Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since I haven't created any any branches (to my knowledge), it seems > that "master" is the magic branch name. I wouldn't say "magic", but surely the default ;-). > My goal was just to get a list of managed files. Just cd /where/your/repo/is git ls-files > Is "master" going to remain my "HEAD" now? Yes. >> git-ls-tree is the old way to >> refer to the command name. Normally, any reference to dashed names >> should have been removed from the documentation by now (so most likely >> you see it in your distro because it's an old enough version, >> otherwise, it's a bug in the doc). > > $ git --version > git version 1.6.0.2 > > I guess the man pages and installation were out of sync for that release. Well, actually, a few more instances of dashed commands were removed more recently. That said, to get the doc for "git foo", you still have to type "man git-foo" (or git foo --help indeed), but that's because "man git foo" means something different to man. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html