From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Luck Subject: Re: Where should I post questions on GIT usage ? Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:39 -0800 Message-ID: <12c511ca0511101027q44c51ca8h88229fd7188717d5@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 10 19:28:08 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaH9E-0001sK-P9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:27:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932131AbVKJS1m (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:27:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932133AbVKJS1m (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:27:42 -0500 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.201]:25761 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932131AbVKJS1l convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:27:41 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s14so672090wxc for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Rg87tmw4T7THPHGQFSHnGYLfufEOTMJViI2Rd6uC2YgQWLX5uM/G7rzOg1FVZMgYFk1cEymzDeRtoQ62wJsWgllSvz63mBoZEEIO+OQ6CEmkyZ5OiNtWxt+JsktIrzhsxExLR1+nW7Oz2CH5D1FXDpKMJS+mhThDTFJDs3bJbVU= Received: by 10.64.91.5 with SMTP id o5mr522005qbb; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.194.8 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:27:39 -0800 (PST) To: Franck In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > I'm starting using GIT, and I'm having a couple of basic questions to > ask. Is it the correct place to post them or is there any other > mailing list related to GIT usage ? Read Documentattion/tutorial.txt (and any relevent Documentation/howto/* files). Search the archives. If you still have problems, then the best format for questions here seems to be: 1) I was trying to do ... insert high level description here. 2) So I executed these git commands ... 3) And what happened was ... Skipping step 1 can cause delays while people answer questions about the specific micro-problems you had with the commands in step 2, when the real answer is to use some totally different command. -Tony (far more frequently an asker-of-questions than an answerer)