Add documentation for the rest of commands.

This adds descriptions for the core GIT commands that were not
mentioned in the previous version.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano 2005-05-05 23:50:22 -07:00
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@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ Identifier terminology used:
the tree structure GIT_INDEX_FILE describes.
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git-apply-patch-script
This is a sample script to be used as GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF to apply
differences git-diff-* family of commands reports to the current
work tree.
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git-cat-file
git-cat-file (-t | <type>) <object>
@ -225,6 +233,12 @@ for one to be entered and terminated with ^D
see also: git-write-tree
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git-convert-cache
Converts old-style GIT repository to the latest.
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git-diff-cache
git-diff-cache [-p] [-r] [-z] [--cached] <tree-ish>
@ -335,6 +349,7 @@ which file is in which state, since the "has been updated" ones show a
valid sha1, and the "not in sync with the index" ones will always have the
special all-zero sha1.
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git-diff-tree
git-diff-tree [-p] [-r] [-z] <tree-ish> <tree-ish> [<pattern>]*
@ -409,6 +424,7 @@ this one:
in case you care).
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git-diff-tree-helper
git-diff-tree-helper [-z] [-R]
@ -431,6 +447,7 @@ generates patch format output.
See also the section on generating patches.
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git-fsck-cache
git-fsck-cache [--tags] [--root] [[--unreachable] [--cache] <object>*]
@ -525,6 +542,7 @@ SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY
GIT_INDEX_FILE
used to specify the cache
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git-export
git-export top [base]
@ -547,6 +565,18 @@ otherwise the default .git/objects directory is used.
git-init-db won't hurt an existing repository.
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git-http-pull
Downloads a remote GIT repository via HTTP protocol.
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git-local-pull
Downloads another GIT repository on a local system.
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git-ls-tree
git-ls-tree [-r] [-z] <tree-ish>
@ -630,6 +660,33 @@ merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error
for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
"git-merge-cache" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
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git-merge-one-file-script
This is the standard helper program to use with git-merge-cache
to resolve a merge after the trivial merge done with git-read-tree -m.
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git-mktag
Reads a tag contents from its standard input and creates a tag object.
The input must be a well formed tag object.
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git-prune-script
This runs git-fsck-cache --unreachable program using the heads specified
on the command line (or .git/refs/heads/* and .git/refs/tags/* if none is
specified), and prunes all unreachable objects from the object database.
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git-pull-script
This script is used by Linus to pull from a remote repository and perform
a merge.
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git-read-tree
@ -753,6 +810,12 @@ git-write-tree
git-ls-files
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git-resolve-script
This script is used by Linus to merge two trees.
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git-rev-list <commit>
@ -822,6 +885,19 @@ revisions - in "common-revision", and figure out the best one. I
think.)
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git-rpull
Pulls from a remote repository over ssh connection, invoking git-rpush on
the other end.
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git-rpush
Helper "server-side" program used by git-rpull.
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git-diff-files
git-diff-files [-p] [-q] [-r] [-z] [<pattern>...]
@ -849,6 +925,23 @@ See "Output format from git-diff-cache, git-diff-tree and git-diff-files"
section.
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git-tag-script
This is an example script that uses git-mktag to create a tag object
signed with GPG.
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git-tar-tree
git-tar-tree <tree-ish> [ <base> ]
Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree.
When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path as the files in the
generated tar archive.
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git-ls-files
git-ls-files [-z] [-t]
@ -1000,6 +1093,17 @@ To update and refresh only the files already checked out:
git-checkout-cache -n -f -a && git-update-cache --ignore-missing --refresh
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git-write-blob
git-write-blob <any-file-on-the-filesystem>
Writes the contents of the named file (which can be outside of the work
tree) as a blob into the object database, and reports its object ID to its
standard output. This is used by git-merge-one-file-script to update the
cache without modifying files in the work tree.
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git-write-tree
git-write-tree