[PATCH] Documentation/tutorial: misc updates
From: Santi Béjar <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:47
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Three changes: 1) Teach how to delete a branch with "git branch -d name". 2) The first commit does not have a parent. 3) Teach "git show" instead of "git cat-file -p". --- Documentation/tutorial.txt | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index d043e84..f0a5526 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt@@ -222,6 +222,15 @@ $ gitk will show a nice graphical representation of the resulting history. +At this point you could delete the experimental branch with + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git branch -d experimental +------------------------------------------------ + +This command ensures that the changes in the experimental branch are +already in the current branch. + If you develop on a branch crazy-idea, then regret it, you can always delete the branch with
@@ -391,8 +400,8 @@ $ git show HEAD # the tip of the current branch $ git show experimental # the tip of the "experimental" branch ------------------------------------- -Every commit has at least one "parent" commit, which points to the -previous state of the project: +Every commit has at least one "parent" commit (except the first), +which points to the previous state of the project: ------------------------------------- $ git show HEAD^ # to see the parent of HEAD
@@ -510,10 +519,10 @@ of the file: $ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in ------------------------------------- -You can also use "git cat-file -p" to see any such file: +You can also use "git show" to see any such file: ------------------------------------- -$ git cat-file -p v2.5:Makefile +$ git show v2.5:Makefile ------------------------------------- Next Steps
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