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Documentation: not learning core git commands.

The initial section of tutorial was too heavy on internal
workings for the first-time readers, so rewrite the introductory
section of git(7) to start with "not learning core git commands"
section and refer them to README to grasp the basic concepts,
then Everyday to give overview with task/role oriented examples
for minimum set of commands, and finally the tutorial.

Also add to existing note in the tutorial that many too
technical descriptions can be skipped by a casual reader.

I initially started to review the tutorial, with the objective
of ripping out the detailed technical information altogether,
but I found that the level of details in the initial couple of
sections that talk about refs and the object database in a
hands-on fashion was about rigth, and left all of them there.  I
feel that reading about fsck-index and repack is too abstract
without being aware of these directories and files.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@ -33,34 +33,41 @@ OPTIONS @@ -33,34 +33,41 @@ OPTIONS
environment variable. If no path is given 'git' will print
the current setting and then exit.

CORE GIT COMMANDS
-----------------
Before reading this cover to cover, you may want to take a look
at the link:tutorial.html[tutorial] document. If you are
migrating from CVS, link:cvs-migration.html[cvs migration]
document may be helpful after you finish the tutorial.

The <<Discussion>> section below contains much useful definition
and clarification info - read that first. After that, if you
are interested in using git to manage (version control)

NOT LEARNING CORE GIT COMMANDS
------------------------------

This manual is intended to give complete background information
and internal workings of git, which may be too much for most
people. The <<Discussion>> section below contains much useful
definition and clarification - read that first.

If you are interested in using git to manage (version control)
projects, use link:everyday.html[Everyday GIT] as a guide to the
minimum set of commands you need to know for day-to-day work.
Most likely, that will get you started, and you can go a long
way without knowing the low level details too much.

The link:tutorial.html[tutorial] document covers how things
internally work.

If you are migrating from CVS, link:cvs-migration.html[cvs
migration] document may be helpful after you finish the
tutorial.

After you get the general feel from the tutorial and this
overview page, you may want to take a look at the
link:howto-index.html[howto] documents.


CORE GIT COMMANDS
-----------------

If you are writing your own Porcelain, you need to be familiar
with most of the low level commands --- I suggest starting from
gitlink:git-update-index[1] and gitlink:git-read-tree[1].


David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
08/05/05

Updated by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> on 2005-05-05 and
further on 2005-12-07 to reflect recent changes.

Commands Overview
-----------------
The git commands can helpfully be split into those that manipulate
@ -582,14 +589,16 @@ include::../README[] @@ -582,14 +589,16 @@ include::../README[]

Authors
-------
git's founding father is Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
The current git nurse is Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.
The git potty was written by Andres Ericsson <ae@op5.se>.
General upbringing is handled by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
* git's founding father is Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
* The current git nurse is Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.
* The git potty was written by Andres Ericsson <ae@op5.se>.
* General upbringing is handled by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

Documentation
--------------
Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
The documentation for git suite was started by David Greaves
<david@dgreaves.com>, and later enhanced greatly by the
contributors on the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT
---

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Documentation/tutorial.txt

@ -18,7 +18,14 @@ doing. @@ -18,7 +18,14 @@ doing.
The core git is often called "plumbing", with the prettier user
interfaces on top of it called "porcelain". You may not want to use the
plumbing directly very often, but it can be good to know what the
plumbing does for when the porcelain isn't flushing...
plumbing does for when the porcelain isn't flushing.

The material presented here often goes deep describing how things
work internally. If you are mostly interested in using git as a
SCM, you can skip them during your first pass.

[NOTE]
And those "too deep" descriptions are often marked as Note.


Creating a git repository
@ -252,6 +259,17 @@ tree. That's very useful. @@ -252,6 +259,17 @@ tree. That's very useful.
A common shorthand for `git-diff-files -p` is to just write `git
diff`, which will do the same thing.

------------
$ git diff
diff --git a/hello b/hello
index 557db03..263414f 100644
--- a/hello
+++ b/hello
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
Hello World
+It's a new day for git
------------


Committing git state
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