git-show-branch doc: show -g as synonym to --reflog in the list

[git.git] / Documentation / gittutorial.txt

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--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ First, note that you can get documentation for a command such as
 $ man git-log
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+or:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git help log
+------------------------------------------------
+
+With the latter, you can use the manual viewer of your choice; see
+linkgit:git-help[1] for more information.
+
 It is a good idea to introduce yourself to git with your name and
 public email address before doing any operation.  The easiest
 way to do so is:
@@ -299,13 +308,64 @@ alice$ git pull /home/bob/myrepo master
 
 This merges the changes from Bob's "master" branch into Alice's
 current branch.  If Alice has made her own changes in the meantime,
-then she may need to manually fix any conflicts.  (Note that the
-"master" argument in the above command is actually unnecessary, as it
-is the default.)
+then she may need to manually fix any conflicts.
 
 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
@@ -315,7 +375,7 @@ it easier:
 alice$ git remote add bob /home/bob/myrepo
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-With this, Alice can perform the first operation alone using the
+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:
 
@@ -528,7 +588,7 @@ list.  When the history has lines of development that diverged and
 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,
+Most projects with multiple contributors (such as the Linux kernel,
 or git itself) have frequent merges, and 'gitk' does a better job of
 visualizing their history.  For example,
 
@@ -580,7 +640,7 @@ digressions that may be interesting at this point are:
 
   * linkgit:git-format-patch[1], linkgit:git-am[1]: These convert
     series of git commits into emailed patches, and vice versa,
-    useful for projects such as the linux kernel which rely heavily
+    useful for projects such as the Linux kernel which rely heavily
     on emailed patches.
 
   * linkgit:git-bisect[1]: When there is a regression in your
@@ -600,6 +660,7 @@ linkgit:gittutorial-2[7],
 linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7],
 linkgit:gitcore-tutorial[7],
 linkgit:gitglossary[7],
+linkgit:git-help[1],
 link:everyday.html[Everyday git],
 link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]