importantly, it is a globally unique name for this commit: so if you
tell somebody else the object name (for example in email), then you are
guaranteed that name will refer to the same commit in their repository
-that you it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
+that it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
all).
Understanding history: commits, parents, and reachability
that Y is a descendent of X, or that there is a chain of parents
leading from commit Y to commit X.
-Undestanding history: History diagrams
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Understanding history: History diagrams
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We will sometimes represent git history using diagrams like the one
below. Commits are shown as "o", and the links between them with
Git provides extremely flexible and fast tools for exploring the
history of a project.
-We start with one specialized tool which is useful for finding the
+We start with one specialized tool that is useful for finding the
commit that introduced a bug into a project.
How to use bisect to find a regression
Note that git log starts with the most recent commit and works
backwards through the parents; however, since git history can contain
-multiple independant lines of development, the particular order that
+multiple independent lines of development, the particular order that
commits are listed in may be somewhat arbitrary.
Generating diffs
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and git will prompt you for a commit message and then create the new
-commmit. Check to make sure it looks like what you expected with
+commit. Check to make sure it looks like what you expected with
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$ git show
...
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-and watch for output that mentions "dangling commits". You can examine
+You can examine
one of those dangling commits with, for example,
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allow people to get to important topics without necessarily reading
everything in between.
+Say something about .gitignore.
+
Scan Documentation/ for other stuff left out; in particular:
howto's
some of technical/?
Document shallow clones? See draft 1.5.0 release notes for some
documentation.
-Add a sectin on working with other version control systems, including
+Add a section on working with other version control systems, including
CVS, Subversion, and just imports of series of release tarballs.
More details on gitweb?