Before reading this cover to cover, you may want to take a look
at the link:tutorial.html[tutorial] document.
-The Discussion section below contains much useful definition and
+The <<Discussion>> section below contains much useful definition and
clarification info - read that first. And of the commands, I suggest
reading link:git-update-cache.html[git-update-cache] and
link:git-read-tree.html[git-read-tree] first - I wish I had!
+If you are migrating from CVS, link:cvs-migration.html[cvs migration]
+document may be helpful after you finish the tutorial.
+
After you get the general feel from the tutorial and this
overview page, you may want to take a look at the
link:howto-index.html[howto] documents.
link:git-branch-script.html[git-branch-script]::
Create and Show branches.
+link:git-checkout-script.html[git-checkout-script]::
+ Checkout and switch to a branch.
+
link:git-cherry-pick-script.html[git-cherry-pick-script]::
Cherry-pick the effect of an existing commit.
link:git-repack-script.html[git-repack-script]::
Pack unpacked objects in a repository.
+link:git-reset-script.html[git-reset-script]::
+ Reset current HEAD to the specified state.
+
link:git-resolve-script.html[git-resolve-script]::
Merge two commits.
link:git-applypatch.html[git-applypatch]::
Apply one patch extracted from an e-mail.
+link:git-archimport-script.html[git-archimport-script]::
+ Import an arch repository into git.
+
link:git-convert-cache.html[git-convert-cache]::
Converts old-style GIT repository
Interrogators:
+link:git-build-rev-cache.html[git-build-rev-cache]::
+ Create or update a rev-cache file.
+
link:git-cherry.html[git-cherry]::
Find commits not merged upstream.
link:git-count-objects-script.html[git-count-objects-script]::
Count unpacked number of objects and their disk consumption.
+link:git-daemon.html[git-daemon]::
+ A really simple server for GIT repositories.
+
link:git-diff-helper.html[git-diff-helper]::
Generates patch format output for git-diff-*
+link:git-get-tar-commit-id.html[git-get-tar-commit-id]::
+ Extract commit ID from an archive created using git-tar-tree.
+
link:git-mailinfo.html[git-mailinfo]::
Extracts patch from a single e-mail message.
link:git-patch-id.html[git-patch-id]::
Compute unique ID for a patch.
+link:git-parse-remote-script.html[git-parse-remote-script]::
+ Routines to help parsing $GIT_DIR/remotes/
+
+link:git-request-pull-script.html[git-request-pull-script]::
+ git-request-pull-script.
+
+link:git-rev-parse.html[git-rev-parse]::
+ Pick out and massage parameters.
+
link:git-send-email-script.html[git-send-email]::
Send patch e-mails out of "format-patch --mbox" output.
+link:git-show-rev-cache.html[git-show-rev-cache]::
+ Show the contents of a rev-cache file.
Commands not yet documented
---------------------------
-link:git-build-rev-cache.html[git-build-rev-cache]::
- git-build-rev-cache.
-
-link:git-checkout-script.html[git-checkout-script]::
- git-checkout-script.
-
-link:git-clone-dumb-http.html[git-clone-dumb-http]::
- git-clone-dumb-http.
-
-link:git-daemon.html[git-daemon]::
- git-daemon.
-
link:git-diff-script.html[git-diff-script]::
git-diff-script.
link:git-format-patch-script.html[git-format-patch-script]::
git-format-patch-script.
-link:git-get-tar-commit-id.html[git-get-tar-commit-id]::
- git-get-tar-commit-id.
-
-link:git-request-pull-script.html[git-request-pull-script]::
- git-request-pull-script.
-
-link:git-reset-script.html[git-reset-script]::
- git-reset-script.
-
-link:git-rev-parse.html[git-rev-parse]::
- git-rev-parse.
-
-link:git-show-rev-cache.html[git-show-rev-cache]::
- git-show-rev-cache.
-
link:git-stripspace.html[git-stripspace]::
git-stripspace.
File/Directory Structure
------------------------
-The git-core manipulates the following areas in the directory:
-
- .git/ The base (overridden with $GIT_DIR)
- objects/ The object base (overridden with $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY)
- ??/ 'First 2 chars of object' directories.
- pack/ Packed archives.
- refs/ Directories containing symbolic names for objects
- (each file contains the hex SHA1 + newline)
- heads/ Commits which are heads of various sorts
- tags/ Tags, by the tag name (or some local renaming of it)
- */ Any other subdirectory of refs/ can be used to store
- files similar to what are under refs/heads/.
- HEAD Symlink to refs/heads/<current-branch-name>
+Please see link:repository-layout.html[repository layout] document.
Higher level SCMs may provide and manage additional information in the
GIT_DIR.
+
Terminology
-----------
Please see link:glossary.html[glossary] document.
link:git-diff-files.html[git-diff-files];
link:git-diff-tree.html[git-diff-tree]
-Discussion
-----------
+Discussion[[Discussion]]
+------------------------
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