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"English Term (Dear translator: This file will never be visible to the user!)" "English Definition (Dear translator: This file will never be visible to the user! It should only serve as a tool for you, the translator. Nothing more.)"
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"abort" "prematurely stop and abandon an operation"
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"amend" ""
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"ancestor" "a commit that succeeds the current one in git's graph of commits (not necessarily directly)"
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"annotate" ""
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"author" "The person who initially created (authored) a commit"
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"bare repository" "a repository with only .git directory, without working directory"
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"base" "a parent version of the current file"
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"bisect" ""
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"blame" "get the authors responsible for each line in a file"
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"blob" ""
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"branch [noun]" "A 'branch' is an active line of development."
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"branch [verb]" ""
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"checkout [noun]" ""
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"checkout [verb]" "The action of updating the working tree to a revision which was stored in the object database."
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"cherry-pick" "to select and apply a single commit to the current HEAD without merging"
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"child commit" "a commit that directly succeeds the current one in git's graph of commits"
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"cleanup" "clean the state of the git repository, often after manually stopped operation"
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"clone [verb]" ""
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"commit [noun]" "A single point in the git history."
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"commit [verb]" "The action of storing a new snapshot of the project's state in the git history."
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"commit message" "a message that gets attached with any commit"
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"committer" "The person who committed a commit (to the current branch), which might be different than the author."
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"descendant" "a commit that precedes the current one in git's graph of commits (not necessarily directly)"
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"detached HEAD" "checkout of a revision rather than some head"
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"detached checkout" "checkout of a revision rather than some head"
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"diff [noun]" ""
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"diff [verb]" ""
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"directory" ""
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"fast-forward" "A fast-forward merge is a special type of merge where you have a revision and you are merging another branch's changes that happen to be a descendant of what you have."
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"fetch" "Fetching a branch means to get the branch's head from a remote repository, to find out which objects are missing from the local object database, and to get them, too."
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"file level merging" "any merge strategy that works on a file by file basis"
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"file" ""
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"head" "the last revision in a branch"
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"hook" "script that gets executed automatically on some event"
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"hunk" "One context of consecutive lines in a whole patch, which consists of many such hunks"
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"index (in git-gui: staging area)" "A collection of files. The index is a stored version of your working tree."
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"initial checkout" "the first checkout during a clone operation"
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"initial commit" "The very first commit in a repository"
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"local branch" "a branch that resides in the local git repository"
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"loose object" "a Git object that is not part of any pack"
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"master branch" "a branch called by convention 'master' that exists in a newly created git repository"
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"merge [noun]" "A successful merge results in the creation of a new commit representing the result of the merge."
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"merge [verb]" "To bring the contents of another branch into the current branch."
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"message" ""
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"origin" "a remote called by convention 'origin' that the current git repository has been cloned from"
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"orphan commit" ""
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"orphan reference" ""
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"pack [noun]" "a file containing many git objects packed together"
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"pack [verb]" "the process of creating a pack file"
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"packed object" "a Git object part of some pack"
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"parent commit" "a commit that directly precedes the current one in git's graph of commits"
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"patch" ""
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"path" "The path to a file"
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"prune" "Delete all stale tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in 'remotes/<name>'."
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"pull" "Pulling a branch means to fetch it and merge it."
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"push" "Pushing a branch means to get the branch's head ref from a remote repository, and ... (well, can someone please explain it for mere mortals?)"
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"rebase [noun]" "The process of rebasing one set of commits on top of another branch's head"
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"rebase [verb]" "Re-apply one set of commits on top of another branch's head. Contrary to merge."
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"redo" ""
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"reference" ""
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"reflog" "the log file containing all states of the HEAD reference (in other words past pristine states of the working copy)"
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"refmap" ""
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"refspec" ""
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"remote [adj]" "The adjective for anything which is outside of the current (local) repository"
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"remote branch" "A branch in any other ('remote') repository"
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"remote repository" "An other repository ('remote'). One might have a set of remotes whose branches one tracks."
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"repository" "A collection of refs (?) together with an object database containing all objects which are reachable from the refs... (oops, you've lost me here. Again, please an explanation for mere mortals?)"
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"reset" ""
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"resolve (a conflict)" "decide which changes from alternative versions of a file should persist in Git"
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"revert changes" "abandon changes and go to pristine version"
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"revert" ""
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"revision expression" "expression that signifies a revision in git"
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"revision" "A particular state of files and directories which was stored in the object database."
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"sign off" ""
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"stage [noun], index" "see: staging area. In some areas of git this is called 'index'."
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"stage [verb]" "add some content of files and directories to the staging area in preparation for a commit"
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"staging area" "The place where changes from files are marked to be included for the next commit. In some areas of git this is called 'index'."
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"stash [noun]" "The place (stack) where changes can be temporarily saved without committing"
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"stash [verb]" "temporarily save changes in a stack without committing"
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"status" ""
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"submodule" ""
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"tag [noun]" "A ref pointing to some commit object. In other words: A label on a specific commit."
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"tag [verb]" "The process of creating a tag at a specific commit object"
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"tagger" "The person who created a tag"
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"tracked/untracked" "file whose content is tracked/not tracked by git"
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"tracking branch" "A regular git branch that is used to follow changes from another repository."
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"trailer" ""
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"tree" "1. tree object, 2. directory tree"
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"undo" ""
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"unstage" "Remove content of files from the staging area again so that it will not be part of the next commit"
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"unstash [verb]" "Retrieving the temporarily saved changes back again from the stash"
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"update" ""
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"upstream branch" ""
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"verify" ""
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"working directory, working copy, working tree" "The tree of actual checked out files."
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