Fixed skip-git and added how to for git ops

book/src/SUMMARY.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - [User's Guide](./how-to/index.md)
     - [How to Compile Xvc](./how-to/compile.md)
     - [Xvc with Git Branches](./how-to/git-branches.md)
+    - [Turn off Git Integration](./how-to/turn-off-git-automation.md)
 
 - [Command Reference](./ref/xvc.md)
     - [`xvc init`](./ref/xvc-init.md)

book/src/how-to/turn-off-git-automation.md

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+# Turning off Automated Git Operations
+
+By default Xvc automates all common git operations. When you run an Xvc operation that affects the files under `.xvc` directory, the changes are committed to the repository automatically. 
+
+Git autmation runs in Git repositories. 
+
+```console
+$ git init
+Initialized empty Git repository in [CWD]/.git/
+
+$ xvc init
+```
+
+We'll show these examples in the following directory tree. 
+
+```console
+$ xvc-test-helper create-directory-tree --directories 1 --files 3 --seed 20231012
+$ tree
+.
+└── dir-0001
+    ├── file-0001.bin
+    ├── file-0002.bin
+    └── file-0003.bin
+
+2 directories, 3 files
+
+```
+
+When you begin to track a file in the repository, Xvc adds the file to .gitignore in the directory the file is found. 
+
+```console
+$ xvc file track dir-0001/file-0001.bin
+
+$ zsh -cl 'cat dir-0001/.gitignore'
+### Following 1 lines are added by xvc on [..]
+/file-0001.bin
+
+```
+
+Xvc also adds a commit for all the changes caused by the command. 
+
+```console
+$ git log -n 1
+commit [..]
+Author: [..]
+Date:   [..]
+
+    Xvc auto-commit after '[..]xvc file track dir-0001/file-0001.bin'
+
+```
+
+The commit message includes the command you gave to run to find the exact change in history. 
+
+If you don't track a file with Xvc, they are not added to `.gitignore` and you can see them with `git status`. 
+
+```console
+$ git status -s
+?? dir-0001/file-0002.bin
+?? dir-0001/file-0003.bin
+
+```
+If you want to skip this automated Git operations, you can add `--skip-git` flag to commands. 
+
+```console
+$ xvc --skip-git file track dir-0001/file-0002.bin
+
+$ git status -s
+ M dir-0001/.gitignore
+?? .xvc/ec/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? dir-0001/file-0003.bin
+
+```
+
+Note that, `--skip-git` flag doesn't affect the files to be added to `.gitignore` files. 
+
+```console
+$ zsh -cl 'cat dir-0001/.gitignore'
+### Following 1 lines are added by xvc on [..]
+/file-0001.bin
+### Following 1 lines are added by xvc on [..]
+/file-0002.bin
+
+```
+
+You can use usual Git workflow to add and commit the files.
+
+```
+$ git add .xvc dir-0001/.gitignore
+$ git commit -m "Began to track dir-0001/file-0002.bin with Xvc"
+[main [..]] Began to track dir-0001/file-0002.bin with Xvc
+ 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
+ create mode 100644 .xvc/ec/[..]
+ create mode 100644 .xvc/store/[..].json
+ create mode 100644 .xvc/store/[..].json
+ create mode 100644 .xvc/store/[..].json
+ create mode 100644 .xvc/store/[..].json
+ create mode 100644 .xvc/store/[..].json
+
+```
+
+If you never want Xvc to handle commits, you can set `git.use_git` option in
+`.xvc/config` file to false or set `XVC_git.use_git=false` in the environment. 
+
+```console
+$ XVC_git.use_git=false xvc file track dir-0001/file-0003.bin
+
+$ git status -s
+ M dir-0001/.gitignore
+?? .xvc/ec/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+?? .xvc/store/[..]
+
+```

lib/src/cli/mod.rs

@@ -382,14 +382,17 @@ pub fn dispatch(cli_opts: cli::XvcCLI) -> Result<()> {
             match xvc_root_opt {
                 Some(xvc_root) => {
                     watch!(&cli_opts.command_string);
-                    handle_git_automation(
-                        &output_snd,
-                        xvc_root,
-                        cli_opts.to_branch.as_deref(),
-                        &cli_opts.command_string,
-                    )?;
+                    if cli_opts.skip_git {
+                        debug!(output_snd, "Skipping Git operations");
+                    } else {
+                        handle_git_automation(
+                            &output_snd,
+                            xvc_root,
+                            cli_opts.to_branch.as_deref(),
+                            &cli_opts.command_string,
+                        )?;
+                    }
                 }
-
                 None => {
                     debug!(
                         output_snd,
@@ -578,7 +581,6 @@ fn git_auto_commit(
         ],
     ) {
         Ok(git_add_output) => {
-
             watch!(git_add_output);
             if git_add_output.trim().len() == 0 {
                 debug!(output_snd, "No files to commit");