`git-commit-tree` normally takes several arguments -- it wants to know
what the 'parent' of a commit was, but since this is the first commit
ever in this new repository, and it has no parents, we only need to pass in
-the object name of the tree. However, `git-commit-tree`
-also wants to get a commit message
-on its standard input, and it will write out the resulting object name for the
-commit to its standard output.
+the object name of the tree. However, `git-commit-tree` also wants to get a
+commit message on its standard input, and it will write out the resulting
+object name for the commit to its standard output.
And this is where we create the `.git/refs/heads/master` file
which is pointed at by `HEAD`. This file is supposed to contain
Now, let's pretend you are the one who did all the work in
`mybranch`, and the fruit of your hard work has finally been merged
to the `master` branch. Let's go back to `mybranch`, and run
-resolve to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch.
+`git merge` to get the "upstream changes" back to your branch.
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$ git checkout mybranch
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Because your branch did not contain anything more than what are
-already merged into the `master` branch, the resolve operation did
+already merged into the `master` branch, the merge operation did
not actually do a merge. Instead, it just updated the top of
the tree of your branch to that of the `master` branch. This is
often called 'fast forward' merge.
usefulness when git Native and SSH transports were introduced,
and not used by `git pull` or `git push` scripts.
-Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `resolve` that
+Once you fetch from the remote repository, you `merge` that
with your current branch.
However -- it's such a common thing to `fetch` and then
-immediately `resolve`, that it's called `git pull`, and you can
+immediately `merge`, that it's called `git pull`, and you can
simply do
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how can *you* prepare a repository to let other people pull from
it?
-Your do your real work in your working tree that has your
+You do your real work in your working tree that has your
primary repository hanging under it as its `.git` subdirectory.
You *could* make that repository accessible remotely and ask
people to pull from it, but in practice that is not the way