From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git? Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:56:22 -0500 Message-ID: <20060131205621.GC16561@fieldses.org> References: <46a038f90601272133o53438987ka6b97c21d0cdf921@mail.gmail.com> <1138446030.9919.112.camel@evo.keithp.com> <7vzmlgt5zt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060130185822.GA24487@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> <20060131181248.GE11955@fieldses.org> <7vbqxsyyym.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1138736666.24410.38.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> <7vd5i8w2nc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jon Loeliger , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 31 21:56:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F42YG-0002ZA-JO for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:56:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751475AbWAaU41 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:56:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751480AbWAaU41 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:56:27 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:27536 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751475AbWAaU40 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:56:26 -0500 Received: from bfields by pickle.fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F42Y2-0005Wl-2X; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:56:22 -0500 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vd5i8w2nc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:41:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > On the tutorial front, maybe we could start teaching people to > always use "commit -a", and not tell them about update-index nor > "commit paths.." at all. Have them do "hello world", review > changes since the last commit with "git diff", and make commit > with "git commit -a". Next tell them about index, and after > they understand index, finally tell them "commit paths..." is > there merely to reduce typing. Yeah, I think that's approximately what you get right now if you read tutorial.txt followed by core-tutorial.txt, though the two currently may not really work together well as sequels. So I'm inclined to start by revising the two to make them read well as sequels, then maybe moving some of core-tutorial.txt into the earlier tutorial.txt. By the time we're done the two might end up being one document. Or they might still be two, but with the split being more clearly beginning/advanced instead of high-level/low-level. Feedback from people who'd actually worked through the two would obviously be useful. --b.