Further chapters cover more specialized topics.
Comprehensive reference documentation is available through the man
-pages. For a command such as "git clone <repo>", just use
+pages, or linkgit:git-help[1] command. For example, for the command
+"git clone <repo>", you can either use:
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$ man git-clone
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+or:
+
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+$ git help clone
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+
+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see
+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.
+
See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
without any explanation.
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# git itself (approx. 10MB download):
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
- # the linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
+ # the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
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If you have some initial content (say, a tarball):
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-$ tar -xzvf project.tar.gz
+$ tar xzvf project.tar.gz
$ cd project
$ git init
$ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
MERGE_HEAD, and which touch an unmerged file.
You may also use linkgit:git-mergetool[1], which lets you merge the
-unmerged files using external tools such as emacs or kdiff3.
+unmerged files using external tools such as Emacs or kdiff3.
Each time you resolve the conflicts in a file and update the index:
* remote example
URL: git://example.com/project.git
Tracked remote branches
- master next ...
+ master
+ next
+ ...
$ git fetch example # update branches from example
$ git branch -r # list all remote branches
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