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author | Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> | |
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:25:08 +0000 (22:25 -0500) | ||
committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | |
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:58:56 +0000 (20:58 -0800) |
Update section about warning when leaving a detached head.
Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Also fix a few indentations that weren't like the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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entries for selected paths.
- git-update-index is much less visible. Many suggestions to
- use the command in git output and documentation have now been
- replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm".
+ use the command in git output and documentation have now been
+ replaced by simpler commands such as "git add" or "git rm".
* Repository layout and objects transfer
reset" to jump to arbitrary commit, while still keeping your
HEAD detached.
- Going back to attached state (i.e. on a particular branch) by
- "git checkout $branch" can lose the current stat you arrived
- in these ways, and "git checkout" refuses when the detached
- HEAD is not pointed by any existing ref (an existing branch,
- a remote tracking branch or a tag). This safety can be
- overridden with "git checkout -f $branch".
+ Remember that a detached state is volatile, i.e. it will be forgotten
+ as soon as you move away from it with the checkout or reset command,
+ unless a branch is created from it as mentioned above. It is also
+ possible to rescue a lost detached state from the HEAD reflog.
* Packed refs
* Foreign SCM interfaces
- - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the
- command-line backend was too slow and limited.
+ - git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the
+ command-line backend was too slow and limited.
- - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to
- 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for
- day-to-day work.
+ - the 'commit' subcommand of git-svn has been renamed to
+ 'set-tree', and 'dcommit' is the recommended replacement for
+ day-to-day work.
- - git fast-import backend.
+ - git fast-import backend.
* User support