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| author |  Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> | 2013-01-21 20:17:53 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-01 13:53:33 -0800 |
| commit | 2de9b71138171dca7279db3b3fe67e868c76d921 (patch) | |
| tree | 09cc74f510322f4f1241cd11a374490bc32d5aa3 /Documentation/git-archimport.txt | |
| parent | Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT (diff) | |
| download | tgif-2de9b71138171dca7279db3b3fe67e868c76d921.tar.xz | |
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-archimport.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-archimport.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index f4504ba9bf..163b9f6f41 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archimport(1) NAME ---- -git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git +git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into Git SYNOPSIS @@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ directory. To follow the development of a project that uses Arch, rerun incremental imports. While 'git archimport' will try to create sensible branch names for the -archives that it imports, it is also possible to specify git branch names -manually. To do so, write a git branch name after each <archive/branch> +archives that it imports, it is also possible to specify Git branch names +manually. To do so, write a Git branch name after each <archive/branch> parameter, separated by a colon. This way, you can shorten the Arch -branch names and convert Arch jargon to git jargon, for example mapping a +branch names and convert Arch jargon to Git jargon, for example mapping a "PROJECT{litdd}devo{litdd}VERSION" branch to "master". -Associating multiple Arch branches to one git branch is possible; the +Associating multiple Arch branches to one Git branch is possible; the result will make the most sense only if no commits are made to the first branch, after the second branch is created. Still, this is useful to convert Arch repositories that had been rotated periodically. @@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ convert Arch repositories that had been rotated periodically. MERGES ------ -Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git +Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in Git as well. Git does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result -is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the +is that Git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the import process does lose some patch-trading metadata. Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch, -git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying +Git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches. OPTIONS |