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Jean-Noël Avila 63d33eb7f6 doc: check well-formedness of delimited sections
Having an empty line before each delimited sections is not required by
asciidoc, but it is a safety measure that prevents generating malformed
asciidoc when generating translated documentation.

When a delimited section appears just after a paragraph, the asciidoc
processor checks that the length of the delimited section header is
different from the length of the paragraph. If it is not, the asciidoc
processor will generate a title. In the original English documentation, this
is not a problem because the authors always check the output of the asciidoc
processor and fix the length of the delimited section header if it turns out
to be the same as the paragraph length. However, this is not the case for
translations, where the authors have no way to check the length of the
delimited section header or the output of the asciidoc processor. This can
lead to a section title that is not intended.

Indeed, this test also checks that titles are correctly formed, that is,
the length of the underline is equal to the length of the title (otherwise
it would not be a title but a section header).

Finally, this test checks that the delimited section are terminated within
the same file.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-11 14:16:03 -07:00

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Description
^^^^^^^^^^^
When specifying `--tool=vimdiff` in `git mergetool` Git will open Vim with a 4
windows layout distributed in the following way:
....
------------------------------------------
| | | |
| LOCAL | BASE | REMOTE |
| | | |
------------------------------------------
| |
| MERGED |
| |
------------------------------------------
....
`LOCAL`, `BASE` and `REMOTE` are read-only buffers showing the contents of the
conflicting file in specific commits ("commit you are merging into", "common
ancestor commit" and "commit you are merging from" respectively)
`MERGED` is a writable buffer where you have to resolve the conflicts (using the
other read-only buffers as a reference). Once you are done, save and exit Vim as
usual (`:wq`) or, if you want to abort, exit using `:cq`.
Layout configuration
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can change the windows layout used by Vim by setting configuration variable
`mergetool.vimdiff.layout` which accepts a string where the following separators
have special meaning:
- `+` is used to "open a new tab"
- `,` is used to "open a new vertical split"
- `/` is used to "open a new horizontal split"
- `@` is used to indicate the file containing the final version after
solving the conflicts. If not present, `MERGED` will be used by default.
The precedence of the operators is as follows (you can use parentheses to change
it):
`@` > `+` > `/` > `,`
Let's see some examples to understand how it works:
* `layout = "(LOCAL,BASE,REMOTE)/MERGED"`
+
--
This is exactly the same as the default layout we have already seen.
Note that `/` has precedence over `,` and thus the parenthesis are not
needed in this case. The next layout definition is equivalent:
layout = "LOCAL,BASE,REMOTE / MERGED"
--
* `layout = "LOCAL,MERGED,REMOTE"`
+
--
If, for some reason, we are not interested in the `BASE` buffer.
....
------------------------------------------
| | | |
| | | |
| LOCAL | MERGED | REMOTE |
| | | |
| | | |
------------------------------------------
....
--
* `layout = "MERGED"`
+
--
Only the `MERGED` buffer will be shown. Note, however, that all the other
ones are still loaded in vim, and you can access them with the "buffers"
command.
....
------------------------------------------
| |
| |
| MERGED |
| |
| |
------------------------------------------
....
--
* `layout = "@LOCAL,REMOTE"`
+
--
When `MERGED` is not present in the layout, you must "mark" one of the
buffers with an arobase (`@`). That will become the buffer you need to edit and
save after resolving the conflicts.
....
------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| LOCAL | REMOTE |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------
....
--
* `layout = "LOCAL,BASE,REMOTE / MERGED + BASE,LOCAL + BASE,REMOTE"`
+
--
Three tabs will open: the first one is a copy of the default layout, while
the other two only show the differences between (`BASE` and `LOCAL`) and
(`BASE` and `REMOTE`) respectively.
....
------------------------------------------
| <TAB #1> | TAB #2 | TAB #3 | |
------------------------------------------
| | | |
| LOCAL | BASE | REMOTE |
| | | |
------------------------------------------
| |
| MERGED |
| |
------------------------------------------
....
....
------------------------------------------
| TAB #1 | <TAB #2> | TAB #3 | |
------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| BASE | LOCAL |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------
....
....
------------------------------------------
| TAB #1 | TAB #2 | <TAB #3> | |
------------------------------------------
| | |
| | |
| | |
| BASE | REMOTE |
| | |
| | |
| | |
------------------------------------------
....
--
* `layout = "LOCAL,BASE,REMOTE / MERGED + BASE,LOCAL + BASE,REMOTE + (LOCAL/BASE/REMOTE),MERGED"`
+
--
Same as the previous example, but adds a fourth tab with the same
information as the first tab, with a different layout.
....
---------------------------------------------
| TAB #1 | TAB #2 | TAB #3 | <TAB #4> |
---------------------------------------------
| LOCAL | |
|---------------------| |
| BASE | MERGED |
|---------------------| |
| REMOTE | |
---------------------------------------------
....
Note how in the third tab definition we need to use parentheses to make `,`
have precedence over `/`.
--
Variants
^^^^^^^^
Instead of `--tool=vimdiff`, you can also use one of these other variants:
* `--tool=gvimdiff`, to open gVim instead of Vim.
* `--tool=nvimdiff`, to open Neovim instead of Vim.
When using these variants, in order to specify a custom layout you will have to
set configuration variables `mergetool.gvimdiff.layout` and
`mergetool.nvimdiff.layout` instead of `mergetool.vimdiff.layout` (though the
latter will be used as fallback if the variant-specific one is not set).
In addition, for backwards compatibility with previous Git versions, you can
also append `1`, `2` or `3` to either `vimdiff` or any of the variants (ex:
`vimdiff3`, `nvimdiff1`, etc...) to use a predefined layout.
In other words, using `--tool=[g|n]vimdiff<x>` is the same as using
`--tool=[g|n]vimdiff` and setting configuration variable
`mergetool.[g|n]vimdiff.layout` to...
* `<x>=1`: `"@LOCAL, REMOTE"`
* `<x>=2`: `"LOCAL, MERGED, REMOTE"`
* `<x>=3`: `"MERGED"`
Example: using `--tool=gvimdiff2` will open `gvim` with three columns (`LOCAL`,
`MERGED` and `REMOTE`).