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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-03-29 01:17:17 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-03-29 01:17:17 +0400 |
commit | 61e8aaf6215a2983610a770645e6d0a24bafb454 (patch) | |
tree | dafb753af176f0303e7a65f775004c38c85f08f2 | |
parent | 730477f199489d61b960633501c390e03f04cba9 (diff) | |
parent | f1723ee6b370c3d0cfaaea9d02188175a8d85af6 (diff) |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
git tag documentation grammar fixes and readability updates
grep: Add the option '--line-number'
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-grep.txt | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 36 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | builtin/grep.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index d4d425ea30..132505eb4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ OPTIONS as a regex). -n:: +--line-number:: Prefix the line number to matching lines. -l:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 61263fa329..d82f62120a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -165,13 +165,12 @@ You can test which tag you have by doing which should return 0123456789abcdef.. if you have the new version. -Sorry for inconvenience. +Sorry for the inconvenience. ------------ Does this seem a bit complicated? It *should* be. There is no -way that it would be correct to just "fix" it behind peoples -backs. People need to know that their tags might have been -changed. +way that it would be correct to just "fix" it automatically. +People need to know that their tags might have been changed. On Automatic following @@ -189,9 +188,10 @@ the toplevel but not limited to them. Mere mortals when pulling from each other do not necessarily want to automatically get private anchor point tags from the other person. -You would notice "please pull" messages on the mailing list says -repo URL and branch name alone. This is designed to be easily -cut&pasted to a 'git fetch' command line: +Often, "please pull" messages on the mailing list just provide +two pieces of information: a repo URL and a branch name; this +is designed to be easily cut&pasted at the end of a 'git fetch' +command line: ------------ Linus, please pull from @@ -207,14 +207,14 @@ becomes: $ git pull git://git..../proj.git master ------------ -In such a case, you do not want to automatically follow other's -tags. +In such a case, you do not want to automatically follow the other +person's tags. -One important aspect of git is it is distributed, and being -distributed largely means there is no inherent "upstream" or +One important aspect of git is its distributed nature, which +largely means there is no inherent "upstream" or "downstream" in the system. On the face of it, the above example might seem to indicate that the tag namespace is owned -by upper echelon of people and tags only flow downwards, but +by the upper echelon of people and that tags only flow downwards, but that is not the case. It only shows that the usage pattern determines who are interested in whose tags. @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ this case. It may well be that among networking people, they may want to exchange the tags internal to their group, but in that workflow -they are most likely tracking with each other's progress by +they are most likely tracking each other's progress by having remote-tracking branches. Again, the heuristic to automatically follow such tags is a good thing. @@ -242,21 +242,21 @@ On Backdating Tags If you have imported some changes from another VCS and would like to add tags for major releases of your work, it is useful to be able -to specify the date to embed inside of the tag object. The data in +to specify the date to embed inside of the tag object; such data in the tag object affects, for example, the ordering of tags in the gitweb interface. To set the date used in future tag objects, set the environment -variable GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The -date and time can be specified in a number of ways; the most common -is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM". +variable GIT_COMMITTER_DATE (see the later discussion of possible +values; the most common form is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM"). -An example follows. +For example: ------------ $ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1 ------------ +include::date-formats.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c index 0bf8c0116a..85e9583a13 100644 --- a/builtin/grep.c +++ b/builtin/grep.c @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_BOOLEAN('F', "fixed-strings", &opt.fixed, "interpret patterns as fixed strings"), OPT_GROUP(""), - OPT_BOOLEAN('n', NULL, &opt.linenum, "show line numbers"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "line-number", &opt.linenum, "show line numbers"), OPT_NEGBIT('h', NULL, &opt.pathname, "don't show filenames", 1), OPT_BIT('H', NULL, &opt.pathname, "show filenames", 1), OPT_NEGBIT(0, "full-name", &opt.relative, |