1//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2 3 GIT - the stupid content tracker 4 5//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 6 7"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood. 8 9 - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not 10 actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a 11 mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant. 12 - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the 13 dictionary of slang. 14 - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually 15 works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room. 16 - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks 17 18Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an 19unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations 20and full access to internals. 21 22Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License. 23It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of 24hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano. 25 26Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions. 27See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see 28Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, 29and "man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. 30CVS users may also want to read Documentation/cvs-migration.txt. 31 32Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git.or.cz/ 33including full documentation and Git related tools. 34 35The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git 36mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature 37requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org. To subscribe 38to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to 39majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at 40http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites. 41 42The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in 43git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and 44the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good 45reference for project status, development direction and 46remaining tasks.