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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. | |
| It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of | |
| hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano. | |
| Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions. | |
| See Documentation/tutorial.txt to get started, then see | |
| Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, | |
| and "man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. | |
| CVS users may also want to read Documentation/cvs-migration.txt. | |
| Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git.or.cz/ | |
| 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. 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://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites. | |
| The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in | |
| git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and | |
| the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good | |
| reference for project status, development direction and | |
| remaining tasks. |