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    <title>GIT Howto Index</title>
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                <primary>GIT Howto Index</primary>
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<simpara>Here is a collection of mailing list postings made by various
people describing how they use git in their workflow.</simpara>
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<ulink url="howto/maintain-git.txt">maintain-git</ulink> by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;
</simpara>
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<simpara>Imagine that git development is racing along as usual, when our friendly
neighborhood maintainer is struck down by a wayward bus. Out of the
hordes of suckers (loyal developers), you have been tricked (chosen) to
step up as the new maintainer. This howto will show you "how to" do it.</simpara>
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<ulink url="howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt">rebase-from-internal-branch</ulink> by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;
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<simpara>In this article, JC talks about how he rebases the
public "pu" branch using the core GIT tools when he updates
the "master" branch, and how "rebase" works.  Also discussed
is how this applies to individual developers who sends patches
upstream.</simpara>
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<ulink url="howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.txt">rebuild-from-update-hook</ulink> by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;
</simpara>
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<simpara>In this how-to article, JC talks about how he
uses the post-update hook to automate git documentation page
shown at <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/">http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/</ulink>.</simpara>
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<ulink url="howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt">recover-corrupted-blob-object</ulink> by Linus Torvalds &lt;<ulink url="mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org">torvalds@linux-foundation.org</ulink>&gt;
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<simpara>Some tricks to reconstruct blob objects in order to fix
a corrupted repository.</simpara>
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<simpara>
<ulink url="howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt">revert-a-faulty-merge</ulink> by Linus Torvalds &lt;<ulink url="mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org">torvalds@linux-foundation.org</ulink>&gt;, Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;
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<simpara>Sometimes a branch that was already merged to the mainline
is later found to be faulty.  Linus and Junio give guidance on
recovering from such a premature merge and continuing development
after the offending branch is fixed.</simpara>
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<ulink url="howto/revert-branch-rebase.html">revert-branch-rebase</ulink> by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;
</simpara>
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<simpara>In this article, JC gives a small real-life example of using
<emphasis>git revert</emphasis> command, and using a temporary branch and tag for safety
and easier sanity checking.</simpara>
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<ulink url="howto/separating-topic-branches.txt">separating-topic-branches</ulink> by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt;
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<simpara>In this article, JC describes how to separate topic branches.</simpara>
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<simpara>
<ulink url="howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt">setup-git-server-over-http</ulink> by Rutger Nijlunsing &lt;<ulink url="mailto:rutger@nospam.com">rutger@nospam.com</ulink>&gt;
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<ulink url="howto/update-hook-example.txt">update-hook-example</ulink> by Junio C Hamano &lt;<ulink url="mailto:gitster@pobox.com">gitster@pobox.com</ulink>&gt; and Carl Baldwin &lt;<ulink url="mailto:cnb@fc.hp.com">cnb@fc.hp.com</ulink>&gt;
</simpara>
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<simpara>An example hooks/update script is presented to
implement repository maintenance policies, such as who can push
into which branch and who can make a tag.</simpara>
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<simpara>
<ulink url="howto/use-git-daemon.txt">use-git-daemon</ulink>
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<ulink url="howto/using-merge-subtree.html">using-merge-subtree</ulink> by Sean &lt;<ulink url="mailto:seanlkml@sympatico.ca">seanlkml@sympatico.ca</ulink>&gt;
</simpara>
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<simpara>In this article, Sean demonstrates how one can use the subtree merge
strategy.</simpara>
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