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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-05 16:13:32 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-05 16:13:32 -0800 |
commit | e34c7e2b51c02a761a034b877b852dc0dbccf101 (patch) | |
tree | 2c80451e27d6fda5c0745270fee17da9e7bc2d1e /Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt | |
parent | Merge branch 'jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs' (diff) | |
parent | Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT (diff) | |
download | tgif-e34c7e2b51c02a761a034b877b852dc0dbccf101.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ta/doc-no-small-caps'
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git". The latter was the intended spelling.
Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.
* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt index 9f628862b4..f0eef765b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt @@ -12,12 +12,24 @@ $GIT_DIR/* DESCRIPTION ----------- -You may find these things in your git repository (`.git` -directory for a repository associated with your working tree, or -`<project>.git` directory for a public 'bare' repository. It is -also possible to have a working tree where `.git` is a plain -ASCII file containing `gitdir: <path>`, i.e. the path to the -real git repository). +A Git repository comes in two different flavours: + + * a `.git` directory at the root of the working tree; + + * a `<project>.git` directory that is a 'bare' repository + (i.e. without its own working tree), that is typically used for + exchanging histories with others by pushing into it and fetching + from it. + +*Note*: Also you can have a plain text file `.git` at the root of +your working tree, containing `gitdir: <path>` to point at the real +directory that has the repository. This mechanism is often used for +a working tree of a submodule checkout, to allow you in the +containing superproject to `git checkout` a branch that does not +have the submodule. The `checkout` has to remove the entire +submodule working tree, without losing the submodule repository. + +These things may exist in a Git repository. objects:: Object store associated with this repository. Usually @@ -108,7 +120,7 @@ HEAD:: A symref (see glossary) to the `refs/heads/` namespace describing the currently active branch. It does not mean much if the repository is not associated with any working tree - (i.e. a 'bare' repository), but a valid git repository + (i.e. a 'bare' repository), but a valid Git repository *must* have the HEAD file; some porcelains may use it to guess the designated "default" branch of the repository (usually 'master'). It is legal if the named branch @@ -131,7 +143,7 @@ branches:: and not likely to be found in modern repositories. hooks:: - Hooks are customization scripts used by various git + Hooks are customization scripts used by various Git commands. A handful of sample hooks are installed when 'git init' is run, but all of them are disabled by default. To enable, the `.sample` suffix has to be @@ -169,7 +181,7 @@ info/exclude:: This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the exclude pattern list. `.gitignore` is the per-directory ignore file. 'git status', 'git add', 'git rm' and - 'git clean' look at it but the core git commands do not look + 'git clean' look at it but the core Git commands do not look at it. See also: linkgit:gitignore[5]. remotes:: |