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| Git - the stupid content tracker | |
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| "git" can mean anything, depending on your mood. | |
| - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not | |
| actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a | |
| mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant. | |
| - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the | |
| dictionary of slang. | |
| - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually | |
| works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room. | |
| - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks | |
| Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an | |
| unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations | |
| and full access to internals. | |
| Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public | |
| License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, | |
| compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus | |
| Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net. | |
| Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions. | |
| See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see | |
| Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and | |
| Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command. | |
| If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be | |
| read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the | |
| documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help | |
| commandname". | |
| CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt | |
| ("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is | |
| installed). | |
| Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/ | |
| including full documentation and Git related tools. | |
| The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git | |
| mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature | |
| requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read | |
| Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). | |
| To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in | |
| the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are | |
| available at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/, | |
| http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites. | |
| The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that | |
| list the current status of various development topics to the mailing | |
| list. The discussion following them give a good reference for | |
| project status, development direction and remaining tasks. |