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$ git checkout mybranch
$ echo "Work, work, work" >>hello
-$ git commit -m 'Some work.' -i hello
+$ git commit -m "Some work." -i hello
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Here, we just added another line to `hello`, and we used a shorthand for
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$ echo "Play, play, play" >>hello
$ echo "Lots of fun" >>example
-$ git commit -m 'Some fun.' -i hello example
+$ git commit -m "Some fun." -i hello example
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since the master branch is obviously in a much better mood.
to resolve and what the merge is all about:
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-$ git merge "Merge work in mybranch" HEAD mybranch
+$ git merge -m "Merge work in mybranch" mybranch
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where the first argument is going to be used as the commit message if
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$ git checkout mybranch
-$ git merge "Merge upstream changes." HEAD master
+$ git merge -m "Merge upstream changes." master
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This outputs something like this (the actual commit object names
that does not even support directory index would suffice. But
you must prepare your repository with `git-update-server-info`
to help dumb transport downloaders.
-+
-There are (confusingly enough) `git-ssh-fetch` and `git-ssh-upload`
-programs, which are 'commit walkers'; they outlived their
-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 `merge` that
with your current branch.
and bring ourselves back to the pre-merge state:
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-$ git show-branch --more=3 master mybranch
+$ git show-branch --more=2 master mybranch
! [master] Merge work in mybranch
* [mybranch] Merge work in mybranch
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This is the same `git-read-tree` command we have already seen,
but it takes three trees, unlike previous examples. This reads
the contents of each tree into different 'stage' in the index
-file (the first tree goes to stage 1, the second stage 2,
+file (the first tree goes to stage 1, the second to stage 2,
etc.). After reading three trees into three stages, the paths
that are the same in all three stages are 'collapsed' into stage
0. Also paths that are the same in two of three stages are
convenient to organize your project with an informal hierarchy
of developers. Linux kernel development is run this way. There
is a nice illustration (page 17, "Merges to Mainline") in
-link:http://tinyurl.com/a2jdg[Randy Dunlap's presentation].
+link:http://www.xenotime.net/linux/mentor/linux-mentoring-2006.pdf
+[Randy Dunlap's presentation].
It should be stressed that this hierarchy is purely *informal*.
There is nothing fundamental in git that enforces the "chain of
'commit-fix' next, like this:
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-$ git merge 'Merge fix in diff-fix' master diff-fix
-$ git merge 'Merge fix in commit-fix' master commit-fix
+$ git merge -m "Merge fix in diff-fix" diff-fix
+$ git merge -m "Merge fix in commit-fix" commit-fix
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Which would result in: