Darrin Thompson noticed when he was showing off GIT to others
that the use of filenames "a" and "b" in the tutorial example
was unnecessarily confusing, especially with our "patch -p1"
prefix a/ and b/, without giving us any patch. I was very
tempted to change them back to l/ and k/ prefixes, but decided
to restrain myself and update the tutorial instead ;-).
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Teach people to use "git tag <tag-name>" instead of writing the current
HEAD by hand into the .git/refs/tags/<tag-name> file. Most people
probably don't really want to know about how git does things internally.
Update the recommended workflow for individual developers.
While they are tracking the origin, refs/heads/origin is updated
by "git fetch", so there is no need to manually copy FETCH_HEAD
to refs/heads/ anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Describe short-hand for remote repository used in fetch/pull.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clarify that the hierarchy implied by the recommended workflow
is only informal.
Refer readers to nice illustration by Randy Dunlap.
Separate out the step to "push" to own public repository in the
workflow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Describe where you can pull from with a bit more detail.
Clarify description of pushing.
Add a section on packing repositories.
Add a section on recommended workflow for the project lead,
subsystem maintainers and individual developers.
Move "Tag" section around to make the flow of example simpler to
follow.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Talk about publishing to a public repository. Also fixes a
couple of typos.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add notes on branches, merging, tagging, and update some of the usage to
the friendlier "git cmd" syntax.
It's still ridiculously lacking, but perhaps it's a _bit_ more useful.
Now -B does not say silly "complete rewrite" anymore for small
files such as the one in the tutorial example.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use "git commit" instead of "git-commit-script", and talk about using
"git log" before introducing the more complex "git-whatchanged".
In short, try to make it feel a bit more normal to those poor souls
using CVS.
Do some whitspace edits too, to make the side notes stand out a bit
more.
