From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:16:59 GMT Subject: [PATCH 3/6] user-manual: introduce the word "commit" earlier Message-ID: <10992.4252414659$1188145046@news.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <11881450231010-git-send-email-> From: J. Bruce Fields Use the word "commit" as a synonym for "version" from the start. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- 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 933177a..6d35a1f 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 <>. A single git repository may contain multiple branches. It keeps track of them by keeping a list of <> 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: ------------------------------------------------ -- 1.5.3.rc5.19.g0734d