The old text suggested that git-update-server-info only needs to be run
if new tags or branches are created, but not for new commits.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add discussion section to git-checkout documentation and mention
detached HEAD in repository-layout document.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While 'init-db' still is and probably will always remain a valid git
command for obvious backward compatibility reasons, it would be a good
idea to move shipped tools and docs to using 'init' instead.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
For one, the documentation invalidly claimed that the paths have to be
absolute when that's not the case and in fact there is a very valid reason
not to use absolute paths (documented the reason as well).
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Use .git/info/exclude in the example in git-ls-files.txt,
instead of .git/ignore, and update the list of commands looking
at .git/info/exclude in repository-layout.txt.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Clarify update and post-update hooks.
Made a few references to the hooks documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
