From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:29:40 +0000 (-0500) Subject: user-manual: reindent X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc3~3^2~23 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69f7ad730a21eb7e8aeb22b2ee76856dff2b7bd2;p=git.git user-manual: reindent Just some minor reindenting Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" --- diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 94c09e529..eeec2cdce 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -779,10 +779,10 @@ in history. $ git diff origin..master ------------------------------------------------- -will tell you whether the contents of the project are the same at the two -branches; in theory, however, it's possible that the same project contents -could have been arrived at by two different historical routes. You could -compare the SHA1 id's: +will tell you whether the contents of the project are the same at the +two branches; in theory, however, it's possible that the same project +contents could have been arrived at by two different historical +routes. You could compare the SHA1 id's: ------------------------------------------------- $ git rev-list origin @@ -791,8 +791,9 @@ $ git rev-list master e05db0fd4f31dde7005f075a84f96b360d05984b ------------------------------------------------- -Or you could recall that the ... operator selects all commits contained -reachable from either one reference or the other but not both: so +Or you could recall that the ... operator selects all commits +contained reachable from either one reference or the other but not +both: so ------------------------------------------------- $ git log origin...master @@ -803,9 +804,21 @@ will return no commits when the two branches are equal. Check which tagged version a given fix was first included in ------------------------------------------------------------ -Suppose you know that a critical fix made it into the linux kernel with commit -e05db0fd... You'd like to find which kernel version that commit first made it -into. +Suppose you know that the commit e05db0fd fixed a certain problem. +You'd like to find the earliest tagged release that contains that +fix. + +Of course, there may be more than one answer--if the history branched +after commit e05db0fd, then there could be multiple "earliest" tagged +releases. + +You could just visually inspect the commits since e05db0fd: + +------------------------------------------------- +$ gitk e05db0fd.. +------------------------------------------------- + +... Developing with git ===================