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@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ gitcvs-migration - git for CVS users
SYNOPSIS
--------
-git cvsimport *
+[verse]
+'git cvsimport' *
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -47,25 +48,25 @@ them first before running git pull.
[NOTE]
================================
The 'pull' command knows where to get updates from because of certain
-configuration variables that were set by the first 'git-clone'
+configuration variables that were set by the first 'git clone'
command; see `git config -l` and the linkgit:git-config[1] man
page for details.
================================
You can update the shared repository with your changes by first committing
-your changes, and then using the 'git-push' command:
+your changes, and then using the 'git push' command:
------------------------------------------------
$ git push origin master
------------------------------------------------
to "push" those commits to the shared repository. If someone else has
-updated the repository more recently, 'git-push', like 'cvs commit', will
+updated the repository more recently, 'git push', like 'cvs commit', will
complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the
push again.
-In the 'git-push' command above we specify the name of the remote branch
-to update (`master`). If we leave that out, 'git-push' tries to update
+In the 'git push' command above we specify the name of the remote branch
+to update (`master`). If we leave that out, 'git push' tries to update
any branches in the remote repository that have the same name as a branch
in the local repository. So the last 'push' can be done with either of: