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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 0071cd070e..f89952ad84 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.1 or newer) +Git User's Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer) ______________________________________________ @@ -1079,6 +1079,11 @@ $ git diff HEAD # difference between HEAD and working tree; what $ git status # a brief per-file summary of the above. ------------------------------------------------- +You can also use gitlink:git-gui[1] to create commits, view changes in +the index and the working tree files, and individually select diff hunks +for inclusion in the index (by right-clicking on the diff hunk and +choosing "Stage Hunk For Commit"). + [[creating-good-commit-messages]] Creating good commit messages ----------------------------- @@ -1484,6 +1489,38 @@ $ git show HEAD^:path/to/file which will display the given version of the file. +[[interrupted-work]] +Temporarily setting aside work in progress +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +While you are in the middle of working on something complicated, you +find an unrelated but obvious and trivial bug. You would like to fix it +before continuing. You can use gitlink:git-stash[1] to save the current +state of your work, and after fixing the bug (or, optionally after doing +so on a different branch and then coming back), unstash the +work-in-progress changes. + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git stash "work in progress for foo feature" +------------------------------------------------ + +This command will save your changes away to the `stash`, and +reset your working tree and the index to match the tip of your +current branch. Then you can make your fix as usual. + +------------------------------------------------ +... edit and test ... +$ git commit -a -m "blorpl: typofix" +------------------------------------------------ + +After that, you can go back to what you were working on with +`git stash apply`: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git stash apply +------------------------------------------------ + + [[ensuring-good-performance]] Ensuring good performance ------------------------- @@ -1667,24 +1704,19 @@ one step: $ git pull origin master ------------------------------------------------- -In fact, "origin" is normally the default repository to pull from, -and the default branch is normally the HEAD of the remote repository, -so often you can accomplish the above with just +In fact, if you have "master" checked out, then by default "git pull" +merges from the HEAD branch of the origin repository. So often you can +accomplish the above with just a simple ------------------------------------------------- $ git pull ------------------------------------------------- -See the descriptions of the branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge -options in gitlink:git-config[1] to learn how to control these defaults -depending on the current branch. Also note that the --track option to -gitlink:git-branch[1] and gitlink:git-checkout[1] can be used to -automatically set the default remote branch to pull from at the time -that a branch is created: - -------------------------------------------------- -$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint -------------------------------------------------- +More generally, a branch that is created from a remote branch will pull +by default from that branch. See the descriptions of the +branch.<name>.remote and branch.<name>.merge options in +gitlink:git-config[1], and the discussion of the --track option in +gitlink:git-checkout[1], to learn how to control these defaults. In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by producing a default commit message documenting the branch and @@ -2479,8 +2511,10 @@ $ gitk origin..mywork & And browse through the list of patches in the mywork branch using gitk, applying them (possibly in a different order) to mywork-new using -cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using commit ---amend. +cherry-pick, and possibly modifying them as you go using commit --amend. +The git-gui[1] command may also help as it allows you to individually +select diff hunks for inclusion in the index (by right-clicking on the +diff hunk and choosing "Stage Hunk for Commit"). Another technique is to use git-format-patch to create a series of patches, then reset the state to before the patches: |