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`:
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$ mkdir git-tutorial
$ cd git-tutorial
-$ git-init-db
+$ git-init
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to which git will reply
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-defaulting to local storage area
+Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
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which is just git's way of saying that you haven't been doing anything
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where the `-t` tells `git-cat-file` to tell you what the "type" of the
-object is. git will tell you that you have a "blob" object (ie just a
+object is. git will tell you that you have a "blob" object (i.e., just a
regular file), and you can see the contents with
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$ git-update-ref HEAD $commit
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-which will say:
-
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-Committing initial tree 8988da15d077d4829fc51d8544c097def6644dbb
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-
-just to warn you about the fact that it created a totally new commit
-that is not related to anything else. Normally you do this only *once*
-for a project ever, and all later commits will be parented on top of an
-earlier commit, and you'll never see this "Committing initial tree"
-message ever again.
+In this case this creates a totally new commit that is not related to
+anything else. Normally you do this only *once* for a project ever, and
+all later commits will be parented on top of an earlier commit.
Again, normally you'd never actually do this by hand. There is a
helpful script called `git commit` that will do all of this for you. So
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which will sign the current `HEAD` (but you can also give it another
-argument that specifies the thing to tag, ie you could have tagged the
+argument that specifies the thing to tag, i.e., you could have tagged the
current `mybranch` point by using `git tag <tagname> mybranch`).
You normally only do signed tags for major releases or things
using the object name of that commit object. Then it reads the
commit object to find out its parent commits and the associate
tree object; it repeats this process until it gets all the
-necessary objects. Because of this behaviour, they are
+necessary objects. Because of this behavior, they are
sometimes also called 'commit walkers'.
+
The 'commit walkers' are sometimes also called 'dumb
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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:
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-$ GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init-db
+$ GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init
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Make sure this directory is available for others you want your
+
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
have to worry. git supports "shared public repository" style of
cooperation you are probably more familiar with as well.
-See link:cvs-migration.txt[git for CVS users] for the details.
+See link:cvs-migration.html[git for CVS users] for the details.
Bundling your work together
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