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At Apache, the policy is that the official reference is the one hold by Apache servers (for example http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-math.git). Therefore, all users who want to get the latest version known know this is were they should point at to retrieve it, and developers who have commit access must push their modifications back to this repository for official publication.

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There are numerous references available online for Git. The first one is the official \[http://git-scm.com/book/en/ Pro Git book\]. An Apache specific page is \[https://git-wip-us.apache.org/ here\] There is also a wiki at kernel.org: \[https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ Git Wiki Homepage\] Also a quick tutorial on \[http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html Git for SVN users\]

Comparison with subversion commands

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