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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.)"
+"abort"	"prematurely stop and abandon an operation"
+"amend"	""
+"ancestor"	"a commit that succeeds the current one in git's graph of commits (not necessarily directly)"
+"annotate"	""
+"author"	"The person who initially created (authored) a commit"
+"bare repository"	"a repository with only .git directory, without working directory"
+"base"	"a parent version of the current file"
+"bisect"	""
+"blame"	"get the authors responsible for each line in a file"
+"blob"	     ""
+"branch [noun]"	"A 'branch' is an active line of development."
+"branch [verb]"	""
+"checkout [noun]"	""
+"checkout [verb]"	"The action of updating the working tree to a revision which was stored in the object database."
+"cherry-pick"	"to select and apply a single commit to the current HEAD without merging"
+"child commit"	"a commit that directly succeeds the current one in git's graph of commits"
+"cleanup"	"clean the state of the git repository, often after manually stopped operation"
+"clone [verb]"	""
+"commit [noun]"	"A single point in the git history."
+"commit [verb]"	"The action of storing a new snapshot of the project's state in the git history."
+"commit message"	"a message that gets attached with any commit"
+"committer"	  "The person who committed a commit (to the current branch), which might be different than the author."
+"descendant"	"a commit that precedes the current one in git's graph of commits (not necessarily directly)"
+"detached HEAD"	      "checkout of a revision rather than some head"
+"detached checkout"	"checkout of a revision rather than some head"
+"diff [noun]"	""
+"diff [verb]"	""
+"directory"	  ""
+"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."
+"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."
+"file level merging"	"any merge strategy that works on a file by file basis"
+"file"	     ""
+"head"	"the last revision in a branch"
+"hook"	"script that gets executed automatically on some event"
+"hunk"	"One context of consecutive lines in a whole patch, which consists of many such hunks"
+"index (in git-gui: staging area)"	"A collection of files. The index is a stored version of your working tree."
+"initial checkout"	"the first checkout during a clone operation"
+"initial commit"	"The very first commit in a repository"
+"local branch"	"a branch that resides in the local git repository"
+"loose object"	"a Git object that is not part of any pack"
+"master branch"	"a branch called by convention 'master' that exists in a newly created git repository"
+"merge [noun]"	"A successful merge results in the creation of a new commit representing the result of the merge."
+"merge [verb]"	"To bring the contents of another branch into the current branch."
+"message"	""
+"origin"	"a remote called by convention 'origin' that the current git repository has been cloned from"
+"orphan commit"	      ""
+"orphan reference"	 ""
+"pack [noun]"	"a file containing many git objects packed together"
+"pack [verb]"	    "the process of creating a pack file"
+"packed object"	"a Git object part of some pack"
+"parent commit"	"a commit that directly precedes the current one in git's graph of commits"
+"patch" ""
+"path"	"The path to a file"
+"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>'."
+"pull"	"Pulling a branch means to fetch it and merge it."
+"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?)"
+"rebase [noun]"	"The process of rebasing one set of commits on top of another branch's head"
+"rebase [verb]"	"Re-apply one set of commits on top of another branch's head. Contrary to merge."
+"redo"	""
+"reference"	  ""
+"reflog"	"the log file containing all states of the HEAD reference (in other words past pristine states of the working copy)"
+"refmap"       ""
+"refspec"	""
+"remote [adj]"	"The adjective for anything which is outside of the current (local) repository"
+"remote branch"	      "A branch in any other ('remote') repository"
+"remote repository"	  "An other repository ('remote'). One might have a set of remotes whose branches one tracks."
+"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?)"
+"reset"	""
+"resolve (a conflict)"	"decide which changes from alternative versions of a file should persist in Git"
+"revert changes"	"abandon changes and go to pristine version"
+"revert"	""
+"revision expression"	"expression that signifies a revision in git"
+"revision"	"A particular state of files and directories which was stored in the object database."
+"sign off"	""
+"stage [noun], index"	    "see: staging area. In some areas of git this is called 'index'."
+"stage [verb]"	"add some content of files and directories to the staging area in preparation for a commit"
+"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'."
+"stash [noun]"	"The place (stack) where changes can be temporarily saved without committing"
+"stash [verb]"	"temporarily save changes in a stack without committing"
+"status"	""
+"submodule"	""
+"tag [noun]"	"A ref pointing to some commit object. In other words: A label on a specific commit."
+"tag [verb]"	"The process of creating a tag at a specific commit object"
+"tagger"	"The person who created a tag"
+"tracked/untracked"	"file whose content is tracked/not tracked by git"
+"tracking branch"	"A regular git branch that is used to follow changes from another repository."
+"trailer"	""
+"tree"	"1. tree object, 2. directory tree"
+"undo"	""
+"unstage"	"Remove content of files from the staging area again so that it will not be part of the next commit"
+"unstash [verb]"	"Retrieving the temporarily saved changes back again from the stash"
+"update"	""
+"upstream branch"	""
+"verify"	""
+"working directory, working copy, working tree"	"The tree of actual checked out files."