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diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt index 9c2a395e5..a436180dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt @@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ variants of this model. With a small group, developers may just pull changes from each other's repositories without the need for a central maintainer. -Emulating the CVS Development Model ------------------------------------ +Creating a Shared Repository +---------------------------- Start with an ordinary git working directory containing the project, and remove the checked-out files, keeping just the bare .git directory: @@ -110,7 +110,10 @@ $ GIT_DIR=repo.git git repo-config core.sharedrepository true Make sure committers have a umask of at most 027, so that the directories they create are writable and searchable by other group members. -Suppose this repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host +Performing Development on a Shared Repository +--------------------------------------------- + +Suppose a repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host foo.com. Then as an individual committer you can clone the shared repository: @@ -139,15 +142,17 @@ Pull: master:origin ------------ ================================ -You can update the shared repository with your changes using: +You can update the shared repository with your changes by first commiting +your changes, and then using: ------------------------------------------------ $ git push origin master ------------------------------------------------ -If someone else has updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like -`cvs commit`, will complain, in which case you must pull any changes -before attempting the push again. +to "push" those commits to the shared repository. If someone else has +updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like `cvs commit`, will +complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the +push again. In the `git push` command above we specify the name of the remote branch to update (`master`). If we leave that out, `git push` tries to update |