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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 159de30e19..93a47b439b 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ Bisecting: 3537 revisions left to test after this If you run "git branch" at this point, you'll see that git has temporarily moved you to a new branch named "bisect". This branch points to a commit (with commit id 65934...) that is reachable from -v2.6.19 but not from v2.6.18. Compile and test it, and see whether +"master" but not from v2.6.18. Compile and test it, and see whether it crashes. Assume it does crash. Then: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -939,7 +939,7 @@ file such that it contained the given content either before or after the commit. You can find out with this: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git log --raw --abbrev=40 --pretty=oneline -- filename | +$ git log --raw --abbrev=40 --pretty=oneline | grep -B 1 `git hash-object filename` ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@ If you make a commit that you later wish you hadn't, there are two fundamentally different ways to fix the problem: 1. You can create a new commit that undoes whatever was done - by the previous commit. This is the correct thing if your + by the old commit. This is the correct thing if your mistake has already been made public. 2. You can go back and modify the old commit. You should @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ Ensuring good performance ------------------------- On large repositories, git depends on compression to keep the history -information from taking up to much space on disk or in memory. +information from taking up too much space on disk or in memory. This compression is not performed automatically. Therefore you should occasionally run gitlink:git-gc[1]: @@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ dangling tree b24c2473f1fd3d91352a624795be026d64c8841f Dangling objects are not a problem. At worst they may take up a little extra disk space. They can sometimes provide a last-resort method for recovering lost work--see <<dangling-objects>> for details. However, if -you wish, you can remove them with gitlink:git-prune[1] or the --prune +you wish, you can remove them with gitlink:git-prune[1] or the `--prune` option to gitlink:git-gc[1]: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@ Recovering lost changes Reflogs ^^^^^^^ -Say you modify a branch with gitlink:git-reset[1] --hard, and then +Say you modify a branch with `gitlink:git-reset[1] --hard`, and then realize that the branch was the only reference you had to that point in history. @@ -1585,9 +1585,9 @@ old history using, for example, $ git log master@{1} ------------------------------------------------- -This lists the commits reachable from the previous version of the head. -This syntax can be used to with any git command that accepts a commit, -not just with git log. Some other examples: +This lists the commits reachable from the previous version of the +"master" branch head. This syntax can be used with any git command +that accepts a commit, not just with git log. Some other examples: ------------------------------------------------- $ git show master@{2} # See where the branch pointed 2, @@ -1702,7 +1702,7 @@ $ git pull More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull by default from that branch. See the descriptions of the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in -gitlink:git-config[1], and the discussion of the --track option in +gitlink:git-config[1], and the discussion of the `--track` option in gitlink:git-checkout[1], to learn how to control these defaults. In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by @@ -1800,7 +1800,7 @@ $ git clone /path/to/repository $ git pull /path/to/other/repository ------------------------------------------------- -or an ssh url: +or an ssh URL: ------------------------------------------------- $ git clone ssh://yourhost/~you/repository @@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ Exporting a git repository via the git protocol This is the preferred method. If someone else administers the server, they should tell you what -directory to put the repository in, and what git:// url it will appear +directory to put the repository in, and what git:// URL it will appear at. You can then skip to the section "<<pushing-changes-to-a-public-repository,Pushing changes to a public repository>>", below. @@ -1898,8 +1898,8 @@ $ chmod a+x hooks/post-update gitlink:git-update-server-info[1], and the documentation link:hooks.html[Hooks used by git].) -Advertise the url of proj.git. Anybody else should then be able to -clone or pull from that url, for example with a command line like: +Advertise the URL of proj.git. Anybody else should then be able to +clone or pull from that URL, for example with a command line like: ------------------------------------------------- $ git clone http://yourserver.com/~you/proj.git @@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ $ git branch --track test origin/master $ git branch --track release origin/master ------------------------------------------------- -These can be easily kept up to date using gitlink:git-pull[1] +These can be easily kept up to date using gitlink:git-pull[1]. ------------------------------------------------- $ git checkout test && git pull @@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ changes are in a specific branch, use: $ git log linux..branchname | git-shortlog ------------------------------------------------- -To see whether it has already been merged into the test or release branches +To see whether it has already been merged into the test or release branches, use: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2203,12 +2203,12 @@ or $ git log release..branchname ------------------------------------------------- -(If this branch has not yet been merged you will see some log entries. +(If this branch has not yet been merged, you will see some log entries. If it has been merged, then there will be no output.) Once a patch completes the great cycle (moving from test to release, then pulled by Linus, and finally coming back into your local -"origin/master" branch) the branch for this change is no longer needed. +"origin/master" branch), the branch for this change is no longer needed. You detect this when the output from: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2470,7 +2470,7 @@ $ git rebase --continue and git will continue applying the rest of the patches. -At any point you may use the --abort option to abort this process and +At any point you may use the `--abort` option to abort this process and return mywork to the state it had before you started the rebase: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2539,9 +2539,9 @@ $ git checkout -b mywork-new origin $ gitk origin..mywork & ------------------------------------------------- -And browse through the list of patches in the mywork branch using gitk, +and browse through the list of patches in the mywork branch using gitk, applying them (possibly in a different order) to mywork-new using -cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using commit --amend. +cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using `commit --amend`. The gitlink:git-gui[1] command may also help as it allows you to individually select diff hunks for inclusion in the index (by right-clicking on the diff hunk and choosing "Stage Hunk for Commit"). @@ -2865,7 +2865,7 @@ others: - Git can quickly determine whether two objects are identical or not, just by comparing names. -- Since object names are computed the same way in ever repository, the +- Since object names are computed the same way in every repository, the same content stored in two repositories will always be stored under the same name. - Git can detect errors when it reads an object, by checking that the @@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ There are four different types of objects: "blob", "tree", "commit", and "blob" objects into a directory structure. In addition, a tree object can refer to other tree objects, thus creating a directory hierarchy. - A <<def_commit_object,"commit" object>> ties such directory hierarchies - together into a <<def_DAG,directed acyclic graph>> of revisions - each + together into a <<def_DAG,directed acyclic graph>> of revisions--each commit contains the object name of exactly one tree designating the directory hierarchy at the time of the commit. In addition, a commit refers to "parent" commit objects that describe the history of how we @@ -3155,7 +3155,7 @@ There are also other situations that cause dangling objects. For example, a "dangling blob" may arise because you did a "git add" of a file, but then, before you actually committed it and made it part of the bigger picture, you changed something else in that file and committed -that *updated* thing - the old state that you added originally ends up +that *updated* thing--the old state that you added originally ends up not being pointed to by any commit or tree, so it's now a dangling blob object. @@ -3170,7 +3170,7 @@ up pointing to them, so they end up "dangling" in your repository. Generally, dangling objects aren't anything to worry about. They can even be very useful: if you screw something up, the dangling objects can be how you recover your old tree (say, you did a rebase, and realized -that you really didn't want to - you can look at what dangling objects +that you really didn't want to--you can look at what dangling objects you have, and decide to reset your head to some old dangling state). For commits, you can just use: @@ -3214,10 +3214,10 @@ $ git prune ------------------------------------------------ and they'll be gone. But you should only run "git prune" on a quiescent -repository - it's kind of like doing a filesystem fsck recovery: you +repository--it's kind of like doing a filesystem fsck recovery: you don't want to do that while the filesystem is mounted. -(The same is true of "git-fsck" itself, btw - but since +(The same is true of "git-fsck" itself, btw, but since git-fsck never actually *changes* the repository, it just reports on what it found, git-fsck itself is never "dangerous" to run. Running it while somebody is actually changing the repository can cause @@ -3336,14 +3336,14 @@ $ git hash-object -w <recreated-file> and your repository is good again! -(Btw, you could have ignored the fsck, and started with doing a +(Btw, you could have ignored the fsck, and started with doing a ------------------------------------------------ $ git log --raw --all ------------------------------------------------ -and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b..) in that -whole thing. It's up to you - git does *have* a lot of information, it is +and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b..) in that +whole thing. It's up to you - git does *have* a lot of information, it is just missing one particular blob version. [[the-index]] @@ -3672,9 +3672,10 @@ The Workflow ------------ High-level operations such as gitlink:git-commit[1], -gitlink:git-checkout[1] and git-reset[1] work by moving data between the -working tree, the index, and the object database. Git provides -low-level operations which perform each of these steps individually. +gitlink:git-checkout[1] and gitlink:git-reset[1] work by moving data +between the working tree, the index, and the object database. Git +provides low-level operations which perform each of these steps +individually. Generally, all "git" operations work on the index file. Some operations work *purely* on the index file (showing the current state of the @@ -3729,7 +3730,7 @@ You write your current index file to a "tree" object with the program $ git write-tree ------------------------------------------------- -that doesn't come with any options - it will just write out the +that doesn't come with any options--it will just write out the current index into the set of tree objects that describe that state, and it will return the name of the resulting top-level tree. You can use that tree to re-generate the index at any time by going in the @@ -3740,7 +3741,7 @@ object database -> index ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You read a "tree" file from the object database, and use that to -populate (and overwrite - don't do this if your index contains any +populate (and overwrite--don't do this if your index contains any unsaved state that you might want to restore later!) your current index. Normal operation is just @@ -3788,7 +3789,7 @@ Tying it all together To commit a tree you have instantiated with "git-write-tree", you'd create a "commit" object that refers to that tree and the history -behind it - most notably the "parent" commits that preceded it in +behind it--most notably the "parent" commits that preceded it in history. Normally a "commit" has one parent: the previous state of the tree @@ -3931,7 +3932,7 @@ Once you know the three trees you are going to merge (the one "original" tree, aka the common tree, and the two "result" trees, aka the branches you want to merge), you do a "merge" read into the index. This will complain if it has to throw away your old index contents, so you should -make sure that you've committed those - in fact you would normally +make sure that you've committed those--in fact you would normally always do a merge against your last commit (which should thus match what you have in your current index anyway). @@ -3951,7 +3952,7 @@ Merging multiple trees, continued --------------------------------- Sadly, many merges aren't trivial. If there are files that have -been added.moved or removed, or if both branches have modified the +been added, moved or removed, or if both branches have modified the same file, you will be left with an index tree that contains "merge entries" in it. Such an index tree can 'NOT' be written out to a tree object, and you will have to resolve any such merge clashes using @@ -4203,7 +4204,7 @@ Two things are interesting here: - `get_sha1()` returns 0 on _success_. This might surprise some new Git hackers, but there is a long tradition in UNIX to return different - negative numbers in case of different errors -- and 0 on success. + negative numbers in case of different errors--and 0 on success. - the variable `sha1` in the function signature of `get_sha1()` is `unsigned char \*`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned @@ -4308,7 +4309,7 @@ $ git branch new # create branch "new" starting at current HEAD $ git branch -d new # delete branch "new" ----------------------------------------------- -Instead of basing new branch on current HEAD (the default), use: +Instead of basing a new branch on current HEAD (the default), use: ----------------------------------------------- $ git branch new test # branch named "test" |