Add repository-layout document.
... and link to it from both the main index and the tutorial. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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DOC_HTML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT))
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ARTICLES = tutorial cvs-migration diffcore howto-index
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ARTICLES = tutorial
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ARTICLES += cvs-migration
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ARTICLES += diffcore
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ARTICLES += howto-index
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ARTICLES += repository-layout
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# with their own formatting rules.
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SP_ARTICLES = glossary howto/revert-branch-rebase
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File/Directory Structure
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------------------------
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The git-core manipulates the following areas in the directory:
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.git/ The base (overridden with $GIT_DIR)
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objects/ The object base (overridden with $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY)
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??/ 'First 2 chars of object' directories.
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pack/ Packed archives.
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refs/ Directories containing symbolic names for objects
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(each file contains the hex SHA1 + newline)
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heads/ Commits which are heads of various sorts
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tags/ Tags, by the tag name (or some local renaming of it)
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*/ Any other subdirectory of refs/ can be used to store
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files similar to what are under refs/heads/.
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HEAD Symlink to refs/heads/<current-branch-name>
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Please see link:repository-layout.html[repository layout] document.
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Higher level SCMs may provide and manage additional information in the
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GIT_DIR.
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Terminology
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-----------
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Please see link:glossary.html[glossary] document.
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GIT repository layout
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=====================
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v0.99.5, Sep 2005
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You may find these things in your git repository (`.git`
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directory for a repository associated with your working tree, or
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`'project'.git` directory for a public 'naked' repository).
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objects::
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Object store associated with this repository. Usually
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an object store is self sufficient (i.e. all the objects
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that are referred to by an object found in it are also
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found in it), but there are couple of ways to violate
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it.
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+
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. You could populate the repository by running a commit walker
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without `-a` option. Depending on which options are given, you
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could have only commit objects without associated blobs and
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trees this way, for example. A repository with this kind of
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incomplete object store is not suitable to be published to the
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outside world but sometimes useful for private repository.
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. You can be using `objects/info/alternates` mechanism, or
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`$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanism to 'borrow'
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objects from other object stores. A repository with this kind
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of incompete object store is not suitable to be published for
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use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
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`objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores
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it borrows from.
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objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]::
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Traditionally, each object is stored in its own file.
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They are split into 256 subdirectories using the first
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two letters from its object name to keep the number of
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directory entries `objects` directory itself needs to
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hold. Objects found here are often called 'unpacked'
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objects.
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objects/pack::
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Packs (files that store many object in compressed form,
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along with index files to allow them to be randomly
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accessed) are found in this directory.
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objects/info::
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Additional information about the object store is
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recorded in this directory.
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objects/info/packs::
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This file is to help dumb transports discover what packs
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are available in this object store. Whenever a pack is
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added or removed, `git update-server-info` should be run
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to keep this file up-to-date if the repository is
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published for dumb transports. `git repack` does this
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by default.
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objects/info/alternates::
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This file records absolute filesystem paths of alternate
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object stores that this object store borrows objects
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from, one pathname per line.
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refs::
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References are stored in subdirectories of this
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directory. The `git prune` command knows to keep
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objects reachable from refs found in this directory and
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its subdirectories.
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refs/heads/`name`::
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records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branch `name`
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refs/tags/`name`::
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records any object name (not necessarily a commit
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object, or a tag object that points at a commit object).
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HEAD::
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A symlink of the form `refs/heads/'name'` to point at
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the current branch, if exists. It does not mean much if
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the repository is not associated with any working tree
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(i.e. 'naked' repository), but a valid git repository
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*must* have such a symlink here. It is legal if the
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named branch 'name' does not (yet) exist.
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branches::
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A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used
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to specify URL to `git fetch`, `git pull` and `git push`
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commands is to store a file in `branches/'name'` and
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give 'name' to these commands in place of 'repository'
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argument.
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hooks::
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Hooks are customization scripts used by various git
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commands. A handful of sample hooks are installed when
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`git init-db` is run, but all of them are disabled by
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default. To enable, they need to be made executable.
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index::
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The current index file for the repository. It is
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usually not found in a naked repository.
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info::
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Additional information about the repository is recorded
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in this directory.
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info/refs::
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This file is to help dumb transports to discover what
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refs are available in this repository. Whenever you
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create/delete a new branch or a new tag, `git
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update-server-info` should be run to keep this file
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up-to-date if the repository is published for dumb
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transports. The `git-receive-pack` command, which is
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run on a remote repository when you `git push` into it,
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runs `hooks/update` hook to help you achive this.
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info/grafts::
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This file records fake commit ancestry information, to
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pretend the set of parents a commit has is different
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from how the commit was actually created. One record
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per line describes a commit and its fake parents by
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listing their 40-byte hexadecimal object names separated
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by a space and terminated by a newline.
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info/rev-cache::
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No higher-level tool currently takes advantage of this
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file, but it is generated when `git update-server-info`
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is run. It records the commit ancestry information of
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the commits in this repository in a concise binary
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format, and can be read with `git-show-rev-cache`.
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info/exclude::
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This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the
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exclude pattern list. `git status` looks at it, but
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otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core GIT
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commands.
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remotes::
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Stoers shorthands to be used to give URL and default
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refnames to interact with remote repository to `git
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fetch`, `git pull` and `git push` commands.
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references in these `refs` subdirectories when you actually start
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populating your tree.
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[NOTE]
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An advanced user may want to take a look at the
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link:repository-layout.html[repository layout] document
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after finishing this tutorial.
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You have now created your first git repository. Of course, since it's
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empty, that's not very useful, so let's start populating it with data.
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