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diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt index 5ea611748c..97cdb90cb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt @@ -46,12 +46,12 @@ to import into git. For our first example, we're going to start a totally new repository from scratch, with no pre-existing files, and we'll call it `git-tutorial`. To start up, create a subdirectory for it, change into that -subdirectory, and initialize the git infrastructure with `git-init-db`: +subdirectory, and initialize the git infrastructure with `git-init`: ------------------------------------------------ $ mkdir git-tutorial $ cd git-tutorial -$ git-init-db +$ git-init ------------------------------------------------ to which git will reply @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ name for the state at that point. Copying repositories -------------------- -git repositories are normally totally self-sufficient and relocatable +git repositories are normally totally self-sufficient and relocatable. 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` @@ -906,18 +906,13 @@ of it as it can automatically (which in this case is just merge the `example` file, which had no differences in the `mybranch` branch), and say: ---------------- - Trying really trivial in-index merge... - fatal: Merge requires file-level merging - Nope. - ... Auto-merging hello CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in hello Automatic merge failed; fix up by hand ---------------- -which is way too verbose, but it basically tells you that it failed the -really trivial merge ("Simple merge") and did an "Automatic merge" -instead, but that too failed due to conflicts in `hello`. +It tells you that it did an "Automatic merge", which +failed due to conflicts in `hello`. Not to worry. It left the (trivial) conflict in `hello` in the same form you should already be well used to if you've ever used CVS, so let's just @@ -982,7 +977,7 @@ see more complex cases. Now, let's pretend you are the one who did all the work in `mybranch`, and the fruit of your hard work has finally been merged to the `master` branch. Let's go back to `mybranch`, and run -resolve to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch. +`git merge` to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch. ------------ $ git checkout mybranch @@ -1001,7 +996,7 @@ Fast forward ---------------- Because your branch did not contain anything more than what are -already merged into the `master` branch, the resolve operation did +already merged into the `master` branch, the merge operation did not actually do a merge. Instead, it just updated the top of the tree of your branch to that of the `master` branch. This is often called 'fast forward' merge. @@ -1104,11 +1099,11 @@ programs, which are 'commit walkers'; they outlived their 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 +Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `merge` that with your current branch. However -- it's such a common thing to `fetch` and then -immediately `resolve`, that it's called `git pull`, and you can +immediately `merge`, that it's called `git pull`, and you can simply do ---------------- @@ -1123,52 +1118,32 @@ You could do without using any branches at all, by keeping as many local repositories as you would like to have branches, and merging between them with `git pull`, just like you merge between branches. The advantage of this approach is -that it lets you keep set of files for each `branch` checked +that it lets you keep a set of files for each `branch` checked out and you may find it easier to switch back and forth if you juggle multiple lines of development simultaneously. Of course, you will pay the price of more disk usage to hold multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days. -[NOTE] -You could even pull from your own repository by -giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to `git pull`. This -is useful when you want to merge a local branch (or more, if you -are making an Octopus) into the current branch. - It is likely that you will be pulling from the same remote repository from time to time. As a short hand, you can store -the remote repository URL in a file under .git/remotes/ -directory, like this: - ------------------------------------------------- -$ mkdir -p .git/remotes/ -$ cat >.git/remotes/linus <<\EOF -URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ -EOF ------------------------------------------------- - -and use the filename to `git pull` instead of the full URL. -The URL specified in such file can even be a prefix -of a full URL, like this: +the remote repository URL in the local repository's config file +like this: ------------------------------------------------ -$ cat >.git/remotes/jgarzik <<\EOF -URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/git/jgarzik/ -EOF +$ git config remote.linus.url http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ ------------------------------------------------ +and use the "linus" keyword with `git pull` instead of the full URL. Examples. . `git pull linus` . `git pull linus tag v0.99.1` -. `git pull jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/ e100` the above are equivalent to: . `git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ HEAD` . `git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ tag v0.99.1` -. `git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git e100` How does the merge work? @@ -1325,7 +1300,7 @@ differences since stage 2 (i.e. your version). Publishing your work -------------------- -So we can use somebody else's work from a remote repository; but +So, we can use somebody else's work from a remote repository, but how can *you* prepare a repository to let other people pull from it? @@ -1371,11 +1346,11 @@ $ mkdir my-git.git ------------ Then, make that directory into a git repository by running -`git init-db`, but this time, since its name is not the usual +`git init`, but this time, since its name is not the usual `.git`, we do things slightly differently: ------------ -$ GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init-db +$ GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init ------------ Make sure this directory is available for others you want your @@ -1494,8 +1469,8 @@ Working with Others Although git is a truly distributed system, it is often convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There -is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in Randy -Dunlap's presentation (`http://tinyurl.com/a2jdg`). +is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in +link:http://tinyurl.com/a2jdg[Randy Dunlap's presentation]. It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*. There is nothing fundamental in git that enforces the "chain of @@ -1511,7 +1486,7 @@ A recommended workflow for a "project lead" goes like this: + If other people are pulling from your repository over dumb transport protocols (HTTP), you need to keep this repository -'dumb transport friendly'. After `git init-db`, +'dumb transport friendly'. After `git init`, `$GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update` copied from the standard templates would contain a call to `git-update-server-info` but the `post-update` hook itself is disabled by default -- enable it @@ -1546,7 +1521,8 @@ on that project and has an own "public repository" goes like this: 1. Prepare your work repository, by `git clone` the public repository of the "project lead". The URL used for the - initial cloning is stored in `.git/remotes/origin`. + initial cloning is stored in the remote.origin.url + configuration variable. 2. Prepare a public repository accessible to others, just like the "project lead" person does. @@ -1586,14 +1562,15 @@ like this: 1. Prepare your work repository, by `git clone` the public repository of the "project lead" (or a "subsystem maintainer", if you work on a subsystem). The URL used for - the initial cloning is stored in `.git/remotes/origin`. + the initial cloning is stored in the remote.origin.url + configuration variable. 2. Do your work in your repository on 'master' branch. 3. Run `git fetch origin` from the public repository of your upstream every once in a while. This does only the first half of `git pull` but does not merge. The head of the - public repository is stored in `.git/refs/heads/origin`. + public repository is stored in `.git/refs/remotes/origin/master`. 4. Use `git cherry origin` to see which ones of your patches were accepted, and/or use `git rebase origin` to port your @@ -1681,11 +1658,11 @@ $ git reset --hard master~2 You can make sure 'git show-branch' matches the state before those two 'git merge' you just did. Then, instead of running -two 'git merge' commands in a row, you would pull these two +two 'git merge' commands in a row, you would merge these two branch heads (this is known as 'making an Octopus'): ------------ -$ git pull . commit-fix diff-fix +$ git merge commit-fix diff-fix $ git show-branch ! [commit-fix] Fix commit message normalization. ! [diff-fix] Fix rename detection. @@ -1701,7 +1678,7 @@ $ git show-branch Note that you should not do Octopus because you can. An octopus is a valid thing to do and often makes it easier to view the -commit history if you are pulling more than two independent +commit history if you are merging more than two independent changes at the same time. However, if you have merge conflicts with any of the branches you are merging in and need to hand resolve, that is an indication that the development happened in |