$ cd my-project
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-and hack away. The equivalent of `cvs update` is
+and hack away. The equivalent of 'cvs update' is
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$ git pull origin
[NOTE]
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-The `pull` command knows where to get updates from because of certain
-configuration variables that were set by the first `git clone`
+The 'pull' command knows where to get updates from because of certain
+configuration variables that were set by the first 'git-clone'
command; see `git config -l` and the linkgit:git-config[1] man
page for details.
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You can update the shared repository with your changes by first committing
-your changes, and then using the linkgit:git-push[1] command:
+your changes, and then using the 'git-push' command:
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$ git push origin master
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to "push" those commits to the shared repository. If someone else has
-updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like `cvs commit`, will
+updated the repository more recently, 'git-push', like 'cvs commit', will
complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the
push again.
-In the `git push` command above we specify the name of the remote branch
-to update (`master`). If we leave that out, `git push` tries to update
+In the 'git-push' command above we specify the name of the remote branch
+to update (`master`). If we leave that out, 'git-push' tries to update
any branches in the remote repository that have the same name as a branch
-in the local repository. So the last `push` can be done with either of:
+in the local repository. So the last 'push' can be done with either of:
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$ git push origin
First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from
link:http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make
sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory
-of the project you are interested in and run linkgit:git-cvsimport[1]:
+of the project you are interested in and run 'git-cvsimport':
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$ git cvsimport -C <destination> <module>
branches for your own changes, and merge in the imported branches as
necessary.
+If you want a shared repository, you will need to make a bare clone
+of the imported directory, as described above. Then treat the imported
+directory as another development clone for purposes of merging
+incremental imports.
+
Advanced Shared Repository Management
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