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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.

  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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