With a small group, developers may just pull changes from each other's
repositories without the need for a central maintainer.
-Emulating the CVS Development Model
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+Creating a Shared Repository
+----------------------------
Start with an ordinary git working directory containing the project, and
remove the checked-out files, keeping just the bare .git directory:
Make sure committers have a umask of at most 027, so that the directories
they create are writable and searchable by other group members.
-Suppose this repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host
+Performing Development on a Shared Repository
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Suppose a repository is now set up in /pub/repo.git on the host
foo.com. Then as an individual committer you can clone the shared
repository:
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-You can update the shared repository with your changes using:
+You can update the shared repository with your changes by first commiting
+your changes, and then using:
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$ git push origin master
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-If someone else has updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like
-`cvs commit`, will complain, in which case you must pull any changes
-before attempting the push again.
+to "push" those commits to the shared repository. If someone else has
+updated the repository more recently, `git push`, like `cvs commit`, will
+complain, in which case you must pull any changes before attempting the
+push again.
In the `git push` command above we specify the name of the remote branch
to update (`master`). If we leave that out, `git push` tries to update