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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-05-17 23:56:08 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-05-19 00:57:19 -0400
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tutorials: add user-manual links
Mention the user manual, especially as an alternative introduction for user's mainly interested in read-only operations. And fix a typo while we're there. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt
index af8d43bd1..5c39a165f 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ with the commands mentioned in link:everyday.html[Everyday git]. You
should be able to find any unknown jargon in the
link:glossary.html[Glossary].
+The link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] provides a more
+comprehensive introduction to git.
+
The link:cvs-migration.html[CVS migration] document explains how to
import a CVS repository into git, and shows how to use git in a
CVS-like way.
diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 99efce457..809417231 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ A tutorial introduction to git (for version 1.5.1 or newer)
This tutorial explains how to import a new project into git, make
changes to it, and share changes with other developers.
+If you are instead primarily interested in using git to fetch a project,
+for example, to test the latest version, you may prefer to start with
+the first two chapters of link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual].
+
First, note that you can get documentation for a command such as "git
diff" with:
@@ -564,7 +568,7 @@ link:tutorial-2.html[Part two of this tutorial] explains the object
database, the index file, and a few other odds and ends that you'll
need to make the most of git.
-If you don't want to consider with that right away, a few other
+If you don't want to continue with that right away, a few other
digressions that may be interesting at this point are:
* gitlink:git-format-patch[1], gitlink:git-am[1]: These convert