$ tar zxf frotz.tar.gz
$ cd frotz
$ git init
$ git add . (1)
$ git commit -m "import of frotz source tree."
$ git tag v2.43 (2)

1. add everything under the current directory.
2. make a lightweight, unannotated tag.

$ git checkout -b alsa-audio (1)
$ edit/compile/test
$ git checkout -- curses/ux_audio_oss.c (2)
$ git add curses/ux_audio_alsa.c (3)
$ edit/compile/test
$ git diff HEAD (4)
$ git commit -a -s (5)
$ edit/compile/test
$ git diff HEAD^ (6)
$ git commit -a --amend (7)
$ git checkout master (8)
$ git merge alsa-audio (9)
$ git log --since='3 days ago' (10)
$ git log v2.43.. curses/ (11)

1. create a new topic branch.
2. revert your botched changes in curses/ux_audio_oss.c.
3. you need to tell Git if you added a new file; removal and modification will be caught if you do git commit -a later.
4. to see what changes you are committing.
5. commit everything, as you have tested, with your sign-off.
6. look at all your changes including the previous commit.
7. amend the previous commit, adding all your new changes, using your original message.
8. switch to the master branch.
9. merge a topic branch into your master branch.
10. review commit logs; other forms to limit output can be combined and include -10 (to show up to 10 commits), --until=2005-12-10, etc.
11. view only the changes that touch what’s in curses/ directory, since v2.43 tag.

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../torvalds/linux-2.6 my2.6
$ cd my2.6
$ git checkout -b mine master (1)
$ edit/compile/test; git commit -a -s (2)
$ git format-patch master (3)
$ git send-email --to="person <email@example.com>" 00*.patch (4)
$ git checkout master (5)
$ git pull (6)
$ git log -p ORIG_HEAD.. arch/i386 include/asm-i386 (7)
$ git ls-remote --heads http://git.kernel.org/.../jgarzik/libata-dev.git (8)
$ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/.../jgarzik/libata-dev.git ALL (9)
$ git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD (10)
$ git gc (11)

1. checkout a new branch mine from master.
2. repeat as needed.
3. extract patches from your branch, relative to master,
4. and email them.
5. return to master, ready to see what’s new
6. git pull fetches from origin by default and merges into the current branch.
7. immediately after pulling, look at the changes done upstream since last time we checked, only in the area we are interested in.
8. check the branch names in an external repository (if not known).
9. fetch from a specific branch ALL from a specific repository and merge it.
10. revert the pull.
11. garbage collect leftover objects from reverted pull.

satellite$ git clone mothership:frotz frotz (1)
satellite$ cd frotz
satellite$ git config --get-regexp '^(remote|branch)\.' (2)
remote.origin.url mothership:frotz
remote.origin.fetch refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
branch.master.remote origin
branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
satellite$ git config remote.origin.push \


           +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/satellite/* (3)
satellite$ edit/compile/test/commit
satellite$ git push origin (4)
mothership$ cd frotz
mothership$ git checkout master
mothership$ git merge satellite/master (5)

1. mothership machine has a frotz repository under your home directory; clone from it to start a repository on the satellite machine.
2. clone sets these configuration variables by default. It arranges git pull to fetch and store the branches of mothership machine to local remotes/origin/* remote-tracking branches.
3. arrange git push to push all local branches to their corresponding branch of the mothership machine.
4. push will stash all our work away on remotes/satellite/* remote-tracking branches on the mothership machine. You could use this as a back-up method. Likewise, you can pretend that mothership "fetched" from you (useful when access is one sided).
5. on mothership machine, merge the work done on the satellite machine into the master branch.

$ git checkout -b private2.6.14 v2.6.14 (1)
$ edit/compile/test; git commit -a
$ git checkout master
$ git cherry-pick v2.6.14..private2.6.14 (2)

1. create a private branch based on a well known (but somewhat behind) tag.
2. forward port all changes in private2.6.14 branch to master branch without a formal "merging". Or longhand

git format-patch -k -m --stdout v2.6.14..private2.6.14 | git am -3 -k

$ git status (1)
$ git branch --no-merged master (2)
$ mailx (3)
& s 2 3 4 5 ./+to-apply
& s 7 8 ./+hold-linus
& q
$ git checkout -b topic/one master
$ git am -3 -i -s ./+to-apply (4)
$ compile/test
$ git checkout -b hold/linus && git am -3 -i -s ./+hold-linus (5)
$ git checkout topic/one && git rebase master (6)
$ git checkout pu && git reset --hard next (7)
$ git merge topic/one topic/two && git merge hold/linus (8)
$ git checkout maint
$ git cherry-pick master~4 (9)
$ compile/test
$ git tag -s -m "GIT 0.99.9x" v0.99.9x (10)
$ git fetch ko && for branch in master maint next pu (11)


    do


        git show-branch ko/$branch $branch (12)


    done
$ git push --follow-tags ko (13)

1. see what you were in the middle of doing, if anything.
2. see which branches haven’t been merged into master yet. Likewise for any other integration branches e.g. maint, next and pu (potential updates).
3. read mails, save ones that are applicable, and save others that are not quite ready (other mail readers are available).
4. apply them, interactively, with your sign-offs.
5. create topic branch as needed and apply, again with sign-offs.
6. rebase internal topic branch that has not been merged to the master or exposed as a part of a stable branch.
7. restart pu every time from the next.
8. and bundle topic branches still cooking.
9. backport a critical fix.
10. create a signed tag.
11. make sure master was not accidentally rewound beyond that already pushed out.
12. In the output from git show-branch, master should have everything ko/master has, and next should have everything ko/next has, etc.
13. push out the bleeding edge, together with new tags that point into the pushed history.

(in .git/config)
[remote "ko"]


        url = kernel.org:/pub/scm/git/git.git


        fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/ko/*


        push = refs/heads/master


        push = refs/heads/next


        push = +refs/heads/pu


        push = refs/heads/maint

$ grep git /etc/inetd.conf
git     stream  tcp     nowait  nobody \


  /usr/bin/git-daemon git-daemon --inetd --export-all /pub/scm

The actual configuration line should be on one line.

$ cat /etc/xinetd.d/git-daemon
# default: off
# description: The Git server offers access to Git repositories
service git
{


        disable = no


        type            = UNLISTED


        port            = 9418


        socket_type     = stream


        wait            = no


        user            = nobody


        server          = /usr/bin/git-daemon


        server_args     = --inetd --export-all --base-path=/pub/scm


        log_on_failure  += USERID
}

Check your xinetd(8) documentation and setup, this is from a Fedora system. Others might be different.

$ grep git /etc/passwd (1)
alice:x:1000:1000::/home/alice:/usr/bin/git-shell
bob:x:1001:1001::/home/bob:/usr/bin/git-shell
cindy:x:1002:1002::/home/cindy:/usr/bin/git-shell
david:x:1003:1003::/home/david:/usr/bin/git-shell
$ grep git /etc/shells (2)
/usr/bin/git-shell

1. log-in shell is set to /usr/bin/git-shell, which does not allow anything but git push and git pull. The users require ssh access to the machine.
2. in many distributions /etc/shells needs to list what is used as the login shell.

$ grep git /etc/group (1)
git:x:9418:alice,bob,cindy,david
$ cd /home/devo.git
$ ls -l (2)


  lrwxrwxrwx   1 david git    17 Dec  4 22:40 HEAD -> refs/heads/master


  drwxrwsr-x   2 david git  4096 Dec  4 22:40 branches


  -rw-rw-r--   1 david git    84 Dec  4 22:40 config


  -rw-rw-r--   1 david git    58 Dec  4 22:40 description


  drwxrwsr-x   2 david git  4096 Dec  4 22:40 hooks


  -rw-rw-r--   1 david git 37504 Dec  4 22:40 index


  drwxrwsr-x   2 david git  4096 Dec  4 22:40 info


  drwxrwsr-x   4 david git  4096 Dec  4 22:40 objects


  drwxrwsr-x   4 david git  4096 Nov  7 14:58 refs


  drwxrwsr-x   2 david git  4096 Dec  4 22:40 remotes
$ ls -l hooks/update (3)


  -r-xr-xr-x   1 david git  3536 Dec  4 22:40 update
$ cat info/allowed-users (4)
refs/heads/master       alice\|cindy
refs/heads/doc-update   bob
refs/tags/v[0-9]*       david

1. place the developers into the same git group.
2. and make the shared repository writable by the group.
3. use update-hook example by Carl from Documentation/howto/ for branch policy control.
4. alice and cindy can push into master, only bob can push into doc-update. david is the release manager and is the only person who can create and push version tags.