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diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 8cc383f..15f4f01 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -157,9 +157,9 @@ which will print out "Hello World". The object 557db... is nothing more than the contents of your file "a". [ Digression: don't confuse that object with the file "a" itself. The -object is literally just those specific _contents_ of the file, and -however much you later change the contents in file "a", the object we -just looked at will never change. Objects are immutable. ] + object is literally just those specific _contents_ of the file, and + however much you later change the contents in file "a", the object we + just looked at will never change. Objects are immutable. ] Anyway, as we mentioned previously, you normally never actually take a look at the objects themselves, and typing long 40-character hex SHA1 @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ script for doing all of the non-initial commits that does all of this for you, and starts up an editor to let you write your commit message yourself, so let's just use that: - git-commit-script + git commit Write whatever message you want, and all the lines that start with '#' will be pruned out, and the rest will be used as the commit message for @@ -398,14 +398,25 @@ changes. A trivial (but very useful) script called "git-whatchanged" is included with git which does exactly this, and shows a log of recent activity. -To see the whole history of our pitiful little git-tutorial project, we +To see the whole history of our pitiful little git-tutorial project, you can do + git log + +which shows just the log messages, or if we want to see the log together +whith the associated patches use the more complex (and much more +powerful) + git-whatchanged -p --root -(the "--root" flag is a flag to git-diff-tree to tell it to show the -initial aka "root" commit as a diff too), and you will see exactly what -has changed in the repository over its short history. +and you will see exactly what has changed in the repository over its +short history. + +[ Side note: the "--root" flag is a flag to git-diff-tree to tell it to + show the initial aka "root" commit too. Normally you'd probably not + want to see the initial import diff, but since the tutorial project + was started from scratch and is so small, we use it to make the result + a bit more interesting ] With that, you should now be having some inkling of what git does, and can explore on your own. |