git/Documentation/git-commit.txt, branch v2.8.2

Expand documentation describing --signoff

2016-01-05T21:42:39Z

Modify various document (man page) files to explain in more detail what --signoff means. This was inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/669976/ where paulj noted, "adding [the] '-s' argument to [a] git commit doesn't really mean you have even heard of the DCO...". Extending git's documentation will make it easier to argue that developers understood --signoff when they use it. Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: explain optional arguments better

2015-09-21T17:48:23Z

Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two ways: * Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands creating commits) when used without the optional argument. * Document the syntax of these options. For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g. "git status -u no" does not work. Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '=' sign between the option and its argument. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Reviewed-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'

2015-09-21T17:48:17Z

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Reviewed-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'mc/commit-doc-grammofix'

2015-06-01T19:45:13Z

Doc grammar fix. * mc/commit-doc-grammofix: Documentation/git-commit: grammofix

Documentation/git-commit: grammofix

2015-05-20T04:20:58Z

Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message

2015-04-27T18:32:55Z

The `-v` shows a unified diff in the editor to edit the commit message to help the user to describe the change. The diff is stripped and will not become a part of the commit message. Add a note about this with the `-v` description and slightly modify the description for the default `--cleanup` mode. Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'nd/config-doc-camelCase'

2015-03-23T18:28:12Z

Documentation updates. * nd/config-doc-camelCase: *config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention

*config.txt: stick to camelCase naming convention

2015-03-14T05:13:46Z

This should improve readability. Compare "thislongname" and "thisLongName". The following keys are left in unchanged. We can decide what to do with them later. - am.keepcr - core.autocrlf .safecrlf .trustctime - diff.dirstat .noprefix - gitcvs.usecrlfattr - gui.blamehistoryctx .trustmtime - pull.twohead - receive.autogc - sendemail.signedoffbycc .smtpsslcertpath .suppresscc Helped-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -v

2015-03-06T18:51:48Z

git commit and git status in long format show the diff between HEAD and the index when given -v. This allows previewing a commit to be made. They also list tracked files with unstaged changes, but without a diff. Introduce '-v -v' which shows the diff between the index and the worktree in addition to the HEAD index diff. This allows a review of unstaged changes which might be missing from the commit. In the case of '-v -v', additonal header lines Changes to be committed: and Changes not staged for commit: are inserted before the diffs, which are equal to those in the status part; the latter preceded by 50*"-" to make it stick out more. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'jc/doc-commit-only'

2014-11-18T18:19:42Z

* jc/doc-commit-only: Documentation/git-commit: clarify that --only/--include records the working tree contents