User manual: fix typos in examples
Correct command line examples of repo-config, format-patch and am. A full object name is 40-hexdigit; it may be 20-byte but 20-digit is misleading. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ index 8be626f..d7aac9d 100644
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As you can see, a commit shows who made the latest change, what they
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did, and why.
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Every commit has a 20-digit id, sometimes called the "SHA1 id", shown
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Every commit has a 40-hexdigit id, sometimes called the "SHA1 id", shown
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on the first line of the "git show" output. You can usually refer to
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a commit by a shorter name, such as a tag or a branch name, but this
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longer id can also be useful. In particular, it is a globally unique
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@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ create similar configuration options to save typing; for example,
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after
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$ git repo-config remote.example.url=git://example.com/proj.git
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$ git repo-config remote.example.url git://example.com/proj.git
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then the following two commands will do the same thing:
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@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ $ git fetch example master:refs/remotes/example/master
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Even better, if you add one more option:
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$ git repo-config remote.example.fetch=master:refs/remotes/example/master
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$ git repo-config remote.example.fetch master:refs/remotes/example/master
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then the following commands will all do the same thing:
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@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ $ git fetch example
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You can also add a "+" to force the update each time:
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$ git repo-config +master:ref/remotes/example/master
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$ git repo-config remote.example.fetch +master:ref/remotes/example/master
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Don't do this unless you're sure you won't mind "git fetch" possibly
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@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ Naming commits
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We have seen several ways of naming commits already:
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- 20-digit SHA1 id
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- 40-hexdigit SHA1 id
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- branch name: refers to the commit at the head of the given
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branch
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- tag name: refers to the commit pointed to by the given tag
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@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ We have seen several ways of naming commits already:
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<<how-git-stores-references,references>>).
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- HEAD: refers to the head of the current branch
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There are many more; see the "SPECIFYING REVISION" section of the
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There are many more; see the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section of the
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gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] man page for the complete list of ways to
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name revisions. Some examples:
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@ -867,6 +867,14 @@ By default, the content of the index is identical to that of the
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HEAD. The command "git diff --cached" shows the difference between
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HEAD and the index, so you should no output from that command.
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This is talking about not "by default", but "when you start
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out". The last sentence does not parse for me...
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Modifying the index is easy:
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To update the index with the new contents of a modified file, use
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@ -881,8 +889,7 @@ To add the contents of a new file to the index, use
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$ git add path/to/file
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To remove a file from the index that you've removed from the working
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tree,
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To remove a file from the index and from the working tree,
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$ git rm path/to/file
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@ -1306,7 +1313,7 @@ just be to send them as patches in email:
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First, use gitlink:git-format-patches[1]; for example:
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$ git format-patches origin
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$ git format-patch origin
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will produce a numbered series of files in the current directory, one
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@ -1327,9 +1334,18 @@ Just save all of the patch-containing messages, in order, into a
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single mailbox file, say "patches.mbox", then run
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$ git am patches.mbox
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$ git am -3 patches.mbox
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If you allow git-am to fall back to 3-way merge with -3, you
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would see conflicts and "resolving a merge" techniques apply.
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Otherwise "conflicts" will just fail the patch and your working
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tree and index are left untouched.
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Git will apply each patch in order; if any conflicts are found, it
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will stop, and you can fix the conflicts as described in
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"<<resolving-a-merge,Resolving a merge>>". Once the index is updated
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