From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: tutorial editing
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:38:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070107033838.GB9104@fieldses.org> (raw)
Edit for conciseness.
Add a "Making changes" section header.
When possible, make sure that stuff in text boxes could be entered literally.
(Don't use "..." unless we want a user to type that.)
Move 'commit -a' example into a literal code section, clarify that it finds
modified files automatically.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
Documentation/tutorial.txt | 16 ++++++++++------
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 79884d9..2fdeed2 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
You've now initialized the working directory--you may notice a new
directory created, named ".git". Tell git that you want it to track
-every file under the current directory with (notice the dot '.'
-that means the current directory):
+every file under the current directory (note the '.') with:
------------------------------------------------
$ git add .
@@ -59,6 +58,9 @@ $ git commit
will prompt you for a commit message, then record the current state
of all the files to the repository.
+Making changes
+--------------
+
Try modifying some files, then run
------------------------------------------------
@@ -70,19 +72,21 @@ want the updated contents of these files in the commit and then
make a commit, like this:
------------------------------------------------
-$ git add file1 file...
+$ git add file1 file2 file3
$ git commit
------------------------------------------------
This will again prompt your for a message describing the change, and then
-record the new versions of the files you listed. It is cumbersome
-to list all files and you can say `git commit -a` (which stands for 'all')
-instead of running `git add` beforehand.
+record the new versions of the files you listed.
+
+Alternatively, instead of running `git add` beforehand, you can use
------------------------------------------------
$ git commit -a
------------------------------------------------
+which will automatically notice modified (but not new) files.
+
A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to
begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more
--
1.5.0.rc0.ge16c2
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