From a2ef9d633f67edc227b00209d5b72ec388388877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:16:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlier Use the word "commit" as a synonym for "version" from the start. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 933177a38..6d35a1f58 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ contains all the information about the history of the project. How to check out a different version of a project ------------------------------------------------- -Git is best thought of as a tool for storing the history of a -collection of files. It stores the history as a compressed -collection of interrelated snapshots (versions) of the project's -contents. +Git is best thought of as a tool for storing the history of a collection +of files. It stores the history as a compressed collection of +interrelated snapshots of the project's contents. In git each such +version is called a <>. A single git repository may contain multiple branches. It keeps track of them by keeping a list of <> which reference the -latest version on each branch; the gitlink:git-branch[1] command shows +latest commit on each branch; the gitlink:git-branch[1] command shows you the list of branch heads: ------------------------------------------------ -- 2.30.2