Re: totorial-2 Re: (unknown)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 22, 2006, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfyj2hp5p.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1148255528.61d5d241.2@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 19:49:34 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] tutorial: add discussion of index file, object database

Thanks.  I like the changes to tutorial.txt too btw.

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> @@ -0,0 +1,391 @@
> +A tutorial introduction to git: part two
>...
> +and the contents of these files is just the compressed data plus a
> +header identifying their length and their type.  The type is either a
> +blob, a tree, a commit, or a tag.  We've seen a blob and a tree now,
> +so next we should look at a commit.
>...
> +Besides blobs, trees, and commits, the only remaining type of object
> +is a "tag", which we won't discuss here; refer to gitlink:git-tag[1]
> +for details.

We have created a tag in tutorial#1, so it _might_ make sense to just tell the user to cat-file it.

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> +------------------------------------------------
> +$ git diff
> +--- a/file.txt
> ++++ b/file.txt
> +@@ -1 +1,2 @@
> + hello world!
> + +hello world, again
> +$ git update-index file.txt
> +$ git diff
> +------------------------------------------------

Is the second line of the diff " +" intentional? The same comment to the example that immediately follows this part.