hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
-See Documentation/tutorial.txt to get started, then see
-Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands,
-and "man git-commandname" for documentation of each command.
-CVS users may also want to read Documentation/cvs-migration.txt.
+
+See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
+Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
+Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
+If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
+read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
+documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
+commandname".
+
+CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
+("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
+installed).
Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git.or.cz/
including full documentation and Git related tools.
to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites.
+
+The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
+git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and
+the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good
+reference for project status, development direction and
+remaining tasks.