Back in the old days of Git when people messed around with their
GIT_DIR environment variable more often it was nice to know whether
or not git-init-db created a .git directory or used GIT_DIR.
As most users at that time were rather technical UNIXy folk the
message "defaulting to local storage area" made sense to some and
seemed reasonable.
But it doesn't really convey any meaning to the new Git user,
as they don't know what a 'local storage area is' nor do they
know enough about Git to care. It also really doesn't tell the
experienced Git user a whole lot about the command they just ran,
especially if they might be reinitializing an existing repository
(e.g. to update hooks).
So now we print out what we did ("Initialized empty" or
"Reinitialized existing"), what type of repository ("" or "shared"),
and what location the repository will be in ("$GIT_DIR").
Suggested in part by Andy Parkins in his Git 'niggles' list
(<200612132237.10051.andyparkins@gmail.com>).
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This brings the power of the index up front using a proper mental model
without talking about the index at all. See for example how all the
technical discussion has been evacuated from the git-add man page.
Any content to be committed must be added together. Whether that
content comes from new files or modified files doesn't matter. You
just need to "add" it, either with git-add, or by providing
git-commit with -a (for already known files only of course).
No need for a separate command to distinguish new vs modified files
please. That would only screw the mental model everybody should have
when using GIT.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Introducing yourself to git early would be a good idea; otherwise
the user may not find the mistake until much later when "git log"
is learned.
Teaching "commit -a" without saying that it is a shortcut for
listing the paths to commit leaves the user puzzled. Teach the
form with explicit paths first.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Attempt to clarify somewhat the difference between pull and merge,
and give a little more details on the pull syntax.
I'm still not happy with this section: the explanation of the origin
branch isn't great, but maybe that should be left alone pending the
use-separate-remotes change; and we need to explain how to set up a
public repository and push to it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Rephrased a sentence in order to make more clear the concept of
pull . branch
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
All should be clear enough, except perhaps committish / commitish.
I just kept the more-used one within the current docs.
[jc: with rephrasing of check-ref-format description later discussed
on the list]
Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
I'd rather avoid git cat-file so early on, but the
git-cat-file -p old-commit:/path/to/file
trick is too useful....
Also fix a nearby typo while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Kind of silly, but the font I get by default in gitk makes it mostly
unusable for me, so this is the first thing I'd want to know about.
(But maybe there's a better suggestion than just Ctrl-='ing until
satisfied.)
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add a sequel to tutorial.txt which discusses the index file and
the object database.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Expand the history-browsing section of the tutorial a bit, in part to
address Junio's suggestion that we mention "git grep" and Linus's
complaint that people are missing the flexibility of the commandline
interfaces for selecting commits.
This reads a little more like a collection of examples than a
"tutorial", but maybe that's what people need at this point.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Junio suggested changing references to git-whatchanged to git-log.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
We forgot to update the primary link from git.html leading to
the tutorial, and also forgot to build and install the renamed
core-tutorial document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The current Documentation/tutorial.txt concentrates on the lower-level
git interfaces. So it's useful to people developing alternative
porcelains, to advanced users, etc., but not so much to beginning users.
I think it makes sense for the main tutorial to address those
beginnning users, so with this patch I'm proposing that we move
Documentation/tutorial.txt to Documentation/core-tutorial.txt and
replace it by a new tutorial.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This changes the character used to mark the commits that is on the
branch from '+' to '*' for the current branch, to make it stand out.
Also we show '-' for merge commits.
When you have a handful branches with relatively long diversion, it
is easier to see which one is the current branch this way.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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>
The branch policy script I outlined was improved and polished by
Carl and posted on the list twice since then. It is a shame not
to pick it up, so replace the original outline in
howto/update-hook-example.txt with the latest from Carl.
Also talk about setting up git-shell to allow git-push/git-fetch
only SSH access to a shared repository host in the tutorial.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Current default, merge-recursive, gives slightly different
message while working from merge-resolve which was used to
prepare the illustration in the tutorial.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The "copying over packs" step is to prevent the objects
available in upstream repository to get expanted in the
subsystem maintainer tree, and is still valid if the upstream
repository do not live on the same machine. But if they are on
the same machine using objects/info/alternates is cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This patch makes the documentation refer to the index
as index instead of cache, but some references still
remain. (e.g. git-update-index.txt)
Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@etek.chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While discussing Jon's ASCII art on merge operations with him, I
realized that the tutorial stops talking about the plumbing
details halfway. So fill in the gory details, and update the
examples to use 'git-merge', not 'git-resolve'.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The repository to pull from can be a local repository, and as a
special case the current directory can be specified to perform
merges across local branches.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Lacking reliable symlinks, the instructions in the tutorial did not work
in a cygwin setup. Also, a few outputs were not correct.
This patch fixes these, and adds a test case which follows the
instructions of the tutorial (except git-clone, -fetch and -push, which I
have not done yet).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
In the tutorial, there is a section entitled "Checking it out"
that shows how to use diff log and whatchanged to insect some
of the repository state.
As the phrase "checkout" ususally carries some baggage WRT
other revision control mechanism, I suggest that we re-title
this section something like "Inspecting Changes".
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
AsciiDoc replace '--' with em-dash (—) by default. em-dash
looks a lot like a single long dash and it's very confusing when
we are talking about command options.
Section 21.2.8 'Replacements' of AsciiDoc's User Guide says that a
backslash in front of double dash prevent the replacement. This
patch does just that.
Signed-off-by: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There was a lingering reference to the git-*-scripts in
the tutorial. This patch reworks that paragraph a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
There is more detailed instruction for `project lead` later in
the tutorial to talk about the same, but at this point in the
flow of tutorial, the first time reader has no way of knowing it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Finally I bit the bullet and did a full sweep of this document.
The changes are mostly clarifications, adjusting old terminology
to the glossary compatible one, and asciidoc formatting.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Mostly making the formatted html prettier.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 7adf1f15ebe074d4767df941817a6cf86d8e2533 commit)
Explain that an asterisk will be displayed in front of the current
branch when you run `git branch' to see which are available.
Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Use "working tree", "object name", "repository" as the canonical
term consistenly.
- Start formatting tutorial with asciidoc.
- Mention shared repository style of cooperation.
- Update with some usability enhancements recently made, such as
the "-m" flag to the "git commit" command.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Shawn O. Pearce