. Optionally writes a +Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, +builds a pack index file (.idx) for it, and optionally writes a reverse-index (.rev) for the specified pack. The packed -archive together with the pack index can then be placed in +archive, together with the pack index, can then be placed in the objects/pack/ directory of a Git repository. @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ OPTIONS updated to use objects contained in the pack. --keep=<msg>:: - Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into - its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file + Like --keep, create a .keep file before moving the index into + its final destination. However, instead of creating an empty file place '<msg>' followed by an LF into the .keep file. The '<msg>' message can later be searched for within all .keep files to locate any which have outlived their usefulness. diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 160dea1372..6f0d2973bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. If the object storage directory is specified via the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` environment variable then the sha1 directories -are created underneath - otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` +are created underneath; otherwise, the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used. Running 'git init' in an existing repository is safe. It will not @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ DIRECTORY" section below.) Instead of initializing the repository as a directory to either `$GIT_DIR` or `./.git/`, create a text file there containing the path to the actual -repository. This file acts as filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the +repository. This file acts as a filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the repository. + -If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path. +If this is a reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path. -b <branch-name>:: --initial-branch=<branch-name>:: @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ specified. 'group' (or 'true'):: -Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may be not +Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may not be the primary group of all users). This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value. Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Same as 'group', but make the repository readable by all users. '<perm>' is a 3-digit octal number prefixed with `0` and each file will have mode '<perm>'. '<perm>' will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions as 'group' and 'all' -does). '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable, but +do). '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group, but inaccessible to others (directories and executable files get their diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt index 1bc0328bb7..f65a8cd91d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt @@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This merges the file listing in the index with the actual working +This command merges the file listing in the index with the actual working directory list, and shows different combinations of the two. -One or more of the options below may be used to determine the files +Several flags can be used to determine which files are shown, and each file may be printed multiple times if there are -multiple entries in the index or multiple statuses are applicable for +multiple entries in the index or if multiple statuses are applicable for the relevant file selection options. OPTIONS @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ OPTIONS matching an exclude pattern. When showing "other" files (i.e. when used with '-o'), show only those matched by an exclude pattern. Standard ignore rules are not automatically - activated, therefore at least one of the `--exclude*` options + activated; therefore, at least one of the `--exclude*` options is required. -s:: @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ OPTIONS Show status tags together with filenames. Note that for scripting purposes, linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain` and linkgit:git-diff-files[1] `--name-status` are almost always - superior alternatives, and users should look at + superior alternatives; users should look at linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1] `--name-status` for more user-friendly alternatives. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt index e3b2a88c4b..3f0a6662c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ OPTIONS -b:: If any file doesn't begin with a From line, assume it is a - single mail message instead of signaling error. + single mail message instead of signaling an error. -d<prec>:: Instead of the default 4 digits with leading zeros, diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt index 805e5a2e3a..51d0f7e94b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt @@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ prefetch:: requested refs within `refs/prefetch/`. Also, tags are not updated. + This is done to avoid disrupting the remote-tracking branches. The end users -expect these refs to stay unmoved unless they initiate a fetch. With prefetch -task, however, the objects necessary to complete a later real fetch would -already be obtained, so the real fetch would go faster. In the ideal case, +expect these refs to stay unmoved unless they initiate a fetch. However, +with the prefetch task, the objects necessary to complete a later real fetch +would already be obtained, making the real fetch faster. In the ideal case, it will just become an update to a bunch of remote-tracking branches without any object transfer. diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt index b01ba3d356..5ab957cfbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-base.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -'git merge-base' finds best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use +'git merge-base' finds the best common ancestor(s) between two commits to use in a three-way merge. One common ancestor is 'better' than another common ancestor if the latter is an ancestor of the former. A common ancestor that does not have any better common ancestor is a 'best common @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ merge base for a pair of commits. OPERATION MODES --------------- -As the most common special case, specifying only two commits on the +In the most common special case, specifying only two commits on the command line means computing the merge base between the given two commits. More generally, among the two commits to compute the merge base from, @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ from linkgit:git-show-branch[1] when used with the `--merge-base` option. the two commits, but also takes into account the reflog of <ref> to see if the history leading to <commit> forked from an earlier incarnation of the branch <ref> (see discussion - on this mode below). + of this mode below). OPTIONS ------- @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ For example, with this topology: the merge base between 'A' and 'B' is '1'. -Given three commits 'A', 'B' and 'C', `git merge-base A B C` will compute the +Given three commits 'A', 'B', and 'C', `git merge-base A B C` will compute the merge base between 'A' and a hypothetical commit 'M', which is a merge between 'B' and 'C'. For example, with this topology: @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ When the history involves criss-cross merges, there can be more than one ---2---o---o---B .... -both '1' and '2' are merge-bases of A and B. Neither one is better than +both '1' and '2' are merge bases of A and B. Neither one is better than the other (both are 'best' merge bases). When the `--all` option is not given, it is unspecified which best one is output. @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ will find B0, and $ git rebase --onto origin/master $fork_point topic -will replay D0, D1 and D on top of B to create a new history of this +will replay D0, D1, and D on top of B to create a new history of this shape: .... diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt index ffc4fbf7e8..b50acace3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt @@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ DESCRIPTION This command has a modern `--write-tree` mode and a deprecated `--trivial-merge` mode. With the exception of the <<DEPMERGE,DEPRECATED DESCRIPTION>> section at the end, the rest of -this documentation describes modern `--write-tree` mode. +this documentation describes the modern `--write-tree` mode. Performs a merge, but does not make any new commits and does not read from or write to either the working tree or index. -The performed merge will use the same feature as the "real" +The performed merge will use the same features as the "real" linkgit:git-merge[1], including: * three way content merges of individual files @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ Do NOT attempt to guess or make the user guess the conflict types from the <<CFI,Conflicted file info>> list. The information there is insufficient to do so. For example: Rename/rename(1to2) conflicts (both sides renamed the same file differently) will result in three different -file having higher order stages (but each only has one higher order +files having higher order stages (but each only has one higher order stage), with no way (short of the <<IM,Informational messages>> section) to determine which three files are related. File/directory conflicts also result in a file with exactly one higher order stage. @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ a file with exactly one higher order stage. In all cases, the <<IM,Informational messages>> section has the necessary info, though it is not designed to be machine parseable. -Do NOT assume that each paths from <<CFI,Conflicted file info>>, and +Do NOT assume that each path from <<CFI,Conflicted file info>>, and the logical conflicts in the <<IM,Informational messages>> have a one-to-one mapping, nor that there is a one-to-many mapping, nor a many-to-one mapping. Many-to-many mappings exist, meaning that each diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 8625c5cb0e..e8ab340319 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things: You can work through the conflict with a number of tools: * Use a mergetool. `git mergetool` to launch a graphical - mergetool which will work you through the merge. + mergetool which will work through the merge with you. * Look at the diffs. `git diff` will show a three-way diff, highlighting changes from both the `HEAD` and `MERGE_HEAD` diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt index 3e8f59ac0e..0726b560d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt @@ -28,22 +28,22 @@ to define the operation mode for the functions listed below. FUNCTIONS --------- get_merge_tool:: - returns a merge tool. the return code is 1 if we returned a guessed + Returns a merge tool. The return code is 1 if we returned a guessed merge tool, else 0. '$GIT_MERGETOOL_GUI' may be set to 'true' to search for the appropriate guitool. get_merge_tool_cmd:: - returns the custom command for a merge tool. + Returns the custom command for a merge tool. get_merge_tool_path:: - returns the custom path for a merge tool. + Returns the custom path for a merge tool. initialize_merge_tool:: - bring merge tool specific functions into scope so they can be used or + Brings merge tool specific functions into scope so they can be used or overridden. run_merge_tool:: - launches a merge tool given the tool name and a true/false + Launches a merge tool given the tool name and a true/false flag to indicate whether a merge base is present. '$MERGED', '$LOCAL', '$REMOTE', and '$BASE' must be defined for use by the merge tool. diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt index 07535f6576..b9e20c5dcd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Use `git mergetool` to run one of several merge utilities to resolve merge conflicts. It is typically run after 'git merge'. If one or more <file> parameters are given, the merge tool program will -be run to resolve differences on each file (skipping those without +be run to resolve differences in each file (skipping those without conflicts). Specifying a directory will include all unresolved files in that path. If no <file> names are specified, 'git mergetool' will run the merge tool program on every file with merge conflicts. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ variable `mergetool.<tool>.cmd`. + When 'git mergetool' is invoked with this tool (either through the `-t` or `--tool` option or the `merge.tool` configuration -variable) the configured command line will be invoked with `$BASE` +variable), the configured command line will be invoked with `$BASE` set to the name of a temporary file containing the common base for the merge, if available; `$LOCAL` set to the name of a temporary file containing the contents of the file on the current branch; @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited. -g:: --gui:: - When 'git-mergetool' is invoked with the `-g` or `--gui` option + When 'git-mergetool' is invoked with the `-g` or `--gui` option, the default merge tool will be read from the configured `merge.guitool` variable instead of `merge.tool`. If `merge.guitool` is not set, we will fallback to the tool @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ These are safe to remove once a file has been merged and its `git mergetool` session has completed. Setting the `mergetool.keepBackup` configuration variable to `false` -causes `git mergetool` to automatically remove the backup as files +causes `git mergetool` to automatically remove the backup files as files are successfully merged. BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index b2a2e80d42..006d759962 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The +Reads a tag's contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. This command is mostly equivalent to linkgit:git-hash-object[1] @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ write a tag found in `my-tag`: The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the tag doesn't pass a linkgit:git-fsck[1] check. -The "fsck" check done mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1] +The "fsck" check done by mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1] would run by default in that all `fsck.<msg-id>` messages are promoted from warnings to errors (so e.g. a missing "tagger" line is an error). @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ has a very simple fixed format: four lines of tagger <tagger> followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created -by older Git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when it +by older Git may not have a `tagger` line). The message, when it exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The message part may contain a signature that Git itself doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg. diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktree.txt b/Documentation/git-mktree.txt index 76b44f4da1..383f09dd33 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktree.txt @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ OPTIONS --missing:: Allow missing objects. The default behaviour (without this option) - is to verify that each tree entry's sha1 identifies an existing + is to verify that each tree entry's hash identifies an existing object. This option has no effect on the treatment of gitlink entries (aka "submodules") which are always allowed to be missing. --batch:: Allow building of more than one tree object before exiting. Each - tree is separated by a single blank line. The final new-line is + tree is separated by a single blank line. The final newline is optional. Note - if the `-z` option is used, lines are terminated with NUL. diff --git a/Documentation/git-mv.txt b/Documentation/git-mv.txt index fb0220fd18..7f991a3380 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mv.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mv.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Move or rename a file, directory or symlink. +Move or rename a file, directory, or symlink. git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> <destination> git mv [-v] [-f] [-n] [-k] <source> ... <destination directory> diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt index 5c56c87025..d4f1c4d594 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS --refs=<pattern>:: Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. The pattern - can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. If + can be a branch name, a tag name, or a fully qualified ref name. If given multiple times, use refs whose names match any of the given shell patterns. Use `--no-refs` to clear any previous ref patterns given. diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt b/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt index 844d6f808a..db742dcfee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- This program searches the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` for all objects that currently -exist in a pack file as well as the independent object directories. +exist in a pack file as well as in the independent object directories. All such extra objects are removed. diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt index 03552dd86f..9a45571b90 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ NOTE: In most cases, users should run 'git gc', which calls 'git prune'. See the section "NOTES", below. This runs 'git fsck --unreachable' using all the refs -available in `refs/`, optionally with additional set of +available in `refs/`, optionally with an additional set of objects specified on the command line, and prunes all unpacked objects unreachable from any of these head objects from the object database. In addition, it diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 5b4edaf4a8..c12caedbb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ local one. OPTIONS[[OPTIONS]] ------------------ <repository>:: - The "remote" repository that is destination of a push + The "remote" repository that is the destination of a push operation. This parameter can be either a URL (see the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below) or the name of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below). diff --git a/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt b/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt index 70562dc4c0..40e02d92eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt @@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ OPTIONS a patch. At the time of this writing only missing author information is warned about. ---author Author Name <Author Email>:: +--author 'Author Name <Author Email>':: The author name and email address to use when no author information can be found in the patch description. --patches <dir>:: The directory to find the quilt patches. + -The default for the patch directory is patches +The default for the patch directory is 'patches' or the value of the `$QUILT_PATCHES` environment variable. diff --git a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt index 0b393715d7..605a92e224 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ to revert to color all lines according to the outer diff markers Defaults to 60. Try a larger value if `git range-diff` erroneously considers a large change a total rewrite (deletion of one commit and addition of another), and a smaller one in the reverse case. - See the ``Algorithm`` section below for an explanation why this is + See the ``Algorithm`` section below for an explanation of why this is needed. --left-only:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt index b09707474d..1c48c28996 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt @@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ fast-forward (i.e. 2-way) merge, or a 3-way merge, with the `-m` flag. When used with `-m`, the `-u` flag causes it to also update the files in the work tree with the result of the merge. -Trivial merges are done by 'git read-tree' itself. Only conflicting paths -will be in unmerged state when 'git read-tree' returns. +Only trivial merges are done by 'git read-tree' itself. Only conflicting paths +will be in an unmerged state when 'git read-tree' returns. OPTIONS ------- -m:: Perform a merge, not just a read. The command will refuse to run if your index file has unmerged entries, - indicating that you have not finished previous merge you + indicating that you have not finished a previous merge you started. --reset:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt index 65ff518ccf..20aca92073 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-receive-pack.txt @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ information fed from the remote end. This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user. The UI for the protocol is on the 'git send-pack' side, and the -program pair is meant to be used to push updates to remote +program pair is meant to be used to push updates to a remote repository. For pull operations, see linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1]. -The command allows for creation and fast-forwarding of sha1 refs +The command allows for the creation and fast-forwarding of sha1 refs (heads/tags) on the remote end (strictly speaking, it is the local end 'git-receive-pack' runs, but to the user who is sitting at the send-pack end, it is updating the remote. Confused?) diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt index 88ea7e1cc0..b33ee3c9e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt @@ -44,15 +44,15 @@ The following sequences have a special meaning: This argument will not be passed to '<command>'. Instead, it will cause the helper to start by sending git:// service requests to the remote side with the service field set to an appropriate value and - the repository field set to rest of the argument. Default is not to send + the repository field set to the rest of the argument. Default is not to send such a request. + -This is useful if remote side is git:// server accessed over +This is useful if the remote side is git:// server accessed over some tunnel. '%V' (must be first characters in argument):: This argument will not be passed to '<command>'. Instead it sets - the vhost field in the git:// service request (to rest of the argument). + the vhost field in the git:// service request (to the rest of the argument). Default is not to send vhost in such request (if sent). ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES @@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ begins with `ext::`. Examples: "ext::ssh -i /home/foo/.ssh/somekey user@host.example %S 'foo/repo'":: Like host.example:foo/repo, but use /home/foo/.ssh/somekey as - keypair and user as user on remote side. This avoids needing to + keypair and user as the user on the remote side. This avoids the need to edit .ssh/config. "ext::socat -t3600 - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/git-server %G/somerepo":: Represents repository with path /somerepo accessible over - git protocol at abstract namespace address /git-server. + git protocol at the abstract namespace address /git-server. "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo":: Represents a repository with path /repo accessed using the diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt index 0451ceb8a2..1dd2648a79 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt @@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- This helper uses specified file descriptors to connect to a remote Git server. This is not meant for end users but for programs and scripts calling git -fetch, push or archive. +fetch, push, or archive. If only <infd> is given, it is assumed to be a bidirectional socket connected -to remote Git server (git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack or +to a remote Git server (git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, or git-upload-archive). If both <infd> and <outfd> are given, they are assumed to be pipes connected to a remote Git server (<infd> being the inbound pipe -and <outfd> being the outbound pipe. +and <outfd> being the outbound pipe). It is assumed that any handshaking procedures have already been completed (such as sending service request for git://) before this helper is started. <anything> can be any string. It is ignored. It is meant for providing -information to user in the URL in case that URL is displayed in some +information to the user in the URL in case that URL is displayed in some context. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ EXAMPLES `git push fd::7,8 master (as URL)`:: Push master, using file descriptor #7 to read data from git-receive-pack and file descriptor #8 to write data to - same service. + the same service. `git push fd::7,8/bar master`:: Same as above. diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt index 893b8a2fea..c338329089 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ depth is 4095. Exclude the given pack from repacking. This is the equivalent of having `.keep` file on the pack. `<pack-name>` is the pack file name without leading directory (e.g. `pack-123.pack`). - The option could be specified multiple times to keep multiple + The option can be specified multiple times to keep multiple packs. --unpack-unreachable=<when>:: @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ When `--unpacked` is specified, loose objects are implicitly included in this "roll-up", without respect to their reachability. This is subject to change in the future. This option (implying a drastically different repack mode) is not guaranteed to work with all other combinations of -option to `git repack`. +options to `git repack`. + When writing a multi-pack bitmap, `git repack` selects the largest resulting pack as the preferred pack for object selection by the MIDX (see diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt index f271d758c3..4f257126e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Replacement references will be used by default by all Git commands except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and fsck). -It is possible to disable use of replacement references for any +It is possible to disable the use of replacement references for any command using the `--no-replace-objects` option just after 'git'. For example if commit 'foo' has been replaced by commit 'bar': @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ OPTIONS FORMATS ------- -The following format are available: +The following formats are available: * 'short': <replaced sha1> diff --git a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt index fa5a426709..15dcbb6d91 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-request-pull.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION Generate a request asking your upstream project to pull changes into their tree. The request, printed to the standard output, begins with the branch description, summarizes -the changes and indicates from where they can be pulled. +the changes, and indicates from where they can be pulled. The upstream project is expected to have the commit named by `<start>` and the output asks it to integrate the changes you made @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ EXAMPLES -------- Imagine that you built your work on your `master` branch on top of -the `v1.0` release, and want it to be integrated to the project. +the `v1.0` release, and want it to be integrated into the project. First you push that change to your public repository for others to see: diff --git a/Documentation/git-restore.txt b/Documentation/git-restore.txt index c70444705b..975825b44a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-restore.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-restore.txt @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ in linkgit:git-checkout[1] for details. specified. Unmerged paths on the working tree are left alone. --ignore-skip-worktree-bits:: - In sparse checkout mode, by default is to only update entries + In sparse checkout mode, the default is to only update entries matched by `<pathspec>` and sparse patterns in $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout. This option ignores the sparse patterns and unconditionally restores any files in @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ the same as using linkgit:git-reset[1]) $ git restore --staged hello.c ------------ -or you can restore both the index and the working tree (this the same +or you can restore both the index and the working tree (this is the same as using linkgit:git-checkout[1]) ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index 51029a2271..2e05c4b510 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ DESCRIPTION :git-rev-list: 1 include::rev-list-description.txt[] -'rev-list' is a very essential Git command, since it +'rev-list' is an essential Git command, since it provides the ability to build and traverse commit ancestry graphs. For -this reason, it has a lot of different options that enables it to be +this reason, it has a lot of different options that enable it to be used by commands as different as 'git bisect' and 'git repack'. diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 6a4968f68a..912fab9f5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Many Git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags +Many Git porcelainish commands take a mixture of flags (i.e. parameters that begin with a dash '-') and parameters meant for the underlying 'git rev-list' command they use internally and flags and parameters for the other commands they use @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Each of these options must appear first on the command line. --sq-quote:: Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE section below). In contrast to the `--sq` option below, this - mode does only quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. + mode only does quoting. Nothing else is done to command input. Options for --parseopt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ for another option. are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you want to name the "master" branch when there is an - unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full + unfortunately named tag "master"), and shows them as full refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master"). Options for Objects @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Each line of options has this format: dash to separate words in a multi-word argument hint. The remainder of the line, after stripping the spaces, is used -as the help associated to the option. +as the help associated with the option. Blank lines are ignored, and lines that don't match this specification are used as option group headers (start the line with a space to create such diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index 81bc23f3cd..363a26934f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used). A submodule is considered up to date when the HEAD is the same as recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked -files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree. +files that aren't ignored are present in the submodule's work tree. Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work tree from being removed. diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 492a82323d..e90d041817 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ Information --dump-aliases:: Instead of the normal operation, dump the shorthand alias names from - the configured alias file(s), one per line in alphabetical order. Note, - this only includes the alias name and not its expanded email addresses. + the configured alias file(s), one per line in alphabetical order. Note + that this only includes the alias name and not its expanded email addresses. See 'sendemail.aliasesfile' for more information about aliases. diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt index 595b002152..b9e73f2e77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-pack.txt @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ be in a separate packet, and the list must end with a flush packet. --force:: Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is not an ancestor of the local ref used to overwrite it. - This flag disables the check. What this means is that + This flag disables the check. This means that the remote repository can lose commits; use it with care. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ SPECIFYING THE REFS There are three ways to specify which refs to update on the remote end. -With `--all` flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to +With the `--all` flag, all refs that exist locally are transferred to the remote side. You cannot specify any '<ref>' if you use this flag. @@ -115,9 +115,9 @@ both on the local side and on the remote side are updated. When one or more '<ref>' are specified explicitly (whether on the command line or via `--stdin`), it can be either a -single pattern, or a pair of such pattern separated by a colon +single pattern, or a pair of such patterns separated by a colon ":" (this means that a ref name cannot have a colon in it). A -single pattern '<name>' is just a shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. +single pattern '<name>' is just shorthand for '<name>:<name>'. Each pattern pair consists of the source side (before the colon) and the destination side (after the colon). The ref to be @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. - It is an error if <src> does not match exactly one of the local refs. - - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote refs. + - It is an error if <dst> matches more than one remote ref. - If <dst> does not match any remote ref, either @@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ name. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an -ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as "fast-forward check", -is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the -remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there. +ancestor) of <src>. This check, known as the "fast-forward check", +is performed to avoid accidentally overwriting the +remote ref and losing other people's commits from there. With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs. diff --git a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt index 8632612c31..bdaf6e5fc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-sh-setup.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The 'git sh-setup' scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using the normal Git directories and a few helper shell functions. Before sourcing it, your script should set up a few variables; -`USAGE` (and `LONG_USAGE`, if any) is used to define message +`USAGE` (and `LONG_USAGE`, if any) is used to define the message given by `usage()` shell function. `SUBDIRECTORY_OK` can be set if the script can run from a subdirectory of the working tree (some commands do not). diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt index 58cf6210cd..c771c89770 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-branch.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OPTIONS --current:: With this option, the command includes the current - branch to the list of revs to be shown when it is not + branch in the list of revs to be shown when it is not given on the command line. --topo-order:: @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ OPTIONS default to color output. Same as `--color=never`. -Note that --more, --list, --independent and --merge-base options +Note that --more, --list, --independent, and --merge-base options are mutually exclusive. @@ -137,14 +137,14 @@ their commit message. The branch head that is pointed at by $GIT_DIR/HEAD is prefixed with an asterisk `*` character while other heads are prefixed with a `!` character. -Following these N lines, one-line log for each commit is +Following these N lines, a one-line log for each commit is displayed, indented N places. If a commit is on the I-th branch, the I-th indentation character shows a `+` sign; otherwise it shows a space. Merge commits are denoted by a `-` sign. Each commit shows a short name that can be used as an extended SHA-1 to name that commit. -The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes" +The following example shows three branches, "master", "fixes", and "mhf": ------------------------------------------------ @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ $ git show-branch master fixes mhf ! [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. --- + [mhf] Allow "+remote:local" refspec to cause --force when fetching. - + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one heads. + + [mhf~1] Use git-octopus when pulling more than one head. + [fixes] Introduce "reset type" flag to "git reset" + [mhf~2] "git fetch --force". + [mhf~3] Use .git/remote/origin, not .git/branches/origin. @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ $ git show-branch --reflog="10,1 hour ago" --list master shows 10 reflog entries going back from the tip as of 1 hour ago. Without `--list`, the output also shows how these tips are -topologically related with each other. +topologically related to each other. CONFIGURATION ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index 2fe274b8fa..36e81b9dec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ use: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This will show "refs/heads/master" but also "refs/remote/other-repo/master", -if such references exists. +if such references exist. When using the `--verify` flag, the command requires an exact path: diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt index 03c0634518..5eb67439af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ EXAMPLES -------- `git show v1.0.0`:: - Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags + Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tag points at. `git show v1.0.0^{tree}`:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 48f46eb204..10fecc51a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ Submodules have more state and instead report * 'm' = the submodule has modified content * '?' = the submodule has untracked files -since modified content or untracked files in a submodule cannot be added +This is since modified content or untracked files in a submodule cannot be added via `git add` in the superproject to prepare a commit. 'm' and '?' are applied recursively. For example if a nested submodule diff --git a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt index 2438f76da0..a293327581 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stripspace.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ With no arguments, this will: In the case where the input consists entirely of whitespace characters, no output will be produced. -*NOTE*: This is intended for cleaning metadata, prefer the `--whitespace=fix` +*NOTE*: This is intended for cleaning metadata. Prefer the `--whitespace=fix` mode of linkgit:git-apply[1] for correcting whitespace of patches or files in the repository. @@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ OPTIONS ------- -s:: --strip-comments:: - Skip and remove all lines starting with comment character (default '#'). + Skip and remove all lines starting with a comment character (default '#'). -c:: --comment-lines:: - Prepend comment character and blank to each line. Lines will automatically + Prepend the comment character and a blank space to each line. Lines will automatically be terminated with a newline. On empty lines, only the comment character will be prepended. diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index 102c83eb19..761b154bcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ symbolic ref. A symbolic ref is a regular file that stores a string that begins with `ref: refs/`. For example, your `.git/HEAD` is -a regular file whose contents is `ref: refs/heads/master`. +a regular file whose content is `ref: refs/heads/master`. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt index 1271486ae9..8c47890a6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ OPTIONS --remove:: If a specified file is in the index but is missing then it's removed. - Default behavior is to ignore removed file. + Default behavior is to ignore removed files. --refresh:: Looks at the current index and checks to see if merges or @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ OPTIONS the index. If you want to change the working tree file, you need to unset the bit to tell Git. This is sometimes helpful when working with a big project on a - filesystem that has very slow lstat(2) system call + filesystem that has a very slow lstat(2) system call (e.g. cifs). + Git will fail (gracefully) in case it needs to modify this file @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. without regard to the "assume unchanged" setting. --[no-]skip-worktree:: - When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded + When one of these flags is specified, the object names recorded for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options set and unset the "skip-worktree" bit for the paths. See section "Skip-worktree bit" below for more information. @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. the `--remove` option was specified. --[no-]fsmonitor-valid:: - When one of these flags is specified, the object name recorded + When one of these flags is specified, the object names recorded for the paths are not updated. Instead, these options set and unset the "fsmonitor valid" bit for the paths. See section "File System Monitor" below for more information. @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. -g:: --again:: Runs 'git update-index' itself on the paths whose index - entries are different from those from the `HEAD` commit. + entries are different from those of the `HEAD` commit. --unresolve:: Restores the 'unmerged' or 'needs updating' state of a @@ -151,16 +151,16 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually. automatically removed with warning messages. --stdin:: - Instead of taking list of paths from the command line, - read list of paths from the standard input. Paths are + Instead of taking a list of paths from the command line, + read a list of paths from the standard input. Paths are separated by LF (i.e. one path per line) by default. --verbose:: - Report what is being added and removed from index. + Report what is being added and removed from the index. --index-version <n>:: Write the resulting index out in the named on-disk format version. - Supported versions are 2, 3 and 4. The current default version is 2 + Supported versions are 2, 3, and 4. The current default version is 2 or 3, depending on whether extra features are used, such as `git add -N`. With `--verbose`, also report the version the index file uses before and after this command. diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index 48b6683071..0561808cca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ verify:: <oldvalue> is zero or missing, the ref must not exist. option:: - Modify behavior of the next command naming a <ref>. + Modify the behavior of the next command naming a <ref>. The only valid option is `no-deref` to avoid dereferencing a symbolic ref. diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-server-info.txt b/Documentation/git-update-server-info.txt index 17e429dbd0..6bc9b50d89 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-server-info.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-server-info.txt @@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ OPTIONS ------- -f:: --force:: - update the info files from scratch. + Update the info files from scratch. OUTPUT ------ Currently the command updates the following files. Please see -linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for description of +linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] for a description of what they are for: * objects/info/packs diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt index b656b47567..7ad60bc348 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-upload-pack.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS ------- --[no-]strict:: - Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is no Git directory. + Do not try <directory>/.git/ if <directory> is not a Git directory. --timeout=<n>:: Interrupt transfer after <n> seconds of inactivity. diff --git a/Documentation/git-var.txt b/Documentation/git-var.txt index c38fb3968b..0680568dfd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-var.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-var.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ no value. OPTIONS ------- -l:: - Cause the logical variables to be listed. In addition, all the + Display the logical variables. In addition, all the variables of the Git configuration file .git/config are listed as well. (However, the configuration variables listing functionality is deprecated in favor of `git config -l`.) diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt index b8720dce8a..d7e886918a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Reads given idx file for packed Git archive created with the -'git pack-objects' command and verifies idx file and the +'git pack-objects' command and verifies the idx file and the corresponding pack file. OPTIONS @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ OPTIONS -v:: --verbose:: - After verifying the pack, show list of objects contained + After verifying the pack, show the list of objects contained in the pack and a histogram of delta chain length. -s:: --stat-only:: Do not verify the pack contents; only show the histogram of delta - chain length. With `--verbose`, list of objects is also shown. + chain length. With `--verbose`, the list of objects is also shown. \--:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt index 8b63ceb00e..8e55e0bb1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-whatchanged(1) NAME ---- -git-whatchanged - Show logs with difference each commit introduces +git-whatchanged - Show logs with differences each commit introduces SYNOPSIS @@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces. New users are encouraged to use linkgit:git-log[1] instead. The `whatchanged` command is essentially the same as linkgit:git-log[1] -but defaults to show the raw format diff output and to skip merges. +but defaults to showing the raw format diff output and skipping merges. -The command is kept primarily for historical reasons; fingers of +The command is primarily kept for historical reasons; fingers of many people who learned Git long before `git log` was invented by -reading Linux kernel mailing list are trained to type it. +reading the Linux kernel mailing list are trained to type it. Examples diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 1819a5a185..e5fac94322 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ arguments. Here are the rules: A subcommand may take dashed options (which may take their own arguments, e.g. "--max-parents 2") and arguments. You SHOULD give dashed options first and then arguments. Some commands may - accept dashed options after you have already gave non-option + accept dashed options after you have already given non-option arguments (which may make the command ambiguous), but you should not rely on it (because eventually we may find a way to fix - these ambiguity by enforcing the "options then args" rule). + these ambiguities by enforcing the "options then args" rule). * Revisions come first and then paths. E.g. in `git diff v1.0 v2.0 arch/x86 include/asm-x86`, @@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ arguments. Here are the rules: they can be disambiguated by placing `--` between them. E.g. `git diff -- HEAD` is, "I have a file called HEAD in my work tree. Please show changes between the version I staged in the index - and what I have in the work tree for that file", not "show difference + and what I have in the work tree for that file", not "show the difference between the HEAD commit and the work tree as a whole". You can say `git diff HEAD --` to ask for the latter. * Without disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but errors - out and asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a + out and asks you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to disambiguate. diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index 0d57f86abc..3cda2e07c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Note that when rename detection is on but both copy and break detection are off, rename detection adds a preliminary step that first checks if files are moved across directories while keeping their filename the same. If there is a file added to a directory whose -contents is sufficiently similar to a file with the same name that got +contents are sufficiently similar to a file with the same name that got deleted from a different directory, it will mark them as renames and exclude them from the later quadratic step (the one that pairwise compares all unmatched files to find the "best" matches, determined by @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ from the original, and does not count insertion. If you removed only 10 lines from a 100-line document, even if you added 910 new lines to make a new 1000-line document, you did not do a complete rewrite. diffcore-break breaks such a case in order to -help diffcore-rename to consider such filepairs as candidate of +help diffcore-rename to consider such filepairs as a candidate of rename/copy detection, but if filepairs broken that way were not matched with other filepairs to create rename/copy, then this transformation merges them back into the original @@ -230,13 +230,13 @@ like these: * -B/60 (the same as above, since diffcore-break defaults to 50%). -Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as a separate -creation and deletion patches. This was an unnecessary hack and +Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as separate +creation and deletion patches. This was an unnecessary hack, and the latest implementation always merges all the broken pairs back into modifications, but the resulting patch output is formatted differently for easier review in case of such -a complete rewrite by showing the entire contents of old version -prefixed with '-', followed by the entire contents of new +a complete rewrite by showing the entire contents of the old version +prefixed with '-', followed by the entire contents of the new version prefixed with '+'. @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given regular expression. This means that it will detect in-file (or what rename-detection considers the same file) moves, which is noise. The implementation runs diff twice and greps, and this can be quite -expensive. To speed things up binary files without textconv filters +expensive. To speed things up, binary files without textconv filters will be ignored. When `-S` or `-G` are used without `--pickaxe-all`, only filepairs diff --git a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt index faba2ef088..12b62b9125 100644 --- a/Documentation/giteveryday.txt +++ b/Documentation/giteveryday.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Git users can broadly be grouped into four categories for the purposes of -describing here a small set of useful command for everyday Git. +describing here a small set of useful commands for everyday Git. * <<STANDALONE,Individual Developer (Standalone)>> commands are essential for anybody who makes a commit, even for somebody who works alone. diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-bundle.txt b/Documentation/gitformat-bundle.txt index 00e0a20e65..1b75cf71ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitformat-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitformat-bundle.txt @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ A Git bundle consists of several parts. * "Capabilities", which are only in the v3 format, indicate functionality that the bundle requires to be read properly. -* "Prerequisites" lists the objects that are NOT included in the bundle and the +* "Prerequisites" list the objects that are NOT included in the bundle and the reader of the bundle MUST already have, in order to use the data in the bundle. The objects stored in the bundle may refer to prerequisite objects and anything reachable from them (e.g. a tree object in the bundle can reference @@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ In the bundle format, there can be a comment following a prerequisite obj-id. This is a comment and it has no specific meaning. The writer of the bundle MAY put any string here. The reader of the bundle MUST ignore the comment. -Note on the shallow clone and a Git bundle -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Note on shallow clones and Git bundles +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Note that the prerequisites does not represent a shallow-clone boundary. The +Note that the prerequisites do not represent a shallow-clone boundary. The semantics of the prerequisites and the shallow-clone boundaries are different, and the Git bundle v2 format cannot represent a shallow clone repository. diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt b/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt index 57202ede27..3315df6201 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Each row consists of a 4-byte chunk identifier (ID) and an 8-byte offset. Each integer is stored in network-byte order. The chunk identifier `ID[i]` is a label for the data stored within this -fill from `OFFSET[i]` (inclusive) to `OFFSET[i+1]` (exclusive). Thus, the +file from `OFFSET[i]` (inclusive) to `OFFSET[i+1]` (exclusive). Thus, the size of the `i`th chunk is equal to the difference between `OFFSET[i+1]` and `OFFSET[i]`. This requires that the chunk data appears contiguously in the same order as the table of contents. @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ caller is responsible for opening the `hashfile` and writing header information so the file format is identifiable before the chunk-based format begins. -Then, call `add_chunk()` for each chunk that is intended for write. This +Then, call `add_chunk()` for each chunk that is intended for writing. This populates the `chunkfile` with information about the order and size of each chunk to write. Provide a `chunk_write_fn` function pointer to perform the write of the chunk data upon request. diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt b/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt index 870e00f298..4a4d87e7db 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ $GIT_DIR/objects/pack/multi-pack-index DESCRIPTION ----------- -The Git pack format is now Git stores most of its primary repository -data. Over the lietime af a repository loose objects (if any) and +The Git pack format is how Git stores most of its primary repository +data. Over the lifetime of a repository, loose objects (if any) and smaller packs are consolidated into larger pack(s). See linkgit:git-gc[1] and linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Similarly, in SHA-256 repositories, these values are computed using SHA-256. Observation: we cannot have more than 4G versions ;-) and more than 4G objects in a pack. - - The header is followed by number of object entries, each of + - The header is followed by a number of object entries, each of which looks like this: (undeltified representation) @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Similarly, in SHA-256 repositories, these values are computed using SHA-256. is an OBJ_OFS_DELTA object compressed delta data - Observation: length of each object is encoded in a variable + Observation: the length of each object is encoded in a variable length format and is not constrained to 32-bit or anything. - The trailer records a pack checksum of all of the above. @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ the delta data is a sequence of instructions to reconstruct the object from the base object. If the base object is deltified, it must be converted to canonical form first. Each instruction appends more and more data to the target object until it's complete. There are two -supported instructions so far: one for copy a byte range from the +supported instructions so far: one for copying a byte range from the source object and one for inserting new data embedded in the instruction itself. @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ copy. Offset and size are in little-endian order. All offset and size bytes are optional. This is to reduce the instruction size when encoding small offsets or sizes. The first seven -bits in the first octet determines which of the next seven octets is +bits in the first octet determine which of the next seven octets is present. If bit zero is set, offset1 is present. If bit one is set offset2 is present and so on. @@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ converted to 0x10000. | 0xxxxxxx | data | +----------+============+ -This is the instruction to construct target object without the base +This is the instruction to construct the target object without the base object. The following data is appended to the target object. The first -seven bits of the first octet determines the size of data in +seven bits of the first octet determine the size of data in bytes. The size must be non-zero. ==== Reserved instruction @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ Pack file entry: <+ - The same trailer as a v1 pack file: - A copy of the pack checksum at the end of + A copy of the pack checksum at the end of the corresponding packfile. Index checksum of all of the above. diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt index 86f804720a..883982e7a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/githooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ If it exits with non-zero status, then the working tree will not be committed after applying the patch. It can be used to inspect the current working tree and refuse to -make a commit if it does not pass certain test. +make a commit if it does not pass certain tests. The default 'pre-applypatch' hook, when enabled, runs the 'pre-commit' hook, if the latter is enabled. @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ If the exit status is non-zero, `git commit` will abort. The purpose of the hook is to edit the message file in place, and it is not suppressed by the `--no-verify` option. A non-zero exit means a failure of the hook and aborts the commit. It should not -be used as replacement for pre-commit hook. +be used as a replacement for the pre-commit hook. The sample `prepare-commit-msg` hook that comes with Git removes the help message found in the commented portion of the commit template. @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ for the user. The default 'update' hook, when enabled--and with `hooks.allowunannotated` config option unset or set to false--prevents -unannotated tags to be pushed. +unannotated tags from being pushed. [[proc-receive]] proc-receive @@ -379,12 +379,12 @@ following example for the protocol, the letter 'S' stands for S: ... ... S: flush-pkt - # Receive result from the hook. + # Receive results from the hook. # OK, run this command successfully. H: PKT-LINE(ok <ref>) # NO, I reject it. H: PKT-LINE(ng <ref> <reason>) - # Fall through, let 'receive-pack' to execute it. + # Fall through, let 'receive-pack' execute it. H: PKT-LINE(ok <ref>) H: PKT-LINE(option fall-through) # OK, but has an alternate reference. The alternate reference name diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-capabilities.txt index 0fb5ea0c1c..d6c6effc21 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-capabilities.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ to be in effect. The client MUST NOT ask for capabilities the server did not say it supports. Server MUST diagnose and abort if capabilities it does not understand -was sent. Server MUST NOT ignore capabilities that client requested +were sent. Server MUST NOT ignore capabilities that client requested and server advertised. As a consequence of these rules, server MUST NOT advertise capabilities it does not understand. @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ complete cut across the DAG, or the client has said "done". Without multi_ack, a client sends have lines in --date-order until the server has found a common base. That means the client will send have lines that are already known by the server to be common, because -they overlap in time with another branch that the server hasn't found -a common base on yet. +they overlap in time with another branch on which the server hasn't found +a common base yet. For example suppose the client has commits in caps that the server doesn't and the server has commits in lower case that the client @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ interleaved with S-R-Q. multi_ack_detailed ------------------ -This is an extension of multi_ack that permits client to better +This is an extension of multi_ack that permits the client to better understand the server's in-memory state. See linkgit:gitprotocol-pack[5], section "Packfile Negotiation" for more information. @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ to disable the feature in a backwards-compatible manner. side-band, side-band-64k ------------------------ -This capability means that server can send, and client understand multiplexed +This capability means that the server can send, and the client can understand, multiplexed progress reports and error info interleaved with the packfile itself. These two options are mutually exclusive. A modern client always @@ -163,14 +163,14 @@ Further, with side-band and its up to 1000-byte messages, it's actually same deal, you have up to 65519 bytes of data and 1 byte for the stream code. -The client MUST send only maximum of one of "side-band" and "side- -band-64k". Server MUST diagnose it as an error if client requests +The client MUST send only one of "side-band" and "side- +band-64k". The server MUST diagnose it as an error if client requests both. ofs-delta --------- -Server can send, and client understand PACKv2 with delta referring to +The server can send, and the client can understand, PACKv2 with delta referring to its base by position in pack rather than by an obj-id. That is, they can send/read OBJ_OFS_DELTA (aka type 6) in a packfile. @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ the current shallow boundary, instead of the depth from remote refs. no-progress ----------- -The client was started with "git clone -q" or something, and doesn't +The client was started with "git clone -q" or something similar, and doesn't want that side band 2. Basically the client just says "I do not wish to receive stream 2 on sideband, so do not send it to me, and if you did, I will drop it on the floor anyway". However, the sideband @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ request include-tag only has to do with the client's desires for tag data, whether or not a server had advertised objects in the refs/tags/* namespace. -Servers MUST pack the tags if their referrant is packed and the client +Servers MUST pack the tags if their referent is packed and the client has requested include-tags. Clients MUST be prepared for the case where a server has ignored diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-common.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-common.txt index 1486651bd1..cdc9d6e707 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-common.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-common.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This document sets defines things common to various over-the-wire +This document defines things common to various over-the-wire protocols and file formats used in Git. ABNF Notation diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-http.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-http.txt index ccc13f0a40..21b73b7a1f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-http.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-http.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ both the "smart" and "dumb" HTTP protocols used by Git operate by appending additional path components onto the end of the user supplied `$GIT_URL` string. -An example of a dumb client requesting for a loose object: +An example of a dumb client requesting a loose object: $GIT_URL: http://example.com:8080/git/repo.git URL request: http://example.com:8080/git/repo.git/objects/d0/49f6c27a2244e12041955e262a404c7faba355 @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ C: Place any object seen into set `advertised`. C: Build an empty set, `common`, to hold the objects that are later determined to be on both ends. -C: Build a set, `want`, of the objects from `advertised` the client +C: Build a set, `want`, of the objects from `advertised` that the client wants to fetch, based on what it saw during ref discovery. C: Start a queue, `c_pending`, ordered by commit time (popping newest @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ multiple commands. Object names MUST be given using the object format negotiated through the `object-format` capability (default SHA-1). The `have` list is created by popping the first 32 commits -from `c_pending`. Less can be supplied if `c_pending` empties. +from `c_pending`. Fewer can be supplied if `c_pending` empties. If the client has sent 256 "have" commits and has not yet received one of those back from `s_common`, or the client has diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt index dd4108b7a3..837b691c89 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pkt-line Format --------------- The descriptions below build on the pkt-line format described in -linkgit:gitprotocol-common[5]. When the grammar indicate `PKT-LINE(...)`, unless +linkgit:gitprotocol-common[5]. When the grammar indicates `PKT-LINE(...)`, unless otherwise noted the usual pkt-line LF rules apply: the sender SHOULD include a LF, but the receiver MUST NOT complain if it is not present. @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ an absolute path in the remote filesystem. v ssh user@example.com "git-upload-pack '/project.git'" -In a "user@host:path" format URI, its relative to the user's home +In a "user@host:path" format URI, it's relative to the user's home directory, because the Git client will run: git clone user@example.com:project.git @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ a positive depth, this step is skipped. If the client has requested a positive depth, the server will compute the set of commits which are no deeper than the desired depth. The set -of commits start at the client's wants. +of commits starts at the client's wants. The server writes 'shallow' lines for each commit whose parents will not be sent as a result. The server writes diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt index acb97ad0c2..8c1e7c61ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-v2.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ protocol. Protocol v2 will improve upon v1 in the following ways: semantics the http remote helper can simply act as a proxy In protocol v2 communication is command oriented. When first contacting a -server a list of capabilities will advertised. Some of these capabilities +server a list of capabilities will be advertised. Some of these capabilities will be commands which a client can request be executed. Once a command has completed, a client can reuse the connection and request that other commands be executed. diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt index 941858a6ec..8400d591da 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Submodule operations can be configured using the following mechanisms * The command line for those commands that support taking submodules as part of their pathspecs. Most commands have a boolean flag - `--recurse-submodules` which specify whether to recurse into submodules. + `--recurse-submodules` which specifies whether to recurse into submodules. Examples are `grep` and `checkout`. Some commands take enums, such as `fetch` and `push`, where you can specify how submodules are affected. @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ For example: [submodule "baz"] url = https://example.org/baz -In the above config only the submodule 'bar' and 'baz' are active, +In the above config only the submodules 'bar' and 'baz' are active, 'bar' due to (1) and 'baz' due to (3). 'foo' is inactive because (1) takes precedence over (3) @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ will not be checked out by default; you can instruct `clone` to recurse into submodules. The `init` and `update` subcommands of `git submodule` will maintain submodules checked out and at an appropriate revision in your working tree. Alternatively you can set `submodule.recurse` to have -`checkout` recursing into submodules (note that `submodule.recurse` also +`checkout` recurse into submodules (note that `submodule.recurse` also affects other Git commands, see linkgit:git-config[1] for a complete list). diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt index 34b1d6e224..b078fef6f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ following order: `/etc/gitweb-common.conf`), * either per-instance configuration file (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl' - in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exists + in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exist then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to `/etc/gitweb.conf`). Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt index af6bf3c45e..1030e9667e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ gitweb - Git web interface (web frontend to Git repositories) SYNOPSIS -------- To get started with gitweb, run linkgit:git-instaweb[1] from a Git repository. -This would configure and start your web server, and run web browser pointing to +This will configure and start your web server, and run a web browser pointing to gitweb. @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ Gitweb provides a web interface to Git repositories. Its features include: * Browsing every revision of the repository. * Viewing the contents of files in the repository at any revision. * Viewing the revision log of branches, history of files and directories, - see what was changed when, by who. + seeing what was changed, when, and by whom. * Viewing the blame/annotation details of any file (if enabled). * Generating RSS and Atom feeds of commits, for any branch. The feeds are auto-discoverable in modern web browsers. -* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and step through +* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and stepping through revisions one at a time, viewing the history of the repository. -* Finding commits which commit messages matches given search term. +* Finding commits whose commit messages match a given search term. See http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/tree/HEAD:/gitweb/[] for gitweb source code, browsed using gitweb itself. @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ for details. Repositories ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gitweb can show information from one or more Git repositories. These -repositories have to be all on local filesystem, and have to share common +repositories have to be all on local filesystem, and have to share a common repository root, i.e. be all under a single parent repository (but see also -"Advanced web server setup" section, "Webserver configuration with multiple +the "Advanced web server setup" section, "Webserver configuration with multiple projects' root" subsection). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ our $projectroot = '/path/to/parent/directory'; ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The default value for `$projectroot` is `/pub/git`. You can change it during -building gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable. +building gitweb via the `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable. By default all Git repositories under `$projectroot` are visible and available to gitweb. The list of projects is generated by default by scanning the @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ found at "$projectroot/$repo". Projects list file format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning filesystem +Instead of having gitweb find repositories by scanning the filesystem starting from $projectroot, you can provide a pre-generated list of visible projects by setting `$projects_list` to point to a plain text file with a list of projects (with some additional info). diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index 5a537268e2..65c89e7b3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ current branch integrates with) obviously do not work, as there is no points at the directory that is the real repository. [[def_grafts]]grafts:: - Grafts enables two otherwise different lines of development to be joined + Grafts enable two otherwise different lines of development to be joined together by recording fake ancestry information for commits. This way you can make Git pretend the set of <<def_parent,parents>> a <<def_commit,commit>> has is different from what was recorded when the commit was diff --git a/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt b/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt index e653775bab..b9cb95e82f 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Opening a Security Advisory draft The first step is to https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/new[open an advisory]. Technically, this is not necessary. However, it is the most -convenient way to obtain the CVE number and it give us a private repository +convenient way to obtain the CVE number and it gives us a private repository associated with it that can be used to collaborate on a fix. Notifying the Linux distributions diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt index d07c6d44e5..013014bbef 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ by doing the following: files in mbox format). - Write his own patches to address issues raised on the list but - nobody has stepped up solving. Send it out just like other + nobody has stepped up to solve. Send it out just like other contributors do, and pick them up just like patches from other contributors (see above). @@ -411,13 +411,13 @@ Preparing a "merge-fix" A merge of two topics may not textually conflict but still have conflict at the semantic level. A classic example is for one topic -to rename an variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a +to rename a variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a new use of the variable under its old name. When these two topics are merged together, the reference to the variable newly added by the latter topic will still use the old name in the result. The Meta/Reintegrate script that is used by redo-jch and redo-seen -scripts implements a crude but usable way to work this issue around. +scripts implements a crude but usable way to work around this issue. When the script merges branch $X, it checks if "refs/merge-fix/$X" exists, and if so, the effect of it is squashed into the result of the mechanical merge. In other words, diff --git a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt index 7af2e52cf3..2cad9b3ca5 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ How to use git-daemon ===================== Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is -let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a Git server +to let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a Git server real quick, right? Note that git-daemon is not really chatty at the moment, especially when diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt index a499a94ac2..3bd581ac35 100644 --- a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt +++ b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP12374B54BA370A1E1C6E78AE4E0@CEZ.ICE> How to use the subtree merge strategy ===================================== -There are situations where you want to include contents in your project +There are situations where you want to include content in your project from an independently developed project. You can just pull from the other project as long as there are no conflicting paths. diff --git a/Documentation/i18n.txt b/Documentation/i18n.txt index 6c6baeeeb7..3a866af4a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/i18n.txt +++ b/Documentation/i18n.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ project find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, Git does not forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. -. 'git commit' and 'git commit-tree' issues +. 'git commit' and 'git commit-tree' issue a warning if the commit log message given to it does not look like a valid UTF-8 string, unless you explicitly say your project uses a legacy encoding. The way to say this is to @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ mind. ------------ + Commit objects created with the above setting record the value -of `i18n.commitEncoding` in its `encoding` header. This is to +of `i18n.commitEncoding` in their `encoding` header. This is to help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8. diff --git a/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.txt b/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.txt index 2d631e9b1f..d1a4c468e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.txt +++ b/Documentation/mergetools/vimdiff.txt @@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ have special meaning: - `+` is used to "open a new tab" - `,` is used to "open a new vertical split" - `/` is used to "open a new horizontal split" - - `@` is used to indicate which is the file containing the final version after + - `@` is used to indicate the file containing the final version after solving the conflicts. If not present, `MERGED` will be used by default. -The precedence of the operators is this one (you can use parentheses to change +The precedence of the operators is as follows (you can use parentheses to change it): `@` > `+` > `/` > `,` @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ information as the first tab, with a different layout. | REMOTE | | --------------------------------------------- .... -Note how in the third tab definition we need to use parenthesis to make `,` +Note how in the third tab definition we need to use parentheses to make `,` have precedence over `/`. -- diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt index 335395b727..23888cd612 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals. --expand-tabs:: --no-expand-tabs:: Perform a tab expansion (replace each tab with enough spaces - to fill to the next display column that is multiple of '<n>') + to fill to the next display column that is a multiple of '<n>') in the log message before showing it in the output. `--expand-tabs` is a short-hand for `--expand-tabs=8`, and `--no-expand-tabs` is a short-hand for `--expand-tabs=0`, @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ environment overrides). See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details. With an optional '<ref>' argument, use the ref to find the notes to display. The ref can specify the full refname when it begins with `refs/notes/`; when it begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise -`refs/notes/` is prefixed to form a full name of the ref. +`refs/notes/` is prefixed to form the full name of the ref. + Multiple --notes options can be combined to control which notes are being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 95a7390b2c..c718f7946f 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ refspec (or `--force`). Unlike when pushing with linkgit:git-push[1], any updates outside of `refs/{tags,heads}/*` will be accepted without `+` in the refspec (or `--force`), whether that's swapping e.g. a tree object for a blob, or -a commit for another commit that's doesn't have the previous commit as +a commit for another commit that doesn't have the previous commit as an ancestor etc. + Unlike when pushing with linkgit:git-push[1], there is no @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ configuration which'll amend these rules, and nothing like a + As with pushing with linkgit:git-push[1], all of the rules described above about what's not allowed as an update can be overridden by -adding an the optional leading `+` to a refspec (or using `--force` +adding an optional leading `+` to a refspec (or using the `--force` command line option). The only exception to this is that no amount of forcing will make the `refs/heads/*` namespace accept a non-commit object. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ object. [NOTE] When the remote branch you want to fetch is known to be rewound and rebased regularly, it is expected that -its new tip will not be descendant of its previous tip +its new tip will not be a descendant of its previous tip (as stored in your remote-tracking branch the last time you fetched). You would want to use the `+` sign to indicate non-fast-forward updates diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 66d71d1b95..2bf239ff03 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] error to use this option unless `--walk-reflogs` is in use. --grep=<pattern>:: - Limit the commits output to ones with log message that + Limit the commits output to ones with a log message that matches the specified pattern (regular expression). With more than one `--grep=<pattern>`, commits whose message matches any of the given patterns are chosen (but see @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] instead of ones that match at least one. --invert-grep:: - Limit the commits output to ones with log message that do not + Limit the commits output to ones with a log message that do not match the pattern specified with `--grep=<pattern>`. -i:: diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt index eda8c195c1..7780a76b08 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-index-skel.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Git API Documents ================= -Git has grown a set of internal API over time. This collection +Git has grown a set of internal APIs over time. This collection documents them. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt index d44ada98e7..c4fb152b23 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Simple-IPC API ============== The Simple-IPC API is a collection of `ipc_` prefixed library routines -and a basic communication protocol that allow an IPC-client process to +and a basic communication protocol that allows an IPC-client process to send an application-specific IPC-request message to an IPC-server process and receive an application-specific IPC-response message. @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ IPC-client. The IPC-client routines within a client application process connect to the IPC-server and send a request message and wait for a response. -When received, the response is returned back the caller. +When received, the response is returned back to the caller. For example, the `fsmonitor--daemon` feature will be built as a server application on top of the IPC-server library routines. It will have threads watching for file system events and a thread pool waiting for -client connections. Clients, such as `git status` will request a list +client connections. Clients, such as `git status`, will request a list of file system events since a point in time and the server will respond with a list of changed files and directories. The formats of the request and response are application-specific; the IPC-client and @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Comparison with sub-process model The Simple-IPC mechanism differs from the existing `sub-process.c` model (Documentation/technical/long-running-process-protocol.txt) and -used by applications like Git-LFS. In the LFS-style sub-process model +used by applications like Git-LFS. In the LFS-style sub-process model, the helper is started by the foreground process, communication happens via a pair of file descriptors bound to the stdin/stdout of the sub-process, the sub-process only serves the current foreground @@ -102,4 +102,4 @@ stateless request, receive an application-specific response, and disconnect. It is a one round trip facility for querying the server. The Simple-IPC routines hide the socket, named pipe, and thread pool details and allow the application -layer to focus on the application at hand. +layer to focus on the task at hand. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt index c2e652b71a..f5d200939b 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ result in an empty bitmap (no bits set). * N entries with compressed bitmaps, one for each indexed commit + -Where `N` is the total amount of entries in this bitmap index. +Where `N` is the total number of entries in this bitmap index. Each entry contains the following: ** {empty} @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Each entry contains the following: ** {empty} 1-byte XOR-offset: :: The xor offset used to compress this bitmap. For an entry - in position `x`, a XOR offset of `y` means that the actual + in position `x`, an XOR offset of `y` means that the actual bitmap representing this commit is composed by XORing the bitmap for this entry with the bitmap in entry `x-y` (i.e. the bitmap `y` entries before this one). @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ bitmaps. For a `.bitmap` containing `nr_entries` reachability bitmaps, the table contains a list of `nr_entries` <commit_pos, offset, xor_row> triplets -(sorted in the ascending order of `commit_pos`). The content of i'th +(sorted in the ascending order of `commit_pos`). The content of the i'th triplet is - * {empty} diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt index 86fed0de0f..2c26e95e51 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Design Details - Commit grafts and replace objects can change the shape of the commit history. The latter can also be enabled/disabled on the fly using - `--no-replace-objects`. This leads to difficultly storing both possible + `--no-replace-objects`. This leads to difficulty storing both possible interpretations of a commit id, especially when computing generation numbers. The commit-graph will not be read or written when replace-objects or grafts are present. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt b/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt index 47c9b6183c..b4a144e5f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ improvements over the sequential code, but there was still too much lock contention. A `perf` profiling indicated that around 20% of the runtime during a local Linux clone (on an SSD) was spent in locking functions. For this reason this approach was rejected in favor of using multiple -child processes, which led to a better performance. +child processes, which led to better performance. Multi-Process Solution ---------------------- @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Then, for each assigned item, each worker: * W5: Writes the result to the file descriptor opened at W2. -* W6: Calls `fstat()` or lstat()` on the just-written path, and sends +* W6: Calls `fstat()` or `lstat()` on the just-written path, and sends the result back to the main process, together with the end status of the operation and the item's identification number. @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ information, the main process handles the results in two steps: - First, it updates the in-memory index with the `lstat()` information sent by the workers. (This must be done first as this information - might me required in the following step.) + might be required in the following step.) - Then it writes the items which collided on disk (i.e. items marked with `PC_ITEM_COLLIDED`). More on this below. @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ quite straightforward: for each parallel-eligible entry, the main process must remove all files that prevent this entry from being written (before enqueueing it). This includes any non-directory file in the leading path of the entry. Later, when a worker gets assigned the entry, -it looks again for the non-directories files and for an already existing +it looks again for the non-directory files and for an already existing file at the entry's path. If any of these checks finds something, the worker knows that there was a path collision. @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ conversion and re-encoding, are eligible for parallel checkout. Ineligible entries are checked out by the classic sequential codepath *before* spawning workers. -Note: submodules's files are also eligible for parallel checkout (as +Note: submodules' files are also eligible for parallel checkout (as long as they don't fall into any of the excluding categories mentioned above). But since each submodule is checked out in its own child process, we don't mix the superproject's and the submodules' files in diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt index 92fcee2bff..cd948b0072 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Partial Clone Design Notes The "Partial Clone" feature is a performance optimization for Git that allows Git to function without having a complete copy of the repository. -The goal of this work is to allow Git better handle extremely large +The goal of this work is to allow Git to better handle extremely large repositories. During clone and fetch operations, Git downloads the complete contents @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ remote in a specific order. - Dynamic object fetching currently uses the existing pack protocol V0 which means that each object is requested via fetch-pack. The server will send a full set of info/refs when the connection is established. - If there are large number of refs, this may incur significant overhead. + If there are a large number of refs, this may incur significant overhead. Future Work @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ Future Work - Improve the way to specify the order in which promisor remotes are tried. + -For example this could allow to specify explicitly something like: +For example this could allow specifying explicitly something like: "When fetching from this remote, I want to use these promisor remotes in this order, though, when pushing or fetching to that remote, I want to use those promisor remotes in that order." @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Footnotes [a] expensive-to-modify list of missing objects: Earlier in the design of partial clone we discussed the need for a single list of missing objects. - This would essentially be a sorted linear list of OIDs that the were + This would essentially be a sorted linear list of OIDs that were omitted by the server during a clone or subsequent fetches. This file would need to be loaded into memory on every object lookup. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt index ceda4bbfda..59bea66c0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ write out the next tree object to be committed. The state is "virtual" in the sense that it does not necessarily have to, and often does not, match the files in the working tree. -There are cases Git needs to examine the differences between the +There are cases where Git needs to examine the differences between the virtual working tree state in the index and the files in the working tree. The most obvious case is when the user asks `git diff` (or its low level implementation, `git diff-files`) or @@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ Avoiding runtime penalty In order to avoid the above runtime penalty, post 1.4.2 Git used to have a code that made sure the index file -got timestamp newer than the youngest files in the index when -there are many young files with the same timestamp as the -resulting index file would otherwise would have by waiting +got a timestamp newer than the youngest files in the index when +there were many young files with the same timestamp as the +resulting index file otherwise would have by waiting before finishing writing the index file out. I suspected that in practice the situation where many paths in the @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ In a large project where raciness avoidance cost really matters, however, the initial computation of all object names in the index takes more than one second, and the index file is written out after all that happens. Therefore the timestamp of the -index file will be more than one seconds later than the +index file will be more than one second later than the youngest file in the working tree. This means that in these cases there actually will not be any racily clean entry in the resulting index. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt index 6a67cc4174..dd0b37c4e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ search lookup, and range scans. Storage in the file is organized into variable sized blocks. Prefix compression is used within a single block to reduce disk space. Block -size and alignment is tunable by the writer. +size and alignment are tunable by the writer. Performance ^^^^^^^^^^^ @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Varint encoding Varint encoding is identical to the ofs-delta encoding method used within pack files. -Decoder works such as: +Decoder works as follows: .... val = buf[ptr] & 0x7f @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ log_index* footer .... -in a log-only file the first log block immediately follows the file +In a log-only file, the first log block immediately follows the file header, without padding to block alignment. Block size @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ uint32( hash_id ) .... The header is identical to `version_number=1`, with the 4-byte hash ID -("sha1" for SHA1 and "s256" for SHA-256) append to the header. +("sha1" for SHA1 and "s256" for SHA-256) appended to the header. For maximum backward compatibility, it is recommended to use version 1 when writing SHA1 reftables. @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ The 2-byte `restart_count` stores the number of entries in the `restart_count` to binary search between restarts before starting a linear scan. -Exactly `restart_count` 3-byte `restart_offset` values precedes the +Exactly `restart_count` 3-byte `restart_offset` values precede the `restart_count`. Offsets are relative to the start of the block and refer to the first byte of any `ref_record` whose name has not been prefix compressed. Entries in the `restart_offset` list must be sorted, diff --git a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt index 8ef664b0b9..045a76756f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/repository-version.txt @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ The value of this key is the name of the promisor remote. ==== `worktreeConfig` If set, by default "git config" reads from both "config" and -"config.worktree" file from GIT_DIR in that order. In +"config.worktree" files from GIT_DIR in that order. In multiple working directory mode, "config" file is shared while "config.worktree" is per-working directory (i.e., it's in GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/<id>/config.worktree) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt index be58f1bee3..580f23360a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ By resolving this conflict, to leave line D, the user declares: what AB and AC wanted to do. As branch AC2 refers to the same commit as AC, the above implies that -this is also compatible what AB and AC2 wanted to do. +this is also compatible with what AB and AC2 wanted to do. By extension, this means that rerere should recognize that the above conflicts are the same. To do this, the labels on the conflict @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ examples would both result in the following normalized conflict: Sorting hunks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -As before, lets imagine that a common ancestor had a file with line A +As before, let's imagine that a common ancestor had a file with line A its early part, and line X in its late part. And then four branches are forked that do these things: @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Nested conflicts Nested conflicts are handled very similarly to "simple" conflicts. Similar to simple conflicts, the conflict is first normalized by stripping the labels from conflict markers, stripping the common ancestor -version, and the sorting the conflict hunks, both for the outer and the +version, and sorting the conflict hunks, both for the outer and the inner conflict. This is done recursively, so any number of nested conflicts can be handled. diff --git a/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt b/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt index ae8c2db427..bf17012241 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls-remotes.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ config file would appear like this: ------------ The `<pushurl>` is used for pushes only. It is optional and defaults -to `<URL>`. Pushing to a remote affects all defined pushurls or to all +to `<URL>`. Pushing to a remote affects all defined pushurls or all defined urls if no pushurls are defined. Fetch, however, will only fetch from the first defined url if multiple urls are defined. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ provide a refspec on the command line. This file should have the following format: ------------ - URL: one of the above URL format + URL: one of the above URL formats Push: <refspec> Pull: <refspec> diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 1c229d7581..4e79c1589e 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be absent. -Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp, +Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp and ftps can be used for fetching, but this is inefficient and -deprecated; do not use it). +deprecated; do not use them). The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and should be used with caution on unsecured networks. |