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The Error.pm shipped with Git as a fallback if there was no Error.pm on the system was released in April 2006. There's been dozens of releases since then, the latest at August 7, 2017. Let's update to that. I don't know of anything we need from this new release or which this fixes. This change is simply a matter of keeping up with upstream. Before this users who'd install git via their package system would get an up-to-date Error.pm, but if it's installed from source they'd get one more than a decade old. This undoes a local hack we'd accumulated in96bc4de85c("Eliminate Scalar::Util usage from private-Error.pm", 2006-07-26), it's been redundant since myd48b284183("perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21]", 2010-09-24). This also undoes3a51467b94("Typo fix: replacing it's -> its", 2013-04-13). This is the Nth time I find that some upstream code of ours (in contrib/, in sha1dc/ and now in perl/ ...) has diverged from upstream because of some tree-wide typo fixing. Let's not do those fixes against upstream projects, it's more valuable that we have a 1=1 mapping to upstream than to fix typos in docs we never even generate from this code. If someone wants to fix typos in them fine, but they should do it with a patch to upstream which git.git can then incorporate. The upstream code doesn't cleanly pass a --check, so I'm adding a .gitattributes file for similar reasons as done for sha1dc in5d184f468e("sha1dc: ignore indent-with-non-tab whitespace violations", 2017-06-06). The updated source was retrieved from https://fastapi.metacpan.org/source/SHLOMIF/Error-0.17025/lib/Error.pm Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of hackers around the net.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
Many Git online resources are accessible from https://git-scm.com/ including full documentation and Git related tools.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the
documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.
The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.
The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks