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diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt index 02bdd6f446..57436f0078 100644 --- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Git for CVS users +git for CVS users ================= Ok, so you're a CVS user. That's ok, it's a treatable condition, and the @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ you are reading this file means that you may be well on that path already. The thing about CVS is that it absolutely sucks as a source control -manager, and you'll thus be happy with almost anything else. Git, +manager, and you'll thus be happy with almost anything else. git, however, may be a bit 'too' different (read: "good") for your taste, and does a lot of things differently. @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ One particular suckage of CVS is very hard to work around: CVS is basically a tool for tracking 'file' history, while git is a tool for tracking 'project' history. This sometimes causes problems if you are used to doing very strange things in CVS, in particular if you're doing -things like making branches of just a subset of the project. Git can't +things like making branches of just a subset of the project. git can't track that, since git never tracks things on the level of an individual file, only on the whole project level. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ and notes on converting from CVS to git. Second: CVS has the notion of a "repository" as opposed to the thing that you're actually working in (your working directory, or your -"checked out tree"). Git does not have that notion at all, and all git +"checked out tree"). git does not have that notion at all, and all git working directories 'are' the repositories. However, you can easily emulate the CVS model by having one special "global repository", which people can synchronize with. See details later, but in the meantime @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ gone through the git tutorial, and generally familiarized yourself with how to commit stuff etc in git) is to create a git'ified version of your CVS archive. -Happily, that's very easy indeed. Git will do it for you, although git +Happily, that's very easy indeed. git will do it for you, although git will need the help of a program called "cvsps": http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/ @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ technically possible, and there are at least two specialized scripts out there that can be used to get equivalent information (see the git mailing list archives for details). -Git has a couple of alternatives, though, that you may find sufficient +git has a couple of alternatives, though, that you may find sufficient or even superior depending on your use. One is called "git-whatchanged" (for obvious reasons) and the other one is called "pickaxe" ("a tool for the software archeologist"). @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ show anything for commits that do not touch this "if" statement. Also, in the original context, the same statement might have appeared at first in a different file and later the file was renamed to "a-file.c". CVS annotate would not help you to go -back across such a rename, but GIT would still help you in such +back across such a rename, but git would still help you in such a situation. For that, you can give the -C flag to git-diff-tree, like this: diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index dacd8fb534..bfe634dcd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ For a path that is unmerged, 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' is called with 1 parameter, <path>. -Git specific extension to diff format +git specific extension to diff format ------------------------------------- What -p option produces is slightly different from the diff --git a/Documentation/diffcore.txt b/Documentation/diffcore.txt index 9d20a4ff19..7c2168a992 100644 --- a/Documentation/diffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/diffcore.txt @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ pattern. Filepairs that match a glob pattern on an earlier line in the file are output before ones that match a later line, and filepairs that do not match any glob pattern are output last. -As an example, typical orderfile for the core GIT probably +As an example, typical orderfile for the core git probably would look like this: ------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 5e157ac7cd..61d9dacc6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-apply(1) NAME ---- -git-apply - Apply patch on a GIT index file and a work tree +git-apply - Apply patch on a git index file and a work tree SYNOPSIS diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index b6793cf55e..fcda0125af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archimport(1) NAME ---- -git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into GIT +git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git SYNOPSIS @@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ incremental imports. MERGES ------ -Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in GIT as well. GIT +Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result -is that GIT will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the +is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the import process does lose some patch-trading metadata. Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch, -GIT will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying +git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches. OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt index 1fb5280772..87c0e460d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ OPTIONS remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignore the user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and - your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system + your privately installed git may not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive diff --git a/Documentation/git-convert-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-convert-objects.txt index e6bda270cd..b1220c06e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-convert-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-convert-objects.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-convert-objects(1) NAME ---- -git-convert-objects - Converts old-style GIT repository +git-convert-objects - Converts old-style git repository SYNOPSIS @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Converts old-style GIT repository to the latest format +Converts old-style git repository to the latest format Author diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 4cae8b85b8..f5248c91cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-cvsimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] [ -d <CVSROOT> ] [ -p <options-for-cvsps> ] - [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -k ] + [ -C <git_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -k ] [ -s <subst> ] [ -m ] [ -M regex ] [ <CVS_module> ] @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ OPTIONS are supported. -C <target-dir>:: - The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't + The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. -i:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt index 065f2aa721..a013a58a7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-daemon.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-daemon(1) NAME ---- -git-daemon - A really simple server for GIT repositories. +git-daemon - A really simple server for git repositories. SYNOPSIS -------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt index a996b8f4f3..ea6faab059 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ OPTIONS remote side, if is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and - your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system + your privately installed git may not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck-objects.txt index 8f76acf161..5dc9dbdd78 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fsck-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fsck-objects.txt @@ -41,22 +41,22 @@ index file and all SHA1 references in .git/refs/* as heads. ($GIT_DIR/objects), making sure that it is consistent and complete without referring to objects found in alternate object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES, - nor packed GIT archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack; + nor packed git archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack; cannot be used with --full. --full:: Check not just objects in GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY ($GIT_DIR/objects), but also the ones found in alternate object pools listed in GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES, - and in packed GIT archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack + and in packed git archives found in $GIT_DIR/objects/pack and corresponding pack subdirectories in alternate object pools; cannot be used with --standalone. --strict:: Enable more strict checking, namely to catch a file mode recorded with g+w bit set, which was created by older - versions of GIT. Existing repositories, including the - Linux kernel, GIT itself, and sparse repository have old + versions of git. Existing repositories, including the + Linux kernel, git itself, and sparse repository have old objects that triggers this check, but it is recommended to check new projects with this flag. @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Any corrupt objects you will have to find in backups or other archives the hopes that somebody else has the object you have corrupted). Of course, "valid tree" doesn't mean that it wasn't generated by some -evil person, and the end result might be crap. Git is a revision +evil person, and the end result might be crap. git is a revision tracking system, not a quality assurance system ;) Extracted Diagnostics diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt index d7b5919e1b..088624f6cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-http-fetch(1) NAME ---- -git-http-fetch - Downloads a remote GIT repository via HTTP +git-http-fetch - Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP SYNOPSIS @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Downloads a remote GIT repository via HTTP. +Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP. -c:: Get the commit objects. diff --git a/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt index afd400a8af..87abec1c4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-local-fetch(1) NAME ---- -git-local-fetch - Duplicates another GIT repository on a local system +git-local-fetch - Duplicates another git repository on a local system SYNOPSIS @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Duplicates another GIT repository on a local system. +Duplicates another git repository on a local system. OPTIONS ------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt index 694c787df1..caf5d0d1ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ transport by their peers. Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) -enables GIT to read from such an archive. +enables git to read from such an archive. OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-peek-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-peek-remote.txt index bd5a8817c3..915d3f8a06 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-peek-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-peek-remote.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ OPTIONS remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH. Some installations of sshd ignores the user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and - your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system + your privately installed git may not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag is for people who do not want to pay the overhead for non-interactive diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 99fd90e376..694f3a09d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ what is called an 'extended SHA1' syntax. * A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you happen to have both heads/master and tags/master, you can - explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell GIT which one you mean. + explicitly say 'heads/master' to tell git which one you mean. * A suffix '{caret}' to a revision parameter means the first parent of that commit object. '{caret}<n>' means the <n>th parent (i.e. diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt index 9605d676b0..be09b62beb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-index.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads given idx file for packed GIT archive created with +Reads given idx file for packed git archive created with git-pack-objects command, and dumps its contents. The information it outputs is subset of what you can get from diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt index 9b3946614f..cd74ffd391 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-verify-pack.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-verify-pack(1) NAME ---- -git-verify-pack - Validate packed GIT archive files. +git-verify-pack - Validate packed git archive files. SYNOPSIS @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads given idx file for packed GIT archive created with +Reads given idx file for packed git archive created with git-pack-objects command and verifies idx file and the corresponding pack file. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index f8dd76ac24..243c00a178 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ gitlink:git-var[1]:: Displays a git logical variable gitlink:git-verify-pack[1]:: - Validates packed GIT archive files + Validates packed git archive files The interrogate commands may create files - and you can force them to touch the working file set - but in general they don't @@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ gitlink:git-fetch-pack[1]:: Updates from a remote repository. gitlink:git-http-fetch[1]:: - Downloads a remote GIT repository via HTTP + Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP Previously this command was known as git-http-pull. gitlink:git-local-fetch[1]:: - Duplicates another GIT repository on a local system + Duplicates another git repository on a local system Previously this command was known as git-local-pull. gitlink:git-peek-remote[1]:: @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ gitlink:git-archimport[1]:: Previously this command was known as git-archimport-script. gitlink:git-convert-objects[1]:: - Converts old-style GIT repository + Converts old-style git repository Previously this command was known as git-convert-cache. gitlink:git-cvsimport[1]:: @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ gitlink:git-count-objects[1]:: Previously this command was known as git-count-objects-script. gitlink:git-daemon[1]:: - A really simple server for GIT repositories. + A really simple server for git repositories. gitlink:git-get-tar-commit-id[1]:: Extract commit ID from an archive created using git-tar-tree. diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt index a069b7bb0c..eb7b471024 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ object:: - The unit of storage in GIT. It is uniquely identified by + The unit of storage in git. It is uniquely identified by the SHA1 of its contents. Consequently, an object can not be changed. diff --git a/Documentation/hooks.txt b/Documentation/hooks.txt index c324e17db0..7ee3571bc0 100644 --- a/Documentation/hooks.txt +++ b/Documentation/hooks.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Hooks used by GIT +Hooks used by git ================= Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks` diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 8dbddbf63f..51222b6f3f 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ =============================================================== - Rsync URL: rsync://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ - HTTP(s) URL: http://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ -- GIT URL: git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ +- git URL: git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/ or remote.machine:/path/to/repo.git/ - Local directory: /path/to/repo.git/ =============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt index 352253555f..1b5f228241 100644 --- a/Documentation/repository-layout.txt +++ b/Documentation/repository-layout.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GIT repository layout +git repository layout ===================== You may find these things in your git repository (`.git` @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ info/grafts:: info/exclude:: This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the exclude pattern list. `git status` looks at it, but - otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core GIT + otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core git commands. remotes:: diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 619acc48bb..19da3e243e 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ you'll have to use the object name, not the filename of the object: git-cat-file -t 557db03de997c86a4a028e1ebd3a1ceb225be238 where the `-t` tells `git-cat-file` to tell you what the "type" of the -object is. Git will tell you that you have a "blob" object (ie just a +object is. git will tell you that you have a "blob" object (ie just a regular file), and you can see the contents with git-cat-file "blob" 557db03 @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ come from the working tree or not. This is not hard to understand, as soon as you realize that git simply never knows (or cares) about files that it is not told about -explicitly. Git will never go *looking* for files to compare, it +explicitly. git will never go *looking* for files to compare, it expects you to tell it what the files are, and that's what the index is there for. ================ @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ name for the state at that point. Copying repositories -------------------- -Git repositories are normally totally self-sufficient, and it's worth noting +git repositories are normally totally self-sufficient, and it's worth noting that unlike CVS, for example, there is no separate notion of "repository" and "working tree". A git repository normally *is* the working tree, with the local git information hidden in the `.git` @@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ This transport is the same as SSH transport but uses `sh` to run both ends on the local machine instead of running other end on the remote machine via `ssh`. -GIT Native:: +git Native:: `git://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/` + This transport was designed for anonymous downloading. Like SSH @@ -971,13 +971,13 @@ necessary objects. Because of this behaviour, they are sometimes also called 'commit walkers'. + The 'commit walkers' are sometimes also called 'dumb -transports', because they do not require any GIT aware smart -server like GIT Native transport does. Any stock HTTP server +transports', because they do not require any git aware smart +server like git Native transport does. Any stock HTTP server would suffice. + There are (confusingly enough) `git-ssh-fetch` and `git-ssh-upload` programs, which are 'commit walkers'; they outlived their -usefulness when GIT Native and SSH transports were introduced, +usefulness when git Native and SSH transports were introduced, and not used by `git pull` or `git push` scripts. Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `resolve` that @@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ done only once. on the remote machine. The communication between the two over the network internally uses an SSH connection. -Your private repository's GIT directory is usually `.git`, but +Your private repository's git directory is usually `.git`, but your public repository is often named after the project name, i.e. `<project>.git`. Let's create such a public repository for project `my-git`. After logging into the remote machine, create @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ an empty directory: mkdir my-git.git -Then, make that directory into a GIT repository by running +Then, make that directory into a git repository by running `git init-db`, but this time, since its name is not the usual `.git`, we do things slightly differently: |