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|  | <body class="manpage"> | 
|  | <div id="header"> | 
|  | <h1>gitrepository-layout(5) Manual Page</h1> | 
|  | <h2 id="_name">NAME</h2> | 
|  | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | <p>gitrepository-layout - Git Repository Layout</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div id="content"> | 
|  | <div class="sect1"> | 
|  | <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> | 
|  | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>$GIT_DIR/*</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="sect1"> | 
|  | <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2> | 
|  | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>A Git repository comes in two different flavours:</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="ulist"> | 
|  | <ul> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>a .<code>git</code> directory at the root of the working tree;</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>a <em><project></em><code>.git</code> directory that is a <em>bare</em> repository | 
|  | (i.e. without its own working tree), that is typically used for | 
|  | exchanging histories with others by pushing into it and fetching | 
|  | from it.</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | </ul> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p><strong>Note</strong>: Also you can have a plain text file .<code>git</code> at the root of | 
|  | your working tree, containing <code>gitdir:</code> <em><path></em> to point at the real | 
|  | directory that has the repository. | 
|  | This mechanism is called a <em>gitfile</em> and is usually managed via the | 
|  | <code>git</code> <code>submodule</code> and <code>git</code> <code>worktree</code> commands. It is often used for | 
|  | a working tree of a submodule checkout, to allow you in the | 
|  | containing superproject to <code>git</code> <code>checkout</code> a branch that does not | 
|  | have the submodule.  The <code>checkout</code> has to remove the entire | 
|  | submodule working tree, without losing the submodule repository.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>These things may exist in a Git repository.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="dlist"> | 
|  | <dl> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Object store associated with this repository.  Usually | 
|  | an object store is self sufficient (i.e. all the objects | 
|  | that are referred to by an object found in it are also | 
|  | found in it), but there are a few ways to violate it.</p> | 
|  | <div class="olist arabic"> | 
|  | <ol class="arabic"> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>You could have an incomplete but locally usable repository | 
|  | by creating a shallow clone.  See <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a>.</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>You could be using the <code>objects/info/alternates</code> or | 
|  | <code>$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES</code> mechanisms to <em>borrow</em> | 
|  | objects from other object stores.  A repository with this kind | 
|  | of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for | 
|  | use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as | 
|  | <code>objects/info/alternates</code> points at the object stores it | 
|  | borrows from.</p> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and | 
|  | "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/objects" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | </ol> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>A newly created object is stored in its own file. | 
|  | The objects are splayed over 256 subdirectories using | 
|  | the first two characters of the sha1 object name to | 
|  | keep the number of directory entries in <code>objects</code> | 
|  | itself to a manageable number. Objects found | 
|  | here are often called <em>unpacked</em> (or <em>loose</em>) objects.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects/pack</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Packs (files that store many objects in compressed form, | 
|  | along with index files to allow them to be randomly | 
|  | accessed) are found in this directory.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects/info</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Additional information about the object store is | 
|  | recorded in this directory.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects/info/packs</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file is to help dumb transports discover what packs | 
|  | are available in this object store.  Whenever a pack is | 
|  | added or removed, <code>git</code> <code>update-server-info</code> should be run | 
|  | to keep this file up to date if the repository is | 
|  | published for dumb transports.  <em>git repack</em> does this | 
|  | by default.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects/info/alternates</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file records paths to alternate object stores that | 
|  | this object store borrows objects from, one pathname per | 
|  | line. Note that not only native Git tools use it locally, | 
|  | but the HTTP fetcher also tries to use it remotely; this | 
|  | will usually work if you have relative paths (relative | 
|  | to the object database, not to the repository!) in your | 
|  | alternates file, but it will not work if you use absolute | 
|  | paths unless the absolute path in filesystem and web URL | 
|  | is the same. See also <code>objects/info/http-alternates</code>.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">objects/info/http-alternates</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file records URLs to alternate object stores that | 
|  | this object store borrows objects from, to be used when | 
|  | the repository is fetched over HTTP.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">refs</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>References are stored in subdirectories of this | 
|  | directory.  The <em>git prune</em> command knows to preserve | 
|  | objects reachable from refs found in this directory and | 
|  | its subdirectories. | 
|  | This directory is ignored (except refs/bisect, | 
|  | refs/rewritten and refs/worktree) if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is | 
|  | set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/refs" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">refs/heads/<code>name</code></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branch <code>name</code></p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">refs/tags/<code>name</code></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>records any object name (not necessarily a commit | 
|  | object, or a tag object that points at a commit object).</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">refs/remotes/<code>name</code></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branches copied | 
|  | from a remote repository.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">refs/replace/<em><obj-sha1></em></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>records the SHA-1 of the object that replaces <em><obj-sha1></em>. | 
|  | This is similar to info/grafts and is internally used and | 
|  | maintained by <a href="git-replace.html">git-replace(1)</a>. Such refs can be exchanged | 
|  | between repositories while grafts are not.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">packed-refs</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/, | 
|  | and friends record in a more efficient way.  See | 
|  | <a href="git-pack-refs.html">git-pack-refs(1)</a>. This file is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR | 
|  | is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/packed-refs" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">HEAD</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>A symref (see glossary) to the <code>refs/heads/</code> namespace | 
|  | describing the currently active branch.  It does not mean | 
|  | much if the repository is not associated with any working tree | 
|  | (i.e. a <em>bare</em> repository), but a valid Git repository | 
|  | <strong>must</strong> have the HEAD file; some porcelains may use it to | 
|  | guess the designated "default" branch of the repository | 
|  | (usually <em>master</em>).  It is legal if the named branch | 
|  | <em>name</em> does not (yet) exist.  In some legacy setups, it is | 
|  | a symbolic link instead of a symref that points at the current | 
|  | branch.</p> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>HEAD can also record a specific commit directly, instead of | 
|  | being a symref to point at the current branch.  Such a state | 
|  | is often called <em>detached HEAD.</em>  See <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a> | 
|  | for details.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">config</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Repository specific configuration file. This file is ignored | 
|  | if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/config" will be | 
|  | used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">config.worktree</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Working directory specific configuration file for the main | 
|  | working directory in multiple working directory setup (see | 
|  | <a href="git-worktree.html">git-worktree(1)</a>).</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">branches</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>A deprecated way to store shorthands to be used | 
|  | to specify a URL to <em>git fetch</em>, <em>git pull</em> and <em>git push</em>. | 
|  | A file can be stored as <code>branches/</code><em><name></em> and then | 
|  | <em>name</em> can be given to these commands in place of | 
|  | <em>repository</em> argument.  See the REMOTES section in | 
|  | <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a> for details.  This mechanism is legacy | 
|  | and not likely to be found in modern repositories. This | 
|  | directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and | 
|  | "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/branches" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Git will stop reading remotes from this directory in Git 3.0.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">hooks</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Hooks are customization scripts used by various Git | 
|  | commands.  A handful of sample hooks are installed when | 
|  | <em>git init</em> is run, but all of them are disabled by | 
|  | default.  To enable, the .<code>sample</code> suffix has to be | 
|  | removed from the filename by renaming. | 
|  | Read <a href="githooks.html">githooks(5)</a> for more details about | 
|  | each hook. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set | 
|  | and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/hooks" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">common</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>When multiple working trees are used, most of files in | 
|  | $GIT_DIR are per-worktree with a few known exceptions. All | 
|  | files under <em>common</em> however will be shared between all | 
|  | working trees.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">index</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>The current index file for the repository.  It is | 
|  | usually not found in a bare repository.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">sharedindex.<SHA-1></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>The shared index part, to be referenced by $GIT_DIR/index and | 
|  | other temporary index files. Only valid in split index mode.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">info</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Additional information about the repository is recorded | 
|  | in this directory. This directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR | 
|  | is set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/info" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">info/refs</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file helps dumb transports discover what refs are | 
|  | available in this repository.  If the repository is | 
|  | published for dumb transports, this file should be | 
|  | regenerated by <em>git update-server-info</em> every time a tag | 
|  | or branch is created or modified.  This is normally done | 
|  | from the <code>hooks/update</code> hook, which is run by the | 
|  | <em>git-receive-pack</em> command when you <em>git push</em> into the | 
|  | repository.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">info/grafts</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file records fake commit ancestry information, to | 
|  | pretend the set of parents a commit has is different | 
|  | from how the commit was actually created.  One record | 
|  | per line describes a commit and its fake parents by | 
|  | listing their 40-byte hexadecimal object names separated | 
|  | by a space and terminated by a newline.</p> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Note that the grafts mechanism is outdated and can lead to problems | 
|  | transferring objects between repositories; see <a href="git-replace.html">git-replace(1)</a> | 
|  | for a more flexible and robust system to do the same thing.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">info/exclude</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the | 
|  | exclude pattern list. .<code>gitignore</code> is the per-directory | 
|  | ignore file.  <em>git status</em>, <em>git add</em>, <em>git rm</em> and | 
|  | <em>git clean</em> look at it but the core Git commands do not look | 
|  | at it.  See also: <a href="gitignore.html">gitignore(5)</a>.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">info/attributes</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Defines which attributes to assign to a path, similar to per-directory | 
|  | .<code>gitattributes</code> files.   See also: <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a>.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">info/sparse-checkout</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This file stores sparse checkout patterns. | 
|  | See also: <a href="git-read-tree.html">git-read-tree(1)</a>.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">remotes</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Stores shorthands for URL and default refnames for use | 
|  | when interacting with remote repositories via <em>git fetch</em>, | 
|  | <em>git pull</em> and <em>git push</em> commands.  See the REMOTES section | 
|  | in <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a> for details.  This mechanism is legacy | 
|  | and not likely to be found in modern repositories. This | 
|  | directory is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and | 
|  | "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/remotes" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Git will stop reading remotes from this directory in Git 3.0.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">logs</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Records of changes made to refs are stored in this directory. | 
|  | See <a href="git-update-ref.html">git-update-ref(1)</a> for more information. This | 
|  | directory is ignored (except logs/HEAD) if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is | 
|  | set and "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/logs" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">logs/refs/heads/<code>name</code></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Records all changes made to the branch tip named <code>name</code>.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">logs/refs/tags/<code>name</code></dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Records all changes made to the tag named <code>name</code>.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">shallow</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>This is similar to <code>info/grafts</code> but is internally used | 
|  | and maintained by shallow clone mechanism.  See <code>--depth</code> | 
|  | option to <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a> and <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>. This | 
|  | file is ignored if $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set and | 
|  | "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/shallow" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">commondir</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>If this file exists, $GIT_COMMON_DIR (see <a href="git.html">git(1)</a>) will | 
|  | be set to the path specified in this file if it is not | 
|  | explicitly set. If the specified path is relative, it is | 
|  | relative to $GIT_DIR. The repository with commondir is | 
|  | incomplete without the repository pointed by "commondir".</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">modules</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Contains the git-repositories of the submodules.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">worktrees</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Contains administrative data for linked | 
|  | working trees. Each subdirectory contains the working tree-related | 
|  | part of a linked working tree. This directory is ignored if | 
|  | $GIT_COMMON_DIR is set, in which case | 
|  | "$GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees" will be used instead.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">worktrees/<id>/gitdir</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>A text file containing the absolute path back to the .git file | 
|  | that points to here. This is used to check if the linked | 
|  | repository has been manually removed and there is no need to | 
|  | keep this directory any more. The mtime of this file should be | 
|  | updated every time the linked repository is accessed.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">worktrees/<id>/locked</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>If this file exists, the linked working tree may be on a | 
|  | portable device and not available. The presence of this file | 
|  | prevents <code>worktrees/</code><em><id></em> from being pruned either automatically | 
|  | or manually by <code>git</code> <code>worktree</code> <code>prune</code>. The file may contain a string | 
|  | explaining why the repository is locked.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | <dt class="hdlist1">worktrees/<id>/config.worktree</dt> | 
|  | <dd> | 
|  | <p>Working directory specific configuration file.</p> | 
|  | </dd> | 
|  | </dl> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="sect1"> | 
|  | <h2 id="_git_repository_format_versions">Git Repository Format Versions</h2> | 
|  | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Every git repository is marked with a numeric version in the | 
|  | <code>core.repositoryformatversion</code> key of its <code>config</code> file. This version | 
|  | specifies the rules for operating on the on-disk repository data. An | 
|  | implementation of git which does not understand a particular version | 
|  | advertised by an on-disk repository MUST NOT operate on that repository; | 
|  | doing so risks not only producing wrong results, but actually losing | 
|  | data.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Because of this rule, version bumps should be kept to an absolute | 
|  | minimum. Instead, we generally prefer these strategies:</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="ulist"> | 
|  | <ul> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>bumping format version numbers of individual data files (e.g., | 
|  | index, packfiles, etc). This restricts the incompatibilities only to | 
|  | those files.</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>introducing new data that gracefully degrades when used by older | 
|  | clients (e.g., pack bitmap files are ignored by older clients, which | 
|  | simply do not take advantage of the optimization they provide).</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | </ul> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>A whole-repository format version bump should only be part of a change | 
|  | that cannot be independently versioned. For instance, if one were to | 
|  | change the reachability rules for objects, or the rules for locking | 
|  | refs, that would require a bump of the repository format version.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Note that this applies only to accessing the repository’s disk contents | 
|  | directly. An older client which understands only format <code>0</code> may still | 
|  | connect via <code>git://</code> to a repository using format <code>1</code>, as long as the | 
|  | server process understands format <code>1</code>.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>The preferred strategy for rolling out a version bump (whether whole | 
|  | repository or for a single file) is to teach git to read the new format, | 
|  | and allow writing the new format with a config switch or command line | 
|  | option (for experimentation or for those who do not care about backwards | 
|  | compatibility with older gits). Then after a long period to allow the | 
|  | reading capability to become common, we may switch to writing the new | 
|  | format by default.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>The currently defined format versions are:</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="sect2"> | 
|  | <h3 id="_version_0">Version <code>0</code></h3> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>This is the format defined by the initial version of git, including but | 
|  | not limited to the format of the repository directory, the repository | 
|  | configuration file, and the object and ref storage. Specifying the | 
|  | complete behavior of git is beyond the scope of this document.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="sect2"> | 
|  | <h3 id="_version_1">Version <code>1</code></h3> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>This format is identical to version <code>0</code>, with the following exceptions:</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="olist arabic"> | 
|  | <ol class="arabic"> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>When reading the <code>core.repositoryformatversion</code> variable, a git | 
|  | implementation which supports version 1 MUST also read any | 
|  | configuration keys found in the <code>extensions</code> section of the | 
|  | configuration file.</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | <li> | 
|  | <p>If a version-1 repository specifies any <code>extensions.*</code> keys that | 
|  | the running git has not implemented, the operation MUST NOT | 
|  | proceed. Similarly, if the value of any known key is not understood | 
|  | by the implementation, the operation MUST NOT proceed.</p> | 
|  | </li> | 
|  | </ol> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Note that if no extensions are specified in the config file, then | 
|  | <code>core.repositoryformatversion</code> SHOULD be set to <code>0</code> (setting it to <code>1</code> | 
|  | provides no benefit, and makes the repository incompatible with older | 
|  | implementations of git).</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>The defined extensions are given in the <code>extensions.*</code> section of | 
|  | <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>. Any implementation wishing to define a new | 
|  | extension should make a note of it there, in order to claim the name.</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="sect1"> | 
|  | <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2> | 
|  | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p><a href="git-init.html">git-init(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="git-clone.html">git-clone(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="git-fetch.html">git-fetch(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="git-pack-refs.html">git-pack-refs(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="git-gc.html">git-gc(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="gitglossary.html">gitglossary(7)</a>, | 
|  | <a href="user-manual.html">The Git User’s Manual</a></p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | <div class="sect1"> | 
|  | <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2> | 
|  | <div class="sectionbody"> | 
|  | <div class="paragraph"> | 
|  | <p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p> | 
|  | </div> | 
|  | </div> | 
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