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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-12-18 16:43:11 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-12-18 16:43:11 -0800
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<div id="header">
<h1>
gittutorial-2(7) Manual Page
@@ -580,13 +742,16 @@ gittutorial-2(7) Manual Page
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="verseblock">
-<div class="verseblock-content">git *</div>
-<div class="verseblock-attribution">
+<pre class="content">git *</pre>
+<div class="attribution">
</div></div>
</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>You should work through <a href="gittutorial.html">gittutorial(7)</a> before reading this tutorial.</p></div>
@@ -595,12 +760,14 @@ git&#8217;s architecture&#8212;the object database and the index file&#8212;and
provide the reader with everything necessary to understand the rest
of the git documentation.</p></div>
</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_git_object_database">The git object database</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Let&#8217;s start a new project and create a small amount of history:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ mkdir test-project
+<pre><code>$ mkdir test-project
$ cd test-project
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
@@ -613,7 +780,7 @@ $ git commit -a -m "initial commit"
$ echo 'hello world!' &gt;file.txt
$ git commit -a -m "add emphasis"
[master c4d59f3] add emphasis
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)</tt></pre>
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>What are the 7 digits of hex that git responded to the commit with?</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>We saw in part one of the tutorial that commits have names like this.
@@ -630,20 +797,20 @@ can be used, so long as they are unambiguous.</p></div>
following the example above generates a different SHA1 hash than
the one shown above because the commit object records the time when
it was created and the name of the person performing the commit.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>We can ask git about this particular object with the <tt>cat-file</tt>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>We can ask git about this particular object with the <code>cat-file</code>
command. Don&#8217;t copy the 40 hex digits from this example but use those
from your own version. Note that you can shorten it to only a few
characters to save yourself typing all 40 hex digits:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git cat-file -t 54196cc2
+<pre><code>$ git cat-file -t 54196cc2
commit
$ git cat-file commit 54196cc2
tree 92b8b694ffb1675e5975148e1121810081dbdffe
author J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org&gt; 1143414668 -0500
committer J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org&gt; 1143414668 -0500
-initial commit</tt></pre>
+initial commit</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>A tree can refer to one or more "blob" objects, each corresponding to
a file. In addition, a tree can also refer to other tree objects,
@@ -652,21 +819,21 @@ any tree using ls-tree (remember that a long enough initial portion
of the SHA1 will also work):</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git ls-tree 92b8b694
-100644 blob 3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad file.txt</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ git ls-tree 92b8b694
+100644 blob 3b18e512dba79e4c8300dd08aeb37f8e728b8dad file.txt</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Thus we see that this tree has one file in it. The SHA1 hash is a
reference to that file&#8217;s data:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git cat-file -t 3b18e512
-blob</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ git cat-file -t 3b18e512
+blob</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>A "blob" is just file data, which we can also examine with cat-file:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git cat-file blob 3b18e512
-hello world</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ git cat-file blob 3b18e512
+hello world</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that this is the old file data; so the object that git named in
its response to the initial tree was a tree with a snapshot of the
@@ -675,7 +842,7 @@ directory state that was recorded by the first commit.</p></div>
directory:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ find .git/objects/
+<pre><code>$ find .git/objects/
.git/objects/
.git/objects/pack
.git/objects/info
@@ -690,7 +857,7 @@ directory:</p></div>
.git/objects/d0
.git/objects/d0/492b368b66bdabf2ac1fd8c92b39d3db916e59
.git/objects/c4
-.git/objects/c4/d59f390b9cfd4318117afde11d601c1085f241</tt></pre>
+.git/objects/c4/d59f390b9cfd4318117afde11d601c1085f241</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>and the contents of these files is just the compressed data plus a
header identifying their length and their type. The type is either a
@@ -699,8 +866,8 @@ blob, a tree, a commit, or a tag.</p></div>
from .git/HEAD:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ cat .git/HEAD
-ref: refs/heads/master</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ cat .git/HEAD
+ref: refs/heads/master</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>As you can see, this tells us which branch we&#8217;re currently on, and it
tells us this by naming a file under the .git directory, which itself
@@ -708,7 +875,7 @@ contains a SHA1 name referring to a commit object, which we can
examine with cat-file:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
+<pre><code>$ cat .git/refs/heads/master
c4d59f390b9cfd4318117afde11d601c1085f241
$ git cat-file -t c4d59f39
commit
@@ -718,25 +885,25 @@ parent 54196cc2703dc165cbd373a65a4dcf22d50ae7f7
author J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org&gt; 1143418702 -0500
committer J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org&gt; 1143418702 -0500
-add emphasis</tt></pre>
+add emphasis</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The "tree" object here refers to the new state of the tree:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git ls-tree d0492b36
+<pre><code>$ git ls-tree d0492b36
100644 blob a0423896973644771497bdc03eb99d5281615b51 file.txt
$ git cat-file blob a0423896
-hello world!</tt></pre>
+hello world!</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>and the "parent" object refers to the previous commit:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git cat-file commit 54196cc2
+<pre><code>$ git cat-file commit 54196cc2
tree 92b8b694ffb1675e5975148e1121810081dbdffe
author J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org&gt; 1143414668 -0500
committer J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@puzzle.fieldses.org&gt; 1143414668 -0500
-initial commit</tt></pre>
+initial commit</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The tree object is the tree we examined first, and this commit is
unusual in that it lacks any parent.</p></div>
@@ -790,10 +957,12 @@ tree, etc.--and most such commands can accept any of these names.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In command synopses, the word "tree-ish" is sometimes used to
designate such an argument.</p></div>
</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_index_file">The index file</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="paragraph"><p>The primary tool we&#8217;ve been using to create commits is <tt>git-commit
--a</tt>, which creates a commit including every change you&#8217;ve made to
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The primary tool we&#8217;ve been using to create commits is <code>git-commit
+-a</code>, which creates a commit including every change you&#8217;ve made to
your working tree. But what if you want to commit changes only to
certain files? Or only certain changes to certain files?</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If we look at the way commits are created under the cover, we&#8217;ll see
@@ -801,34 +970,34 @@ that there are more flexible ways creating commits.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Continuing with our test-project, let&#8217;s modify file.txt again:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ echo "hello world, again" &gt;&gt;file.txt</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ echo "hello world, again" &gt;&gt;file.txt</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>but this time instead of immediately making the commit, let&#8217;s take an
intermediate step, and ask for diffs along the way to keep track of
what&#8217;s happening:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git diff
+<pre><code>$ git diff
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
hello world!
+hello world, again
$ git add file.txt
-$ git diff</tt></pre>
+$ git diff</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The last diff is empty, but no new commits have been made, and the
head still doesn&#8217;t contain the new line:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git diff HEAD
+<pre><code>$ git diff HEAD
diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
index a042389..513feba 100644
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
hello world!
-+hello world, again</tt></pre>
++hello world, again</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>So <em>git diff</em> is comparing against something other than the head.
The thing that it&#8217;s comparing against is actually the index file,
@@ -836,13 +1005,13 @@ which is stored in .git/index in a binary format, but whose contents
we can examine with ls-files:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git ls-files --stage
+<pre><code>$ git ls-files --stage
100644 513feba2e53ebbd2532419ded848ba19de88ba00 0 file.txt
$ git cat-file -t 513feba2
blob
$ git cat-file blob 513feba2
hello world!
-hello world, again</tt></pre>
+hello world, again</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>So what our <em>git add</em> did was store a new blob and then put
a reference to it in the index file. If we modify the file again,
@@ -850,7 +1019,7 @@ we&#8217;ll see that the new modifications are reflected in the <em>git diff</em
output:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ echo 'again?' &gt;&gt;file.txt
+<pre><code>$ echo 'again?' &gt;&gt;file.txt
$ git diff
index 513feba..ba3da7b 100644
--- a/file.txt
@@ -858,14 +1027,14 @@ index 513feba..ba3da7b 100644
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
hello world!
hello world, again
-+again?</tt></pre>
++again?</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>With the right arguments, <em>git diff</em> can also show us the difference
between the working directory and the last commit, or between the
index and the last commit:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git diff HEAD
+<pre><code>$ git diff HEAD
diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
index a042389..ba3da7b 100644
--- a/file.txt
@@ -881,7 +1050,7 @@ index a042389..513feba 100644
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
hello world!
-+hello world, again</tt></pre>
++hello world, again</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>At any time, we can create a new commit using <em>git commit</em> (without
the "-a" option), and verify that the state committed only includes the
@@ -889,7 +1058,7 @@ changes stored in the index file, not the additional change that is
still only in our working tree:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git commit -m "repeat"
+<pre><code>$ git commit -m "repeat"
$ git diff HEAD
diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
index 513feba..ba3da7b 100644
@@ -898,7 +1067,7 @@ index 513feba..ba3da7b 100644
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
hello world!
hello world, again
-+again?</tt></pre>
++again?</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>So by default <em>git commit</em> uses the index to create the commit, not
the working tree; the "-a" option to commit tells it to first update
@@ -907,28 +1076,28 @@ the index with all changes in the working tree.</p></div>
file:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ echo "goodbye, world" &gt;closing.txt
-$ git add closing.txt</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ echo "goodbye, world" &gt;closing.txt
+$ git add closing.txt</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The effect of the <em>git add</em> was to add one entry to the index file:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git ls-files --stage
+<pre><code>$ git ls-files --stage
100644 8b9743b20d4b15be3955fc8d5cd2b09cd2336138 0 closing.txt
-100644 513feba2e53ebbd2532419ded848ba19de88ba00 0 file.txt</tt></pre>
+100644 513feba2e53ebbd2532419ded848ba19de88ba00 0 file.txt</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>And, as you can see with cat-file, this new entry refers to the
current contents of the file:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git cat-file blob 8b9743b2
-goodbye, world</tt></pre>
+<pre><code>$ git cat-file blob 8b9743b2
+goodbye, world</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The "status" command is a useful way to get a quick summary of the
situation:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>$ git status
+<pre><code>$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD &lt;file&gt;..." to unstage)
@@ -939,7 +1108,7 @@ situation:</p></div>
# (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to update what will be committed)
#
# modified: file.txt
-#</tt></pre>
+#</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Since the current state of closing.txt is cached in the index file,
it is listed as "Changes to be committed". Since file.txt has
@@ -947,7 +1116,7 @@ changes in the working directory that aren&#8217;t reflected in the index,
it is marked "changed but not updated". At this point, running "git
commit" would create a commit that added closing.txt (with its new
contents), but that didn&#8217;t modify file.txt.</p></div>
-<div class="paragraph"><p>Also, note that a bare <tt>git diff</tt> shows the changes to file.txt, but
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Also, note that a bare <code>git diff</code> shows the changes to file.txt, but
not the addition of closing.txt, because the version of closing.txt
in the index file is identical to the one in the working directory.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In addition to being the staging area for new commits, the index file
@@ -956,6 +1125,8 @@ branch, and is used to hold the trees involved in a merge operation.
See <a href="gitcore-tutorial.html">gitcore-tutorial(7)</a> and the relevant man
pages for details.</p></div>
</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_what_next">What next?</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>At this point you should know everything necessary to read the man
@@ -973,6 +1144,8 @@ CVS-like way.</p></div>
into detail on the lower-level git mechanisms involved in, for
example, creating a new commit.</p></div>
</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="gittutorial.html">gittutorial(7)</a>,
@@ -983,15 +1156,18 @@ example, creating a new commit.</p></div>
<a href="everyday.html">Everyday git</a>,
<a href="user-manual.html">The Git User&#8217;s Manual</a></p></div>
</div>
+</div>
+<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
+</div>
<div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2012-02-13 00:08:46 PDT
+Last updated 2012-02-13 00:08:46 PST
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