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directory created, named ".git".
Next, tell git to take a snapshot of the contents of all files under the
-current directory (note the '.'), with `git-add`:
+current directory (note the '.'), with 'git-add':
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$ git add .
This snapshot is now stored in a temporary staging area which git calls
the "index". You can permanently store the contents of the index in the
-repository with `git-commit`:
+repository with 'git-commit':
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$ git commit
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You are now ready to commit. You can see what is about to be committed
-using `git-diff` with the --cached option:
+using 'git-diff' with the --cached option:
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$ git diff --cached
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-(Without --cached, `git-diff` will show you any changes that
+(Without --cached, 'git-diff' will show you any changes that
you've made but not yet added to the index.) You can also get a brief
-summary of the situation with `git-status`:
+summary of the situation with 'git-status':
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$ git status
This will again prompt you for a message describing the change, and then
record a new version of the project.
-Alternatively, instead of running `git-add` beforehand, you can use
+Alternatively, instead of running 'git-add' beforehand, you can use
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$ git commit -a
Many revision control systems provide an `add` command that tells the
system to start tracking changes to a new file. Git's `add` command
-does something simpler and more powerful: `git-add` is used both for new
+does something simpler and more powerful: 'git-add' is used both for new
and newly modified files, and in both cases it takes a snapshot of the
given files and stages that content in the index, ready for inclusion in
the next commit.
Bob begins with:
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-$ git clone /home/alice/project myrepo
+bob$ git clone /home/alice/project myrepo
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This creates a new directory "myrepo" containing a clone of Alice's
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(edit files)
-$ git commit -a
+bob$ git commit -a
(repeat as necessary)
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at /home/bob/myrepo. She does this with:
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-$ cd /home/alice/project
-$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master
+alice$ cd /home/alice/project
+alice$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master
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This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's
The "pull" command thus performs two operations: it fetches changes
from a remote branch, then merges them into the current branch.
+Note that in general, Alice would want her local changes committed before
+initiating this "pull". If Bob's work conflicts with what Alice did since
+their histories forked, Alice will use her working tree and the index to
+resolve conflicts, and existing local changes will interfere with the
+conflict resolution process (git will still perform the fetch but will
+refuse to merge --- Alice will have to get rid of her local changes in
+some way and pull again when this happens).
+
+Alice can peek at what Bob did without merging first, using the "fetch"
+command; this allows Alice to inspect what Bob did, using a special
+symbol "FETCH_HEAD", in order to determine if he has anything worth
+pulling, like this:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+alice$ git fetch /home/bob/myrepo master
+alice$ git log -p HEAD..FETCH_HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This operation is safe even if Alice has uncommitted local changes.
+The range notation HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" means "show everything that is reachable
+from the FETCH_HEAD but exclude anything that is reachable from HEAD.
+Alice already knows everything that leads to her current state (HEAD),
+and reviewing what Bob has in his state (FETCH_HEAD) that she has not
+seen with this command
+
+If Alice wants to visualize what Bob did since their histories forked
+she can issue the following command:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ gitk HEAD..FETCH_HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This uses the same two-dot range notation we saw earlier with 'git log'.
+
+Alice may want to view what both of them did since they forked.
+She can use three-dot form instead of the two-dot form:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ gitk HEAD...FETCH_HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This means "show everything that is reachable from either one, but
+exclude anything that is reachable from both of them".
+
+Please note that these range notation can be used with both gitk
+and "git log".
+
+After inspecting what Bob did, if there is nothing urgent, Alice may
+decide to continue working without pulling from Bob. If Bob's history
+does have something Alice would immediately need, Alice may choose to
+stash her work-in-progress first, do a "pull", and then finally unstash
+her work-in-progress on top of the resulting history.
+
When you are working in a small closely knit group, it is not
unusual to interact with the same repository over and over
again. By defining 'remote' repository shorthand, you can make
it easier:
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-$ git remote add bob /home/bob/myrepo
+alice$ git remote add bob /home/bob/myrepo
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-With this, Alice can perform the first operation alone using the
-`git-fetch` command without merging them with her own branch,
+With this, Alice can perform the first part of the "pull" operation alone using the
+'git-fetch' command without merging them with her own branch,
using:
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-$ git fetch bob
+alice$ git fetch bob
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Unlike the longhand form, when Alice fetches from Bob using a
-remote repository shorthand set up with `git-remote`, what was
+remote repository shorthand set up with 'git-remote', what was
fetched is stored in a remote tracking branch, in this case
`bob/master`. So after this:
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-$ git log -p master..bob/master
+alice$ git log -p master..bob/master
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shows a list of all the changes that Bob made since he branched from
could merge the changes into her master branch:
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-$ git merge bob/master
+alice$ git merge bob/master
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This `merge` can also be done by 'pulling from her own remote
tracking branch', like this:
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-$ git pull . remotes/bob/master
+alice$ git pull . remotes/bob/master
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Note that git pull always merges into the current branch,
Later, Bob can update his repo with Alice's latest changes using
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-$ git pull
+bob$ git pull
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Note that he doesn't need to give the path to Alice's repository;
used for pulls:
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-$ git config --get remote.origin.url
+bob$ git config --get remote.origin.url
/home/alice/project
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-(The complete configuration created by `git-clone` is visible using
+(The complete configuration created by 'git-clone' is visible using
`git config -l`, and the linkgit:git-config[1] man page
explains the meaning of each option.)
name "origin/master":
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-$ git branch -r
+bob$ git branch -r
origin/master
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perform clones and pulls using the ssh protocol:
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-$ git clone alice.org:/home/alice/project myrepo
+bob$ git clone alice.org:/home/alice/project myrepo
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Alternatively, git has a native protocol, or can use rsync or http;
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Git history is represented as a series of interrelated commits. We
-have already seen that the `git-log` command can list those commits.
+have already seen that the 'git-log' command can list those commits.
Note that first line of each git log entry also gives a name for the
commit:
merge-base: Clarify the comments on post processing.
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-We can give this name to `git-show` to see the details about this
+We can give this name to 'git-show' to see the details about this
commit.
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Be careful with that last command: in addition to losing any changes
in the working directory, it will also remove all later commits from
this branch. If this branch is the only branch containing those
-commits, they will be lost. Also, don't use `git-reset` on a
+commits, they will be lost. Also, don't use 'git-reset' on a
publicly-visible branch that other developers pull from, as it will
force needless merges on other developers to clean up the history.
-If you need to undo changes that you have pushed, use `git-revert`
+If you need to undo changes that you have pushed, use 'git-revert'
instead.
-The `git-grep` command can search for strings in any version of your
+The 'git-grep' command can search for strings in any version of your
project, so
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searches for all occurrences of "hello" in v2.5.
-If you leave out the commit name, `git-grep` will search any of the
+If you leave out the commit name, 'git-grep' will search any of the
files it manages in your current directory. So
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is a quick way to search just the files that are tracked by git.
Many git commands also take sets of commits, which can be specified
-in a number of ways. Here are some examples with `git-log`:
+in a number of ways. Here are some examples with 'git-log':
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$ git log v2.5..v2.6 # commits between v2.5 and v2.6
# Makefile
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-You can also give `git-log` a "range" of commits where the first is not
+You can also give 'git-log' a "range" of commits where the first is not
necessarily an ancestor of the second; for example, if the tips of
the branches "stable-release" and "master" diverged from a common
commit some time ago, then
will show the list of commits made on the stable branch but not
the experimental branch.
-The `git-log` command has a weakness: it must present commits in a
+The 'git-log' command has a weakness: it must present commits in a
list. When the history has lines of development that diverged and
-then merged back together, the order in which `git-log` presents
+then merged back together, the order in which 'git-log' presents
those commits is meaningless.
Most projects with multiple contributors (such as the linux kernel,
-or git itself) have frequent merges, and `gitk` does a better job of
+or git itself) have frequent merges, and 'gitk' does a better job of
visualizing their history. For example,
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$ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in
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-You can also use `git-show` to see any such file:
+You can also use 'git-show' to see any such file:
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$ git show v2.5:Makefile