From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:13:16 -0500 Message-ID: <476E50DC.1040701@garzik.org> References: <200612241807.kBOI746w008739@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List To: "Robert P. J. Day" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 23 13:13:49 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 1J6PiE-0004Gi-Dm for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:13:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751248AbXLWMNW (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:13:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752071AbXLWMNW (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:13:22 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37047 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751248AbXLWMNV (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:13:21 -0500 Received: from cpe-069-134-071-233.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.71.233] helo=core.yyz.us) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1J6Phn-0002d1-OU; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:13:20 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Another year, another update! :) >> >> The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates: >> >> http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html >> >> This includes all the input sent to me in the past several months, >> as well as a few new tips and tricks I use on a regular basis. >> >> In general, this document is designed to be a quick-start cookbook, >> and not a comprehensive introduction. > > there's one issue i have with this document, and that's that i wish it > more carefully distinguished between regular git "user" tasks, and git > "developer" tasks. > > i may be mistaken, but it would seem that a lot of folks are going to > be what i call basic users, who only want to update their git tree, > check the logs, check the status and so on. and if they start to get > ambitious, they might make some changes to the tree, do a diff, and > submit a patch. but in the beginning, they won't be making commits or > switching branches, etc. > > in short, i can see the value of something like a "getting started > with git as a basic user" tutorial. does such a thing exist? hmmm. There's the tutorial linked at the bottom of the page, which in turn links to http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html git is a developer's tool, so I sorta targetted that audience. I definitely agree that is not only git audience... Jeff