Documentaion updates.

Mostly making the formatted html prettier.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 7adf1f15ebe074d4767df941817a6cf86d8e2533 commit)

8 files changed, 403 insertions, 316 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index aba35d7d53..e19c86f19c 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ MAN1_TXT=$(wildcard git-*.txt) gitk.txt
 MAN7_TXT=git.txt
 
 DOC_HTML=$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN1_TXT) $(MAN7_TXT))
-DOC_HTML += glossary.html
-DOC_HTML += tutorial.html
-DOC_HTML += howto-index.html
-DOC_HTML += howto/revert-branch-rebase.html
+
+ARTICLES = tutorial cvs-migration diffcore howto-index
+# with their own formatting rules.
+SP_ARTICLES = glossary howto/revert-branch-rebase
+
+DOC_HTML += $(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES) $(SP_ARTICLES))
 
 DOC_MAN1=$(patsubst %.txt,%.1,$(MAN1_TXT))
 DOC_MAN7=$(patsubst %.txt,%.7,$(MAN7_TXT))
@@ -58,21 +60,20 @@ clean:
 %.xml : %.txt
 	asciidoc -b docbook -d manpage $<
 
+git.html: git.txt ../README
+
 glossary.html : glossary.txt sort_glossary.pl
 	cat $< | \
 	perl sort_glossary.pl | \
 	asciidoc -b xhtml11 - > glossary.html
 
-tutorial.html : tutorial.txt
-	asciidoc -b xhtml11 tutorial.txt
-
 howto-index.txt: howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt)
 	rm -f $@+ $@
 	sh ./howto-index.sh $(wildcard howto/*.txt) >$@+
 	mv $@+ $@
 
-howto-index.html: howto-index.txt
-	asciidoc -b xhtml11 howto-index.txt
+$(patsubst %,%.html,$(ARTICLES)) : %.html : %.txt
+	asciidoc -b xhtml11 $*.txt
 
 WEBDOC_DEST = /pub/software/scm/git/docs
 
diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
index 8db1409e43..6e48bdef9e 100644
--- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Git for CVS users
 =================
+v0.99.5, Aug 2005
 
 Ok, so you're a CVS user. That's ok, it's a treatable condition, and the
 first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. The fact that
@@ -8,12 +9,12 @@ already.
 
 The thing about CVS is that it absolutely sucks as a source control
 manager, and you'll thus be happy with almost anything else. Git,
-however, may be a bit _too_ different (read: "good") for your taste, and
+however, may be a bit 'too' different (read: "good") for your taste, and
 does a lot of things differently. 
 
 One particular suckage of CVS is very hard to work around: CVS is
-basically a tool for tracking _file_ history, while git is a tool for
-tracking _project_ history.  This sometimes causes problems if you are
+basically a tool for tracking 'file' history, while git is a tool for
+tracking 'project' history.  This sometimes causes problems if you are
 used to doing very strange things in CVS, in particular if you're doing
 things like making branches of just a subset of the project.  Git can't
 track that, since git never tracks things on the level of an individual
@@ -22,17 +23,18 @@ file, only on the whole project level.
 The good news is that most people don't do that, and in fact most sane
 people think it's a bug in CVS that makes it tag (and check in changes)
 one file at a time.  So most projects you'll ever see will use CVS
-_as_if_ it was sane.  In which case you'll find it very easy indeed to
+'as if' it was sane.  In which case you'll find it very easy indeed to
 move over to Git. 
 
-First off: this is not a git tutorial. See Documentation/tutorial.txt
-for how git actually works. This is more of a random collection of
-gotcha's and notes on converting from CVS to git.
+First off: this is not a git tutorial. See
+link:tutorial.html[Documentation/tutorial.txt] for how git
+actually works. This is more of a random collection of gotcha's
+and notes on converting from CVS to git.
 
 Second: CVS has the notion of a "repository" as opposed to the thing
 that you're actually working in (your working directory, or your
 "checked out tree").  Git does not have that notion at all, and all git
-working directories _are_ the repositories.  However, you can easily
+working directories 'are' the repositories.  However, you can easily
 emulate the CVS model by having one special "global repository", which
 people can synchronize with.  See details later, but in the meantime
 just keep in mind that with git, every checked out working tree will
@@ -55,7 +57,7 @@ will need the help of a program called "cvsps":
 
 which is not actually related to git at all, but which makes CVS usage
 look almost sane (ie you almost certainly want to have it even if you
-decide to stay with CVS). However, git will want at _least_ version 2.1
+decide to stay with CVS). However, git will want 'at least' version 2.1
 of cvsps (available at the address above), and in fact will currently
 refuse to work with anything else.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
index 9298d79e51..811d143808 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 The output format from "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree" and
-"git-diff-files" is very similar.
+"git-diff-files" are very similar.
 
 These commands all compare two sets of things; what are
 compared are different:
@@ -19,35 +19,41 @@ git-diff-files [<pattern>...]::
 
 An output line is formatted this way:
 
+------------------------------------------------
 in-place edit  :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
 copy-edit      :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... C68 file1 file2
 rename-edit    :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... R86 file1 file3
-create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... N file4
+create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... A file4
 delete         :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
 unmerged       :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
+------------------------------------------------
 
 That is, from the left to the right:
 
-  (1) a colon.
-  (2) mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged.
-  (3) a space.
-  (4) mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged.
-  (5) a space.
-  (6) sha1 for "src"; 0{40} if creation or unmerged.
-  (7) a space.
-  (8) sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
-  (9) a space.
- (10) status, followed by optional "score" number.
- (11) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
- (12) path for "src"
- (13) a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R.
- (14) path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
- (15) an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record.
+. a colon.
+. mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged.
+. a space.
+. mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged.
+. a space.
+. sha1 for "src"; 0\{40\} if creation or unmerged.
+. a space.
+. sha1 for "dst"; 0\{40\} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
+. a space.
+. status, followed by optional "score" number.
+. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used.
+. path for "src"
+. a tab or a NUL when '-z' option is used; only exists for C or R.
+. path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
+. an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record.
 
 <sha1> is shown as all 0's if new is a file on the filesystem
-and it is out of sync with the cache.  Example:
+and it is out of sync with the cache.
 
-  :100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c
+Example:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c
+------------------------------------------------
 
 Generating patches with -p
 --------------------------
@@ -107,20 +113,20 @@ Git specific extension to diff format
 What -p option produces is slightly different from the
 traditional diff format.
 
- (1) It is preceeded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
+1.   It is preceeded with a "git diff" header, that looks like
      this:
 
      diff --git a/file1 b/file2
++
+The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
+involved.  Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
+`/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of `a/` or `b/` filenames.
++
+When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` shows the
+name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
+the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
 
-     The a/ and b/ filenames are the same unless rename/copy is
-     involved.  Especially, even for a creation or a deletion,
-     /dev/null is _not_ used in place of a/ or b/ filename.
-
-     When rename/copy is involved, file1 and file2 shows the
-     name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
-     the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
-
- (2) It is followed by extended header lines that are one or
+2.   It is followed by extended header lines that are one or
      more of:
 
        old mode <mode>
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index b28496e5c8..48cf93cc38 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@
 	Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from cache or
 	on-disk file to tree contents.
 
+For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
+link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].
diff --git a/Documentation/diffcore.txt b/Documentation/diffcore.txt
index 6c474d1c0c..1a6e725aae 100644
--- a/Documentation/diffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diffcore.txt
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ The git-diff-* family works by first comparing two sets of
 files:
 
  - git-diff-cache compares contents of a "tree" object and the
-   working directory (when --cached flag is not used) or a
-   "tree" object and the index file (when --cached flag is
+   working directory (when '--cached' flag is not used) or a
+   "tree" object and the index file (when '--cached' flag is
    used);
 
  - git-diff-files compares contents of the index file and the
@@ -37,29 +37,31 @@ comparison is passed from these commands to what is internally
 called "diffcore", in a format similar to what is output when
 the -p option is not used.  E.g.
 
-    in-place edit  :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
-    create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... N file4
-    delete         :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
-    unmerged       :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
+------------------------------------------------
+in-place edit  :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
+create         :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... A file4
+delete         :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
+unmerged       :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
+------------------------------------------------
 
 The diffcore mechanism is fed a list of such comparison results
 (each of which is called "filepair", although at this point each
 of them talks about a single file), and transforms such a list
 into another list.  There are currently 6 such transformations:
 
- - diffcore-pathspec
- - diffcore-break
- - diffcore-rename
- - diffcore-merge-broken
- - diffcore-pickaxe
- - diffcore-order
+- diffcore-pathspec
+- diffcore-break
+- diffcore-rename
+- diffcore-merge-broken
+- diffcore-pickaxe
+- diffcore-order
 
-These are applied in sequence.  The set of filepairs git-diff-*
+These are applied in sequence.  The set of filepairs git-diff-\*
 commands find are used as the input to diffcore-pathspec, and
 the output from diffcore-pathspec is used as the input to the
 next transformation.  The final result is then passed to the
 output routine and generates either diff-raw format (see Output
-format sections of the manual for git-diff-* commands) or
+format sections of the manual for git-diff-\* commands) or
 diff-patch format.
 
 
@@ -87,13 +89,17 @@ used to detect a filepair that represents "complete rewrite" and
 break such filepair into two filepairs that represent delete and
 create.  E.g.  If the input contained this filepair:
 
-    :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and if it detects that the file "file0" is completely rewritten,
 it changes it to:
 
-    :100644 000000 bcd1234... 0000000... D file0
-    :000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... N file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 000000 bcd1234... 0000000... D file0
+:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 For the purpose of breaking a filepair, diffcore-break examines
 the extent of changes between the contents of the files before
@@ -117,14 +123,18 @@ controlled by the -M option (to detect renames) and the -C option
 (to detect copies as well) to the git-diff-* commands.  If the
 input contained these filepairs:
 
-    :100644 000000 0123456... 0000000... D fileX
-    :000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... N file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 000000 0123456... 0000000... D fileX
+:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and the contents of the deleted file fileX is similar enough to
 the contents of the created file file0, then rename detection
 merges these filepairs and creates:
 
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... R100 fileX file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... R100 fileX file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 When the "-C" option is used, the original contents of modified
 files and contents of unchanged files are considered as
@@ -133,15 +143,19 @@ addition to the deleted files.  If the input were like these
 filepairs, that talk about a modified file fileY and a newly
 created file file0:
 
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
-    :000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... N file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
+:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 the original contents of fileY and the resulting contents of
 file0 are compared, and if they are similar enough, they are
 changed to:
 
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
-    :100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... C100 fileY file0
+------------------------------------------------
+:100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
+:100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... C100 fileY file0
+------------------------------------------------
 
 In both rename and copy detection, the same "extent of changes"
 algorithm used in diffcore-break is used to determine if two
@@ -151,11 +165,11 @@ number after "-M" or "-C" option (e.g. "-M8" to tell it to use
 8/10 = 80%).
 
 Note.  When the "-C" option is used with --find-copies-harder
-option, git-diff-* commands feed unmodified filepairs to
+option, git-diff-\* commands feed unmodified filepairs to
 diffcore mechanism as well as modified ones.  This lets the copy
 detector consider unmodified files as copy source candidates at
 the expense of making it slower.  Without --find-copies-harder,
-git-diff-* commands can detect copies only if the file that was
+git-diff-\* commands can detect copies only if the file that was
 copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
 
 
@@ -186,10 +200,10 @@ material is deleted, the broken pairs are merged back into a
 single modification) by giving a second number to -B option,
 like these:
 
-	-B50/60 (give 50% "break score" to diffcore-break, use
-                 60% for diffcore-merge-broken).
-	-B/60   (the same as above, since diffcore-break defautls to
-		 50%).
+* -B50/60 (give 50% "break score" to diffcore-break, use 60%
+  for diffcore-merge-broken).
+
+* -B/60 (the same as above, since diffcore-break defaults to 50%).
 
 Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as a separate
 creation and deletion patches.  This was unnecessary hack and
@@ -237,12 +251,14 @@ in the file are output before ones that match a later line, and
 filepairs that do not match any glob pattern are output last.
 
 As an example, typical orderfile for the core GIT probably
-should look like this:
+would look like this:
 
+------------------------------------------------
     README
     Makefile
     Documentation
     *.h
     *.c
     t
+------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-script.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-script.txt
index 1b0345199c..b4531c6e6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-script.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-script.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git bisect' bad <rev>
 'git bisect' good <rev>
 'git bisect' reset [<branch>]
+'git bisect' visualize
+
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -67,6 +69,12 @@ branches ("git bisect start" will do that for you too, actually: it will
 reset the bisection state, and before it does that it checks that you're
 not using some old bisection branch).
 
+During the bisection process, you can say
+
+	git bisect visualize
+
+to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`.
+
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index befe3e52cd..dba90358cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ This is reference information for the core git commands.
 Before reading this cover to cover, you may want to take a look
 at the link:tutorial.html[tutorial] document.
 
-The Discussion section below contains much useful definition and
+The <<Discussion>> section below contains much useful definition and
 clarification info - read that first.  And of the commands, I suggest
 reading link:git-update-cache.html[git-update-cache] and
 link:git-read-tree.html[git-read-tree] first - I wish I had!
 
+If you are migrating from CVS, link:cvs-migration.html[cvs migration]
+document may be helpful after you finish the tutorial.
+
 After you get the general feel from the tutorial and this
 overview page, you may want to take a look at the
 link:howto-index.html[howto] documents.
@@ -483,8 +486,8 @@ git Diffs
 	link:git-diff-files.html[git-diff-files];
 	link:git-diff-tree.html[git-diff-tree]
 
-Discussion
-----------
+Discussion[[Discussion]]
+------------------------
 include::../README[]
 
 Author
diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 866dbbe9b8..0c7d85d7cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -32,13 +32,15 @@ one for a totally new project, or an existing working tree that you want
 to import into git. 
 
 For our first example, we're going to start a totally new repository from
-scratch, with no pre-existing files, and we'll call it "git-tutorial".
+scratch, with no pre-existing files, and we'll call it `git-tutorial`.
 To start up, create a subdirectory for it, change into that
-subdirectory, and initialize the git infrastructure with "git-init-db":
+subdirectory, and initialize the git infrastructure with `git-init-db`:
 
-	mkdir git-tutorial
-	cd git-tutorial
-	git-init-db 
+------------------------------------------------
+mkdir git-tutorial
+cd git-tutorial
+git-init-db
+------------------------------------------------
 
 to which git will reply
 
@@ -46,48 +48,50 @@ to which git will reply
 
 which is just git's way of saying that you haven't been doing anything
 strange, and that it will have created a local .git directory setup for
-your new project. You will now have a ".git" directory, and you can
-inspect that with "ls". For your new empty project, ls should show you
+your new project. You will now have a `.git` directory, and you can
+inspect that with `ls`. For your new empty project, it should show you
 three entries, among other things:
 
- - a symlink called HEAD, pointing to "refs/heads/master"
-
-   Don't worry about the fact that the file that the HEAD link points to
-   doesn't even exist yet - you haven't created the commit that will
-   start your HEAD development branch yet.
+ - a symlink called `HEAD`, pointing to `refs/heads/master`
++
+Don't worry about the fact that the file that the `HEAD` link points to
+doesn't even exist yet - you haven't created the commit that will
+start your `HEAD` development branch yet.
 
- - a subdirectory called "objects", which will contain all the
+ - a subdirectory called `objects`, which will contain all the
    objects of your project. You should never have any real reason to
    look at the objects directly, but you might want to know that these
-   objects are what contains all the real _data_ in your repository.
-
- - a subdirectory called "refs", which contains references to objects.
-
-   In particular, the "refs" subdirectory will contain two other
-   subdirectories, named "heads" and "tags" respectively. They do
-   exactly what their names imply: they contain references to any number
-   of different "heads" of development (aka "branches"), and to any
-   "tags" that you have created to name specific versions in your
-   repository. 
-
-   One note: the special "master" head is the default branch, which is
-   why the .git/HEAD file was created as a symlink to it even if it
-   doesn't yet exist. Basically, the HEAD link is supposed to always
-   point to the branch you are working on right now, and you always
-   start out expecting to work on the "master" branch.
-
-   However, this is only a convention, and you can name your branches
-   anything you want, and don't have to ever even _have_ a "master"
-   branch. A number of the git tools will assume that .git/HEAD is
-   valid, though.
-
-   [ Implementation note: an "object" is identified by its 160-bit SHA1
-   hash, aka "name", and a reference to an object is always the 40-byte
-   hex representation of that SHA1 name. The files in the "refs"
-   subdirectory are expected to contain these hex references (usually
-   with a final '\n' at the end), and you should thus expect to see a
-   number of 41-byte files containing these references in this refs
-   subdirectories when you actually start populating your tree ]
+   objects are what contains all the real 'data' in your repository.
+
+ - a subdirectory called `refs`, which contains references to objects.
+
+In particular, the `refs` subdirectory will contain two other
+subdirectories, named `heads` and `tags` respectively. They do
+exactly what their names imply: they contain references to any number
+of different 'heads' of development (aka 'branches'), and to any
+'tags' that you have created to name specific versions in your
+repository.
+
+One note: the special `master` head is the default branch, which is
+why the `.git/HEAD` file was created as a symlink to it even if it
+doesn't yet exist. Basically, the `HEAD` link is supposed to always
+point to the branch you are working on right now, and you always
+start out expecting to work on the `master` branch.
+
+However, this is only a convention, and you can name your branches
+anything you want, and don't have to ever even 'have' a `master`
+branch. A number of the git tools will assume that `.git/HEAD` is
+valid, though.
+
+[NOTE]
+An "object" is identified by its 160-bit SHA1 hash, aka "name",
+and a reference to an object is always the 40-byte hex
+representation of that SHA1 name. The files in the "refs"
+subdirectory are expected to contain these hex references
+(usually with a final '\n' at the end), and you should thus
+expect to see a number of 41-byte files containing these
+references in this refs subdirectories when you actually start
+populating your tree.
 
 You have now created your first git repository. Of course, since it's
 empty, that's not very useful, so let's start populating it with data.
@@ -103,8 +107,10 @@ Start off with just creating any random files that you want to maintain
 in your git repository. We'll start off with a few bad examples, just to
 get a feel for how this works:
 
-	echo "Hello World" >hello
-	echo "Silly example" >example
+------------------------------------------------
+echo "Hello World" >hello
+echo "Silly example" >example
+------------------------------------------------
 
 you have now created two files in your working tree (aka "working directory"), but to
 actually check in your hard work, you will have to go through two steps:
@@ -115,16 +121,18 @@ actually check in your hard work, you will have to go through two steps:
  - commit that index file as an object.
 
 The first step is trivial: when you want to tell git about any changes
-to your working tree, you use the "git-update-cache" program. That
+to your working tree, you use the `git-update-cache` program. That
 program normally just takes a list of filenames you want to update, but
 to avoid trivial mistakes, it refuses to add new entries to the cache
 (or remove existing ones) unless you explicitly tell it that you're
-adding a new entry with the "--add" flag (or removing an entry with the
-"--remove") flag. 
+adding a new entry with the `--add` flag (or removing an entry with the
+`--remove`) flag.
 
 So to populate the index with the two files you just created, you can do
 
-	git-update-cache --add hello example
+------------------------------------------------
+git-update-cache --add hello example
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and you have now told git to track those two files.
 
@@ -156,23 +164,25 @@ regular file), and you can see the contents with
 which will print out "Hello World". The object 557db03 is nothing
 more than the contents of your file "hello".
 
-[ Digression: don't confuse that object with the file "hello" itself. The
-  object is literally just those specific _contents_ of the file, and
-  however much you later change the contents in file "hello", the object we
-  just looked at will never change. Objects are immutable. ]
+[NOTE]
+Don't confuse that object with the file "hello" itself. The
+object is literally just those specific _contents_ of the file, and
+however much you later change the contents in file "hello", the object we
+just looked at will never change. Objects are immutable.
 
-[ Digression #2: the second example demonstrates that you can
-  abbreviate the object name to only the first several
-  hexadecimal digits in most places. ]
+[NOTE]
+The second example demonstrates that you can
+abbreviate the object name to only the first several
+hexadecimal digits in most places.
 
 Anyway, as we mentioned previously, you normally never actually take a
 look at the objects themselves, and typing long 40-character hex
 names is not something you'd normally want to do. The above digression
-was just to show that "git-update-cache" did something magical, and
+was just to show that `git-update-cache` did something magical, and
 actually saved away the contents of your files into the git object
 database.
 
-Updating the cache did something else too: it created a ".git/index"
+Updating the cache did something else too: it created a `.git/index`
 file. This is the index that describes your current working tree, and
 something you should be very aware of. Again, you normally never worry
 about the index file itself, but you should be aware of the fact that
@@ -185,7 +195,9 @@ most basic git commands to manipulate the files or look at their status.
 In particular, let's not even check in the two files into git yet, we'll
 start off by adding another line to "hello" first:
 
-	echo "It's a new day for git" >>hello
+------------------------------------------------
+echo "It's a new day for git" >>hello
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and you can now, since you told git about the previous state of "hello", ask
 git what has changed in the tree compared to your old index, using the
@@ -241,7 +253,9 @@ index. In other words, we're now tying together all the different
 filenames with their contents (and their permissions), and we're
 creating the equivalent of a git "directory" object:
 
-	git-write-tree
+------------------------------------------------
+git-write-tree
+------------------------------------------------
 
 and this will just output the name of the resulting tree, in this case
 (if you have done exactly as I've described) it should be
@@ -272,7 +286,9 @@ supposed to contain the reference to the top-of-tree, and since that's
 exactly what git-commit-tree spits out, we can do this all with a simple
 shell pipeline:
 
-	echo "Initial commit" | git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) > .git/HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
+echo "Initial commit" | git-commit-tree $(git-write-tree) > .git/HEAD
+------------------------------------------------
 
 which will say:
 
@@ -344,19 +360,20 @@ current working tree state entirely. Since we just wrote the index
 file to HEAD, doing "git-diff-cache --cached -p HEAD" should thus return
 an empty set of differences, and that's exactly what it does. 
 
-[ Digression: "git-diff-cache" really always uses the index for its
-  comparisons, and saying that it compares a tree against the working
-  tree is thus not strictly accurate. In particular, the list of
-  files to compare (the "meta-data") _always_ comes from the index file,
-  regardless of whether the --cached flag is used or not. The --cached
-  flag really only determines whether the file _contents_ to be compared
-  come from the working tree or not.
-
-  This is not hard to understand, as soon as you realize that git simply
-  never knows (or cares) about files that it is not told about
-  explicitly. Git will never go _looking_ for files to compare, it
-  expects you to tell it what the files are, and that's what the index
-  is there for. ]
+[NOTE]
+"git-diff-cache" really always uses the index for its
+comparisons, and saying that it compares a tree against the working
+tree is thus not strictly accurate. In particular, the list of
+files to compare (the "meta-data") _always_ comes from the index file,
+regardless of whether the --cached flag is used or not. The --cached
+flag really only determines whether the file _contents_ to be compared
+come from the working tree or not.
++
+This is not hard to understand, as soon as you realize that git simply
+never knows (or cares) about files that it is not told about
+explicitly. Git will never go _looking_ for files to compare, it
+expects you to tell it what the files are, and that's what the index
+is there for.
 
 However, our next step is to commit the _change_ we did, and again, to
 understand what's going on, keep in mind the difference between "working
@@ -365,7 +382,9 @@ in the working tree that we want to commit, and we always have to
 work through the index file, so the first thing we need to do is to
 update the index cache:
 
-	git-update-cache hello
+------------------------------------------------
+git-update-cache hello
+------------------------------------------------
 
 (note how we didn't need the "--add" flag this time, since git knew
 about the file already).
@@ -384,7 +403,9 @@ tell commit that the HEAD was the _parent_ of the new commit, and that
 this wasn't an initial commit any more), but you've done that once
 already, so let's just use the helpful script this time:
 
-	git commit
+------------------------------------------------
+git commit
+------------------------------------------------
 
 which starts an editor for you to write the commit message and tells you
 a bit about what you have done.
@@ -446,23 +467,25 @@ powerful)
 and you will see exactly what has changed in the repository over its
 short history. 
 
-[ Side note: the "--root" flag is a flag to git-diff-tree to tell it to
-  show the initial aka "root" commit too. Normally you'd probably not
-  want to see the initial import diff, but since the tutorial project
-  was started from scratch and is so small, we use it to make the result
-  a bit more interesting. ]
+[NOTE]
+The "--root" flag is a flag to git-diff-tree to tell it to
+show the initial aka "root" commit too. Normally you'd probably not
+want to see the initial import diff, but since the tutorial project
+was started from scratch and is so small, we use it to make the result
+a bit more interesting.
 
 With that, you should now be having some inkling of what git does, and
 can explore on your own.
 
-[ Side note: most likely, you are not directly using the core
-  git Plumbing commands, but using Porcelain like Cogito on top
-  of it. Cogito works a bit differently and you usually do not
-  have to run "git-update-cache" yourself for changed files (you
-  do tell underlying git about additions and removals via
-  "cg-add" and "cg-rm" commands). Just before you make a commit
-  with "cg-commit", Cogito figures out which files you modified,
-  and runs "git-update-cache" on them for you. ]
+[NOTE]
+Most likely, you are not directly using the core
+git Plumbing commands, but using Porcelain like Cogito on top
+of it. Cogito works a bit differently and you usually do not
+have to run "git-update-cache" yourself for changed files (you
+do tell underlying git about additions and removals via
+"cg-add" and "cg-rm" commands). Just before you make a commit
+with "cg-commit", Cogito figures out which files you modified,
+and runs "git-update-cache" on them for you.
 
 
 Tagging a version
@@ -474,7 +497,9 @@ A "light" tag is technically nothing more than a branch, except we put
 it in the ".git/refs/tags/" subdirectory instead of calling it a "head".
 So the simplest form of tag involves nothing more than
 
-	git tag my-first-tag
+------------------------------------------------
+git tag my-first-tag
+------------------------------------------------
 
 which just writes the current HEAD into the .git/refs/tags/my-first-tag
 file, after which point you can then use this symbolic name for that
@@ -514,12 +539,13 @@ that unlike CVS, for example, there is no separate notion of
 working tree, with the local git information hidden in the ".git"
 subdirectory. There is nothing else. What you see is what you got.
 
-[ Side note: you can tell git to split the git internal information from
-  the directory that it tracks, but we'll ignore that for now: it's not
-  how normal projects work, and it's really only meant for special uses.
-  So the mental model of "the git information is always tied directly to
-  the working tree that it describes" may not be technically 100%
-  accurate, but it's a good model for all normal use ]
+[NOTE]
+You can tell git to split the git internal information from
+the directory that it tracks, but we'll ignore that for now: it's not
+how normal projects work, and it's really only meant for special uses.
+So the mental model of "the git information is always tied directly to
+the working tree that it describes" may not be technically 100%
+accurate, but it's a good model for all normal use.
 
 This has two implications: 
 
@@ -527,24 +553,24 @@ This has two implications:
    made a mistake and want to start all over), you can just do simple
 
 	rm -rf git-tutorial
-
-   and it will be gone. There's no external repository, and there's no
-   history outside the project you created.
++
+and it will be gone. There's no external repository, and there's no
+history outside the project you created.
 
  - if you want to move or duplicate a git repository, you can do so. There
    is "git clone" command, but if all you want to do is just to
    create a copy of your repository (with all the full history that
    went along with it), you can do so with a regular
    "cp -a git-tutorial new-git-tutorial".
-
-   Note that when you've moved or copied a git repository, your git index
-   file (which caches various information, notably some of the "stat"
-   information for the files involved) will likely need to be refreshed.
-   So after you do a "cp -a" to create a new copy, you'll want to do
++
+Note that when you've moved or copied a git repository, your git index
+file (which caches various information, notably some of the "stat"
+information for the files involved) will likely need to be refreshed.
+So after you do a "cp -a" to create a new copy, you'll want to do
 
 	git-update-cache --refresh
-
-   in the new repository to make sure that the index file is up-to-date.
++
+in the new repository to make sure that the index file is up-to-date.
 
 Note that the second point is true even across machines. You can
 duplicate a remote git repository with _any_ regular copy mechanism, be it
@@ -572,15 +598,15 @@ The above can also be written as simply
 
 and in fact a lot of the common git command combinations can be scripted
 with the "git xyz" interfaces, and you can learn things by just looking
-at what the git-*-script scripts do ("git reset" is the above two lines
-implemented in "git-reset-script", but some things like "git status" and
-"git commit" are slightly more complex scripts around the basic git
+at what the `git-*-script` scripts do (`git reset` is the above two lines
+implemented in `git-reset-script`, but some things like "git status" and
+`git commit` are slightly more complex scripts around the basic git
 commands). 
 
 Many (most?) public remote repositories will not contain any of
-the checked out files or even an index file, and will _only_ contain the
+the checked out files or even an index file, and will 'only' contain the
 actual core git files. Such a repository usually doesn't even have the
-".git" subdirectory, but has all the git files directly in the
+`.git` subdirectory, but has all the git files directly in the
 repository. 
 
 To create your own local live copy of such a "raw" git repository, you'd
@@ -641,20 +667,25 @@ To show that as an example, let's go back to the git-tutorial repository we
 used earlier, and create a branch in it. You do that by simply just
 saying that you want to check out a new branch:
 
-	git checkout -b mybranch
+------------
+git checkout -b mybranch
+------------
 
 will create a new branch based at the current HEAD position, and switch
 to it. 
 
-[ Side note: if you make the decision to start your new branch at some
-  other point in the history than the current HEAD, you can do so by
-  just telling "git checkout" what the base of the checkout would be. 
-  In other words, if you have an earlier tag or branch, you'd just do
+[NOTE]
+================================================
+If you make the decision to start your new branch at some
+other point in the history than the current HEAD, you can do so by
+just telling "git checkout" what the base of the checkout would be.
+In other words, if you have an earlier tag or branch, you'd just do
 
 	git checkout -b mybranch earlier-commit
 
-  and it would create the new branch "mybranch" at the earlier commit,
-  and check out the state at that time. ]
+and it would create the new branch "mybranch" at the earlier commit,
+and check out the state at that time.
+================================================
 
 You can always just jump back to your original "master" branch by doing
 
@@ -670,7 +701,7 @@ you have, you can say
 
 	git branch
 
-which is nothing more than a simple script around "ls .git/refs/heads".
+which is nothing more than a simple script around `ls .git/refs/heads`.
 There will be asterisk in front of the branch you are currently on.
 
 Sometimes you may wish to create a new branch _without_ actually
@@ -693,9 +724,11 @@ branch. So assuming you created the above "mybranch" that started out
 being the same as the original "master" branch, let's make sure we're in
 that branch, and do some work there.
 
-	git checkout mybranch
-	echo "Work, work, work" >>hello
-	git commit -m 'Some work.' hello
+------------
+git checkout mybranch
+echo "Work, work, work" >>hello
+git commit -m 'Some work.' hello
+------------
 
 Here, we just added another line to "hello", and we used a shorthand for
 both going a "git-update-cache hello" and "git commit" by just giving the
@@ -706,15 +739,19 @@ Now, to make it a bit more interesting, let's assume that somebody else
 does some work in the original branch, and simulate that by going back
 to the master branch, and editing the same file differently there:
 
-	git checkout master
+------------
+git checkout master
+------------
 
 Here, take a moment to look at the contents of "hello", and notice how they
 don't contain the work we just did in "mybranch" - because that work
 hasn't happened in the "master" branch at all. Then do
 
-	echo "Play, play, play" >>hello
-	echo "Lots of fun" >>example
-	git commit -m 'Some fun.' hello example
+------------
+echo "Play, play, play" >>hello
+echo "Lots of fun" >>example
+git commit -m 'Some fun.' hello example
+------------
 
 since the master branch is obviously in a much better mood.
 
@@ -735,7 +772,9 @@ branch (which is currently our HEAD too). To do that, there's a nice
 script called "git resolve", which wants to know which branches you want
 to resolve and what the merge is all about:
 
-	git resolve HEAD mybranch "Merge work in mybranch"
+------------
+git resolve HEAD mybranch "Merge work in mybranch"
+------------
 
 where the third argument is going to be used as the commit message if
 the merge can be resolved automatically.
@@ -761,14 +800,18 @@ should already be well used to if you've ever used CVS, so let's just
 open "hello" in our editor (whatever that may be), and fix it up somehow.
 I'd suggest just making it so that "hello" contains all four lines:
 
-	Hello World
-	It's a new day for git
-	Play, play, play
-	Work, work, work
+------------
+Hello World
+It's a new day for git
+Play, play, play
+Work, work, work
+------------
 
 and once you're happy with your manual merge, just do a
 
-	git commit hello
+------------
+git commit hello
+------------
 
 which will very loudly warn you that you're now committing a merge
 (which is correct, so never mind), and you can write a small merge
@@ -781,8 +824,8 @@ switch to it, and continue to work with it if you want to. The
 from the "master" branch, git will know how you merged it, so you'll not
 have to do _that_ merge again.
 
-Another useful tool, especially if you do not work in X-Window
-environment all the time, is "git show-branch".
+Another useful tool, especially if you do not always work in X-Window
+environment, is "git show-branch".
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git show-branch master mybranch
@@ -878,18 +921,20 @@ pull from:
 	Local directory
 		/path/to/repo.git/
 
-[ Digression: you could do without using any branches at all, by
-  keeping as many local repositories as you would like to have
-  branches, and merging between them with "git pull", just like
-  you merge between branches. The advantage of this approach is
-  that it lets you keep set of files for each "branch" checked
-  out and you may find it easier to switch back and forth if you
-  juggle multiple lines of development simultaneously. Of
-  course, you will pay the price of more disk usage to hold
-  multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days. ]
-
-[ Digression #2: you could even pull from your own repository by
-  giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to "git pull". ]
+[NOTE]
+You could do without using any branches at all, by
+keeping as many local repositories as you would like to have
+branches, and merging between them with "git pull", just like
+you merge between branches. The advantage of this approach is
+that it lets you keep set of files for each "branch" checked
+out and you may find it easier to switch back and forth if you
+juggle multiple lines of development simultaneously. Of
+course, you will pay the price of more disk usage to hold
+multiple working trees, but disk space is cheap these days.
+
+[NOTE]
+You could even pull from your own repository by
+giving '.' as <remote-repository> parameter to "git pull".
 
 It is likely that you will be pulling from the same remote
 repository from time to time. As a short hand, you can store
@@ -916,15 +961,15 @@ EOF
 
 Examples.
 
-	(1) git pull linus
-	(2) git pull linus tag v0.99.1
-	(3) git pull jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/ e100
+. git pull linus
+. git pull linus tag v0.99.1
+. git pull jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git/ e100
 
 the above are equivalent to:
 
-	(1) git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ HEAD
-	(2) git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ tag v0.99.1
-	(3) git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git e100
+. git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ HEAD
+. git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ tag v0.99.1
+. git pull http://www.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git e100
 
 
 Publishing your work
@@ -944,8 +989,9 @@ changes you made in your primary working tree are in good shape,
 update the public repository from it. This is often called
 "pushing".
 
-[ Side note: this public repository could further be mirrored,
-  and that is how kernel.org git repositories are done. ]
+[NOTE]
+This public repository could further be mirrored,
+and that is how kernel.org git repositories are done.
 
 Publishing the changes from your local (private) repository to
 your remote (public) repository requires a write privilege on
@@ -958,10 +1004,11 @@ repository will be populated and be kept up-to-date by pushing
 into it later. Obviously, this repository creation needs to be
 done only once.
 
-[ Digression: "git push" uses a pair of programs,
-  "git-send-pack" on your local machine, and "git-receive-pack"
-  on the remote machine. The communication between the two over
-  the network internally uses an SSH connection. ]
+[NOTE]
+"git push" uses a pair of programs,
+"git-send-pack" on your local machine, and "git-receive-pack"
+on the remote machine. The communication between the two over
+the network internally uses an SSH connection.
 
 Your private repository's GIT directory is usually .git, but
 your public repository is often named after the project name,
@@ -982,12 +1029,13 @@ changes to be pulled by via the transport of your choice. Also
 you need to make sure that you have the "git-receive-pack"
 program on the $PATH.
 
-[ Side note: many installations of sshd do not invoke your shell
-  as the login shell when you directly run programs; what this
-  means is that if your login shell is bash, only .bashrc is
-  read and not .bash_profile. As a workaround, make sure
-  .bashrc sets up $PATH so that you can run 'git-receive-pack'
-  program. ]
+[NOTE]
+Many installations of sshd do not invoke your shell
+as the login shell when you directly run programs; what this
+means is that if your login shell is bash, only .bashrc is
+read and not .bash_profile. As a workaround, make
+sure .bashrc sets up $PATH so that you can run 'git-receive-pack'
+program.
 
 Your "public repository" is now ready to accept your changes.
 Come back to the machine you have your private repository. From
@@ -1024,13 +1072,14 @@ directories by now. "git repack" tells you how many objects it
 packed, and stores the packed file in .git/objects/pack
 directory.
 
-[ Side Note: you will see two files, pack-*.pack and pack-*.idx,
-  in .git/objects/pack directory. They are closely related to
-  each other, and if you ever copy them by hand to a different
-  repository for whatever reason, you should make sure you copy
-  them together. The former holds all the data from the objects
-  in the pack, and the latter holds the index for random
-  access. ]
+[NOTE]
+You will see two files, pack-\*.pack and pack-\*.idx,
+in .git/objects/pack directory. They are closely related to
+each other, and if you ever copy them by hand to a different
+repository for whatever reason, you should make sure you copy
+them together. The former holds all the data from the objects
+in the pack, and the latter holds the index for random
+access.
 
 If you are paranoid, running "git-verify-pack" command would
 detect if you have a corrupt pack, but do not worry too much.
@@ -1046,11 +1095,12 @@ would remove them for you.
 You can try running "find .git/objects -type f" before and after
 you run "git prune-packed" if you are curious.
 
-[ Side Note: "git pull" is slightly cumbersome for HTTP transport,
-  as a packed repository may contain relatively few objects in a
-  relatively large pack. If you expect many HTTP pulls from your
-  public repository you might want to repack & prune often, or
-  never. ]
+[NOTE]
+"git pull" is slightly cumbersome for HTTP transport,
+as a packed repository may contain relatively few objects in a
+relatively large pack. If you expect many HTTP pulls from your
+public repository you might want to repack & prune often, or
+never.
 
 If you run "git repack" again at this point, it will say
 "Nothing to pack". Once you continue your development and
@@ -1083,93 +1133,92 @@ from only one remote repository.
 
 A recommended workflow for a "project lead" goes like this:
 
- (1) Prepare your primary repository on your local machine. Your
-     work is done there.
+1. Prepare your primary repository on your local machine. Your
+   work is done there.
 
- (2) Prepare a public repository accessible to others.
+2. Prepare a public repository accessible to others.
 
- (3) Push into the public repository from your primary
-     repository.
+3. Push into the public repository from your primary
+   repository.
 
- (4) "git repack" the public repository. This establishes a big
-     pack that contains the initial set of objects as the
-     baseline, and possibly "git prune-packed" if the transport
-     used for pulling from your repository supports packed
-     repositories.
+4. "git repack" the public repository. This establishes a big
+   pack that contains the initial set of objects as the
+   baseline, and possibly "git prune-packed" if the transport
+   used for pulling from your repository supports packed
+   repositories.
 
- (5) Keep working in your primary repository. Your changes
-     include modifications of your own, patches you receive via
-     e-mails, and merges resulting from pulling the "public"
-     repositories of your "subsystem maintainers".
+5. Keep working in your primary repository. Your changes
+   include modifications of your own, patches you receive via
+   e-mails, and merges resulting from pulling the "public"
+   repositories of your "subsystem maintainers".
++
+You can repack this private repository whenever you feel like.
 
-     You can repack this private repository whenever you feel
-     like.
+6. Push your changes to the public repository, and announce it
+   to the public.
 
- (6) Push your changes to the public repository, and announce it
-     to the public.
-
- (7) Every once in a while, "git repack" the public repository.
-     Go back to step (5) and continue working.
+7. Every once in a while, "git repack" the public repository.
+   Go back to step 5. and continue working.
 
 
 A recommended work cycle for a "subsystem maintainer" who works
 on that project and has an own "public repository" goes like this:
 
- (1) Prepare your work repository, by "git clone" the public
-     repository of the "project lead". The URL used for the
-     initial cloning is stored in .git/branches/origin.
-
- (2) Prepare a public repository accessible to others.
+1. Prepare your work repository, by "git clone" the public
+   repository of the "project lead". The URL used for the
+   initial cloning is stored in .git/branches/origin.
 
- (3) Copy over the packed files from "project lead" public
-     repository to your public repository by hand; preferrably
-     use rsync for that task.
+2. Prepare a public repository accessible to others.
 
- (4) Push into the public repository from your primary
-     repository. Run "git repack", and possibly "git
-     prune-packed" if the transport used for pulling from your
-     repository supports packed repositories.
+3. Copy over the packed files from "project lead" public
+   repository to your public repository by hand; preferrably
+   use rsync for that task.
 
- (5) Keep working in your primary repository. Your changes
-     include modifications of your own, patches you receive via
-     e-mails, and merges resulting from pulling the "public"
-     repositories of your "project lead" and possibly your
-     "sub-subsystem maintainers".
+4. Push into the public repository from your primary
+   repository. Run "git repack", and possibly "git
+   prune-packed" if the transport used for pulling from your
+   repository supports packed repositories.
 
-     You can repack this private repository whenever you feel
-     like.
+5. Keep working in your primary repository. Your changes
+   include modifications of your own, patches you receive via
+   e-mails, and merges resulting from pulling the "public"
+   repositories of your "project lead" and possibly your
+   "sub-subsystem maintainers".
++
+You can repack this private repository whenever you feel
+like.
 
- (6) Push your changes to your public repository, and ask your
-     "project lead" and possibly your "sub-subsystem
-     maintainers" to pull from it.
+6. Push your changes to your public repository, and ask your
+   "project lead" and possibly your "sub-subsystem
+   maintainers" to pull from it.
 
- (7) Every once in a while, "git repack" the public repository.
-     Go back to step (5) and continue working.
+7. Every once in a while, "git repack" the public repository.
+   Go back to step 5. and continue working.
 
 
 A recommended work cycle for an "individual developer" who does
 not have a "public" repository is somewhat different. It goes
 like this:
 
- (1) Prepare your work repository, by "git clone" the public
-     repository of the "project lead" (or a "subsystem
-     maintainer", if you work on a subsystem). The URL used for
-     the initial cloning is stored in .git/branches/origin.
+1. Prepare your work repository, by "git clone" the public
+   repository of the "project lead" (or a "subsystem
+   maintainer", if you work on a subsystem). The URL used for
+   the initial cloning is stored in .git/branches/origin.
 
- (2) Do your work there. Make commits.
+2. Do your work there. Make commits.
 
- (3) Run "git fetch origin" from the public repository of your
-     upstream every once in a while. This does only the first
-     half of "git pull" but does not merge. The head of the
-     public repository is stored in .git/refs/heads/origin.
+3. Run "git fetch origin" from the public repository of your
+   upstream every once in a while. This does only the first
+   half of "git pull" but does not merge. The head of the
+   public repository is stored in .git/refs/heads/origin.
 
- (4) Use "git cherry origin" to see which ones of your patches
-     were accepted, and/or use "git rebase origin" to port your
-     unmerged changes forward to the updated upstream.
+4. Use "git cherry origin" to see which ones of your patches
+   were accepted, and/or use "git rebase origin" to port your
+   unmerged changes forward to the updated upstream.
 
- (5) Use "git format-patch origin" to prepare patches for e-mail
-     submission to your upstream and send it out. Go back to
-     step (2) and continue.
+5. Use "git format-patch origin" to prepare patches for e-mail
+   submission to your upstream and send it out. Go back to
+   step (2) and continue.
 
 
 Working with Others, Shared Repository Style