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Most commands have built-in documentation you can access with the --help option:

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$ git init --help

You can generally access the same documentation as Unix man pages, e.g:

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Use the git reset command to "undo" an add operation:

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$ git reset HEAD

This resets the index but leaves your working directory untouched. You can also use git reset to revert to a previous commit; read the documentation for more information.

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$ git checkout master
$ git merge seas-workshop-dev
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git: the index

The Git Index

Git is not really just like Subversion (or most other version control solutions). That's mainly because of the git "index".

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This may take a while:

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$ export CVSHOME=:pserver:anonymous@example.com
$ cvs login
$ git cvsimport -o cvs_head -C my-project

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