From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: git blame [was: git and bzr] Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:24:22 -0500 Message-ID: <20061130222422.GC30922@fieldses.org> References: <456B7C6A.80104@webdrake.net> <456CEF31.8080600@webdrake.net> <456D7A76.3080605@webdrake.net> <456F21D6.1060200@webdrake.net> <87d574u2tl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carl Worth , Linus Torvalds , Joseph Wakeling , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpuKW-00059s-7J for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:24:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031559AbWK3WY3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:24:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031564AbWK3WY3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:24:29 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:27790 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031559AbWK3WY2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:24:28 -0500 Received: from bfields by pickle.fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GpuKM-0002w5-Ct; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:24:22 -0500 To: Johannes Schindelin Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:17:12PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Carl Worth wrote: > > > Here's a crazy idea. How about a "git tutorial" builtin or "git example" > > or something that would create a repository into some useful state for > > demonstrating something. > > That sounds fine! Actually, it should be very simple to turn the tutorial > into such a script, displaying the command with an explanation, and > executing the command. It could even call gitk from time to time, so the > user can form a mental model of the ancestor graph. Currently tutorial.txt doesn't work like that--there are places where it just tells the user to edit a file, or make a few commits, without listing commands to do so. It also isn't linear. That could all be "fixed", but I think the result would just make it more tedious. But I agree that a "git tutorial" command to set up a canonical example repository might be fun.