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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-01-15 21:12:12 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-01-15 21:12:12 -0800
commit7cb038a692ec0bdc0f442380678e8e87e26d4e68 (patch)
treebb1b80cca9e3d46d87dec7f150d4b9cf11b1ead7 /Documentation
parentdescribe: do not silently ignore indescribable commits (diff)
parentdiffcore-break/diffcore-rename: integer overflow. (diff)
downloadtgif-7cb038a692ec0bdc0f442380678e8e87e26d4e68.tar.xz
Merge branch 'fixo/1.0'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reset.txt27
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt6
4 files changed, 43 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index e0ff74f648..e35984dfc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ information.
OPTIONS
-------
-a|--all::
- Update all paths in the index file.
+ Update all paths in the index file. This flag notices
+ files that have been modified and deleted, but new files
+ you have not told about git are not affected.
-c or -C <commit>::
Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index c6a269b7ef..315683a6d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -145,6 +145,32 @@ brings your index file and the working tree back to that state,
and resets the tip of the branch to that commit.
------------
+Interrupted workflow::
++
+You can get interrupted by an ungent fix request while you are
+still in the middle of a large change. The files in your
+working tree are not in any shape to be committed yet, but you
+need to get to the other branch for a quick bugfix.
++
+------------
+$ git checkout feature ;# you were working in "feature" branch and
+$ work work work ;# got interrupted
+$ git commit -a -m 'snapshot WIP' <1>
+$ git checkout master
+$ fix fix fix
+$ git commit ;# commit with real log
+$ git checkout feature
+$ git reset --soft HEAD^ ;# go back to WIP state <2>
+$ git reset <3>
+
+<1> This commit will get blown away so a throw-away log message is OK.
+<2> This removes the 'WIP' commit from the commit history, and makes
+ your working tree in the state just before you made that snapshot.
+<3> After <2>, the index file still has all the WIP changes you
+ committed in <1>. This sets it to the last commit you were
+ basing the WIP changes on.
+------------
+
Author
------
Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -156,4 +182,3 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
---
Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
index 2331be5a71..02a9d9c18a 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -111,6 +111,17 @@ branch::
a particular revision, which is called the branch head. The
branch heads are stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`.
+master::
+ The default branch. Whenever you create a git repository, a branch
+ named "master" is created, and becomes the active branch. In most
+ cases, this contains the local development.
+
+origin::
+ The default upstream branch. Most projects have one upstream
+ project which they track, and by default 'origin' is used for
+ that purpose. New updates from upstream will be fetched into
+ this branch; you should never commit to it yourself.
+
ref::
A 40-byte hex representation of a SHA1 pointing to a particular
object. These may be stored in `$GIT_DIR/refs/`.
diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index b5b979242c..4524fee6f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ is often useful.
+
Some short-cut notations are also supported.
+
-* For backward compatibility, `tag` is almost ignored;
- it just makes the following parameter <tag> to mean a
- refspec `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
+* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
+ used with pull or fetch, it requests fetching everything up to
+ the given tag.
* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
<ref>: when pulling/fetching, and <ref>`:`<ref> when
pushing. That is, do not store it locally if