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authorLibravatar J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-08-18 22:16:24 -0400
committerLibravatar J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-08-26 10:35:16 -0400
commita2ef9d633f67edc227b00209d5b72ec388388877 (patch)
treecb351c0b48d96624a68878a82eb542cf379af3be
parentuser-manual: minor editing for conciseness (diff)
downloadtgif-a2ef9d633f67edc227b00209d5b72ec388388877.tar.xz
user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlier
Use the word "commit" as a synonym for "version" from the start. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ contains all the information about the history of the project.
How to check out a different version of a project
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-Git is best thought of as a tool for storing the history of a
-collection of files. It stores the history as a compressed
-collection of interrelated snapshots (versions) of the project's
-contents.
+Git is best thought of as a tool for storing the history of a collection
+of files. It stores the history as a compressed collection of
+interrelated snapshots of the project's contents. In git each such
+version is called a <<def_commit,commit>>.
A single git repository may contain multiple branches. It keeps track
of them by keeping a list of <<def_head,heads>> which reference the
-latest version on each branch; the gitlink:git-branch[1] command shows
+latest commit on each branch; the gitlink:git-branch[1] command shows
you the list of branch heads:
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