Finish each sentence with a full stop.

Instead of saying 'directory index' 'directory cache' etc,
consistently say 'index'.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Many places in the documentation we still talked about reading
what commit is recorded in .git/HEAD or writing the new head
information into it, both assuming .git/HEAD is a symlink.  That
is not necessarily so.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Jon Loeliger's ASCII art in the Discussion section.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

The replacement was performed automatically by these commands:

	perl -pi -e 's/link:(git.+)\.html\[\1\]/gitlink:$1\[1\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt
	perl -pi -e 's/link:git\.html\[git\]/gitlink:git\[7\]/g' \
		README Documentation/*.txt
Signed-off-by: NSergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch.  The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:

  (1) git-*-script are no more.  The commands installed do not
      have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
      something is implemented as a shell script or not.

  (2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
      'index' if that is what they mean.

There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support  is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Mostly making the formatted html prettier.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
(cherry picked from 7adf1f15ebe074d4767df941817a6cf86d8e2533 commit)

At one place in Documentation/tutorial.txt and several in the base
README, its was wrongly used in place of it's or vice versa.  One
instance remains somewhere in Documentation/howto/, which I didn't
correct because it's in a quotation.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Louis <glouis@dynamicro.ca>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

This patch makes the first half of write_sha1_file() and
index_fd() externally visible, to allow callers to compute the
object ID without actually storing it in the object database.

[JC demangled the whitespaces himself because he liked the patch
 so much, and reworked the interface to index_fd() slightly,
 taking suggestion from Linus and of his own.]
Signed-off-by: NBryan Larsen <bryan.larsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Packed delta files created by git-pack-objects seems to be the
way to go, and existing "delta" object handling code has exposed
the object representation details to too many places.  Remove it
while we refactor code to come up with a proper interface in
sha1_file.c.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Added delta documentation
Signed-off-by: NDavid Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add docs for tag type
Rename commands to have git- prefix
Rename changeset to commit throughout
Signed-off-by: NDavid Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Whitespace and asciidoc formatting changes only in preparation for
content changes.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Two other README spelling fixes. I wasn't able to pinpoint the relevant
commit in the cogito branch, but they are fairly trivial anyway.

Signed-off-by: NZack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>
Signed-off-by: NPetr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>

* README: spell checked
Signed-off-by: NPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

Few more s/ie/i.e./ fixes.
Signed-off-by: NPetr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>

H. Peter Anvin mentioned that using SHA1_whatever as an
environment variable name is not nice and we should instead use
names starting with "GIT_" prefix to avoid conflicts.  Here is
what this patch does:

 * Renames the following environment variables:

    New name                           Old Name

    GIT_AUTHOR_DATE                    AUTHOR_DATE
    GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL                   AUTHOR_EMAIL
    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME                    AUTHOR_NAME
    GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL                COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
    GIT_COMMITTER_NAME                 COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME
    GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES   SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORIES
    GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY               SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY

 * Introduces a compatibility macro, gitenv(), which does an
   getenv() and if it fails calls gitenv_bc(), which in turn
   picks up the value from old name while giving a warning about
   using an old name.

 * Changes all users of the environment variable to fetch
   environment variable with the new name using gitenv().

 * Updates the documentation and scripts shipped with Linus GIT
   distribution.

The transition plan is as follows:

 * We will keep the backward compatibility list used by gitenv()
   for now, so the current scripts and user environments
   continue to work as before.  The users will get warnings when
   they have old name but not new name in their environment to
   the stderr.

 * The Porcelain layers should start using new names.  However,
   just in case it ends up calling old Plumbing layer
   implementation, they should also export old names, taking
   values from the corresponding new names, during the
   transition period.

 * After a transition period, we would drop the compatibility
   support and drop gitenv().  Revert the callers to directly
   call getenv() but keep using the new names.

   The last part is probably optional and the transition
   duration needs to be set to a reasonable value.
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

and other newfangled things like merging.

Also, talk more about the actual operations, and give some
rough examples of what you can do.

I started out calling the tool "dircache". That's clearly moronic.