See also <<git-quick-start>> for a brief overview of git commands,
without any explanation.
-Also, see <<todo>> for ways that you can help make this manual more
+Finally, see <<todo>> for ways that you can help make this manual more
complete.
commits reachable from some head but not from any tag in the repository:
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-$ gitk ($ git show-ref --heads ) --not $( git show-ref --tags )
+$ gitk $( git show-ref --heads ) --not $( git show-ref --tags )
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(See gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] for explanations of commit-selecting
and then he just cut-and-pastes the output commands after verifying that
they look OK.
+[[Finding-comments-with-given-content]]
Finding commits referencing a file with given content
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Git therefore provides "exclude patterns" for telling git which files to
actively ignore. Exclude patterns are thoroughly explained in the
-"Exclude Patterns" section of the gitlink:git-ls-files[1] manual page,
-but the heart of the concept is simply a list of files which git should
-ignore. Entries in the list may contain globs to specify multiple files,
-or may be prefixed by "`!`" to explicitly include (un-ignore) a previously
-excluded (ignored) file (i.e. later exclude patterns override earlier ones).
-The following example should illustrate such patterns:
+gitlink:gitignore[5] manual page, but the heart of the concept is simply
+a list of files which git should ignore. Entries in the list may contain
+globs to specify multiple files, or may be prefixed by "`!`" to
+explicitly include (un-ignore) a previously excluded (ignored) file
+(i.e. later exclude patterns override earlier ones). The following
+example should illustrate such patterns:
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# Lines starting with '#' are considered comments.
that a branch is created:
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-$ git checkout --track -b origin/maint maint
+$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint
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In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by
independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can
be validated by verifying that (a) their hashes match the content of the
file and (b) the object successfully inflates to a stream of bytes that
-forms a sequence of <ascii type without space>
+ <space> + <ascii decimal
-size> + <byte\0> + <binary object data>.
+forms a sequence of <ascii type without space>
{plus} <space> {plus} <ascii decimal
+size> {plus} <byte\0> {plus} <binary object data>.
The structured objects can further have their structure and
connectivity to other objects verified. This is generally done with
include::glossary.txt[]
[[git-quick-start]]
-Appendix A: Git Quick Start
-===========================
+Appendix A: Git Quick Reference
+===============================
-This is a quick summary of the major commands; the following chapters
-will explain how these work in more detail.
+This is a quick summary of the major commands; the previous chapters
+explain how these work in more detail.
[[quick-creating-a-new-repository]]
Creating a new repository
More details on gitweb?
Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts.
+
+Alternates, clone -reference, etc.
+
+git unpack-objects -r for recovery