From 9caabbcb263ee30a3456b7281eafd3ef3d8c7d06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jean-No=C3=ABl=20Avila?= Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:25:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: git-add.txt: convert to new style convention MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila --- Documentation/config/add.txt | 19 +++--- Documentation/git-add.txt | 111 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config/add.txt b/Documentation/config/add.txt index 4d753f006ec1ef..7497533cbccf4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/add.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/add.txt @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ -add.ignoreErrors:: -add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: - Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be - added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors` - option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, - as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration - variables. +`add.ignoreErrors`:: +`add.ignore-errors` (deprecated):: + Tells `git add` to continue adding files when some files cannot be + added due to indexing errors. +ifdef::git-add[] + Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors` option. +endif::git-add[] +ifndef::git-add[] + Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors` option of linkgit:git-add[1]. +endif::git-add[] + `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, as it does not follow the usual + naming convention for configuration variables. diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index aceaa025e3020a..5f2c3592b8d510 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ git-add - Add file contents to the index SYNOPSIS -------- -[verse] -'git add' [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] - [--edit | -e] [--[no-]all | -A | --[no-]ignore-removal | [--update | -u]] [--sparse] - [--intent-to-add | -N] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--ignore-missing] [--renormalize] - [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--pathspec-from-file= [--pathspec-file-nul]] - [--] [...] +[synopsis] +git add [--verbose | -v] [--dry-run | -n] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] + [--edit | -e] [--[no-]all | -A | --[no-]ignore-removal | [--update | -u]] [--sparse] + [--intent-to-add | -N] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--ignore-missing] [--renormalize] + [--chmod=(+|-)x] [--pathspec-from-file= [--pathspec-file-nul]] + [--] [...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The `git add` command will not add ignored files by default. If any ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, `git add` will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your -globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'git add' command can +globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The `git add` command can be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option. Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ commit. OPTIONS ------- -...:: +`...`:: Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can be given to add all matching files. Also a leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1` @@ -66,35 +66,35 @@ OPTIONS For more details about the __ syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. --n:: ---dry-run:: +`-n`:: +`--dry-run`:: Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist and/or will be ignored. --v:: ---verbose:: +`-v`:: +`--verbose`:: Be verbose. --f:: ---force:: +`-f`:: +`--force`:: Allow adding otherwise ignored files. ---sparse:: +`--sparse`:: Allow updating index entries outside of the sparse-checkout cone. Normally, `git add` refuses to update index entries whose paths do not fit within the sparse-checkout cone, since those files might be removed from the working tree without warning. See linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] for more details. --i:: ---interactive:: +`-i`:: +`--interactive`:: Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive mode'' for details. --p:: ---patch:: +`-p`:: +`--patch`:: Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the work tree and add them to the index. This gives the user a chance to review the difference before adding modified contents to the @@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ This effectively runs `add --interactive`, but bypasses the initial command menu and directly jumps to the `patch` subcommand. See ``Interactive mode'' for details. --e:: ---edit:: +`-e`:: +`--edit`:: Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers and apply the patch to the index. @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ quicker and more flexible than using the interactive hunk selector. However, it is easy to confuse oneself and create a patch that does not apply to the index. See EDITING PATCHES below. --u:: ---update:: +`-u`:: +`--update`:: Update the index just where it already has an entry matching __. This removes as well as modifies index entries to match the working tree, but adds no new files. @@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ tracked files in the entire working tree are updated (old versions of Git used to limit the update to the current directory and its subdirectories). --A:: ---all:: ---no-ignore-removal:: +`-A`:: +`--all`:: +`--no-ignore-removal`:: Update the index not only where the working tree has a file matching __ but also where the index already has an entry. This adds, modifies, and removes index entries to @@ -140,77 +140,77 @@ files in the entire working tree are updated (old versions of Git used to limit the update to the current directory and its subdirectories). ---no-all:: ---ignore-removal:: +`--no-all`:: +`--ignore-removal`:: Update the index by adding new files that are unknown to the index and files modified in the working tree, but ignore files that have been removed from the working tree. This option is a no-op when no __ is used. + This option is primarily to help users who are used to older -versions of Git, whose "git add __..." was a synonym -for "git add --no-all __...", i.e. ignored removed files. +versions of Git, whose `git add ...` was a synonym +for `git add --no-all ...`, i.e. ignored removed files. --N:: ---intent-to-add:: +`-N`:: +`--intent-to-add`:: Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of such files with `git diff` and committing them with `git commit -a`. ---refresh:: +`--refresh`:: Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat() information in the index. ---ignore-errors:: +`--ignore-errors`:: If some files could not be added because of errors indexing them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status. The configuration variable `add.ignoreErrors` can be set to true to make this the default behaviour. ---ignore-missing:: - This option can only be used together with --dry-run. By using +`--ignore-missing`:: + This option can only be used together with `--dry-run`. By using this option the user can check if any of the given files would be ignored, no matter if they are already present in the work tree or not. ---no-warn-embedded-repo:: +`--no-warn-embedded-repo`:: By default, `git add` will warn when adding an embedded repository to the index without using `git submodule add` to create an entry in `.gitmodules`. This option will suppress the warning (e.g., if you are manually performing operations on submodules). ---renormalize:: +`--renormalize`:: Apply the "clean" process freshly to all tracked files to forcibly add them again to the index. This is useful after changing `core.autocrlf` configuration or the `text` attribute - in order to correct files added with wrong CRLF/LF line endings. + in order to correct files added with wrong _CRLF/LF_ line endings. This option implies `-u`. Lone CR characters are untouched, thus - while a CRLF cleans to LF, a CRCRLF sequence is only partially - cleaned to CRLF. + while a _CRLF_ cleans to _LF_, a _CRCRLF_ sequence is only partially + cleaned to _CRLF_. ---chmod=(+|-)x:: +`--chmod=(+|-)x`:: Override the executable bit of the added files. The executable bit is only changed in the index, the files on disk are left unchanged. ---pathspec-from-file=:: +`--pathspec-from-file=`:: Pathspec is passed in __ instead of commandline args. If __ is exactly `-` then standard input is used. Pathspec - elements are separated by LF or CR/LF. Pathspec elements can be + elements are separated by _LF_ or _CR/LF_. Pathspec elements can be quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see linkgit:git-config[1]). See also `--pathspec-file-nul` and global `--literal-pathspecs`. ---pathspec-file-nul:: +`--pathspec-file-nul`:: Only meaningful with `--pathspec-from-file`. Pathspec elements are - separated with NUL character and all other characters are taken + separated with _NUL_ character and all other characters are taken literally (including newlines and quotes). -\--:: +`--`:: This option can be used to separate command-line options from the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken for command-line options). @@ -219,18 +219,18 @@ for "git add --no-all __...", i.e. ignored removed files. EXAMPLES -------- -* Adds content from all `*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory +* Adds content from all ++*.txt++ files under `Documentation` directory and its subdirectories: + ------------ $ git add Documentation/\*.txt ------------ + -Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this +Note that the asterisk ++*++ is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the command include the files from subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory. -* Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts: +* Considers adding content from all ++git-*.sh++ scripts: + ------------ $ git add git-*.sh @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ The main command loop has 6 subcommands (plus help and quit). status:: - This shows the change between HEAD and index (i.e. what will be + This shows the change between `HEAD` and index (i.e. what will be committed if you say `git commit`), and between index and working tree files (i.e. what you could stage further before `git commit` using `git add`) for each path. A sample output @@ -277,12 +277,12 @@ status:: 2: +403/-35 +1/-1 add-interactive.c ------------ + -It shows that foo.png has differences from HEAD (but that is +It shows that `foo.png` has differences from `HEAD` (but that is binary so line count cannot be shown) and there is no difference between indexed copy and the working tree version (if the working tree version were also different, 'binary' would have been shown in place of 'nothing'). The -other file, add-interactive.c, has 403 lines added +other file, `add-interactive.c`, has 403 lines added and 35 lines deleted if you commit what is in the index, but working tree file has further modifications (one addition and one deletion). @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ variable `interactive.singleKey` to `true`. diff:: This lets you review what will be committed (i.e. between - HEAD and index). + `HEAD` and index). EDITING PATCHES @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ There are also more complex operations that can be performed. But beware that because the patch is applied only to the index and not the working tree, the working tree will appear to "undo" the change in the index. For example, introducing a new line into the index that is in neither -the HEAD nor the working tree will stage the new line for commit, but +the `HEAD` nor the working tree will stage the new line for commit, but the line will appear to be reverted in the working tree. Avoid using these constructs, or do so with extreme caution. @@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ CONFIGURATION include::includes/cmd-config-section-all.txt[] +:git-add: 1 include::config/add.txt[] SEE ALSO