From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Claudio Scordino Subject: Re: Suggestions for documentation Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:24:17 +0200 Message-ID: <467A5FE1.1010401@gmail.com> References: <467786B1.5000009@gmail.com> <20070620180615.529dff2a@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de To: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 21 13:33:40 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 1I1Kux-0005Me-4h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:33:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754476AbXFULdB (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:33:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754429AbXFULdA (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:33:00 -0400 Received: from ms01.sssup.it ([193.205.80.99]:34966 "EHLO sssup.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754177AbXFULc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:32:59 -0400 Received: from [193.205.82.7] (HELO gandalf.sssup.it) by sssup.it (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 31357761; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:24:55 +0200 Received: from [10.30.3.110] ([10.30.3.110]) by gandalf.sssup.it (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l5LAUAqi012598; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:30:10 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) In-Reply-To: <20070620180615.529dff2a@localhost> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, actually I didn't understand the difference between "git clone --bare" and "git --bare fetch" either... (maybe is not clear in the documentation ?) For instance, what should be used when setting up a public not-working repository ? I mean, we can use both git --bare init git --bare fetch ... master:master and git clone --bare ... Thank you in advance. Regards, Claudio Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: > Em Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:33:05 +0200 > Claudio Scordino escreveu: > > | Hi, > | > | I just want to suggest to put some missing information in the git manpages. > | > | 1) As my previous question shown, how to clone from a specified port is not > | currently documented. You should just add a sentence saying that the command is > | > | git clone git://server:port/path/ > | > | 2) Maybe it is better to highlight that after a push on a remote repository, the > | user has to do a checkout on that repository (people from the CVS and SVN worlds > | get easily confused, otherwise). > | > | Moreover (and I did not fully understood why) if I just use "git checkout" > | without the -f option, I cannot see the changes that have been pushed from the > | cloned repository. > > git-rebase documentation needs some change too. We should add some high level > description in one paragraph at the top of the file. > > I answer the very same question ('why should I want to use git-rebase?') > three times per week. > > I'll submit a patch shortly. >