diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index cff5f795bc..9e34146e3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ reflect recent changes. Commands Overview ----------------- The git commands can helpfully be split into those that manipulate -the repository, the cache and the working fileset and those that -interrogate and compare them. +the repository, the cache and the working fileset, those that +interrogate and compare them, and those that moves objects and +references between repositories. There are also some ancilliary programs that can be viewed as useful aids for using the core commands but which are unlikely to be used by @@ -117,16 +118,6 @@ The interrogate commands may create files - and you can force them to touch the working file set - but in general they don't -Ancilliary Commands -------------------- -Manipulators: - -link:git-apply-patch-script.html[git-apply-patch-script]:: - Sample script to apply the diffs from git-diff-* - -link:git-convert-cache.html[git-convert-cache]:: - Converts old-style GIT repository - link:git-clone-script.html[git-clone-script]:: Clones a repository into the current repository (user interface) @@ -134,18 +125,49 @@ link:git-clone-pack.html[git-clone-pack]:: Clones a repository into the current repository (engine for ssh and local transport) +link:git-pull-script.html[git-pull-script]:: + Pull from a repote repository via various protocols + (user interface). + link:git-http-pull.html[git-http-pull]:: Downloads a remote GIT repository via HTTP link:git-local-pull.html[git-local-pull]:: Duplicates another GIT repository on a local system +link:git-ssh-pull.html[git-ssh-pull]:: + Pulls from a remote repository over ssh connection + +link:git-send-pack.html[git-send-pack]:: + Pushes to a remote repository, intelligently. + +link:git-receive-pack.html[git-receive-pack]:: + Invoked by 'git-send-pack' to receive what is pushed to it. + +link:git-clone-pack.html[git-clone-pack]:: + Clones from a remote repository. + +link:git-fetch-pack.html[git-fetch-pack]:: + Updates from a remote repository. + +link:git-upload-pack.html[git-upload-pack]:: + Invoked by 'git-clone-pack' and 'git-fetch-pack' to push + what are asked for. + + +Ancilliary Commands +------------------- +Manipulators: + +link:git-apply-patch-script.html[git-apply-patch-script]:: + Sample script to apply the diffs from git-diff-* + +link:git-convert-cache.html[git-convert-cache]:: + Converts old-style GIT repository + link:git-merge-one-file-script.html[git-merge-one-file-script]:: The standard helper program to use with "git-merge-cache" -link:git-pull-script.html[git-pull-script]:: - Script used by Linus to pull and merge a remote repository - link:git-prune-script.html[git-prune-script]:: Prunes all unreachable objects from the object database @@ -155,8 +177,6 @@ link:git-resolve-script.html[git-resolve-script]:: link:git-tag-script.html[git-tag-script]:: An example script to create a tag object signed with GPG -link:git-ssh-pull.html[git-ssh-pull]:: - Pulls from a remote repository over ssh connection Interogators: @@ -221,17 +241,16 @@ The git-core manipulates the following areas in the directory: .git/ The base (overridden with $GIT_DIR) objects/ The object base (overridden with $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY) - ??/ 'First 2 chars of object' directories - -It can interrogate (but never updates) the following areas: + ??/ 'First 2 chars of object' directories. + pack/ Packed archives. refs/ Directories containing symbolic names for objects (each file contains the hex SHA1 + newline) heads/ Commits which are heads of various sorts tags/ Tags, by the tag name (or some local renaming of it) - snap/ ???? - ... Everything else isn't shared - HEAD Symlink to refs/heads/ + */ Any other subdirectory of refs/ can be used to store + files similar to what are under refs/heads/. + HEAD Symlink to refs/heads/ Higher level SCMs may provide and manage additional information in the GIT_DIR.