Re: [PATCH] Add a reference to gitk localbranc remote/branch in gittutorial

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> So here are the tweaks I would suggest:
>
>  * Show only "git log -p HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" here;

OK.

>  * After "This operation is safe ... local changes.", say "The range
>   notation HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" means "show everything that is reachable
>   from the FETCH_HEAD but exclude anything that is reachable from HEAD.
>   Alice already knows everything that leads to her current state (HEAD),
>   and reviewing what Bob has in his state (FETCH_HEAD) that she has not
>   seen with this command";

Makes sense.

>  * Drop "This means..." and "log -p ..FETCH" example;

OK.

>  * Replace the explanation for the two-dot range notation after "gitk
>   HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" with "This uses the same two-dot range notation we
>   saw earlier with 'git log'".
>
>  * And finally, if we wanted to, we can top about omission of HEAD in
>   either end of the range notation.  Just before "Please note that these
>   range notation...", say "Because viewing range between your current
>   state and something else is common, you can omit HEAD from either side
>   of two- or three-dot range notation.  I.e. 'git log ..FETCH_HEAD' is a
>   shorthand for 'git log HEAD..FETCH_HEAD', and 'gitk ...FETCH_HEAD' is a
>   shorthand for 'gitk HEAD...FETCH_HEAD'.

Right now I dind't mention the shorthand, I'm not sure whether it's
worth to mention
it in this first tutorial.

What do you think of this whitespace damaged patch?
BTW, does anybody know if/how to inline a patch using the web
interface of Gmail?

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diff --git a/gittutorial.txt.txt b/gittutorial.txt.txt
index 48d1454..384972c 100644
--- a/gittutorial.txt.txt
+++ b/gittutorial.txt.txt
@@ -321,10 +321,37 @@ pulling, like this:

 ------------------------------------------------
 alice$ git fetch /home/bob/myrepo master
-alice$ git log -p ..FETCH_HEAD
+alice$ git log -p HEAD..FETCH_HEAD
 ------------------------------------------------

 This operation is safe even if Alice has uncommitted local changes.
+The range notation HEAD..FETCH_HEAD" means "show everything that is reachable
+from the FETCH_HEAD but exclude anything that is reachable from HEAD.
+Alice already knows everything that leads to her current state (HEAD),
+and reviewing what Bob has in his state (FETCH_HEAD) that she has not
+seen with this command
+
+If Alice wants to visualize what Bob did since their histories forked
+she can issue the following command:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ gitk HEAD..FETCH_HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This uses the same two-dot range notation we saw earlier with 'git log'.
+
+Alice may want to view what both of them did since they forked.
+She can use three-dot form instead of the two-dot form:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ gitk HEAD...FETCH_HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
+
+This means "show everything that is reachable from either one, but
+exclude anything that is reachable from both of them".
+
+Please note that these range notation can be used with both gitk
+and "git log".

 After inspecting what Bob did, if there is nothing urgent, Alice may
 decide to continue working without pulling from Bob.  If Bob's history
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Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/