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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index cb4ec40440..896cbdf686 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ This tutorial explains how to use the "core" git programs to set up and work with a git repository. If you just need to use git as a revision control system you may prefer -to start with linkgit:gittutorial[7][a tutorial introduction to git] or -link:user-manual.html[the git user manual]. +to start with "A Tutorial Introduction to GIT" (linkgit:gittutorial[7]) or +link:user-manual.html[the GIT User Manual]. However, an understanding of these low-level tools can be helpful if you want to understand git's internals. @@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ one for a totally new project, or an existing working tree that you want to import into git. For our first example, we're going to start a totally new repository from -scratch, with no pre-existing files, and we'll call it `git-tutorial`. +scratch, with no pre-existing files, and we'll call it 'git-tutorial'. To start up, create a subdirectory for it, change into that -subdirectory, and initialize the git infrastructure with `git-init`: +subdirectory, and initialize the git infrastructure with 'git-init': ------------------------------------------------ $ mkdir git-tutorial $ cd git-tutorial -$ git-init +$ git init ------------------------------------------------ to which git will reply @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ which is just git's way of saying that you haven't been doing anything strange, and that it will have created a local `.git` directory setup for your new project. You will now have a `.git` directory, and you can -inspect that with `ls`. For your new empty project, it should show you +inspect that with 'ls'. For your new empty project, it should show you three entries, among other things: - a file called `HEAD`, that has `ref: refs/heads/master` in it. @@ -108,8 +108,7 @@ references in these `refs` subdirectories when you actually start populating your tree. [NOTE] -An advanced user may want to take a look at the -linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5][repository layout] document +An advanced user may want to take a look at linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] after finishing this tutorial. You have now created your first git repository. Of course, since it's @@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ but to actually check in your hard work, you will have to go through two steps: - commit that index file as an object. The first step is trivial: when you want to tell git about any changes -to your working tree, you use the `git-update-index` program. That +to your working tree, you use the 'git-update-index' program. That program normally just takes a list of filenames you want to update, but to avoid trivial mistakes, it refuses to add new entries to the index (or remove existing ones) unless you explicitly tell it that you're @@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ adding a new entry with the `\--add` flag (or removing an entry with the So to populate the index with the two files you just created, you can do ------------------------------------------------ -$ git-update-index --add hello example +$ git update-index --add hello example ------------------------------------------------ and you have now told git to track those two files. @@ -174,19 +173,19 @@ and see two files: which correspond with the objects with names of `557db...` and `f24c7...` respectively. -If you want to, you can use `git-cat-file` to look at those objects, but +If you want to, you can use 'git-cat-file' to look at those objects, but you'll have to use the object name, not the filename of the object: ---------------- -$ git-cat-file -t 557db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238 +$ git cat-file -t 557db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238 ---------------- -where the `-t` tells `git-cat-file` to tell you what the "type" of the +where the `-t` tells 'git-cat-file' to tell you what the "type" of the object is. git will tell you that you have a "blob" object (i.e., just a regular file), and you can see the contents with ---------------- -$ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03 +$ git cat-file "blob" 557db03 ---------------- which will print out "Hello World". The object `557db03` is nothing @@ -206,7 +205,7 @@ hexadecimal digits in most places. Anyway, as we mentioned previously, you normally never actually take a look at the objects themselves, and typing long 40-character hex names is not something you'd normally want to do. The above digression -was just to show that `git-update-index` did something magical, and +was just to show that 'git-update-index' did something magical, and actually saved away the contents of your files into the git object database. @@ -229,22 +228,22 @@ $ echo "It's a new day for git" >>hello and you can now, since you told git about the previous state of `hello`, ask git what has changed in the tree compared to your old index, using the -`git-diff-files` command: +'git-diff-files' command: ------------ -$ git-diff-files +$ git diff-files ------------ Oops. That wasn't very readable. It just spit out its own internal -version of a `diff`, but that internal version really just tells you +version of a 'diff', but that internal version really just tells you that it has noticed that "hello" has been modified, and that the old object contents it had have been replaced with something else. -To make it readable, we can tell git-diff-files to output the +To make it readable, we can tell 'git-diff-files' to output the differences as a patch, using the `-p` flag: ------------ -$ git-diff-files -p +$ git diff-files -p diff --git a/hello b/hello index 557db03..263414f 100644 --- a/hello @@ -256,11 +255,11 @@ index 557db03..263414f 100644 i.e. the diff of the change we caused by adding another line to `hello`. -In other words, `git-diff-files` always shows us the difference between +In other words, 'git-diff-files' always shows us the difference between what is recorded in the index, and what is currently in the working tree. That's very useful. -A common shorthand for `git-diff-files -p` is to just write `git +A common shorthand for `git diff-files -p` is to just write `git diff`, which will do the same thing. ------------ @@ -284,15 +283,15 @@ that in two phases: creating a 'tree' object, and committing that 'tree' object as a 'commit' object together with an explanation of what the tree was all about, along with information of how we came to that state. -Creating a tree object is trivial, and is done with `git-write-tree`. -There are no options or other input: git-write-tree will take the +Creating a tree object is trivial, and is done with 'git-write-tree'. +There are no options or other input: `git write-tree` will take the current index state, and write an object that describes that whole index. In other words, we're now tying together all the different filenames with their contents (and their permissions), and we're creating the equivalent of a git "directory" object: ------------------------------------------------ -$ git-write-tree +$ git write-tree ------------------------------------------------ and this will just output the name of the resulting tree, in this case @@ -303,34 +302,34 @@ and this will just output the name of the resulting tree, in this case ---------------- which is another incomprehensible object name. Again, if you want to, -you can use `git-cat-file -t 8988d\...` to see that this time the object +you can use `git cat-file -t 8988d\...` to see that this time the object is not a "blob" object, but a "tree" object (you can also use -`git-cat-file` to actually output the raw object contents, but you'll see +`git cat-file` to actually output the raw object contents, but you'll see mainly a binary mess, so that's less interesting). -However -- normally you'd never use `git-write-tree` on its own, because +However -- normally you'd never use 'git-write-tree' on its own, because normally you always commit a tree into a commit object using the -`git-commit-tree` command. In fact, it's easier to not actually use -`git-write-tree` on its own at all, but to just pass its result in as an -argument to `git-commit-tree`. +'git-commit-tree' command. In fact, it's easier to not actually use +'git-write-tree' on its own at all, but to just pass its result in as an +argument to 'git-commit-tree'. -`git-commit-tree` normally takes several arguments -- it wants to know +'git-commit-tree' normally takes several arguments -- it wants to know what the 'parent' of a commit was, but since this is the first commit ever in this new repository, and it has no parents, we only need to pass in -the object name of the tree. However, `git-commit-tree` also wants to get a +the object name of the tree. However, 'git-commit-tree' 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 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 +that's exactly what 'git-commit-tree' spits out, we can do this all with a sequence of simple shell commands: ------------------------------------------------ -$ tree=$(git-write-tree) -$ commit=$(echo 'Initial commit' | git-commit-tree $tree) -$ git-update-ref HEAD $commit +$ tree=$(git write-tree) +$ commit=$(echo 'Initial commit' | git commit-tree $tree) +$ git update-ref HEAD $commit ------------------------------------------------ In this case this creates a totally new commit that is not related to @@ -346,37 +345,37 @@ instead, and it would have done the above magic scripting for you. Making a change --------------- -Remember how we did the `git-update-index` on file `hello` and then we +Remember how we did the 'git-update-index' on file `hello` and then we changed `hello` afterward, and could compare the new state of `hello` with the state we saved in the index file? -Further, remember how I said that `git-write-tree` writes the contents +Further, remember how I said that 'git-write-tree' writes the contents of the *index* file to the tree, and thus what we just committed was in fact the *original* contents of the file `hello`, not the new ones. We did that on purpose, to show the difference between the index state, and the state in the working tree, and how they don't have to match, even when we commit things. -As before, if we do `git-diff-files -p` in our git-tutorial project, +As before, if we do `git diff-files -p` in our git-tutorial project, we'll still see the same difference we saw last time: the index file hasn't changed by the act of committing anything. However, now that we have committed something, we can also learn to use a new command: -`git-diff-index`. +'git-diff-index'. -Unlike `git-diff-files`, which showed the difference between the index -file and the working tree, `git-diff-index` shows the differences +Unlike 'git-diff-files', which showed the difference between the index +file and the working tree, 'git-diff-index' shows the differences between a committed *tree* and either the index file or the working -tree. In other words, `git-diff-index` wants a tree to be diffed +tree. In other words, 'git-diff-index' wants a tree to be diffed against, and before we did the commit, we couldn't do that, because we didn't have anything to diff against. But now we can do ---------------- -$ git-diff-index -p HEAD +$ git diff-index -p HEAD ---------------- -(where `-p` has the same meaning as it did in `git-diff-files`), and it +(where `-p` has the same meaning as it did in 'git-diff-files'), and it will show us the same difference, but for a totally different reason. Now we're comparing the working tree not against the index file, but against the tree we just wrote. It just so happens that those two @@ -391,16 +390,16 @@ $ git diff HEAD which ends up doing the above for you. -In other words, `git-diff-index` normally compares a tree against the +In other words, 'git-diff-index' normally compares a tree against the working tree, but when given the `\--cached` flag, it is told to instead compare against just the index cache contents, and ignore the current working tree state entirely. Since we just wrote the index -file to HEAD, doing `git-diff-index \--cached -p HEAD` should thus return +file to HEAD, doing `git diff-index \--cached -p HEAD` should thus return an empty set of differences, and that's exactly what it does. [NOTE] ================ -`git-diff-index` really always uses the index for its +'git-diff-index' really always uses the index for its comparisons, and saying that it compares a tree against the working tree is thus not strictly accurate. In particular, the list of files to compare (the "meta-data") *always* comes from the index file, @@ -423,17 +422,17 @@ work through the index file, so the first thing we need to do is to update the index cache: ------------------------------------------------ -$ git-update-index hello +$ git update-index hello ------------------------------------------------ (note how we didn't need the `\--add` flag this time, since git knew about the file already). -Note what happens to the different `git-diff-\*` versions here. After -we've updated `hello` in the index, `git-diff-files -p` now shows no -differences, but `git-diff-index -p HEAD` still *does* show that the +Note what happens to the different 'git-diff-\*' versions here. After +we've updated `hello` in the index, `git diff-files -p` now shows no +differences, but `git diff-index -p HEAD` still *does* show that the current state is different from the state we committed. In fact, now -`git-diff-index` shows the same difference whether we use the `--cached` +'git-diff-index' shows the same difference whether we use the `--cached` flag or not, since now the index is coherent with the working tree. Now, since we've updated `hello` in the index, we can commit the new @@ -461,7 +460,7 @@ You've now made your first real git commit. And if you're interested in looking at what `git commit` really does, feel free to investigate: it's a few very simple shell scripts to generate the helpful (?) commit message headers, and a few one-liners that actually do the -commit itself (`git-commit`). +commit itself ('git-commit'). Inspecting Changes @@ -469,16 +468,16 @@ Inspecting Changes While creating changes is useful, it's even more useful if you can tell later what changed. The most useful command for this is another of the -`diff` family, namely `git-diff-tree`. +'diff' family, namely 'git-diff-tree'. -`git-diff-tree` can be given two arbitrary trees, and it will tell you the +'git-diff-tree' can be given two arbitrary trees, and it will tell you the differences between them. Perhaps even more commonly, though, you can give it just a single commit object, and it will figure out the parent of that commit itself, and show the difference directly. Thus, to get the same diff that we've already seen several times, we can now do ---------------- -$ git-diff-tree -p HEAD +$ git diff-tree -p HEAD ---------------- (again, `-p` means to show the difference as a human-readable patch), @@ -519,15 +518,15 @@ various diff-\* commands compare things. +-----------+ ============ -More interestingly, you can also give `git-diff-tree` the `--pretty` flag, +More interestingly, you can also give 'git-diff-tree' the `--pretty` flag, which tells it to also show the commit message and author and date of the commit, and you can tell it to show a whole series of diffs. Alternatively, you can tell it to be "silent", and not show the diffs at all, but just show the actual commit message. -In fact, together with the `git-rev-list` program (which generates a -list of revisions), `git-diff-tree` ends up being a veritable fount of -changes. A trivial (but very useful) script called `git-whatchanged` is +In fact, together with the 'git-rev-list' program (which generates a +list of revisions), 'git-diff-tree' ends up being a veritable fount of +changes. A trivial (but very useful) script called 'git-whatchanged' is included with git which does exactly this, and shows a log of recent activities. @@ -543,7 +542,7 @@ with the associated patches use the more complex (and much more powerful) ---------------- -$ git-whatchanged -p +$ git whatchanged -p ---------------- and you will see exactly what has changed in the repository over its @@ -554,14 +553,14 @@ When using the above two commands, the initial commit will be shown. If this is a problem because it is huge, you can hide it by setting the log.showroot configuration variable to false. Having this, you can still show it for each command just adding the `\--root` option, -which is a flag for `git-diff-tree` accepted by both commands. +which is a flag for 'git-diff-tree' accepted by both commands. With that, you should now be having some inkling of what git does, and can explore on your own. [NOTE] Most likely, you are not directly using the core -git Plumbing commands, but using Porcelain such as `git-add`, `git-rm' +git Plumbing commands, but using Porcelain such as 'git-add', `git-rm' and `git-commit'. @@ -596,7 +595,7 @@ pointer to the state you want to tag, but also a small tag name and message, along with optionally a PGP signature that says that yes, you really did that tag. You create these annotated tags with either the `-a` or -`-s` flag to `git tag`: +`-s` flag to 'git-tag': ---------------- $ git tag -s <tagname> @@ -643,7 +642,7 @@ and it will be gone. There's no external repository, and there's no history outside the project you created. - if you want to move or duplicate a git repository, you can do so. There - is `git clone` command, but if all you want to do is just to + is 'git-clone' command, but if all you want to do is just to create a copy of your repository (with all the full history that went along with it), you can do so with a regular `cp -a git-tutorial new-git-tutorial`. @@ -654,31 +653,31 @@ information for the files involved) will likely need to be refreshed. So after you do a `cp -a` to create a new copy, you'll want to do + ---------------- -$ git-update-index --refresh +$ git update-index --refresh ---------------- + in the new repository to make sure that the index file is up-to-date. Note that the second point is true even across machines. You can duplicate a remote git repository with *any* regular copy mechanism, be it -`scp`, `rsync` or `wget`. +'scp', 'rsync' or 'wget'. When copying a remote repository, you'll want to at a minimum update the index cache when you do this, and especially with other peoples' repositories you often want to make sure that the index cache is in some known state (you don't know *what* they've done and not yet checked in), -so usually you'll precede the `git-update-index` with a +so usually you'll precede the 'git-update-index' with a ---------------- -$ git-read-tree --reset HEAD -$ git-update-index --refresh +$ git read-tree --reset HEAD +$ git update-index --refresh ---------------- which will force a total index re-build from the tree pointed to by `HEAD`. -It resets the index contents to `HEAD`, and then the `git-update-index` +It resets the index contents to `HEAD`, and then the 'git-update-index' makes sure to match up all index entries with the checked-out files. If the original repository had uncommitted changes in its -working tree, `git-update-index --refresh` notices them and +working tree, `git update-index --refresh` notices them and tells you they need to be updated. The above can also be written as simply @@ -690,8 +689,8 @@ $ git reset and in fact a lot of the common git command combinations can be scripted with the `git xyz` interfaces. You can learn things by just looking at what the various git scripts do. For example, `git reset` used to be -the above two lines implemented in `git-reset`, but some things like -`git status` and `git commit` are slightly more complex scripts around +the above two lines implemented in 'git-reset', but some things like +'git-status' and 'git-commit' are slightly more complex scripts around the basic git commands. Many (most?) public remote repositories will not contain any of @@ -714,7 +713,7 @@ $ rsync -rL rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ .git followed by ---------------- -$ git-read-tree HEAD +$ git read-tree HEAD ---------------- to populate the index. However, now you have populated the index, and @@ -723,14 +722,14 @@ actually have any of the working tree files to work on. To get those, you'd check them out with ---------------- -$ git-checkout-index -u -a +$ git checkout-index -u -a ---------------- where the `-u` flag means that you want the checkout to keep the index up-to-date (so that you don't have to refresh it afterward), and the `-a` flag means "check out all files" (if you have a stale copy or an older version of a checked out tree you may also need to add the `-f` -flag first, to tell git-checkout-index to *force* overwriting of any old +flag first, to tell 'git-checkout-index' to *force* overwriting of any old files). Again, this can all be simplified with @@ -777,7 +776,7 @@ to it. ================================================ If you make the decision to start your new branch at some other point in the history than the current `HEAD`, you can do so by -just telling `git checkout` what the base of the checkout would be. +just telling 'git-checkout' what the base of the checkout would be. In other words, if you have an earlier tag or branch, you'd just do ------------ @@ -820,7 +819,7 @@ $ git branch <branchname> [startingpoint] which will simply _create_ the branch, but will not do anything further. You can then later -- once you decide that you want to actually develop -on that branch -- switch to that branch with a regular `git checkout` +on that branch -- switch to that branch with a regular 'git-checkout' with the branchname as the argument. @@ -840,7 +839,7 @@ $ git commit -m "Some work." -i hello ------------------------------------------------ Here, we just added another line to `hello`, and we used a shorthand for -doing both `git-update-index hello` and `git commit` by just giving the +doing both `git update-index hello` and `git commit` by just giving the filename directly to `git commit`, with an `-i` flag (it tells git to 'include' that file in addition to what you have done to the index file so far when making the commit). The `-m` flag is to give the @@ -879,10 +878,10 @@ means: normally it will just show you your current `HEAD`) and their histories. You can also see exactly how they came to be from a common source. -Anyway, let's exit `gitk` (`^Q` or the File menu), and decide that we want +Anyway, let's exit 'gitk' (`^Q` or the File menu), and decide that we want to merge the work we did on the `mybranch` branch into the `master` branch (which is currently our `HEAD` too). To do that, there's a nice -script called `git merge`, which wants to know which branches you want +script called 'git-merge', which wants to know which branches you want to resolve and what the merge is all about: ------------ @@ -926,7 +925,7 @@ $ git commit -i hello which will very loudly warn you that you're now committing a merge (which is correct, so never mind), and you can write a small merge -message about your adventures in git-merge-land. +message about your adventures in 'git-merge'-land. After you're done, start up `gitk \--all` to see graphically what the history looks like. Notice that `mybranch` still exists, and you can @@ -939,7 +938,7 @@ Another useful tool, especially if you do not always work in X-Window environment, is `git show-branch`. ------------------------------------------------ -$ git-show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch +$ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch * [master] Merge work in mybranch ! [mybranch] Some work. -- @@ -964,14 +963,14 @@ commits from the master branch. The string inside brackets before the commit log message is a short name you can use to name the commit. In the above example, 'master' and 'mybranch' are branch heads. 'master^' is the first parent of 'master' -branch head. Please see 'git-rev-parse' documentation if you +branch head. Please see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] if you want to see more complex cases. [NOTE] Without the '--more=1' option, 'git-show-branch' would not output the '[master^]' commit, as '[mybranch]' commit is a common ancestor of -both 'master' and 'mybranch' tips. Please see 'git-show-branch' -documentation for details. +both 'master' and 'mybranch' tips. Please see linkgit:git-show-branch[1] +for details. [NOTE] If there were more commits on the 'master' branch after the merge, the @@ -982,7 +981,7 @@ merge commit visible in this case. Now, let's pretend you are the one who did all the work in `mybranch`, and the fruit of your hard work has finally been merged to the `master` branch. Let's go back to `mybranch`, and run -`git merge` to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch. +'git-merge' to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch. ------------ $ git checkout mybranch @@ -1000,14 +999,14 @@ Fast forward 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) ---------------- -Because your branch did not contain anything more than what are -already merged into the `master` branch, the merge operation did +Because your branch did not contain anything more than what had +already been merged into the `master` branch, the merge operation did not actually do a merge. Instead, it just updated the top of the tree of your branch to that of the `master` branch. This is often called 'fast forward' merge. You can run `gitk \--all` again to see how the commit ancestry -looks like, or run `show-branch`, which tells you this. +looks like, or run 'show-branch', which tells you this. ------------------------------------------------ $ git show-branch master mybranch @@ -1024,12 +1023,12 @@ Merging external work It's usually much more common that you merge with somebody else than merging with your own branches, so it's worth pointing out that git makes that very easy too, and in fact, it's not that different from -doing a `git merge`. In fact, a remote merge ends up being nothing +doing a 'git-merge'. In fact, a remote merge ends up being nothing more than "fetch the work from a remote repository into a temporary tag" -followed by a `git merge`. +followed by a 'git-merge'. Fetching from a remote repository is done by, unsurprisingly, -`git fetch`: +'git-fetch': ---------------- $ git fetch <remote-repository> @@ -1067,9 +1066,9 @@ most efficient way to exchange git objects between repositories. Local directory:: `/path/to/repo.git/` + -This transport is the same as SSH transport but uses `sh` to run +This transport is the same as SSH transport but uses 'sh' to run both ends on the local machine instead of running other end on -the remote machine via `ssh`. +the remote machine via 'ssh'. git Native:: `git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/` @@ -1096,7 +1095,7 @@ The 'commit walkers' are sometimes also called 'dumb transports', because they do not require any git aware smart server like git Native transport does. Any stock HTTP server that does not even support directory index would suffice. But -you must prepare your repository with `git-update-server-info` +you must prepare your repository with 'git-update-server-info' to help dumb transport downloaders. Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `merge` that @@ -1116,7 +1115,7 @@ argument. [NOTE] You could do without using any branches at all, by keeping as many local repositories as you would like to have -branches, and merging between them with `git pull`, just like +branches, and merging between them with 'git-pull', just like you merge between branches. The advantage of this approach is that it lets you keep a set of files for each `branch` checked out and you may find it easier to switch back and forth if you @@ -1133,7 +1132,7 @@ like this: $ git config remote.linus.url http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ ------------------------------------------------ -and use the "linus" keyword with `git pull` instead of the full URL. +and use the "linus" keyword with 'git-pull' instead of the full URL. Examples. @@ -1169,7 +1168,7 @@ $ git show-branch --more=2 master mybranch +* [master^] Some fun. ------------ -Remember, before running `git merge`, our `master` head was at +Remember, before running 'git-merge', our `master` head was at "Some fun." commit, while our `mybranch` head was at "Some work." commit. @@ -1196,10 +1195,10 @@ Now we are ready to experiment with the merge by hand. `git merge` command, when merging two branches, uses 3-way merge algorithm. First, it finds the common ancestor between them. -The command it uses is `git-merge-base`: +The command it uses is 'git-merge-base': ------------ -$ mb=$(git-merge-base HEAD mybranch) +$ mb=$(git merge-base HEAD mybranch) ------------ The command writes the commit object name of the common ancestor @@ -1209,7 +1208,7 @@ ancestor commit is the "New day." commit in this case. You can tell it by: ------------ -$ git-name-rev $mb +$ git name-rev $mb my-first-tag ------------ @@ -1217,10 +1216,10 @@ After finding out a common ancestor commit, the second step is this: ------------ -$ git-read-tree -m -u $mb HEAD mybranch +$ git read-tree -m -u $mb HEAD mybranch ------------ -This is the same `git-read-tree` command we have already seen, +This is the same 'git-read-tree' command we have already seen, but it takes three trees, unlike previous examples. This reads the contents of each tree into different 'stage' in the index file (the first tree goes to stage 1, the second to stage 2, @@ -1236,7 +1235,7 @@ trees are left in non-zero stages. At this point, you can inspect the index file with this command: ------------ -$ git-ls-files --stage +$ git ls-files --stage 100644 7f8b141b65fdcee47321e399a2598a235a032422 0 example 100644 263414f423d0e4d70dae8fe53fa34614ff3e2860 1 hello 100644 06fa6a24256dc7e560efa5687fa84b51f0263c3a 2 hello @@ -1253,7 +1252,7 @@ stages. To look at only non-zero stages, use `\--unmerged` flag: ------------ -$ git-ls-files --unmerged +$ git ls-files --unmerged 100644 263414f423d0e4d70dae8fe53fa34614ff3e2860 1 hello 100644 06fa6a24256dc7e560efa5687fa84b51f0263c3a 2 hello 100644 cc44c73eb783565da5831b4d820c962954019b69 3 hello @@ -1261,29 +1260,29 @@ $ git-ls-files --unmerged The next step of merging is to merge these three versions of the file, using 3-way merge. This is done by giving -`git-merge-one-file` command as one of the arguments to -`git-merge-index` command: +'git-merge-one-file' command as one of the arguments to +'git-merge-index' command: ------------ -$ git-merge-index git-merge-one-file hello +$ git merge-index git-merge-one-file hello Auto-merging hello. merge: warning: conflicts during merge ERROR: Merge conflict in hello. fatal: merge program failed ------------ -`git-merge-one-file` script is called with parameters to +'git-merge-one-file' script is called with parameters to describe those three versions, and is responsible to leave the merge results in the working tree. It is a fairly straightforward shell script, and -eventually calls `merge` program from RCS suite to perform a -file-level 3-way merge. In this case, `merge` detects +eventually calls 'merge' program from RCS suite to perform a +file-level 3-way merge. In this case, 'merge' detects conflicts, and the merge result with conflict marks is left in the working tree.. This can be seen if you run `ls-files --stage` again at this point: ------------ -$ git-ls-files --stage +$ git ls-files --stage 100644 7f8b141b65fdcee47321e399a2598a235a032422 0 example 100644 263414f423d0e4d70dae8fe53fa34614ff3e2860 1 hello 100644 06fa6a24256dc7e560efa5687fa84b51f0263c3a 2 hello @@ -1291,9 +1290,9 @@ $ git-ls-files --stage ------------ This is the state of the index file and the working file after -`git merge` returns control back to you, leaving the conflicting +'git-merge' returns control back to you, leaving the conflicting merge for you to resolve. Notice that the path `hello` is still -unmerged, and what you see with `git diff` at this point is +unmerged, and what you see with 'git-diff' at this point is differences since stage 2 (i.e. your version). @@ -1321,7 +1320,7 @@ how git repositories at `kernel.org` are managed. Publishing the changes from your local (private) repository to your remote (public) repository requires a write privilege on the remote machine. You need to have an SSH account there to -run a single command, `git-receive-pack`. +run a single command, 'git-receive-pack'. First, you need to create an empty repository on the remote machine that will house your public repository. This empty @@ -1330,8 +1329,8 @@ into it later. Obviously, this repository creation needs to be done only once. [NOTE] -`git push` uses a pair of programs, -`git-send-pack` on your local machine, and `git-receive-pack` +'git-push' uses a pair of programs, +'git-send-pack' on your local machine, and 'git-receive-pack' on the remote machine. The communication between the two over the network internally uses an SSH connection. @@ -1346,30 +1345,31 @@ $ mkdir my-git.git ------------ Then, make that directory into a git repository by running -`git init`, but this time, since its name is not the usual +'git-init', but this time, since its name is not the usual `.git`, we do things slightly differently: ------------ -$ GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init +$ GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init ------------ Make sure this directory is available for others you want your -changes to be pulled by via the transport of your choice. Also -you need to make sure that you have the `git-receive-pack` +changes to be pulled via the transport of your choice. Also +you need to make sure that you have the 'git-receive-pack' program on the `$PATH`. [NOTE] Many installations of sshd do not invoke your shell as the login shell when you directly run programs; what this means is that if -your login shell is `bash`, only `.bashrc` is read and not +your login shell is 'bash', only `.bashrc` is read and not `.bash_profile`. As a workaround, make sure `.bashrc` sets up -`$PATH` so that you can run `git-receive-pack` program. +`$PATH` so that you can run 'git-receive-pack' program. [NOTE] If you plan to publish this repository to be accessed over http, -you should do `chmod +x my-git.git/hooks/post-update` at this -point. This makes sure that every time you push into this -repository, `git-update-server-info` is run. +you should do `mv my-git.git/hooks/post-update.sample +my-git.git/hooks/post-update` at this point. +This makes sure that every time you push into this +repository, `git update-server-info` is run. Your "public repository" is now ready to accept your changes. Come back to the machine you have your private repository. From @@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ $ git repack will do it for you. If you followed the tutorial examples, you would have accumulated about 17 objects in `.git/objects/??/` -directories by now. `git repack` tells you how many objects it +directories by now. 'git-repack' tells you how many objects it packed, and stores the packed file in `.git/objects/pack` directory. @@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ them together. The former holds all the data from the objects in the pack, and the latter holds the index for random access. -If you are paranoid, running `git-verify-pack` command would +If you are paranoid, running 'git-verify-pack' command would detect if you have a corrupt pack, but do not worry too much. Our programs are always perfect ;-). @@ -1487,18 +1487,18 @@ A recommended workflow for a "project lead" goes like this: If other people are pulling from your repository over dumb transport protocols (HTTP), you need to keep this repository 'dumb transport friendly'. After `git init`, -`$GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update` copied from the standard templates -would contain a call to `git-update-server-info` but the -`post-update` hook itself is disabled by default -- enable it -with `chmod +x post-update`. This makes sure `git-update-server-info` -keeps the necessary files up-to-date. +`$GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update.sample` copied from the standard templates +would contain a call to 'git-update-server-info' +but you need to manually enable the hook with +`mv post-update.sample post-update`. This makes sure +'git-update-server-info' keeps the necessary files up-to-date. 3. Push into the public repository from your primary repository. -4. `git repack` the public repository. This establishes a big +4. 'git-repack' the public repository. This establishes a big pack that contains the initial set of objects as the - baseline, and possibly `git prune` if the transport + baseline, and possibly 'git-prune' if the transport used for pulling from your repository supports packed repositories. @@ -1512,14 +1512,14 @@ You can repack this private repository whenever you feel like. 6. Push your changes to the public repository, and announce it to the public. -7. Every once in a while, "git repack" the public repository. +7. Every once in a while, 'git-repack' the public repository. Go back to step 5. and continue working. A recommended work cycle for a "subsystem maintainer" who works on that project and has an own "public repository" goes like this: -1. Prepare your work repository, by `git clone` the public +1. Prepare your work repository, by 'git-clone' the public repository of the "project lead". The URL used for the initial cloning is stored in the remote.origin.url configuration variable. @@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ on that project and has an own "public repository" goes like this: point at the repository you are borrowing from. 4. Push into the public repository from your primary - repository. Run `git repack`, and possibly `git prune` if the + repository. Run 'git-repack', and possibly 'git-prune' if the transport used for pulling from your repository supports packed repositories. @@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ like. "project lead" and possibly your "sub-subsystem maintainers" to pull from it. -7. Every once in a while, `git repack` the public repository. +7. Every once in a while, 'git-repack' the public repository. Go back to step 5. and continue working. @@ -1559,7 +1559,7 @@ A recommended work cycle for an "individual developer" who does not have a "public" repository is somewhat different. It goes like this: -1. Prepare your work repository, by `git clone` the public +1. Prepare your work repository, by 'git-clone' the public repository of the "project lead" (or a "subsystem maintainer", if you work on a subsystem). The URL used for the initial cloning is stored in the remote.origin.url @@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ suggested in the previous section may be new to you. You do not have to worry. git supports "shared public repository" style of cooperation you are probably more familiar with as well. -See linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7][git for CVS users] for the details. +See linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7] for the details. Bundling your work together --------------------------- @@ -1656,9 +1656,9 @@ branch before these two merges by resetting it to 'master~2': $ git reset --hard master~2 ------------ -You can make sure 'git show-branch' matches the state before -those two 'git merge' you just did. Then, instead of running -two 'git merge' commands in a row, you would merge these two +You can make sure `git show-branch` matches the state before +those two 'git-merge' you just did. Then, instead of running +two 'git-merge' commands in a row, you would merge these two branch heads (this is known as 'making an Octopus'): ------------ @@ -1690,8 +1690,10 @@ to follow, not easier. SEE ALSO -------- -linkgit:gittutorial[7], linkgit:gittutorial-2[7], -linkgit:giteveryday[7], linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7], +linkgit:gittutorial[7], +linkgit:gittutorial-2[7], +linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7], +link:everyday.html[Everyday git], link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT |