gpm-types – pointer types (mice, tablets, etc.) managed by gpm. The information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information. Description This manpage describes the various pointer types currently available in gpm. If you look at the source code, you’ll find that pointer-specific code is confined to mice.c (while…
go – tool for managing Go source code Description The ‘go test’ command expects to find test, benchmark, and example functions in the "*_test.go" files corresponding to the package under test. A test function is one named TestXxx (where Xxx does not start with a lower case letter) and should have the signature, func TestXxx(t…
go – tool for managing Go source code Description The ‘go test’ command takes both flags that apply to ‘go test’ itself and flags that apply to the resulting test binary. Several of the flags control profiling and write an execution profile suitable for "go tool pprof"; run "go tool pprof -h" for more information….
go – tool for managing Go source code Description An import path (see go-importpath(1)) denotes a package stored in the local file system. Certain import paths also describe how to obtain the source code for the package using a revision control system. A few common code hosting sites have special syntax: BitBucket (Mercurial) import "bitbucket.org/user/project"…
go – tool for managing Go source code Description The Go path is used to resolve import statements. It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package. The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code. On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string. On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string….
go – tool for managing Go source code Description Many commands apply to a set of packages: go action [packages] Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths. An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and denotes the…
GnuPG – The GNU Privacy Guard suite of programs Description GnuPG is a set of programs for public key encryption and digital signatures. The program most users will want to use is the OpenPGP command line tool, named gpg2. gpgvis a stripped down version of gpg2 with no encryption functionality, used only to verify signatures…
GnuPG – The GNU Privacy Guard suite of programs Description GnuPG is a set of programs for public key encryption and digital signatures. The program most users will want to use is the OpenPGP command line tool, named gpg2. gpgvis a stripped down version of gpg2 with no encryption functionality, used only to verify signatures…
gnome-options – Standard Command Line Options for GNOME 2 Programs Synopsis program [standard options] [specific options] arguments Description This manual page describes the command line options, which are common to all Gnome applications. Options Help options -?, –help Show the application’s help message. –usage Display a brief usage message. –version Show the application’s version information….
glob – globbing pathnames Description Long ago, in UNIX V6, there was a program /etc/glob that would expand wildcard patterns. Soon afterward this became a shell built-in. These days there is also a library routine glob(3) that will perform this function for a user program. The rules are as follows (POSIX.2, 3.13). Wildcard matching A…
libc – overview of standard C libraries on Linux Description The term "libc" is commonly used as a shorthand for the "standard C library", a library of standard functions that can be used by all C programs (and sometimes by programs in other languages). Because of some history (see below), use of the term "libc"…
gitworkflows – An overview of recommended workflows with Git Synopsis git * Description This document attempts to write down and motivate some of the workflow elements used for git.git itself. Many ideas apply in general, though the full workflow is rarely required for smaller projects with fewer people involved. We formulate a set of rules…
gittutorial – A tutorial introduction to Git Synopsis git * Description This tutorial explains how to import a new project into Git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers. If you are instead primarily interested in using Git to fetch a project, for example, to test the latest version, you may prefer…
gittutorial-2 – A tutorial introduction to Git: part two Synopsis git * Description You should work through gittutorial(7) before reading this tutorial. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce two fundamental pieces of Git’s architecture—the object database and the index file—and to provide the reader with everything necessary to understand the rest of the…
gitsubmodules – Mounting one repository inside another Synopsis .gitmodules, $GIT_DIR/config git submodule git <command> –recurse-submodules Description A submodule is a repository embedded inside another repository. The submodule has its own history; the repository it is embedded in is called a superproject. On the filesystem, a submodule usually (but not always – see FORMS below) consists…
gitrevisions – Specifying revisions and ranges for Git Synopsis gitrevisions Description Many Git commands take revision parameters as arguments. Depending on the command, they denote a specific commit or, for commands which walk the revision graph (such as git-log(1)), all commits which are reachable from that commit. For commands that walk the revision graph one…
gitremote-helpers – Helper programs to interact with remote repositories Synopsis git remote-<transport> <repository> [<URL>] Description Remote helper programs are normally not used directly by end users, but they are invoked by Git when it needs to interact with remote repositories Git does not support natively. A given helper will implement a subset of the capabilities…
gitnamespaces – Git namespaces Synopsis GIT_NAMESPACE=<namespace> git upload-pack GIT_NAMESPACE=<namespace> git receive-pack Description Git supports dividing the refs of a single repository into multiple namespaces, each of which has its own branches, tags, and HEAD. Git can expose each namespace as an independent repository to pull from and push to, while sharing the object store, and…
gitglossary – A Git Glossary Synopsis * Description alternate object database Via the alternates mechanism, a repository can inherit part of its object database from another object database, which is called an "alternate". bare repository A bare repository is normally an appropriately named directory with a .git suffix that does not have a locally checked-out…
gitfaq – Frequently asked questions about using Git Synopsis gitfaq Description The examples in this FAQ assume a standard POSIX shell, like bash or dash, and a user, A U Thor, who has the account author on the hosting provider git.example.org. Configuration What should I put in user.name? You should put your personal name, generally…