X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=tour.mdwn;h=e9e02776d86cddd7b8a19c9bd8815303584cfc4c;hb=5bbd7299aa73ba64a701912203c84c733697efcb;hp=3ba6af94849ea8ce77cecf54b1a18b25ec8e5847;hpb=bb4386f58c87854098784df6e11b8aeaed23af99;p=hgbook-git diff --git a/tour.mdwn b/tour.mdwn index 3ba6af9..e9e0277 100644 --- a/tour.mdwn +++ b/tour.mdwn @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ A tour of git: the basics ### 2.0 Copyright -This document is a modified version originally known as "Distributed -revision control with Mercurial" and originally authored by Bryan -O’Sullivan. The original document was obtained from +This document is a modified version of a document originally titled +"Distributed revision control with Mercurial" and originally authored +by Bryan O’Sullivan. The original document was obtained from . Copyright © 2006, 2007 Bryan O’Sullivan. @@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ Changes made by Carl include the following: * Eliminate line numbers from examples * Modified to describe git instead of mercurial +The source of this modified version can be obtained via git: + + git clone git://cworth.org/git/hgbook-git + +or + + git clone http://cworth.org/git/hgbook-git + +and can be [browsed online](http://git.cworth.org/git/hgbook-git) + ### 2.1 Installing git on your system Prebuilt binary packages of git are available for many popular @@ -68,7 +78,7 @@ with git, meaning GNU Interactive Tools). * Ubuntu - apt-get install git + apt-get install git-core #### 2.1.2 Mac OS X @@ -90,7 +100,7 @@ installers. These include GitMe, a package to install the entire development environment necessary to work on improving the msysgit port of git, and WinGit, a package for installing just git itself without the development environment, (still in Alpha as of September -2008). +2007). ### 2.2 Getting started @@ -329,7 +339,7 @@ in the current branch, "HEAD~", refers to the previous commit, and Another useful syntax is .. which can be used to specify a range of commits. So "origin..master" specifies everything that has been -committed to master since it derived from origin. +committed to master since it diverged from origin. #### 2.4.3 Viewing specific revisions @@ -385,7 +395,7 @@ created: Another useful option is -n or --max-count which, unsurprisingly, limits the maximum number of commits to be displayed. -#### 2.4.3 More detailed information +#### 2.4.5 More detailed information While the default information printed by “git log” is useful if you already know what you’re looking for, you may need to see more details