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Git - the stupid content tracker

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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not

actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a

mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.

- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the

dictionary of slang.

- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually

works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.

- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

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.

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public

License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses,

compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus

Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.

Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.

See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see

Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and

Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.

If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be

read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the

documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help

commandname".

CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt

("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is

installed).

Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/

including full documentation and Git related tools.

The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git

mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature

requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read

Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission).

To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in

the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are

available at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/,

http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.

The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that

list the current status of various development topics to the mailing

list. The discussion following them give a good reference for

project status, development direction and remaining tasks.