From 2de9b71138171dca7279db3b3fe67e868c76d921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Ackermann Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:17:53 +0100 Subject: Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git' Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt | 38 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt index e00a4d2170..94c906eda8 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ gittutorial-2(7) NAME ---- -gittutorial-2 - A tutorial introduction to git: part two +gittutorial-2 - A tutorial introduction to Git: part two SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ DESCRIPTION You should work through linkgit:gittutorial[7] before reading this tutorial. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce two fundamental pieces of -git's architecture--the object database and the index file--and to +Git's architecture--the object database and the index file--and to provide the reader with everything necessary to understand the rest -of the git documentation. +of the Git documentation. -The git object database +The Git object database ----------------------- Let's start a new project and create a small amount of history: @@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ $ git commit -a -m "add emphasis" 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) ------------------------------------------------ -What are the 7 digits of hex that git responded to the commit with? +What are the 7 digits of hex that Git responded to the commit with? We saw in part one of the tutorial that commits have names like this. -It turns out that every object in the git history is stored under +It turns out that every object in the Git history is stored under a 40-digit hex name. That name is the SHA1 hash of the object's -contents; among other things, this ensures that git will never store +contents; among other things, this ensures that Git will never store the same data twice (since identical data is given an identical SHA1 -name), and that the contents of a git object will never change (since +name), and that the contents of a Git object will never change (since that would change the object's name as well). The 7 char hex strings here are simply the abbreviation of such 40 character long strings. Abbreviations can be used everywhere where the 40 character strings @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ following the example above generates a different SHA1 hash than the one shown above because the commit object records the time when it was created and the name of the person performing the commit. -We can ask git about this particular object with the `cat-file` +We can ask Git about this particular object with the `cat-file` command. Don't copy the 40 hex digits from this example but use those from your own version. Note that you can shorten it to only a few characters to save yourself typing all 40 hex digits: @@ -102,11 +102,11 @@ $ git cat-file blob 3b18e512 hello world ------------------------------------------------ -Note that this is the old file data; so the object that git named in +Note that this is the old file data; so the object that Git named in its response to the initial tree was a tree with a snapshot of the directory state that was recorded by the first commit. -All of these objects are stored under their SHA1 names inside the git +All of these objects are stored under their SHA1 names inside the Git directory: ------------------------------------------------ @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Besides blobs, trees, and commits, the only remaining type of object is a "tag", which we won't discuss here; refer to linkgit:git-tag[1] for details. -So now we know how git uses the object database to represent a +So now we know how Git uses the object database to represent a project's history: * "commit" objects refer to "tree" objects representing the @@ -403,21 +403,21 @@ What next? At this point you should know everything necessary to read the man pages for any of the git commands; one good place to start would be -with the commands mentioned in link:everyday.html[Everyday git]. You +with the commands mentioned in link:everyday.html[Everyday Git]. You should be able to find any unknown jargon in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. The link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] provides a more -comprehensive introduction to git. +comprehensive introduction to Git. linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7] explains how to -import a CVS repository into git, and shows how to use git in a +import a CVS repository into Git, and shows how to use Git in a CVS-like way. -For some interesting examples of git use, see the +For some interesting examples of Git use, see the link:howto-index.html[howtos]. -For git developers, linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] goes -into detail on the lower-level git mechanisms involved in, for +For Git developers, linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7] goes +into detail on the lower-level Git mechanisms involved in, for example, creating a new commit. SEE ALSO @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7], linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7], linkgit:gitglossary[7], linkgit:git-help[1], -link:everyday.html[Everyday git], +link:everyday.html[Everyday Git], link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual] GIT -- cgit v1.2.3