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Re: [PATCH] Add git-help-script

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MJMcMullan, Jason <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
Date
Jun 7, 2005, 14:25 UTC
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NOTE: This patch requires '[PATCH] Add missing Documention/*'

Here's the example output of 'git-help-script', which is called when the user doesn't supply any options to the 'git' script wrapper, or -h, or --help

$ git Commands:

    git                 the stupid content tracker
    git apply-patch     Sample script to apply the diffs from git-diff-*
    git commit          Commit working directory
    git deltafy         Convery repository into delta format
    git fetch           Fetch an object from a remote repository
    git help            Short help of all the git commands and scripts
    git log             
    git merge-one-file  The standard helper program to use with
"git-merge-cache"
    git prune           Prunes all unreachable objects from the object
                        database
    git pull            Script used by Linus to pull and merge a
                        remote repository
    git resolve         Script used to merge two trees
    git-shortlog        
    git status          
    git tag             An example script to create a tag object
                        signed with GPG
    git-whatchanged     Find out what changed
    git-apply           Apply a patch against the current index
cache/working
                        directory
    git-cat-file        Provide content or type information for
repository
                        objects
    git-check-files     Verify a list of files are up-to-date
    git-checkout-cache  Copy files from the cache to the working
                        directory
    git-commit-tree     Creates a new commit object
    git-convert-cache   Converts old-style GIT repository
    git-diff-cache      Compares content and mode of blobs between
                        the cache and repository
    git-diff-files      Compares files in the working tree and the
                        cache
    git-diff-helper     Generates patch format output for git-diff-*
    git-diff-tree       Compares the content and mode of blobs found
                        via two tree objects
    git-export          Exports each commit and a diff against each
                        of its parents
    git-fsck-cache      Verifies the connectivity and validity of
                        the objects in the database
    git-get-tar-commit-idShow the commit ID embedded in a git-tar-tree
                        file.
    git-http-pull       Downloads a remote GIT repository via HTTP
    git-init-db         Creates an empty git object database
    git-local-pull      Duplicates another GIT repository on a local
                        system
    git-ls-files        Information about files in the cache/working
                        directory
    git-ls-tree         Lists the contents of a tree object.
    git-merge-base      Finds as good a common ancestor as possible
                        for a merge
    git-merge-cache     Runs a merge for files needing merging
    git-mkdelta         Creates a delta object
    git-mktag           Creates a tag object
    git-read-tree       Reads tree information into the directory
                        cache
    git-rev-list        Lists commit objects in reverse chronological
                        order
    git-rev-tree        Provides the revision tree for one or more
                        commits
    git-ssh-pull        Pulls from a remote repository over ssh
connection
    git-ssh-push        Pushes to a remote repository over ssh
connection
    git-stripspace      Strip space from stdin
    git-tar-tree        Creates a tar archive of the files in the
                        named tree
    git-unpack-file     Creates a temporary file with a blob's contents
    git-update-cache    Modifies the index or directory cache
    git-write-blob      Creates a blob from a file
    git-write-tree      Creates a tree from the current cache
-- 
Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
TimeSys Corporation
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