Merge branch 'cb/doco-mono'
Clean-up markup in the documentation suite.
* cb/doco-mono:
doc: format pathnames and URLs as monospace.
doc/CodingGuidelines: URLs and paths as monospace
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 8579530..32210a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -580,11 +580,14 @@
or commands:
Literal examples (e.g. use of command-line options, command names,
- branch names, configuration and environment variables) must be
- typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped with backticks):
+ branch names, URLs, pathnames (files and directories), configuration and
+ environment variables) must be typeset in monospace (i.e. wrapped with
+ backticks):
`--pretty=oneline`
`git rev-list`
`remote.pushDefault`
+ `http://git.example.com`
+ `.git/config`
`GIT_DIR`
`HEAD`
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index ec8b205..6d589e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -372,15 +372,15 @@
Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
repositories.
-- 'git-gui/' comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:
+- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:
git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
-- 'gitk-git/' comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
+- `gitk-git/` comes from Paul Mackerras's gitk project:
git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
-- 'po/' comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin:
+- `po/` comes from the localization coordinator, Jiang Xin:
https://github.com/git-l10n/git-po/
diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
index 7e9b6c8..75538d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/core.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
core.excludesFile::
Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
- to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
+ to `.gitignore` (per-directory) and `.git/info/exclude`.
Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`.
If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`
is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
@@ -429,8 +429,8 @@
command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
core.attributesFile::
- In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
- '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
+ In addition to `.gitattributes` (per-directory) and
+ `.git/info/attributes`, Git looks into this file for attributes
(see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not
@@ -438,10 +438,10 @@
core.hooksPath::
By default Git will look for your hooks in the
- '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
- e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
- that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
- in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
+ `$GIT_DIR/hooks` directory. Set this to different path,
+ e.g. `/etc/git/hooks`, and Git will try to find your hooks in
+ that directory, e.g. `/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive` instead of
+ in `$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive`.
+
The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
index 56d54a4..fdc28c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
This is sort of "Git root" - if you run 'git daemon' with
'--base-path=/srv/git' on example.com, then if you later try to pull
'git://example.com/hello.git', 'git daemon' will interpret the path
- as '/srv/git/hello.git'.
+ as `/srv/git/hello.git`.
--base-path-relaxed::
If --base-path is enabled and repo lookup fails, with this option
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index e6f08ab..6b53dd7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
rewriting. When applying a tree filter, the command needs to
temporarily check out the tree to some directory, which may consume
considerable space in case of large projects. By default it
- does this in the '.git-rewrite/' directory but you can override
+ does this in the `.git-rewrite/` directory but you can override
that choice by this parameter.
-f::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index c318bf8..f71db0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@
already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'man.konqueror.path' is
-set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to
-launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.
+set to something like `A_PATH_TO/konqueror`. That means we will try to
+launch `A_PATH_TO/kfmclient` instead.
If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
the following:
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 9dee7be..a751571 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you are
in a directory 'sub' that has a directory 'dir', you can run 'git
ls-tree -r HEAD dir' to list the contents of the tree (that is
- 'sub/dir' in `HEAD`). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
+ `sub/dir` in `HEAD`). You don't want to give a tree that is not at the
root level (e.g. `git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir`) in this case, as that
- would result in asking for 'sub/sub/dir' in the `HEAD` commit.
+ would result in asking for `sub/sub/dir` in the `HEAD` commit.
However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
--full-tree option.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt
index 3fc5d94..6ccffa1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-ext.txt
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
link-level address).
"ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo% with% spaces %Vfoo"::
- Represents a repository with path '/repo with spaces' accessed
+ Represents a repository with path `/repo with spaces` accessed
using the helper program "git-server-alias foo". The hostname for
the remote server passed in the protocol stream will be "foo"
(this allows multiple virtual Git servers to share a
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 2794e29..ac8c687 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
or ../), the location relative to the superproject's default remote
repository (Please note that to specify a repository 'foo.git'
which is located right next to a superproject 'bar.git', you'll
-have to use '../foo.git' instead of './foo.git' - as one might expect
+have to use `../foo.git` instead of `./foo.git` - as one might expect
when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation
of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories).
+
diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
index fd952a5..8d162b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@
man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'browser.konqueror.path' is
-set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to
-launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.
+set to something like `A_PATH_TO/konqueror`. That means we will try to
+launch `A_PATH_TO/kfmclient` instead.
If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
the following:
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index 244cd01..1eabb0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -168,12 +168,12 @@
-----
User configuration and preferences are stored at:
-* '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk' if it exists, otherwise
-* '$HOME/.gitk' if it exists
+* `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk` if it exists, otherwise
+* `$HOME/.gitk` if it exists
-If neither of the above exist then '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk' is created and
+If neither of the above exist then `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/gitk` is created and
used by default. If '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME' is not set it defaults to
-'$HOME/.config' in all cases.
+`$HOME/.config` in all cases.
History
-------
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
index 312b6f9..a66e95b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
This defines two submodules, `libfoo` and `libbar`. These are expected to
-be checked out in the paths 'include/foo' and 'include/bar', and for both
+be checked out in the paths `include/foo` and `include/bar`, and for both
submodules a URL is specified which can be used for cloning the submodules.
SEE ALSO
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 366dee2..216b11e 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
to the object database, not to the repository!) in your
alternates file, but it will not work if you use absolute
paths unless the absolute path in filesystem and web URL
- is the same. See also 'objects/info/http-alternates'.
+ is the same. See also `objects/info/http-alternates`.
objects/info/http-alternates::
This file records URLs to alternate object stores that
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index b284953..35317e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@
* built-in values (some set during build stage),
* common system-wide configuration file (defaults to
- '/etc/gitweb-common.conf'),
+ `/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
- then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to '/etc/gitweb.conf').
+ then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to `/etc/gitweb.conf`).
Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
in the above sequence.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
subroutine. For example, one might want to put gitweb configuration
related to access control for viewing repositories via Gitolite (one
of Git repository management tools) in a separate file, e.g. in
-'/etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf'. To include it, put
+`/etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf`. To include it, put
--------------------------------------------------
read_config_file("/etc/gitweb-gitolite.conf");
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
http://git.example.com/gitweb.cgi/foo/bar.git
------------------------------------------------
+
-will map to the path '/srv/git/foo/bar.git' on the filesystem.
+will map to the path `/srv/git/foo/bar.git` on the filesystem.
$projects_list::
Name of a plain text file listing projects, or a name of directory
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@
$mimetypes_file::
File to use for (filename extension based) guessing of MIME types before
- trying '/etc/mime.types'. *NOTE* that this path, if relative, is taken
+ trying `/etc/mime.types`. *NOTE* that this path, if relative, is taken
as relative to the current Git repository, not to CGI script. If unset,
- only '/etc/mime.types' is used (if present on filesystem). If no mimetypes
+ only `/etc/mime.types` is used (if present on filesystem). If no mimetypes
file is found, mimetype guessing based on extension of file is disabled.
Unset by default.
@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@
+
This list should contain the URI of gitweb's standard stylesheet. The default
URI of gitweb stylesheet can be set at build time using the `GITWEB_CSS`
-makefile variable. Its default value is 'static/gitweb.css'
-(or 'static/gitweb.min.css' if the `CSSMIN` variable is defined,
+makefile variable. Its default value is `static/gitweb.css`
+(or `static/gitweb.min.css` if the `CSSMIN` variable is defined,
i.e. if CSS minifier is used during build).
+
*Note*: there is also a legacy `$stylesheet` configuration variable, which was
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@
is displayed in the top right corner of each gitweb page and used as
a logo for the Atom feed. Relative to the base URI of gitweb (as a path).
Can be adjusted when building gitweb using `GITWEB_LOGO` variable
- By default set to 'static/git-logo.png'.
+ By default set to `static/git-logo.png`.
$favicon::
Points to the location where you put 'git-favicon.png' on your web
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
may display them in the browser's URL bar and next to the site name in
bookmarks. Relative to the base URI of gitweb. Can be adjusted at
build time using `GITWEB_FAVICON` variable.
- By default set to 'static/git-favicon.png'.
+ By default set to `static/git-favicon.png`.
$javascript::
Points to the location where you put 'gitweb.js' on your web server,
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
Relative to the base URI of gitweb. Can be set at build time using
the `GITWEB_JS` build-time configuration variable.
+
-The default value is either 'static/gitweb.js', or 'static/gitweb.min.js' if
+The default value is either `static/gitweb.js`, or `static/gitweb.min.js` if
the `JSMIN` build variable was defined, i.e. if JavaScript minifier was used
at build time. *Note* that this single file is generated from multiple
individual JavaScript "modules".
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@
doesn't result in some other type; by default "text/plain".
Gitweb guesses mimetype of a file to display based on extension
of its filename, using `$mimetypes_file` (if set and file exists)
- and '/etc/mime.types' files (see *mime.types*(5) manpage; only
+ and `/etc/mime.types` files (see *mime.types*(5) manpage; only
filename extension rules are supported by gitweb).
$default_text_plain_charset::
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
(for example one for `git://` protocol, and one for `http://`
protocol).
+
-Note that per repository configuration can be set in '$GIT_DIR/cloneurl'
+Note that per repository configuration can be set in `$GIT_DIR/cloneurl`
file, or as values of multi-value `gitweb.url` configuration variable in
project config. Per-repository configuration takes precedence over value
composed from `@git_base_url_list` elements and project name.
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@
If the server load exceeds this value then gitweb will return
"503 Service Unavailable" error. The server load is taken to be 0
if gitweb cannot determine its value. Currently it works only on Linux,
- where it uses '/proc/loadavg'; the load there is the number of active
+ where it uses `/proc/loadavg`; the load there is the number of active
tasks on the system -- processes that are actually running -- averaged
over the last minute.
+
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@
Only one provider at a time can be selected ('default' is one element list).
If an unknown provider is specified, the feature is disabled.
*Note* that some providers might require extra Perl packages to be
-installed; see 'gitweb/INSTALL' for more details.
+installed; see `gitweb/INSTALL` for more details.
+
This feature can be configured on a per-repository basis via
repository's `gitweb.avatar` configuration variable.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index 8845058..c743609 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
CONFIGURATION
-------------
Various aspects of gitweb's behavior can be controlled through the configuration
-file 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See the linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]
+file `gitweb_config.perl` or `/etc/gitweb.conf`. See the linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]
for details.
Repositories
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
our $projectroot = '/path/to/parent/directory';
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-The default value for `$projectroot` is '/pub/git'. You can change it during
+The default value for `$projectroot` is `/pub/git`. You can change it during
building gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable.
By default all Git repositories under `$projectroot` are visible and available
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
from the template during repository creation, usually installed in
-'/usr/share/git-core/templates/'. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo
+`/usr/share/git-core/templates/`. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo
configuration variable, but the file takes precedence.
category (or `gitweb.category`)::
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
Apache as CGI
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Apache must be configured to support CGI scripts in the directory in
-which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is '/var/www/cgi-bin'
+which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is `/var/www/cgi-bin`
directory.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@
(for mod_perl 1.x) or ModPerl::Registry (for mod_perl 2.x) to enable
this support.
-Assuming that gitweb is installed to '/var/www/perl', the following
+Assuming that gitweb is installed to `/var/www/perl`, the following
Apache configuration (for mod_perl 2.x) is suitable.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gitweb works with Apache and FastCGI. First you need to rename, copy
or symlink gitweb.cgi to gitweb.fcgi. Let's assume that gitweb is
-installed in '/usr/share/gitweb' directory. The following Apache
+installed in `/usr/share/gitweb` directory. The following Apache
configuration is suitable (UNTESTED!)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -503,22 +503,22 @@
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
-'/pub/git' and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`,
+`/pub/git` and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`,
both as clonable Git URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then
start your linkgit:git-daemon[1] with `--base-path=/pub/git --export-all`
then you can even use the `git://` URL with exactly the same path.
Setting the environment variable `GITWEB_CONFIG` will tell gitweb to use the
-named file (i.e. in this example '/etc/gitweb.conf') as a configuration for
+named file (i.e. in this example `/etc/gitweb.conf`) as a configuration for
gitweb. You don't really need it in above example; it is required only if
your configuration file is in different place than built-in (during
-compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See
+compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or `/etc/gitweb.conf`. See
linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for details, especially information about precedence
rules.
If you use the rewrite rules from the example you *might* also need
something like the following in your gitweb configuration file
-('/etc/gitweb.conf' following example):
+(`/etc/gitweb.conf` following example):
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css");
$my_uri = "/";
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@
Here actual project root is passed to gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECT_ROOT`
environment variable from a web server, so you need to put the following
-line in gitweb configuration file ('/etc/gitweb.conf' in above example):
+line in gitweb configuration file (`/etc/gitweb.conf` in above example):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@
These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (`<user>`) of
the server will be able to browse through gitweb Git repositories found in
-'~/public_git/' with the following url:
+`~/public_git/` with the following url:
http://git.example.org/~<user>/
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@
use the \'~' as first character, just comment or remove the second rewrite
rule, and uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
-Second, repositories found in '/pub/scm/' and '/var/git/' will be accessible
+Second, repositories found in `/pub/scm/` and `/var/git/` will be accessible
through `http://git.example.org/scm/` and `http://git.example.org/var/`.
You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like
the third and the fourth.
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@
http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
i.e. without 'gitweb.cgi' part, by using a configuration such as the
-following. This configuration assumes that '/var/www/gitweb' is the
+following. This configuration assumes that `/var/www/gitweb` is the
DocumentRoot of your webserver, contains the gitweb.cgi script and
complementary static files (stylesheet, favicon, JavaScript):
@@ -645,9 +645,9 @@
`@stylesheets`, `$my_uri` and `$home_link`, but you lose "dumb client"
access to your project .git dirs (described in "Single URL for gitweb and
for fetching" section). A possible workaround for the latter is the
-following: in your project root dir (e.g. '/pub/git') have the projects
-named *without* a .git extension (e.g. '/pub/git/project' instead of
-'/pub/git/project.git') and configure Apache as follows:
+following: in your project root dir (e.g. `/pub/git`) have the projects
+named *without* a .git extension (e.g. `/pub/git/project` instead of
+`/pub/git/project.git`) and configure Apache as follows:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAlias git.example.com
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@
will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project has
-a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
+a named ref (branch, tag) starting with `git/`, then paths such as
http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
--------
linkgit:gitweb.conf[5], linkgit:git-instaweb[1]
-'gitweb/README', 'gitweb/INSTALL'
+`gitweb/README`, `gitweb/INSTALL`
GIT
---
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
index f44e5e9..bfe6f9b 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@
--------------
If you have to access the WebDAV server from behind an HTTP(S) proxy,
-set the variable 'all_proxy' to 'http://proxy-host.com:port', or
-'http://login-on-proxy:passwd-on-proxy@proxy-host.com:port'. See 'man
+set the variable 'all_proxy' to `http://proxy-host.com:port`, or
+`http://login-on-proxy:passwd-on-proxy@proxy-host.com:port`. See 'man
curl' for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/revisions.txt b/Documentation/revisions.txt
index 72daa20..2337a99 100644
--- a/Documentation/revisions.txt
+++ b/Documentation/revisions.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
when you run `git cherry-pick`.
+
Note that any of the 'refs/*' cases above may come either from
-the '$GIT_DIR/refs' directory or from the '$GIT_DIR/packed-refs' file.
+the `$GIT_DIR/refs` directory or from the `$GIT_DIR/packed-refs` file.
While the ref name encoding is unspecified, UTF-8 is preferred as
some output processing may assume ref names in UTF-8.
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
`git push` were run while `branchname` was checked out (or the current
`HEAD` if no branchname is specified). Since our push destination is
in a remote repository, of course, we report the local tracking branch
- that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in 'refs/remotes/').
+ that corresponds to that branch (i.e., something in `refs/remotes/`).
+
Here's an example to make it more clear:
+
diff --git a/Documentation/sequencer.txt b/Documentation/sequencer.txt
index 5747f44..5a57c4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/sequencer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sequencer.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
--continue::
Continue the operation in progress using the information in
- '.git/sequencer'. Can be used to continue after resolving
+ `.git/sequencer`. Can be used to continue after resolving
conflicts in a failed cherry-pick or revert.
--quit::
