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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index e831cc2020..fe723e4722 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -57,17 +57,17 @@ download a copy of an existing repository. If you don't already have a project in mind, here are some interesting examples: ------------------------------------------------ - # Git itself (approx. 10MB download): + # Git itself (approx. 40MB download): $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git - # the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download): -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git + # the Linux kernel (approx. 640MB download): +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ------------------------------------------------ The initial clone may be time-consuming for a large project, but you will only need to clone once. -The clone command creates a new directory named after the project (`git` -or `linux-2.6` in the examples above). After you cd into this +The clone command creates a new directory named after the project +(`git` or `linux` in the examples above). After you cd into this directory, you will see that it contains a copy of the project files, called the <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, together with a special top-level directory named `.git`, which contains all the information @@ -431,19 +431,25 @@ You can also track branches from repositories other than the one you cloned from, using linkgit:git-remote[1]: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git remote add linux-nfs git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git -$ git fetch linux-nfs -* refs/remotes/linux-nfs/master: storing branch 'master' ... - commit: bf81b46 +$ git remote add staging git://git.kernel.org/.../gregkh/staging.git +$ git fetch staging +... +From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging + * [new branch] master -> staging/master + * [new branch] staging-linus -> staging/staging-linus + * [new branch] staging-next -> staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- New remote-tracking branches will be stored under the shorthand name -that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `linux-nfs`: +that you gave `git remote add`, in this case `staging`: ------------------------------------------------- $ git branch -r -linux-nfs/master -origin/master + origin/HEAD -> origin/master + origin/master + staging/master + staging/staging-linus + staging/staging-next ------------------------------------------------- If you run `git fetch <remote>` later, the remote-tracking branches @@ -455,9 +461,9 @@ a new stanza: ------------------------------------------------- $ cat .git/config ... -[remote "linux-nfs"] - url = git://linux-nfs.org/pub/nfs-2.6.git - fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-nfs/* +[remote "staging"] + url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git + fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/staging/* ... ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1835,7 +1841,7 @@ Once the index is updated with the results of the conflict resolution, instead of creating a new commit, just run ------------------------------------------------- -$ git am --resolved +$ git am --continue ------------------------------------------------- and Git will create the commit for you and continue applying the @@ -2156,7 +2162,7 @@ To set this up, first create your work tree by cloning Linus's public tree: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git work +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git work $ cd work ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2198,7 +2204,7 @@ make it easy to push both branches to your public tree. (See ------------------------------------------------- $ cat >> .git/config <<EOF [remote "mytree"] - url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git + url = master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git push = release push = test EOF @@ -4256,15 +4262,16 @@ no longer need to call `setup_pager()` directly). Nowadays, `git log` is a builtin, which means that it is _contained_ in the command `git`. The source side of a builtin is -- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin-<bla>.c`, - and declared in `builtin.h`, +- a function called `cmd_<bla>`, typically defined in `builtin/<bla.c>` + (note that older versions of Git used to have it in `builtin-<bla>.c` + instead), and declared in `builtin.h`. - an entry in the `commands[]` array in `git.c`, and - an entry in `BUILTIN_OBJECTS` in the `Makefile`. Sometimes, more than one builtin is contained in one source file. For -example, `cmd_whatchanged()` and `cmd_log()` both reside in `builtin-log.c`, +example, `cmd_whatchanged()` and `cmd_log()` both reside in `builtin/log.c`, since they share quite a bit of code. In that case, the commands which are _not_ named like the `.c` file in which they live have to be listed in `BUILT_INS` in the `Makefile`. @@ -4287,10 +4294,10 @@ For the sake of clarity, let's stay with `git cat-file`, because it - is plumbing, and - was around even in the initial commit (it literally went only through - some 20 revisions as `cat-file.c`, was renamed to `builtin-cat-file.c` + some 20 revisions as `cat-file.c`, was renamed to `builtin/cat-file.c` when made a builtin, and then saw less than 10 versions). -So, look into `builtin-cat-file.c`, search for `cmd_cat_file()` and look what +So, look into `builtin/cat-file.c`, search for `cmd_cat_file()` and look what it does. ------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -4366,7 +4373,7 @@ Another example: Find out what to do in order to make some script a builtin: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git log --no-merges --diff-filter=A builtin-*.c +$ git log --no-merges --diff-filter=A builtin/*.c ------------------------------------------------- You see, Git is actually the best tool to find out about the source of Git @@ -4668,5 +4675,5 @@ Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts. Alternates, clone -reference, etc. More on recovery from repository corruption. See: - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=117263864820799&w=2 - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=117147855503798&w=2 + http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117263864820799&w=2 + http://marc.info/?l=git&m=117147855503798&w=2 |