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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be
checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote`
configuration variable for how to set a given remote
- to used by default in some situations where this
+ to be used by default in some situations where this
advice would be printed.
amWorkDir::
Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
checkout.thresholdForParallelism::
When running parallel checkout with a small number of files, the cost
of subprocess spawning and inter-process communication might outweigh
- the parallelization gains. This setting allows to define the minimum
+ the parallelization gains. This setting allows you to define the minimum
number of files for which parallel checkout should be attempted. The
default is 100.
http.noEPSV::
A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
- This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
+ This can be helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV`
environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of
the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was
successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file
- timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful
+ timestamp is checked and the merge is assumed to have been successful
if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to
indicate the success of the merge.
See also the `--batch-size` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
sendemail.smtpReloginDelay::
- Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
+ Seconds to wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables::
You could omit `<branch>`, in which case the command degenerates to
"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with
rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information,
-if exists, for the current branch.
+if it exists, for the current branch.
'git checkout' -b|-B <new-branch> [<start-point>]::
This command caches credentials for use by future Git programs.
The stored credentials are kept in memory of the cache-daemon
-process (instead of written to a file) and are forgotten after a
+process (instead of being written to a file) and are forgotten after a
configurable timeout. Credentials are forgotten sooner if the
cache-daemon dies, for example if the system restarts. The cache
is accessible over a Unix domain socket, restricted to the current
Use `<path>` to lookup and store credentials. The file will have its
filesystem permissions set to prevent other users on the system
- from reading it, but will not be encrypted or otherwise
+ from reading it, but it will not be encrypted or otherwise
protected. If not specified, credentials will be searched for from
`~/.git-credentials` and `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/credentials`, and
credentials will be written to `~/.git-credentials` if it exists, or
Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`.
--[no-]symlinks::
- 'git difftool''s default behavior is create symlinks to the
+ 'git difftool''s default behavior is to create symlinks to the
working tree when run in `--dir-diff` mode and the right-hand
side of the comparison yields the same content as the file in
the working tree.
--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
- remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
+ remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH.
Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
your privately installed git may not be found on the system
The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the
tag doesn't pass a linkgit:git-fsck[1] check.
-The "fsck" check done mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1]
+The "fsck" check done by mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1]
would run by default in that all `fsck.<msg-id>` messages are promoted
from warnings to errors (so e.g. a missing "tagger" line is an error).
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This program searches the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` for all objects that currently
-exist in a pack file as well as the independent object directories.
+exist in a pack file as well as in the independent object directories.
All such extra objects are removed.
$ git restore --staged hello.c
------------
-or you can restore both the index and the working tree (this the same
+or you can restore both the index and the working tree (this is the same
as using linkgit:git-checkout[1])
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semantics the http remote helper can simply act as a proxy
In protocol v2 communication is command oriented. When first contacting a
-server a list of capabilities will advertised. Some of these capabilities
+server a list of capabilities will be advertised. Some of these capabilities
will be commands which a client can request be executed. Once a command
has completed, a client can reuse the connection and request that other
commands be executed.
=====================
Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is
-let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a Git server
+to let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a Git server
real quick, right?
Note that git-daemon is not really chatty at the moment, especially when
The IPC-client routines within a client application process connect
to the IPC-server and send a request message and wait for a response.
-When received, the response is returned back the caller.
+When received, the response is returned back to the caller.
For example, the `fsmonitor--daemon` feature will be built as a server
application on top of the IPC-server library routines. It will have
The "Partial Clone" feature is a performance optimization for Git that
allows Git to function without having a complete copy of the repository.
-The goal of this work is to allow Git better handle extremely large
+The goal of this work is to allow Git to better handle extremely large
repositories.
During clone and fetch operations, Git downloads the complete contents
"virtual" in the sense that it does not necessarily have to, and
often does not, match the files in the working tree.
-There are cases Git needs to examine the differences between the
+There are cases where Git needs to examine the differences between the
virtual working tree state in the index and the files in the
working tree. The most obvious case is when the user asks `git
diff` (or its low level implementation, `git diff-files`) or
what AB and AC wanted to do.
As branch AC2 refers to the same commit as AC, the above implies that
-this is also compatible what AB and AC2 wanted to do.
+this is also compatible with what AB and AC2 wanted to do.
By extension, this means that rerere should recognize that the above
conflicts are the same. To do this, the labels on the conflict
projects / rit / commitdiff