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From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Documentation problems
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:58:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB66D4C.70301@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out what a ``tree-ish''.
I cannot seem to use many of the commands until I know.

<tree-ish>
    Indicates a tree, commit or tag object name. A command that takes a
    <tree-ish> argument ultimately wants to operate on a <tree> object
    but automatically dereferences <commit> and <tag> objects that point at a <tree>.

I need a translation.  :(  Thank you.  Regards, Bruce

P.S. I have a SuSE installation with everything relating to GIT installed.
The man pages reference commands like, "git-ls-tree --name-only" except
that there isn't any such command.  Unless you reverse engineer the
implementation of "git", discover the /usr/lib/git directory and add it
to your path.  That hassle is rather inconvenient.  More hints about
where the git commands get squirreled away would be useful.  Thank you.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-20 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-20 17:58 Bruce Korb [this message]
2009-09-20 18:24 ` Documentation problems Matthieu Moy
2009-09-20 18:37   ` Bruce Korb
2009-09-20 18:45     ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-20 20:52 ` Andreas Schwab

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