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diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index ed3ddc92cb..5e9c5ebba3 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ An 'object' is identified by its 160-bit SHA1 hash, aka 'object name', and a reference to an object is always the 40-byte hex representation of that SHA1 name. The files in the `refs` subdirectory are expected to contain these hex references -(usually with a final `\'\n\'` at the end), and you should thus +(usually with a final `\n` at the end), and you should thus expect to see a number of 41-byte files containing these references in these `refs` subdirectories when you actually start populating your tree. @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ 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 mainly a binary mess, so that's less interesting). @@ -436,8 +436,8 @@ $ 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 +Note what happens to the different 'git diff-{asterisk}' 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` @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ and it will show what the last commit (in `HEAD`) actually changed. [NOTE] ============ Here is an ASCII art by Jon Loeliger that illustrates how -various diff-\* commands compare things. +various 'diff-{asterisk}' commands compare things. diff-tree +----+ @@ -958,11 +958,11 @@ $ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches and the first line of the commit log message from their top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch -(notice the asterisk `\*` character), and the first column for +(notice the asterisk `{asterisk}` character), and the first column for the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the `master` branch, and the second column for the `mybranch` branch. Three commits are shown along with their log messages. -All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`*` +All of them have non blank characters in the first column (`{asterisk}` shows an ordinary commit on the current branch, `-` is a merge commit), which means they are now part of the `master` branch. Only the "Some work" commit has the plus `+` character in the second column, @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ Downloader from http and https URL first obtains the topmost commit object name from the remote site by looking at the specified refname under `repo.git/refs/` directory, and then tries to obtain the -commit object by downloading from `repo.git/objects/xx/xxx\...` +commit object by downloading from `repo.git/objects/xx/xxx...` using the object name of that commit object. Then it reads the commit object to find out its parent commits and the associate tree object; it repeats this process until it gets all the @@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ packed, and stores the packed file in `.git/objects/pack` directory. [NOTE] -You will see two files, `pack-\*.pack` and `pack-\*.idx`, +You will see two files, `pack-{asterisk}.pack` and `pack-{asterisk}.idx`, in `.git/objects/pack` directory. They are closely related to each other, and if you ever copy them by hand to a different repository for whatever reason, you should make sure you copy |