DESCRIPTION
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-Sets up the normal git environment variables and a few helper functions
-(currently just "die()"), and returns OK if it all looks like a git archive.
-So, to make the rest of the git scripts more careful and readable,
-use it as follows:
+This is not a command the end user would want to run. Ever.
+This documentation is meant for people who are studying the
+Porcelain-ish scripts and/or are writing new ones.
+
+The `git-sh-setup` scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using
+`.`) by other shell scripts to set up some variables pointing at
+the normal git directories and a few helper shell functions.
+
+Before sourcing it, your script should set up a few variables;
+`USAGE` (and `LONG_USAGE`, if any) is used to define message
+given by `usage()` shell function. `SUBDIRECTORY_OK` can be set
+if the script can run from a subdirectory of the working tree
+(some commands do not).
+
+The scriptlet sets `GIT_DIR` and `GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` shell
+variables, but does *not* export them to the environment.
+
+FUNCTIONS
+---------
+
+die::
+ exit after emitting the supplied error message to the
+ standard error stream.
+
+usage::
+ die with the usage message.
+
+set_reflog_action::
+ set the message that will be recorded to describe the
+ end-user action in the reflog, when the script updates a
+ ref.
+
+git_editor::
+ runs an editor of user's choice (GIT_EDITOR, core.editor, VISUAL or
+ EDITOR) on a given file, but error out if no editor is specified
+ and the terminal is dumb.
+
+is_bare_repository::
+ outputs `true` or `false` to the standard output stream
+ to indicate if the repository is a bare repository
+ (i.e. without an associated working tree).
+
+cd_to_toplevel::
+ runs chdir to the toplevel of the working tree.
+
+require_work_tree::
+ checks if the repository is a bare repository, and dies
+ if so. Used by scripts that require working tree
+ (e.g. `checkout`).
+
+get_author_ident_from_commit::
+ outputs code for use with eval to set the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
+ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE variables for a given commit.
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-. git-sh-setup || die "Not a git archive"
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Author
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GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite