From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: checkout extra files Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:48:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7vsjayew50.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vd322ebsz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vpq61dfn9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v8vcpdat2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk3w5woc4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <3DA7C9D97E19414C81F8D73CB66171DA@PhilipOakley> <7voblfub16.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Philip Oakley" , "Angelo Borsotti" , "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" , To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 09 15:48:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TAhs9-0000yj-LM for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:48:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752223Ab2IINsS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:48:18 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:60696 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751792Ab2IINsR (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:48:17 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q89DhCLF027219 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 15:43:12 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TAhrs-0008Vq-1W; Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:48:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7voblfub16.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:31:49 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:43:13 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q89DhCLF027219 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1347802994.53847@wAZs8801inKZB8Rm3r5WXQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > "Philip Oakley" writes: > >> Having said that, it would therefore be better to point folk at gitcli >> in a few more places, not just the 'see also' line at the very end of >> the general 'git' page, and buried within rev-parse. > > Didn't we update the very early part of git(1) for exactly for that > reason recently? I don't think many people read git(1) directly, as there are many other starting points to learn Git (official tutorial, user-manual, and tens of very good tutorial on the web). On the other hand, reading git- is probably much more common, as it is the only place to find exhaustive documentation about a particular command. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/