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At Apache, the policy is that the official reference is the one hold held by Apache servers (for example https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-math.git). Therefore, all users who want to get the latest version 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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  git config --global core.autocrlf input`input

If you are using Windows, you should run:

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  git config --local user.name "You Name"
  git config --local user.email apacheID@apache.org

Comparison with

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Subversion commands

One of the most important difference from a user point of view is that since there is always one local repository and one or several remote repositories, there is a distinction in git between saving some work only locally on a private computer and making it available to other people who see only public remote computers. The first action is called commit, and it is therefore completely different from a subversion commit. The second action is called push. The equivalent to svn commit is therefore a pair of two commands, git commit followed by git push. It is possible to perform several git commits without doing any git push, which is impossible to do with subversion. Note that most commands (including log
and status) only work on the local copy of a remote repository. You should therefore use git fetch regularly to refresh your copy (if you do not want to pull).

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