From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Little fix and suggestion for the git tutorial Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:18:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20070622031811.GA8027@fieldses.org> References: <1b46aba20706210945h49139cc2y69d2de972f014189@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Carlos Rica X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 22 05:18:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1Zf8-0002G7-56 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:18:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751902AbXFVDSN (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:18:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752032AbXFVDSN (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:18:13 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:56231 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750872AbXFVDSM (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:18:12 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I1Zf1-0003X0-EN; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:18:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1b46aba20706210945h49139cc2y69d2de972f014189@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.