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| 3 | + GIT - the stupid content tracker |
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| 6 | + |
| 7 | +"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | + - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not |
| 10 | + actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a |
| 11 | + mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant. |
| 12 | + - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the |
| 13 | + dictionary of slang. |
| 14 | + - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually |
| 15 | + works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room. |
| 16 | + - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an |
| 19 | +unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations |
| 20 | +and full access to internals. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License. |
| 23 | +It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of |
| 24 | +hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions. |
| 27 | +See Documentation/tutorial.txt to get started, then see |
| 28 | +Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, |
| 29 | +and "man git-commandname" for documentation of each command. |
| 30 | +CVS users may also want to read Documentation/cvs-migration.txt. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git.or.cz/ |
| 33 | +including full documentation and Git related tools. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git |
| 36 | +mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature |
| 37 | +requests, comments and patches to [email protected]. To subscribe |
| 38 | +to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to |
| 39 | +[email protected]. The mailing list archives are available at |
| 40 | +http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in |
| 43 | +git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and |
| 44 | +the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good |
| 45 | +reference for project status, development direction and |
| 46 | +remaining tasks. |
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