Re: Documentation problems

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 20, 2009, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqeiq1zc9f.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4AB67665.10402@gmail.com>

Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com> writes:

> Since I haven't created any any branches (to my knowledge), it seems
> that "master" is the magic branch name.

I wouldn't say "magic", but surely the default ;-).

> My goal was just to get a list of managed files.

Just cd /where/your/repo/is git ls-files

> Is "master" going to remain my "HEAD" now?

Yes.

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>> git-ls-tree is the old way to
>> refer to the command name. Normally, any reference to dashed names
>> should have been removed from the documentation by now (so most likely
>> you see it in your distro because it's an old enough version,
>> otherwise, it's a bug in the doc).
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.6.0.2
>
> I guess the man pages and installation were out of sync for that release.

Well, actually, a few more instances of dashed commands were removed more recently. That said, to get the doc for "git foo", you still have to type "man git-foo" (or git foo --help indeed), but that's because "man git foo" means something different to man.

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Matthieu Moy
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