Since references may be packed, it's no longer as helpful to
introduce references as paths relative to .git.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Correct command line examples of repo-config, format-patch and am.
A full object name is 40-hexdigit; it may be 20-byte but
20-digit is misleading.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion of git-rebase, patch series, history rewriting.
Mention "pull ." as a synonym for "merge".
Remind myself of another case I want to cover in the other-vcs's chapter.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Add a brief description of the organization to the preface, expand the
final notes/todo's section, in hopes maybe some others will want to
contribute.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The goals are:
- Readable from beginning to end in order without having read
any other git documentation beforehand.
- Helpful section names and cross-references, so it's not too
hard to skip around some if you need to.
- Organized to allow it to grow much larger (unlike the
tutorials)
It's more liesurely than tutorial.txt, but tries to stay focused on
practical how-to stuff. It adds a discussion of how to resolve merge
conflicts, and partial instructions on setting up and dealing with a
public repository.
I've lifted a little bit from "branching and merging" (e.g., some of the
discussion of history diagrams), and could probably steal more if that's
OK. (Similarly anyone should of course feel free to reuse bits of this
if any parts seem more useful than the whole.)
There's a lot of detail on managing branches and using git-fetch, just
because those are essential even to people needing read-only access
(e.g., kernel testers). I think those sections will be much shorter
once the new "git remote" command and the disconnected checkouts are
taken into account.
I do feel bad about adding yet another piece of documentation, but I we
need something that goes through all the basics in a logical order, and
I wasn't seeing how to grow the tutorials into that.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
J. Bruce Fields
Junio C Hamano