delta/git.git/Documentation/git-tools.txt, branch sb/string-list-split-appends

Documentation/git-tools: retire manually-maintained list

2015-07-28T20:21:59+00:00

When Git was young, people looking for third-party Git-related tools
came to the Git project itself to find them, so it made sense to
maintain a list of tools here. These days, however, search engines fill
that role much more efficiently, so retire the manually-maintained
list.

The list of front-ends and tools on the Git wiki rates perhaps a distant
second to search engines, and may still have value, so retain a
reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation/git-tools: drop references to defunct tools

2015-07-28T20:21:42+00:00

Cogito -- unmaintained since late 2006[1]
pg -- URL dead; web searches reveal no information
quilt2git -- URL dead; web searches reveal no information
(h)gct -- URL dead; no repository activity since 2007[2]

[1]: http://git.or.cz/cogito/
[2]: http://repo.or.cz/w/hgct.git

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation/git-tools: fix item text formatting

2015-07-28T20:21:13+00:00

Descriptive text for each tool item is incorrectly formatted using a
fixed width font. Fix formatting to use a variable width font by
unindenting the item text.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation/git-tools: improve discoverability of Git wiki

2015-07-28T20:20:51+00:00

These days, the best way to find Git-related tools is via a search
engine. The Git wiki may be a distant second, and git-tools.txt falls in
last place. Therefore, promote the Git wiki reference to the top of
git-tools.txt so the reader will encounter it first, rather than hiding
it away at the very bottom.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

doc: various spelling fixes

2013-04-12T19:00:52+00:00

Most of these were found using Lucas De Marchi's codespell tool.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT

2013-02-01T21:54:46+00:00

They refer themselves as such at https://gna.org/projects/stgit/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'

2013-02-01T21:53:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT

2013-02-01T21:53:25+00:00

In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT,
to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small
caps.  Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days.

Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation.  The name to refer
to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the
command end-users type is "git".  And document this in the coding
guideline.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Remove outdated references to cogito in documentation

2007-10-29T19:53:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Add hg-to-git conversion utility.

2007-02-05T21:52:45+00:00

hg-to-git.py  is able to convert a Mercurial repository into a git one,
and preserves the branches in the process (unlike tailor)

hg-to-git.py can probably be greatly improved (it's a rather crude
combination of shell and python) but it does already work quite well for
me. Features:
	- supports incremental conversion
	  (for keeping a git repo in sync with a hg one)
	- supports hg branches
	- converts hg tags

Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop 
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano