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Ramkumar Ramachandra noticed that the old address for the marc archive no longer works. Update it to its marc.info address, and also refer to the gmane site. Remove the reference to "note from the maintainer", which is not usually followed by any useful discussion on status, direction nor tasks. Also replace the reference to "What's in git.git" with "What's cooking". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
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- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
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actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
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mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
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- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
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dictionary of slang.
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- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
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works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
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- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
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Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
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unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
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and full access to internals.
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Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public
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License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses,
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compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus
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Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
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Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
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See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
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Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
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Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
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If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
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read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
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documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
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commandname".
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CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
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("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
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installed).
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Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/
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including full documentation and Git related tools.
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The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
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mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
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requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read
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Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission).
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To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in
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the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
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available at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/,
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http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
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The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that
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list the current status of various development topics to the mailing
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list. The discussion following them give a good reference for
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project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
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