From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove 'submodules' from the TODO section of the User Manual. Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:13:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20070925201306.GW30845@fieldses.org> References: <20070925191159.GG18370@genesis.frugalware.org> <20070925192315.GR30845@fieldses.org> <20070925194745.GI18370@genesis.frugalware.org> <20070925194936.GU30845@fieldses.org> <20070925195731.GJ18370@genesis.frugalware.org> <20070925200252.GV30845@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Vajna X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 22:13:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IaGmr-000529-TY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:13:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753325AbXIYUNe (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:13:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753078AbXIYUNe (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:13:34 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:33344 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751255AbXIYUNe (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:13:34 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IaGmI-0004Ml-7L; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:13:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070925200252.GV30845@fieldses.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:02:52PM -0400, bfields wrote: > I think we should try to keep the git documentation mostly confined to > tools that are distributed with git itself. So it might be worth a few > words just to mention the existance of tailor and how it compares to > other tools, but I'd leave it at that. So in fact it might be that what's needed isn't any new documentation on the available tools with their features and limitations. I know that when I recently had to deal with a svn tree the hardest part was figuring out where to start (git-svn? git-svnimport?). I seem to recall threads here suggesting this is a general problem. One exception--the "series of tarballs" thing--I think it's cool that you can just unpack a bunch of tarballs and string them together into a git history. It gives a good sense of how git works, and I don't think it's documented explicitly anywhere. I think that might be kinda fun to write up. But I haven't tried. --b.