comment on the changes you are submitting. It is important for
a developer to be able to "quote" your changes, using standard
e-mail tools, so that they may comment on specific portions of
-your code. For this reason, all patches should be submited
+your code. For this reason, all patches should be submitted
"inline". WARNING: Be wary of your MUAs word-wrap
corrupting your patch. Do not cut-n-paste your patch; you can
lose tabs that way if you are not careful.
full shell on the machine, there is a restricted shell which only allows
users to do git pushes and pulls; see gitlink:git-shell[1].
-Put all the committers should in the same group, and make the repository
+Put all the committers in the same group, and make the repository
writable by that group:
------------------------------------------------
commit with these flags.
-q::
- Remain silent even on nonexisting files
+ Remain silent even on nonexistent files
Output format
-------------
-----------
This command creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory
with subdirectories for `objects`, `refs/heads`, `refs/tags`, and
-templated files.
+template files.
An initial `HEAD` file that references the HEAD of the master branch
is also created.
-b::
If any file doesn't begin with a From line, assume it is a
- single mail message instead of signalling error.
+ single mail message instead of signaling error.
-d<prec>::
Instead of the default 4 digits with leading zeros,
stops before touching anything.
So in the above two "failed merge" case, you do not have to
-worry about lossage of data --- you simply were not ready to do
+worry about loss of data --- you simply were not ready to do
a merge, so no merge happened at all. You may want to finish
whatever you were in the middle of doing, and retry the same
pull after you are done and ready.
A git tag of the form p4/xx is created for every change imported from
the Perforce repository where xx is the Perforce changeset number.
Therefore after the import you can use git to access any commit by its
-Perforce number, eg. git show p4/327.
+Perforce number, e.g. git show p4/327.
The tag associated with the HEAD commit is also how `git-p4import`
determines if there are new changes to incrementally import from the
Notes
-----
-You can interrupt the import (eg. ctrl-c) at any time and restart it
+You can interrupt the import (e.g. ctrl-c) at any time and restart it
without worry.
Author information is automatically determined by querying the
--all::
- Processes all packs. Any filenames on the commandline are ignored.
+ Processes all packs. Any filenames on the command line are ignored.
--alt-odb::
Don't require objects present in packs from alternate object
-f, \--force::
Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is
- not a descendent of the local ref used to overwrite it.
+ not a descendant of the local ref used to overwrite it.
This flag disables the check. This can cause the
remote repository to lose commits; use it with care.
% git repo-config core.filemode true
------------
-The hypothetic proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
-to what URL they apply. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
+The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
+what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
to "ssh".
------------
--objects-edge::
Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of
- excluded commits refixed with a `-` character. This is
+ excluded commits prefixed with a `-` character. This is
used by `git-pack-objects` to build 'thin' pack, which
records objects in deltified form based on objects
contained in these excluded commits to reduce network
- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
- gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
+ gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
- *gitview* (contrib/)
This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user.
The UI for the protocol is on the 'git-tar-tree' side, and the
-program pair is meant to be used to get a tar achive from a
+program pair is meant to be used to get a tar archive from a
remote repository.
Starting from 0.99.9 (actually mid 0.99.8.GIT), `.git/config` file
is used to hold per-repository configuration options. It is a
-simple text file modelled after `.ini` format familiar to some
+simple text file modeled after `.ini` format familiar to some
people. Here is an example:
------------
and at this point "git bisect" will churn for a while, and tell you what
the mid-point between those two commits are, and check that state out as
-the head of the bew "bisect" branch.
+the head of the new "bisect" branch.
Compile and reboot.
The two commits #2' and #3' in the above picture record the same
changes your e-mail submission for #2 and #3 contained, but
-probably with the new sign-off line added by the upsteam
+probably with the new sign-off line added by the upstream
maintainer and definitely with different committer and ancestry
information, they are different objects from #2 and #3 commits.
<pasky> yes
-And Bable-like confusion flowed.
+And Babel-like confusion flowed.
<njs`> oh, hmm, and I'm not sure what this sliding window means either
(type, basename, size)).
Then we walk through this list, and calculate a delta of
- each object against the last n (tunable paramater) objects,
+ each object against the last n (tunable parameter) objects,
and pick the smallest of these deltas.
Vastly simplified, but the essence is there!
do "object name->location in packfile" translation.
<njs`> I'm assuming the real win for delta-ing large->small is
- more homogenous statistics for gzip to run over?
+ more homogeneous statistics for gzip to run over?
(You have to put the bytes in one place or another, but
putting them in a larger blob wins on compression)
Bugs happen, but they are "simple" bugs. And bugs that
actually get some object store detail wrong are almost always
- so obious that they never go anywhere.
+ so obvious that they never go anywhere.
<njs`> Yeah.
- "libcurl" and "curl" executable. git-http-fetch and
git-fetch use them. If you do not use http
- transfer, you are probabaly OK if you do not have
+ transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
them.
- expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
never notice the lack of it.
- - "wish", the TCL/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+ - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
history graphically
- "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
# Define NO_ACCURATE_DIFF if your diff program at least sometimes misses
# a missing newline at the end of the file.
#
-# Define NO_PYTHON if you want to loose all benefits of the recursive merge.
+# Define NO_PYTHON if you want to lose all benefits of the recursive merge.
#
# Define COLLISION_CHECK below if you believe that SHA1's
# 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976 hashes do not give you
ALL_CFLAGS += -DNO_ACCURATE_DIFF
endif
-# Shell quote (do not use $(call) to accomodate ancient setups);
+# Shell quote (do not use $(call) to accommodate ancient setups);
SHA1_HEADER_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHA1_HEADER))
#$log->debug("update state : " . Dumper($state));
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @{$state->{args}} )
{
$filename = filecleanup($filename);
my @committedfiles = ();
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @{$state->{args}} )
{
my $committedfile = $filename;
$updater->update();
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @committedfiles )
{
$filename = filecleanup($filename);
# if no files were specified, we need to work out what files we should be providing status on ...
argsfromdir($updater);
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @{$state->{args}} )
{
$filename = filecleanup($filename);
# if no files were specified, we need to work out what files we should be providing status on ...
argsfromdir($updater);
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @{$state->{args}} )
{
$filename = filecleanup($filename);
# if no files were specified, we need to work out what files we should be providing status on ...
argsfromdir($updater);
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @{$state->{args}} )
{
$filename = filecleanup($filename);
chdir $tmpdir;
- # foreach file specified on the commandline ...
+ # foreach file specified on the command line ...
foreach my $filename ( @{$state->{args}} )
{
$filename = filecleanup($filename);
fp = fopen(infofile, "r");
if (!fp)
- return 1; /* nonexisting is not an error. */
+ return 1; /* nonexistent is not an error. */
while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp)) {
int len = strlen(line);
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