Documentaion updates.

Mostly making the formatted html prettier.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 7adf1f15ebe074d4767df941817a6cf86d8e2533 commit)

Documentation/Makefile

@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ MAN1_TXT=$(wildcard git-*.txt) gitk.txt
 MAN7_TXT=git.txt
 
 DOC_HTML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT))
-DOC_HTML += glossary.html
-DOC_HTML += tutorial.html
-DOC_HTML += howto-index.html
-DOC_HTML += howto/revert-branch-rebase.html
+
+ARTICLES = tutorial cvs-migration diffcore howto-index
+# with their own formatting rules.
+SP_ARTICLES = glossary howto/revert-branch-rebase
+
+DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES))
 
 DOC_MAN1=$(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT))
 DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT))
@@ -58,21 +60,20 @@ clean:
 %.xml : %.txt
 	asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage $<
 
+git.html: git.txt ../README
+
 glossary.html : glossary.txt sort_glossary.pl
 	cat $< | \
 	perl sort_glossary.pl | \
 	asciidoc -b xhtml11 - > glossary.html
 
-tutorial.html : tutorial.txt
-	asciidoc -b xhtml11 tutorial.txt
-
 howto-index.txt: howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt)
 	rm -f $@+ $@
 	sh ./howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt) >$@+
 	mv $@+ $@
 
-howto-index.html: howto-index.txt
-	asciidoc -b xhtml11 howto-index.txt
+$(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES)) : %.html : %.txt
+	asciidoc -b xhtml11 $*.txt
 
 WEBDOC_DEST = /pub/software/scm/git/docs
 

Documentation/cvs-migration.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Git for CVS users
 =================
+v0.99.5, Aug 2005
 
 Ok, so you're a CVS user. That's ok, it's a treatable condition, and the
 first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. The fact that
@@ -8,12 +9,12 @@ already.
 
 The thing about CVS is that it absolutely sucks as a source control
 manager, and you'll thus be happy with almost anything else. Git,
-however, may be a bit _too_ different (read: "good") for your taste, and
+however, may be a bit 'too' different (read: "good") for your taste, and
 does a lot of things differently. 
 
 One particular suckage of CVS is very hard to work around: CVS is
-basically a tool for tracking _file_ history, while git is a tool for
-tracking _project_ history.  This sometimes causes problems if you are
+basically a tool for tracking 'file' history, while git is a tool for
+tracking 'project' history.  This sometimes causes problems if you are
 used to doing very strange things in CVS, in particular if you're doing
 things like making branches of just a subset of the project.  Git can't
 track that, since git never tracks things on the level of an individual
@@ -22,17 +23,18 @@ file, only on the whole project level.
 The good news is that most people don't do that, and in fact most sane
 people think it's a bug in CVS that makes it tag (and check in changes)
 one file at a time.  So most projects you'll ever see will use CVS
-_as_if_ it was sane.  In which case you'll find it very easy indeed to
+'as if' it was sane.  In which case you'll find it very easy indeed to
 move over to Git. 
 
-First off: this is not a git tutorial. See Documentation/tutorial.txt
-for how git actually works. This is more of a random collection of
-gotcha's and notes on converting from CVS to git.
+First off: this is not a git tutorial. See
+link:tutorial.html[Documentation/tutorial.txt] for how git
+actually works. This is more of a random collection of gotcha's
+and notes on converting from CVS to git.
 
 Second: CVS has the notion of a "repository" as opposed to the thing
 that you're actually working in (your working directory, or your
 "checked out tree").  Git does not have that notion at all, and all git
-working directories _are_ the repositories.  However, you can easily
+working directories 'are' the repositories.  However, you can easily
 emulate the CVS model by having one special "global repository", which
 people can synchronize with.  See details later, but in the meantime
 just keep in mind that with git, every checked out working tree will
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ will need the help of a program called "cvsps":
 
 which is not actually related to git at all, but which makes CVS usage
 look almost sane (ie you almost certainly want to have it even if you
-decide to stay with CVS). However, git will want at _least_ version 2.1
+decide to stay with CVS). However, git will want 'at least' version 2.1
 of cvsps (available at the address above), and in fact will currently
 refuse to work with anything else.
 

Documentation/diff-format.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 The output format from "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree" and
-"git-diff-files" is very similar.
+"git-diff-files" are very similar.
 
 These commands all compare two sets of things; what are
 compared are different:
@@ -19,35 +19,41 @@ git-diff-files [<pattern>...]::
 
 An output line is formatted this way:
 
+------------------------------------------------
 in-place edit  :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
 copy-edit      :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... C68 file1 file2
 rename-edit    :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... R86 file1 file3
-create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... N file4
+create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... A file4
 delete         :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
 unmerged       :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
+------------------------------------------------
 
 That is, from the left to the right:
 
-  (1) a colon.
-  (2) mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged.
-  (3) a space.
-  (4) mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged.
-  (5) a space.
-  (6) sha1 for "src"; 0{40} if creation or unmerged.
-  (7) a space.
-  (8) sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
-  (9) a space.
- (10) status, followed by optional "score" number.
- (11) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
- (12) path for "src"
- (13) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R.
- (14) path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
- (15) an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record.
+. a colon.
+. mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged.
+. a space.
+. mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged.
+. a space.
+. sha1 for "src"; 0\{40\} if creation or unmerged.
+. a space.
+. sha1 for "dst"; 0\{40\} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
+. a space.
+. status, followed by optional "score" number.
+. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
+. path for "src"
+. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R.
+. path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
+. an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record.
 
 <sha1> is shown as all 0's if new is a file on the filesystem
-and it is out of sync with the cache.  Example:
+and it is out of sync with the cache.
 
-  :100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c
+Example:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c
+------------------------------------------------
 
 Generating patches with -p
 --------------------------
@@ -107,20 +113,20 @@ Git specific extension to diff format
 What -p option produces is slightly different from the
 traditional diff format.
 
- (1) It is preceeded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
+1.   It is preceeded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
      this:
 
      diff --git a/file1 b/file2
++
+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 `a/` or `b/` filenames.
++
+When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` shows the
+name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
+the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
 
-     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 a/ or b/ filename.
-
-     When rename/copy is involved, file1 and file2 shows the
-     name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
-     the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
-
- (2) It is followed by extended header lines that are one or
+2.   It is followed by extended header lines that are one or
      more of:
 
        old mode <mode>

Documentation/diff-options.txt

@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@
 	Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from cache or
 	on-disk file to tree contents.
 
+For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
+link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].

Documentation/diffcore.txt

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ The git-diff-* family works by first comparing two sets of
 files:
 
  - git-diff-cache compares contents of a "tree" object and the
-   working directory (when --cached flag is not used) or a
-   "tree" object and the index file (when --cached flag is
+   working directory (when '--cached' flag is not used) or a
+   "tree" object and the index file (when '--cached' flag is
    used);
 
  - git-diff-files compares contents of the index file and the
@@ -37,29 +37,31 @@ comparison is passed from these commands to what is internally
 called "diffcore", in a format similar to what is output when
 the -p option is not used.  E.g.
 
-    in-place edit  :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
-    create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... N file4
-    delete         :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
-    unmerged       :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
+------------------------------------------------
+in-place edit  :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
+create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... A file4
+delete         :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
+unmerged       :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
+------------------------------------------------
 
 The diffcore mechanism is fed a list of such comparison results
 (each of which is called "filepair", although at this point each
 of them talks about a single file), and transforms such a list
 into another list.  There are currently 6 such transformations:
 
- - diffcore-pathspec
- - diffcore-break
- - diffcore-rename
- - diffcore-merge-broken
- - diffcore-pickaxe
- - diffcore-order
+- diffcore-pathspec
+- diffcore-break
+- diffcore-rename
+- diffcore-merge-broken
+- diffcore-pickaxe
+- diffcore-order
 
-These are applied in sequence.  The set of filepairs git-diff-*
+These are applied in sequence.  The set of filepairs git-diff-\*
 commands find are used as the input to diffcore-pathspec, and
 the output from diffcore-pathspec is used as the input to the
 next transformation.  The final result is then passed to the
 output routine and generates either diff-raw format (see Output
-format sections of the manual for git-diff-* commands) or
+format sections of the manual for git-diff-\* commands) or
 diff-patch format.
 
 
@@ -87,13 +89,17 @@ used to detect a filepair that represents "complete rewrite" and
 break such filepair into two filepairs that represent delete and
 create.  E.g.  If the input contained this filepair:
 
-    :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and if it detects that the file "file0" is completely rewritten,
 it changes it to:
 
-    :100644 000000 bcd1234... 0000000... D file0
-    :000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... N file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 000000 bcd1234... 0000000... D file0
+:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 For the purpose of breaking a filepair, diffcore-break examines
 the extent of changes between the contents of the files before
@@ -117,14 +123,18 @@ controlled by the -M option (to detect renames) and the -C option
 (to detect copies as well) to the git-diff-* commands.  If the
 input contained these filepairs:
 
-    :100644 000000 0123456... 0000000... D fileX
-    :000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... N file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 000000 0123456... 0000000... D fileX
+:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and the contents of the deleted file fileX is similar enough to
 the contents of the created file file0, then rename detection
 merges these filepairs and creates:
 
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... R100 fileX file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... R100 fileX file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 When the "-C" option is used, the original contents of modified
 files and contents of unchanged files are considered as
@@ -133,15 +143,19 @@ addition to the deleted files.  If the input were like these
 filepairs, that talk about a modified file fileY and a newly
 created file file0:
 
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
-    :000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... N file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
+:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 the original contents of fileY and the resulting contents of
 file0 are compared, and if they are similar enough, they are
 changed to:
 
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... C100 fileY file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
+:100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... C100 fileY file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 In both rename and copy detection, the same "extent of changes"
 algorithm used in diffcore-break is used to determine if two
@@ -151,11 +165,11 @@ number after "-M" or "-C" option (e.g. "-M8" to tell it to use
 8/10 = 80%).
 
 Note.  When the "-C" option is used with --find-copies-harder
-option, git-diff-* commands feed unmodified filepairs to
+option, git-diff-\* commands feed unmodified filepairs to
 diffcore mechanism as well as modified ones.  This lets the copy
 detector consider unmodified files as copy source candidates at
 the expense of making it slower.  Without --find-copies-harder,
-git-diff-* commands can detect copies only if the file that was
+git-diff-\* commands can detect copies only if the file that was
 copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
 
 
@@ -186,10 +200,10 @@ material is deleted, the broken pairs are merged back into a
 single modification) by giving a second number to -B option,
 like these:
 
-	-B50/60 (give 50% "break score" to diffcore-break, use
-                 60% for diffcore-merge-broken).
-	-B/60   (the same as above, since diffcore-break defautls to
-		 50%).
+* -B50/60 (give 50% "break score" to diffcore-break, use 60%
+  for diffcore-merge-broken).
+
+* -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 unnecessary hack and
@@ -237,12 +251,14 @@ in the file are output before ones that match a later line, and
 filepairs that do not match any glob pattern are output last.
 
 As an example, typical orderfile for the core GIT probably
-should look like this:
+would look like this:
 
+------------------------------------------------
     README
     Makefile
     Documentation
     *.h
     *.c
     t
+------------------------------------------------
 

Documentation/git-bisect-script.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git bisect' bad <rev>
 'git bisect' good <rev>
 'git bisect' reset [<branch>]
+'git bisect' visualize
+
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -67,6 +69,12 @@ branches ("git bisect start" will do that for you too, actually: it will
 reset the bisection state, and before it does that it checks that you're
 not using some old bisection branch).
 
+During the bisection process, you can say
+
+	git bisect visualize
+
+to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.
+
 
 Author
 ------