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We started using our own timestamp_t type and PRItime format
specifier to go along with it, so that we can later change the
underlying type and output format more easily, but this does not
play well with gettext tools.
Because gettext tools need to keep the *.po file portable across
platforms, they have to special-case the format specifiers like
PRIuMAX that are known types in inttypes.h, instead of letting CPP
handle strings like
"%" PRIuMAX " seconds ago"
as an ordinary string concatenation. They fundamentally cannot do
the same for our own custom type/format.
Given that po/git.pot needs to be generated only once every release
and by only one person, i.e. the l10n coordinator, let's update the
Makefile rule to generate po/git.pot so that gettext tools are run
on a munged set of sources in which all mentions of PRItime are
replaced with PRIuMAX, which is what we happen to use right now.
This way, developers do not have to care that PRItime does not play
well with gettext, and translators do not have to care that we use
our own PRItime.
The credit for the idea to munge the source files goes to Dscho.
Possible bugs are mine.
Helped-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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
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(man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is
installed).
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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