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diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 00f4bab954..6ecb089c5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -293,14 +293,16 @@ also wants to get a commit message on its standard input, and it will write out the resulting object name for the commit to its standard output. -And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file. This file is -supposed to contain the reference to the top-of-tree, and since that's -exactly what `git-commit-tree` spits out, we can do this all with a simple -shell pipeline: +And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file +which is pointed at by `HEAD`. This file is supposed to contain +the reference to the top-of-tree of the master branch, and since +that's exactly what `git-commit-tree` spits out, we can do this +all with a sequence of simple shell commands: ------------------------------------------------ -echo "Initial commit" | \ - git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) > .git/refs/heads/master +tree=$(git-write-tree) +commit=$(echo 'Initial commit' | git-commit-tree $tree) +git-update-ref HEAD $(commit) ------------------------------------------------ which will say: |