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tutorial: misc updates.
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Junio C Hamano committed Jan 3, 2007
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$ git diff
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to review your changes. When you're done,
to review your changes. When you're done, tell git that you
want the updated contents of these files in the commit and then
make a commit, like this:

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$ git commit file1 file2...
$ git add file1 file...
$ git commit
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will again prompt your for a message describing the change, and then
This will again prompt your for a message describing the change, and then
record the new versions of the files you listed. It is cumbersome
to list all files and you can say `-a` (which stands for 'all')
instead.
to list all files and you can say `git commit -a` (which stands for 'all')
instead of running `git add` beforehand.

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$ git commit -a
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begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more
thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for
example, use the first line on the Subject line and the rest of the
example, use the first line on the Subject: line and the rest of the
commit in the body.


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$ git log -p
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Often the overview of the change is useful to get a feel of
each step

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$ git log --stat --summary
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Managing branches
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$ git show c82a22c39cbc32576f64f5c6b3f24b99ea8149c7
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But there other ways to refer to commits. You can use any initial
But there are other ways to refer to commits. You can use any initial
part of the name that is long enough to uniquely identify the commit:

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