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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 2ae88c575d..96af8977f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ People needing to do actual development will also want to read Further chapters cover more specialized topics. Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man -pages. For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use +pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command. For example, for the command +"git clone <repo>", you can either use: ------------------------------------------------ $ man git-clone ------------------------------------------------ +or: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git help clone +------------------------------------------------ + +With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see +linkgit:git-help[1] for more information. + See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands, without any explanation. @@ -49,7 +59,7 @@ project in mind, here are some interesting examples: ------------------------------------------------ # git itself (approx. 10MB download): $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git - # the linux kernel (approx. 150MB download): + # the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download): $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git ------------------------------------------------ @@ -999,7 +1009,7 @@ $ git init If you have some initial content (say, a tarball): ------------------------------------------------- -$ tar -xzvf project.tar.gz +$ tar xzvf project.tar.gz $ cd project $ git init $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit: @@ -1330,7 +1340,7 @@ These will display all commits which exist only on HEAD or on MERGE_HEAD, and which touch an unmerged file. You may also use linkgit:git-mergetool[1], which lets you merge the -unmerged files using external tools such as emacs or kdiff3. +unmerged files using external tools such as Emacs or kdiff3. Each time you resolve the conflicts in a file and update the index: @@ -4356,7 +4366,9 @@ $ git remote show example # get details * remote example URL: git://example.com/project.git Tracked remote branches - master next ... + master + next + ... $ git fetch example # update branches from example $ git branch -r # list all remote branches ----------------------------------------------- |