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Name

git - the stupid content tracker

Synopsis

git [--version] [--help] [-c <name>=<value>]
[--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
[-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
[--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
<command> [<args>]

Description




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NAME
     git - the stupid content tracker

SYNOPSIS
     git [--version] [--help] [-c <name>=<value>]
         [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
         [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
         [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
         <command> [<args>]


DESCRIPTION
     Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
     with an unusually rich command set that provides both
     high-level operations and full access to internals.

     See gittutorial(5) to get started, then see Everyday Git[1]
     for a useful minimum set of commands, and "man
     git-commandname" for documentation of each command. CVS
     users may also want to read gitcvs-migration(5). See the Git
     User's Manual[2] for a more in-depth introduction.

     The <command> is either a name of a Git command (see below)
     or an alias as defined in the configuration file (see git-
     config(1)).

     Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git
     documentation can be viewed at
     http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.

OPTIONS
     --version
         Prints the git suite version that the git program came
         from.

     --help
         Prints the synopsis and a list of the most commonly used
         commands. If the option --all or -a is given then all
         available commands are printed. If a git command is
         named this option will bring up the manual page for that
         command.

         Other options are available to control how the manual
         page is displayed. See git-help(1) for more information,
         because git --help ...  is converted internally into git
         help ....

     -c <name>=<value>
         Pass a configuration parameter to the command. The value
         given will override values from configuration files. The
         <name> is expected in the same format as listed by git
         config (subkeys separated by dots).



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     --exec-path[=<path>]
         Path to wherever your core git programs are installed.
         This can also be controlled by setting the GIT_EXEC_PATH
         environment variable. If no path is given, git will
         print the current setting and then exit.

     --html-path
         Print the path, without trailing slash, where git's HTML
         documentation is installed and exit.

     --man-path
         Print the manpath (see man(1)) for the man pages for
         this version of git and exit.

     --info-path
         Print the path where the Info files documenting this
         version of git are installed and exit.

     -p, --paginate
         Pipe all output into less (or if set, $PAGER) if
         standard output is a terminal. This overrides the
         pager.<cmd> configuration options (see the
         "Configuration Mechanism" section below).

     --no-pager
         Do not pipe git output into a pager.

     --git-dir=<path>
         Set the path to the repository. This can also be
         controlled by setting the GIT_DIR environment variable.
         It can be an absolute path or relative path to current
         working directory.

     --work-tree=<path>
         Set the path to the working tree. It can be an absolute
         path or a path relative to the current working
         directory. This can also be controlled by setting the
         GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable and the core.worktree
         configuration variable (see core.worktree in git-
         config(1) for a more detailed discussion).

     --namespace=<path>
         Set the git namespace. See gitnamespaces(5) for more
         details. Equivalent to setting the GIT_NAMESPACE
         environment variable.

     --bare
         Treat the repository as a bare repository. If GIT_DIR
         environment is not set, it is set to the current working
         directory.





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     --no-replace-objects
         Do not use replacement refs to replace git objects. See
         git-replace(1) for more information.

FURTHER DOCUMENTATION
     See the references above to get started using git. The
     following is probably more detail than necessary for a
     first-time user.

     The git concepts chapter of the user-manual[3] and gitcore-
     tutorial(5) both provide introductions to the underlying git
     architecture.

     See gitworkflows(5) for an overview of recommended
     workflows.

     See also the howto[4] documents for some useful examples.

     The internals are documented in the GIT API
     documentation[5].

GIT COMMANDS
     We divide git into high level ("porcelain") commands and low
     level ("plumbing") commands.

HIGH-LEVEL COMMANDS (PORCELAIN)
     We separate the porcelain commands into the main commands
     and some ancillary user utilities.

  Main porcelain commands
     git-add(1)
         Add file contents to the index.

     git-am(1)
         Apply a series of patches from a mailbox.

     git-archive(1)
         Create an archive of files from a named tree.

     git-bisect(1)
         Find by binary search the change that introduced a bug.

     git-branch(1)
         List, create, or delete branches.

     git-bundle(1)
         Move objects and refs by archive.

     git-checkout(1)
         Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree.





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     git-cherry-pick(1)
         Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits.

     git-citool(1)
         Graphical alternative to git-commit.

     git-clean(1)
         Remove untracked files from the working tree.

     git-clone(1)
         Clone a repository into a new directory.

     git-commit(1)
         Record changes to the repository.

     git-describe(1)
         Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a
         commit.

     git-diff(1)
         Show changes between commits, commit and working tree,
         etc.

     git-fetch(1)
         Download objects and refs from another repository.

     git-format-patch(1)
         Prepare patches for e-mail submission.

     git-gc(1)
         Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize the local
         repository.

     git-grep(1)
         Print lines matching a pattern.

     git-gui(1)
         A portable graphical interface to Git.

     git-init(1)
         Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an
         existing one.

     git-log(1)
         Show commit logs.

     git-merge(1)
         Join two or more development histories together.

     git-mv(1)
         Move or rename a file, a directory, or a symlink.




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     git-notes(1)
         Add or inspect object notes.

     git-pull(1)
         Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local
         branch.

     git-push(1)
         Update remote refs along with associated objects.

     git-rebase(1)
         Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head.

     git-reset(1)
         Reset current HEAD to the specified state.

     git-revert(1)
         Revert some existing commits.

     git-rm(1)
         Remove files from the working tree and from the index.

     git-shortlog(1)
         Summarize git log output.

     git-show(1)
         Show various types of objects.

     git-stash(1)
         Stash the changes in a dirty working directory away.

     git-status(1)
         Show the working tree status.

     git-submodule(1)
         Initialize, update or inspect submodules.

     git-tag(1)
         Create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with
         GPG.

     gitk(1)
         The git repository browser.

  Ancillary Commands
     Manipulators:

     git-config(1)
         Get and set repository or global options.

     git-fast-export(1)
         Git data exporter.



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     git-fast-import(1)
         Backend for fast Git data importers.

     git-filter-branch(1)
         Rewrite branches.

     git-lost-found(1)
         (deprecated) Recover lost refs that luckily have not yet
         been pruned.

     git-mergetool(1)
         Run merge conflict resolution tools to resolve merge
         conflicts.

     git-pack-refs(1)
         Pack heads and tags for efficient repository access.

     git-prune(1)
         Prune all unreachable objects from the object database.

     git-reflog(1)
         Manage reflog information.

     git-relink(1)
         Hardlink common objects in local repositories.

     git-remote(1)
         manage set of tracked repositories.

     git-repack(1)
         Pack unpacked objects in a repository.

     git-replace(1)
         Create, list, delete refs to replace objects.

     git-repo-config(1)
         (deprecated) Get and set repository or global options.

     Interrogators:

     git-annotate(1)
         Annotate file lines with commit information.

     git-blame(1)
         Show what revision and author last modified each line of
         a file.

     git-cherry(1)
         Find commits not merged upstream.

     git-count-objects(1)
         Count unpacked number of objects and their disk



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         consumption.

     git-difftool(1)
         Show changes using common diff tools.

     git-fsck(1)
         Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in
         the database.

     git-get-tar-commit-id(1)
         Extract commit ID from an archive created using
         git-archive.

     git-help(1)
         display help information about git.

     git-instaweb(1)
         Instantly browse your working repository in gitweb.

     git-merge-tree(1)
         Show three-way merge without touching index.

     git-rerere(1)
         Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges.

     git-rev-parse(1)
         Pick out and massage parameters.

     git-show-branch(1)
         Show branches and their commits.

     git-verify-tag(1)
         Check the GPG signature of tags.

     git-whatchanged(1)
         Show logs with difference each commit introduces.

     gitweb(1)
         Git web interface (web frontend to Git repositories).

  Interacting with Others
     These commands are to interact with foreign SCM and with
     other people via patch over e-mail.

     git-archimport(1)
         Import an Arch repository into git.

     git-cvsexportcommit(1)
         Export a single commit to a CVS checkout.

     git-cvsimport(1)
         Salvage your data out of another SCM people love to



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         hate.

     git-cvsserver(1)
         A CVS server emulator for git.

     git-imap-send(1)
         Send a collection of patches from stdin to an IMAP
         folder.

     git-quiltimport(1)
         Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch.

     git-request-pull(1)
         Generates a summary of pending changes.

     git-send-email(1)
         Send a collection of patches as emails.

     git-svn(1)
         Bidirectional operation between a Subversion repository
         and git.

LOW-LEVEL COMMANDS (PLUMBING)
     Although git includes its own porcelain layer, its low-level
     commands are sufficient to support development of
     alternative porcelains. Developers of such porcelains might
     start by reading about git-update-index(1) and git-read-
     tree(1).

     The interface (input, output, set of options and the
     semantics) to these low-level commands are meant to be a lot
     more stable than Porcelain level commands, because these
     commands are primarily for scripted use. The interface to
     Porcelain commands on the other hand are subject to change
     in order to improve the end user experience.

     The following description divides the low-level commands
     into commands that manipulate objects (in the repository,
     index, and working tree), commands that interrogate and
     compare objects, and commands that move objects and
     references between repositories.

  Manipulation commands
     git-apply(1)
         Apply a patch to files and/or to the index.

     git-checkout-index(1)
         Copy files from the index to the working tree.

     git-commit-tree(1)
         Create a new commit object.




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     git-hash-object(1)
         Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a
         file.

     git-index-pack(1)
         Build pack index file for an existing packed archive.

     git-merge-file(1)
         Run a three-way file merge.

     git-merge-index(1)
         Run a merge for files needing merging.

     git-mktag(1)
         Creates a tag object.

     git-mktree(1)
         Build a tree-object from ls-tree formatted text.

     git-pack-objects(1)
         Create a packed archive of objects.

     git-prune-packed(1)
         Remove extra objects that are already in pack files.

     git-read-tree(1)
         Reads tree information into the index.

     git-symbolic-ref(1)
         Read and modify symbolic refs.

     git-unpack-objects(1)
         Unpack objects from a packed archive.

     git-update-index(1)
         Register file contents in the working tree to the index.

     git-update-ref(1)
         Update the object name stored in a ref safely.

     git-write-tree(1)
         Create a tree object from the current index.

  Interrogation commands
     git-cat-file(1)
         Provide content or type and size information for
         repository objects.

     git-diff-files(1)
         Compares files in the working tree and the index.





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     git-diff-index(1)
         Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and
         repository.

     git-diff-tree(1)
         Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two
         tree objects.

     git-for-each-ref(1)
         Output information on each ref.

     git-ls-files(1)
         Show information about files in the index and the
         working tree.

     git-ls-remote(1)
         List references in a remote repository.

     git-ls-tree(1)
         List the contents of a tree object.

     git-merge-base(1)
         Find as good common ancestors as possible for a merge.

     git-name-rev(1)
         Find symbolic names for given revs.

     git-pack-redundant(1)
         Find redundant pack files.

     git-rev-list(1)
         Lists commit objects in reverse chronological order.

     git-show-index(1)
         Show packed archive index.

     git-show-ref(1)
         List references in a local repository.

     git-tar-tree(1)
         (deprecated) Create a tar archive of the files in the
         named tree object.

     git-unpack-file(1)
         Creates a temporary file with a blob's contents.

     git-var(1)
         Show a git logical variable.

     git-verify-pack(1)
         Validate packed git archive files.




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     In general, the interrogate commands do not touch the files
     in the working tree.

  Synching repositories
     git-daemon(1)
         A really simple server for git repositories.

     git-fetch-pack(1)
         Receive missing objects from another repository.

     git-http-backend(1)
         Server side implementation of Git over HTTP.

     git-send-pack(1)
         Push objects over git protocol to another repository.

     git-update-server-info(1)
         Update auxiliary info file to help dumb servers.

     The following are helper commands used by the above; end
     users typically do not use them directly.

     git-http-fetch(1)
         Download from a remote git repository via HTTP.

     git-http-push(1)
         Push objects over HTTP/DAV to another repository.

     git-parse-remote(1)
         Routines to help parsing remote repository access
         parameters.

     git-receive-pack(1)
         Receive what is pushed into the repository.

     git-shell(1)
         Restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access.

     git-upload-archive(1)
         Send archive back to git-archive.

     git-upload-pack(1)
         Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack.

  Internal helper commands
     These are internal helper commands used by other commands;
     end users typically do not use them directly.

     git-check-attr(1)
         Display gitattributes information.





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     git-check-ref-format(1)
         Ensures that a reference name is well formed.

     git-fmt-merge-msg(1)
         Produce a merge commit message.

     git-mailinfo(1)
         Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail
         message.

     git-mailsplit(1)
         Simple UNIX mbox splitter program.

     git-merge-one-file(1)
         The standard helper program to use with git-merge-index.

     git-patch-id(1)
         Compute unique ID for a patch.

     git-peek-remote(1)
         (deprecated) List the references in a remote repository.

     git-sh-setup(1)
         Common git shell script setup code.

     git-stripspace(1)
         Remove unnecessary whitespace.

CONFIGURATION MECHANISM
     Starting from 0.99.9 (actually mid 0.99.8.GIT), .git/config
     file is used to hold per-repository configuration options.
     It is a simple text file modeled after .ini format familiar
     to some people. Here is an example:

         #
         # A '#' or ';' character indicates a comment.
         #

         ; core variables
         [core]
                 ; Don't trust file modes
                 filemode = false

         ; user identity
         [user]
                 name = "Junio C Hamano"
                 email = "junkio@twinsun.com"


     Various commands read from the configuration file and adjust
     their operation accordingly. See git-config(1) for a list.




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IDENTIFIER TERMINOLOGY
     <object>
         Indicates the object name for any type of object.

     <blob>
         Indicates a blob object name.

     <tree>
         Indicates a tree object name.

     <commit>
         Indicates a commit object name.

     <tree-ish>
         Indicates a tree, commit or tag object name. A command
         that takes a <tree-ish> argument ultimately wants to
         operate on a <tree> object but automatically
         dereferences <commit> and <tag> objects that point at a
         <tree>.

     <commit-ish>
         Indicates a commit or tag object name. A command that
         takes a <commit-ish> argument ultimately wants to
         operate on a <commit> object but automatically
         dereferences <tag> objects that point at a <commit>.

     <type>
         Indicates that an object type is required. Currently one
         of: blob, tree, commit, or tag.

     <file>
         Indicates a filename - almost always relative to the
         root of the tree structure GIT_INDEX_FILE describes.

SYMBOLIC IDENTIFIERS
     Any git command accepting any <object> can also use the
     following symbolic notation:

     HEAD
         indicates the head of the current branch.

     <tag>
         a valid tag name (i.e. a refs/tags/<tag> reference).

     <head>
         a valid head name (i.e. a refs/heads/<head> reference).

     For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
     "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitrevisions(5).

FILE/DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
     Please see the gitrepository-layout(4) document.



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     Read githooks(4) for more details about each hook.

     Higher level SCMs may provide and manage additional
     information in the $GIT_DIR.

TERMINOLOGY
     Please see gitglossary(5).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     Various git commands use the following environment
     variables:

  The git Repository
     These environment variables apply to all core git commands.
     Nb: it is worth noting that they may be used/overridden by
     SCMS sitting above git so take care if using Cogito etc.

     GIT_INDEX_FILE
         This environment allows the specification of an
         alternate index file. If not specified, the default of
         $GIT_DIR/index is used.

     GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
         If the object storage directory is specified via this
         environment variable then the sha1 directories are
         created underneath - otherwise the default
         $GIT_DIR/objects directory is used.

     GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES
         Due to the immutable nature of git objects, old objects
         can be archived into shared, read-only directories. This
         variable specifies a ":" separated (on Windows ";"
         separated) list of git object directories which can be
         used to search for git objects. New objects will not be
         written to these directories.

     GIT_DIR
         If the GIT_DIR environment variable is set then it
         specifies a path to use instead of the default .git for
         the base of the repository.

     GIT_WORK_TREE
         Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be
         used in combination with repositories found
         automatically in a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not
         set). This can also be controlled by the --work-tree
         command line option and the core.worktree configuration
         variable.

     GIT_NAMESPACE
         Set the git namespace; see gitnamespaces(5) for details.
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         value.

     GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
         This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths.
         If set, it is a list of directories that git should not
         chdir up into while looking for a repository directory.
         It will not exclude the current working directory or a
         GIT_DIR set on the command line or in the environment.
         (Useful for excluding slow-loading network directories.)

     GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
         When run in a directory that does not have ".git"
         repository directory, git tries to find such a directory
         in the parent directories to find the top of the working
         tree, but by default it does not cross filesystem
         boundaries. This environment variable can be set to true
         to tell git not to stop at filesystem boundaries. Like
         GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, this will not affect an
         explicit repository directory set via GIT_DIR or on the
         command line.

  git Commits
     GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE,
     GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE,
     EMAIL
         see git-commit-tree(1)

  git Diffs
     GIT_DIFF_OPTS
         Only valid setting is "--unified=??" or "-u??" to set
         the number of context lines shown when a unified diff is
         created. This takes precedence over any "-U" or
         "--unified" option value passed on the git diff command
         line.

     GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF
         When the environment variable GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is set,
         the program named by it is called, instead of the diff
         invocation described above. For a path that is added,
         removed, or modified, GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is called with 7
         parameters:

             path old-file old-hex old-mode new-file new-hex new-mode

         where:

     <old|new>-file
         are files GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF can use to read the contents
         of <old|new>,

     <old|new>-hex
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     <old|new>-mode
         are the octal representation of the file modes.

         The file parameters can point at the user's working file
         (e.g.  new-file in "git-diff-files"), /dev/null (e.g.
         old-file when a new file is added), or a temporary file
         (e.g.  old-file in the index).  GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF should
         not worry about unlinking the temporary file --- it is
         removed when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF exits.

         For a path that is unmerged, GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is called
         with 1 parameter, <path>.

  other
     GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
         A number controlling the amount of output shown by the
         recursive merge strategy. Overrides merge.verbosity. See
         git-merge(1)

     GIT_PAGER
         This environment variable overrides $PAGER. If it is set
         to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not
         launch a pager. See also the core.pager option in git-
         config(1).

     GIT_SSH
         If this environment variable is set then git fetch and
         git push will use this command instead of ssh when they
         need to connect to a remote system. The $GIT_SSH command
         will be given exactly two arguments: the username@host
         (or just host) from the URL and the shell command to
         execute on that remote system.

         To pass options to the program that you want to list in
         GIT_SSH you will need to wrap the program and options
         into a shell script, then set GIT_SSH to refer to the
         shell script.

         Usually it is easier to configure any desired options
         through your personal .ssh/config file. Please consult
         your ssh documentation for further details.

     GIT_ASKPASS
         If this environment variable is set, then git commands
         which need to acquire passwords or passphrases (e.g. for
         HTTP or IMAP authentication) will call this program with
         a suitable prompt as command line argument and read the
         password from its STDOUT. See also the core.askpass
         option in git-config(1).

     GIT_FLUSH
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         commands such as git blame (in incremental mode), git
         rev-list, git log, and git whatchanged will force a
         flush of the output stream after each commit-oriented
         record have been flushed. If this variable is set to
         "0", the output of these commands will be done using
         completely buffered I/O. If this environment variable is
         not set, git will choose buffered or record-oriented
         flushing based on whether stdout appears to be
         redirected to a file or not.

     GIT_TRACE
         If this variable is set to "1", "2" or "true"
         (comparison is case insensitive), git will print trace:
         messages on stderr telling about alias expansion,
         built-in command execution and external command
         execution. If this variable is set to an integer value
         greater than 1 and lower than 10 (strictly) then git
         will interpret this value as an open file descriptor and
         will try to write the trace messages into this file
         descriptor. Alternatively, if this variable is set to an
         absolute path (starting with a / character), git will
         interpret this as a file path and will try to write the
         trace messages into it.

DISCUSSION
     More detail on the following is available from the git
     concepts chapter of the user-manual[3] and gitcore-
     tutorial(5).

     A git project normally consists of a working directory with
     a ".git" subdirectory at the top level. The .git directory
     contains, among other things, a compressed object database
     representing the complete history of the project, an "index"
     file which links that history to the current contents of the
     working tree, and named pointers into that history such as
     tags and branch heads.

     The object database contains objects of three main types:
     blobs, which hold file data; trees, which point to blobs and
     other trees to build up directory hierarchies; and commits,
     which each reference a single tree and some number of parent
     commits.

     The commit, equivalent to what other systems call a
     "changeset" or "version", represents a step in the project's
     history, and each parent represents an immediately preceding
     step. Commits with more than one parent represent merges of
     independent lines of development.

     All objects are named by the SHA1 hash of their contents,
     normally written as a string of 40 hex digits. Such names
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     commit can be vouched for by signing just that commit. A
     fourth object type, the tag, is provided for this purpose.

     When first created, objects are stored in individual files,
     but for efficiency may later be compressed together into
     "pack files".

     Named pointers called refs mark interesting points in
     history. A ref may contain the SHA1 name of an object or the
     name of another ref. Refs with names beginning ref/head/
     contain the SHA1 name of the most recent commit (or "head")
     of a branch under development. SHA1 names of tags of
     interest are stored under ref/tags/. A special ref named
     HEAD contains the name of the currently checked-out branch.

     The index file is initialized with a list of all paths and,
     for each path, a blob object and a set of attributes. The
     blob object represents the contents of the file as of the
     head of the current branch. The attributes (last modified
     time, size, etc.) are taken from the corresponding file in
     the working tree. Subsequent changes to the working tree can
     be found by comparing these attributes. The index may be
     updated with new content, and new commits may be created
     from the content stored in the index.

     The index is also capable of storing multiple entries
     (called "stages") for a given pathname. These stages are
     used to hold the various unmerged version of a file when a
     merge is in progress.

AUTHORS
     Git was started by Linus Torvalds, and is currently
     maintained by Junio C Hamano. Numerous contributions have
     come from the git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org[6]>. For
     a more complete list of contributors, see
     http://git-scm.com/about. If you have a clone of git.git
     itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1) can
     show you the authors for specific parts of the project.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to the Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org[6]>
     where the development and maintenance is primarily done. You
     do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message
     there.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:






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     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Availability   | developer/versioning/git |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted              |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
     gittutorial(5), gittutorial-2(5), Everyday Git[1], gitcvs-
     migration(5), gitglossary(5), gitcore-tutorial(5),
     gitcli(5), The Git User's Manual[2], gitworkflows(5)

GIT
     Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
      1. Everyday Git
         file:///home/junio/share/doc/git-doc/everyday.html

      2. Git User's Manual
         file:///home/junio/share/doc/git-doc/user-manual.html

      3. git concepts chapter of the user-manual
         file:///home/junio/share/doc/git-doc/user-manual.html#git-concepts

      4. howto
         file:///home/junio/share/doc/git-doc/howto-index.html

      5. GIT API documentation
         file:///home/junio/share/doc/git-doc/technical/api-index.html

      6. git@vger.kernel.org
         mailto:git@vger.kernel.org


     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from  http://git-
     core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.













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