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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-05-17 23:56:08 -0400 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-05-19 00:57:19 -0400 |
| commit | cd50aba918c2d801602278db7b461a92a811b430 (patch) | |
| tree | 74f5d6b7a04b696d85d37ef0543e10b023110793 | |
| parent | 97925fde00743e557fa5e792004483a27e31fbd8 (diff) | |
| download | git-cd50aba918c2d801602278db7b461a92a811b430.tar.gz | |
tutorials: add user-manual links
Mention the user manual, especially as an alternative introduction for
user's mainly interested in read-only operations.
And fix a typo while we're there.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tutorial-2.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tutorial.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt index af8d43bd12..5c39a165f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial-2.txt @@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ with the commands mentioned in link:everyday.html[Everyday git]. You should be able to find any unknown jargon in the link:glossary.html[Glossary]. +The link:user-manual.html[Git User's Manual] provides a more +comprehensive introduction to git. + The link:cvs-migration.html[CVS migration] document explains how to import a CVS repository into git, and shows how to use git in a CVS-like way. diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index 99efce4576..8094172316 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ A tutorial introduction to git (for version 1.5.1 or newer) This tutorial explains how to import a new project into git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers. +If you are instead primarily interested in using git to fetch a project, +for example, to test the latest version, you may prefer to start with +the first two chapters of link:user-manual.html[The Git User's Manual]. + First, note that you can get documentation for a command such as "git diff" with: @@ -564,7 +568,7 @@ link:tutorial-2.html[Part two of this tutorial] explains the object database, the index file, and a few other odds and ends that you'll need to make the most of git. -If you don't want to consider with that right away, a few other +If you don't want to continue with that right away, a few other digressions that may be interesting at this point are: * gitlink:git-format-patch[1], gitlink:git-am[1]: These convert |