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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-08-18 22:16:24 -0400 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-08-26 10:35:16 -0400 |
| commit | a2ef9d633f67edc227b00209d5b72ec388388877 (patch) | |
| tree | cb351c0b48d96624a68878a82eb542cf379af3be /Documentation | |
| parent | a5f90f31302eb47cb1aa2f12447376ff9332abef (diff) | |
| download | git-a2ef9d633f67edc227b00209d5b72ec388388877.tar.gz git-a2ef9d633f67edc227b00209d5b72ec388388877.tar.xz | |
user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlier
Use the word "commit" as a synonym for "version" from the start.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 933177a38..6d35a1f58 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ contains all the information about the history of the project. How to check out a different version of a project ------------------------------------------------- -Git is best thought of as a tool for storing the history of a -collection of files. It stores the history as a compressed -collection of interrelated snapshots (versions) of the project's -contents. +Git is best thought of as a tool for storing the history of a collection +of files. It stores the history as a compressed collection of +interrelated snapshots of the project's contents. In git each such +version is called a <<def_commit,commit>>. A single git repository may contain multiple branches. It keeps track of them by keeping a list of <<def_head,heads>> which reference the -latest version on each branch; the gitlink:git-branch[1] command shows +latest commit on each branch; the gitlink:git-branch[1] command shows you the list of branch heads: ------------------------------------------------ |