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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Carlos Rica <jasampler@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Little fix and suggestion for the git tutorial
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:18:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070622031811.GA8027@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b46aba20706210945h49139cc2y69d2de972f014189@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0200, Carlos Rica wrote:
> Sorry for not sending a patch, I was following the tutorial and found
> this, in the section "Using git for collaboration":
> 
> 307 With this, you can perform the first operation alone using the
> 308 "git fetch" command without merging them with her own branch,
> 309 using:
> 
> I think that "you" should be replaced with "she".

Yep, thanks.  Actually, I think we should make it "Alice".

> I have a suggestion also that I don't know how to fix. The text in
> that section seems to say something like you need to add a "remote"
> alias to be able to run fetch for retrieving without merging:

Yes, I agree, it's confusing.  We're trying to introduce both fetch and
remotes at the same time.

It might be the simplest thing to do would just be to use remotes from
the start.  I don't know.  I haven't looked at this section in a
while--I'll try to find time this weekend and see if I can come up with
a better approach.

--b.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-22  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-21 16:45 Little fix and suggestion for the git tutorial Carlos Rica
2007-06-22  3:18 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]

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