From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
linux@horizon.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [DRAFT] Branching and merging with git
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:15:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110041517.GC25265@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070109165828.GB9153@thunk.org>
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:58:28AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> If what we're going to do is a "git user's manual", I'd recommend
> keeping the 2-3 pages in the manual, and do it via a link to some
> other document. One of the issues with the git documentation is that
> it's *too* branchy, and some the branches go off to some truly scary
> low-level implementation detail. If we are going to assume that isn't
> going to change (and I am glad that the low-level details are
> documented, and am not advocating that they be deleted), then keeping
> a user-friendly QuickStart in the main document might not be a bad
> decision.
Sounds reasonable.
I'll probably set this aside a few days, then do some more work on it
this weekend. (Patches welcomed, though--source is in the master branch
of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git.)
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-10 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-16 22:17 [DRAFT] Branching and merging with git linux
2006-11-16 23:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-17 1:13 ` linux
2006-11-17 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-17 1:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-17 3:17 ` linux
2006-11-17 5:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-17 9:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-17 9:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-17 10:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-17 15:32 ` Theodore Tso
2006-11-17 15:57 ` Sean
2006-11-17 16:19 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-11-17 16:25 ` Marko Macek
2006-11-17 16:33 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-17 16:34 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20061117113404.810fd4ea.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-11-17 16:53 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-17 17:01 ` Sean
[not found] ` <20061117120154.3eaf5611.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-11-17 21:31 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-17 22:36 ` Chris Riddoch
2006-11-17 22:50 ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-17 23:30 ` Sean
2006-11-17 18:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-11-18 0:13 ` linux
2006-11-18 0:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-18 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-18 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-20 23:51 ` [DRAFT 2] " linux
2006-11-22 11:02 ` [Patch to DRAFT 2 (1/2)] " Junio C Hamano
2006-11-22 11:02 ` [Patch to DRAFT 2 (2/2)] " Junio C Hamano
2006-11-22 13:36 ` Rene Scharfe
2006-12-04 1:19 ` [DRAFT 2] " J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-04 7:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-04 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-15 21:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-15 21:41 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-11-22 11:51 ` [DRAFT] " Junio C Hamano
2006-11-19 17:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-11-19 17:59 ` Git manuals Petr Baudis
2006-11-19 18:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-19 19:50 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-11-19 19:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-11-26 4:01 ` [PATCH] Documentation: add a "git user's manual" J. Bruce Fields
2006-11-17 17:44 ` [DRAFT] Branching and merging with git J. Bruce Fields
2006-11-17 18:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-03 17:04 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-03 17:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-04 5:28 ` linux
2007-01-04 6:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-07 23:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-08 0:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-08 2:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-08 13:04 ` David Kågedal
2007-01-08 14:03 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-09 2:41 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-09 8:46 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-01-09 15:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-09 16:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-10 4:15 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-01-08 0:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-08 0:46 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-08 1:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-08 1:46 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-08 2:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-01-08 12:38 ` Guilhem Bonnefille
2007-01-09 4:17 ` J. Bruce Fields
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