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Re: A tour of git: the basics (and notes on some unfriendly messages)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 29, 2007, 00:45 UTC
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Thanks for starting this.  It was an interesting read.
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#2.2.1

"git help init" would give man page. The time when the short help is given is when you mistype options, as in:

	$ git init --huh?
#2.4
	By default this command prints a brief paragraph of output...

Not really. The default is to give you the entire log message, unless you somehow made --pretty=short the default with your copy of git.

	The "git log" tool doesn't display the Committer...
You can ask it to, so "by default" is missing.
#2.7.1
	But some poepl, (notably Linus...
typo.
#2.7.6
	for which "git commit --amend" was
was what?  "invented" perhaps?
#2.8.3
	Using "git remote" to pull changes other repositories
"changes from other repositories".
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  1. Carl WorthSep 28, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceSep 29, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  4. Steffen ProhaskaSep 29, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  6. Steffen ProhaskaSep 29, 2007
  7. WinGit: included /bin/start in the installerSteffen Prohaska, Sep 29, 2007
  8. WinGit: include html pages from official git.git's html branchSteffen Prohaska, Sep 29, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinSep 29, 2007
  12. Steffen ProhaskaSep 30, 2007
  13. Pierre HabouzitSep 29, 2007
  14. Wincent ColaiutaSep 30, 2007
  15. Pierre HabouzitSep 30, 2007
  16. Wincent ColaiutaSep 30, 2007
  17. Steffen ProhaskaSep 29, 2007
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2007
  19. Steffen ProhaskaSep 30, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 30, 2007
  21. Johannes SchindelinSep 30, 2007
  22. Steffen ProhaskaSep 30, 2007
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2007
  24. Carl WorthSep 30, 2007
  25. Carl WorthSep 30, 2007
  26. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 29, 2007

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